Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 22 träffar
Science Education during Early Childhood
Children’s learning and understanding of science during their pre-school years has been a neglected topic in the education literature—something this volume aims to redress. …
Mathematical Representation at the Interface of Body and Culture
Over the past two decades, the theoretical interests of mathematics educators have changed substantially - as any brief look at the titles and abstracts of articles shows. Largely …
Imagination of Science in Education
Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most …
Uncertainty and Graphing in Discovery Work
This book deals with uncertainty and graphing in scientific discovery work from a social practice perspective. It is based on a 5-year ethnographic study in an advanced …
Language, Learning, Context
In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment?How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most …
Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities
Establishing Scientific Classroom Discourse Communities: Multiple Voices of Teaching and Learning Research is designed to encourage discussion of issues surrounding the reform of …
Authentic School Science
According to John Dewey, Seymour Papert, Donald Schon, and Allan Collins, school activities, to be authentic, need to share key features with those worlds about which they teach. …
Transactional Psychology of Education
Toward the end of his life, the Russian psychologist L.S. Vygotsky turned away from his earlier work that he has become famous for only to sow the seeds for a new theory. In this …
Critical Graphicacy
School science is dominated by textbook-oriented approaches to teaching and learning. Some surveys reveal that students have to read, depending on academic level, between ten and …
Concrete Human Psychology
Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of …
Science Education from People for People
Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the everyday lives of people, this book introduces science educators to various …
Understanding Educational Psychology
This book takes up the agenda of the late (but unknown) L. S. Vygotsky, who had turned to the philosopher Spinoza to develop a holistic approach to psychology, an approach that no …