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Contemporary Approaches in Education and Communication
This book presents a collection of papers written by educators and researchers. The topics include the analysis of social science textbooks, the teacher image in newspapers, the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level and the role of organizational silence on the loneliness of academics in work life.
Language and Learning
A collection of essays on teaching linguistically diverse student populations includes: "Linguistic Diversity and Academic Achievement" (Beverly McLeod); "The Impact of the Education Reform Movement on Limited English Proficient Students" (Patricia Gandara); "The Role of Discourse in Learning, Schooling, and Reform" (Hugh Mehan); "The Values of a Multicultural Education for All Students" (Christine E. Sleeter); "Research Knowledge and Policy Issues in Cultural Diversity and Education" (Roland G. Tharp); "First and Second Language Literacy in the Late Elementary Grades" (Barry McLaughlin); "Teaching Strategies: Their Possibilities and Limitations" (Lilia I. Bartolome); "A Communication Framework for Mathematics: Exemplary Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students" (Mary E. Brenner); and "Language Diversity and Science Learning: The Need for a Critical System of Meaning" (Alejandro J. Gallard, Deborah J. Tippins). (MSE)
Youths’ Cogenerative Dialogues with Scientists
Pei-Ling Hsu describes a pioneering study designed to improve internship communications and interactions between youth and scientists through cogenerative dialogues.
The Palgrave Handbook of History and Social Studies Education
This Handbook presents an international collection of essays examining history education past and present. Framing recent curriculum reforms in Canada and in the United States in light of a century-long debate between the relationship between theory and practice, this collection contextualizes the debate by exploring the evolution of history and social studies education within their state or national contexts. With contributions ranging from Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Republic of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, chapters illuminate the ways in which curriculum theorists and academic researchers are working with curriculum developers and educators to translate and refine notions of historical thinking or inquiry as well as pedagogical practice.
Critical Issues and Bold Visions for Science Education
Critical Issues and Bold Visions for Science Education addresses diverse critical issues using rich theoretical frameworks and methodologies, and while retaining complexity, offers transformative visions within a context of political tensions, historical legacies, and grand challenges associated with Anthropocene.
Girls and Women of Color In STEM
Though there has been a rapid increase of women’s representation in law and business, their representation in STEM fields has not been matched. Researchers have revealed that there are several environmental and social barriers including stereotypes, gender bias, and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities that continue to block women’s progress in STEM. In this book, the authors address the issues that encounter women of color in STEM in higher education.
Learning in the World and on the Job
Learning in the World and on the Job: Adventures in Cheeseworld is a hermeneutic, phenomenological exploration of the self-constructed, largely extra-institutional education of a cheese professional. It will resonate with and inform the work of researchers and educators at all levels.
Transforming Learning and Teaching
This book consists of 19 chapters on heuristics – reflexive tools, designed to heighten awareness of actions and catalyze desired changes. Thirty-three heuristics address six foci: teaching and learning, learning to teach, emotions, wellness, contemplative activities, and harmony.
The Socially Just School
This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is a key theme as the book examines the needs of youth, the concept of school culture, school/community relations, socially critical pedagogy, curriculum and leadership and a socially critical approach to work. The Socially Just School is based upon four decades of intensive writing and researching of young lives. This work presents an alternative to the damaging school reform in which schools are made to serve the interests of the economy, educatio...
