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The Advocate
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
Primary Education
This wide ranging collection examines current and future trends in assessing and planning learning in the primary school. Containing practical advice on classroom management, quality control and teacher and performance assessment.
International Handbook of Curriculum Research
Continuing its calling to define the field and where it is going, the Second Edition of this landmark handbook brings up to date its comprehensive reportage of scholarly developments and school curriculum initiatives worldwide, providing a panoramic view of the state of curriculum studies globally. Its international scope and currency and range of research and theory reflect and contribute significantly to the ongoing internationalization of curriculum studies and its growth as a field worldwide. Changes in the Second Edition: Five new or updated introductory chapters pose transnational challenges to key questions curriculum research addresses locally. Countries absent in the First Edition are represented: Chile, Colombia, Cypress, Ethiopia, Germany, Iran, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and Switzerland. 39 new or updated chapters on curriculum research in 34 countries highlight curriculum research that is not widely known in North America. This handbook is an indispensable resource for prospective and practicing teachers, for curriculum studies scholars, and for education students around the world.
Mathematics and Technology
This volume collects most recent work on the role of technology in mathematics education. It offers fresh insight and understanding of the many ways in which technological resources can improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. The first section of the volume focuses on the question how a proposed mathematical task in a technological environment can influence the acquisition of knowledge and what elements are important to retain in the design of mathematical tasks in computing environments. The use of white smart boards, platforms as Moodle, tablets and smartphones have transformed the way we communicate both inside and outside the mathematics classroom. Therefore the second section ...
Education, Disability and Inclusion
The book describes the experience of Rafael Calderón-Almendros (the first person with Down syndrome to obtain a professional music degree in Spain) and his family. A confrontation arose with his school at the end of his compulsory secondary education stage. After Rafael had been a student in the centre from the start of his education, the institution lost its vision and denied the student his rights. The school used concealed segregation strategies, legitimized by the institution and its professionals, which were almost insurmountable. However, Rafael’s family embarked on a process of Action Research, began to fight for the recognition of the right for all students to obtain a formal educ...
Research Handbook on Curriculum and Education
This incisive Handbook brings together a wealth of innovative research from international curriculum and education experts to ask the question: what knowledge should be taught in school, how should it be taught, and for what purpose?
Competencias básicas
BASIC COMPETENCES. Toward a new educational paradigm - Starting from the presentation of the basic competences in the documents emanating from the Organic Law of Education (LOE, 2006), the book takes us through the international organisms that have been in charge of the topic of competences and through the work of those experts that have intervened in the clarification of its choice and contents, to find the genesis of the eight basic competences present in the Law. Once the term is explained in its educational sense, the book is centered on the understanding of each one of the competences and its interrelation, a very important point in trying to understand what type of person this group of competences presents and its acceptance in the society which receives it, with its new challenges. An interesting aspect of the book is the close link between competences and the context and the best way of proceeding so as to make effective the mobilization of knowledge and the transfer of learning, illustrated in the book with numerous suggestions, activities and resources. Finally, the programming of the stages is attended to, including the competences among other curricular elements.
Constructivist learning models in training programs
With more than 25 years of university teaching in technical careers behind them, book’s authors have been observing for a long time Constructivism. It is an essential part in training students process and how interaction between them and Instruction are decisive in learning, being equal or greater importance than the content or the way information is presented. The authors carry out their teaching activities involved with GOMS, Learning by Doing and Situated Learning models, as well as Problem Based Learning and the Case Method. All have led them to reach high levels of performance among their students. The reader can discover numerous publications made in prestigious magazines in this book. The book you are holding makes a review of the most important theories and constructivism’s models, attempting to shed light on the wide range of methodological proposals. Everything to achieve and develop higher quality teaching.
Curriculum Studies in Brazil
This collection, comprised of chapters focused on the intellectual histories and present circumstances of curriculum studies in Brazil, is Pinar's summary of exchanges (occurring over a two-year period) between the authors and members of an International Panel (scholars working in Finland, South Africa, the United States).
