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...