Leading Schools in a Global Era

A Cultural Perspective: A Special Issue of the Peabody Journal of Education

Edited by Philip Hallinger, Kenneth Leithwood

This special issue looks at the constantly changing face of education in the world today. Topics covered include educational values, cross-cultural studies, leadership, social impacts,...

Published July 1st 1998 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Inside Multi-Media Case Based Instruction

Edited by Roger C. Schank

The fourth in the Inside series, this volume includes four theses completed under the editor's direction at the Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern...

Published May 1st 1998 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Perspectives on Conceptual Change

Multiple Ways to Understand Knowing and Learning in a Complex World

Edited by Barbara Guzzetti, Cynthia R. Hynd, Barbara J. Guzzetti

Perspectives on Conceptual Change presents case study excerpts illustrating the influence on and processes of students' conceptual change, and analyses of these cases from multiple...

Published March 1st 1998 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Metacognition in Educational Theory and Practice

Edited by Douglas J. Hacker, John Dunlosky, Arthur C. Graesser

This volume presents the most current perspectives on the role of metacognition in diverse educationally relevant domains. The purpose is to examine the ways in...

Published March 1st 1998 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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The Philosophy of Human Learning

By Christopher Winch

The Philosophy of Human Learning addresses current concerns with the nature of human learning from a distinctive philosophical perspective. Using insights derived from the work...

Published February 26th 1998 by Routledge.

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Thinking Through the Curriculum

Edited by Robert Burden, Marion Williams

This book tackles the contentious issue of whether and how thinking should be taught in schools. It explores how best to help children become effective...

Published February 12th 1998 by Routledge.

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Adult Learning and Development

Perspectives From Educational Psychology

Edited by M. Cecil Smith, Thomas Pourchot

Adult education occurs whenever individuals engage in sustained, systematic learning in order to affect changes in their attitudes, knowledge, skills, or belief systems. Learning, instruction,...

Published January 1st 1998 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge

Concept Maps(tm) As Facilitative Tools in Schools and Corporations

By Joseph D. Novak

This book recognizes that in today's "information society" the future of economic well-being rests upon the effectiveness of schools and corporations to empower their people...

Published January 1st 1998 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Charting A New Course in Gifted Education

Parts I and Ii. A Special Double Issue of the peabody Journal of Education

Edited by Anne L. Corn, Lynnette M. Henderson

Highlighting the work of 17 distinguished national authors, this special issue suggests a new course for the field of gifted education -- one that...

Published January 1st 1998 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Counselling for Toads

A Psychological Adventure

By Robert d. Board

'Toad', the famous character in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is in a very depressed state and his good friends Rat, Mole and...

Published November 20th 1997 by Routledge.

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