We offer in this book a collection of chapters that reflect a broad range of issues linking globalization to education in an accessible yet theoretically grounded and detailed form. The authors analyze phenomena on the global plane, in local spaces, and in the connections between the global and the local. New developments such as the growing impact of technology on education, the emergence of new policy actors, the growing expansion and segmentation of higher education, the salience of human rig...
"Ed Psych Modules" is suitable for all your students. "Ed Psych Modules" speaks to all students regardless of their intended age stage specialization. With four case studies - early childhood, elementary, middle school, and secondary - for each cluster of modules, your students effectively connect theory and practice using these realistic cases. Written to be used in any order, these modules and clusters give you maximum flexibility in organizing your course. The authors have also limited the us...
The diagnosis of 'Dyslexia' and the medical problematisation of reading difficulties were almost unknown one hundred years ago, yet today the British Dyslexia Association estimates that up to ten per cent of the UK population may have some form of dyslexia, with numbers in the United States estimated to be as high as twenty per cent. The Government of Reading investigates how this problematisation developed and how a diagnostic category was shaped in response to this.
Eric Jensen-a leading expert in the translation of brain research into education, argues in Enriching the Brain that we greatly underestimate students' achievement capacity. Drawing from a wide range of neuroscience research as well as related studies, Jensen reveals that the human brain is far more dynamic and malleable than we earlier believed. He offers us a powerful new understanding of how the brain can be "enriched," across the board to maximize learning, memory, behavior and overall funct...
Hope and Healing in Urban Education proposes a new movement of healing justice to repair the damage done by the erosion of hope resulting from structural violence in urban communities. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from around the country, this book chronicles how teacher activists employ healing strategies in stressed schools and community organizations, and work to reverse negative impacts on academic achievement and civic engagement, supporting their students to become powerful civic a...
Projektorientiertes Arbeiten Im Rahmen Einer Horspielproduktion (GS 4, Sfm)
by Bianca Motz
Activity Theory and Workplace Learning. Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 19, Issue 6
Konsequenzen des Konstruktivismus fur die Bildungsreform in Vietnam
by Assistant Professor Tam Nguyen
It's All about Thinking (Math and Science)
by Faye Brownlie, Carole Fullerton, and Layton Schnellert
Psychological Bases for Early Education (Developmental Psychology)
by Anthony D. Pellegrini
A Psychodynamic Approach to Education (Insight Professional S.)
by Alex Coren
Does the education system damage young people's emotional develpment? What is the symbolic meaning of examinations and tests? This study takes a look at the concepts and values of education and questions traditional attitudes. It examines the psychological effects of education on young people and adults and explores the role of education in "splitting" the intellect and emotions, psyche and some. It sees tests and examinations as a rite of passage.
Rekonstruktive Bildungsforschung (Rekonstruktive Bildungsforschung, #13)
Play and Early Childhood Development
by James E. Johnson, James Christie, and Thomas D. Yawkey
This authoritative text provides a thorough awareness and a thoughtful appreciation of children's play for perspective teachers in early childhood education programs. As the primary text for courses in children's play and early childhood methods, or as a supplemental text for courses in child development, human development, and child psychology, it offers a skillful blend of research and practical teaching strategies. The many roles of the adult are discussed: preschool teachers, day care specia...
Organic, O-, P-, S-, Se-, Si-, Ge-, Sn-, Pb-, As-, Sb-Centered Radicals (Landolt-Bornstein: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology - New, 9C2) (Landolt-Bornstein: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology - New Series / Molecules and Radicals, 9d1)
by A G Davies, J a Howard, M Lehnig, B P Roberts, H B Stegmann, and W Uber