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This series, Contesting Early Childhood, opens up space for questioning the current dominant discourses in early childhood education and for offering alternative narratives that demonstrate the multiplicity of theories and perspectives that are not…

You probably teach very well without recognizing that, often, the more teaching, the less learning. Our job in adult education is not to cover a set of course materials, but to engage adults in effective and significant learning.

Students’ approaches to the nature of knowledge (known as intellectual development, epistemological development, or cognitive development) have significant impacts on their approach to learning and on their ability to learn throughout and beyond…

Y ou may not have decided yet what you want to be in the future. And you don’t have to decide right away. You do know that right now you are interested in teaching. Do any of the statements below describe you? If so, you may want to begin thinking…

About ten years ago, a handful of faculty at the University of Delaware, searching for a better way to teach, adapted problem-based learning (PBL) to
their introductory science courses. Subsequently, committed to helping their colleagues discover…

The classroom accounts and activities show how using visual approaches – and audio-visual and drama – can build on children’s knowledge of a range of multimodal texts. There are examples of teaching sequences using film, drama, real-life…

Thank you for purchasing this book. It means that you
are interested in learning how to be a more effective
teacher of science. That’s an outstanding goal!
Science education in the United States today needs your
help. Our students are…

If the challenge of the past has been to ‘get organised’, the challenge of the future is to find ways in which we can remain open to continuous self-organisation: so that we can adapt and evolve as we go along.

Fairy tales and fantasy do help to shape great minds. Einstein was an avid reader of fairy tales. Understanding real humanity, nobility of character, and the vitality of love through traditional tales rather than through counterfeit, superficial,…

The practice of psychotherapy has a dimension that did not exist 30, 20, or even 15 years ago—accountability. Treatment programs, public agencies, clinics, and even group and solo practitioners must now justify the treatment of patients to outside…