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9781137469922

Educational Developments, Practices and Effectiveness Global Perspectives and Contexts

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    9781137469922

  • ISBN10:

    1137469927

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2015-06-26
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Educational initiatives are continually implemented in order to understand what works in education and why. This book explores a range of such initiatives in Australia, Canada and Switzerland in order to analyse their effectiveness in improving outcomes for learners and teachers, as well as promoting specialised disciplines of knowledge. The first chapter distils a conceptual framework clustered around four elements of educational developments: the institutional focus, educators' professional development and reflective practice, research-based practice and technological impact. The rest of the chapters present case studies concerning enhancing corporate learning; metacognition and co-regulation in online communities of inquiry; supporting university students with disabilities; educational evaluation of teachers' ICT knowledge; using language to achieve schoolwide pedagogical improvement; sustainable engineering education; mathematics education through digital technologies; and the mass media's educational value.

Author Biography

Jennifer Lock is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. Researching educational innovation and technology, she has received university and provincial research grants and two outstanding conference paper awards, and also teaching and leadership awards.

Petrea Redmond is a Senior Lecturer and program coordinator in the School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood at the Toowoomba campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. With research interests in technology and learning, she has published in a number of international peer-reviewed books, journals and conference proceedings.

Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor in Educational Research in the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the Toowoomba campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His published co-authored research books include Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts and Educational Learning and Development: Building and Enhancing Capacity.

Table of Contents

List Of Figures
List Of Tables
Acknowledgements
List Of Abbreviations
Notes On The Contributors
Foreword; Thomas Michael Power
1. Researching And Extending Developments In Contemporary Educational Practice; Jennifer Lock, Petrea Redmond And Patrick Alan Danaher

PART I: EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR LEARNERS AND TEACHERS
Part I Introduction: Educational Developments And Improving Outcomes For Learners And Teachers; Jennifer Lock
2. Managing Developments In Education: Social–Business–Learning As Opportunity And Challenge For Corporate Learning; Sabine Seufert And Christoph Meier
3. Thinking Collaboratively In Educational Environments: Shared Metacognition And Co-Regulation In Communities Of Inquiry; D. Randy Garrison And Zehra Akyol
4. The Changing Nature Of Educational Support For Students With Disabilities; Shalene Werth And Shaunaugh Brady
5. Evaluation As An Educational Development To Improve Practice: Teacher Ict Knowledge, Skills And Integration; Karen Trimmer
PART II EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND SPECIALISED DISCIPLINES OF KNOWLEDGE
Part II Introduction: Educational Developments And Specialised Disciplines Of Knowledge; Petrea Redmond
6. A Vision And Language For Schoolwide Pedagogical Improvement; Lindy Abawi
7. Exploring Teaching Developments: Influencing Sustainable Engineering Practice; David Thorpe
8. Conceptualising, Implementing And Evaluating The Use Of Digital Technologies To Enhance Mathematical Understanding: Reflections On An Innovation–Development Cycle; Linda Galligan, Christine Mcdonald, Carola Hobohm, Birgit Loch And Janet Taylor
9. Mass Media – Entertainer Or Educator Of Children? Raising This Issue And Proposing Productive Solutions; Jennifer Donovan
Index

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