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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A prolific poet, art critic, essayist, and translator, Charles Baudelaire is best known for his volumes of verse (*Les Fleurs du Mal* [*Flowers of Evil*]) and prose poems (*Le Spleen de Paris* [*Paris Spleen*]). This volume explores his prose poems, which depict Paris during the Second Empire and...
Words Unbound
Teaching Dante's Inferno in the High School Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Words Unbound draws on Milton Burke’s thirty years of teaching experience to help educators bring Inferno alive for today’s young reader. In a conversational, “colleague-to-colleague” style, Burke shares the interpretations, questions, and exercises he found effective in his high-school classroom,...
Teaching and Learning About Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Fundamental Issues and Pedagogical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Teaching and Learning About Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Fundamental Issues and Pedagogical Approaches by Samuel Totten, a renowned scholar of genocide studies and Professor Emeritus, College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is a culmination of 30...
by Fiona McPherson
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
This version of Mnemonics for Study (2nd ed.) has an extensive English-Italian glossary (750 words) to assist Italian readers. The relevant glossary is provided after each section, and these section glossaries are all included in the Table of Contents for easy reference. A complete glossary in alphabetical...
The Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instruments (STEBI A and B)
A comprehensive review of methods and findings from 25 years of science education research
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The purpose of this Springer Brief is to provide a comprehensive review of both the STEBI methods and findings through the use of a clearly defined analytic framework. A systematic review of literature yielded 107 STEBI-A research items and 140 STEBI-B research items. The STEBI instruments have been...
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...
Key Competences in Physics Teaching and Learning
Selected Contributions from the International Conference GIREP EPEC 2015, Wrocław Poland, 6–10 July 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book presents a selection of the best contributions to GIREP EPEC 2015, the Conference of the International Research Group on Physics Teaching (GIREP) and the European Physical Society’s Physics Education Division (EPS PED). It introduces readers interested in the field to the problem of identifying...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This volume is important because despite various external representations, such as analogies, metaphors, and visualizations being commonly used by physics teachers, educators and researchers, the notion of using the pedagogical functions of multiple representations to support teaching and learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book highlights recent developments in literacy research in science teaching and learning from countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. It includes multiple topics...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
(Orginally published in 2009) The sixth monograph of AMTE highlights examples of the important scholarship of the mathematics teacher education community. This monograph, like others produced by AMTE, serves as a forum for mathematics teacher educators to exchange ideas, experiences, resources, and...
Mathematics Teaching
Putting Research into Practice at All Levels
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
(Orginally published in 2010) The seventh monograph of AMTE highlights examples of important scholarship of and for the mathematics teacher education community. This monograph, like others produced by AMTE, serves as a forum for mathematics teacher educators to exchange ideas, experiences, resources,...
by David Heywood, Joan Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
In the science classroom, there are some ideas that are as difficult for young students to grasp as they are for teachers to explain. Forces, electricity, light, and basic astronomy are all examples of conceptual domains that come into this category. How should a teacher teach them? The authors of...
English Teaching and Evangelical Mission
The Case of Lighthouse School
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Debates about the place of mission work in English Language Teaching continue to rage, and yet full-length studies of what really happens at the intersection of ELT and evangelical Christianity are rare. In this book, Johnston conducts a detailed ethnography of an evangelical language school in Poland,...
Arts-based and Contemplative Practices in Research and Teaching
Honoring Presence
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This volume presents a scholarly investigation of the ways educators engage in artistic and contemplative practices – and why this matters in education. Arts-based learning and inquiry can function as a powerful catalyst for change by allowing spiritual practices to be present within educational...