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Socializing Intelligence Through Academic Talk and Dialogue
Socializing Intelligence Through Academic Talk and Dialogue focuses on a fast-growing topic in education research. Over the course of 34 chapters, the contributors discuss theories and case studies that shed light on the effects of dialogic participation in and outside the classroom. This rich, interdisciplinary endeavor will appeal to scholars and researchers in education and many related disciplines, including learning and cognitive sciences, educational psychology, instructional science, and linguistics, as well as to teachers curriculum designers, and educational policy makers.
Education and Learning to Think
The economic and social challenges confronting the nation today demand that all citizens acquire and learn to use complex reasoning and thinking skills. Education and Learning to Think confronts the issues facing our schools as they take on this mission. This volume reviews previous research, highlights successful learning strategies, and makes specific recommendations about problems and directions requiring further study. Among the topics covered are the nature of thinking and learning, the possibilities of teaching general reasoning, the attempts to improve intelligence, thinking skills in academic disciplines, methods of cultivating the disposition toward higher order thinking and learning, and the integral role motivation plays in these activities.
Coaching
"Coaching supports teacher development and puts teachers' needs at the heart of professional learning by individualizing their learning and by positioning them as professionals. With many different models available, administrators may find it challenging to determine the kind of coaching that best fits the needs of schools, teachers, and students. This fresh new resource brings together the voices of recognized experts in the field including Joellen Killion, Cathy Toll, Jane Ellison, Randy Sprick, Jane Kise, Karla Reiss, Lucy West, and Jim Knightto present unique approaches for coaching teachers and leaders. Comprehensive chapters review the roles of coaches in schools, examine the research base on coaching, and provide in-depth discussions of specific approaches to coaching, including: Literacy coaching; Cognitive coaching; Instructional coaching; Content-focused coaching; Classroom management; Leadership coaching. Coaching helps readers make more informed choices about a range of coaching approaches to best serve the unique needs of their teachers and schools."--Publisher's website.
Knowing, Learning, and Instruction
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Learning Research and Development Center (RDC) at the University of Pittsburgh, these papers present contemporary research on cognition and instruction. The book pays homage to Robert Glaser, foudner of LRDC, and includes debates and discussions about issues of fundamental importance to the cognitive science of instruction.
What Counts as Literacy?
This critical exploration of the theories and purposes of literacy challenges current assumptions about the discourse of schooling. Authors Margaret Anne Gallego and Sandra Hollingsworth, along with eminent scholars, delve into the lives and literacies that have traditionally been excluded from public classrooms and focus on the disenfranchisement that results from such politics. They propose an alternative set of literacies, helping non-mainstream students to learn the dominant language of power while preserving their community and personal identities. Through socio-political analyses, the contributors argue persuasively for expanding what "counts" as literacy to include visual media and technological literacy, multiple sign systems for special education students, community-based literacy and personal literacies. This practical and fresh collection is an essential resource for educators, theorists, and researchers who wish to expand the existing definitions of literacy to include multiple perspectives.
Psychology of Mathematics for Instruction
Published in 1981, Psychology of Mathematics for Instruction is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.
Princess With a Backpack
Princess with a Backpack is uniquely positioned in the travel publication market. It combines practical and specific advice, personal experience and direct references to the target reader, which gives the reader a practical and humorous account of the backpacking experience. Various Australian female personalities such as Bessie Bardot, Tali Shine and Mimi Zu have made valuable contributions to the book in the form of quotes, advice or anecdotes to add variety, fun and credibility.
The Lea Guide To Composition
Basic text for freshman composition courses. Draws on the most significant theory, strategy, and techniques in composition studies. Emphasizes writing as a vehicle for learning.
Development Learning
This volume juxtaposes two different domains of developmental theory: the Piagetian approach and the information-processing approach. Articles by experts in both fields discuss how concepts of development and learning, traditionally approached through cognitive-developmental theories such as Piaget's, are analyzed from the perspective of a task analytic, information-processing approach.
Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition
Aims to undo this figure-ground relationship between cognitive and social processes. The chapters in Part One, by developmental, social, and educational psychologists and an anthropologist, explore the role of the immediate social situation in cognition, offering challenges from the mild to the deeply unsettling to psychologists' traditional assumptions about cognition, competence, and performance. In Part Two, chapters by a psychologist/anthropologist explore from a linguistic perspective the various and often hidden ways in which the social permeates thinking, especially by shaping the forms of reasoning and language use available to members of a community. Part Three contains three chapte...
