Hybrid learning is now the single-greatest trend in education today due to the numerous educational advantages when both traditional classroom learning and e-learning are implemented collectively. This handbook collects emerging research and pedagogies related to the convergence…
Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the twenty-first century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a design science. Like oth…
"Approaches and Strategies in Next Generation Science Learning" examines the challenges involved in the development of modern curriculum models, teaching strategies, and assessments in science education in order to prepare future students in the 21st century economies. This comp…
Gail Fine presents a full-length study of Meno's paradox, a challenge to the possibility of inquiry that was first formulated in Plato's 'Meno'. She compares the responses of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus to the paradox, and considers a series of key q…
This book is designed to assist teachers at the 9-12 grade levels in addressing the goals of the National Science Education Standards (NSES) in their own classrooms concerning the teaching and learning of chemistry. The Standards expect students to learn science in an active man…
This edited volume brings together international research that explores children's creativity in STEM inquiry. It takes the position that creativity is relevant in all aspects of life and is essential for adaptable and innovative thinking. The research informed content of the bo…
The concept of energy is central to all the science disciplines, seamlessly connecting science, technology, and mathematics. For high school and upper middle school teachers, this compendium comprises inquiry-based activities, lesson plans, and case studies designed to help teac…
No one graduating from school can any longer have the illusion to have completed her or his learning career, nor to live in a monocultural society. Quite on the contrary, learning will be the major business of the professional future of anyone who now leaves school. Moreover, th…
Jay Rosenberg offers a systematic philosophical theory of knowledge responsive to the fact that we engage the world from a perspective within it. He thus calls into question many received ideas regarding the relationships among concepts of knowledge such as belief and truth.
by Lincoln, Y. S., Denzin, N. K., (ed), Giardina, M. D., (ed), Cannella, G. S., Cheek, J., Dillard, C. B., Dimitriadis, G., Dixon, A. D., Gonzalezy, Gonzalez E. M., Goodall, H. L., Hood, L. K., House, E. R., Kamberelis, G., Lather, P., McCarthy, C., Morse, J. M., Ryan, K. E., Torrance, H., Tuhiwai, Smith L., Viruru, R., White, C. J., International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (1st : 2005 : University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign)
As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary…
Problem: As a qualitative methodology, narrative inquiry (Connelly & Clandinin, 2006) is needed to draw storied data from participants representing experiences in all facets of education. Collecting experiential data essential to making comparisons and identifying variations (St…
Research examining students’ historical reasoning has heavily relied on evidence in the form of students’ written work to make claims about students’ ability to reason historically and have argued that the document-based history essay holds the most promise for assessing student…
As secondary social studies education in the United States moves toward inquiry and constructivist models of teaching, much of the history that is taught is stuck in a fairly rigid narrative. This narrative has been written and refined by historians and high school textbook writ…
I Studies in Islamic intellectual history have mostly neglected to systematically investigate the religious beliefs of the practitioners of exact science and the relationship of these beliefs to the broader landscape of theology and philosophy in classical Islam. How do the reli…
During its lifetime, the League of Nations aspired to gather reliable facts and produce accurate knowledge that could transform the conduct of international politics. Inquiry was one of many techniques the League actively deployed to find more rational means in which diplomacy w…
This thesis is a study of inquiry. Drawing upon the work of American pragmatist John Dewey, this work seeks to contribute to our understanding of the construction of knowledge within the social system of communities of inquiry. The process of inquiry that is traced in this work …
Designed around a practical "practice-what-you-teach" approach to methods instruction, "Your Science Classroom: Becoming an Elementary/Middle School Science Teacher" is based on current constructivist philosophy, organized around 5e inquiry, and guided by the National Science Ed…
In this age of instant access to information, increased scrutiny should be given to the process of thinking within a historical context. How do we assess this new knowledge? This study investigated the effectiveness of one solution advanced by the National Council for Social Stu…
