This book explores the impact of digital media on young children's lives and the role that it plays in the social construction of childhood. It highlights the pressing issues relating to young children's media use drawing on key research and examines the impact of digital media on their learning, development and socialization.
This book delves into the heated political battles over what kids eat at school, shedding light onto how policymakers craft food policy for schools. The book takes readers inside schools, through the history of school food programs in the United States and England, and into the policy terrain that makes school lunch difficult to change.
The authors bring together the practical and the theoretical, providing an accessible introduction to using case studies. Part of a brand new series on Education Research.
Values and Professional Knowledge in Teacher Education provides distinctive insights into potential strengths to develop trainee teachers' values within school-based training.
A comprehensive exploration of key theoretical, methodological, and technological advances concerning uses of digital video-as-data in the learning sciences as a way of knowing about learning, teaching, and educational processes. This title is intended for researchers, university faculty, teacher educators, and graduate students in education.
This highly accessible guide to the varied aspects of Vygotsky's psychology emphasises his abiding interest in education. Vygotsky the Teacher analyses and discusses the full range of his ideas and their ground-breaking educational implications.
Vygotsky Philosophy and Education reassesses the works of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky work by arguing that his central ideas about the nature of rationality and knowledge were informed by the philosophic tradition of Spinoza and Hegel. .
Ways of Learning has been widely used, and now, fully updated, it seeks to provide further insight into the ways in which learning takes place, which teachers can make use of in their planning and teaching.
David Didau and Nick Rose attempt to lay out the evidence and theoretical perspectives on what they believe are the most important and useful psychological principles of which teacher ought to be aware.
If you feel a bit cross at the presumption of some oik daring to suggest everything you know about education might be wrong, please take it with a pinch of salt.
Offering a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general, this book provides multiple suggestions for how to evoke wonder in children about the content of the curriculum and shows how this can routinely be done in everyday classrooms.
Written specifically for students from a range of educational disciplines, including teacher training, early childhood and education studies, Your Dissertation in Education is a straight-forward, plain English guide to doing and writing your project or dissertation.