A college education can increase the choices and opportunities available to individuals, but high college tuition rates have prompted concerns that...

No civilised culture has failed to recognize the importance of education. And it is widely acknowledged that in today’s fast-paced society, success...

The eminence, safety, and well-being of nations have been entwined for centuries with the ability of their people to deal with sophisticated quanti...

This book has been designed to provide a conduit for the pre-service and beginning teacher of science to access contemporary educational research. ...

Six months shy of retirement and on a family vacation in Mexico, Jim Linnell steps off the porch of a rented guest house and breaks his neck. He is...

The book presents the sequence of tasks involved toward admission for the graduate study at the US universities, in general. The book is meant for ...

Since 1997, education tax benefits have become an increasingly important component of federal higher education policy. Fourteen tax benefits are cu...

If the future of any society can be pinpointed, it is with the teachers who help form the citizens of tomorrow. Sometimes their impact is equal to ...

Chapter one will review teacher development in Sudanese state primary schools, as well as the poor resources available to teachers. It discusses th...

Teacher education has undergone numerous reviews in many countries in recent decades. These reviews have suggested changes to the structure, conten...

This book evaluates teacher professional development programs. These programs are evaluated in terms of participants' classroom teaching behaviour,...

There is increasing interest among educators, policymakers, and researchers in understanding the factors that make some teachers more effective tha...

One of the major goals of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is to raise the achievement of students who currently fail to meet grade-level profi...

This book opens with a study seeking to show how students and practicing teachers develop core professional competencies in the early childhood edu...

This book is directed mainly at teachers of engineering thermodynamics, but it can also be very useful for the student who wants to read a comprehe...

Teachers are blamed for many of society's ills. They are accused of not successfully transforming our home products into brilliant, socially upward...

If the future of any society can be pinpointed, it is with the teachers who help form the citizens of tomorrow. Sometimes their impact is equal to ...

This book has three main areas of focus. The first area of focus is the historical background to the place of 'teachers' who work in Western Austra...

This book chronicles global issues, related practices, and future prospects in teaching and teacher education. The chapters include comprehensive d...

In this book we demonstrate a mode of teacher education that is practical in a non-technical sense and relies on Dewey's notion of curriculum as th...

Teaching is a profession which is so enormous and so packed with significance that the issues related to it have a consistently high ranking with m...

This book discusses principles, approaches and impact assessments of teaching and learning. Chapter One explores the importance of distance educati...

This book is about the educational challenges facing teachers in Lithuania in the early years of the 1990's and the process of rebirth following th...

In the era of globalisation, English has become the world language of research and publication in academia. Apart from English-speaking countries, ...

When does a child learn to read? Many people might say, "in kindergarten or first grade". But researchers have told us something very important. Le...

This book consists of a compilation of articles that seek to fully inform foreigners about the realities of teaching in China. (The good, the bad, ...

Original peer-reviewed contributions from recognized and established scholars and practitioners offer a variety of perspectives on teaching English...

The main objective of this monograph is to incorporate history and philosophy of science in the chemistry curriculum in order to provide students a...

Helaine Smith engages her students, grammar school through twelfth grade -- and any avid reader -- in the questions that great literature evokes. I...

This book specifically addresses the challenges we have faced during more than ten years of research into different topics regarding teaching pract...

This book is divided into three parts on what to teach, how to teach, and new teaching technologies regarding public administration and public poli...

This book is written with two main audiences in mind: science education researchers and science teachers (or other educational professionals in tec...

Teaching Speech to English Language Learners: A Theoretical and Practical Focus provides very specific teaching recommendations aimed at improving ...

This book presents topical research in the study of teaching strategies. Topics discussed in this compilation include the role of analogical and st...

In the last thirty years, the educational system has become increasingly more diverse. In some school systems, the majority is now slowly moving to...

Teacher education plays a vital role in educating our future teacher -- which in turn educates our children in today's information age and knowledg...

This book aims to introduce the importance of integrating technology in teaching and learning; contemporary technologies used in schools for teachi...

This book aims to describe the application of technology for addressing a range of education issues across a range of ages and educational settings...

Technology can be a powerful tool for transforming learning. It can help affirm and advance relationships between educators and students, reinvent ...

This indispensable guide for both parents and professionals offers fascinating ways to better understand the emotional world of children and what i...

Are your students motivated and able to learn as much as you would like them to? Do they readily apply what they have learned? Do they even remembe...

Students of the 21st century, typically those of the Millennial (also referred to as ‘Gen Y') or Gen Z generations, were born into a digitally adva...