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The Government’s recent agenda for inclusion in schools and the focus on preventing and reducing exclusions has further raised awareness as to the specific needs of students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. Many mainstream…

This book is for anyone who is interested in teaching. It started as an attempt to map out and summarize reliable knowledge about teaching and how it functions to aid learning. It was written, in the first place, mainly for students training to…

Our original interests in the integration of diversity into the psychology curricu- lum developed along converging paths. As new teachers of psychology, we both discovered that our widely-used textbooks contained little or no scholarship on women or…

Throughout my educational career, I have had the opportunity to be a “pro- fessional gypsy.” I taught self-contained elementary grades 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , and 6. I also taught a combined third and fourth grade class (today known as “multi- age”)…

WestEd is a research, development, and service agency working with
education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve
equity, and improve learning for children, youth, and adults. Drawing
on the best knowledge from research and…

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…

Someone once said that curriculum development is not something done to teachers but through and with them. This has the implication that teachers should have appropriate skills and knowledge to be able to make a contribution to curriculum…

When you turn on your computer, Windows starts automatically, but you may have to navigate the
sign-on screen along the way. To prevent other people from using your computer without your
authorization, Windows requires you to set up a username and…

In an ef fort to make stu dents aware of the world in which they live, an em pha sis has re cently been placed on global ed u ca tion. Ed u ca tors have seen the need for a deeper un der stand ing of the in ter de pen dence of peo ples and na tions…

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