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"Book for educators on how to create a student-centered 21st-century classroom. The book teaches differentiation strategies to engage and challenge students, encourage learner autonomy, and design rigorous curriculum. Revised edition includes self-assessment surveys, observation forms, and new ideas for increasing proficiency in classroom differentiation. Includes digital content"--

Teaching in Eden provides any teacher with powerful and virtually free tools that he or she can use to alter the fundamental nature of the educational experience. The tools are simple instructional devices that require only a teacher's time, and the courage to break out of the existing constraints to discover and assemble the elements of an ideal instructional environment.

Offers an inventive program to help readers reconstruct essential elements of their forgotten education, sharing techniques on vocabulary, reading comprehension, and mathematics.

This is an essential introduction to the practice of Rudolf Steiner's ideas in education. The authors explain the innovative approaches to child development and education as found in Steiner-Waldorf classrooms around the world. They discuss the practical aspects of teaching, the celebration of seasonal festivals, the stages of child development, early education, later years, environmental education, and much more. Waldorf Education is one of the best and most accessible introductions to this un...

Die Gegenwart erlebt einen grundlegenden Wandel im Wissenschafts- verstandnis. In der Physik geht der Bewusstseinswandel einher mit einer Respektierung der fundamentalen Komplexitat der Wirklichkeit und fuhrt uber die veranderte Stellung des Beobachters gegenuber seinem Objekt zum Begriff der Komplementaritat. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass sich empirisch-analytische Erziehungswissenschaft dagegen noch am klassischen Wissenschaftsbegriff der Physik orien- tiert. Notwendige Konsequenzen des Wandels...

Japanische SchulerInnen werden sehr selten kriminell, sie werden selten in der Schule gewalttatig. Dies ist das Ergebnis einer Bestandsaufnahme von Jugendkriminalitat und Devianz an japanischen Schulen in Teil 1 der vorliegenden Studie. In Teil 2 wird die Frage verfolgt, was an japanischen Schulen unternommen wird, um schwere Regelverstoesse zu verhindern und die Schuler zu regelkonformem Verhalten anzuleiten. Auf der Grundlage von Fallstudien in drei Mittelschulen in Japan werden die Mechanisme...

Howard Gardner's work on multiple intelligence and David Feldman's on nonuniversal development is valuable in understanding children's intelligence and cognitive development. The volume details these theories, and provides case studies in classrooms and out-of-school experiential learning projects.

The first book to offer an in-depth exploration of the topic of problem-based learning with contributions from international experts The Wiley Handbook of Problem-Based Learning is the first book of its kind to present a collection of original essays that integrate the research and practice of problem-based learning in one comprehensive volume. With contributions from an international panel of leading scholars, researchers, practitioners and educational and training communities, the handbook is...

While research and common sense tells us that experiential learning is more effective than the more traditional process of information assimilation (where teachers lecture, test, and grade), high school, college, and university teachers continue to use paper-and-pencil tests as their primary grading and assessment tool. Many students fail to see the relevance of these sort of tests and are bored with passive methods of learning. Using Experiential Learning in the Classroom: Practical Ideas for A...

This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with understanding new literacies in theory and in practice. It is based on the idea that one of the best ways of learning how to do good research is by closely following the approaches taken by excellent researchers. This volume brings together a group of internationally reputed qualitative researchers who have investigated new literacies from a sociocultur...

Designed as a supplemental text for foundations, multicultural education, and general methods courses. This book contains concise, focused cases about genuine classroom situations regarding issues of diversity/multiculturalism which immediately engage students and allow greater flexibility for instructors. The book can be used in two ways: 1) to create in students a "need to know" about definitions of concepts, research, promising practice, and theory, and 2) to extend thinking about basic conce...

LET THE MUSIC PLAY! Harnessing the Power of Music for History and Social Studies Classrooms provides readers an accessible introduction to employing music in history and social studies classrooms. Teachers who wish to develop lessons using music as a resource will find coverage of the significant relationship between music and social studies, pedagogical models designed to facilitate using music within history and social studies lessons, and coverage of salient historical themes in which music h...