Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Reflective Practice in Malaysian Teacher Education
This book explores how Malaysian student teachers practice reflection during their teaching practicum, how practice contexts influenced their practices and which aspects of professional knowledge were constructed from their reflective practices. It was found that there were two levels of reflective practices among student teachers. The public level consisted of reflections through existing mechanisms post conference discussions, post-lesson analyses and weekly journals. Reflections were very weak at this level. At the private level, student teachers reflected deeply upon their experiences. They examined their own teaching, their pupils, and their beliefs or values about teaching. However, these reflections were not documented. Reflections at this private level were rich and varied but they were not visible to the supervisors. Two significant findings are that student teachers reflective practices lacked an element of inquiry, and that reflective practices were carried out individual
Personal Agency Beliefs in Self-regulation
Self-regulatory processes have predominantly been linked to the study of academic achievement in terms of learning behavior, cognitive engagement, and specific academic performance measures. If poorly regulated, academic behavior can have repercussions on social adaptation. Motivational processes constitute the other key element in ensuring successful regulation, as studies indicate that self-regulation can effectively influence achievement outcomes if learners have positive beliefs about their personal ability to negotiate difficulties and work towards the desired learning outcomes. This book takes a critical look at the role of self-regulatory processes and personal agency beliefs in academic and social self-regulatory functioning, providing the reader with theoretical understanding of the issues and lending empirical support to the relevance of these processes in the East Asian educational context. In this way, the study explores the extent to which self-regulation and personal agency beliefs can offer an alternative explanation for the academic performance of students.
Interactive Learning for School Leaders
Interactive Learning for School Leaders discusses the design of interactive intelligent computer simulation systems as instructional tools for teaching school leadership. These simulations enable leaders to acquire the ability to frame and solve school problems, and to obtain declarative and procedural knowledge simultaneously. Besides exploring the impact of knowledge acquisition among school leaders, the potential of using these simulations as stand-alone instructional tools is also discussed.
Exploring Children's Perceptions of Learning
We witnessed before the turn of the 21st century that Singapores education undertook a series of curricular innovation and related infrastructure development. The changes included expansion in physical spaces of learning in the classroom, installation of information and communication technologies for multimedia-based learning, large-scale recruitment of graduate teachers, revision of teacher salaries and promotion opportunities, curricular diversity, and research on pedagogies and classroom practices. All children and teachers of the 21st century, regardless of backgrounds, are expected not only to acquire but also to create knowledge. Such changes may to a certain extent stimulate changes in classroom cultures, as well as in childrens experiences in learning. This book captures some of these changes.
Transition from School to Work
This is an ethnographic research study on the transition from school to work (TSW) experiences of nine Form Five school leavers in Malaysia who possess different academic abilities and who came from different family and ethnic backgrounds. This study examines how they resolve the work-study dilemma as well as how they made their career choices, indicating that career decisions are linked to the culture and identities of the subjects. In this book, the author endeavors to bring to attention the subjects experiences as they navigate their way through the social structures that confront them throughout this transitional period. Through the descriptions of their life stories and experiences, he seeks to highlight the dilemmas faced by the young men as well as the often difficult and painful process of decision-making in their TSW. Attention has also been drawn to the structural constraints that they encounter and also the resources and strategies they employ to deal with these constraints
Parliamentary Papers
None
Globalization and Education
With increased opportunites for interaction and learning, education around the world is becoming transformed. These essays strive to provide a thorough examination of the impact these changes are having on how education is defined, whom it serves, and how it is assessed around the world. Topics incl: -- Conceptual issues: Globalization and internationalism; educational reform; curriculum inquiry. -- Globalization impact in educational sectors: European & South African Universities; community colleges; labor markets, gender, schooling & work; Adult education. -- Case Studies of Globalization Impacts: Commonwealth Caribbean; Japan; Lesoto; Mexico; South Africa; Malaysia; Australia.
Creating Educational Dreams
This book seeks to propose a sociological aspiration formation model that maps out how schools and families are contexts that secondary school students in Singapore navigate in order to reach their aspired educational outcome.
Leadership Mentoring in Education
This book presents the practice of school management learned, as perceived by those who had the opportunity to learn through mentoring. The author explores the learning through formal mentoring that could be of significance in the professional development of aspiring school leaders, and highlights a known practice of leading, learned through leadership mentoring, for an unknown future. TARGET AUDIENCE: Policy-makers, researchers, tertiary students, teachers and all those interested in the mentorship of school leaders in Singapore.
