Experimental Methods category: 522 books
Virtual Literacies
Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The growth of interest in virtual worlds and other online spaces for children and young people raises important issues for literacy educators and researchers. This book is a timely and much-needed collection of current research in the area. It provides a synthesis of knowledge and understanding and...
Socializing the Classroom
Social Networks and Online Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning, by Susan B. Barnes, examines how social media can be used in education through two research grants and real-world applications. Barnes analyzes social media including Facebook, Courseware, and Second Life, while providing a theoretical...
Right of Centre
eXperiential initiatives of action learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Target Audience: This resource book is designed to benefit experiential educators in schools, colleges, universities and organisations.
First time users: For those who have never used experiential activities, such as games, roles-plays and live simulations, this collection provides insights into the...
Academic Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation
A Business Management Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
In the ever changing scientific word, Academic entrepreneurship has emerged as a new and growing field. Referring to the creation and management of an environment for active support of knowledge exploitation and transfer, Academic entrepreneurship aims to encourage entrepreneurial behavior in the academic...
Critical Condition
Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Chapter 1 Foolish Question: Isn’t It Time We Replaced Critical Thinking?
Discusses how Finn came to this topic. Originating in a debate that arose after he gave a TEDx talk focused on these issues, the topic seems to have a life to its own. Finn has given dozens of talks and workshops on these issues in many countries since that first TEDx talk.
Pure Genius
Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
For far too long, schools have been bastions of boredom, killers of creativity, and way too comfortable with compliance and conformity. In Pure Genius, Don Wettrick explains how collaboration—with experts, students, and other educators—can help you create interesting, and even life-changing, opportunities...
by Alyssa Petersel
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
“A journey through the lives of young Eastern European Jews that's not to be missed.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)How do we come to be who we are spiritually? How does our political and social environment influence our development of self? A young American author immerses herself...
Notebooking
For Homeschooling
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Thinking of adding notebooking in Homeschooling?
Notebooking is one of the simplest ways to track your child's home education milestones. This is more important as your child progresses in age, he or she will start to track this progress in their own way, thus taking ownership and being proactive...
by The Abbotts
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Do you want to become a Psychic Detective & solve crimes; find lost people & hidden treasures, Plus much, much more. If so, this is the course for you! In ten easy lessons, you will learn all there is, to becoming a paranormal expert - a Psychic Detective! You will learn how to communicate...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
«Tradition and Innovation in Education» presents a number of articles that deal with topics as varied as outdoor education in Estonian kindergartens, student teacher lesson analysis skills, activities that bridge the theory-practice gap and the identity of academics in a changing university environment....
by Peter Bates, Bob Bayles, Wilfred Beckford
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish...
Personalized Learning
Preparing High School Students to Create their Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
When it comes to learning, is smaller really better? There is a growing body of evidence to support the notion that smaller, more personalized schools are better for both students and teachers. Bringing together the combined knowledge and experience of more than two dozen teachers, administrators,...
by Nigel Hall, Anne Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The second edition of this text shows how play and literacy can combine to help young children develop a more complete understanding of writing, as well as literacy more generally. In addition to discussing the implications of the new Guidance for the Foundation Stage, the authors use more recent research to extend the discussion of how and why pla
An Introduction to Steiner Education
The Waldorf School
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"To educate youth ... is to ennoble the mind, to fire the imagination, to fortify the will and to quicken initiative for life.' So writes Francis Edmunds in this inspiring, authoritative and popular introduction to Steiner (Waldorf) Education. Rudolf Steiner's educational system, well established...