Acknowledging and understanding spiritual formation is vital in contemporary education. This book explores the dynamic relationship between education and wellbeing. It examines the theory underpinning the practice of education in different societies where spirituality and care a…
The language across the curriculum approach explored in this book implies the restructuring of curricula away from so-called "coverage" of content and toward creation of opportunities for learning in discussions, games, and in-class writing projects. Following an introduction an…
"Rhetorik ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus gesellschaftlicher Sprachlosigkeit." (J. Knape). Ob in der Schule, im Studium oder im Beruf: Ohne die Fähigkeit, sein Anliegen überzeugend darzustellen, geht es nicht! Das Trainingsbuch Rhetorik bietet ein umfassendes Programm bewährter…
Comprehensive, authoritative, and designed for practical utility, this handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Leading experts explain how current research on all aspects of literacy transl…
Because you can't possibly know exactly what will motivate every student, it's vital to have a reliable blueprint and a set of strategies that are proven to work across a broad spectrum of students. That's why you need this book from a teacher and psychologist with over 30 years…
In "Culture, Relevance, and Schooling: Exploring Uncommon Ground," Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector, and the contributing authors conceive of culturally relevant and critically minded pedagogies in terms of opening up new spatial, discursive, and/or embodied learning terrains. Reader…
Drawing on data from a range of contexts, including classrooms, pharmacy consultations, tutoring sessions, and video-game playing, and a range of languages including English, German, French, Danish and Icelandic, the studies in this volume address challenges suggested by these q…
This book illustrates the ways that cognitive linguistics, a relatively new paradigm in language studies, can illuminate and facilitate language research and teaching. The first part of the book introduces the basics of cognitive linguistic theory in a way that is geared toward …
Zoom in on the academic skills students are required to learn in reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language! This book cuts through all of the Common Core jargon and gets right to the heart of what students need to learn now. "Big Skills for the Common Core" is packed wi…
This revised and updated fourth edition is written for all those teaching in higher education seeking to develop their skills or considering accreditation. It aims to provide direct and accessible guidance on all aspects of teaching in higher education, such as planning courses …
Essentials of E-learning for nurse educators
This handbook designed for teachers of sixth through ninth grades, has two objectives: (1) to make the concept of critical thinking and the principles that underlie it clear; and (2) to show how critical thinking can be taught in language arts, social studies, and science. The i…
This text is a clear and current description of the instructional strategies that can be immediately applied across age groups and disability labels. An evidence-based instructional methodology is provided, which has proved to be effective in teaching skills to students and adul…
Discusses the importance of the language teachers use with children for developing successful readers, writers, and literate members of society, and highlights the complex learning that teachers produce that is not recognized by tests, policy makers, the general public, and teac…
Student voice in mathematics classrooms around the world
by Clarke, David, Pepin, Birgit, Zhu, Yan, Huang, Rongjin, Kaur, Berinderjeet, Anthony, Glenda, Ohtani, Minoru, Kaur, Berinderjeet, (ed), Anthony, Glenda, (ed), Ohtani, Minoru, (ed), Clarke, David, (ed), Barlow, Angela T., Bergem, Ole Kristian, Cao, Yiming, Cronberg, Florenda Gallos, Ding, Liping, Emanuelsson, Jonas, Guo, Kan, Hospesova, Alena, Mok, Ida Ah Chee, Novotna, Jarmila, Nyman, Rimma, Wan, May Ee Vivien, Xu, Li Hua, Yau, King Woon
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The Learner's Perspective Study, of which this book is the fourth volume, ascribes to the premise that the investigation of social practice within the mathematics classrooms must attend to the learners' practice with at least the same priority as that accorded to the teachers' p…