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Teaching Thinking Skills Across the Early Years

A Practical Approach for Children Aged 4 - 7

Edited by Belle Wallace ...

This book helps teachers incorporate problem-solving and thinking skills into the National Curriculum at the Foundation Phase and Key Stage 1, in line with QCA and DfES recommendations. It presents a range of activities for children aged 4-7 years, all of which have been tried and tested in classrooms. The ideas are cross-referenced with the Learning Objectives of the National Curriculum, and are ... Read more

$76.94 CAD

This book helps teachers incorporate problem-solving and thinking skills into the National Curriculum at the Foundation Phase and Key Stage 1, in line with QCA and DfES recommendations. It presents a range of activities for children aged 4-7 years, all of which have been tried and tested in classrooms. The ideas are cross-referenced with the Learning Objectives of the National Curriculum, and are
... Read more
Exploring Contemporary English Language Education Practices

Edited by Truong Cong Bang, Cuong Huy Nguyen, Hung Phu Bui ...

Amidst the transformative tides reshaping the realm of English language education, educators, researchers, and practitioners grapple with a myriad of contemporary challenges. In recent years, the landscape of teaching and learning English as a second or foreign language (L2) has undergone a seismic shift, prompting a reevaluation of established practices. The dynamics of L2 education now face ... Read more

$289.59 CAD

Amidst the transformative tides reshaping the realm of English language education, educators, researchers, and practitioners grapple with a myriad of contemporary challenges. In recent years, the landscape of teaching and learning English as a second or foreign language (L2) has undergone a seismic shift, prompting a reevaluation of established practices. The dynamics of L2 education now face
... Read more
Colours (Activities for 3-5 Year Olds)

by Irene Yates ...

Series Book 1 - Activities for 3-5 Year Olds
Colours: Activities for 3-5 Year Olds contains enjoyable activities to help develop children's essential skills. Recognizing, identifying and being able to name colours are essential steps in the early education of all children. Colour knowledge is an important means of helping children to make comparisons and observe and explore their environment. The practical activities in Colours include: Fun ... Read more

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Colours: Activities for 3-5 Year Olds contains enjoyable activities to help develop children's essential skills. Recognizing, identifying and being able to name colours are essential steps in the early education of all children. Colour knowledge is an important means of helping children to make comparisons and observe and explore their environment. The practical activities in Colours include: Fun
... Read more
Rethinking School Mathematics

by Andy Noyes ...

Why is it that so many pupils are put off by maths, seeing it as uninspiring and irrelevant, and that so many choose to drop it as soon as they can? Why is it socially acceptable to be bad at maths? Does the maths curriculum really prepare pupils for life?This book presents some answers to these questions, helping teachers to think through their own attitudes to teaching and learning, and to work ... Read more

$97.59 CAD

Why is it that so many pupils are put off by maths, seeing it as uninspiring and irrelevant, and that so many choose to drop it as soon as they can? Why is it socially acceptable to be bad at maths? Does the maths curriculum really prepare pupils for life?This book presents some answers to these questions, helping teachers to think through their own attitudes to teaching and learning, and to work
... Read more
Developing Intercultural Language Learning

by Michelle Kohler ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book presents a detailed account of a self-study in which the author considers why a developmental perspective matters in language learning within an intercultural orientation, and how teachers of languages might understand and attend to this notion in their work. The discussion is based on the author’s experience as a teacher-researcher and traces aspects of teachers’ work from planning, ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book presents a detailed account of a self-study in which the author considers why a developmental perspective matters in language learning within an intercultural orientation, and how teachers of languages might understand and attend to this notion in their work. The discussion is based on the author’s experience as a teacher-researcher and traces aspects of teachers’ work from planning,
... Read more
Technology-Rich Teaching

Classrooms in the 21st Century

by Gary L. Ackerman ...

Information and computer technology arrived in classrooms more than three decades ago. Despite the efforts of educators and technologists, much teaching and learning has remained unchanged since it arrived. This is in contrast to the widespread adoption of computer technology in many other endeavors. Changing education to reflect the dominant role of technology in society requires understanding ... Read more

$92.59 CAD

Information and computer technology arrived in classrooms more than three decades ago. Despite the efforts of educators and technologists, much teaching and learning has remained unchanged since it arrived. This is in contrast to the widespread adoption of computer technology in many other endeavors. Changing education to reflect the dominant role of technology in society requires understanding
... Read more
Provoking Curriculum Encounters Across Educational Experience

New Engagements with the Curriculum Theory Archive

Edited by Teresa Strong-Wilson, Christian Ehret, David Lewkowich, Sandra Chang-Kredl ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
This book collects recent and creative theorizing emerging in the fields of curriculum studies and curriculum theory, through an emphasis on provoking encounters. Drawn from a return to foundational texts, the emphasis on an ‘encountering’ curriculum highlights the often overlooked, pre-conceptual aspects of the educational experience; these aspects include the physical, emotional, and spiritual ... Read more

$83.81 CAD

This book collects recent and creative theorizing emerging in the fields of curriculum studies and curriculum theory, through an emphasis on provoking encounters. Drawn from a return to foundational texts, the emphasis on an ‘encountering’ curriculum highlights the often overlooked, pre-conceptual aspects of the educational experience; these aspects include the physical, emotional, and spiritual
... Read more
Curriculum for Personal and Social Education

by Linda Otten ...

Provides teachers in mainstream and special schools with a tried and successful progressive health education curriculum for pupils with moderate and severe learning difficulties, emphasising a whole-school approach to sex and health education. ... Read more

$68.70 CAD

Provides teachers in mainstream and special schools with a tried and successful progressive health education curriculum for pupils with moderate and severe learning difficulties, emphasising a whole-school approach to sex and health education.
... Read more
Necessary Conditions of Learning

by Ference Marton ...

Necessary Conditions of Learning presents a research approach (phenomenography) and a theory (the variation theory of learning) introduced and developed by Ference Marton and taken up by his wide and varied following around the world—together with their practical applications in educational contexts. Reflecting Marton’s whole lifetime's work, the unique and significant contribution of this book is ... Read more

$111.30 CAD

Necessary Conditions of Learning presents a research approach (phenomenography) and a theory (the variation theory of learning) introduced and developed by Ference Marton and taken up by his wide and varied following around the world—together with their practical applications in educational contexts. Reflecting Marton’s whole lifetime's work, the unique and significant contribution of this book is
... Read more
A Practical Guide to Career Learning and Development

Innovation in careers education 11-19

by Barbara Bassot, Anthony Barnes, Anne Chant ...

A Practical Guide to Career Learning and Development is an essential guide for all those involved in careers education, either with sole responsibility or as part of a team. With a focus on career happiness, resilience and growth, this exciting book offers effective pedagogical strategies, techniques and activities to make career learning and development accessible and enjoyable, contributing to ... Read more

$76.94 CAD

A Practical Guide to Career Learning and Development is an essential guide for all those involved in careers education, either with sole responsibility or as part of a team. With a focus on career happiness, resilience and growth, this exciting book offers effective pedagogical strategies, techniques and activities to make career learning and development accessible and enjoyable, contributing to
... Read more
Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity

Education's "Errand Into the Wilderness"

by Douglas McKnight ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Present-day America is perceived by many as immersed in a moral crisis, with national identity fractured and uncertainty and anxiety about the future. Public schools in this country are, historically and still today, the major institution charged with preserving and teaching the symbols of national identity and a morality that is the concrete expression of those symbols and the ideas for which ... Read more

$111.30 CAD

Present-day America is perceived by many as immersed in a moral crisis, with national identity fractured and uncertainty and anxiety about the future. Public schools in this country are, historically and still today, the major institution charged with preserving and teaching the symbols of national identity and a morality that is the concrete expression of those symbols and the ideas for which
... Read more
Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds

by Brian C. Nelson, Benjamin E. Erlandson ...

Series series Interdisciplinary Approaches to Educational Technology
Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds, the first book focused specifically on how to design virtual worlds for educational purposes, explores:• the history and evolution of virtual worlds• the theories behind the use of virtual worlds for learning• the design of curricula in virtual worlds• design guidelines for elements experienced in virtual worlds that support learning• design guidelines for ... Read more

$96.18 CAD

Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds, the first book focused specifically on how to design virtual worlds for educational purposes, explores:• the history and evolution of virtual worlds• the theories behind the use of virtual worlds for learning• the design of curricula in virtual worlds• design guidelines for elements experienced in virtual worlds that support learning• design guidelines for
... Read more
Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities

Theories and Practices

Edited by Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Sunka Simon ...

Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
As colleges and universities in North America increasingly identify "internationalization" as a key component of the institution’s mission and strategic plans, faculty and administrators are charged with finding innovative and cost-effective approaches to meet those goals. This volume provides an overview and concrete examples of globally-networked learning environments across the humanities from ... Read more

$86.56 CAD

As colleges and universities in North America increasingly identify "internationalization" as a key component of the institution’s mission and strategic plans, faculty and administrators are charged with finding innovative and cost-effective approaches to meet those goals. This volume provides an overview and concrete examples of globally-networked learning environments across the humanities from
... Read more
School-Based Deliberative Partnership as a Platform for Teacher Professionalization and Curriculum Innovation

by Geraldine Mooney Simmie, Manfred Lang ...

Series series Routledge Research in Teacher Education
Using cutting-edge and frontline research relating to present day problems in educational systems, this volume provides a critical discussion about political alternatives in education to neoliberalism. Based on Engeström’s Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), a theory that has potential for new areas of educational research, this book explores a conceptual framework of curriculum innovation ... Read more

$83.81 CAD

Using cutting-edge and frontline research relating to present day problems in educational systems, this volume provides a critical discussion about political alternatives in education to neoliberalism. Based on Engeström’s Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), a theory that has potential for new areas of educational research, this book explores a conceptual framework of curriculum innovation
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Curriculum and Practice for Children’s Contextualized Learning

by Li Jilin ...

Series series Education (R0)
Based on the authors’ over 30 years of practical research experience, this book shows how situation curriculum design illustrates the new idea of “combining subject curricula with children’s activities.” Particular attention is given to the subject curriculum, activity curriculum and the optimization of the situation. The curriculum is the most important vehicle of children’s learning, and the ... Read more

$115.29 CAD

Based on the authors’ over 30 years of practical research experience, this book shows how situation curriculum design illustrates the new idea of “combining subject curricula with children’s activities.” Particular attention is given to the subject curriculum, activity curriculum and the optimization of the situation. The curriculum is the most important vehicle of children’s learning, and the
... Read more
Making the Case for Race in Middle School

Supporting Adolescents and Teachers in Critical Racial Consciousness and Advocacy

by Tina M. Durand ...

Race matters in the lives of youth. A new set of politicized, strategic, and public assaults on the teaching of race or other “divisive” concepts in school have had a chilling effect in classrooms across the nation. This poses a threat to students’ right to learn in educational spaces that are accountable for supporting all young people with equity and affirmation. Drawing upon the voices of ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

Race matters in the lives of youth. A new set of politicized, strategic, and public assaults on the teaching of race or other “divisive” concepts in school have had a chilling effect in classrooms across the nation. This poses a threat to students’ right to learn in educational spaces that are accountable for supporting all young people with equity and affirmation. Drawing upon the voices of
... Read more
Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Computer Science Second Edition

by David Watson, Helen Williams ...

This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2023.Benefit from the knowledge of our renowned expert authors to navigate through the content of the updated Cambridge IGCSE™ and O Level Computer Science syllabuses (0478/0984/2210).- Develop computational thinking and problem-solving skills: clearly-explained concepts are ... Read more

$38.99 CAD

This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the full syllabus for examination from 2023.Benefit from the knowledge of our renowned expert authors to navigate through the content of the updated Cambridge IGCSE™ and O Level Computer Science syllabuses (0478/0984/2210).- Develop computational thinking and problem-solving skills: clearly-explained concepts are
... Read more
Critical Friendship as a Self-Study Research Tool

A Comprehensive Resource Exploring the Complexities

by Elizabeth Petroelje Stolle, Charlotte Frambaugh-Kritzer ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book provides qualitative scholars, particularly those in self-study, with timely research and practical resources for applying critical friendship as a research tool. Drawing on over two decades of engagement as critical friends, the authors advocate for critical friendship as a means to enhance research rigor.Long valued within self-study methodology, critical friendship offers researchers ... Read more

$166.49 CAD

This book provides qualitative scholars, particularly those in self-study, with timely research and practical resources for applying critical friendship as a research tool. Drawing on over two decades of engagement as critical friends, the authors advocate for critical friendship as a means to enhance research rigor.Long valued within self-study methodology, critical friendship offers researchers
... Read more
Teacher Mediated Agency in Educational Reform in China

by Hongzhi Yang ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book examines teacher agency in implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform in the Chinese university context. It theorizes the concept of teacher agency from a sociocultural theory perspective and draws on a study conducted in a conservative and less developed area in China. The book uses Engeström's activity theory and Vygotsky's concept of the Zone of Proximal ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book examines teacher agency in implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform in the Chinese university context. It theorizes the concept of teacher agency from a sociocultural theory perspective and draws on a study conducted in a conservative and less developed area in China. The book uses Engeström's activity theory and Vygotsky's concept of the Zone of Proximal
... Read more
Teaching and Learning Argumentative Writing in High School English Language Arts Classrooms

by David Bloome, Alan Hirvela, George Newell ...

Focused on the teaching and learning argumentative writing in grades 9-12, this important contribution to literacy education research and classroom practice offers a new perspective, a set of principled practices, and case studies of excellent teaching. The case studies illustrate teaching and learning argumentative writing as the construction of knowledge and new understandings about experiences, ... Read more

$101.68 CAD

Focused on the teaching and learning argumentative writing in grades 9-12, this important contribution to literacy education research and classroom practice offers a new perspective, a set of principled practices, and case studies of excellent teaching. The case studies illustrate teaching and learning argumentative writing as the construction of knowledge and new understandings about experiences,
... Read more
Physical Education

Essential Issues

`For any student of physical education, Physical Education provides an excellent springboard from which to explore theoretical aspects of their subject. The list of authors reads like a who′s who of PE and the extensive list of references provides opportunities to investigate areas of interest in more depth′ - John Matthews, Chief Executive PEA UK′Distinguished authors who provide critical ... Read more

$116.79 CAD

`For any student of physical education, Physical Education provides an excellent springboard from which to explore theoretical aspects of their subject. The list of authors reads like a who′s who of PE and the extensive list of references provides opportunities to investigate areas of interest in more depth′ - John Matthews, Chief Executive PEA UK′Distinguished authors who provide critical
... Read more
The Teaching American History Project

Lessons for History Educators and Historians

Edited by Rachel G. Ragland, Kelly A. Woestman ...

The premise of the Teaching American History (TAH) project—a discretionary grant program funded under the U.S. Department of Education’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act— is that in order to teach history better, teachers need to know more history. Unique among professional development programs in emphasizing specific content to be taught over a particular pedagogical approach, TAH grants ... Read more

$92.06 CAD

The premise of the Teaching American History (TAH) project—a discretionary grant program funded under the U.S. Department of Education’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act— is that in order to teach history better, teachers need to know more history. Unique among professional development programs in emphasizing specific content to be taught over a particular pedagogical approach, TAH grants
... Read more
Fundamentals of School Scheduling

by Gwen Schroth, Paul Terry, Anita M. Pankake ...

School administrators must constantly evaluate and refine school scheduling for optimum student and teacher performance. This book is for school administrators who need appropriate management techniques for scheduling students into classes. All parts of the puzzle are presented so the administrator can make wise choices about configuring the school day.Discusses a variety of scheduling formats ... Read more

$78.89 CAD

School administrators must constantly evaluate and refine school scheduling for optimum student and teacher performance. This book is for school administrators who need appropriate management techniques for scheduling students into classes. All parts of the puzzle are presented so the administrator can make wise choices about configuring the school day.Discusses a variety of scheduling formats
... Read more
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

Volume 25

Edited by John C. Smart ...

Series series Education (R0)
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and ... Read more

$179.39 CAD

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and
... Read more

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