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Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodological concerns, issues, and directions. Encourages interdisciplinary perspectives in educational neuroscience Contributions from leading researchers examine key issues relating to educational neuroscience and mind, brain, and education more generally Promotes a theoretical and empirical base for the subject area Explores a range of methods available to researchers Identifies agencies, organizations, and associations facilitating development in the field Reveals a variety of on-going efforts to establish theories, models, methods, ethics, and a common language
Jung and Educational Theory offers a new take on Jung’s work, providing original, rich and informative material on his impact on educational research. Explores Jung’s writing from the standpoint of educational philosophy, assessing what it has to offer to theories of education Highlights Jung’s emphasis on education’s role in bringing up integrated and ethical human beings Offers the perspectives of a diversity of academics and practitioners, on topics ranging from the role of the unconscious in learning to the polytheistic classroom Both a valuable addition to the academic library and a significant new resource in the professional development of teachers
Should schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous commitment to just institutions, or motivating national service? Are the hazards of patriotism so great as to overshadow its potential benefits? Is there a genuinely virtuous form of patriotism that societies and schools should strive to cultivate? In Patriotic Education in a Global Age, philosopher Randall Curren and historian Charles Dorn address these questions as they seek to understand what role patriotism might legitimately play in schools as an aspect of civic education. They trace the aims a...
Посвящена актуальным проблемам реализации компетентностного подхода в образовании. Рассмотрены как общие теоретико-методологические основания компетентностного подхода, в том числе и новых практик инженерного образования, так и продуктивные практики формирования общекультурных, общепрофессиональных компетенций будущего бакалавра. Будет интересна преподавателям, реализующим компетентностный подход в образовании, а также специалистам в области управления сферой профессионального образования.
Este libro constituye una obra colectiva sobre el texto, en particular sobre su organización, estructura y propiedades, y sobre un conjunto amplio de enfoques teóricos interdisciplinares y propuestas metodológicas de aplicación. Consta de presentación y diecinueve capítulos elaborados por autores de reconocido prestigio, profesores universitarios con amplia investigación sobre el tema, desde distintos enfoques, como el lingüístico, el filológico, el filosófico, el teórico de la literatura, el pragmático o el comparativo. La diversidad de enfoques no resta unidad al desarrollo de los temas centrales (la investigación de los procesos que regulan la construcción e interpretación...
The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of toleration as the foundational idea associated with engagement with diversity. This handbook is intended to provide an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, the central justifications used to advance it, a presentation of the different concepts most commonly associated with it (e.g. respect, recognition) as well as the discussion of the many problems dominating the controversies on toleration at both the theoretical or practical level. The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration is aimed as a resource for a global scholarly audience looking for either a detailed presentation of major accounts of toleration, the most important conceptual issues associated with toleration and the many problems dividing either scholars, policy-makers or practitioners.