Filter by
Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics Classroom : Strategies for Te…
Advocating for the use of culturally specific pedagogy to enhance the mathematics instruction of diverse students, this revised second edition offers a wide variety of conceptual and curricular resources for teaching mathematics in a way that combats and confronts the forms of oppression that students face today. Addressing stratification based on race, class, and gender, Leonard offers lesson …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781351255820
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 LEO c
Democracy and its discontents : critical literacy across global contexts
This volume brings together important voices regarding constraints and potential possibilities for democracy in action. The book addresses various understandings of democracy and provides specific critiques. Connections between critique, critical literacy, and its potential for society and education are presented and organized smoothly and accessibly, facilitating easy engagement with the ideas…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789463001069
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370.115
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan : Beyond lesson study
his book provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current status of policy, research and practices of curriculum, classroom instruction and assessment in Japan. It outlines the mechanism of curriculum organization and the history of the National Courses of Study, and assesses the theories of academic ability model. It also discusses in detail the history of "Lesson Study" – a char…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781317484936
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 TAN c
Modern Languages Across the Curriculum
This book sets out the agenda for the future of modern language teaching in schools. It aims to look beyond the dominant methods of second language teaching to a new approach emphasising the integration of language learning within the wider curriculum. Through research and case studies from the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Finland, the book shows how teachers and policy makers…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203167175
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Imaginative Science Education: The Central Role of Imagination in Science Edu…
This book is about imaginative approaches to teaching and learning school science. Its central premise is that science learning should reflect the nature of science, and therefore be approached as an imaginative/creative activity. As such, the book can be seen as an original contribution of ideas relating to imagination and creativity in science education. The approaches discussed in the book…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-29524-4
- Collation
- XXII, 283
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 IMA
Career Assessment : Qualitative Approaches
Career Assessment: Qualitative Approaches will assume a seminal place in the field of career development as the first book to focus solely on qualitative approaches to career assessment. This book represents a timely and important contribution to career development as it seeks to meet the needs of increasingly diverse client groups. Part 1, Foundations strongly positions qualitative career asse…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-034-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370
Children after a Natural disaster : Materials for educators and tearchers
"Catastrophes and natural disasters lead to numerous problems in the education of children and teenagers, who present as the most vulnerable subjects in the communities affected. Often, in these circumstances, adults (educators, teachers, parents) do not know how to respond to their needs, reactions and feelings. What do we need to know about childhood trauma? What answers should we give to chi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788891767974
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 362 VAC c
Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain
This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintendents are civil servants at the heart of the governance of municipal education. Educational governance in the Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - is currently undergoing comprehens…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-25104-2
- Collation
- XX, 334
- Series Title
- Educational Governance Research
- Call Number
- -
Nonlinear Principal Component Analysis and Its Applications
This book expounds the principle and related applications of nonlinear principal component analysis (PCA), which is useful method to analyze mixed measurement levels data. In the part dealing with the principle, after a brief introduction of ordinary PCA, a PCA for categorical data (nominal and ordinal) is introduced as nonlinear PCA, in which an optimal scaling technique is used to quantify …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-10-0157-4
- Collation
- X, 80
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Statistics
- Call Number
- -
Mathematical Problem Posing: From Research to Effective Practice
The mathematics education community continues to contribute research-based ideas for developing and improving problem posing as an inquiry-based instructional strategy for enhancing students’ learning. A large number of studies have been conducted which have covered many research topics and methodological aspects of teaching and learning mathematics through problem posing. The Authors' ground…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4614-6258-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography