Experimental Methods category: 522 books
Planning the Pre-5 Setting
Practical Ideas and Activities for the Nursery
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Provide learning opportunities to suit individual needs by drawing on the excitement created by the natural calendar and the children's own interests.
This guide will help you:
*Organise, resource and teach in Pre-School Settings
*Enhance Children's Learning with Practical Activities
*Compile...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Play therapy interventions are critical elements of providing responsive services within the context of comprehensive school counseling programs. However, many school counselors are not trained in the use of play therapy techniques during their graduate training programs as Play Therapy is not a required...
Dyslexia Included
A Whole School Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This practical book provides teachers with techniques and suggestions to help dyslexic pupils. Written by a team of experienced practitioners who work in a specialist school, it offers clear guidance and tried and tested strategies to help those who need support in this area.
The book addresses...
Theatre of Urban
Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2007
Because of its powerful socializing effects, the school has always been a site of cultural, political, and academic conflict. In an age where terms such as 'hard-to-teach,' and 'at-risk' beset our pedagogical discourses, where students have grown up in systems plagued by anti-immigrant, anti-welfare,...
Stop. Right. Now.
The 39 Stops to Making Schools Better
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2018
In Stop. Right. Now. authors and education leaders Jimmy Casas and Jeffrey Zoul identify 39 practices, programs, processes, philosophies, and people problems that schools must eliminate in order to improve education for students—and the the entire school community. The status quo and average results...
Education and Neuroscience
Evidence, Theory and Practical Application
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book brings together contributions from scientists and educators at the forefront of interdisciplinary research efforts involving neuroscience and education. It includes consideration of what we know about brain function that may be relevant to educational areas including reading, mathematics,...
Improving Schools
My "Letters to the Editor"
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This is a selection of my Letters to the Editor that were published in two local dailies, The Star and New Straits Times (NST), over the period from Dec 2007 to August 2013. These letters relate my experiences in leading and managing schools and embody my thoughts and propositions for school improvement,...
by Hans-Peter Tonn, Britta Daniel
Language: German
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Language: German
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Reformpädagogik, Note: 1,0, HAWK Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst - Fachhochschule Hildesheim, Holzminden, Göttingen (Fachbereich Sozialpädagogik), Veranstaltung: Didaktische Planung von Bildungsprozessen: Aktivierende...
Opening Doors
Community Centers Connecting Working-Class Immigrant Families and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
In 2014—for the first time—over 50% of those in U.S. public schools are students of color. Furthermore, children of immigrants, the majority of whom are of Asian and Latinx origin, are the fastest-growing population in the U.S. Addressing their needs has become an important issue facing educators,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Extant literature on evidence-based instructional strategies mediated by elementary and secondary school leaders is surprisingly scant. Seeking to fill the gap, the editors of this book have curated the research and craft knowledge of eminent and emergent practitioner scholars who collectively provide...
Celebrating 40 Years of Play Research
Connecting Our Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Play & Culture Studies is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed series published by the Association for the Study of Play. For forty years The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play (TAASP), now The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) has served as the premier professional organization in...
Inventing Imaginary Worlds
From Childhood Play to Adult Creativity Across the Arts and Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
How can parents, educators, business leaders and policy makers nurture creativity, prepare for inventiveness and stimulate innovation? One compelling answer, this book argues, lies in fostering the invention of imaginary worlds, a.k.a. worldplay. First emerging in middle childhood, this complex form...
Thinking and the Sense of Life
A Comparative Study of Young People in Germany and Japan- Educational Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Do cognitive/metacognitive abilities favour recognition of sense in life or not? Based on a sample of more than one thousand secondary schools students in Japan and Germany, the correlation between intelligence and perception of sense in life has been empirically examined. The study draws the conclusion...
Computers, Cockroaches, and Ecosystems
Understanding Learning through Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Of all the topics ever studied, surely one of the most compelling is human learning itself. What is the nature of the human mind? How do we understand and process new information? Where do new ideas come from? How is our very intelligence a product of society and culture? Computers, Cockroaches, and...