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...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-17202-8 (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,...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-2524-4 (Routledge)

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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...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-2626-5 (Routledge)

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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...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-9971-9 (Routledge)

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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...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-17429-9 (Routledge)

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Schools for Growth

Radical Alternatives To Current Education Models

By Lois Holzman

A passionate deconstruction and reconstruction of learning, development, and schooling that urges teachers to explore and create new educational opportunities for themselves and their students,...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-2357-8 (Routledge)

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Classroom Power Relations

Understanding Student-teacher Interaction

By Mary Phillips Manke, Mary Manke

This book is based on a careful theorizing of classroom power relations that sees them as constructed from the actions of all participants. Contrary to...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-2496-4 (Routledge)

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Mathematical Reasoning

Analogies, Metaphors, and Images

Edited by Lyn D. English

How we reason with mathematical ideas continues to be a fascinating and challenging topic of research--particularly with the rapid and diverse developments in the field...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-1979-3 (Routledge)

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Situated Cognition

Social, Semiotic, and Psychological Perspectives

Edited by David Kirshner, James A. Whitson

This book is a result of a symposium at a recent annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association that explored foundational issues relative to...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-2038-6 (Routledge)

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Motivation for Reading: Individual, Home, Textual, and Classroom Perspectives

A Special Issue of educational Psychologist

Edited by Allan Wigfield, John T. Guthrie

Based on research from the National Reading Research Center (NRRC) at the Universities of Georgia and Maryland, this issue presents the contributors' sythesized work on...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-9872-9 (Routledge)

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