1. Introduction/ Preface -- 1.1 Project's origins -- 1.2 Brief overview of the book’s organization -- 2. Theoretical Frameworks -- 2.1 Why are visualization skills important? -- 2.2 Research methodology -- 2.3 Spatial Operational Capacity framework -- 2.4 School and classroom context -- 2.5 Pre-program interview -- 3. Introductory Activities -- 3.1 Four block houses -- 3.2 The Soma puzzle fig…
1 An analysis of the effect of demographic factors on the level of ICT integration -- 2 The relationship between learning culture and high performance and productivity culture with job satisfaction: A study among employees in one public organization in Sarawak, Malaysia -- 3 E-integral map: An innovative integral calculus learning -- 4 Science learners' conceptions on the scientific theory-law …
Introduction: Teaching Writing in Chinese Speaking Areas -- Teaching Chinese Report Writing: Melbourne and Hong Kong -- Teaching Writing in English as a Foreign Language: Mainland China -- Teaching Writing in Chinese as Mother Tongue: Mainland China -- Teaching Writing in Chinese as a Second Language: Mainland China -- Teaching Writing in Chinese as a Foreign Language: Mainland China -- The Stu…
Developing a Multi-linked Conceptual Framework for Teacher Education Design -- Conceptual Links Across the University Curriculum -- Principled Practice in Teacher Education -- Evolution from a Problem-Based to a Project-Based Secondary Teacher Education Program: Challenges, Dilemmas and Possibilities -- On Discernment: The Wisdom of Practice and the Practice of Wisdom in Teacher Education -- Re…
Meanings of Meaning of Mathematics -- “Meaning” and School Mathematics -- The Meaning of Conics: Historical and Didactical Dimensions -- Reconstruction of Meaning as a Didactical Task: The Concept of Function as an Example -- Meaning in Mathematics Education -- Collective Meaning and Common Sense -- Mathematics Education and Common Sense -- Communication and Construction of Meaning -- Makin…
Why Another Book about Technology and Mathematics Education? -- Information Technology, Reorganization of Thinking and Humans-with-Media -- Modeling as a Pedagogical Approach: Resonance with New Media -- Experimental-with-Technology Approach: Resonance with Modeling and Multiple Representations -- Visualization, Mathematics Education and Computer Environments -- Modeling and Media in Action -- …
Part 1: Overview of the Book -- Introduction -- Part 2: Science Teaching Processes -- How does knowledge live in a classroom?, Andrée Tiberghien -- Process-oriented and product-oriented assessment of experimental skills in physics: A comparison, Nico Schreiber, Heike Theyßen and Horst Schecker -- Students’ use of science and mathematics in practical projects in design & technology, Berit Bu…
This book investigates the integration of literary writing into work based or business writing. It proposes ways of how to help people with considerable work experience use literature to engage with the problems they face in their work. Many people like to read for pleasure, but their skills in reading could always be improved. This book makes an original contribution to the fields of education…
Acknowledgement -- Foreword by Robert Yager -- Introduction -- Imaginative Thinking in Science and Science Education -- Engagement and Aesthetic Experience in Science Education -- Teaching for Romantic Understanding -- Narrative Thinking and Storytelling in Science Education -- Creative Science Education -- Wonder-full” Science Education -- “Artistic” Science Education -- Appendices.This …
Chapter 1: The rhetoric–reality gap -- Chapter 2: Facing the future -- Chapter 3: Getting to know Giddens: Structuration as as ontological framework -- Chapter 4: Putting Giddens into practice -- Chapter 5: The state of play -- Chapter 6: The rhetoric and the reailty -- Chapter 7:The dance of the 'duality of structure ad agency’ -- Chapter 8: Ideology and ontological security -- Chapter 9…