Product Description: The role of commentary as a basic method of research used broadly in both Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages still awaits further analysis. Commentary as a research and didactic method becomes especially interesting in a multicultural perspective: were Buddhist and Arabic texts commented in the same way as it was done by late antique and medieval scholars? The extensive medieval commentary literature still awaits scholarly assessment from the perspective of theory of literature as well as methodology and history of various scientific disciplines...read more

Product Description: Good teachers are so much more than instructors in the three Rs--they're coaches, therapists, career counselors, and surrogate parents all rolled into one. In this moving collection of more than fifty true stories, teachers and students alike reveal the life-changing moments taking place in classrooms all over the world, transforming--and sometimes saving--young lives...read more

Product Description: With the recent and increasing attention to accountability and standards, teacher preparation programs are more than ever in need of tools that vicariously acquaint future teachers with the difficult situations they will face. Cases for Teacher Development: Preparing for the Classroom is the perfect catalyst for this sort of teacher development...read more

Product Description: This book presents psychological concepts and principles related to learning, motivation, development, instruction, and assessment. The case studies or artifact cases within this book offer work samples and instructional materials that cover a broad range of topics, including: literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, and art...read more

Provides an introduction to the sport of rock climbing, along with information on the sport's history, styles of climbing, equipment, techniques, popular sites for climbing, and some of the dangers.

Edgar Stones breaks through the sterile debate between theory and practice by focusing on teachers as inquirers trying to solve pedagogical problems and drawing on all the resources - educational and psychological theory, practical teaching experience, knowledge of their subject - at their disposal in order to do so. By detailed analysis of numerous case studies of novice and experienced teachers grappling with real classroom problems, Stones shows that true quality teaching is only achieved by sensitivity to the interplay between the processes by which children acquire knowledge, the structure of knowledge within the subject being taught and the whole context in which the teaching is being done. He makes available to teachers and student teachers a whole body of empirically based psychological knowledge on concept learning, problem solving and the learning of physical skills and shows for the first time how this knowledge can inform and at the same time be refined by what happens in the classroom. Throughout he supports teachers as explorers in pedagogy and active problem solvers, guided but not limited by theoretical insights from the study of human learning. This book should be of interest to researchers in pedagogy and educational psychology, and to librarians.

Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which impact heavily on teachers and their work. Most of this reform has been achieved with little or no involvement of teachers themselves. This book sets out to survey the contemporary context of what is happening to the work of teaching, and focuses on Advanced Skills Teachers. It shows how teachers are 'speaking' the changes that are occuring to their work in protracted economically rationalist times.Arguing against the discourses of economy as the major shaping force, the authors present a persuasive case for focusing on the discourses of teaching itself as the only feasible and adequate basis on which to make sense of teaching. And by presenting a range of voices of practising teachers - allowing them to speak for themselves about the difficulty of trying to translate policy-makers' intentions into words and actions - the book graphically illustrates the devastating long-term consequences for the future of schools of poorly-conceptualised reform policies.

Product Description: This successful book introduces current and future teachers to the concept of professional inquiry, integrating five forms of it into their work, to facilitate reflective democratic living that is rooted in the practice of a generative and generous intellect...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book is designed to help teachers understand and develop the `reflective practice' skills that will help them to both survive and develop professionally in today's schools. The authors believe that the extra demands that teachers face today demand more than intuition, instinctive reaction or a prepackaged set of techniques. Teachers must reflect on what is taking place, correctly perceive what the options are in a critical and analytical way and make choices grounded in rational, conscious decision making to improve practice. Using real-life case studies, the book illustrates the three levels of reflective practice: reflection in practice, reflection on practice and reflection for practice. (view table of contents)

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The book is designed so that it can be used either as a core or supplementary text in educational psychology courses, in elementary or secondary methods courses, in classroom management courses, or in student teaching seminars. It is designed to be used as a supplementary text along with another more theory-oriented text. An extensive instructors manual accompanies the text. Each of the 28 cases contained in this volume documents a classroom event or sequence of events. Each is designed to reflect the complexity and uncertainty inherent in classroom situations in which there is seldom a single, decisive solution to a problem. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In efforts to reform English education, little attention is given to English teachers' conceptual understanding of their work; the focus instead is on their actions and whether or not those actions lead to effective instruction. With Composing a Teaching Life, Ruth Vinz digs deeper...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In "Teachers' Stories", David Thomas and his contributors present an argument for the content and process of teacher training to be enriched by the inclusion of educational biography, both general, (grounded Life Histories), and subject specific accounts, as significant ingredients to be stirred in with more formal theoretic and practical aspects of training...read more

Product Description: This book shows how teachers and educators can use stories of their professional experiences to reflect on their own practice, articulate values and beliefs, give shape and form to teaching theory, and better understand decision-making processes. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book examines Coalition of Essential Schools teachers who are in the midst of revising their practices to improve student performance. No longer satisfied with the kinds of compromises they've made for many years in high schools, these teachers are stirring their own most common practices to find better means to improved ends...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The book is organized in two parts: Part One: comprising 80% of this text, presents, illustrates and compares the major contemporary learning theories. Part Two: provides an opportunity to apply these theories in integrated fashion to a series of short cases that are organized around the following learning outcomes: cognitive strategies, positive attitudes and motivation to learn, retention of verbal information, and intellectual skill...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)