Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Preparing to Be Next in Line
A Guide to the Principalship
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Every building administrator must be proactive to accomplish the demands of educating children for the twenty-first century. This entails making ethical decisions, building relationships, prioritizing school safety, and developing excellent communication skills that utilize data as a baseline. As...
Deep Active Learning
Toward Greater Depth in University Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This is the first book to connect the concepts of active learning and deep learning, and to delineate theory and practice through collaboration between scholars in higher education from three countries (Japan, the United States, and Sweden) as well as different subject areas (education, psychology,...
Flexible Scripting to Facilitate Knowledge Construction in Computer-supported Collaborative Learning
Flexible Scripting to Facilitate Knowledge Construction in Computer-supported Collaborative Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book discusses the significance of flexible scripting to structure CSCL against the framework of “Script theory of guidance” and reports on findings from two empirical studies on the effects of flexible scripting on collaboration in CSCL scenarios.
In the first empirical study flexibility...
by Serena Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Pedagogy - School Pedagogics, grade: 1.0, National Open University of Nigeria, language: English, abstract: This study was designed to assess the participation of teachers in school decision-making and its influence on their decision-making and its...
A Guide to Designing Curricular Games
How to "Game" the System
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This book is a guide to designing curricular games to suit the needs of students. It makes connections between video games and time-tested pedagogical techniques such as discovery learning and feedback to improve student engagement and learning. It also examines the social nature of gaming such as...
by Stephen Gough
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Environmental issues continue to divide opinion, sometimes in extreme ways. Almost everyone agrees that education has a role to play in ensuring the future of humanity on Earth. Some think we should all learn to leave a minimal environmental footprint; others argue that education should promote economic...
by Peggy O'Neill, Cindy Moore, Brian Huot
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
While most English professionals feel comfortable with language and literacy theories, assessment theories seem more alien. English professionals often don’t have a clear understanding of the key concepts in educational measurement, such as validity and reliability, nor do they understand the statistical...
Relating to Environments
A New Look at Umwelt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Jakob von Uexkull founded Umwelt research with a clear idea that humans are not qualitatively different than other species. Umwelt, literally “outerworld”, is the study of the organism in relation to the world around it, as well as the meaning that the world holds for that organism. Thus the world...
Child Development
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Focusing on the earliest years (0-8), the new edition of this bestselling textbookcontinues to provide a comprehensive overview of the research, theory, and current practice in the field of child development.
The new edition is fully up to date with current policy and legislation and now includes;
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The Pedagogy of English as an International Language
Perspectives from Scholars, Teachers, and Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
This volume offers insights in current theoretical discussions, observations, and reflections from internationally and regionally celebrated scholars on the theory and practice of teaching English informed by a new school of thought, English as an International Language (EIL). This volume provides...
Dialogue and Learning in Mathematics Education
Intention, Reflection, Critique
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This book discusses examples of discrete mathematics in school curricula, including in the areas of graph theory, recursion and discrete dynamical systems, combinatorics, logic, game theory, and the mathematics of fairness. In addition, it describes current discrete mathematics curriculum initiatives...
Handbook of Parenting
Volume 4: Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This highly anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Parenting brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of parenting. Contributors to the Handbook look to the most recent research and thinking to shed light...
Power, Equity and (Re)Design
Bridging Learning and Critical Theories in Learning Ecologies for Youth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This volume brings together design thinking, critical social theory, and learning sciences to describe promising learning innovations that foster rights, dignity, and social justice for youth. The contributors are emerging scholars who are leading voices working at the intersections of theory and...