American Education Mythologies
Myths can be used to confuse and convince. This book critiques myths in American education—about guns in schools, banned books, Critical Race Theory, and more—and remythifies them to conjure new understandings that support our most vulnerable youth.
This book explores Jesuit Father François Annat, Royal Confessor to Louis XIV. His career was defined by the Jansenist controversy, a fierce internal struggle within the French Church that pitted him against his celebrated foe: the writer Blaise Pascal.
Macrobicyclic Cryptands
The only book to explore all aspects of cryptand chemistry. It covers synthetic methods for different types of cryptands, especially unexplored chiral cryptands, and their use in catalysis, fluorescence sensing, photonic devices, and the stabilization of metal nanoparticles.
This book analyzes the Israeli educational system, focusing on the pivotal role of mathematics education in its improvement. It explores innovative teaching methods that promote deep understanding and critical thinking, offering valuable insights for educators and policymakers.
This book demonstrates fractional calculus’ use to model natural phenomena and new processes in advanced technologies. The focus is on modelling, results, and interpretations, rather than theorems. A source for students and scientists modelling nonlinear and hereditary phenomena.
This book explores African systems of thought to provide a framework for decolonizing the African mindset and philosophy courses. Using lessons rooted in real-life situations, it offers a methodology for critical analysis for students, teachers, and scholars.
This book presents exciting findings on the sources of test score gaps, using powerful DNA-based methods to analyze race, socio-economic status, and ancestry. It also considers the policy question of how these findings should be disseminated to the public.
This book explores the intertwining worlds of social media and educational pedagogy. It critically examines the benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations of integrating platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok into the modern educational landscape.
This guide delves into bacterial classification, from basic principles to cutting-edge genomics and AI. With expert contributions, it is an essential resource for students and researchers to unravel the mysteries of bacterial speciation, evolution, diversity, and taxonomy.
The brain is a muscle; a growth mindset strengthens it by rewiring neural circuits. This book provides the tools and roadmap required to bring this pedagogy into the classroom and develop a culture where students believe that ‘with practice and hard work, I can do better.’
This sourcebook focuses on 21st-century instruction and supervision to improve student achievement in urban contexts. It prepares pre-service and in-service teachers with current practices in S.T.E.M., Sciences, ESL, ELA, transmedia, and afterschool programs.
Democracy Education in Schools
This introductory book for teachers and researchers deals with democracy education. It presents a theoretical dimension for primary education, a framework plan to foster democratic attitudes in students, and practical activity examples for classroom implementation.
The central challenge for educational neuroscience is using brain research to improve teaching and learning. Learning occurs through changes in the connections between neurons, a process optimized when ideas are considered from a multidimensional approach.
Internationalisation of Kazakhstan’s Higher Education at Home and Abroad
This book conceptualises the internationalisation of education in Kazakhstan since its independence in 1991. It deconstructs the interface of Western and post-Soviet ideologies by unpacking higher education policy, student mobility, curriculum, and brain drain.
Small colleges are at risk. To survive, they must pivot their mission to weave deeper into the communities in which they reside. This book shows how these institutions can take direct action to make a bigger impact, draw more students, and breathe lifeblood into middle America.
This book guides researchers on applying sociotechnical theories to information systems (IS) research. The first to combine multiple theories, it provides guidelines on how to apply the six most employed ones, including actor-network theory and the technology acceptance model.
Strategies for Student Success in Higher Education
This book brings together leading-edge research and practical insights on the first-year experience in higher education. Written by experts, it integrates multidisciplinary approaches and case studies for professors and administrators to address the needs of first-year students.
What does it mean for education to be ‘advanced’? In depth, focus, or application? Honors education has long reflected on what ‘advanced’ higher education might entail. Here, contributors consider the significant interests in the present and future of advanced learning.
University assessment efforts have failed to enhance educational quality. Plagued by questionable reliability and validity, the prevalent summative approach may not be the best method. This book suggests alternatives that yield more meaningful, quality-driven information.
For teachers and students of philosophy, this book traces developments in Philosophy of Education from Rousseau through the twentieth century. The second part describes Christian approaches to educational philosophy that will appeal to Catholics as well as Protestants.