Society and Social Sciences

As Western educational practices have become global, the cultural aspects and the problems associated with them have become more apparent as they are contrasted with local ways of learning and knowing in the widely diverse societies around the world.

The book is based on the recently held Symposium on mathematics and its connections to the arts and sciences, namely the second Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS2)Symposium in Odense, Denmark (May 29-31, 2007).

A demonstration of instructional design, from the point of view of what the learner is going to do.

In recent years an increasing dissatisfaction with methods and thinking in psychology as a science can be observed.

Peace education is now well recognized within international legal instruments and within critical educational literature as an important aspect of education.

As a nation, we spend more than $1 billion a year on federally mandated educational tests that 30 million students must take each year.

(orginally published by Allyn & Bacon 1997)This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service.

Teacher Education programs have largely ignored the needs of LGBTIQ learners in their preparation of pre-service teachers.

Stress and Coping of English Learners addresses the many ways that ELs face academic and socioemotional stress in the K-12 school environment, the consequences of this stress at school, how they cope with this stress, and how school personnel and families can provide support and help.

edTPA is the most widely-used performance assessment for pre-service teachers in the United States, and a requirement in many states for teaching licensure.

Rich clinical preparation combined with progressive experiences in professional development school (PDS) settings are proposed to bring about systemic and impactful transformation of educator preparation and professional growth in order to improve and enhance P-12 student learning.

This volume explores education in the Deep South, with a focus on LGBTQ students and educators, and on queer theoretical perspectives in education.

Evaluation use was identified by Henry and Mark (2003) as being the single most studied area in the field of evaluation.

Learning with Lenin brings together, for the first time, Lenin's classic texts and his speeches and writings on education.

The purpose of this Dignity of the Calling is to share other stories of faculty entry into higher education.

How can we build an organization or institution that treats people equitably?

What is effective teaching and what pedagogical models are being used in teacher education and evaluation?

In our current systems of education, there is a trend toward compartmentalizing knowledge, standardizing assessments of learning, and focusing primarily on quantifiable and positivist forms of inquiry.

The book is a collection of problems in school mathematics specifically written for the teachers.

Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1950s Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists of the 1950s in contemporary terms.

This book Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche is unusual in the content and it the format.

Current Issues in Out-of-School Time, is designed with a purpose to disseminate original research and promising practices that further the OST field.

After a recent CUFA conference, many social studies teacher educators came to realize that pre-service teachers are skeptical of calls to integrate sensitive topics in the curriculum because they do not see it in their field experiences.

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The development of science literacy has the potential to have an enormous impact on real world outcomes.

The book Management Education for Corporate Social Performance is our endeavor to answer the following question: How can the academic world develop and apply a proper concept of corporate social performance to ensure more impact?

In 2015-16, the Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group (MLER SIG), an affiliate of the American Educational Research Association, undertook a collaborative project-the development of a new middle grades education research agenda.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum.

The purpose of this book is to help new teachers transition from students in education courses to proactive educators who can translate what they have learned in methods classes into realistic practices as novice teachers.

Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends: 'Now and Around the Corner' explores and provides an updated look at some of the challenges, trends and issues HRM professionals will need to focus on now and around the corner.

The interventions have ranged between benevolent exchanges to powerful influences as well as military domination.

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Putting subjectivity back in psychology and in social sciences is the aim of this volume.

Historically, white women have had a tremendous influence on establishing the ideological, political, and cultural scaffold of American public schools.

Distance Learning journal is a premiere outlet for articles featuring practical applications of distance education in states, institutions, and countries.

Memory and learning are seen as mental phenomena and generally studied as brain processes, for example, within various branches of psychology and neuroscience.

Deep Learning in Introductory Physics: Exploratory Studies of Model-Based Reasoning is concerned with the broad question of how students learn physics in a model-centered classroom.

The fourth edition of this book updates background information about the definition and supporting theories and updates the glossary with new terms related to distance education and instructional technology.

SUNY Buffalo State is a unique urban comprehensive liberal arts public institution serving a large number of first generation college students.

The Research in Careers series is designed in five volumes to provide scholars a unique forum to examine careers issues in today's changing, global workplace.

Though many psychological theories refer to imagination as a relevant phenomena, we still lack knowledge about imaginative processes.

Algebra in the Middle Grades addresses topics that are formalized in the first half of an Algebra 1 course, focusing on linear equations, their graphs and their applications to problem solving.

Across the country, women are pursuing doctoral degrees at a rate higher than males.

The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research and Institutional Life for the Twenty-first Century contributes to an understanding of the importance and implications of a contemplative grounding for higher education.

Teacher education has long relied on locally-developed assessments that lack reliability and validity.

This volume brings together design thinking, critical social theory, and learning sciences to describe promising learning innovations that foster rights, dignity, and social justice for youth.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum.

Drawing from over 20 years of teaching experience in the U.

In this volume, authors explore the interconnected issues of public health and public policy as they relate to queer issues in the Deep South.

Envisioning Scholar-Practitioner Collaborations: Building Communities of Practice in Education and Sport presents a collection of case studies of collaborations between scholars and practitioners dedicated to both the generation of new knowledge and innovative best practices at the nexus of education and sport.