The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions explores human animal/non-human animal interactions from different disciplinary perspectives, from education policy to philosophy of education and ecopedagogy. The authors refute the idea of anthropocentrism (the belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet) through an ethical investiga…
Have We Really Come That Far?- Research Matters -- A Unique Approach for Gaining Insight -- What They Showed Me and What They Told Me -- Establishing Connections -- Practically Speaking.This book formulates a greater understanding of how to enable a capacity for building social professional practice related to technology-enriched teaching and learning (TETL) specific, but not limited to, educat…
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 survey focuses on the main trends in the field of calculus education. Despite their variety, the findings reveal a cornerstone issue that is strongly linked to the formalism of calculus concepts and to the difficulties it generates in the l…
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 survey provides an overview of the German discussion on modelling and applications in schools. It considers the development from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, and discusses the term “mathematical model” as well as di…
Introduction: Kirsti Klette: Studying interaction and instructional patterns in classrooms -- Part I Instruction matters -- Chapter 1: Kirsti Klette and Marianne Ødegaard: Instructional activities and discourse features in science classrooms: teachers talking and students listening or…? -- Chapter2: Øistein Anmarkrud: Inquisitor, evaluator or facilitator? Teachers’ use of instructional …
Introduction: Strange Matters -- Chapter 1. Expansive Learning -- Chapter 2. Researching Organizational Learning: Expansive Perspectives -- Chapter 3. Expansive Learning in Action -- Chapter 4. Towards an Expansive Learning Index -- Chapter 5. Ethics and Expansive Learning -- Conclusion.This book discusses approaches to organizational learning from a materialist point of view. Inspired by resea…
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 book offers a theory for the analysis of how children learn and are taught about whole numbers. Two meanings of numbers are distinguished – the analytical meaning, defined by the number system, and the representational meaning, identified…
1. Conceptual Framework and Methodology of this Report -- 2. Relation of Student Achievement to the Quality of Their Teachers and Instructional Quality -- 3. The Relations among School Climate, Instructional Quality, and Achievement Motivation in Mathematics -- 4. The Impact of School Climate and Teacher Quality on Mathematics Achievement: A Difference-in-Differences Approach -- 5. The Importan…
Section 1 – Supporting learning across working life -- Chapter One: Conceptualizing learning across working life, provisions of support and purposes -- Section 2 - Models, processes and practices for supporting lengthening working lives internationally -- Chapter Two: Employee strategies in organizing professional development -- Chapter Three: Learning to work together through talk: Continuin…
Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Method -- Results and Discussion -- Conclusions and Educational Implications -- Appendix 1 (Study Guide based on the Millikan-Ehrenhaft Controversy) -- References. .This book discusses how to improve high school students’ understanding of research methodology based on alternative interpretations of data, role of controversies, creativity and the scient…