UID:
almafu_9961162031602883
Format:
1 online resource (218 p.)
ISBN:
1-350-09132-4
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1-282-87133-1
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9786612871337
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1-4411-0934-X
Content:
"International Perspectives on Education draws on the knowledge and experience of a distinguished team of international educationists, including Howard Gardner and Kristján Kristjánsson. Each chapter can be accessed as a resource on a specific topic, but the chapters are also grouped into three sections to provide an invaluable source of thinking and knowledge from leading thinkers and practitioners in their fields: Perspectives on Education; Supporting the Learning Process; and Teachers and Professional Development. The prevailing view by all contributors is that the learning experience and environment should not only be stimulating and intellectually interesting, but also socially inclusive and fulfilling, with a need to develop learners' potential and personality around a set of good values. All this lies at the heart of quality education, and stimulates a new debate in support of the re-humanisation of education, rather than the de-humanisation that we have seen in recent times with attempts to tie its products and processes more closely with models generated in the world of commerce. This collection reflects the development of education within an international context of trends, good practices and experience. It is aimed at those who have an interest in education as an academic area of study (undergraduate students and lecturers, higher degree students and those involved in, or training for, the teaching profession), and those who are concerned with the management and governance of education."--
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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List of figures and tables -- About the editors and contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chau Meng Huat and Trevor Kerry -- Section 1: Perspectives on Education -- Chapter 1 Multiple lenses on the mind -- Howard Gardner, Harvard University, USA -- Chapter 2 Reforming the connections: the personal, social and cognitive in learning and young people's lives -- Colleen McLaughlin, Cambridge University, UK -- Chapter 3 Self-esteem, self-confidence and individualised education -- Kristján Kristjánsson, University of Akureyri and School of Education, University of Iceland -- Chapter 4 The thinking heart: educating for wisdom and compassion -- John P. Miller, University of Toronto, Canada -- Section 2: Supporting the Learning Process -- Chapter 5 The art and science of effective teaching -- Trevor Kerry, Lincoln University, UK -- Chapter 6 Making thinking audible and visible via cooperative learning -- George Jacobs, JF New Paradigm Education, Singapore with Wang Aili, Li Xishuang & Xie Yongye, Ministry of Education, China -- Chapter 7 Educating values through mathematics teaching: possibilities and challenges -- Alan J. Bishop & Wee Tiong Seah, Monash University, Australia -- Section 3: Teachers and Professional Development -- Chapter 8 Valuing knowledge of practice: articulating a pedagogy of teacher education -- John Loughran, Monash University, Australia -- Chapter 9 Practising an ethic of caring in teaching: challenges and possibilities -- Michalinos Zembylas, Open University of Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus -- Chapter 10 Too busy teaching to find time for learning? -- John E. C. MacBeath, Cambridge University, UK -- Glossary -- Author index -- Subject index.
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Also published in print.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84706-386-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84706-387-X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350091320
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