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Becoming Other
From Social Interaction to SelfReflection
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The research reported in this book is unapologetically Meadian. While the work of George Herbert Mead has been of widespread significance, and his name is often cited, there are in fact few empirical studies that have sought to rigorously instantiate his ideas. This is in part because his theory is abstruse...
The Timing of Neural and Behavioral Events
Its Relation to Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This monograph reviews cognitive and neuroscience studies of the relations between timing of both neural and behavioral events and human experience. The historical roots of these discussions are traced to the beginning of modern psychology. In the beginning of experimental psychology in Leibzig, Wundt...
What Mathematics Do Students Know and How is that Knowledge Changing?
Evidence from the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This volume is intended for researchers, curriculum developers, policy makers, and classroom teachers who want comprehensive information on what students at grades 4, 8, and 12 (the grades assessed by NAEP) can and cannot do in mathematics. After two introductory chapters on the design of NAEP, the...
Leading in Change
Implications of School Diversification for School Leadership Preparation in England and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Leading in Change: Implications for School Leadership Preparation in England and the United States considers the ways in which school leadership, and its preparation has changed and developed in response to a rapidly changing educational scenario over the past decade. Drawing together leading thinkers,...
Young Children and the Arts
Nurturing Imagination and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Young Children and the Arts: Nurturing Imagination and Creativity examines the place of the arts in the experiences of young and very young children at home and in outofhome settings at school and in the community. There is great need for development of resources in the arts specifically designed to...
Pathways
Between Eastern and Western Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Educators everywhere will want their hands on this book! Cover to cover, this book delivers on showing exactly what the title says: pathways between Eastern and Western education systems. Why will you want to buy this book? Readers will love the idea that different systems have a lot to share. Through...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Few resources exist for individuals who wish to subscribe to a practical, applied learning approach to higher education administration. To that end, the book's vignettes: 1) reflect the diversity of issues, roles, contexts and situations postsecondary leaders face-yet are uncommonly addressed in learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Social epistemology is a broad set of approaches to the study of knowledge and to gain information about the social dimensions. This intellectual movement of wide crossdisciplinary sources reconstructs the problems of epistemology when knowledge is considered to be intrinsically social. In the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Continuous activity and high job demands surround corporate environments. These demands are considered to be key triggers for workers’ stressrelated symptoms and poor health. It has been estimated by the American Institute of Stress (AIS) that US 300 billion/year are spent on conditions related to...
Theory Driving Research:
New Wave Perspectives On SelfProcesses And Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Theory Driving Research: New wave perspectives on selfprocesses and human development provides a unique insight into selfprocesses from varied theoretical perspectives. The chapters in this volume develop avantgarde theoretical ideas to drive future, cuttingedge, empirical research and together, in...
Handbook of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education Volume I
Research Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Handbook of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education brings together in one source research techniques that researchers can use to collect data for studies that contribute to the knowledge in early childhood education. To conduct valid and reliable studies, researchers need to be knowledgeable...
Computers, Cockroaches, and Ecosystems
Understanding Learning through Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Of all the topics ever studied, surely one of the most compelling is human learning itself. What is the nature of the human mind? How do we understand and process new information? Where do new ideas come from? How is our very intelligence a product of society and culture? Computers, Cockroaches, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Caribbean Discourse in Inclusive Education Volume II “Responding to Learner Diversity and Learner Difficulties” shares selected critical reflections and recommendations on the way educational communities respond to student diversity and difficulties learning. These contexts include the Caribbean,...
New Directions in Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Research
Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In the past decades wideranging research on effective integration of technology in instruction have been conducted by various educators and researchers with the hope that the affordances of technology might be leveraged to improve the teaching and learning process. However, in order to put the technology...