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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

Thought is in fact a kind of algebra, as Berkeley long ago said, “in which, though a particular quantity be marked by each letter, yet to proceed right, it is not requisite that in every step each letter suggest to your thoughts that particular…

The purpose of the questionnaire is to highlight those areas of study skills in which pupils lack confidence. Most pupils will know which aspects of their work could be improved.
As students move through the key stages, pressure on their time…

BARBARA KEESLING, PH.D., has more than twenty years’ experience as a sex therapist and surrogate partner. She has a doctorate in health psychology,teaches Human Sexuality at California State University, Fullerton, and
maintains a private sexual…

As authors, we wonder whether readers might be interested in knowing something of our backgrounds and the reason why we undertook to write this book. We decided to write the book after we ran workshops to train people from the helping professions who…