Teaching Methodologies in Structural Geology and Tectonics: an Introduction -- Geographic Information Systems in an Undergraduate Structural Geology Course: a Pilot Project at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee -- Self- and Peer-Evaluation of Individual Project Work: an Innovative Course Assessment Method to Increase Student Motivation -- Teaching Structural Geology Te…
1. Emerging Technologies and Potential Paradigmatic Shifts in the Community of Inquiry Framework Melissa Layne and Phil Ice -- 2. Designing Technology-Enhanced Active Learning Environments for the Undergraduate Geoscience Classroom Priya Sharma and Kevin P. Furlong -- 3. Educating Students for STEM Literacy: GlobalEd 2 Kimberly A. Lawless, Scott W. Brown, and Mark A. Boyer -- 4. “Out of Order…
Introduction -- Section I: Foundations of Environmental Health Literacy -- Defining Environmental Health Literacy -- Measuring Environmental Health Literacy -- Communications Research in the Environmental Health Sciences -- Section II: Raising EHL in the Research Context among Diverse Audiences -- Engaging with Ethnically Diverse Community Groups -- Advancing Environmental Health Literacy throu…
Chapter 1 A Global Dialogue on Liberal Arts and Sciences: Re-Engagement, Re-Imagination and Experimentation -- Chapter 2 Toward a Nationally Integrated Liberal Studies University Model for the Mid-Twenty-First Century: The Case of the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong -- Chapter 3 The Significance and Practice of Liberal Education in China -- Chapter 4 Innovation in Liberal Education -- Chapter 5 …
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…
Introduction -- The FI3T Project -- IT/Science: Computer Modeling, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Probes/Sensors -- IT/Technology: Design and Development of Computer Games -- IT/Engineering: Robotics -- IT/Mathematics: Statistical Science -- The FI3T Project External Evaluation -- Conclusion. .This book reports the results of a three-year research program funded by the National Science F…
Introduction -- Chapter 1 Infusing Educational Practice with Three Implementations of Web GIS -- Chapter 2 Implementing geospatial thinking in education -- Chapter 3 Computer games in support for spatial learning purposes: lessons learned from two project based school projects on sustainable spatial planning with Minecraft in the Netherlands -- Chapter 4 Youthmetre -- Chapter 5 Brain as GIS mak…
Chapter 1: Science Education as a Site of Struggle -- Chapter 2: The Constitution of Subjectivities: Discourse, Practices, and Repetition -- Chapter 3: The ‘Ethical Subject’ of Science Education -- Chapter 4: Science Education and Subjectivity in (Bio)political Context -- Chapter 5: Egalitarian Politics and the Dimensions of An Ethical Self -- Afterword: Different concepts and tools to brin…
Part I: Background, Editorship, and Global Perspectives -- Purpose of the Book and Editorial Perspectives -- Developments in Engineering Education and Engineering Education Research in Europe -- Engineering Education in Southeast Asia: Practice and Research -- Part II: Innovations in Learning, Teaching, and Engineering Education -- Leveraging Pedagogical Innovations for STEM Education in the Mi…
1. Ocean Literacy in the 21st Century -- 2. An Exemplar Model for Expanding Development Reach -- Part I Research -- 3. ¡Youth & the Ocean! (¡YO!): Partnering High School and Graduate Students for Youth-Driven Research Experiences -- 4. Leveraging Parent Chaperones to Support Youths’ Learning During an Out-of-School Field Trip to a Marine Science Field Station -- 5. Systematic and Longitudin…