Giuseppina Pizzigoni was a pioneer of Italy’s ‘new school’ movement. In 1911, she created the Rinnovata Pizzigoni school, anticipating the comprehensive model. This book explores the evolution of her experimental method and its creative pedagogical development.
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.
This book reports on a large-scale study using integrated reading-into-writing tasks to improve academic reading. It offers practical insights into reading processes, making it essential for applied linguists, EAP instructors, and language assessors.
A guide to two Additional Basic Qualification (ABQ) courses for Ontario teachers: Senior English and Special Education. This book covers curriculum, strategies for behavioural exceptionalities, Individual Education Plans (IEPs), lesson plans, case studies, and helpful rubrics.
Mathematics for Intermediate Teachers
For teachers, this book goes beyond traditional, formula-based approaches. Learn the reasoning behind the methods using visual models, manipulatives, and classroom-ready activities. These methods support better learning for all and are aligned with Indigenous ways of knowing.
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 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.
Explore the transformative world of Forest Schools. This pioneering work champions an educational revolution, bringing learning to the forest. Stavrianos illuminates the benefits for children with SEND, showing how nature fosters confidence, curiosity, and holistic development.
Sustainability education equips learners with skills to improve their lives and the future of the planet. This volume offers valuable insights for delivering the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 4 on quality education, a vital resource for readers interested in sustainability.
A vital collection on intercultural practices in European health and education. Featuring cutting-edge research with diverse clients, it examines diversity, sources of tension, and paths to resilience and wellbeing.
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.
This book explores how racism and cognitive bias in public schooling breed student achievement gaps. It shows how educators transmit social and racial inequities and offers a set of interventions to build healthy school climates where every student is welcomed and honored.
Holistic Teacher Education
This collection explores holistic, reconstructionist, and reconceptualist approaches to teacher education that seek to shift the trajectory of society. It serves as an introductory text for the field of holistic curriculum studies, opening it to a wider audience.
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.
Learning to Teach
Diverse teacher educators share stories of their experiences as students and teachers. This collection reveals how these experiences influence their teaching, offering effective practices for culturally diverse learners with a focus on social justice, equity, and inclusion.
Second Language Teaching in the Digital Era
A guide to second language teaching in the digital era, this book merges theory and practice. It covers approaches for digital learners and presents case studies on applying and evaluating innovative technologies.
English Studies in the 21st Century presents recent academic research on literary, cultural, and language studies. This collection challenges dominant perspectives on tradition while exploring contemporary topics like Neo-Victorianism, the Anthropocene, and posthumanism.
Semiconductors are the driving force behind economic strength and national security, but novel types are needed for today’s scaling demands. This book provides comprehensive coverage of InAs1-xPx solid solutions, from production to their properties and application potential.
Art Therapy Education
Artmaking is the basis of art therapy as a healing practice. This volume suggests an innovative research approach that examines different art therapy teaching and training practices, studying them as parts of one picture.
Explore diverse perspectives on online and remote language teaching. Drawing on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, its findings can be applied across different levels and languages, making it an essential resource for teachers, researchers, and students.