Constructivist Education In An Age Of Accountability

Author : David W. Kritt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319660500
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructivist Education in an Age of Accountability written by David W. Kritt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contrasts authentic approaches to education with classroom practices based primarily on standards external to the individuals who are supposed to learn. While other books tend to promote either a desperate scramble for meeting standards or determined resistance to neoliberal reforms, this book fills that gap in ways that will inspire practitioners, prospective teachers, and teacher educators. Mandates pay only lip service to constructivist and social constructivist principles while thwarting the value of both students and teachers actively creating understandings. Authors in this book assert the central importance of a range of constructivist approaches to teaching, learning, and thinking, inviting careful reflection on the goals and values of education.

Author : Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350325287
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Non-Inclusive Education in Central and Eastern Europe written by Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research into inclusive education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), written by scholars based in CEE. Inclusive education has become a framework for understanding and embracing diversity but most of the research in this area has been carried out in intercultural or culturally diverse settings within a relatively inclusive and open framework of democratic/liberal and multicultural Western societies. Unlike many Western societies, the realities of CEE countries are often much less diverse and connected with different fragile historical and political processes, which puts tackling sensitive topics in a different context. The editors and contributors address the dominant Western ways of looking at inclusive and global education in CEE. They argue that Western leveraged pedagogy has been imposed on CEE and outline the context-specific problems of teaching global education in CEE. Collectively, the chapters offer critical responses to the issues of exclusion and exclusionary practices of 'silenced' minorities in CEE. Written by academics based in Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary Poland, Romania and Russia, the book cover topics including Roma genocide in Poland, teaching about Islam and teaching about LGBTQ+ issues. The book includes a preface written by Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, USA.

Author : Marie-Claire Shanahan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000608115
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Learning Sciences in Conversation written by Marie-Claire Shanahan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Learning Sciences in Conversation explores the unique pluralities, complex networks, and distinct approaches of the learning scientists of today. Focused on four key scholarly areas – transdisciplinarity, design, cognition, and technology – this cutting-edge volume draws on empirical and theoretical foundations to illustrate the directions, perspectives, methods, and questions that continue to define this evolving field. Contributions by researchers are put in dialogue with one another, offering an exemplary analysis of a field that synthesizes, in situ, various scholarly traditions and orientations to create a critical and heterogenous understanding of learning.

Author : Matthias Stadler
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 288971277X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transdisciplinary Research on Learning and Teaching: Chances and Challenges written by Matthias Stadler and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Safary Wa-Mbaleka
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 1529673003
Total Pages : 933 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sage Handbook of Online Higher Education written by Safary Wa-Mbaleka and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Online Higher Education presents a cutting-edge collection of 50 essays that explores the rapidly evolving landscape of online teaching and learning in higher education. Assembled and contributed by a team of leading experts, the Handbook adopts a uniquely holistic approach to examining the needs of online education. Chapters bring together voices from diverse and international backgrounds to provide insights applicable to a broad range of contexts, and present practical strategies for planning, delivering quality online higher education. The handbook covers a wide range of topics, including online pedagogy, instructional design, student engagement, technological innovation, assessment, leadership, and the developing role of online education in the context of broader societal and cultural shifts. The SAGE Handbook of Online Higher Education is an essential resource for educators, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who seek to understand and shape the future of higher education in the digital age. Section 1: Fundamentals of Online Education Section 2: Online Education Around the World Section 3: Online Instructional Design Section 4: Online Instructional Delivery Section 5: Instructional Technology for Online Education Section 6: Online Education Administration and Management Section 7: Student Support Services

Author : Len Unsworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000531430
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multimodal Literacy in School Science written by Len Unsworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a compatible alignment of multiple representation and representation construction approaches to science pedagogy with the social semiotic, systemic functional linguistic-based approaches to explicit teaching of disciplinary literacy. The early part of the book explicates the transdisciplinary negotiated theoretical underpinning of the MDL framework, followed by the research-informed repertoire of learning experiences that are then articulated into a comprehensive framework of options for the planning of classroom work. Practical adoption and adaptation of the framework in biology, chemistry and physics classrooms are detailed in separate chapters. The latter chapters indicate the impact of the collaborative research on teachers' professional learning and students’ multimodal disciplinary literacy engagement, concluding with proposals for accommodating emerging developments in MDL in an ever-changing digital communication world. The MDL framework is designed to enable teachers to develop all students' disciplinary literacy competencies. This book will be of interest to researchers, teacher educators and postgraduate students in the field of science education. It will also have appeal to those in literacy education and social semiotics. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Arthur T. Costigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135619867
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning To Teach in an Age of Accountability written by Arthur T. Costigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the "brave new world" of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the United States in recent years. Its particular vantage point is the perspective of dozens of new teachers trying to make their way through their first months and years working in schools in the New York City metropolitan area. The issues they grapple with are not, however, unique to this context, but common problems found today in urban, suburban, and rural schools across the United States. The stories in this book offer a compelling portrait of these teachers' encounters with the new culture of accountability and the strategies they develop for coping, even succeeding, within such demanding settings. Learning to Teach in an Age of Accountability: *introduces research on teaching and engages the "big ideas" concerning teacher research, highlighting what we know and where that leads us; *offers a rich set of teacher narratives that are organized to widen the angle of vision from biography, to classrooms, schools, and society; and *includes questions and activities to encourage discussion and further research about the ideas raised; and *addresses the possibilities for best practice and curricular decision making in light of the issues and ideas presented in the book. This volume--unique in its portrayal of new teachers' encounters with issues of accountability--makes a singular contribution to the educational literature on new teachers. It is relevant to everyone interested in the contemporary world of teaching, and is particularly appropriate as a text for preservice and in-service students. All readers who believe that the key to a good school lies in attracting and keeping good teachers will find the issues presented here both personally engaging and deeply troubling.

Author : Cooper, James W.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839102438
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computer Simulations and Gaming written by Cooper, James W. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer simulations, serious digital games, and gamification add fun and engagement to business courses, while also improving students' learning outcomes. Computer Simulations and Gaming provides business educators with the theoretical background, selection foundations, and implementation advice they need to successfully select and implement computer simulations, serious digital games, and/or gamification elements.

Author : Götz Schwab
Publisher : Research-publishing.net
ISBN 13 : 2383720038
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting professionalism, innovation and transnational collaboration: a new approach to foreign language teacher education written by Götz Schwab and published by Research-publishing.net. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based on an ERASMUS+ project that ran from 2017 to 2020. It aimed at empowering both prospective teachers and teacher educators to actively become agents of their own continuing professional development. It further intended to cooperatively establish a culture of self-reflection, as well as an intercultural network of professionals who creatively use mobile technologies and innovative ways of teaching and learning in the field of foreign language teaching. All contributions were provided by our partners from Germany, Sweden, Spain, and the UK and give an excellent insight into all the manifold aspects dealt with in this project – including voices of participating students.

Author : Heafner, Tina L.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466663847
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Effectiveness of Online Education in K-12 Environments written by Heafner, Tina L. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The integration of technology in classrooms is rapidly emerging as a way to provide more educational opportunities for students. As virtual learning environments become more popular, evaluating the impact of this technology on student success is vital. Exploring the Effectiveness of Online Education in K-12 Environments combines empirical evidence and best practices in current K-12 distance learning and virtual schools. Emphasizing current research and opportunities, this book is an all-inclusive reference source for administrators, teachers, researchers, teacher educators, and policymakers interested in the development and implementation of blended and electronic learning in primary and secondary education.