Potential Development Using Thinking Tools
This book cracks teaching myths that make learners knowledge duplicators instead of creators. Thinking tools move the focus from mastering content to critical thinking, turning learners into thinking engineers who take ownership of what they discover, create, and solve.
Innovative Mnemonics in Chemical Education
This book details time-economic, innovative learning techniques to help students grow an interest in chemistry and memorize the subject. It solves the limitations of conventional methods and provides chemical applications, problems, and free educational tools.
Medical Education Reform in China
Due to the rapid pace of scientific progress in medicine, there is a global movement to improve medical education. This unique book describes a novel and successful example of medical education reform that may inspire medical school leaders both in China and abroad.
As migration changes Europe, education plays a key role. This volume analyzes the support of immigrant children in Spain and Italy, focusing on themes like linguistic diversity, teacher training, and school culture. It serves as a sounding board for developments across Europe.
Experienced professors from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and Eastern Europe recount in interviews their secrets to success in mentoring doctoral students. Their supervision styles are analysed and compared to elucidate what it means to be a successful advisor.
Landscapes of Participatory Making, Modding and Hacking
This collection describes maker culture as it is manifested in particular socio-cultural contexts, and describes some of the underlying narratives behind the emergence of such cultures and hackerspaces, approaching this phenomenon from an academic perspective.
Diversity and Social Justice in Early Childhood Education
This book discusses how early childhood education can work with diversity and language to allow inclusion and social justice for all children. Building on case studies from Nordic countries, it offers insights from children, practitioners and parents.
The Decay of Truth in Education
Krahenbuhl compellingly documents how educational institutions and political institutions alike have abandoned truth as a primary virtue. The targets of this critique range across political, religious, and social groups as an outcome of the educational malaise towards truth.
Bringing together a number of experts in their respective fields and representing an important contribution to the topic of science and mathematics education, the contributions here deal with various aspects of education, including theoretical modelling and reasoning skills.
With the development of technology, people are now able to access more comfortable education. This anthology offers articles on technology, guidance and leadership topics and will serve as a reference book for those wishing to learn about recent advances in the field of education
This collection offers examples of excellence, innovation and ingenuity as they occur in honours colleges and programs throughout the USA, discussing what we can do to contribute to human knowledge, to empower creativity and to make positive futures through education.
From Education to Life
This book argues that education is more than attending school or acquiring skills. Its greatest challenge and purpose come from life itself. Education is a lifelong process of preparing us to live a more fulfilled life. A beneficial and engaging read for all educators.
This volume offers strategies and materials to help teachers guide students in understanding fundamental subjects. Covering key dimensions of teaching, it serves to ensure high academic achievement and is ideal for educators seeking professional development.
This innovative volume will serve to provoke cognitive dissonance and intellectual unease, as it explores cognitive theories and inspires researchers and teachers to update and invigorate some of the theories that have been embedded in their minds since their own school years.
Concept Map-Based Formative Assessment of Students’ Structural Knowledge
This book shows higher education staff how to develop students’ structural knowledge—a precondition for expert performance. It provides practical scenarios for using concept mapping in formative assessment to build the complex problem-solving skills needed for today’s careers.
This book helps educators transform classrooms into inclusive, socially engaging environments. It explores innovative pedagogical designs to lower learner anxiety, increase participation, improve learning experiences, and develop intercultural competence across disciplines.
This book analyses modern American art education from historical and comparative perspectives. It explores visual culture, social factors, and the transformation of the aesthetic experience in a multicultural milieu, illustrating current pedagogy with references to art museums.
Factors Relating to Information Skills
Using a judiciously planned and scientifically carried-out study, Kumer provides empirical evidence that the information skills of students of higher learning institutions can be improved using a set of personal and environmental variables.
While William James is renowned, his *Talks to Teachers on Psychology* is often overlooked. This book fills a significant gap in Jamesian studies by analyzing his work as an educator, the origins of the lectures, and his influence on modern education.
International Student Transitions
Given the rising number of international students, the consideration of new approaches to English language development is vital. This volume introduces a framework to guide institutions in examining their views and beliefs regarding language acquisition and approaches to success.