The edTPA Assessment for Special Education Pre-Service Teachers
This book assists the Special Education pre-service teacher in preparing a successful edTPA portfolio, a requirement for teacher certification in most states. It provides detailed guidance, best practices, and proven strategies for creating a high-quality portfolio.
Does interactivity enhance e-Learning? While often claimed, little scientific evidence exists. This book provides proof, presenting three empirical studies on the impact of interactive feedback on learners, teachers, and the environment.
The Emotional Lives of Young People with Autism
This study questions the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of autism, offering evidence that even non-verbal children have an emotional life. Drawing on interviews with parents from three cultures, it shows children with autism have emotional competence.
The Emotionally Intelligent College
This text synopsises the research that has been conducted pertaining to emotional and social skills development in third level learning environments, and will help students and educators reach their maximum potential.
A legacy of the Napoleonic era, the Baccalauréat exam has long mirrored French society. This book hones on its first century, tracing its evolution from a single oral exam into a complex, standardized test battery designed to channel the nation’s academic elite.
The Foundations of Urban Education
This volume explores key 21st-century issues impacting urban schools. It prepares teachers by focusing on theoretical and historical foundations, discussing topics like the achievement gap, charter schools, teacher pay, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teacher motivation.
The Future of Post-Human Urban Planning
Is sustainability as desirable as we are led to believe? Contrary to conventional wisdom, the concern has been exaggerated, becoming a fad with ignored dark sides. This book provides a better way to understand sustainability, transcending the debate.
The Imagination in Education
This collection of essays centres on the theory and practice of imagination in education. The 13 essays present distinct yet converging points of view, exploring the breadth and richness of the field.
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.
The Importance of Listening to Children and Adolescents
This publication highlights the importance of teaching adults to listen to children and adolescents, illustrating the principles and contexts that define young people’s tangible and intangible rights and ideals.
This book presents a potential hierarchy between the three basic psychological needs central to Self-Determination Theory. It argues that a student’s motivation for autonomy is built upon the quality of the teacher-student relationship and the student’s perceived competence.
Essays by leading scholars examine the wider context of the Spanish Civil War. The chapters discuss major debates surrounding the conflict, including whether it was a ‘dress rehearsal’ for the Second World War.
The Making of Geography as a Secondary School Subject
This is the first history of geography as a senior school subject in Western Australia (1917-1997). Based on primary sources, this book contributes to international research on curriculum history and offers a model for future studies for other subjects and regions.
The Mythical Mediterranean Sea
Through an analysis of literature, history, culture and identity, the essays here explore the connections that define the Mediterranean Sea as a symbol of tradition and modernity, deeming it a region capable of congregating, synergizing and transforming cultures.
The Next Buddha may be a Community
What does internationalization in education really look like? This book investigates what intercultural competence means to staff and students in a university case study, exploring how it can be achieved and where more support is needed.
The NNEST Lens
The NNEST Lens invites you to re-examine TESOL and applied linguistics using multilingual, multicultural, and multinational perspectives. This volume’s original contributions question theory and share strategies, taking diversity as a starting point for all.
Embark on a journey into the future of nutrition. This book explores the remarkable potential of millets as the cornerstone of tomorrow’s diet. Discover their role as functional foods, ensuring nutritional security and shaping a healthier, more sustainable future for us all.
The Pizzigoni Experimental Method in Sara Bertuzzi’s Diaries
Giuseppina Pizzigoni was a contemporary of Maria Montessori. While one is world-famous and the other unknown, both were protagonists of profound change in the Italian school system. This study explores Pizzigoni’s innovative method, continued by her disciple Sara Bertuzzi.
Kobylarek portrays an institution, the Polish university, resistant to change and defying all attempts at reform. He proposes a redefinition of the function of the university, based on a thorough analysis of the needs of all its various groups of stakeholders.
This study explains the stunning vitality and success of postcolonial Indian novels. It analyses themes of empire, nation, gender, and language to show how writers from Rushdie to Roy have created a truly world literature, liberated from the nation.
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