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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789264429208 , 9789264580145 , 9789264924338
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (112 Seiten) , 21 x 28cm
    Series Statement: OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training
    Keywords: Education ; Employment ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Germany
    Abstract: The German vocational education and training (VET) system is admired around the world for its ability to prepare young people for skilled employment. In Germany, VET smooths transitions into work and is closely aligned with labour market demand. This report focuses on an unprecedented test of the German VET system: how to respond to the significant increase in migrants who arrived in the country in 2015-16. The study explores both the opportunities and the challenges presented by migration. Germany has already devoted significant attention to VET as a mechanism for enabling integration – and for good reason. Work-based learning assists integration because it demonstrably gives learners skills that employers want in real-world settings. The report assesses the barriers faced by learners in their journeys into and through VET, exploring how such challenges can be addressed. In addition, the study looks at system-wide issues in relation to how VET provision and integration policy is governed. Lastly, it explores opportunities for increased flexibility in the German VET system of relevance to all youth at risk of not succeeding in VET. In responding to migrant needs, German VET can become more inclusive without reducing quality
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  • 2
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    ISBN: 9789264305250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (196 Seiten) , 16 x 23cm
    Keywords: Education ; Employment ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Finland
    Abstract: While Finland's foreign-born population remains small by international standards, growth has been amongst the fastest in the OECD. Finland's foreign-born population have lower employment rates than native-born Finns, and women, in particular, are struggling to integrate and face incentives to stay in the home. Indeed, the employment gap among those arriving from outside the European Union is among the largest in the OECD. This risks long-term implications for the integration of their children, many of whom are struggling to thrive in the Finnish school system. Large inflows of asylum seekers in 2015 put integration squarely on the agenda, and Finland developed a number of innovative integration policies in response. Yet, numbers have since fallen dramatically, raising questions of how to respond to the needs of a large cohort without scaling up the integration system on a permanent basis. This review, the second in a series on the skills and labour market integration of immigrants and their children, provides an assessment of these and other challenges. It includes a holistic assessment of Finland's integration services - such as the new modular integration training, and the Social Impact Bond - as well as challenges related to settlement, early labour market contact and workplace segregation. An earlier review in the series looked at integration policies in Sweden (2016)
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789812879325
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 187 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cultural studies and transdisciplinarity in education volume 4
    Series Statement: Cultural studies and transdisciplinarity in education
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Generation Z
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Generation Z
    DDC: 306.43
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    Keywords: Education ; Culture Study and teaching ; Educational sociology ; Literacy ; Education and sociology ; Sociology, Educational ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Popkultur ; Erziehung ; Jugend ; Popkultur ; Erziehung ; Jugend
    Note: Enthält 12 Beiträge , Literaturangaben , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2016]
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9789811003271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (276 pages)
    Series Statement: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects Ser v.32
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.2350890095125
    Keywords: Education ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- List of Photo -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Our Motivation -- 1.2 Background, Aims and Objectives -- 1.3 Rationale: Why Focus on Ethnic Minority Young People? -- 1.3.1 Gap in Literature -- 1.3.2 Access and Equity in Education -- 1.3.2.1 Educational Rights -- 1.3.2.2 Equity in Education -- 1.3.3 Protection Against Discrimination -- 1.3.4 The 'No Loser' Principle of Hong Kong's Education Reform -- 1.3.5 New Theoretical Insights -- 1.3.6 Revisiting 'Education for All' -- 1.4 Outline of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Literature Review -- 2.1 Ethnic Diversity, Multiculturalism, Immigration and Educational Outcomes: Some Theoretical Concerns -- 2.2 The Ethnic Minority Population in Hong Kong -- 2.3 Multicultural Hong Kong -- 2.4 Educational Provision for Ethnic Minority Students in Hong Kong: Issues and Challenges -- 2.4.1 Education for Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong -- 2.4.2 Education of South Asian Ethnic Minority Groups in Hong Kong -- 2.4.3 Equal Opportunities Commission's 'Education for All' Report -- 2.4.4 United Nation's Concerns About the Educational Provision for Ethnic Minority Students in Hong Kong -- 2.4.5 Legal Implications of Education for Ethnic Minority Children in Hong Kong -- 2.4.6 South Asian Ethnic Minority Students' Educational Experiences and Identity Construction -- 2.4.7 A Critical Review of the Issues and Challenges of Educational Provision for Ethnic Minority Students -- 2.4.7.1 Micro-views of the Problem -- 2.4.7.2 Admissions -- 2.4.7.3 Chinese Language -- 2.4.7.4 Assessment -- 2.4.7.5 Curriculum -- 2.4.7.6 Teaching -- 2.4.7.7 Resource Support -- 2.4.7.8 Supervision and Monitoring -- 2.4.7.9 Overall Policy Towards Multicultural Education in Hong Kong -- 2.4.7.10 The Efficiency of Overall Support Measures.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9789812871138
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 500 p. 129 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Seamless learning in the age of mobile connectivity
    Keywords: Education ; E-Learning ; Mobiles Internet ; E-Learning ; Mobiles Internet
    Abstract: The book departs from the approach of related titles by focusing on describing and reflecting upon the notion of seamless learning with regard to salient characteristics of learner mobility and bridging of learning experiences across learning spaces. It is the first such work that is solely dedicated to research on and the practice of seamless learning, uniquely combining interpretations, visions, and past research on and practices in seamless learning from diversified perspectives. The book also strikes a good balance between theoretical and practical perspectivess, going beyond a collection of reports on specific research projects. Instead of thick descriptions of research processes and findings, readers will find significant insights and food for thought intended to inspire further advances in the research on and practice of seamless learning
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9789812871794
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 244 p. 32 illus, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Mathematics ; Educational psychology ; Education
    Abstract: Professor Stephen Lerman has been a leader in the field of mathematics education for thirty years. His work is extensive, making many significant contributions to a number of key areas of research. Stephen retired from South Bank University in 2012, where he had worked for over 20 years, though he continues to work at Loughborough University. In this book several of his long standing colleagues and collaborators reflect on his contribution to mathematics education, and in so doing illustrate how some of Steve’s ideas and interventions have resulted in significant shifts in the domain
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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9789812873842
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 84 p. 2 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Education
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Curriculum planning ; Science Study and teaching ; Education
    Abstract: This book reports the findings of an interpretive case study of the phenomenon of science investigation (science inquiry) from students’ perspective. Data were collected from a class of twenty-four Year 11 students in a middle size, co-educational New Zealand school, through Science Laboratory Environment Inventory, student questionnaires, focus group interviews and classroom observations. The participants provided some insightful comments about their learning of science investigation. Illustrative examples highlight; what students found motivational and what demotivated them, what and how they learnt through carrying out science investigation, and how internal assessment influenced their motivation to learn and learning. The connectedness between the complexities of learning science investigation and how motivation, and assessment influenced these 15 year old students’ learning is discussed
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9789812874566
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 254 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: This book provides an Asian perspective on the timely, urgent questions of how international education aid and development should move forward and what development roles Asia should play, especially following the end of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education for All (EFA) in 2015. To answer these questions, four separate but interwoven parts, which analyze and anchor education MDGs and EFA policies and practices by means of diverse case studies of donor states, recipient states, and states with a dual and transitional role in Asia, are addressed. On the basis of the analyses, a clearer and concrete direction for effectively and sustainably extending international education aid and development beyond 2015 can be derived
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9789812874443
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 131 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Koh, Joyce Hwee Ling Design thinking for education
    Keywords: Education ; Unterricht ; Lehrerbildung ; Design Thinking ; Lehr-Lern-Forschung ; Unterricht ; Lehrerbildung ; Design Thinking ; Lehr-Lern-Forschung
    Abstract: This book explores, through eight chapters, how design thinking vocabulary can be interpreted and employed in educational contexts. The theoretical foundations of design thinking and design in education are first examined by means of a literature review. This is then followed by chapters that characterize design thinking among children, pre-service teachers and in-service teachers using research data collected from the authors’ design-driven coursework and projects. The book also examines issues associated with methods for fostering and assessing design thinking. In the final chapter, it discusses future directions for the incorporation of design thinking into educational settings. Intended for teachers, teacher educators and university instructors, this book aims to provide them with the theoretical foundations needed to grasp design thinking, and to provide examples of how design thinking can be interpreted and evaluated. The materials covered will help these groups of professionals to consider how design thinking can be integrated into their own teaching and learning contexts. The book will also promote a discourse between educational researchers on the theoretical development of design thinking in educational settings
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  • 10
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    ISBN: 9789812875372
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 288 p. 34 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Education Innovation Series
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: This volume stimulates critical discussions of the different variants of implementation, translation and scaling research approaches. It presents an integrated collection of different implementation and scaling studies that analyse the different facets of co-design, learning design, curriculum development, technology development, professional development and programme implementation. It also provides critical reflections on their impact and efficacies on transforming practices, informing policy-making, and theory derivation and improvement. The chapters in this volume will provide readers a deeper understanding of the scaling of educational innovations in diverse socio-cultural contexts
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9789812871701
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 281 p. 11 illus., 4 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Issues in Technology Education
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Early childhood education ; Education
    Abstract: Twenty-five years ago there was increasing optimism in policy, curriculum and research about the contribution that technology education might make to increased technological literacy in schools and the wider population. That optimism continues, although the status of technology as a learning area remains fragile in many places. This edited book is offered as a platform from which to continue discussions about how technology education might progress into the future, and how the potential of technology education to be truly relevant and valued in school learning can be achieved. The book results from a collaboration between leading academics in the field, the wider group of authors having had input into each of the chapters. Through the development of a deep understanding of technology, based on a thoughtful philosophy, pathways are discussed to facilitate student learning opportunities in technology education. Consideration is given to the purpose(s) of technology education and how this plays out in curriculum, pedagogies, and assessment. Key dimensions, including design, critique, students’ cultural capital are also explored, as are the role and place of political persuasion, professional organisations, and research that connects with practice. The discussion in the book leads to a conclusion that technology education has both an ethical and moral responsibility to support imaginings that sustain people and communities in harmony and for the well being of the broader ecological and social environment
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9789812874931
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 160 p. 19 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Language and languages ; Education
    Abstract: This book presents a pioneering longitudinal study on English language instruction at the elementary school (ELES) level in the Japanese public school system. It attempts to identify those domains most sensitive to early English instruction by employing a state-of-the-art quantitative research methodology. English education was formally introduced in Japan for fifth and sixth graders in 2011 and is still in its infancy as a program. This study compares two groups (Grade 7 and 8) of students, one with ELES and one without, in order to shed light on their experiences. Comparisons are carried out not only quantitatively, measuring changes in English skills (listening, speaking, reading, and vocabulary / grammar) and the ELES students’ affective aspects, but also qualitatively through in-depth interviews. Thus, this study attempts to capture the ELES students’ experiences from a multi-dimensional perspective. The comprehensive literature review provided offers a valuable resource not only for researchers looking for a quick digest of the literature in this field before undertaking their own research, but also for policy-makers seeking to assess how to best implement ELES
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9789812875679
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 215 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2015
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Literacy ; Education
    Abstract: This edited book shows how critical literacy can be applied in and outside the classroom setting. It shows educators how critical theory is applied in practice using studies in diverse K-16 settings, kindergarten through university contexts. By providing specific examples of critical literacy practice in the classroom and beyond, the book aims to help teachers, researchers, and teacher educators make clear connections between theory and practice in critical literacy
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  • 14
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789812875648
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 240 p. 36 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: This book provides a timely examination of the effects of class size reduction (CSR) on teaching and learning processes. It represents a departure in that the research covered focuses solely on the relationship between CSR and effective teaching in real secondary school classrooms. The book also presents a much-needed and powerful student voice on the impact of class size reduction on teaching and learning processes. It conceptualises the effects of class size on teaching and learning processes in secondary school classrooms, which are another under-researched perspective in this field. Drawing on multiple case studies concerning teaching and learning processes in large and small Hong Kong secondary-school classes, it highlights the qualitative differences in teaching and learning processes. On the basis of those studies, the book argues for a more purposeful, dynamic approach to education for teachers working in small or reduced-size classes
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  • 15
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    ISBN: 9789812876362
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 256 p. 14 illus, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2015
    Series Statement: Creativity in the Twenty First Century
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Educational psychology ; Education
    Abstract: This volume presents a collection of writings on the relations among creativity, culture and development. The editors invited “like-minded” researchers of creativity from around the world to share their respective notions of creativity. Given that human creativity is a potential that can and should be nurtured in the course of lifespan development and across all cultural backgrounds, the volume emphasizes the importance of promoting creativity in all cultures and through societal-educational opportunities, and offers a venue for the authors to make conceptual, empirical and practical inquiries into the relations among creativity, development and culture. The authors represent a varied “mix” of contemporary and emerging creativity researchers who use different methodologies to investigate the importance of culture in creativity development, and the reciprocal role of developing creativity and cultural enrichment. The volume represents an attempt on the part of the editors and the authors to broaden our current understanding of creativity in the contexts of human and cultural development, and in so doing to enhance our understanding of creativity, culture and development in the contexts of flourishing human and societal activities. As the first volume in a book series on “Creativity in the Twenty-First Century”, the book invites readers and researchers to engage in future interdisciplinary and intercultural discourses and dialogues on the importance of creativity for human and cultural development
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9789812871732
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 124 p. 2 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Education
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments, educations systems and schools today: the attraction, preparation, and retention of early career teachers. It draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers, interferences and obstacles to teacher resilience and what might be done about it. Based on these stories, five interrelated themes - policies and practices, school culture, teacher identity, teachers’ work, and relationships - provide a framework for dialogue around what kinds of conditions need to be created and sustained in order to promote early career teacher resilience. The book provides a set of resources - stories, discussion, comments, reflective questions and insights from the literature - to promote conversations among stakeholders rather than providing yet another ‘how to do’ list for improving the daily lives of early career teachers. Teaching is a complex, fragile and uncertain profession. It operates in an environment of unprecedented educational reforms designed to control, manage and manipulate pedagogical judgements. Teacher resilience must take account of both the context and circumstances of individual schools (especially those in economically disadvantaged communities) and the diversity of backgrounds and talents of early career teachers themselves. The book acknowledges that the substantial level of change required- cultural, structural, pedagogical and relational - to improve early career teacher resilience demands a great deal of cooperation and support from governments, education systems, schools, universities and communities: teachers cannot do it alone. This book is written to generate conversations amongst early career teachers, teacher colleagues, school leaders, education administrators, academics and community leaders about the kinds of pedagogical and relational conditions required to promote early career teacher resilience and wellbeing
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  • 17
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789812875914
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 176 p. 13 illus., 2 illus. in color, online resource)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2015
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    Keywords: Science education ; Education ; Education ; Science education
    Abstract: This book explores pedagogical approaches used by informal science educators and botanic garden educators in particular, when teaching science to visiting students (7-12 years old). More specifically, it draws on the sociocultural perspective of learning, and highlights the importance of discourse in learning processes. It examines the interactions between four botanic garden educators (BGEs) and their students, focusing on how the students’ contributions to the talk are followed up on by the BGEs. Moreover, it includes an investigation into which kinds of teaching behaviours on the part of BGEs can best support learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Botanic Gardens as Teaching and Learning Environments -- Chapter 3 A Sociocultural Perspective of Teaching and Learning in Formal and Informal Science Settings -- Chapter 4 Research Design and Methodologies -- Chapter 5 Multiple Perspectives of Botanic Garden Educators' Pedagogical Practices -- Chapter 6 The Pedagogical Behaviours of Botanic Garden Educators -- Chapter 7 Discussion, Reflections and Implications.
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  • 18
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789812874412
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 153 p. 101 illus., 66 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education
    Abstract: Science is a subject matter that requires learners to explore the world and develop their own abilities on the basis of that exploration. As technology broadens and deepens, science teachers need to expand their Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), which determines how well they use technology to help students learn science. The book details our efforts to prepare science teachers to teach with the help of technology, examining various aspects of teacher education, professional development, and teaching material preparation. It consists of three parts, which focus on: how TPACK is conceptually constructed within the field of science education, how teacher evaluation and teaching materials are developed and utilized based on the transformative model, and how science teachers are prepared and supported with electronic resources based on the integrative model. The book offers a valuable resource for all those working in science education, as well as those readers who are interested in teacher education. Science teachers will come to know how simulations and animations can pedagogically support student learning. Practices for teachers’ TPACK development such as learning-by-design, evaluation and measurement, and teacher communities are also addressed, applied and discussed in the case of science teachers. The individual chapters will provide teacher educators and researchers from all disciplines with new insights into preparing teachers for the Digital Era
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  • 19
    ISBN: 9789812874054
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 261 p. 60 illus., 39 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Mathematics Teacher Education 10
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Mathematics ; Education
    Abstract: This book shows how video technology can be used to inform teachers’ personal practice, and provides new data and real-world case studies not covered by any previous book on the subject. Initial chapters explore how practicing teachers can view their own recorded lessons and take steps to improve their methods, while subsequent chapters examine how pre-service and in-service teachers can use recorded lessons to improve how they teach selected concepts, or to convey specific learning processes such as mathematical modeling and problem solving better
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  • 20
    ISBN: 9789812872210
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 280 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 27
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: This book is about the power of education: the kind of education that simultaneously improves the quality of life both of individuals and the wider society. It explains why education must be viewed as a basic human right, as a value in and of itself, and reviews the evidence on how education builds the human resources that individuals and nations need to be productive, to continue to learn, to solve problems, to be creative, and to live together and with nature in peace and harmony. When nations ensure that such an education is accessible to all throughout their lives, education becomes the engine of sustainable development - economic, social, moral and cultural. The book is unique in that it covers the development of education at all levels in all countries of the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, using the latest international data bases, while blending in analyses of both quantitate and qualitative research
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  • 21
    ISBN: 9789814560672
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 200 p. 6 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kemmis, Stephen The action research planner
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    Keywords: Educational tests and measurements ; Education ; Action research in education ; Curriculumforschung ; Aktionsforschung
    Abstract: A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart , now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on ‘participation’ (based on Jürgen Habermas’s notion of a ‘public sphere’), ‘practice’ (as shaped by practice architectures), and ‘research’ (as research within practice traditions). They provide five extended examples of critical participatory action research studies. The book includes a range of resources for people planning a critical participatory research initiative, providing guidance on how to establish an action research group and identify a shared concern, research ethics, principles of procedure for action researchers, protocols for collaborative work, keeping a journal, gathering evidence, reporting, and choosing academic partners. Unlike earlier editions, The Action Research Planner focuses specifically on critical participatory action research, which occupies a particular (critical) niche in the action research 'family'. The Action Research Planner is an essential guide to planning and undertaking this type of research
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    ISBN: 9789814021937 , 1283938294 , 9781283938297
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XLVIII, 280 p. 34 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Creativity, Talent and Excellence
    Keywords: Early childhood education ; Educational psychology ; Consciousness ; Education ; Education ; Early childhood education ; Educational psychology ; Consciousness
    Abstract: It is broadly accepted that the dynamism of humanity’s responses to our evolving scientific, social and environmental needs depends on our creativity, and this volume reflects the multiplicity of perspectives in the theory and practice of creativity. It examines the central issues that animate the themes of creativity, talent development and excellence in schools and in the workplace, as well as analysing their related socio-cultural activities and processes. Forged in the workshops of a number of conferences and symposia, this collection represents in itself a creative partnership between European and Asian academics. Thus it includes contributions from various cultural and organizational settings, as well as chapters that enhance our conceptual models of creativity in both learning and teaching.The contributing authors recognize that exploring the nature of creativity necessitates a new paradigm in research and praxis in which integration, collaboration, and the synthesis of knowledge and expertise are key factors. Their chapters detail the results of studies relating to to creativity, talent, school excellence, team and goal setting, innovation and organizational excellence, resilience, self-regulation, and personal epistemology. Clearly defined sections take on discrete aspects of the topic that include a vital assessment of the challenges that lie ahead in fostering the creativity, talent and excellence of the young and in doing so, allowing them to play a positive and innovative role in a variety of social contexts.
    Description / Table of Contents: Creativity, Talentand Excellence; Foreword; Creativity, Talent, and Excellence: A Window to New Insights; References; Foreword; Broadening Creativity: From Testing to Systemic Understanding; Cross-Cultural Studies; A Systematic Model of Creativity; Studies on Relations Between Creativity, Intelligence,and Motivation; Instructional Studies; Remarks; References; Preface: Reflections on Creativity,Talent, and Excellence; Introduction; Reflections; Incomplete Representation; Unconscious Processes; Connection and Integration; Scope of Our Volume
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Conceptions of Creativity and Cultivating CreativityPart II: Studies on Creativity and Cultivating Creativity; Part III: Conceptions and Studies on Creativityand Excellence in Organization; Part IV: Studies on Educational Excellence; Part V: Challenges Ahead; Concluding Remarks; References; Acknowledgements; Psychology of Excellence; Creativity Conferences; First Conference: Creativity and Talent Development; Second Conference: Creativity in Business and Education; International Symposium in Germany (September 2011); Appreciation; References; List of Editor; Contents; List of Authors
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Conceptions of Creativity and Cultivating CreativityChapter 1: Learning as a Creative Process; The New Role of Creativity in Learning: Self-Regulatory Learning; The Seven Tasks Comprising "Little c" Creativity in the Learning Process; Theoretical Background of an Instructional Unit Aimed at Increasing the Effectiveness of Self-Regulated Learning; Practical Execution; Outlook; References; Chapter 2: Three Creative Mental Operations; Widening; Variation; Connecting; Association; Combination; Reversing; Reorganizing; Reconstruction; Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Psychology of Cultivating Creativity in Teaching and LearningIntroduction; A Timely Reflection; Creativity and Its Importance; Knowledge of Creativity; Creativity for Life; A Framework for Cultivating Creativity; Cultivating Creativity; Recognizing the Individual and Sociocultural Interplay; Observing the Principle of the Common Good; Understanding the Intention of Creation; Making Holistic Inquiries; Constructing Knowledge in Action and Interaction; Constructive Creativity; Constructive Processes; Creative Teaching; Creativity in Systems; Components; Creative Learning; Interaction
    Description / Table of Contents: ActivitiesFinal Remarks; References; Chapter 4: Creativity and Problem-Based Learning (PBL): A Neglected Relation; Introduction; "Self-System" and Environments as Social-Cognitive Determinants of Creative "Products"; Creative Processes and Divergent Thinking Interventions; Creative Processes in Instruction; Integrating Divergent Thinking into Instruction; Problem-Based Learning (PBL) as an Instructional Model for Functionalizing Creative Processes for Learning; PBL as a Procedure; PBL as a Concept with Defining Characteristics; General Features; Components
    Description / Table of Contents: Ill-Defined Problems as Learning Tasks
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword by Beth Hennessey -- Foreword by Jiannong Shi -- Introduction: Reflections on Creativity, Talent, and Excellence Ai-Girl Tan -- Part I: Conceptions of Creativity and Cultivating Creativity -- Chapter 1 Learning as a Creative Process by Heidrun Stoeger -- Chapter 2 Soaring up the Tower of Creativity by Albert Ziegler and Wilma Vialle -- Chapter 3 The Three Main Creative Operations: Widening, Connecting, Reversing by Alessandro Antonietti and Barbara Colombo -- Chapter 4 Psychology of Cultivating Creativity in Teaching and Learning by Ai-Girl Tan -- Chapter 5: Creativity and Problem-based Learning: A Neglected Relation by Heinz Neber and Birgit J. Neuhaus -- Part II: Studies on Creativity and Cultivating Creativity -- Chapter 6 The What and the How of Creativity: An Exploratory Study by Paola Pizzingrilli and Stefania Molteni -- Chapter 7 Creativity and Early Talent Development in the Arts in Young and Schoolchildren by Anna N.N. Hui, Mavis W.J. He, and Elaine S.C. Liu-Au -- Chapter 8 Self-Regulated Learning and Creativity as Related to Age and Gender in the Transition from Elementary to Junior High School by Mayumi Oie, Yasuhiko Fujie, Yu Okugawa, Shinichiro Kakihana, Shoko Itaka, and Hisashi Uebuchi -- Chapter 9 Creativity Self-efficacy and its Correlates by Ai-Girl Tan, Tianchang Li, and Heinz Neber -- Chapter 10 Personal Epistemology and Its Relationship with Creativity by Ji Zhou, Jiliang Shen, and Detlef Urhahne -- Part III Conceptions and Studies on Creativity and Excellence in Organization -- Chapter 11 Entrepreneurs’ Creativity and Innovation: A Key to Performance by Dominika Dej, Meir Shemla, and Jürgen Wegge -- Chapter 12 Creating an Innovative Team: The Promise of Team Diversity by Meir Shemla, Dominika Dej, and Jürgen Wegge -- Chapter 13 When Group Goal Setting Fails: The Impact of Task Difficulty and Supervisor Fairness by Jürgen Wegge and S. Alexander Haslem -- Part IV: Studies on Educational Excellence -- Chapter 14 The Hector-Seminar: A New Enrichment Program for MINT/STEM-talents by Kurt A. Heller -- Chapter 15 Joint Function of Perceived Classroom Goal Orientations and Personal Achievement Goals on Student School Excellence by Yanhua Zhao and Rudolf Tippelt -- Chapter 16 Effects of Video Source Presentation and Cue Retrieval on Analogical Problem Solving by Mong Song Goh, Ai-Girl Tan, and William Choy -- Part V Challenges Ahead -- Chapter 17 Perspectives on Gifted Education in the Third Millennium by Kurt A. Heller -- Chapter 18 Transitional Gaps and Resilience in Japan by Makio Taira -- Epilogue: Toward Integrative Understanding of Creativity, Talent, and Excellence by Ai-Girl Tan.
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    ISBN: 9789814451062
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 185 p. 1 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 22
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Lam, Chi-Ming Childhood, philosophy and open society
    Keywords: Early childhood education ; Education ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Early childhood education ; Critical thinking ; Study and teaching ; China ; Hong Kong ; Confucianism and education ; China ; Hong Kong ; Education ; China ; Hong Kong ; Philosophy
    Abstract: The purpose of this book is to develop a theory and practice of education from Karl Popper’s falsificationist philosophy for promoting an open society. Specifically, the book is designed to develop an educational programme for achieving Popper’s ideal of fostering critical thinking in children for full participation in an open democratic society.Arguing that Matthew Lipman’s Philosophy for Children (P4C) programme can fulfil the requirements of Popper’s educational ideal in schools, this study conducted an experiment to assess the effectiveness of the programme in promoting students’ critical thinking in Hong Kong, China - arguably a Confucian heritage society. The students who were taught P4C were found to perform better in the reasoning test than those who were not, to be capable of discussing philosophical problems in a competent way, and to have a very positive attitude towards doing philosophy in the classroom. It was also found that P4C played a major role in developing the students’ critical thinking.Considering that the construction of children by adults as incompetent in the sense of lacking reason, maturity, or independence reinforces the traditional structure of adult authority over children in society, it runs counter to the goal of fostering critical thinking in children. As a way to return justice to childhood and to effectively promote critical thinking in children, this study suggested reconstructing the concept of childhood, highlighting the importance of establishing a coherent public policy on promotion of agency in children and also the importance of empowering them to participate actively in research, legal, and educational institutions
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Theoretical and Practical Justifications for Popper’s Non-Justificationism.- Chapter 3 Education for Open Society as an Educational Ideal -- Chapter 4 An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Lipman’s Philosophy for Children Programme on Promoting Children’s Critical Thinking in Hong Kong, China -- Chapter 5 Reconceptualisation of Childhood for Promoting Justice in an Open Society -- Chapter 6 Conclusions.
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    ISBN: 9789814021845
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 221 p. 8 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Keywords: Literacy ; Education ; Education ; Literacy ; Australien ; Bildungswesen ; Nationale Minderheit
    Abstract: This book describes research undertaken by leading Australian researcher in Indigenous communities. While the chapters are Australian in their focus, the issues that are discussed are similar to those in other countries where there are indigenous people. In most cases, in Australia and internationally, Indigenous learners are not succeeding in school, thus making the transition into work and adulthood quite tenuous in terms of mainstream measures. The importance of being literate and numerate are critical in success in school and life in general, thus making this collection an important contribution to the international literature. The collection of works describes a wide range of projects where the focus has been on improving the literacy and numeracy outcomes for Indigenous students. The chapters take various approaches to improving these outcomes, and have very different foci. These foci include aspects of literacy, numeracy, curriculum leadership, ICTs, whole school planning, policy, linguistics and Indigenous perspectives. Most of the chapters report on large scale projects that have used some innovation in their focus. The book draws together these projects so that a more connected sense of the complexities and diversity of approaches can be gleaned.
    Description / Table of Contents: Pedagogies to enhance learning for Indigenousstudents; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: An Aboriginal Perspective on Education - Policy and Practice; Introduction; History of Education for Aboriginal People in Australia; Contemporary Education for Aboriginal People; Cultural Patterning and Parenting Styles; Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: A Systemic Evidence-Based Strategy to Improve Indigenous Students' Numeracy and Literacy; Introduction; Background; The Political Context; The Demographic and Achievement Profile of NT Students; Demographic Data; Achievement Data
    Description / Table of Contents: Effective Schools: Teachers and PrincipalsWhat the Evidence Suggested; The Strategy; Leadership in the Strategy; The Foundations of the Strategy; Elements of the Strategy; Literacy; Numeracy; English as a Second (or Additional) Language; Cultural Competence and Responsiveness; Assessment Culture; Instructional Leadership; Curriculum in the Strategy; Proactive and Remedial Intervention; Professional Development in the Strategy; Roles in the Strategy; The Strategy: Implementation; The Strategy: Evidence and Interpretations; Implications; Discussion and Concluding Comments; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Indigenous Education Workers: A Special Case of Educational AssistantIntroduction; Towards an Understanding of Indigenous Education Workers; A Hybrid Occupation: IEWs as a Special Case of Assistant; The Interviews; Working in Tandem: Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Aides in a Catholic Primary School; An Indigenous School Environment; A State High School: "These Kids Never Feel Self Love; They're Low in Self Esteem"; A Third Space; Expanding the IEW Role; Conclusions; Tensions and Confusion About the Roles of Teacher Aides; A Space for Collaboration; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: Combating Role Discontinuity for Principals of Remote Indigenous SchoolsIntroduction; Background; Remote, Indigenous Principalship; The Research Context; Thematic Analysis; Role Discontinuity; Relationships with Teachers; Principals as Community Leaders/School-Community Relationships; Professional Development for Principals; Conclusion: "Doing Leadership" Differently in Remote Indigenous Schools; References; Chapter 5: Teachers' Beliefs and Practices in Teaching Mathematics in Remote Aboriginal Schools; Background; Reform Pedagogy; Research Problem; Teacher Beliefs and Practice
    Description / Table of Contents: Data SourcesFindings; Beliefs and Practice; Changes in the Teachers' Practice over the Project; Intellectual Quality; Significant Mathematical Content; Assessment for Learning; The Learning Environment; Group Work; Inclusiveness; Combined Results; Implications and Conclusions; References; Chapter 6: Language for Learning in Indigenous Classrooms: Foundations for Literacy and Numeracy; Background; Research Questions; Research Site and Process; Evidence and Interpretations; Implications; Transcription Conventions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: Naming Method: "This is it, maybe, but you should talk to …"
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword Paul Hughes -- PrefaceRobyn Jorgensen, Peter Sullivan and Peter Grootenboer -- Chapter 1: An Aboriginal perspective on education -Policy and practiceDale Kerwin and Harry van Issum -- Chapter 2: A systemic evidence-based strategy to improve Indigenous students’ numeracy and literacyThelma Perso -- Chapter 3: Indigenous Education Workers: A special case of educational assistantBob Funnell -- Chapter 4: Combating role discontinuity for principals of remote Indigenous schoolsRichard Niesche -- Chapter 5: Teacher s’ beliefs and practices in teaching mathematics in remote Aboriginal schoolsRobyn Jorgensen, Peter Grootenboer and Richard Niesche -- Chapter 6: Language for Learning in Indigenous Classrooms: Foundations for Literacy and NumeracyRod Gardner and Ilana Mushin -- Chapter 7: Naming method: “This is it, maybe, but youshould talk to …”Lisa Lunney-Borden and Dave Wagner -- Chapter 8: A three-level intervention pedagogy to enhance the academic achievement of Indigenous students: Evidence from QuickSmartJohn Pegg and Lorraine Graham -- Chapter 9: Building confidence and fostering engagement in Aboriginal learnersPeter Sullivan and Niek van Riel -- Chapter 10: Connecting children, community and curriculumJennifer Rennie -- Chapter 11: Evaluating Indigenous science education programs: Applying the Ininiwi-kiskānītamowin Indigenous science education model to an informal education programDawn Sutherland and Natalie Swayze -- Chapter 12: Using digital media to mediate learning in remote Aboriginal communitiesRobyn Jorgensen..
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    ISBN: 9789814021814
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 170 p. 3 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 19
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Applied psychology ; Developmental psychology ; Education ; Education ; Humanities ; Applied psychology ; Developmental psychology
    Abstract: This book discusses issues related to teachers' identities and life choices when globalisation and localisation are enmeshed. It examines how competing cultural traditions and contexts acted as resources or/and constraints in framing teachers' identities and their negotiations in the family and the work domains according to their gender positioning, their roles in the family such as husband, wife, father, mother, brother, sister, son and daughter and roles in the school such as principal, senior teacher or regular teacher. Contrary to an essentialist approach to identity and culture, teachers' stories show that their identities and life choices were hardly free choices; but were often part and parcel of the culture and contexts in which they were embedded. Teachers' identities are found to be fluid, complex, hybrid and multifaceted. Using Hong Kong as a case study, this book provides not only traces of the continuity and changes of Confucian self and cardinal relationships but also a glimpse of how educational reform as neo-capitalist discourses in the workplace interacts with Confucian cultural traditions creating new hybrid practices (problems or possibilities or both) in the school and in the daily lives of teachers
    Abstract: This book discusses issues related to teachers’ identities and life choices when globalisation and localisation are enmeshed. It examines how competing cultural traditions and contexts acted as resources or/and constraints in framing teachers’ identities and their negotiations in the family and the work domains according to their gender positioning, their roles in the family such as husband, wife, father, mother, brother, sister, son and daughter and roles in the school such as principal, senior teacher or regular teacher. Contrary to an essentialist approach to identity and culture, teachers’ stories show that their identities and life choices were hardly free choices; but were often part and parcel of the culture and contexts in which they were embedded.Teachers’ identities are found to be fluid, complex, hybrid and multifaceted. Using Hong Kong as a case study, this book provides not only traces of the continuity and changes of Confucian self and cardinal relationships but also a glimpse of how educational reform as neo-capitalist discourses in the workplace interacts with Confucian cultural traditions creating new hybrid practices (problems or possibilities or both) in the school and in the daily lives of teachers.
    Description / Table of Contents: Teachers' Identities and Life Choices; Foreword; Series Editors' Introduction; Acknowledgements; International Conference Presentations; International Journal Articles; Book Chapters; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Overview of the Book; 1.1.1 Changes and Identities; 1.1.2 Broader Contexts of Identities and Life Choices as Education Goals for the Twenty-First Century; 1.1.3 Identities of Teachers as Focus for Professional Development of Teachers; 1.2 Positioning of the Book; 1.3 My Personal Biography; 1.3.1 From Teaching of Subject to Teaching of the 'Person'
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3.2 From Essentialist Selfhood to Constructivist Selfhood1.4 Why This Book?; 1.5 The Organisation of the Book; References; Chapter 2: Hybridities, Border Crossing and Yin - Yang; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Identities and Life Choices; 2.3 The Non-western Self; 2.4 Teachers' Identities; 2.5 Globalisation; 2.6 Globalisation as Hybridisation; 2.6.1 Hybridisation as Empirical; 2.6.2 Hybridisation as Theoretical; 2.6.3 Hybridisation as Normative; 2.6.4 Hybridity as 'In-Betweenness'; 2.6.5 Rizvi's Critical/Moral Hybridities; 2.7 Chinese Yin-Yang Concept; 2.8 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Methodology3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Hybrid Methodology; 3.3 Narratives and Identities; 3.4 Individual and Group Interviews to Study Personal and Structural Changes; 3.5 Subjects of the Study; 3.6 Researchers' Roles and Relationships; 3.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Dialectics of the Chinese Culture: Continuities and Changes in the Confucian Order; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Confucian Order; 4.2.1 Confucian Self and Cardinal Relationships; 4.2.2 Contemporary Confucian Self and Cardinal Relationships in the Institutions of School and Family; 4.3 Dialectics of Chinese Culture
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4 Continuities and Changes in Contemporary Self and Cardinal Relationships: Life Stories4.4.1 Story of Siu Ping: A Senior Female School Guidance Teacher; 4.4.1.1 Change in School Position; 4.4.1.2 Change in Principal-Teacher Relationship; 4.4.1.3 Family Roles and Relationships; 4.4.1.4 Negotiations About Her Son's Education; 4.4.1.5 What She Willingly Conceded; 4.4.2 Story of Tai Sun: A Senior Male Physical Education Teacher; 4.4.2.1 Changing Roles and Relationships in School; 4.4.2.2 Family Roles and Relationships; 4.4.2.3 Time with Children
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4.2.4 Tai Sun's 'Mothering' and 'Housewife' Roles4.5 Discussion; 4.5.1 Principle of Change; 4.5.2 Principle of Contradiction; 4.5.3 Principle of Relationship and Holism; 4.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Evolving Hybrid Femininities ( Yin) and Masculinities ( Yang); 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Chinese Linguistics and Gender Order; 5.3 Hybridities; 5.4 Taoist Concept of Yin-Yang; 5.5 Female Teachers' Hybrid Gender Identities; 5.5.1 Recon fi guration of the Family: Hybridities in Family; 5.5.2 Renegotiation of the Husband-Wife Relationship; 5.5.3 The Place of Children in the Family
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.6 Male Teachers' Hybrid Gender Identities
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    ISBN: 9789814021999
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 162 p. 7 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Early childhood education ; Educational psychology ; Education ; Education ; Early childhood education ; Educational psychology
    Abstract: This book is based on the empirical work of a large-scale project to investigate the possible impacts of diversified forms of parental involvement on children and school by first exploring through a series of ethnographic case studies how principals, teachers and parents perceive and act on parental involvement in the primary schools of Hong Kong and, then, examining how the different forms and levels of parental involvement are related to individual and institutional factors through a series of survey studies on all these stakeholders in children’s education. Finally, the book assesses the extent to which different forms of parental involvement affect student performance based on student survey results and available school records.​
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Literature Review -- Chapter 2 Elucidating the Complexity of Parental Involvement in Primary Schools: Three Ethnographic Case Studies -- Chapter 3 Building a Grounded Theory on Parental Involvement in Education -- Chapter 4 Nature of Parental Involvement: Perspectives from Principals, Teachers and Parents -- Chapter 5 Effects of Parental Involvement and Investment on Student Learning -- Chapter 6 Conclusions and Implications.
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    ISBN: 9789814021906
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 127 p. 57 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. 3D immersive and interactive learning
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    Keywords: Computer science ; Education ; Education ; Computer science ; Neue Medien ; Immersion ; E-Learning ; Lehr-Lern-Forschung ; Neue Medien ; Immersion ; E-Learning ; Lehr-Lern-Forschung
    Abstract: 3D technology is not new; research on 3D started back in early 1960s. But unlike in previous times, 3D technology has now rapidly entered our daily life from cinema to office to home. Using 3D for education is a new yet challenging task. This book will present several innovative efforts using 3D for immersive and interactive learning covering a wide spectrum of education including gifted program, normal (technical) stream, and special needs education. The book will also share experience on curriculum-based 3D learning in classroom setting and co-curriculum-based 3D student research projects. The book is organized as follows. Chapter 1 introduces the fundamentals of 3D educational technology and their applications in immersive and interactive learning. Chapter 2 discusses the use of virtual reality in teaching and learning of Molecular Biology. Chapter 3 presents the daVinci Lab River Valley High School. Chapter 4 describes the 3D education development process. Chapter 5 studies the adaption 3D system for learning gains in lower secondary normal (technical) stream. Chapter 6 investigates the effects of virtual reality technology on spatial visualization skills. Chapter 7 showcases a sabbatical program for students to use 3D for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning. Chapter 8 shares the use of 3D virtual pink dolphin to assist special education. The foreword of this book is written by Dr Cheah Horn Mun, Director, Education Technology Division, Ministry of Education, Singapore
    Description / Table of Contents: 3D Immersive & Interactive Learning -- Use of Virtual Reality in Teaching and Learning Molecular Biology -- daVinci Lab River Valley High School -- 3D Education Developmental Process in National Junior College: A Case Study -- Adapting 3D System for Learning Gains in the Lower Secondary Normal (Technical) Stream -- Effects of Virtual Reality Elements on Spatial Visualisation Skills of Secondary 3 Students in Singapore -- 3D Sabbatical and STEM Learning -- 3D Virtual Pink Dolphins for Special Needs Education.
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    ISBN: 9789814021876 , 1283910918 , 9781283910910
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 245 p. 39 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 21
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Tan, Charlene Learning from Shanghai
    Keywords: Developmental psychology ; Education ; Education ; Developmental psychology ; Schanghai ; Schule ; Bildung ; Lernerfolg ; Schanghai ; Schule ; Bildung ; Lernerfolg
    Abstract: The Shanghai school system has attracted worldwide attention since its impressive performance in the International Programme for Student Assessment (PISA) in 2009. The system ranks as a 'stunning success' according to standards of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Shanghai also stands out for having the world's highest percentage of 'resilient students' - students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who emerge as top performers. Learning From Shanghai: Lessons on Achieving Educational Success offers a close-up view of the people and the policies that have achieved such world-class performance. Based on research and personal observation gathered during the author's recent two months of field work with school principals, teachers and students, this book explores the factors that explain Shanghai's exceptional success in education. The approach combines high standards of scholarly research and analysis with the author's unique personal insights, as evidenced by chapters entitled Education is Filling a Bucket and Lighting a Fire, and Tiger Mothers, Dragon Children. Drawing on her experience as an education professional, Charlene Tan thoroughly examines and analyzes the people, the policies and the practices that distinguish Shanghai educators. The contents include comprehensive details on the Shanghai approach to quality education, from discussion of the balance between centralization and decentralization, to school autonomy and accountability, to testing policy and professional development for teachers. The book includes detailed tables on curriculum and school performance targets, sample appraisal forms for teachers and students, and dozens of photographs. The author is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    Abstract: The Shanghai school system has attracted worldwide attention since its impressive performance in the International Programme for Student Assessment (PISA) in 2009. The system ranks as a ‘stunning success’ according to standards of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Shanghai also stands out for having the world’s highest percentage of ‘resilient students’ - students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who emerge as top performers. Learning From Shanghai: Lessons on Achieving Educational Success offers a close-up view of the people and the policies that have achieved such world-class performance. Based on research and personal observation gathered during the author’s recent two months of field work with school principals, teachers and students, this book explores the factors that explain Shanghai’s exceptional success in education. The approach combines high standards of scholarly research and analysis with the author’s unique personal insights, as evidenced by chapters entitled Education is Filling a Bucket and Lighting a Fire, and Tiger Mothers, Dragon Children. Drawing on her experience as an education professional, Charlene Tan thoroughly examines and analyzes the people, the policies and the practices that distinguish Shanghai educators. The contents include comprehensive details on the Shanghai approach to quality education, from discussion of the balance between centralization and decentralization, to school autonomy and accountability, to testing policy and professional development for teachers. The book includes detailed tables on curriculum and school performance targets, sample appraisal forms for teachers and students, and dozens of photographs. The author is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
    Description / Table of Contents: Learning from Shanghai; Prologue; Acknowledgements; Introduction by the Series Editors; Contents; List of Photos; List of Tables; Chapter 1: The Beginning: Shanghai, PISA and Globalisation; A Brief Introduction to Education in Shanghai; Globalisation and Global Forms; Cultural Scripts; Research Focus; Research Method; Chapter Outline; Conclusion; References; Part I: The People; Chapter 2: A Conversation with a Shanghai Principal; The Conversation; Special Characteristics of Shanghai Principals; Special Characteristic 1; Special Characteristic 2; Special Characteristic 3
    Description / Table of Contents: Special Characteristic 4Special Characteristic 5; Special Characteristic 6; Special Characteristics 7; Special Characteristics 8; Special Characteristics 9; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: The Chinese Teacher as a Chess Master; Emotion, Attitude and Values; Knowledge and Ability; Process and Method; Exam Techniques; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: 'Education Is Filling a Bucket and Lighting a Fire': The Shanghai Teacher; Filling a Bucket and Lighting a Fire; Student-Centred and Teacher-Dominated Approach; Reflections from Lesson Observations
    Description / Table of Contents: Key Points from Lesson Observation at the Primary LevelKey Points from Lesson Observation at the Junior Secondary Level; Key Points from Lesson Observation at the Senior Secondary Level; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Tiger Mothers, Dragon Children; Tiger Mothers in Shanghai; Your Child Must be Two Years Ahead of His or Her Classmates - Tiger Mother; Schoolwork Always Comes First and an A-Minus Is a Bad Grade - Tiger Mother; Dragon Children; Conclusion; References; Part II: The Policy; Chapter 6: 'Chinese-Style' Education for All; A Key Challenge in Shanghai
    Description / Table of Contents: Measures to Promote Educational Balance and EqualityNeighbourhood Counterpart Enrolment; No More Key-Point Schools; Helping Weak Schools; Quota Allocation Policy; Direct School Admission; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: 'To Develop Every Student': Towards Quality-Oriented Education; Quality-Oriented Education; Curriculum Reforms Towards Quality-Oriented Education; Shanghai's Quality-Oriented Education: Global and Local; Go Global; Stay Local; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Balancing Decentralisation with Centralisation; The Motivations for Decentralisation; Decentralisation in Shanghai
    Description / Table of Contents: The Dynamics of Decentralised CentralismThe Dynamics of Initiation; The Dynamics of Content, Levels and Simultaneity; Conclusion; References; Chapter 9: Autonomy and Accountability: The School Appraisal System; School Developmental and Supervisory Appraisal; The Background; The Process; The Targets, Development Domain and Key Elements of Appraisal; Discussion on the School Developmental and Supervisory Appraisal; Conclusion; References; Chapter 10: Testing Times: Exams as Means of Central Control; The Dynamics of Centralisation and Decentralisation; Terminal Exams; District-Level Tests
    Description / Table of Contents: Exams: Love or Hate?
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Shanghai, PISA and Globalisation -- Part One: The People -- 2. A Conversation with a Shanghai Principal -- 3. The Chinese Teacher as a Chess Master -- 4. ‘Education is Filling a Bucket and Lighting a Fire’: The Shanghai Teacher -- 5. Tiger Mothers, Dragon ChildrenPart Two: The Policy -- 6. ‘Chinese Style’ Education for All -- 7. ‘To Develop Every Student’: Towards Quality-Oriented Education -- 8. Balancing Decentralisation with Centralisation -- 9. Autonomy and Accountability: The School Appraisal System -- 10. Testing Times: Exams as Means of Central Control -- 11. Examining the Exam Papers -- 12. Taking Teacher Professional Development SeriouslyPart Three: The Practice -- 13. Towards Innovation and Application: Curriculum Changes in Shanghai Schools -- 14. From Teacher Talk to Student Talk: Dialogue Style Teaching -- 15. The ‘Post-Tea House Teaching’ Approach -- 16. Critical Thinking, the Chinese Way -- 17. Kung Fu Panda: Teacher Mentoring and Collaboration -- 18. Developing (f)or Appraising: School-Based Teacher Programme -- 19. Learning ABC from Shanghai..
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264171534
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (173 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Trouver ses marques ; Les indicateurs de l'OCDE sur l'intégration des immigrés 2012
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Integration von Zuwanderern; OECD-Indikatoren 2012
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Settling in
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    Keywords: 2000-2012 ; Migranten ; Integration ; Soziale Integration ; OECD-Staaten ; Education ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; OECD ; Einwanderung ; Soziale Integration
    Abstract: This publication highlights how immigrants and their children are integrating into OECD societies, judging their progress against key indicators. Many areas are considered (material living conditions, health, education, labour market, civic engagement) as integration is a multi-dimensional issue. Measures of outcomes, as well as of progress made over the past decade, are presented in comparison with outcomes of a reference group (the population born in the country of residence). Three series of questions are addressed: 1) To what extent does the average performance of immigrants differ from that of the native-born?; 2) Can these differences be explained by structural effects (different distributions by age, educational level, etc.)?; 3) How has integration record evolved over the past decade? An introductory chapter provides a detailed description of the populations under review (foreign-born persons and households, as well as native-born offspring of immigrants). The final chapter gives an overview on discrimination issues, as this is one possible source of persistent disadvantages of immigrants and their children.  
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    ISBN: 9789264179370
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten) , 21 x 28cm
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Education ; Employment ; Governance ; Social Issues/Migration/Health
    Abstract: Gender gaps are pervasive in all walks of economic life and imply large losses in terms of foregone productivity and living standards to the individuals concerned and the economy. This new OECD report focuses on how best to close these gender gaps under four broad headings: 1) Gender equality, social norms and public policies; and gender equality in 2) education; 3) employment and 4) entrepreneurship. Key policy messages are as follows:-Greater gender equality in educational attainment has a strong positive effect on economic growth;-Stereotyping needs to be addressed in educational choices at school from a young age. For example, adapt teaching strategies and material to increase engagement of boys in reading and of girls in maths and science; encourage more girls to follow science, engineering and maths courses in higher education and seek employment in these fields;-Good and affordable childcare is a key factor for better gender equality in employment. But change also has to happen at home as the bulk of housework and caring is left to women in many countries. Policy can support such change, for example, through parental leave policies that explicitly include fathers.-Support policies for women-owned enterprises need to target all existing firms, not just start-ups and small enterprises. Equal access to finance for male and female entrepreneurs needs to be assured
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264059344
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (192 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Doing better for children
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Assurer le bien-être des enfants
    DDC: 305.23091722
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    Keywords: Kinder ; OECD-Staaten ; Education ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Electronic books ; Graue Literatur ; Electronic books ; Graue Literatur ; OECD ; Kind
    Abstract: Drawing on a wide range of data sources, this publication constructs and analyses different indicators of child well-being across the OECD. These indicators cover six key areas: material well‑being; housing and environment; education; health and safety; risk behaviours; and quality of school life. They show that no one OECD country performs well in all areas and that every OECD country can do more to improve children’s lives. How much countries are spending on children and when is also closely considered, the first time such a comparative exercise has been undertaken across the OECD. Additional chapters offer detailed examinations of countries’ policies for children under age three, the impact of single parenthood on children and the effect of inequalities across generations. The publication concludes with broad policy recommendations for improving child well-being.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264034181
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (132 p.)
    Series Statement: CERI collection
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Comprendre l'impact social de l'éducation
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Schuller, Tom Understanding the social outcomes of learning
    DDC: 306.432
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    Keywords: Bildungsinvestition ; Bildungsertrag ; Soziale Folgen ; Education Social aspects ; OECD countries ; Education ; Social Issues/Migration/Health ; Lebenslanges Lernen ; Humankapital ; Gesundheit ; Fähigkeit ; Soziales Engagement
    Abstract: Education is vital for economic success, both at the national and the individual level. But education also has significant social effects. This report is OECD’s first attempt to gather and synthesise developments in measuring these social effects. The report focuses on two broad areas: health, and civic and social engagement. In general, better educated people are healthier, and take more part in civic activities. Why should this be so? This publication draws on findings from 13 OECD countries (Austria, Flemish Belgium, Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom [England and Scotland] and the United States) to provide new models and insights into these important contemporary issues.
    Note: Franz. Ausg. u.d.T.: Comprendre l'impact social de l'éducation
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  • 33
    ISBN: 9780306485152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 356 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Management science. ; Higher education. ; Curriculums (Courses of study). ; Economics. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Environmental management. ; Ethics. ; Education—Curricula. ; Education, Higher. ; Education ; Environmental Management ; Ethics ; Education, Higher ; Curriculum planning
    Abstract: Problematics -- The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- The Evolution of Sustainability Declarations in Higher Education -- Sustainability as Emergence: The Need for Engaged Discourse -- Critical Realism: A Philosophical Framework for Higher Education for Sustainability -- Higher Education, Sustainability, and the Role of Systemic Learning -- Assessing Sustainability: Criteria, Tools, and Implications -- The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis -- Promise -- The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- Environmental Education for Sustainability: A Force for Change in Higher Education -- The Contribution of Environmental Justice to Sustainability in Higher Education -- Learning Our Way to a Sustainable and Desirable World: Ideas Inspired by Arne Naess and Deep Ecology -- The Contribution of Ecofeminist Perspectives to Stainability in Higher Education -- Sustainability and Transformative Educational Vision -- Teaching Interactive Approaches to Natural Resource Management: A Key Ingredient in the Development of Sustainability in Higher Education -- Living Sustainably Through Higher Education: A Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change -- Disciplinary Explorations of Sustainable Development in Higher Education -- The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis -- Practice -- The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- Education and Sustainabile Development in United Kingdom Universities: A Critical Exploration -- Lighting Many Fires: South Carolina’s Sustainable Universities Initiative -- Integrating Education for the Environment and Sustainability Into Higher Education at Middlebury College -- Sustainability in Higher Education Through Distance Learning: The Master of Arts in Environmental Education at Nottingham Trent University -- The Pedagogy of Place: The Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University -- Developing Sustainability in Higher Education Using Aishe -- Curriculum Deliberation Amongst Adult Learners in South African Community Contexts at Rhodes University -- Incorporating Sustainability in the Education of Natural Resource Managers: Curriculum Innovation at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark -- The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis.
    Abstract: Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus. Graduates are increasingly exposed to notions of sustainability, which are emotionally, politically, ethically, and scientifically charged. They must be able to deal with conflicting norms and values, uncertain outcomes and futures, and a changing knowledge base. At the same time they will need to be able to contextualize knowledge in an increasingly globalized society. This book provides a variety of valuable theoretical and practical resources for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators who seek to integrate sustainability in higher education. Sustainability is not only explored as both an outcome and a process of learning, but as a catalyst for educational change and institutional innovation. The book raises the various problematics related to this inchoate field and provides an intellectual history and critical assessment of the prospects for institutionalizing sustainability in higher education.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers
    ISBN: 9781402027109
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 161 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 13
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    Keywords: Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Education. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Education—Philosophy. ; Education ; Education Philosophy
    Abstract: Some New York Philosophers -- Nelson Goodman at Penn -- Francis Keppel and the Harvard School of Education -- Some Education Colleagues -- Some London Philosophers -- Some Harvard Philosophers -- Turbulence in the 60's -- Chicago and Jerusalem Colleagues -- The Scholar and the Analyst -- Center for Advanced Study -- Some Invited Lectures -- Education Projects -- Philosophy of Education Research Center.
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  • 35
    ISBN: 9781402031717
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIV, 408 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Educational Innovation in Economics and Business 9
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Assessment. ; Education. ; Educational technology. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Education ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: Breaking Boundaries for Global Learning -- Teams and Collaborative Learning -- Creating Conditions for Collaborative Learning -- Michaelsen’s Model of Team-Based Learning Applied in Undergraduate Kinesiology Classes -- Cross-Cultural Virtual Teamwork: Implications from the Multicultural E-Classroom -- Collaborative Learning Applied in the Orientation Process of Undergraduate Students -- Transitioning from Academic Settings to the Workplace -- Online Learning: Learner’s Liberation? -- Learning to Work: Easing the Transition -- Breaking the Boundaries Between Academic Degrees and Lifelong Learning -- An Innovation in Access: Developing the Generic Skills of Business Students Through a Virtual Corporate Experience -- Role of Information Technology in the Learning Process -- Can “Learning by Teaching” Contribute to E-Learning? -- A Collaborative Tool for Argumentation-Based Learning: Examining Face-to-Face and Computer-Based Approaches in a UK Secondary School -- Adapting a Face-to-Face Training Program to a Distance Delivery Model: A Case Study of a Professional Training Program -- An Innovative Approach to Addressing Heterogeneity of Large Classes: Results from Teaching Business Statistics -- Using Information Technology in Teamwork During Collaborative Extra-Class Activities -- Program-Level Innovation Strategy -- Contextual Learning in Higher Education -- A Multi-Step Process for Assessing Student Outcomes in the Business Curriculum -- Student Characteristics and Academic Success -- Making Space for Twenty-First Century Management Learning -- The Value of Multidisciplinary Integration: Evidence from two Engineering Courses -- A Survey of Distance Education Programs.
    Abstract: Like previous volumes in the Educational Innovation in Economics and Business Series, this book is genuinely international in terms of its coverage. With contributions from nine different countries and three continents, it reflects a global interest in, and commitment to, innovation in business education, with a view to enhancing the learning experience of both undergraduates and postgraduates. It should prove of value to anyone engaged directly in business education, defined broadly to embrace management, finance, marketing, economics, informational studies, and ethics, or who has responsibility for fostering the professional development of business educators. The contributions have been selected with the objective of encouraging and inspiring others as well as illustrating developments in the sphere of business education. This volume brings together a collection of articles describing different aspects of the developments taking place in today’s workplace and how they affect business education. It describes strategies for breaking boundaries for global learning. These target specific techniques regarding teams and collaborative learning, transitions from academic settings to the workplace, the role of IT in the learning process, and program-level innovation strategies. This volume addresses issues faced by professionals in higher and further education and also those involved in corporate training centers and industry.
    Note: "Drawn from conference papers presented at the EDiNEB IX Annual Conference held in Guadalajara, Mexico in mid June of 2002"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781402065453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 1541 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Springer International Handbooks of Education 12
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Teaching. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education
    Abstract: Understanding the Nature and Development of Self-Study -- A History and Context of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices -- The Nature of Teaching and Learning in Self-Study* -- Self-Study As Teaching -- Finding A Way Through The Swamp: A Case For Self-Study As Research* -- Learning Through Self-Study: The Influence Of Purpose, Participants And Context* -- Fundamental Features and Approaches of The S-Step Enterprise* -- Voice in Self-Study* -- Self-Study In Professional Practice* -- Thinking about the Thinking about Self-Study: An Analysis of Eight Chapters -- Developing a Professional Knowledge Base for Teaching -- Professional Knowledge, Teacher Education and Self-Study* -- Links between Self-Study and Teacher Education Reform* -- Research, Practice, and Academia in North America* -- Humanistic Research in Self-Study: A History of Transformation* -- The Significance of Race and Social Class for Self-Study and The Professional Knowledge Base of Teacher Education$*$ -- Knowledge, Narrative And Self-Study -- Practitioner Inquiry, Knowledge, and University Culture* -- Knowledge, Social Justice and Self-Study* -- Examples of Practice: Professional Knowledge and Self-Study in Multicultural Teacher Education -- Revisioning And Recreating Practice: Collaboration In Self-Study* -- The Dialectics of Passion and Theory: Exploring The Relation Between Self-Study and Emotion* -- Representing Self-Study in Research and Practice -- The Methodology of Self-Study and Its Theoretical Underpinnings -- What Counts as Evidence in Self-Studies of Teacher Education Practices -- Self-Study Through Personal History -- Self-Study Through Action Research -- Visual Artistic Modes of Representation for Self-Study -- Using Information and Communication Technologies for the Self-Study of Teaching -- The Reflective Portfolio in Self-Study: Inquiring Into and Representing A Knowledge of Practice -- The Epistemological Dimensions and Dynamics of Professional Dialogue In Self-Study -- Afterword Moving The Methodology of Self-Study Research and Practice Forward: Challenges and Opportunities -- Self-Study in Teaching and Teacher Education -- Tracing the Development of Self-Study in Teacher Education Research and Practice -- Factors Important for the Scholarship of Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices -- Self-Study in School Teaching: Teachers’ Perspectives -- The Preservice Practicum: Learning Through Self-Study In A Professional Setting -- Self Study in Teaching About Teaching -- Self-Study Research in the Context of Teacher Education Programs -- Administrators also do Self-Study: Issues of Power and Community, Social Justice and Teacher Education Reform -- Identifying Ethical Issues in Self-Study Proposals -- Interpreting The What, Why and How of Self-Study In Teaching And Teacher Education.
    Abstract: The International Handbook on Self-study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices is of interest to teacher educators, teacher researchers and practitioner researchers. This volume: -offers an encyclopaedic review of the field of self-study; -examines in detail self-study in a range of teaching and teacher education contexts; -outlines a full understanding of the nature and development of self-study; -explores the development of a professional knowledge base for teaching through self-study; -purposefully represents self-study through research and practice; -illustrates examples of self-study in teaching and teacher education.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; SECTION 1 UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-STUDY ; Section Editor - J. John Loughran; Foreword to Section 1; 1 A History and Context of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices ; 2 The Nature of Teaching and Learning in Self-Study ; 3 Self-Study as Teaching ; 4 Finding a Way Through the Swamp: A Case for Self-Study as Research ; 5 Learning Through Self-Study: The Influence of Purpose, Participants and Context ; 6 Fundamental Features and Approaches of the s-step Enterprise ; 7 Voice in Self-Study ; 8 Self-Study in Professional Practice
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Thinking About the Thinking About Self-Study: An Analysis of Eight Chapters Appendix to Section 1; Personal History-Based Beliefs as Relevant Prior Knowledge in Course Work ; SECTION 2 DEVELOPING A PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR TEACHING ; Section Editor - Mary Lynn Hamilton; Foreword to Section 2; 10 Professional Knowledge, Teacher Education and Self-Study ; 11 Links Between Self-Study and Teacher Education Reform ; 12 Research, Practice, and Academia in North America ; 13 Humanistic Research in Self-Study: A History of Transformation
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 The Significance of Race and Social Class for Self-Study and the Professional Knowledge Base of Teacher Education 15 Knowledge, Narrative and Self-Study ; 16 Practitioner Inquiry, Knowledge, and University Culture ; 17 Knowledge, Social Justice and Self-Study ; 18 Examples of Practice: Professional Knowledge and Self-Study in Multicultural Teacher Education ; 19 Revisioning and Recreating Practice: Collaboration in Self-Study; 20 The Dialects of Passion and Theory: Exploring the Relation Between Self-Study and Emotion ; SECTION 3 REPRESENTING SELF-STUDY IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
    Description / Table of Contents: Section Editor - Vicki Kubler LaBoskeyForeword to Section 3; 21 The Methodology of Self-Study and Its Theoretical Underpinnings ; 22 What Counts as Evidence in Self-Studies of Teacher Education Practices ; 23 Self-Study Through Personal History ; 24 Self-Study Through Action Research; 25 Visual Artistic Modes of Representation for Self-Study ; 26 Using Information and Communication Technologies for the Self-Study of Teaching ; 27 The Reflective Portfolio in Self-Study: Inquiring into and Representing a Knowledge of Practice
    Description / Table of Contents: 28 The Epistemological Dimensions and Dynamics of Professional Dialogue in Self-Study 29 Afterword: Moving the Methodology of Self-Study Research and Practice Forward: Challenges and Opportunities ; SECTION 4 SELF-STUDY IN TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION; Section Editor - Tom Russell; Foreword to Section 4; 30 Tracing the Development of Self-Study in Teacher Education Research and Practice ; 31 Factors Important for the Scholarship of Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices ; 32 Self-Study in School Teaching: Teachers' Perspectives
    Description / Table of Contents: 33 The Preservice Practicum: Learning Through Self-Study in a Professional Setting
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    ISBN: 9781402081316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 373 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: New ICMI Study Series 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Curriculums (Courses of study). ; Teaching. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Education—Curricula. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Education ; Curriculum planning ; Mathematics ; Teachers Training of ; Algebra ; Mathematikunterricht ; Computeralgebra
    Abstract: Solving the Problem with Algebra -- The Core of Algebra: Reflections on its Main Activities -- Responses to ‘The Core of Algebra’ -- The Early Development of Algebraic Reasoning: The Current State of the Field -- A Toolkit for Analysing Approaches to Algebra -- Research on the Role of Technological Environments in Algebra Learning and Teaching -- Computer Algebra Systems and Algebra: Curriculum, Assessment, Teaching, and Learning -- The History of Algebra in Mathematics Education -- Symbols and Language -- Teachers’ Knowledge and the Teaching of Algebra -- The Teaching and Learning of Tertiary Algebra -- Goals and Content of an Algebra Curriculum for the Compulsory Years of Schooling -- Algebra: A World of Difference.
    Abstract: This book presents a wide-ranging, international perspective on the state of the field of algebra from invited participants to the 12th ICMI Study Conference held in Melbourne, Australia in 2001. The authors are renowned academics from all around the world who have written individual chapters associated with the teaching and learning of algebra that relate to their particular areas of research and teaching expertise. The book includes information about different approaches to the teaching and learning of algebra - from early algebra to tertiary algebra, the impact of tools and technology (including Computer Algebra Systems), the role of symbols and language, teachers of algebra, and the history of algebra. The Future of the Teaching and Learning of Algebra: the 12th ICMI Study is of interest to researchers, curriculum developers, educational policy makers, teachers of mathematics, and trainee mathematics teachers.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About ICMI""; ""Chapter 1 Solving the Problem with Algebra""; ""Chapter 2 The Core of Algebra: Reflections on its Main Activities""; ""Chapter 3 Responses to �The Core of Algebra�""; ""Chapter 4 Working Group on Early Algebra""; ""The Early Development of Algebraic Reasoning: The Current State of the Field""; ""Chapter 5 Working Group on Approaches to Algebra""; ""A Toolkit for Analysing Approaches to Algebra""; ""Chapter 6 Working Group on Technological Environments""; ""Research on the Role of Technological Environments in Algebra Learning and Teaching""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 7 Working Group on CAS and Algebra""""Computer Algebra Systems and Algebra: Curriculum‚ Assessment‚ Teaching‚ and Learning""; ""Chapter 8 Working Group on Algebra History in Mathematics Education""; ""The History of Algebra in Mathematics Education""; ""Chapter 9 Working Group on Symbols and Language""; ""Symbols and Language""; ""Chapter 10 Working Group on Teachers� Knowledge and the Teaching of Algebra""; ""Teachers� Knowledge and the Teaching of Algebra""; ""Chapter 11 Working Group on Teaching and Learning Tertiary Algebra""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""The Teaching and Learning of Tertiary Algebra""""Chapter 12 Working Group on Goals and Content of an Algebra Curriculum for the Compulsory Years""; ""Goals and Content of an Algebra Curriculum for the Compulsory Years of Schooling""; ""Chapter 13 Algebra: A World of Difference""; ""Conference Participants""; ""Index of Authors""; ""Index""
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers
    ISBN: 9781402019159
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXIII, 289 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Education ; Mathematics
    Abstract: The Context for Change: A Model for Discussion -- The Role of the Mathematics Co-Ordinator: A Source of in-School Support -- The Role of the School in Developing Mathematics -- The Mediating Role of Textual Materials in Teachers’ Response to Calls for Classroom Reform -- Responses of Teachers to a Course of Intensive Training -- The Dynamics of Teacher Decision-Making: Case Studies of Teachers Responding to the National Numeracy Strategy -- Professional Development from a Cognitive and Social Standpoint -- Teacher Reflection, Identity and Belief Change in the Context of Primary Came -- Drawing Conclusions.
    Abstract: Abstract. This introduction sets the scene for the remainder of the book by considering first the international context of widespread concern about the improvement of numeracy skills. This is related to reform movements in the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries aimed at modernising primary (elementary) school mathematics curricula. A detailed account is given of the National Numeracy Strategy in England, a systemic government-imposed response to concern about standards implemented in 1999/2000. This includes a discussion of the alternative meanings of numeracy. An earlier initiative sponsored by a United Kingdom charitable trust reacting to concern about primary numeracy was the Leverhulme Numeracy Research Programme. This large-scale longitudinal study and linked set of case-study projects, focusing on reasons for low attainment, took place during 1997-2002. This book, and each other in the same series, is based on results of that research. The timescale fortuitously enabled the research team to also report on some effects of the systemic reform in the National Numeracy Strategy. 1. THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT In many countries, there are recurring periods of national concern about the low standards of calculation skills shown by children in primary (elementary) schools. Recently, these concerns have become more urgent and more political with the publication of international comparisons of mathematical achievement, first at secondary and more recently at primary level (e. g. Lapointe, Mead, & Askew 1992; Mullis et al. , 1997).
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    ISBN: 9781402021992
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 272 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Studies in Educational Leadership 3
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    Keywords: Social psychology. ; Education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Personality. ; Difference (Psychology). ; Education
    Abstract: From the contents: Acknowledgements. List of tables. List of figures -- Section 1: The Critical Role Of Leadership For Organizational Learning And Improved Student Outcomes. 1 The Critical Role Of Leadership For Organizational Learning And Improved Student Outcomes -- Section 2: Using The Book. 2 Problem-Based Learning: A Vehicle For Professional Development Of School Leaders -- Section 3: The Problem-Based Learning Package. 4 Workshop Problem/Situation Outline. 5 The Altona Case Study. 6 The Heronwood Case Study. 7 Survey Data -- Section 4: A Challenge. 8 The Survey Instruments And A Challenge To Use Them In Your Own School -- Appendixes: 1 Conditions Fostering Organizational Learning In Schools. 2 Leadership For Organizational Learning In Australian Secondary Schools. 3 The Altona Case Study: Short Version. 4 The Heronwood Case Study: Short Version -- References. Other readings.
    Abstract: The change in paradigm in our field is away from the great man or woman theory of leadership and the teacher in his or her own classroom to the development of learning communities which value differences and support critical reflection and encourage members to question, challenge, and debate teaching and learning issues. How to achieve such learning communities is far from clear, but we believe the areas of problem-based learning (PBL) and organizational learning (OL) offer valuable clues. The indications are that the successful educational restructuring agenda depends on teams of leaders, whole staffs and school personnel, working together (i.e., OL) linking evidence and practice in genuine collaboration (i.e., PBL). The book is unique in that it is both about and uses these two concepts.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9781402027970
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 495 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Higher education. ; Assessment. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Education, Higher. ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Education ; Comparative education ; Educational tests and measurements ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Hochschule ; Qualitätssicherung ; Evaluation ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Europäische Union ; Hochschule ; Akkreditierung ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: Accreditation in the Framework of Evaluation Activities: A Comparative Study in the European Higher Education Area -- Accreditation and Differentiation: A Policy to Establish New Sectors in Austrian Higher Education -- Czech Quality Assurance: The Tasks and Responsibilities of Accreditation and Evaluation -- Ministerial Approval and Improvement-Oriented Evaluation in Denmark: An Alternative to Accreditation? -- Three Rounds of Evaluation and the Idea of Accreditation in Finnish Higher Education -- Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Flemish Community of Belgium -- The Changing Role of the State in French Higher Education: From Curriculum Control to Programme Accreditation -- Shift of Paradigm in Quality Assurance in Germany: More Autonomy but Multiple Quality Assessment? -- The National System of Higher Education in Greece: Waiting for a Systematic Quality Assurance System -- Quality Assurance in Motion. Higher Education in Hungary after the Change of Regime and the First Cycle of Accreditation -- Practice and Procedures Regarding Accreditation and Evaluation in the Irish Republic -- Italy: Accreditation in Progress. Autonomy, Minimum Standards, Quality Assurance -- Latvia: Completion of the First Accreditation Round — What Next? -- Multipurpose Accreditation in Lithuania: Facilitating Quality Improvement, and Heading towards a Binary System of Higher Education -- The Netherlands: A Leader in Quality Assurance Follows the Accreditation Trend -- The Blurring Boundaries Between Accreditation and Audit: The Case of Norway -- Accreditation and Evaluation in Poland: Concepts, Developments and Trends -- Portugal: Professional and Academic Accreditation — The Impossible Marriage? -- A Decade of Quality Assurance in Spanish Universities -- From Audit to Accreditation-Like Processes: The Case of Sweden -- Accreditation and Related Regulatory Matters in the United Kingdom.
    Abstract: This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. The authors are leaders in the field and they have cooperated in this effort by writing richly different, often deep and insightful analyses of the situation in their country. The two editors have added a synopsis detailing the main trends, and sketching commonalities as well as contrasts in the developments across Europe. The book shows how accreditation is becoming a main mechanism in the steering of higher education all over Europe. The book is unique in its analysis of forces driving towards the spread of different models of accreditation in the emerging European Higher Education area. Readers will obtain an up-to-date picture of the state of affairs of accreditation in the framework of evaluation activities in Europe. They will gain an understanding of why accreditation and evaluation systems have evolved the way they have, and subsequently, they will obtain more realistic views on potentialities for European comparability and cooperation in this area.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Accreditation in the Framework of Evaluation Activities:A Comparative Study in the European Higher Education AreaSTEFANIE SCHWARZ & DON F. WESTERHEIJDEN; 2 Accreditation and Differentiation: A Policy to Establish NewSectors in Austrian Higher EducationHANS PECHAR & CORNELIA KLEPP; 3 Czech Quality Assurance: The Tasks and Responsibilities ofAccreditation and EvaluationHELENA ŠEBKOVÁ; 4 Ministerial Approval and Improvement-Oriented Evaluation inDenmark: An Alternative to Accreditation?DORTE KRISTOFFERSEN
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Three Rounds of Evaluation and the Idea of Accreditation inFinnish Higher EducationJUSSI VÄLIMAA6 Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Flemish Communityof BelgiumDIRK VAN DAMME; 7 The Changing Role of the State in French Higher Education:From Curriculum Control to Programme AccreditationTHIERRY CHEVAILLIER; 8 Shift of Paradigm in Quality Assurance in Germany: MoreAutonomy but Multiple Quality Assessment?ANGELIKA SCHADE; 9 The National System of Higher Education in Greece: Waiting fora Systematic Quality Assurance SystemHARILAOS BILLIRIS
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Quality Assurance in Motion. Higher Education in Hungary afterthe Change of Regime and the First Cycle of AccreditationCHRISTINA ROZSNYAI11 Practice and Procedures Regarding Accreditation and Evaluationin the Irish RepublicMAUREEN KILLEAVY; 12 Italy: Accreditation in Progress. Autonomy, MinimumStandards, Quality AssuranceCARLO FINOCCHIETTI & SILVIA CAPUCCI; 13 Latvia: Completion of the First Accreditation Round -What Next?ANDREJS RAUHVARGERS
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 Multipurpose Accreditation in Lithuania: Facilitating QualityImprovement, and Heading towards a Binary System of HigherEducationBIRUT� VICTORIA MOCKIEN�15 The Netherlands: A Leader in Quality Assurance Follows theAccreditation TrendMARGARITA JELIAZKOVA & DON F. WESTERHEIJDEN; 16 The Blurring Boundaries Between Accreditation and Audit:The Case of NorwayBJØRN STENSAKER; 17 Accreditation and Evaluation in Poland: Concepts, Developments and Trends EWA CHMIELECKA & MARCIN DĄBROWSKI; 18 Portugal: Professional and Academic Accreditation - ALBERTO AMARAL & MARIA JOÄO ROSA
    Description / Table of Contents: 19 A Decade of Quality Assurance in Spanish UniversitiesJOSÉ-GINÉS MORA20 From Audit to Accreditation-Like Processes: The Case ofSwedenSTAFFAN WAHLÉN; 21 Accreditation and Related Regulatory Matters in the UnitedKingdomJOHN BRENNAN & RUTH WILLIAMS; About the Contributors
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    ISBN: 9781402025945
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IV, 162 p.)
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    Keywords: Education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Education ; Bewertung ; Schule ; Immaterielles Wirtschaftsgut ; Intellektuelles Kapital
    Abstract: to the concept of intellectual capital -- Constructing a typology for intellectual capital -- The measurement of responsibility -- A new Profile Guide Chart Method for job evaluation in schools -- Pay and incentives in an education setting -- The retention of intellectual capital: managing continuity -- Implementing a knowledge continuity initiative: an adjunct of lessons from practice -- Intellectual capital metrics.
    Abstract: A teacher may get good, even astounding, results from his pupils while he is teaching them and yet not be a good teacher; because it may be that, while his pupils are directly under his influence, he raises them to a height which is not natural to them, without fostering their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again as soon as the teacher leaves the classroom. Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889 – 1951. It is difficult to measure effectiveness in not-for-profit organisations like schools, colleges and universities. There is no ‘bottom-line’ against which to gauge performance, they have limited technical development and managers struggle to make meaningful comparisons between outcomes and targets. In education, well-publicised attempts have been made to establish - some would say impose - a set of criteria by which organisations judge success or failure. These have been largely subjective - the percentage of inspected classes regarded as good, the extent to which staff is involved in decision making, the appropriateness of the leadership shown by senior managers, and so on – if occasionally peppered with quantitative measures, like the percentage of students achieving certain grades in public examinations, to sustain the illusion of objectivity. This is not to fault the aspiration necessarily, though initially at least it created a surveillance culture in schools that did justice to neither the inspected nor the argument for inspection. Happily, this is changing.
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    ISBN: 9781402020940
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 308 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Innovation and Change in Professional Education 2
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Education. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Professionalisierung
    Abstract: On the Long Way from Novice to Expert and How Travelling Changes the Traveller -- The Role of Experience in Professional Training and Development of Psychological Counsellors -- The Case of Plant Identification in Biology: When Is a Rose a Rose? -- Overcoming Problems of Knowledge Application and Transfer -- Does Practice Make Perfect? -- Fostering Managerial Problem-Solving -- From Theory to Practice in Medical Education -- Embedding and Immersion As Key Strategies in Learning to Teach -- Teaching Expertise -- Professional Learning: Deliberate Attempts at Developing Expertise -- Learning Professionals: Towards an Integrated Model -- From Individual Cognition to Communities of Practice -- Competence-Supporting Working Conditions -- Network Ties, Cognitive Centrality, and Team Interaction Within a Telecommunication Company.
    Abstract: About the Book Series The idea for the Book Series “Innovation and Change in Professional Education” (ICPE) was born in 1996. While working on another publication in this area, we noticed that professional educators faced similar problems without even knowing from each other. It was this observation that resulted in examining the possibilities for a new publication platform about professional education with input from different professions. We wanted to develop a publication source that would bring together educators and researchers to exchange ideas and knowledge about theory, research and professional practice. But we were not only striving for a book series informing readers about important themes in the professions. A second goal was to focus on processes of change and innovation. We were heavily involved in innovations going on in our institutions, and were convinced that a better understanding was needed in a wide range of issues critically important to the future of professional education. It was our belief that scholarly publications about innovation processes may support fundamental change in professional education. ICPE reflects our view that professional education deserves such a publication platform. It aims to approach critical questions of educational innovations, and to examine dynamics of educational change in various professional domains in the context of innovation processes. The books will include contributions from frontline practitioners, leading researchers, or distinguished scholars in professional education, delivering reports of empirical or theoretical research, reviews, interpretations of evaluation studies, or descriptions of innovative approaches.
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    ISBN: 9780306485183
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 207 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Teaching. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Education ; Teachers Training of ; Großbritannien ; Lehrerfortbildung
    Abstract: The Issues and some Attempted Solutions -- Evolving Principles: Experience of Two Large Scale Programmes -- Professional Development for Cognitive Acceleration: Initiation -- Professional Development for Cognitive Acceleration: Elaboration -- Empirical Evidence -- Measurable Effects of Cognitive Acceleration -- Testing an Implementation Model -- A Long-Term Follow-up of some Case Schools -- Teachers in the School Context -- Making the Process Systemic: Evaluation of an Authority Programme -- Modelling Professional Development -- Researching Professional Development: Just How Complex is It? -- Elaborating the Model -- Evidence-Based Policy?.
    Abstract: Hopkins, Bruce Joyce, Michael Huberman, Matthew Miles, and Virginia Richardson. But we have chosen to present our own experience and empirical data first and then, in Part 3, to show how this experience and data relates to models which have been proposed by others. We will address here methodological issues concerned with collecting and interpreting evidence of relationships amongst the many individual and situational factors associated with PD, and re-visit the arguments about ‘process-product’ research on PD. In the light of our experience, we will interrogate models of PD which have been proposed by others and attempt to move forward our total understanding of the process of the professional development of teachers for educational change. In conclusion, we will look at some current national practice in professional development, concentrating on the recent English experience of introducing ‘strategies’ into schools but referring also, by way of contrast, to the situation in the United States. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Why has the professional development of teachers already exercised so many good minds for so long? And how can we justify adding another book to this field? The answer to both questions must lie in the continuing demand from society in general (at least as interpreted by politicians and newspaper editors) for improvements in the quality of education.
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    ISBN: 9781402079214
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 262 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series 3
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Education. ; User interfaces (Computer systems). ; Educational technology. ; Human-computer interaction. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Computer science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Computerunterstützter Unterricht ; Kooperatives Lernen ; Hochschulunterricht
    Abstract: It is All About Learning! -- CSCL in Higher Education? -- Practices and Orientations of CSCL -- Learning, Collaboration and Assessment -- Building Collaborative Knowing -- Learning, Assessment and Collaboration in Computer-Supported Environments -- What do you Mean by‘Support’? -- Instructional Support in CSCL -- Computer Software Support for CSCL -- Human Support in CSCL -- Technology and Interaction -- CSCL-Ware in Practice -- Designing Sociable CSCL Environments -- Conclusion -- What We Know About CSCL.
    Abstract: A Dutch policy scientist once said the information and knowledge in the twenty-first century has the shelf life of fresh fish, and learning in this age often means learning where and how to find something and how to relate it to a specific situation instead of knowing everything one needs to know. On top of this, the world has become so highly interconnected that we have come to realise that every decision that we make can have repercussions somewhere else. To touch as many bases as possible, we need to work with knowledgeable others from different fields (multiple agents) and take heed of their points of view (multiple representations). To do this, we make increasing use of computers and computer-mediated communication. If computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is not simply a newly discovered hype in education, what is it and why are we writing a book about it? Dissecting the phrase into its constituent parts, we see that first of all CSCL is about learning, and in the twenty-first century this usually means constructivist learning.
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    ISBN: 9781402028359
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 355 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 6
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    Keywords: Management science. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Education. ; Economics. ; Education ; Comparative Education ; Economics
    Abstract: Markets in Higher Education: Do They Promote Internal Efficiency? -- Cost-Sharing and Equity in Higher Education: Implications of Income Contingent Loans -- Transparency and Quality in Higher Education Markets -- Regulation and Competition in Higher Education -- The Evaluation of Welfare Under Alternative Models of Higher Education Finance -- Higher Education Policy as Orthodoxy: Being One Tale of Doxological Drift, Political Intention and Changing Circumstances -- Market Coordination of Higher Education: The United States -- ‘Madly off in All Directions’: Higher Education, Marketisation and Canadian Federalism -- Australian Higher Education: National and Global Markets -- The Higher Education Market in the United Kingdom -- Rapid Expansion and Extensive Deregulation: The Development of Markets for Higher Education in the Netherlands -- Is There a Higher Education Market in Portugal? -- Higher Education and Markets in France -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: This volume presents the most comprehensive international discussion of the role of markets in higher education ever published. It reflects on both the political and economic implications of the rising trend towards introducing market elements in higher education. The book draws together many leading international scholars in the economic and policy analysis of higher education to explore different theoretical perspectives and present new empirical evidence on market mechanisms in higher education in several Western countries. The authors present a dispassionate and ideologically neutral view of the advantages and disadvantages of the introduction of market-mechanisms in higher education and of its effects in terms of access, equity, quality of provision, student learning, research and scholarship, and so on. And they balance the performance of markets in higher education against the alternative of more, or a different kind of, governmental intervention.
    Note: Contains edited versions of papers presented at a seminar "Markets in Higher Education", held as the 3rd of the Douro Seminars of Higher Education Research , Includes bibliographical references
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    ISBN: 9781402023446
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 216 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Higher education. ; Education. ; Education, Higher. ; Education ; Education, Higher
    Abstract: Liberalism, Mass Education and a Loss of Academic Trust -- The Market Metaphor — A Good Basis for Trust? -- What Form of Trust Might be Appropriate for Universities to Build a Praxis of Higher Education Designed to Encourage Authenticity? -- Education in a Culture of Suspicion? -- If Not the Market Model, then Perhaps a Heideggerian Perspective? -- A University’s Authenticity is in its Community -- Trusting in Thinking about Knowing -- Trusting in Teaching to Let Learn -- A Trusting Praxis for Higher Education Institutions -- Reflections.
    Abstract: The world in which we learn is changing rapidly. That rapidity is driven by a range of influences, conveniently, but inadequately, clustered under the rubric of globalisation. . The context in which globalisation and education is often linked is that of progression, progression realisable through technology, the free movement of finances and the optimum utilisation of human capital. To fuel this progression, formal educational institutions have grown, adapted and changed to provide highly skilled ‘outputs’ to satisfy demand. Along the way, I will argue, the questioning, learning, reflecting and worthiness of formal education has been sacrificed for instrumentality, compliance and self-interest. This is seen throughout the educational system but this book concentrates on higher education and, more importantly, higher educational institutions that are known as universities. I will try to argue for a distinctive place for universities that does not resist progression but defines it differently from that allowable by the market. I propose a university system where students and faculty are together allowed to ‘let learn’ who they might become, rather than realise their being as the artefact of economic imperatives. I accept from the very beginning that this might be incompatible with universities being in the world of commerce and industry, in fact, I demand that they are not! However, my text is not a polemic against the capitalist entrapment of education per se but for the development of centres that question whilst engaging with the realities of our existence.
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    ISBN: 9780306480782
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 233 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives 2
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    Keywords: Education. ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Integrative Erziehung
    Abstract: Beyond Schooling -- Including Ourselves: Teaching, Trust, Identity and Community -- ‘They Believe that They Participate ... but’: Democracy and Inclusion in Norwegian Schools -- Participation and Democracy: What’s Inclusion Got to do with it? -- Why does Education for all Have to be Inclusive Education? -- Challenging Understanding -- The Social Construction of Adulthood with a Difference in Iceland -- Inclusion and Problem Groups: The Story of Adhd -- Working Past Pity: What We Make of Disability in Schools -- An Outsider’s Perspective on the Reality of Educational Inclusion Within Former Yugoslavia -- Pressing for Change -- Understanding the Changing Role of English Local Education Authorities in Promoting Inclusion -- Daring to Think Otherwise? Educational Policymaking in the New Scottish Parliament -- ‘Race’ and the Discourse on ‘Inclusion’ -- Teacher Education, Government and Inclusive Schooling: The Politics of the Faustian Waltz -- Concluding Remarks.
    Abstract: The question of inclusive education is one which many societies are attempting to address. It is a fundamentally serious and complex issue raising challenges that cover conceptual, organizational, pedagogical, curricular and socio-economic concerns and questions. In this edited collection of papers the reader is confronted with these challenges through, on the one hand, a critical informative analysis of some of the key existing ideas and, on the other, a series of alternative insights and questions requiring further exploration and debate. Adding to the overall qu- ity of the book is the much needed cross-cultural dimension in terms of insights, knowledge, understanding and difficult questions. This is an important book in which new research and interpretations are reported on and discussed. Overall, the papers provide a serious critique of such factors as: the limitations of existing definitions of inclusive education; the narrowness of the focus within which inclusive issues are too often presented; the negative impacts of marketisation, performativity and the standards agenda on the realisation of inclusive values and practice and the constraints of significant socio-economic inequalities and disadvantages within and between communities and schools. These raise serious questions concerning the extent to which schools can make a positive difference in the lives of many pupils.
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    ISBN: 9780306480843
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 210 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Studies in Educational Leadership 2
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    Keywords: Education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Education ; Schulleitung
    Abstract: Diversity, Educational Leadership and Inclusion -- Educational Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion -- Leadership and Inclusion: A Review -- Administrator Perceptions of “Race” and Racism -- Antiracism: Strategies for Combating Racism -- Promoting Inclusive School-Community Relationships -- Administrator Perceptions of and Responses to Difference -- Dealing with Dilemmas of Difference: Two Cases -- Educative Leadership in Diverse Contexts -- The Barriers to Inclusion -- Leadership and Inclusion.
    Abstract: This book explores the challenges that school administrators face in ethnically diverse contexts. Based on an empirical study, it shows how principals do or do not promote inclusive practices in their schools. The various chapters cover principal perceptions of, and responses to, racism and antiracism, school community relationships, and difference. Also addressed are administrators' efforts to learn about diversity and to educate others in their school communities about it. This volume is the first of its kind to specifically target school administrators and ethnic diversity. While collections of essays and individual articles have explored general and specific aspects of diversity, no book to date has targeted leadership and ethnical diversity specifically, is supported by empirical data, or follows a consistent theme throughout. This book will be of interest to school administrators, prospective administrators, teachers, graduate students, academics and all others who are concerned about education, leadership, diversity and inclusion.
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    ISBN: 9780306482069
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 285 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 18
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    Keywords: Science education. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Education. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Bibliografie ; Kognitive Entwicklung ; Kreativität ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kognitive Entwicklung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Interesse
    Abstract: How do People Learn? -- The Neurological Basis of Self-Regulation -- Brain Maturation, Intellectual Development and Descriptive Concept Construction -- Brain Maturation, Intellectual Development and Theoretical Concept Construction -- Creative Thinking, Analogy and a Neural Model of Analogical Reasoning -- The Role Analogies and Reasoning Skill in Theoretical Concept Construction and Change -- Intellectual Development During the College Years: Is There a Fifth Stage? -- What Kinds of Scientific Concepts Exist? -- Psychological and Neurological Models of Scientific Discovery -- Rejecting Nature of Science Misconceptions by Preservice Teachers -- Implications for the Nature of Knowledge and Instruction.
    Abstract: A goal of mine ever since becoming an educational researcher has been to help construct a sound theory to guide instructional practice. For far too long, educational practice has suffered because we have lacked firm instructional guidelines, which in my view should be based on sound psychological theory, which in turn should be based on sound neurological theory. In other words, teachers need to know how to teach and that "how-to-teach" should be based solidly on how people learn and how their brains function. As you will see in this book, my answer to the question of how people learn is that we all learn by spontaneously generating and testing ideas. Idea generating involves analogies and testing requires comparing predicted consequences with actual consequences. We learn this way because the brain is essentially an idea generating and testing machine. But there is more to it than this. The very process ofgenerating and testing ideas results not only in the construction of ideas that work (i. e. , the learning of useful declarative knowledge), but also in improved skill in learning (i. e. , the development of improved procedural knowledge).
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    ISBN: 9780306481642
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 193 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives 1
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    Keywords: International education . ; Comparative education. ; Educational sociology. ; Education. ; Education ; Comparative Education ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Bildungspolitik ; Integrative Erziehung
    Abstract: Researching the Practices and Processes of Policy Making -- Space, Place and Policy Making: Developing a Theoretical Framework -- Process, Practice and Emotion: Researching Policy and Space within a Cross-Cultural Framework -- The History of Special Education: Humanitarian Rationality or ‘Wild Profusion of Entangled Events’? -- Space, Place and Exclusion: Constructing Alternative Histories -- Four Settings: Dividing Spaces -- Discourse, Power and Policy Making: Uncovering the Politics of Social Practice in England -- Landscapes of Naming and Placing: Structures and Practices of Selection and Sorting in France -- Conclusion: Space, Place and the Production of the Other.
    Abstract: This is an extremely important book containing a wealth of ideas and insights and raising important questions for discussion and further exploration. In a lucid and cogently argued analysis, the author both challenges dominant ideas and interp- tations and provides some alternative innovatory perspectives. These include, the making and meaning of policy; the varied and complex ways in which inclusion and exclusion can be understood; the nature and function of categorisation, labelling and discursive practices within official discourse and procedures and the position and relationship between space, place and identities in relation to the experience of marginalized people including disabled children and young people. Drawing on concepts and insights from social and cultural geography Armstrong is able to seriously examine and discuss daily activities within institutional and social settings in England and France from several different angles. In sensitive, thoughtful and imaginative ways the micro-politics of social settings and encounters are explored through a process of deconstruction and reconstruction. Subtle, overt and contradictory features of interactions are carefully identified and critically discussed. This covers how meanings, decisions and outcomes of such encounters are developed, challenged and changed. Both in relation to discussions of the history of special education and her cri- cal self-reflections on the research process, the author challenges homogeneous conceptions and sanitized accounts of what, she argues, is an essentially messy process. It is the unevenness, discontinuities and contradictions of social conditions and relations that are depicted in insightful and disturbing ways.
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    ISBN: 9780306483684
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 146 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
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    Keywords: Higher education. ; Education. ; Education, Higher. ; Education ; Education, Higher
    Abstract: History -- Institutional Research: From Case Study to Strategic Instrument -- Eair in the Making -- Institutional Research and Management in the U.S. and Europe: Some Eair - Air Comparisons -- Research and Practice -- Higher Education Research in Europe -- Research, Administration and University Management: What Can Research Contribute to Policy? -- Current State of Knowledge and the Future -- Quality in Higher Education -- Interpretations of Self-Regulation: The Changing State-Higher Education Relationship in Europe -- Management in Higher Education: Current Trends and Future Perspectives in European Colleges and Universities -- Internationalisation in Higher Education: from Regional to Global -- The Economics of Higher Education -- Expansion and Diversification in Higher Education.
    Abstract: Nearly 24 years ago, in November 1979, 26 scholars and administrators, from 12 countries, met in the Sorbonne in Paris at the "First European AIR Forum", to discuss "Institutional Research in North America and Europe". Most of the European participants had not heard of `institutional research', but discovered that what some of them had been engaged in for most of their careers was this very topic! Over the intervening period, 26 has grown to over 400 participants in the Annual Forum, a separate European Association (EAIR) has been established, and the Association's influential journal, Tertiary Education And Management, is published quarterly and is now in its 9th year. This book addresses the interface between research, policy and practice in the fields of Higher Education Management and Institutional Research. It provides an overview of the current state of research and best managerial practice in the field of HE Management, so vital to the well-being of higher education, and currently at a crucial stage of evolution in so many countries of Europe and the rest of the world.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 274 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
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    Keywords: Economic growth. ; Professional education. ; Vocational education. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Educational sociology. ; Economic development. ; Comparative Education ; Education ; Endogenous growth (Economics) ; Berufsbildung ; Flexibilität ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Shaping conditions for a flexible VET -- Institutional And Organisational Aspects Of Flexibility -- Vocational education and training in transition: From Fordism to a learning economy -- Learning organisations for VET -- Perspectives on institutional and organisational flexibility in VET -- Educational Tools and Resources for Flexibility -- Institutional responses to a flexible unified system -- Demand and supply of qualifications: systems’ change towards flexibility -- Developments in vocational education in Ireland -- From a unified to a flexible vocational system: the Hungarian transition case -- Design and effects of a flexible VET system: a case study in Dutch agricultural education -- Valuing learning outcomes acquired in non-formal settings -- Resources for flexibility: critical comments -- Professional Conditions -- Professionalism as a path for the reform of VET systems -- Transforming VET policies and professionalism: a view from Finland -- HRD as a professional career? Perspectives from Finland, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom -- Challenges of supporting learning of newly qualified professionals in health care -- The practices of a new VET profession.
    Abstract: Flexibility seems to be the core concept of economic and educational change in our time. The promise of solutions to many problems at the individual, institutional, and national level evokes as much controversy as acclaim. This might be related to the different perspectives of actors and researchers involved in problem-solving in Vocational Education and Training (VET), where, on the one hand, solutions should be sought in key qualifications and transferability, in changing teaching and learning processes, while, on the other, political, institutional, organisational, and professional conditions are seen as the key interventions to build a responsive workforce on the basis of a re-engineered VET system. Consequently, flexibility in connection with vocational education and training and the labour market has several divergent connotations.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 234 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
    Series Statement: Studies in Writing 12
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wissenschaftliches Manuskript
    Abstract: Teaching Academic Writing in European Higher Education: An Introduction -- Text and Writer -- Getting Started: Academic Writing in the First Year of a University Education -- Text Types, Textual Consciousness and Academic Writing Ability -- Teaching Academic Writing to International Students: Individual Tutoring as a Supplement to Workshops -- The Genre in Focus, not the Writer: Using Model Examples in Large-Class Workshops -- A Good Paper Makes a Case: Teaching Academic Writing the Macro-Toulmin Way -- Rethinking Feedback: Asymmetry in Disguise -- The (IM)Possibilities in Teaching University Writing in the Anglo-American Tradition When Dealing with Continential Student Writers -- Helping Doctoral Students to Finish Their Theses -- Teaching Academic Writing in Context -- Centres for Writing & Reading-Bridging the Gap between University and School Education -- Writing at Norwegian Universities in an International Perspective -- Contacts-Conflicts-Cooperation -- An Analysis of the Discourse of Study Support at the London Institute -- Creating a Basis for a Faculty-Oriented Writing Programme -- Implementation Issues for Study Support.
    Abstract: DAVID R. RUSSELL English Department of Iowa State University, U. S. A. I was fortunate to attend, as a visitor from the U. S. , the first European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) conference in 2001 at Groningen. I was struck by the similarities in the challenges higher education faces on both sides of the Atlantic in terms of developing students’ academic writing, and students’ learning through writing. It is indeed an international ‘problem. ’ But I was equally struck by the profound differences in responding to these challenges – among - tions, institutions, disciplines, and even within disciplines. The essays in this - traordinary volume address a growing demand for help with academic writing, on the part of students and academic staff alike. And they do so in ways that bring fresh approaches, not only to Europeans, who have only recently begun to study academic writing, but also to researchers and academic staff in the U. S. , where we have a c- tury-old tradition of attention to the problem – but are much in need of these fresh approaches. Academic writing has become a ‘problem’ in higher education – all around the world – because higher education sits smack between two contradictory pressures. On one end, far more students (and far more diverse students) come streaming into higher education – bringing in a far greater diversity of linguistic resources (often interpreted as ‘standards are falling,’ as Frank, Haacke & Tente point out).
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Preliminaries""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""TEACHING ACADEMIC WRITING IN EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION""; ""GETTING STARTED""; ""TEXT TYPES, TEXTUAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND ACADEMIC WRITING ABILITY""; ""TEACHING ACADEMIC WRITING TO INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS""; ""THE GENRE IN FOCUS, NOT THE WRITER""; ""A GOOD PAPER MAKES A CASE""; ""RETHINKING FEEDBACK: ASYMMETRY IN DISGUISE""; ""THE (IM)POSSIBILITIES IN TEACHING UNIVERSITY WRITING""; ""HELPING DOCTORAL STUDENTS TO FINISH THEIR THESES""; ""CENTRES FOR WRITING & READING""; ""WRITING AT NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITIES IN AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""CONTACTS � CONFLICTS � COOPERATION""""AN ANALYSIS OF THE DISCOURSE OF STUDY SUPPORT AT THE LONDON INSTITUTE""; ""CREATING A BASIS FOR A FACULTY-ORIENTED WRITING PROGRAMME""; ""IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES FOR STUDY SUPPORT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""AUTHOR INDEX""; ""SUBJECT INDEX""; ""LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS""
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-221) and indexes
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 299 p.)
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    Series Statement: Innovation and Change in Professional Education 1
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    Keywords: Assessment. ; Science education. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Education. ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Schulleistungsmessung
    Abstract: The Era of Assessment Engineering: Changing Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and the Role of New Modes of Assessment -- New Insights Into Learning and Teaching and Their Implications for Assessment -- Evaluating the Consequential Validity of New Modes of Assessment: The Influence of Assessment on Learning, Including Pre-, Post-, and True Assessment Effects -- Self and Peer Assessment in School and University: Reliability, Validity and Utility -- A Framework for Project-Based Assessment in Science Education -- Evaluating the Over All Test: Looking for Multiple Validity Measures -- Assessment for Learning: Reconsidering Portfolios and Research Evidence -- Students’ Perceptions about New Modes of Assessment in Higher Education: A Review -- Assessment of Students’ Feelings of Autonomy, Competence, and Social Relatedness: A New Approach to Measuring the Quality of the Learning Process through Self- and Peer Assessment -- Setting Standards in the Assessment of Complex Performances: The Optimized Extended-Response Standard Setting Method -- Assessment and Technology.
    Abstract: French novelist Marcel Proust instructs us that, “a voyage of discovery consists, not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing through new eyes.” Nowhere in the practice of education do we need to see through new eyes than in the domain of assessment. We have been trapped by our collective experiences to see a limited array of things to be assessed, a very few ways of assessing them, limited strategies for communicating results and inflexible roles of players in the assessment drama. This edited book of readings jolts us out of traditional habits of mind about assessment. An international team of innovative thinkers relies on the best current research on learning and cognition, to describe how to use assessment to promote, not merely check for, student learning. In effect, they explore a new vision of assessment for the new millennium. The authors address the rapidly expanding array of achievement targets students must hit, the increasingly productive variety of assessment methods available to educators, innovative ways of collecting and communicating evidence of learning, and a fundamental redefinition of both students’ and teachers’ roles in the assessment process.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""The Era of Assessment Engineering: Changing Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and the Role of New Modes of Assessment""; ""New Insights Into Learning and Teaching and Their Implications for Assessment""; ""Evaluating the Consequential Validity of New Modes of Assessment: The Influence of Assessment on Learning, Including Pre-, Post-, and True Assessment Effects""; ""Self and Peer Assessment in School and University: Reliability, Validity and Utility""; ""A Framework for Project-Based Assessment in Science Education""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Evaluating the OverAll Test: Looking for Multiple Validity Measures""""Assessment for Learning: Reconsidering Portfolios and Research Evidence""; ""Students� Perceptions about New Modes of Assessment in Higher Education: a Review""; ""Assessment of Students� Feelings of Autonomy, Competence, and Social Relatedness: A New Approach to Measuring the Quality of the Learning Process through Self- and Peer Assessment""; ""Setting Standards in the Assessment of Complex Performances: The Optimized Extended-Response Standard Setting Method""; ""Assessment and Technology""; ""Index""
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 208 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
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    Keywords: Language and education. ; Applied linguistics. ; Psycholinguistics. ; Language and languages—Study and teaching. ; Education ; Applied linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Language and languages ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mehrsprachigkeit ; Spracherwerb ; Psycholinguistik ; Mentales Lexikon
    Abstract: Why Investigate the Multilingual Lexicon? -- Lexical Processing in Bilinguals and Multilinguals: The Word Selection Problem -- The Transfer-Appropriate-Processing Approach and the Trilingual’s Organisation of the Lexicon -- The Nature of Cross-Linguistic Interaction in the Multilingual System -- Activation of Lemmas in the Multilingual Mental Lexicon and Transfer in Third Language Learning -- Parasitism as a Default Mechanism in L3 Vocabulary Acquisition -- Investigating the Role of Prior Foreign Language Knowledge: Translating from an Unknown into a Known Foreign Language -- The Role of Typology in the Organization of the Multilingual Lexicon -- A Strategy Model of Multilingual Learning -- Formulaic Utterances in the Multilingual Context -- Lexicon in the Brain: What Neurobiology Has to Say about Languages -- Perspectives on the Multilingual Lexicon: A Critical Synthesis.
    Abstract: This volume is a response both to the increasing interest in multilingual phenomena and lexical issues in language learning. It is of interest to scholars and graduate students interested in bi- and multilingualism, second and multiple language acquisition, language processing and language learning, mental lexicon, applied linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics and language teaching. Recent research on third language acquisition and trilingualism has made clear that most multilingual studies actually deal with vocabulary learning or the lexicon. So far books on the mental lexicon have mainly been concerned with two languages in contact. This book is unique because it explores the multilingual lexicon by providing insights from research studies conducted in psycholinguistics, applied linguistics and neurolinguistics. It goes beyond the use of two languages and thus concentrates on a new and developing area in linguistic research. The different perspectives included in this volume provide a link to the mainstream work on the lexicon and vocabulary acquisition and will stimulate further debate in these areas and in the study of multilingualism.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-199) and index , Why Investigate the Multilingual Lexicon , Lexical Processing in Bilinguals and Multilinguals , The Transfer-Appropriate-Processing Approach and the Trilingual's Organisation of the Lexicon , The Nature of Cross-Linguistic Interaction in the Multilingual System , Activation of Lemmas in the Multilingual Mental Lexicon and Transfer in Third Language Learning , Parasitism as a Default Mechanism in L3 Vocabulary Acquisition , Investigating the Role of Prior Foreign Language Knowledge , The Role of Typology in the Organization of the Multilingual Lexicon , A Strategy Model of Multilingual Learning , Formulaic Utterances in the Multilingual Context , Lexicon in the Brain: What Neurobiology has to Say About Languages , Perspectives on the Multilingual Lexicon: A Critical Synthesis
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    ISBN: 9780306480775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 332 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
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    Keywords: Higher education. ; Political science. ; Education. ; Education, Higher. ; Education ; Political Science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europäische Union ; Bildungssystem ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Europäische Union ; Bildungspolitik ; Standardisierung
    Abstract: The European Union and Education and Training: An Overview of Policies and Initiatives -- Educating Europe: An Analysis of EU Educational Policies -- Interpreting EU Education and Training Policy: Thoughts from the English Perspective -- Tensions Between the European and the Nordic Dimension in Education, with Particular Reference to Sweden -- A Comparative Study of the European Dimension in Education in England, Scotland and Wales -- The European Dimension in the National Curriculum for England -- European Policies and Transition Processes: The Influence of EU Training Programmes in Eastern Germany -- The Impact of EU Education and Training Policies in Sweden -- Eu Programmes in Education and Training: Development and Implementation in Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom -- Standardisation and Differentiation in the Levels of Diplomas in Higher Education Systems in Europe -- Higher Education Student Mobility and the Interpretation of European Union Educational Policies in France.
    Abstract: The papers which make up this volume have for the most part emerged from the work of a team of young researchers based for varying periods at the Department of Educational Studies of the University of Oxford as part of an international network funded by the European Union. The network, known as PRESTiGE (Problems of Educational Standardisation and Transition in a Global Environment), involves teams at six European universities, each of which can only employ young researchers from Member States other than that in which it is situated. The Oxford part of PRESTiGE has been concerned with the interpretation, transmission and implementation of European Union education and training policy in four Member States: France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. As the leader of the Oxford team I had the good fortune to work with young researchers from Denmark, Germany, Greece, Sweden and Portugal. Their work is included here. So too are contributions from Jake Murdoch (a member of the Dijon team, based at the Université de Bourgogne) and Professor António Nóvoa, the leader of the Lisbon team. Together the papers (which we have allowed to overlap to some extent, so that each one can be read independently) represent a genuinely international collaborative effort to understand the intentions and the effects of EU education and training policy, and we hope that they will contribute to further discussion of the important issues that those with an interest in European co-operation and development will wish to pursue.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 240 p.)
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    Series Statement: Language Policy 3
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    Keywords: Language and education. ; Russian language. ; Education. ; Sociolinguistics. ; Language and languages—Study and teaching. ; Balto-Slavic linguistic unity. ; Education ; Sociolinguistics ; Russian language ; Language and languages ; Sowjetunion ; Sprachpolitik ; Sowjetunion ; Sprachpolitik
    Abstract: An Overview of Soviet Language Policy -- The Slavic Republics and Moldova -- The Baltic States -- The Caucasus -- Central Asia -- The North -- The Impact of Soviet Language Policy.
    Abstract: Soviet language policy provides rich material for the study of the impact of policy on language use. Moreover, it offers a unique vantage point on the tie between language and culture. While linguists and ethnographers grapple with defining the relationship of language to culture, or of language and culture to identity, the Soviets knew that language is an integral and inalienable part of culture. The former Soviet Union provides an ideal case study for examining these relationships, in that it had one of the most deliberate language policies of any nation state. This is not to say that it was constant or well-conceived; in fact it was marked by contradictions, illogical decisions, and inconsistencies. Yet it represented a conscious effort on the part of the Communist leadership to shape both ethnic identity and national consciousness through language. As a totalitarian state, the USSR represents a country where language policy, however radical, could be implemented at the will of the government. Furthermore, measures (such as forced migrations) were undertaken that resulted in changing population demographics, having a direct impact on what is a central issue here: the very nature of the Soviet population. That said, it is important to keep in mind that in the Soviet Union there was a difference between stated policy and actual practice. There was no guarantee that any given policy would be implemented, even when it had been officially legislated.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 238 p.)
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    Series Statement: Studies in Educational Leadership 1
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    Keywords: Education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Schulleitung ; Professionalität
    Abstract: In Pursuit of Authentic School Leadership Practices -- Democratic Leadership Theory in Late Modernity: An Oxymoron or Ironic Possibility? -- Persistent Difficulties with Values in Educational Administration: Mapping the Terrain -- Reflective Practice: Picturing Ourselves -- Community, Coherence, and Inclusiveness -- Deconstructing Communities: Educational Leaders and Their Ethical Decision-Making Processes -- Let Right be Done: Trying to Put Ethical Standards into Practice -- Valuing Schools as Professional Communities: Assessing the Collaborative Prescription -- Developing Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Education and Community -- School Organizational Values: The Driving Force for Effectiveness and Change -- The Relationship of Gender and Context to Leadership in Australian Schools -- School Leadership as a Democratic Arena -- Conclusion: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Post-Postmodern Purview.
    Abstract: Among the many significant features of this volume is the dedication to the late Don Willower, Professor of Education at Pennsylvania State University. It is significant in light of Willower’s long record of major contributions to the empirical literature in Educational Administration and his mentorship of many students steeped in the tradition of the so-called science of administration. These include scholars like Wayne Hoy and Peter Cistone who readily acknowledge their personal and intellectual debt to Willower. How is it, then, that Willower, a colleague of the giants of Educational Administration in the 60s and 70s, people such as Dan Griffiths, Jack Culbertson, and Roald Campbell, to name just a few, came to associate himself with this relatively upstart group of academics and practitioners interested in values, of all things? As an inheritor of the mantle thrown down by Getzels and Guba all those years ago, it might seem strange to see Willower consorting with people who argue about the distinction between fact and value. It is true, of course, that Willower majored in philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo as an undergraduate. So the language and the ways of thinking among many of those interested in values and ethics were not all that foreign to him. He could certainly hold his own in debate with his friend, Chris Hodgkinson, the foremost philosopher of Educational Administration in the field today, and a contributor to this volume.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 215 p.)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 10
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    Keywords: Philosophy and social sciences. ; Education. ; Education—Philosophy. ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Forschung ; Philosophie ; Pädagogik ; Bildungsforschung ; Philosophie
    Abstract: A ‘biographical positioning’ -- Introduction: philosophising about educational research -- Philosophising as and in educational research -- The discipline(S) of educational research -- Educational theory, practice and research: pragmatic perspectives -- Educational research: pursuit of truth or flight into fancy? -- Narratives, fiction and the magic of the real -- Narratives in history, fiction and educational research -- Quality and relevance in educational research -- ‘Nothing about us without us’: the ethics of outsider research -- Research for Sale: moral market or moral maze? -- ‘Fiction written under oath?’ Ethics and epistemology in educational research -- From philosophising about research to researching philosophy: reflections on a reflective log.
    Abstract: The essays bring to contemporary debates about educational research both a first hand familiarity with the practices and arguments of the educational research community and a clear grasp of the ways in which philosophical sources and analysis can inform them. They are both measured and passionate - sparked by an intense personal curiosity, which takes Bridges into unexpected resources and territory (such as the insights of museology into debates on educational research as narrative fiction) as well as more familiar material relating to, for example, issues about the assessment of quality of educational research and the concern for its relevance. The book makes an articulate case, by its own example as well as in its argument, for the continuing contribution of philosophical thinking to the development and critique of educational research. It will be essential reading for researchers already engaged in this development and for masters and doctoral students who are coming to terms with educational research, and it offers a contribution to the literature in philosophy of education which is richly grounded in the wider field of educational research.
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    ISBN: 9780306480935
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 178 p. 9 illus.)
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    Keywords: Health psychology. ; Education. ; Medical education. ; Sociology. ; Clinical health psychology. ; Education ; Medical Education ; Sociology ; Psychology, clinical
    Abstract: Examining Medicine with New Lenses -- Theoretical Dissection of Medicine: Practice -- Putting It All Together: The Culture of Junior Doctors -- Medical Habitus -- Future of Medical Habitus: Medical Identity.
    Abstract: Medical Education and Sociology of Medical Habitus: "It's not about the Stethoscope!" is a new and outstanding contribution to understanding the working life of junior doctors. Here Dr Haida Luke uses a medical sociological framework to help us understand how young doctors fresh out of medical school enter the medical culture as junior doctors and begin the rapid professional education and intense enculturation processes. What sets Medical Education and Sociology of Medical Habitus: "It's not about the Stethoscope!" apart from other works in this area is that it opens out the field of research in sociology and inserts junior medical doctor culture right into medical sociology and professional medical education. Central to this analysis are Dr Haida Luke's innovative use of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological framework and the concept of habitus.
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    ISBN: 9780306472237
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 278 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
    Series Statement: Mathematics Education Library 22
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Artificial intelligence. ; Mathematics. ; History. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Artificial intelligence ; Mathematics_$xHistory ; Mathematics ; Algebra ; Mathematikunterricht
    Abstract: Approaches to Algebra -- The Historical Origins of Algebraic Thinking -- The Production of Meaning for Algebra: A Perspective Based on a Theoretical Model of Semantic Fields -- A Model for Analysing Algebraic Processes of Thinking -- The Structural Algebra Option Revisited -- Transformation and Anticipation as Key Processes in Algebraic Problem Solving -- Historical-Epistemological Analysis in Mathematics Education: Two Works in Didactics of Algebra -- Curriculum Reform and Approaches to Algebra -- Propositions Concerning the Resolution of Arithmetical-Algebraic Problems -- Beyond Unknowns and Variables - Parameters and Dummy Variables in High School Algebra -- From Arithmetic to Algebraic Thinking by Using a Spreadsheet -- General Methods: A Way of Entering the World of Algebra -- Reflections on the Role of the Computer in the Development of Algebraic Thinking -- Symbolic Arithmetic vs Algebra the Core of a Didactical Dilemma.
    Abstract: This book confronts the issue of how young people can find a way into the world of algebra. The contributions represent multiple perspectives which include an analysis of situations in which algebra is an efficient problem-solving tool, the use of computer-based technologies, and a consideration of the historical evolution of algebra. The book emphasises the situated nature of algebraic activity as opposed to being concerned with identifying students' conceptions in isolation from problem-solving activity. The chapters emerged from a working group of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. The authors are drawn from an international community and the work highlights the differences in school algebra around the world. The group invited Nicolas Balacheff to write a provocative postscript and he suggests that `there is no possible entrance to the world of algebra without a strong push or guidance from the teacher, because there is no natural passage from the problématique accessible from the child's world to the mathematical problématique'.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 206 p. 45 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education 1
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    Keywords: Art education. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Assessment. ; Education. ; Art—Study and teaching. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Education ; Educational tests and measurements ; Kunsterziehung
    Abstract: Interpretation and Practice -- Semiotics and Hermeneutics -- Semiotics, Hermeneutics and Observational Drawings -- The Semiotics of Children’s Drawing Practices -- Experience and the Hermeneutics and Semiotics of Visuality -- Identity and Practice -- The Construction of Identity -- Identity and Psychoanalysis -- The Field of Art in Education -- Difference and Practice -- Experience, Difference and Practice -- Experience and Practice: Theorising New Identifications.
    Abstract: MEMORY SEED My introduction to teaching art began in September 1971 when I took up a post as art teacher in a secondary school in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Apart from my desire to survive and establish myself amongst students and staff I remember holding firm ideas about what I should be teaching. In relation to drawing and painting I had clear expectations concerning practice and representation. Students’ art work which did not correspond to these I rather naively) considered as weak and in need of correction. I assumed wrongly that when students were making paintings and drawings from observation of objects, people or landscape, they should be aiming to develop specific representational skills associated with the idea of ‘rendering’ a reasonable likeness. I was reasonably familiar with the development of Western art and different forms of visual representation and expression and I knew, for example, that the projection system perspective is only one and not the correct rep- sentational system for mapping objects and their spatial relations as viewed from a particular point into corresponding relations in a painting or drawing. Nevertheless I still employed this mode of projection as an expectation or a criterion of judgement when teaching my students.
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    ISBN: 9780306480164
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 286 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
    Series Statement: Mathematics Education Library 29
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Philosophy and social sciences. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education—Philosophy. ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Mathematics ; Mathematiklehrer ; Mathematikunterricht ; Kommunikation
    Abstract: Communication in the Mathematics Classroom -- Inquiry Co-Operation -- Further Development of the Inquiry Co-Operation Model -- Dialogue and Learning -- Intention and Learning -- Reflection and Learning -- Critique and Learning -- Critical Epistemology and the Learning of Mathematics.
    Abstract: Dialogue and Learning in Mathematics Education is concerned with communication in mathematics class-rooms. In a series of empirical studies of project work, we follow students' inquiry cooperation as well as students' obstructions to inquiry cooperation. Both are considered important for a theory of learning mathematics. Special attention is paid to the notions of `dialogue' and `critique'. A central idea is that `dialogue' supports `critical learning of mathematics'. The link between dialogue and critique is developed further by including the notions of `intention' and `reflection'. Thus a theory of learning mathematics is developed which is resonant with critical mathematics education.
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    ISBN: 9780306476747
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 248 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
    Series Statement: Mathematics Education Library 27
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Cross-cultural psychology. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Ethnopsychology. ; Education ; Mathematics ; Applied psychology ; Informatikunterricht
    Abstract: Editors’ Prelude Researching Mathematics Learning: The Need for a New Approach -- Mathematics Learners in Transition -- Immigrant Children Learning Mathematics in Mainstream Schools -- The Transition Experience of Immigrant Secondary School Students: Dilemmas and Decisions -- Thinking About Mathematical Learning with Cabo Verde Ardinas -- Exploring Ways Parents Participate in Their Children’s School Mathematical Learning: Cases Studies in Multiethnic Primary Schools -- Transitions between Home and School Mathematics: Rays of Hope Amidst the Passing Clouds -- Editors’ Interlude Theoretical Orientations to Transitions -- Towards a Cultural Psychology Perspective on Transitions between Contexts of Mathematical Practices -- Mathematical Acculturation, Cultural Conflicts, and Transition -- Shifts in Meaning During Transitions -- Editors’ Postlude The Sociocultural Mediation of Transition.
    Abstract: This book focuses attention on mathematics learners in transition and on their practices in different contexts; on the institutional and socio-cultural framing of the transition processes involved; and on the communication and negotiation of mathematical meanings during transition. The book offers both empirical studies and significant theoretical reflections from a socio-cultural perspective, with the aim of providing the bases for the development of more socially and culturally responsive mathematics learning environments. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of mathematics education, cultural psychology, multicultural education, immigrant and indigenous education.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""CONTENTS""
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(V, 250 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
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    Keywords: Art education. ; Curriculums (Courses of study). ; Education—Curricula. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Art—Study and teaching. ; Education ; Comparative Education ; Curriculum planning ; Kunsterziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Musikerziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kindersoziologie ; Kunst
    Abstract: Context Interlude -- Children’s Contextual Art Knowledge: Local Art and School Art Context Comparisons -- What’s to be Learned? Comments on Teaching Music in the World and Teaching World Music at Home -- Becoming Japanese: Manga, Childern’s Drawings, and the Construction of National Character -- The Musical Cultures of Children -- Playing the Music — Comparing Performance of Children’s Song and Dance in Traditional and Contemporary Namibian Education -- Development Interlude -- We Begin as Poets -- Constructing an Artistic Self: A Cultural Perspective -- Early Childhood Musical Development -- Drawing Together: Peer Influence in Preschool-Kindergarten Art Classes -- Fictional Worlds and the Real World in Early childhood Drama Education -- Curriculum Interlude -- What We Teach is Who We are: The Stories of Our Lives -- School Art as a Hybrid Genre: Institutional Contexts for Art Curriculum -- Early Childhood Literacy Education, Wakefulness, and the Arts -- Pleasure, Creativity, and the Carnivalesque in Children’s Video Production -- Music Technology and the Young Child.
    Abstract: Advocates for the arts have contributed significantly to the philosophy and practice of early and elementary education throughout its history. Yet the nature, value, and purpose of arts experiences in the lives of children seem to remain puzzling and problematic to those most directly involved in teaching the young. Conversations between scholars and teacher educators in the arts and in education occur all too infrequently. Seventeen authors, whose work represents the best of contemporary research and theory on a constellation of issues concerning the role of the arts in children's lives and learning, address critical issues of development, context, and curriculum from perspectives informed by work with children in formal and informal settings. This anthology strives to reinvigorate dialogue on the role and significance of the arts in the education of children drawing on various cultural and institutional context and traditional and contemporary practices from different parts of the world.
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    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 11
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    Keywords: Science education. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Cognitive psychology. ; Software engineering. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Software engineering ; Science Study and teaching ; Consciousness ; Biologie ; Wissensvermittlung ; Grafische Darstellung
    Abstract: Overviee of Knowledge Mapping -- The Nature of Biology Knowledge -- Knowing Biology -- Student Misconceptions in Biology -- Meaningful and Mindful Learning -- Language, Analogy, and Biology -- Using Concept Circle Diagramming as a Knowledge Mapping Tool -- Using Concept Mapping as a Knowledge Mapping Tool -- SemNet® Semantic Networking -- The Paradox of the Textbook.
    Abstract: Mapping Biology Knowledge addresses two key topics in the context of biology, promoting meaningful learning and knowledge mapping as a strategy for achieving this goal. Meaning-making and meaning-building are examined from multiple perspectives throughout the book. In many biology courses, students become so mired in detail that they fail to grasp the big picture. Various strategies are proposed for helping instructors focus on the big picture, using the `need to know' principle to decide the level of detail students must have in a given situation. The metacognitive tools described here serve as support systems for the mind, creating an arena in which learners can operate on ideas. They include concept maps, cluster maps, webs, semantic networks, and conceptual graphs. These tools, compared and contrasted in this book, are also useful for building and assessing students' content and cognitive skills. The expanding role of computers in mapping biology knowledge is also explored.
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    ISBN: 9789401004626
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 1106 p.)
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    Series Statement: Springer International Handbooks of Education 7
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    Keywords: Medical education. ; Education. ; Education ; Medical Education
    Abstract: 1 The Experimental Tradition -- 2 Qualitative Methods -- 3 Psychometric Methods -- 4 Program Evaluation -- 5 The Psychology of Learning -- 6 Clinical Reasoning -- 7 Medical Decision Making -- 8 Individual Differences in Cognitive Style, Learning Style and Instructional Preference in Medical Education -- 9 Critical Thinking and Critical Appraisal -- 10 Student Selection -- 11 Transitions in Basic Medical Science Teaching -- 12 Medical Student Clinical Education -- 13 Postgraduate Education -- 14 Continuing Medical Education -- 15 The Role of the Teacher-Learner Relationship in Medical Education -- 16 Simulations Used to Teach Clinical Skills -- 17 Computers in Medical Education -- 18 Distance Education and the Health Professions -- 19 Problem-Based Learning -- 20 Assessment of Knowledge with Written Test Forms -- 21 Clinical Performance Assessments -- 22 Assessment of Non-Cognitive Factors -- 23 The Use of Computers in Assessment -- 24 Assessment of Clinical Performance: In-Training Evaluation -- 25 Combining Tests and Setting Standards -- 26 Licensure and Certification -- 27 Relicensure, Recertification and Practice-Based Assessment -- 28 Managing the Curriculum and Managing Change -- 29 Faculty Development for Curricular Implementation -- 30 Effective Leadership for Curricular Change -- 31 Professional Caring in the Curriculum -- 32 Disseminating Educational Research and Implementing Change in Medical Educational Environments -- 33 Achieving Large-Scale Change in Medical Education -- List of Authors.
    Abstract: GEOFF NORMAN McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada CEES VAN DER VLEUTEN University of Maastricht, Netherlands DA VID NEWBLE University of Sheffield, England The International Handbook of Research in Medical Education is a review of current research findings and contemporary issues in health sciences education. The orientation is toward research evidence as a basis for informing policy and practice in education. Although most of the research findings have accrued from the study of medical education, the handbook will be useful to teachers and researchers in all health professions and others concerned with professional education. The handbook comprises 33 chapters organized into six sections: Research Traditions, Learning, The Educational Continuum, Instructional Strategies, Assessment, and Implementing the Curriculum. The research orientation of the handbook will make the book an invaluable resource to researchers and scholars, and should help practitioners to identify research to place their educational decisions on a sound empirical footing. THE FIELD OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL EDUCAnON The discipline of medical education began in North America more than thirty years ago with the founding of the first office in medical education at Buffalo, New York, by George Miller in the early 1960s. Soon after, large offices were established in medical schools in Chicago (University of Illinois), Los Angeles (University of Southern California) and Lansing (Michigan State University). All these first generation offices mounted master's level programs in medical education, and many of their graduates went on to found offices at other schools.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 270 p.)
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    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 16
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    Keywords: Science education. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Educational technology. ; Physics. ; Chemistry. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Astronomy. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Education ; Chemistry ; Science Study and teaching ; Physics
    Abstract: General Introduction -- General Introduction -- Approaching Labwork: Frames and Tools -- Varieties of Labwork: A Way of Profiling Labwork Tasks -- Issues and Questions Regarding the Effectiveness of Labwork -- Talking Physics in Labwork Contexts - A Category Based Analysis of Videotapes -- Students’ Understanding of the Nature of Science and its Influence on Labwork -- Standard Labwork Based on Hands-on Experiments -- Modelling Activities of Students During a Traditional Labwork -- Students’ Intellectual Activities During Standard Labwork at Undergraduate Level -- A Laboratory-based Teaching Learning Sequence on Fluids: Developing Primary Student Teachers’ Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge -- Development and Evaluation of a Laboratory Course in Physics for Medical Students -- The Biology Textbook as a Source of Ideas about Scientific Knowledge and Experimental Activity -- Open-Ended Labwork -- The Role of Epistemological Information in Open-ended Investigative Labwork -- The Effectiveness of Mini-projects as a Preparation for Open-ended Investigations -- Data Interpretation Activities and Students’ Views of the Epistemology of Science during a University Earth Sciences Field Study Course -- Labwork and Data Handling -- The Use of Secondary Data in Teaching about Data Analysis in a First Year Undergraduate Biochemistry Course -- An Investigation of Teaching and Learning about Measurement Data and their Treatment in the Introductory Physics Laboratory -- Labwork Based on Integrated Use of New Information Technology -- Enhancing the Linking of theoretical Knowledge to Physical Phenomena by Real-time Graphing -- The Link of Theory and Practice in Traditional and in Computer-based University Laboratory Experiments -- Computer Tools in the Lab - Effects Linking Theory and Experiment -- Modelling in Geometrical Optics Using a Microcomputer -- Evolution of Students’ Reasoning about Microscopic Processes in Electrostatics under the Influence of Interactive Simulations.
    Abstract: Scope of the book There is an on-going debate regarding the role of labwork in science education, which dates back several decades and which illustrates the conviction and interest of teachers, researchers and policy-makers world-wide in the value of laboratory work for understanding science. This is evident in more recent books and studies regarding the laboratory, which mainly refer to countries with a considerable tradition in practical work in science education (Woolnough & Alsop 1985, Hodson 1993, Hegarthy-Hazel 1990, Wellington 2000). Yet in discussing research studies on labwork, several authors express their concern about its effectiveness in facilitating students' understanding of various aspects of scientific inquiry. They point out a comprehensive re-conceptualisation of the aims of labwork and, as a consequence, of investigating what the students actually learn in different contexts (Lazarowitz & Tamir 1994, Tobin & Tippins 1993, Lunetta 1998). It has also been argued that the relationship between instructional activities and student learning in labwork needs more attention than it has been given in science education research (Leach & Paulsen 1999). It appears that the case for research-based labwork emerges in several quarters in science education, particularly among researchers. This book presents and discusses a variety of laboratory practices and their effectiveness. The studies take into account recent theoretical developments and empirical results concerning students' understanding of scientific inquiry. A whole chapter is devoted to technological advances offering new learning opportunities for the students and teaching facilities for the teacher.
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    ISBN: 9780306479588
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 364 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
    Series Statement: Mathematics Education Library 31
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Education. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Mathematics ; Teachers Training of ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mathematikunterricht ; Überzeugung ; Überzeugung ; Mathematikunterricht
    Abstract: Setting the Scene -- Beliefs: Conceptualization and Measurement -- Framing Students’ Mathematics-Related Beliefs -- Rethinking Characterizations of Beliefs -- Affect, Meta-Affect, and Mathematical Belief Structures -- Mathematical Beliefs — A Search for a Common Ground: Some Theoretical Considerations on Structuring Beliefs, Some Research Questions, and Some Phenomenological Observations -- Measuring Methematical Beliefs and Their Impact on the Learning of Mathematics: A New Approach -- Synthesis — Beliefs and Mathematics Education: Implications for Learning, Teaching, and Research -- Teawchers’ Beliefs -- Mathematics Teacher Change and Developments -- Mathematics Teachers’ Beliefs and Experiences with Innovative Curriculum Materials -- A Four Year Follow-Up Study of Teachers’ Beliefs After Participating in a Teacher Enhancement Project -- Belief Structure and Inservice High School Mathematics Teacher Growth -- Participation and Reification in Learning to Teach: The Role of Knowledge and Beliefs -- A Study of the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs of Primary Teachers -- Situating Research on Mathematics Teachers’ Beliefs and on Change -- Students’ Beliefs -- Beliefs About Mathematics and Mathematics Learning in the Secondary School: Measurement and Implications for Motivation -- “The Answer is Really 4.5”: Beliefs About Word Problems -- Beliefs About the Nature of Mathematics in the Bridging of Everyday and School Mathematical Practices -- Beliefs and Norms in the Mathematics Classroom -- Intuitive Beliefs, Formal Definitions and Undefined Operations: Cases of Division by Zero -- Implications of Research on Students’ Beliefs for Classroom Practice.
    Abstract: The twenty chapters in this book all focus on aspects of mathematical beliefs, from a variety of different perspectives. Current knowledge of the field is synthesized and existing boundaries are extended. The book is divided into three, partly overlapping, sections. The first concentrates on conceptualizations and measurement of beliefs, the second on research about teachers' beliefs, and the third on facets of students' beliefs about mathematics. A diversity of instruments is used for data collection, including surveys, interviews, observations, and essay writing, as well as more innovative approaches. The volume is intended for researchers in the fleld, as well as for mathematics educators teaching the next generation of students. The book is also useful for those working in other subject disciplines, since many of the themes explored have relevance well beyond mathematics education.
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    ISBN: 9780306476839
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 276 p.)
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    Series Statement: Mathematics Education Library 28
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    Keywords: Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Professional education. ; Vocational education. ; Educational sociology. ; Education ; Mathematics ; Erwachsenenbildung ; Mathematikunterricht ; Mathematikunterricht ; Berufsbildung
    Abstract: Prelude -- What Counts as Mathematics? Institutions and Images -- Technology, Mathematucs, and industry -- Interlude -- Technologies of Power: Recontextualising Texts -- Technologies of Power: The Recontextualising Field -- Technologies of Power: Knowledge Production and Distribution -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: JÜRGEN MAASS & WOLFGANG SCHLÖGLMANN THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION FOR ADULTS Our world is dominated by technological developments: The philosopher Heinz Hülsmann wrote that “Atom, Gen and Bit” are the three basic principles now (see Hülsmann, 1985). Each of the so-called new technologies is based upon mathematics: The first computer was built as a part of the Manhattan Project to calculate models of the atomic bomb. The human genome project uses computers very often to find out the structure of the genome. And computers are mathematical machines, materialised mathematics. Social organisations, companies, and not least governments use computers to process information. A precondition for this is to formalise the social or economical structure which “produces” the information. This formalisation is a type of mathematisation, too. The social and economical models of organisations or companies are a part of the process of mathematising the world. Last, but not least, mathematics is a part of everyday life and work. People handle money, buy things, do handywork at home (measure areas to paint, and so on). All together, mathematics is not only the basis for technology, economy, work and everyday life, but a part of our culture. It seems clear that everyone in our society should know more about this.
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    ISBN: 9780306472213
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 358 p.)
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    Series Statement: Mathematics Education Library 21
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Assessment. ; Teaching. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Education ; Mathematics ; Teachers Training of ; Educational tests and measurements ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Erwachsenenbildung ; Mathematikunterricht ; Mathematikunterricht
    Abstract: Review of Research on Adults Learning Mathematics -- Review of Research on Adults Learning Mathematics -- Perspectives on Research on Adults Learning Mathematics -- Mathematics or Common Sense? Researching ‘Invisible’ Mathematics through Adults’ Mathematics Life Histories -- Researching Adults’ Knowledge Through Piagetian Clinical Exploration — the case of domestic work -- Understanding their Thinking: the tension between the Cognitive and the Affective -- Adults, Mathematics, Culture and Society -- Mathematics: Certainty in an Uncertain World? -- Ethnomathematics and Political Struggles -- Statistical Literacy: Conceptual and Instructional issues -- The roles of feelings and logic and their interaction in the solution of everyday problems -- Adults, Mathematics and Work -- Women, Mathematics and Work -- Technology, Competences and Mathematics -- Mathematics and the Vocational Education and Training System -- Perspectives in Teaching Adults Mathematics -- Algebra for Adult Students: the Student voices -- Exploration and Modelling in a University Mathematics Course: Perceptions of Adult Students -- Assessing Numeracy -- Adult Mathematics and Everyday Life: Building Bridges and Facilitating Learning ‘Transfer’ -- Teaching “not less than maths, but more”: an overview of recent developments in adult numeracy teacher development in England — with a sidelong glance at Australia -- Postscript: Some Thoughts on Paulo Freire’s Legacy for Adults Learning Mathematics.
    Abstract: At a time when the importance of lifelong education is becoming recognised around the world, this is the first book to explore an important but hitherto neglected area: adult mathematics education. This book is about adults learning mathematics wherever and in whatever circumstances they do so. It brings together researchers in the field and aims to lay the foundations for study and further research and practice in this fast-developing area. It aims to situate research and practice in adults learning mathematics within the wider field of lifelong learning and lifelong education and to be accessible both to the specialist and to the general adult reader. The book features a comprehensive review of the field which sets the scene for sections on: Perspectives on Research on Adults Learning Mathematics; Adults, Mathematics, Culture, and Society; Adults, Mathematics, and Work; and Perspectives in Teaching Adults Mathematics. Topics covered include: mathematics and common sense; statistical literacy and numeracy; new theories on learning mathematics; mathematical competences for the workplace; ethnomathematics; and the training of tutors.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 429 p.)
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    Keywords: Assessment. ; Science education. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Comparative Education ; Education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mathematikunterricht ; Schulleistungsmessung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht ; Schulleistungsmessung ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: TIMSS in Context: Asessment, Monitoring, and Moving Targets -- TIMSS: A Brief Overview of The Study -- Focus on Mathematics -- Analyzing Student Responses in Mathematics Using Two-digit Rubrics -- From SIMS to TIMSS: Trends in Students’ Achievement in Mathematics -- The Impact of Timss on the Mathematics Standards Movement in The United States -- TIMSS Mathematics Results: A Japanese Perspective -- Timss, Common Sense, and the Curriculum -- Advanced Mathematics: Curricula and Student Performance -- Focus on Science -- Exploring Population 2 Students’ Ideas About Science -- Science Achievement: A Czech Perspective -- Timss Science Results for Hong Kong: An Ailing Dragon with a British Legacy -- Science Achievement: A Russian Perspective -- Timss Science Results Seen from A Nordic Perspective -- Focus on Cross-Curricular Issues -- Separating School, Classroom, and Student Variances and Their Relationship to Socio-economic Status -- On the Relationship Between Mathematics and Science Achievement in the United States -- Students’ Attitudes and Perceptions -- Analyzing Gender Differences for High-achieving Students on Timss -- Investigating Correlates of Mathematics and Science Literacy in the Final Year of Secondary School -- Indicators of ICT in Mathematics: Status and Covariation with Achievement Measures -- Extra-school Instruction in Mathematics and Science -- Teachers’ Sources and Uses of Assessment Information -- Focus on Methodology -- Extending the Application of Multilevel Modeling to Data from TIMSS -- Application of the Scale Anchoring Method to Interpret the TIMSS Achievement Scales -- Effects of Adaptations on Comparability of Test Items and Test Scores -- Conclusion -- A Look Back at TIMSS: What Have We Learned About International Studies?.
    Abstract: Researchers who participate in IEA studies have a unique opportunity to work collaboratively with their counterparts from many different countries and disciplinary backgrounds over a period of several years on questions of shared academic interest. Once the data for a given study have been collected and the first round of international reports published, however, opportunities for that kind of collaboration tend to be much less frequent. A major strength of IEA studies compared to other large-scale, international studies is that they are classroom based, thereby making it possible for researchers and policy makers to investigate linkages between students’ achievement and a wide range of variables. Those variables could be related to instructional practices, to students’ and teachers’ background and attitudes, to school organizational patterns, or to opportunity to learn, to name a few. The research questions that TIMSS was designed to address make it clear that these kinds of relational, multi-variate analyses were among the major goals of the project. The international reports of the TIMSS–95 results that were published by the International Study Center at Boston College between 1996 and 1999 were intended to provide comprehensive coverage of the basic findings of the study. They were not intended to provide in-depth analyses of research and policy issues; instead, their main purpose was to make the basic findings of the study widely available in a timely manner. This they certainly did.
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    ISBN: 9780306472367
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 250 p.)
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    Series Statement: Mathematics Education Library 4
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    Keywords: Philosophy and social sciences. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Anthropology. ; Education—Philosophy. ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Mathematics ; Anthropology ; Mathematikunterricht
    Abstract: Activity Theory -- Mathematics as a Language -- Learning from Anthropology -- Learning from Psychology -- Politicising Mathematics Education.
    Abstract: The development of knowledge is never easy. One doesn’t want to go over old ground again, but yet one needs to establish the new in the context of the old. One is also anxious about the novelty of the ideas are they new enough, or are they too ‘way out’ to be acceptable? In some fields perhaps these criteria are less important than in others. In education, I sense that ‘novelty’ is a tricky criterion, varying in value from society to society. In some societies the new ideas have to justify their adoption in the face to the old, tried and tested ideas. (Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t!) In other societies the old ways have to justify their continuation in the face of the new, promising and exciting ideas. (I can’t find a good proverb for this! Perhaps proverbs are all about preserving the past?) In any case, some people will argue, there is nothing new to be said about education anyway the problems are the same and it is only the context which changes. Mellin Olsen develops the reader’s knowledge through this book in ways that are both novel and challenging. Their novelty is not in question, judging by reactions to them which vary from “they have nothing to do with mathematics education” to “they concern everything that is done in mathematics education”.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 250 p.)
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    Series Statement: Mathematics Education Library 7
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    Keywords: Philosophy and social sciences. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Education—Philosophy. ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Mathematics ; Mathematikunterricht ; Mathematiklehrer
    Abstract: There is No More Safety in Numbers: A New Conception of Mathematics Teaching -- Mathematical Discussions -- Notations and Representations as Mediators of Constructive Processes -- Making Math Mean -- Treatment of Refutations: Aspects of the Complexity of a Constructivist Approach to Mathematics Learning -- Learning to Listen: A Student’s Understanding of Powers of Ten -- Understanding Students’ Beliefs About Probability -- A Constructivist Approach to Second Grade Mathematics -- The Constructivist Teaching Experiment: Illustrations and Implications -- Didactic Constructivism -- Two Layers of Constructivist Curricular Interaction.
    Abstract: Mathematics is the science of acts without things - and through this, of things one can define by acts. 1 Paul Valéry The essays collected in this volume form a mosaik of theory, research, and practice directed at the task of spreading mathematical knowledge. They address questions raised by the recurrent observation that, all too frequently, the present ways and means of teaching mathematics generate in the student a lasting aversion against numbers, rather than an understanding of the useful and sometimes enchanting things one can do with them. Parents, teachers, and researchers in the field of education are well aware of this dismal situation, but their views about what causes the wide-spread failure and what steps should be taken to correct it have so far not come anywhere near a practicable consensus. The authors of the chapters in this book have all had extensive experience in teaching as well as in educational research. They approach the problems they have isolated from their own individual perspectives. Yet, they share both an overall goal and a specific fundamental conviction that characterized the efforts about which they write here. The common goal is to find a better way to teach mathematics. The common conviction is that knowledge cannot simply be transferred ready-made from parent to child or from teacher to student but has to be actively built up by each learner in his or her own mind.
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    ISBN: 9780306475887
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 198 p.)
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    Series Statement: Language Policy 1
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    Keywords: Language and education. ; Social sciences. ; Social psychology. ; Sociolinguistics. ; Personality. ; Sociology—Methodology. ; Language and languages—Study and teaching. ; Difference (Psychology). ; Education ; Sociolinguistics ; Language and languages ; Social sciences Methodology ; Israel ; Araber ; Arabisch ; Sprachunterricht
    Abstract: The Arabs in Israel -- The Linguistic Repertoire -- Policy and Teaching Arabic as a Mother Tongue -- Policy and Teaching Hebrew as a Second Language -- Policy and Teaching English as a First Foreign Language -- Policy and Teaching French as a Second Foreign Language -- Language Attitudes and Ideologies. .
    Abstract: In this book we will explore in more detail some aspects of the Arab-Jewish divide, which raise fundamental questions regarding the place of the Arabs and Arab language education in the Jewish State. More specifically, the aim of this book is to describe and analyze language education in the Arab society in Israel from the establishment of the state in 1948 until today. For this purpose, internal processes, which are embedded within the Arab population itself were examined, such as the socio-economic condition of the population, the diglossic situation in the Arabic language, and the wide use of Hebrew among Arabic speakers. Furthermore, the book also deals with external processes such as the policy of control and inspection of the Ministry of Education over the Arab education system in general and on language education in particular, the dominance of Hebrew, and the definition and perception of Israel as a Jewish State. The influence of both internal and external processes on language education and learning achievements will also be extensively discussed.
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    Series Statement: Mathematics Education Library 26
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Language and education. ; Teaching. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Language and languages—Study and teaching. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Education ; Language and languages ; Mathematics ; Teachers Training of ; Mathematikunterricht
    Abstract: The Elusive Dynamics of Teaching Mathematics in Multilingual Classrooms -- Complexity and Diversity: The Language and Mathematics Education Terrain in South Africa -- Accessing Teachers’ Tacit and Articulated Knowledge -- Dilemmas in Teaching: A Prelude and Frame -- Teachers Talking About Teaching: The Emergence of Dilemmas -- Language(S) As Resource and the Dilemma of Code-Switching -- Dilemmas of Mediation in a Multilingual Classroom: Spotlighting Mathematical Communicative Competence -- The Dilema of Transparency: Language Visibility in the Multilingual Classroom -- Central Dilemmas as Curriculum and Research Agenda.
    Abstract: Increasingly, teachers all over the world are grappling on a daily basis with the fact of multilingual classrooms. In this book, Jill Adler captures three inter-related dilemmas that lie at the heart of teaching mathematics in multilingual classrooms. Adler's identification and naming of the dilemma of code-switching, the dilemma of mediation, and the dilemma of transparency, arise from exploring the realities of actual classrooms, and are shaped by a perspective of teaching as a social practice. Adler provides a sharp analysis and strong theoretical grounding for her work, pulling together research related to the relationship between language and mathematics, communicating mathematics, and mathematics in bi-/multilingual settings. In so doing, she offers a direct challenge to dominant research on communication in mathematics classrooms that has `othered' the multilingual setting in its normalisation of the monolingual classroom. The `norm' is a multicultural one. Set in contemporary South Africa - a context of linguistic diversity and rapid change - this book offers a spotlight whose beam is wide enough to illuminate dilemmas at work in all mathematics classrooms.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 1250 p. 9 illus.)
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    Series Statement: Springer International Handbooks of Education 8
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    Keywords: Educational policy. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Education. ; Education and state. ; Education
    Abstract: 1 What Do You Call People With Visions? The Role of Vision, Mission, and Goals in School Leadership and Improvement -- 2 Leading for Change: Building Capacity for Learning -- 3 Conditions Fostering Educational Change -- 4 The Changing Context of School Leadership: Implications for -- 5 An Alternative Perspective of Educational Leadership for Change: Reflections on Native/Indigenous Ways of Knowing -- 6 Moving School Leadership Beyond Its Narrow Boundaries: Developing a Cross-Cultural Approach -- 7 Cross-Cultural Leadership and Communities of Difference: Thinking about Leading in Diverse Schools -- 8 The Role of Professional Learning Communities in International Education -- 9 The Role of School Governance in the Creation of School Community -- 10 Community as Curriculum -- 11 Cultural Isomorphs in Theories and Practice of School Leadership -- 12 Connecting School Leadership with Teaching, Learning, and Parenting in Diverse Cultural Contexts: Western and Asian Perspectives -- 13 Mission Integrity: Contemporary Challenges for Catholic School Leaders: Beyond the Stereotypes of Catholic Schooling -- 14 Lessons from Successful Leadership in Small Schools -- 15 School Leadership and Self-Assessment: Guiding the Agenda for Change -- 16 Boundary-breaking Leadership: A Must for Tomorrow’s Learning Communities -- 17 Leadership and School Results -- 18 Strategic Leadership and Cognition -- 19 Distributed Leadership -- 20 From Team Work to Teamwork in Education -- 21 Enhancing Knowledge in Organizations: Developing Capacity and Capability Through Learning and Leadership -- 22 Organizational Learning, Organizational Problem Solving, and Models of Mind -- 22 Introduction -- 23 Scenarios for Leadership and the Public Good in Education -- 24 Leadership Practices for Accountable Schools -- 25 Postmodern Expressions of Educational Leadership -- 26 School Choice and Educational Leadership: Rethinking the Future of Public Schooling -- 27 Teacher Leadership, Reflective Practice, and School Improvement -- 28 Leadership in Contexts of Diversity and Accountability -- 29 Leading Schools in a Data-Rich World -- 30 Leader Formation -- 31 Developing School Leaders: A Critical Review of Current Practices, Approaches, and Issues, and Some Directions for the Future -- 32 Emotions in Educational Administration: An Unorthodox Examination of Teachers’ Career Decisions -- 33 The Meaning of Mentoring: Notes on a Context for Learning -- 34 Leadership Development Models: Learning from Different Contexts -- List of Authors -- Name Index.
    Abstract: The first International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration (Leithwood et al.) was published in 1996 and quickly became something of a best seller for reference works within education. Such success, we suggest, was at least partly due to the unprecedented global waves of concern for improving schools launched in the mid 1980's, combined with a widespread belief in leadership as the single most powerful contribution to such improvement. The roots of this belief can be found in evidence produced by the early "effective schools" research, although there is a "romance" with leadership! as an explanation for success in many non-school enterprises, as well. During the two-year period during which this current handbook was being written, activity in the realms of school leadership, school improvement, and leadership development gained further momentum. The English government created its new National College of School Leadership, and several Asian nations announced new initiatives in leadership selection, preparation, and development.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 279 p.)
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    Series Statement: Innovations in Science Education and Technology 14
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    Keywords: Assessment. ; Science education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; USA ; Technische Bildung
    Abstract: What Does the Future Have in Store for the Evaluation of Science and Technology Education? -- What Role Should TIMSS Play in the Evaluation of U.S. Science Education? -- Evaluating Systemic Reform -- Musings on Science Program Evaluation in an Era of Educational Accountability -- Assessment Reform -- Evaluation of Information Technology -- Complementary Approaches to Evaluating Technology in Science Teacher Education -- Evaluation of Science Teaching Performance through Coteaching and Cogenerative Dialoguing -- Evaluating Science Inquiry -- Distance Learning in Science Education.
    Abstract: "James Altschuld, David Kumar, and their chapter authors have produced an upbeat, provocative, visionary, and useful volume on educational evaluation. Of special utility is its grounding in issues and practices relating to evaluations of science and technology education. The book should appeal and be useful to a wide range of persons involved in evaluations of educational policy, programs, and (less so) science teachers. These persons include science and technology education experts, educational policymakers, officials of the National Science Foundation, school administrators, classroom teachers, evaluation instructors, evaluation methodologists, practicing evaluators, and test developers, among others. Contents reflecting international studies of curriculum, evaluation of distance education, and evaluation of technology utilization in Australian schools, as well as evaluations in America should make the book appealing to an international audience. Moreover, it provides a global perspective for assessing and strengthening educational evaluation in the US." Daniel L. Stufflebeam, Professor of Education and Director of the Evaluation Center, Western Michigan University For contents, contributors and a free preview: www.new-in-education.com.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 184 p.)
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    Series Statement: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 1
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    Keywords: International education . ; Comparative education. ; Comparative Education ; Education
    Abstract: Young People and the Environment -- Japan -- China-Guangzhou -- China-Hong Kong -- Thailand -- India -- Singapore -- Brunei Darussalam -- Australia -- Aotearoa-New Zealand -- Fiji -- United States of America -- Synthesis: A Cross-Cultural Reflection. .
    Abstract: The book analyses the knowledge, beliefs and behaviours that comprise the environmental attitudes of young people in the Asia-Pacific region and the cultural, political and educational contexts that have shaped them. The findings are based upon a questionnaire survey of over 10,000 young people together with focus group studies in India, South China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brunei, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and the west coast of the USA.
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    ISBN: 9780306472305
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 227 p.)
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    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 13
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    Keywords: Science education. ; Teaching. ; Curriculums (Courses of study). ; Education—Curricula. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Education ; Curriculum planning ; Science Study and teaching ; Teachers Training of ; USA ; Lehrerbildung ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
    Abstract: Collaboration and Apprenticeship Models -- Becoming-in-the-Classroom: Learning to Teach in/as Praxis -- Teams: A Science Learning and Teaching Apprenticeship Model -- A Problem-Based Learning Approach to Science Teacher Preparation -- Linking Schools and Universities in Partnership for Science Teacher Preparation -- The Dynamics of Collaboration in a State-Wide Professional Development Program for Cience Teachers -- Special Issues-Driven Models -- Instructional Congruence to Promote Science Learning and Literacy Development for Linguistically Diverse Students -- Gender Equity and Science Teacher Preparation -- Assessment Models that Integrate Theory and Best Practice -- New Technologies and Science Teacher Preparation -- Preparing New Teachers for Integrated-Science Classrooms -- Critical Multiculturalism and Science Teacher Education Programs -- Portraits of Professional Development Models in Science Teacher Education: A Synthesis of Perspectives and Issues.
    Abstract: 1 Wolff Michael Roth & Derrick R. Lavoie² 1 2 University of Victoria, Virtual Institute for Learning Resources The current reform in science education requires a substantive change in how science is taught. Implicit in this reform is an equally substantive change in professional devel- ment practices at all levels. (NRC, 1996,p. 56) In a continuously changing society, it is not surprising that education also undergoes continuous change. Science education is no exception, and perhaps changes are more rapid given the daily construction of new scientific knowledge. In such a c- mate of continuous change, the preparation of science teachers has to follow suit in order to be appropriate to the reforms that national organizations encourage. H- ever, whereas science teaching reform movements spawned recommendations of what teachers should know and be able to do in order for their students to concep- alize and process science (NSTA, 1997), they provide little guidance in terms of - the-classroom concrete implementation. Thus, while national science education organizations continue to refine their positions about teacher education, there is no mechanism for translating these positions and statements into science education courses that can improve the preparation and quality of p- service science teachers at both the elementary and secondary levels. (Yager & Penick, 1990. p. 670) It is therefore not surprising that there are voices that describe teacher prepa- tion as unsuccessful and as unresponsive to reform efforts (Schnur & Golby, 1995).
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    ISBN: 9780306480850
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IV, 302 p.)
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Mathematics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mathematikunterricht
    Abstract: There is More to Discourse than Meets the Ears: Looking at Thinking as Communicating to Learn More About Mathematical Learning -- Educational Forms of Initiation in Mathematical Culture -- Cultural, Discursive Psychology: A Sociocultural Approach to Studying the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics -- The Multiple Voices of a Mathematics Classroom Community -- “Can any Fraction be Turned into a Decimal?” A Case Study of a Mathematical Group Discussion -- The Mathematical Discourse of 13-Year-Old Partnered Problem Solving and Its Relation to the Mathematics That Emerges -- Making Mathematical Meaning Through Dialogue: “Once You Think of It, the Z Minus Three Seems Pretty Weird” -- From Describing to Designing Mathematical Activity: The Next Step in Developing a Social Approach to Research in Mathematics Education? -- Research on Discourse in the Mathematics Classroom: A Commentary.
    Abstract: The authors of this volume claim that mathematics can be usefully re-conceptualized as a special form of communication. As a result, the familiar discussion of mental schemes, misconceptions, and cognitive conflict is transformed into a consideration of activity, patterns of interaction, and communication failure. By equating thinking with communicating, the discursive approach also deconstructs the problematic dichotomy between "individual" and "social" research perspectives. Although each author applies his or her own analyses to the discourse generated by students and teachers grappling with mathematical problems, their joint aim is to put discursive research into the limelight and to spur thinking about its nature and its possible advantages and pitfalls. This volume is therefore addressed both to those interested in specific questions regarding classroom communication, and to those who are looking for a general conceptual lens with which to tackle the complexity of mathematical teaching and learning.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Reprinted from Educational studies in mathematics, v. 46, no. 1-3, 2001
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    ISBN: 9780306476235
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 300 p.)
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    Series Statement: Innovations in Science Education and Technology 10
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    Keywords: Science education. ; Physics. ; Philosophy and science. ; History. ; Religion. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Physics—Philosophy. ; Education ; History ; Science Study and teaching ; Physics History ; Science Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; Naturwissenschaften ; Philosophie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: The World of Values and Facts -- Modern People and the State of Their Societies -- The Way Science Works and Evolves -- Science: The Penetrator of the Physical Universe -- Distinct Characteristics and Principles of Science -- The Scientist and the Science Worker -- From Basic Research to Application (Science and Technology) -- The Cultural and Educational Value of Science -- Where Science Meets Religion -- Limits of and to Science -- The Future of and in Science.
    Abstract: This is an engrossing book. It is also an unusual book: it is written by a scientist who is quite willing to talk about the softer side of life, about things such as love and respect and responsibility, and to try and position them in the context of his science. He is also willing to talk about religion, the manner in which it relates to science and science to it, and to attempt reconciliation of both. He sets himself a tough task, to tread the narrow path between the maudlin and the severely sober. In this, he is eminently successful. He is successful not because he aims at any grand synthesis, but because he has chosen the more modest path of simply laying out the cards on the table. This work is also unusual for another reason. The majority of books that attempt to explain science to a lay public, that try to describe its workings, its raison d'être, its hidden contents, its societal impact, its implications for our future, etc. , are written by theorists. This is hardly surprising. The theoretician, after all, is expected to think deeply, to be the great unifier, to be concernedwith meaning. Very few books about science are written by scientists, ones who spend their time in a working experimental laboratory. This is such a book. And because it is, it is also a very different book.
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    ISBN: 9780306472275
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 148 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 12
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    Keywords: Science education. ; Assessment. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Education. ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Educational tests and measurements ; Neuseeland ; Unterrichtsforschung ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
    Abstract: A Review of the Relevant Literature -- A Case Study of Formative Assessment -- The Characteristics of Formative Assessment -- A Model of Formative Assessment -- Cameos of Formative Assessment -- Learning and Formative Assessment -- Doing Formative Assessment.
    Abstract: Formative Assessment and Science Education documents the findings of a research project which investigated the ways in which teachers and students used formative assessment to improve the teaching and learning of science in some New Zealand classrooms. The research documented in this book used the definition of formative assessment as `the process used by teachers and students to recognise and respond to students' learning, in order to enhance that learning, during the learning'. The book contains one detailed case study from the research, as well as cameos of instances of formative assessment. The book also contains two summaries of the research findings - a model developed to describe the process of formative assessment used by the teachers and students involved in the research, and a summary of the characteristics of formative assessment. The findings are also theorised with respect to sociocultural and discursive views of learning. This research will be of interest to graduate students and researchers, as well as teacher educators, curriculum developers, and assessment specialists.
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    ISBN: 9780306472282
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 358 p.)
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    Series Statement: Mathematics Education Library 25
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    Keywords: Science education. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mathematikunterricht
    Abstract: Negotiating Meanings — An introduction -- Complementary Accounts Methodology -- Untangling Uncertainty, Negotiation and Intersubjectivity -- Accounting for Accounts of Learning Mathematics: Reading the ZPD in Videos and Transcripts -- Mathematical Interactions and Their Influence on Learning -- Interest in Learning and Classroom Interactions -- Cognitive engagement in the Mathematics Classroom -- Measuring Values in Classroom Teaching and Learning -- Opportunities to Learn Science? Multiple Contexts at Work in a Science Classroom -- The Role of Gesture in Co-Constructing Mathematical Understanding -- Learning and Teaching: From Ignorance to Understanding -- Teaching/Learning.
    Abstract: A team of researchers centred at the University of Melbourne, each with particular areas of expertise, contributed their analyses of a shared collection of videotape, interview, and documentary data. The result is a variegated picture of science and mathematics classrooms that challenges a research tradition that converges on the truth. In this book, we surround you with different images of the classroom. It is hoped that some will address issues of interest, some will confirm beliefs you have long held, some will challenge these same beliefs, and some may surprise you. The resulting account should appeal to educational researchers, research students, and practitioners with an interest in optimising the effectiveness of classrooms as environments for learning.
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    ISBN: 9780306475337
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 342 p. 95 illus.)
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    Keywords: Multimedia information systems. ; Professional education. ; Vocational education. ; User interfaces (Computer systems). ; Educational technology. ; Education—Data processing. ; Human-computer interaction. ; Multimedia systems. ; Education ; Multimedia systems ; Computer science ; Bildungswesen ; Datenverarbeitung ; Kongress
    Abstract: Plenary Lectures -- Artificial Intelligence in the HyperClass: Design Issues -- Advanced Learning Environments: Changed Views and Future Perspectives -- Learning Communities in the Web: Concepts and strategies -- Papers -- Evaluation Criteria for Hypermedia Educational Systems -- Creating Collaborative Environments for Web-based Training Scenarios -- The Next Step in Computer Based Education: the Learning Technologies Standardisation -- Foundations of Programming: a Teaching Improvement -- Development of Didactic Resources for Distance Learning based on Simulation -- Tutormap -- Using teachers as heuristics evaluators of educational software interfaces -- Test Construction and Management with Network Adaptive Control -- Symbolic Calculus Training by Means of Math Trainer -- EJS: An Authoring Tool to Develop Java Applications -- Adam Case -- SICAS -- Simurob and JRF -- Collares Ortofónicos -- Exercita -- Using Simulation and Virtual Reality for Distance Education -- An Experience on Virtual Teaching: Aula Net -- ED68K -- HCI Curricula in Spain -- Interactive Design of Adaptive Courses -- Guided Collaborative Chess Tutoring through Game History Analysis -- Using Analysis, Design and Development of Hypermedia Applications in the Educational Domain -- Ubiquitous Computing and Collaboration -- Creation of a Multimedia Systemfor Learning about Oscillations -- Shared Whiteboard Manager and Student Notebook for the PLAN-G Telematic Platform -- Guiding the User -- Pedagogical Strategies With Hypermedia -- Improving the Language Mastery through Responsive Environments.
    Note: Selection of plenary lectures and papers presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Computers in Education held at Puertollano, Spain in 2000 , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9780306475061
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 222 p.)
    Edition: 4th ed. 2001.
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Social psychology. ; Assessment. ; Medical education. ; Personality. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Difference (Psychology). ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Education ; Medical Education ; Educational tests and measurements ; Education, Medical handbooks ; Teaching methods ; handbooks ; Lehrbuch ; Medizinstudium
    Abstract: Helping Students Learn -- Teaching in Large Groups -- Teaching in Small Groups -- Making a Presentation at a Conference -- Teaching Practical and Clinical Skills -- Planning a Course -- Teaching in a Problem-Based Course -- Assessing the Students -- Preparing Learning and Teaching Materials and Using Technology -- The Evaluation of Learning and Teaching -- Where to Find Out More about Medical Education.
    Abstract: Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 1983, A Handbook for Medical Teachers has established itself as an ideal resource for new and established teachers who frequently still have little opportunities for education training. Its popularity relates to the successful combination of sound educational principles, a how-to-do-it approach and an entertaining easy-to-read style. It is supported by numerous illustrations, examples, and pertinent cartoons. This fourth edition has been extensively revised to reflect the major changes that continue to occur in both undergraduate and postgraduate education. Many academic staff are coming under external and internal review to demonstrate their teaching competence and the quality of their courses and assessments. This book gives valuable help and advice to those having to respond to such pressures. The illustrations are by Zig Kapelis, formerly Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Adelaide.
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    ISBN: 9780306472312
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 562 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
    Series Statement: New ICMI Study Series 7
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Matrix theory. ; Algebra. ; Analysis (Mathematics). ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Mathematics. ; Mathematical analysis. ; Mathematical models. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Algebras, Linear. ; Education ; Matrix theory ; Global analysis (Mathematics) ; Mathematics ; Statistics ; Mathematikunterricht ; Universität ; Universität ; Mathematikunterricht ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mathematikstudium
    Abstract: Why the Professor Must be a Stimulating Teacher -- Changing Contexts in Tertiary Mathematics: Implications for Diversity and Equity -- Policy Issues -- Policy Issues Concerning Teaching at University Level in France -- Mathematics Education in Chinese Universities -- Policy in Sweden -- Practice -- Trends in Curriculum -- Mathematical Teaching Practices at Tertiary Level: Working Group Report -- The Secondary-tertiary Interface -- The Warwick Analysis Project: Practice and Theory -- Professional Development for Changing Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction -- Scientific Debate in Mathematics Courses -- Making Large Lectures Effective: An Effort to Increase Student Success -- University Mathematics Based on Problem-oriented Student Projects: 25 Years of Experience with the Roskilde Model -- The Active/Interactive Classroom -- Concordia University, Montreal, Canada -- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Switzerland -- Universidad Nacional Del Litoral, Santa FE, Argentina -- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia -- University of Joensuu, Finland -- Research -- What Can We Learn from Educational Research at the University Level? -- Purposes and Methods of Research in Mathematics Education -- Tertiary Mathematics Education Research and its Future -- Research into the Teaching and Learning of Linear Algebra -- APOS: A Constructivist Theory of Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Research -- Research on the Teaching and Learning of Calculus/Elementary Analysis -- Mathematics and Other Disciplines -- Revolution by Stealth: Redefining University Mathematics -- Mathematics and Other Subjects -- Trying the Impossible -- Do not Ask What Mathematics Can do for Modelling -- Technolo -- Technology -- Technology in College Statistics Courses -- Computer Algebra Systems in the Learning and Teaching of Linear Algebra: Some Examples -- Reflections on the Sustained Use of Technology in Undergraduate Mathematics Education -- Finding a Role for Technology in Service Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists -- Assessment -- Assessing Undergraduate Mathematics Students -- Assessing Mathematical Thinking Via FLAG -- Assessing Student Project Work -- Teacher Education -- Preparation of Primary and Secondary Mathematics Teachers: A working group report -- Using Research to Inform Pre-Service Teacher Education Programmes -- Mathematicians and the Preparation of Elementary Teachers -- Mathematics Teachers’ Education in France: From Academic Training to Professionalization -- The Mathematical Education of School Teachers: Role and Responsibilities of University Mathematicians -- On the Training of French Prospective University Teachers -- Professionalisation of Teaching in Higher Education in the United Kingdom -- The Alpha and Omega of Teacher Education: Organizing Mathematical Activities.
    Abstract: This book is the final report of the ICMI study on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics at University Level. As such it is one of a number of such studies that ICMI has commissioned. The other Study Volumes cover assessment in mathematics education, gender equity, research in mathematics education, the teaching of geometry, and history in mathematics education. All ofthese Study Volumes represent a statement of the state of the art in their respective areas. We hope that this is also the case for the current Study Volume. The current study on university level mathematics was commissioned for essentially four reasons. First, universities world-wide are accepting a much larger and more diverse group of students than has been the case. Consequently, universities have begun to adopt a role more like that of the school system and less like the elite institutions of the past. As a result the educational and pedagogical issues facing universities have changed. Second, although university student numbers have increased significantly, there has not been a corresponding increase in the number of mathematics majors. Hence mathematics departments have to be more aware of their students’ needs in order to retain the students they have and to attract future students. As part of this awareness, departments of mathematics have to take the teaching and learning of mathematics more seriously than perhaps they have in the past.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 344 p.)
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Science education. ; Teaching. ; Educational technology. ; Chemistry. ; Humanities. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Social sciences. ; Education ; Chemistry ; Science Study and teaching ; Teachers Training of ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht ; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
    Abstract: Views and Visions of Science Education Research -- Science Education Researchers and Research in Transition: Issues and Policies -- Research in Science Education in Europe: Retrospect and Prospect -- Science Content as Problematic - Issues for Research -- Science Education Versus Science in the Academy: Questions - Discussion - Perspectives -- Scientific Literacy — Conceptions and Assessment -- The Assessment of Scientific Literacy in the OECD/PISA Project -- Scientific Literacy: From Theory to Practice -- Making Formative Use of a National Summative Assessment Regime -- A Comparison of STS-teaching and Traditional Physics Lessons - On the Correlation of Physics Knowledge and Taking Action -- Students’ Conceptions -- On the Quantum Thinking of Physics Undergraduates -- Experiences with a Modern Course in Quantum Physics -- Learning Process Studies in the Field of Fractals -- Students’ Understandings of their Internal Structure as Revealed by Drawings -- Personal Context and Continuity of Human Thought; Recurrent Themes in a Longitudinal Study of Pupils’ Understanding of Scientific Phenomena -- Entities of the World and Causality in Children’s Thinking -- Using Media Reports of Science Research in Pupils’ Evaluation of Evidence -- Pupils’ Perceptions of Science Education at Primary and Secondary School -- Teachers’ Conceptions -- Teacher Professionalism and Change: Developing a Professional Self Through Reflective Assessment -- Formative Assessment Using Concept Cartoons: Initial Teacher Training in the UK -- Teaching Chemical Equilibrium in Australian and German Senior High Schools -- The Ideas of Spanish Primary Teachers on how to Develop an Understanding of Processes in Science and their Support in Textbooks -- Pre-service Elementary Teachers Constructing the Nature and Language of Science -- Combining Knowledge of Physics and Chemistry in Teaching: The Behaviour of a Narrow Jet of Water in the Presence of Charged Insulators -- Intuitive Rules: A Theory and its Implications to Mathematics and Science Teacher Education -- Conceptual Change — Teaching and Learning Processes -- Conceptual Change Research and the Teaching of Science -- Rhetoric and Science Education -- Development of Complexity through Dealing with Physical Qualities: One Type of Conceptual Change? -- On the Micro-structure of Analogical Reasoning: The Case of Understanding Chaotic Systems -- Role-playing, Conceptual Change, and the Learning Process: A Case Study of 7th Grade Pupils -- Concept Mapping as a Tool for Research in Science Education -- The Need for and the Role of Metacognition in Teaching and Learning the Particle Model -- Evolving Mental Models of Electric Circuits -- Two Models for a Physical Situation: the Case of Optics. Students’ Difficulties, Teachers’ Viewpoints and Guidelines for a ?Didactic Structure? -- The Influence of a Historically Oriented Course on the Content Knowledge of Students in Optics -- Using Everyday and Scientific Conceptions for Developing Guidelines of Teaching Microbiology -- Teaching and Learning the Concept of the Model in Secondary Schools -- Conceptual Change and Student Diversity: The Case of Volcanism at Primary School -- The Development of Prospective Teachers’ Concerns about Teaching Chemistry Topics at a Macro-micro-symbolic Interface -- How to Enhance Students’ Motivation and Ability to Communicate in Science Class-discourse -- How do Boys and Girls use Language in Physics Classes? -- Instructional Media and Lab Work -- Improving the Use of Instructional Illustrations in Learning Chemistry -- Computing in Stereochemistry - 2D or 3D Representations? -- Learning Physics with Multimedia- and Experimental-supported Workshop Instruction -- Generating Hypotheses in Scientific Enquiry -- Using Laboratory Work for Purposeful Learning about the Practice of Science -- University Students During Practical Work: Can We Make the Learning Process Intelligible? -- Learning About Investigations - The Teacher’s Role -- Point and Set Paradigms in Students’ Handling of Experimental Measurements -- Beyond the Laboratory-learning Physics Using Real-life Contexts.
    Abstract: This volume includes articles based on papers presented at the Second International Conference of the European Science Education Research Association (E.S.E.R.A.) held in Kiel, August 31 to September 4, 1999. About 300 colleagues, virtually from around the world - with a particular European focus - participated. Some 200 papers were presented. Three pages synopses of these papers were published in Proceedings of the conference (edited by Michael Komorek, Helga Behrendt, Helmut Dahncke, Reinders Duit, Wolfgang Gräber and Angela Kross). They are available from the IPN homepage: http://www.ipn.uni-kiel.de. The participants were asked to submit contributions to the present volume. It contains the invited plenary lectures and a selection of the submitted contributions based on reviews by an international board and the editors. The volume mirrors main lines of research in science education in Europe and around the world. The invited lectures provide overviews of the growth of science education research from the past to the present, including views of future developments. Major emphasis of empirical research still seems to be students' conceptions and conceptual change. About half of the contributions fall into that category. In addition, most of the remaining contributions deal with various cognitive issues of teaching and learning science. It was surprising for us that the number of studies on affective issues and gender differences was much smaller than expected.
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    ISBN: 9780306472220
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 237 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
    Series Statement: Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education 10
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    Keywords: Science education. ; Teaching. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Comparative Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Teachers Training of ; Lehrerbildung
    Abstract: International Perspectives on Science Teacher Education -- Policy and Practice in International Science Teacher Education -- The Development of Preservice Elementary Science Teacher Education in Australia -- Reform in Science Teacher Education in Italy -- Science Teacher Preparation in Lebanon -- Science Teacher Education in Pakistan -- Making Sense of Science Teacher Learning -- Higher Order Thinking in Science Teacher Education in Israel -- Secondary Science Student Teaching Assessment Model -- Thinking Like a Teacher -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science Eacher Education -- A Meeting of Two Cultures -- International Partnerships as a Means of Reforming Science Teacher Education -- International Science Educators’ Perceptions of Scientific Literacy.
    Abstract: Analysis of past developments in teacher education in Pakistan has shown that substantial progress has been made in this field. It has, however, been pointed out that education of science teachers still needs much improvement. At the present, there is an emergent need to meet the shortage of qualified science teachers and at the same time to bring qualitative improvements in the courses offered in teacher education institutions. First, we recommend that the 1-year duration of teacher preparation is grossly inadequate for all teaching courses, and should be lengthened, and the qualifications for entrance be increased. We believe that teaching must be made a graduate profession. For example, the basic qualification of primary school teachers for admission to teacher education institution should be increased. We recommend that PTC should be made a 12 + 2 year program. Similarly, CT, 12 + 3; B. Ed. , 14 + 2; B. S. Ed. , 12 + 4; M. A. Ed. , 14 + 3; and M. Ed. one year after B. Ed. or B. S. Ed. Secondly, we think the quality of instruction in teacher preparation programs should be improved. Most teachers in the teacher preparation institutions use the lecture method most of the time. Prospective teachers behave like passive listeners to their teachers. They do not participate in the teaching/ learning process. Some instructors even dictate their notes to the preservice teachers. When the teachers join schools, they behave the same way.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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    Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9780306476624
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 270 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: International education . ; Comparative education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Comparative Education ; Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Höheres Bildungswesen
    Abstract: The Institutional Basis of Higher Education Research: Theory, Policy, and Practice -- Introduction: Comparing the Institutional Basis of Higher Education Research -- Higher Education Research and its Institutional Basis -- Future Directions for Higher Education Policy Research -- Patterns of Communication and Miscommunication between Research and Policy -- On Fate and Intelligence: The Institutional Base of Higher Education Research -- Higher Education Research: Countries and Cases -- The Origins and Structures of Research on Higher Education in the United States -- Higher Education Research in the UK: A Short Overview and a Case Study -- Research on Tertiary Education in Australia -- The Institutional Basis of Higher Education Research in Latin America with Special Emphasis on the Role Played by International and Regional Organizations -- Higher Education Research: Reflections on Argentina and Latin America -- Creating a Community of Scholars and Institutionalizing Higher Education Research in Israel -- Higher Education Research in the Czech Republic -- A Comparative Study of the Institutional Basis of Higher Education Research in Hungary and the Czech Republic -- Relationships Among Higher Education Research, Policy and Practice in South Africa -- Improving Higher Education Research at African Universities: The Study Programme on Higher Education Management in Africa -- Thinking about Advanced Learning Systems -- Training and Careers of Young Researchers -- Training Researchers and Administrators in Higher Education Doctoral Programmes in the United States -- The European Higher Education Advanced Training Course -- Doctoral Graduates in Higher Education Research: Training and Careers in France -- Higher Dead End? -- A Portrait of the Researcher as a Young (Wo)Man.
    Abstract: In the US, the university administration runs its own office of “insti- tional research” in order to base its decisions on systematic information. Furthermore, higher education research can rely on a relatively stable academic basis if study programmes on higher education exist. Again, this is most frequently the case in the United States. Finally, governments and other macro-societal actors sometimes have their own offices or institutes of policy research and prepare the policies of the actors they report to. In addition, research on higher education can be institutionalized in a - riety of ways. Often, research institutes on higher education are quite visible. They were established as specialized research units within or outside insti- tions of higher education; but no common institutional basis can be observed for this type of institution across the countries. Third, the major themes of research on higher education also differ - tween countries. It has frequently been said that in European countries it was more prone to analyse macro-societal issues of higher education, whereas in the US it tended to study the inner life of higher education institutions, s- dents, and the teaching and learning processes.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264187764
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (140 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Schooling for Tomorrow
    DDC: 303.4833
    Keywords: Education ; Science and Technology
    Abstract: Across the OECD, attention is focusing increasingly on what has been dubbed the "digital divide" - a term that refers to the gaps in access to information and communication technology (ICT). The stakes are high, as ICT is now integral to the social fabric and is the catalyst for "new economies" to emerge. Exclusion threatens the ICT "have-nots", whether individuals, groups or entire countries. Political awareness of the stakes at issue grows sharply, as indicated by the prominence of the digital divide in G-8 discussions. Education and learning lie at the heart of these issues and their solutions. They are the lifeblood of our 21st century knowledge societies, and ICT is critical to them. The gaps that define the "learning digital divide" are thus as important as the more obvious gaps in access to the technology itself. Learning is central in the still more fundamental sense that the machines and equipment are useless without the competence to exploit them. Nurturing this competence is in part the job of schools and colleges, in part dependent on the learning that takes place throughout life in homes, communities, and workplaces. This volume meets an important need in the contemporary international literature on education policy, lifelong learning, and economic and social development. It presents analysis of the "learning digital divide" in different countries - developed and developing - and the policies and specific innovations designed to bridge it. The evidence shows that ICT can be the solution to inequalities rather than their cause - digital diversity and opportunity rather than digital divide.
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