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  • The Power of Expert Teaching

    Lessons for Modern Education

    by Shane N. Phillipson, Sivanes Phillipson ...
    Throughout the world, the challenges facing modern education are formidable. Although some of the challenges facing are unique to each educational jurisdiction, there are also some important commonalities that transcend jurisdictions. Irrespective of the nature of these challenges, there is an increasing focus on teacher quality – what it is and how to enhance it. To date, research tells us what ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Developing Leadership in the Asia Pacific

    A focus on the individual

    by Sivanes Phillipson, Shane Phillipson ...
    Developing Leadership in the Asia-Pacific focuses on the design of leadership programs that are able to meet the needs of students, teachers and the wider community. Rather than taking an all-encompassing approach that cover all contexts of leadership development, this book is based on research that guides the leadership teacher in designing a course that takes into account the specific context ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • Conceptions of Giftedness

    Socio-Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Shane N. Phillipson, Maria McCann ...
    The effective education of gifted children is one of the most significant challenges facing educational systems in many countries around the world, made particularly difficult by the forces of globalization. Conceptions of Giftedness describes the unique and varied ways cultures conceive of giftedness. As language influences perception, different ideas of giftedness may embody different ways of ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Constructing Educational Achievement

    A sociocultural perspective

    Edited by Sivanes Phillipson, Kelly Ku, Shane Phillipson ...
    International interest focuses on why pupils from East-Asia tend to outperform pupils from the West and scholars have proposed a number of possible explanations to account for these international trends. Using Vygotsky's theory (1978) as a conceptual framework to "construct" school achievement, this book puts forward culturally relevant context for understanding developmental aspects of children’s ... Read more

    $118.17 CAD

  • Exceptionality in East Asia

    Explorations in the Actiotope Model of Giftedness

    Edited by Shane N. Phillipson, Heidrun Stoeger, Albert Ziegler ...
    The continual successes of students from East-Asia are confirmed in a variety of international tests of academic achievement and yet, despite this attainment, many scholars have realised that a substantial proportion of these students are also underachieving.Using the actiotope model of giftedness to integrate a broad range of research, this innovative book features a number of chapters written by ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

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    by Jude Carroll ...
    Series series Internationalization in Higher Education Series
    Tools for Teaching in an Educationally Mobile World examines the challenges that undergraduate and postgraduate teachers often encounter when working with students from different national and cultural backgrounds. It focuses on the consequences for interactive teaching and for course design in a world where students, ideas and courses are mobile, using examples and experiences from a wide range of ... Read more

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  • Action Research for Teachers

    A Practical Guide

    by Jean McNiff, Jack Whitehead ...
    Assuming no prior knowledge of research methods and techniques, this book is the perfect companion for teachers at all levels undergoing professional development who need to enhance their formal reflection skills.Providing a detailed explanation of what action research is and its importance in terms of whole school development, this book invites the teachers to try out educational research for ... Read more

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  • Case Studies in Language Curriculum Design

    Concepts and Approaches in Action Around the World

    by John Macalister, I.S.P. Nation ...
    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    Case studies are a powerful pedagogical tool for illuminating constructs and models in real-life contexts. Covering a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offering in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues, this casebook is distinctive and unique in that each case draws on and is clearly linked to a single model presented in Nation and Macalister’s Language Curriculum ... Read more

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  • Improving Inclusive Education through Universal Design for Learning

    Edited by Alvyra Galkiene, Ona Monkeviciene ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access international scientific study provides an analysis of how the educational strategy of Universal Design for Learning can stimulate the process of inclusive education in different educational-cultural contexts and different areas of the educational system. The findings of the research deepen the conception of inclusive education and present an analysis of factors that are ... Read more

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  • Improving Teacher Education through Action Research

    Edited by Ming-Fai Hui, David L. Grossman ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    There has been a dearth of studies on teacher educators using action research to improve their own practice. This book is the first systematic study of a group of teachers examining and enhancing their own practice through the inquiry process of action research. This book presents a broad overview of a variety of methodologies that can be used to improve teacher preparation and professional ... Read more

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  • The researchED Guide to Assessment: An evidence-informed guide for teachers

    by Sarah Donarski, Tom Bennett ...
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    A teacher's job is to create an environment where our students' engagement in learning proceeds towards an intended direction. In order for this to occur, we must form a bridge between the teaching of material in the classroom and how the learning of that information is being processed and manipulated by our students. The only way we can do this effectively is through the process of assessment. ... Read more

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