Chapter 1 School Improvement as a Global Movement -- Chapter 2 The Network Model -- Chapter 3 Contexts for School Improvement -- Chapter 4 Classroom Practice and Student Learning -- Chapter 5 Leadership and Collaborative Practice in School Improvement -- Chapter 6 Improving Schools.This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school net…
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…
1. Teachers and Students as Co-Learners -- 2. Student-Student Interaction -- 3. Learner Autonomy -- 4. SCL via the prism of the element of Focus on Meaning -- 5. Curricular Integration -- 6. Diversity -- 7. Thinking Skills -- 8. Alternative Assessment -- 9. Learning Climate -- 10. Simple, powerful strategies for enhancing student Motivation -- Conclusion. .This book reminds us teachers about …
Overview: Overall Goals When Writing Grant Applications -- Organization and Use of This Guide -- Preparing to Write -- Types of NIH Grants -- Anatomy of the NIH Grant Application -- Organization and Aesthetics -- Specific Aims -- Background and Significance -- Preliminary Results -- Research Design and Methods -- Use of Literature Citations -- Use of Appendices -- Administrative Sections -- Col…
Heuristics and Taxonomy -- A Cognitive Domain Example: Reading -- Psychomotor Domain -- Affective Domain -- Interpersonal Domain -- Suggestions for the Integration of Technology -- Summary.The purpose of this volume is to help educators and training developers to improve the quality of their instruction. Unlike other books, which have appeared so far, this volume is not limited to a particular …
Perspectives on Probability and Probability Education -- The Nature of Chance and Probability -- Towards "Probability Literacy" for all Citizens: Building Blocks and Instructional Dilemmas -- An Overview of Research into the Teaching and Learning of Probability -- Teaching and Learning Probability in the Elementary School -- Characteristics of Elementary School Students' Probabilistic Reasoning…
Main Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey” -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead.Open AccessThis work examines the main directions of research conducted on the history of mathematics education. It devotes substantial attention to research methodologies and the connections between this field and other scholarly fields. The results of a …
DeDeconstructing Postcolonial Ambivalence in Educational Perspective -- Decolonization -- Sociological Invisiblization -- Political Didactic Structuring of Consciousness -- The Need for Localizing Research -- Clarifying Philosophical Underpinnings.Norah Barongo-Muweke aims to reconstruct a theory of citizenship education for the postcolonial South. She works towards fostering scientific constru…
1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of the history of ethnomathematics -- 3. State of the art in ethnomathematics -- 4.In guise of conclusion.-5. References.Open AccessThis survey on the modernity of ethnomathematics addresses numerous themes related to both ethnomathematics and mathematics education. It offers a broader view of mathematics, including ideas, procedures, concepts, processes, metho…