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The Mathematics Education of Elementary Teachers
Issues and Strategies for Content Courses
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book is an edited volume addressing specific issues of significance for individuals involved with the undergraduate mathematics content preparation of prospective elementary teachers (PSTs). Teaching mathematics content courses to this group of students presents unique challenges. While some PSTs...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
The second volume in the Research in Management Consulting series focuses on developing knowledge and value in management consulting. While there has been an exponential explosion in both the presence and role played by management consultants, the exact nature of their contribution —to client organizations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This volume focuses on a relatively neglected area of management consulting, the education of consultants. In today’s business world, we find training programs provided by consultancies, certification programs provided by professional organizations, onthejob training of consultants with formal or informal...
10 Dilemmas in Teaching with Discussion
Managing Integral Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Using discussion in instruction may facilitate spaces where students can engage with difficult and opposing ideas as a form of shared inquiry. Discussion is part of a larger curricular goal that intersects the two aspirations of diversity of perspectives and democratic inquiry in that it challenges...
Fooling Around
Creative Learning Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Some old ideas can become very new. This is the case of the notion of creativity in psychology. Traditionally conceptualized in the narrow framework of the amazing things poets, composers, painters, and scientists do, creativity research had reached an impassé in its efforts to locate creativity...
Phronesis in Business Schools
Reflections on Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative calls upon business school leaders and professors to significantly up their game. There is a need to enhance phronesis, i.e. wisdom, on how to effectively improve teaching and learning over time. This book gathers...
Leadership and Learning
Matters of Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This proposal is for a book about pedagogical leadership that draws upon an extensive literature base as well as empirical research by the author in order to examine forms of leadership and management that promote and instill education for learning and social justice. Its starting points are to restore...
The Classification of Quadrilaterals
A Study in Definition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This monograph reports on an analysis of a small part of the mathematics curriculum, the definitions given to quadrilaterals. This kind of research, which we call microcurricular analysis, is often undertaken by those who create curriculum, but it is not usually done systematically and it is rarely...
Writing Math Research Papers 4th Edition
A Guide for High School Students and Instructors
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Mathematics research papers provide a forum for all mathematics enthusiasts to exercise their mathematical experience, expertise and excitement. The research paper process epitomizes the differentiation of instruction, as each student chooses their own topic and extends it as far as their desire takes...
Educating the Evolved Mind
Conceptual Foundations for an Evolutionary Educational Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
In this volume, David Geary provides a comprehensive theory that brings children’s education into the 21st century, and provides directions for the development of a new discipline, “evolutionary educational psychology.” Geary presents the case that a scientifically grounded approach to children’s...
Middle Grades Research Journal Issue
Volume 11 #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Middle Grades Research Journal (MGRJ) is a refereed, peer reviewed journal that publishes original studies providing both empirical and theoretical frameworks that focus on middle grades education. A variety of articles are published quarterly in March, June, September, and December of each volume year.
CriticalService Learning as a Revolutionary Pedagogy
An International Project of Student Agency in Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This volume will be a valuable resource to instructors who teach in the fields of teacher education, social studies, educational leadership, social work, social, cultural and philosophical foundations of education, sociology, political science, and global studies as well as their students. Due to...
Towards the Virtual University
International Online Learning Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Executive Editor: Mihai Jalobeanu, National Research and Development Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technology, ClujNapoca, Romania. This book aims to bring together the work of a number of online learning specialists from around the world, to offer the reader a global view of current and recent...
