Information Age Publishing: 1717 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Promising Practices to Support Family Involvement in Schools is a musthave volume for every contemporary educator. This monograph provides a broad array of exciting researchsupported practices to reform schools for the benefit of students, teachers, administrators, families and their communities....
Stress and Quality of Working Life
Conceptualizing and Assessing Stress
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Workrelated stress is costly not only to employees, but also to organizations and society. For example, it is estimated that workrelated stress, depression, and anxiety costs British employers £1,035 per employee and that workplace stress costs the US economy up to 300 billion annually. However, elevated...
Education Reform
Confronting the Secular Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education. It challenges “secular education” as a failed educational model and proposes an alternate model with farreaching potential. It reveals how secular schools have insufficient resources to support the public’s educational...
Schools as Radical Sanctuaries
Decolonizing Urban Education through the Eyes of Youth of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Large, comprehensive urban high schools were designed and constructed with the belief that they could meet the needs of all its students, academic and otherwise. By and large, however, these schools have only done a good job of sorting students for specific jobs in a society based on capitalism and White...
Interdisciplinarity, Creativity, and Learning
Mathematics with Literature, Paradoxes, History, Technology, and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Interdisciplinarity is increasingly viewed as a necessary ingredient in the training of future oriented 21st century disciplines that rely on both analytic and synthetic abilities across disciplines. Nearly every curricular document or vision statement of schools and universities include a call for...
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Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
According to NCTM’s Principles and Standards for School mathematics, "Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and it enhances students’ learning.” How does research inform this clarion call for technology in mathematics teaching...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
(Published in Cooperation with the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics) According to NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, "Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and it enhances students' learning." How...
Cultural Psychology and Its Future
Complementarity in a New Key
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Cultural Psychology is a radical new look in psychology that studies how persons and socialcultural worlds mutually constitute one another. With the increase of globalization and multicultural exchanges, cultural psychology becomes the psychological science for the 21st century. Encounters with others...
by Nathalie Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
This volume investigates the evolution of the geometry curriculum in the United States over the past 150 years. A primary goal is to increase awareness of the shape and nature of the current geometry curriculum by explaining how things have come to be as they are. Given the limited access to firsthand...
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Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The interaction of the history of mathematics and mathematics education has long been construed as an esoteric area of inquiry. Much of the research done in this realm has been under the auspices of the history and pedagogy of mathematics group. However there is little systematization or consolidation...
Interdisciplinarity for the 21st Century
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Mathematics and its connections to the Arts and Sciences, Moncton 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Interdisciplinarity has become increasingly important for emergent professions of the 21st century yet there is a dearth of systematic studies aimed at implementing it in the school and university curricula. The Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS ) group places Mathematics...
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Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
The name of Zoltan P. Dienes (1916) stands with those of Jean Piaget and Jerome Bruner as a legendary figure whose theories of learning have left a lasting impression on the field of mathematics education. Dienes' name is synonymous with the Multibase blocks (also known as Dienes blocks) which he invented...
The First Sourcebook on Nordic Research in Mathematics Education
Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and contributions from Finland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The First Sourcebook on Nordic Research in Mathematics Education: Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark and contributions from Finland provides the first comprehensive and unified treatment of historical and contemporary research trends in mathematics education in the Nordic world. The book is organized in...
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Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
International Perspectives and Research on Social Justice in Mathematics Education is the highly acclaimed inaugural monograph of The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast now available through IAP. The book covers prescient social, political and ethical issues for the domain of education in general and...