"This book brings together a variety of perspectives, research, and case studies that emphasize a pedagogical awareness of diverse learning styles, while highlighting issues of ethics and equality across the educational landscape"--Provided by publisher
by Loughran, John, Mummery, Jane, Brandenburg, Robyn, Wilson, Jacqueline Z., Brandenburg, Robyn, (ed), Wilson, Jacqueline Z., (ed), Crothers, Liz, Emmett, Sue, Fagan, Bonnie, Gell, Peter, Gullock, Loris, McDonough, Sharon, McGraw, Amanda, Mooney, Amanda, Nolton, Marnie
This book illustrates a unique and exciting endeavour whereby a group of academics across one university developed a professional learning community for the purposes of investigating, articulating and developing their scholarship of practice. Through their collaborative efforts,…
Professional learning provides educators with tools to meet the changing needs of students. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997) and personalized professional learning as demonstrated by Pre-K-8 parochi…
Thomas Edison Charter School (TECS) is a K-8 public charter school in Wilmington, Delaware. The school serves over 700 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. TECS has a history of low student achievement and variability in teacher experience and quality of classroom inst…
This study presents a new perspective on work practice in conceptual art. Using ethnographic evidence from five visual artists, the study used a combined visual arts and practice orientated perspective to explore the materiality of their everyday work and the sociomaterial pract…
My thesis presents a comparison of English and Turkish Early Years/Kindergarten teachers’ understandings and practices of outdoor activities. Comparative research provides a wider understanding of the two different cultures’ current circumstances in outdoor activities. Such rese…
The 1980s saw an increase in learning support assistants (LSAs’) in colleges for further education to support post-sixteen learners with learning difficulties and disabilities (LDD). LSAs’ were appointed on an ad hoc basis with little or no experience, or relevant qualifications…
This research aims to better understand the relationship between professional learning (PL) in genre-based literacy teaching and its impact on classroom practice. It is a study of teacher uptake of new knowledge about language and pedagogy based on Reading to Learn professional …
