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Being and Becoming Scientists Today
The authors provide teachers with an approach to foster and answer these questions by concentrating on learners and learning. They argue that students are typically taught from a disciplinary perspective of science. Using this lens students are viewed as people who need to learn a particular canon of information, methods, and ways of knowing about the world—a perspective that may be useful fo…
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- 978-94-6300-349-0
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- XVI, 234
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Being a Teacher Researcher : A Primer on Doing Authentic Inquiry Research on …
Using a sociocultural approach to critical action research, this book is a primer in doing reflexive, authentic inquiry research in teaching and learning for educators as teacher | researchers. Rather than the artificial dichotomy between theory and practice, the roles of teacher and researcher are instead seen in a dialectic relationship (indicated by the symbol | in teacher | researcher) …
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- XX, 122
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Teaching in Blended Learning Environments Creating and Sustaining Communitie…
Built upon the theoretical framework of the Community of Inquiry – the premise that higher education is both a collaborative and individually constructivist learning experience – the authors present seven principles that provide a valuable set of tools for harnessing the opportunities for teaching and learning available through technology. Focusing on teaching practices related to the desig…
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- 978-1-927356-47-0
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 5.5 x 8.5, 154 pages
Early Geometrical Thinking in the Environment of Patterns, Mosaics and Isomet…
This book discusses the learning and teaching of geometry, with a special focus on kindergarten and primary education. It examines important new trends and developments in research and practice, and emphasizes theoretical, empirical and developmental issues. Further, it discusses various topics, including curriculum studies and implementation, spatial abilities and geometric reasoning, as well …
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- 978-3-319-44271-6
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- VII, 50
Teaching Health Professionals Online Frameworks and Strategies
Teaching Health Professionals Online is a must-read for professionals in the health care field who strive to deliver excellence in their online classes. Intended for a wide range of professionals, including nurses, social workers, occupational and radiation therapists, chiropractors, dietitians, and dental hygienists, this compendium of teaching strategies will inspire both new and experienced …
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- 978-1-927356-66-1
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- 173 pages
Teaching Crowds Learning and Social Media
In Teaching Crowds, Dron and Anderson introduce a new model for understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential of Web-based technologies, one that rests on connections — on networks and collectives — rather than on separations. Recognizing that online learning both demands and affords new models of teaching and learning, the authors show how learners can engage with social media pla…
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- 9781927356807.01
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 370 pages
The Teacher and the Superintendent Native Schooling in the Alaskan Interior,…
From 1906 to 1918, Green kept a personal journal—hitherto in private possession—in which she reflected on her professional duties and her domestic life in Alaska. Collected in The Teacher and the Superintendent are Boulter’s letters and Green’s diary. Together, their vivid, first- hand impressions bespeak the earnest but paternalistic beliefs of those who lived and worked in immensely i…
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- 9781927356500.01
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Sharing Breath Embodied Learning and Decolonization
The field of embodiment theorizes bodies as knowledgeable in ways that include but are not solely cognitive. The contributors to this collection suggest developing embodied ways of teaching, learning, and knowing through embodied experiences such as yoga, mindfulness, illness, and trauma. Although the contributors challenge Western educational frameworks from within and beyond academic settings…
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- 9781771991919.01
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- 6 x 9, 408 pages
Beginning Teachers Reviewing Disastrous Lessons
In this collection of narratives, beginning teachers describe and reflect on critical incidents – classes that didn't quite go to plan. These experiences are recalled in a general way and all names and locations are fictionalized. Each narrative, while situated in a classroom, focuses on the experience of the teacher/author and sheds light on their thinking as they work through the complex ev…
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- 978-94-6300-073-4
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- VIII, 124
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- 370
Global South Ethnographies
Both an introduction to sensory ethnography and a bold display of the sophisticated use of the sensory for contemporary ethnography, Global South Ethnographies: Minding the Senses reflects both indigenous and non-mainstream takes on the sensory and the sensual in ethnographic practice. The authors provide a collection of original and timely chapters from both the hegemonic northern and Global …
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- 978-94-6300-494-7
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- VIII, 242
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- 370 GLO
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