Dialogue and the Development of Children's Thinking

A Sociocultural Approach

By Neil Mercer, Karen Littleton

This book draws on extensive research to provide a ground-breaking new account of the relationship between dialogue and children’s learning development. It closely relates the...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40479-2 (Routledge)

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Race, Culture, and Schooling

Identities of Achievement in Multicultural Urban Schools

By Jr., Peter C. Murrell

Responding to a need for greater cultural competence in the preparation and development of teachers in diverse public school settings, this book investigates the critical...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5538-8 (Routledge)

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Children's Learning in Laboratory and Classroom Contexts

Essays in Honor of Ann Brown

Edited by Joseph Campione, Kathleen Metz, Annemarie S. Palincsar

During the second half of the twentieth century, Ann Brown was one of the world’s premier researchers into the cognitive development of young children. Sponsored by the...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-5691-0 (Routledge)

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Learning to Solve Complex Scientific Problems

Edited by David H. Jonassen

Problem solving is implicit in the very nature of all science, and virtually all scientists are hired, retained, and rewarded for solving problems. Although the...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5919-5 (Routledge)

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Ten Steps to Complex Learning

A Systematic Approach to Four-Component Instructional Design

By Jeroen J.G. van Merrienboer, Paul A. Kirschner

Ten Steps to Complex Learning presents in ten steps a path from a training problem to a training solution in a way that students, practitioners,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5793-1 (Routledge)

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The Rob Long Omnibus Edition of Better Behaviour

By Rob Long

The comprehensive all-in-one approach to behaviour management, this omnibus edition of Rob Long’s best selling Better Behaviour series brings together his eight titles in one...

2007 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-470-2 (David Fulton Publis)

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A Guide to Early Years Practice

By Sandra Smidt

This is a practical, accessible guide to early years practice. The author examines current theories about how children learn best and focuses on how we...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41604-7 (Routledge)

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Included or Excluded?

The Challenge of the Mainstream for Some SEN Children

Edited by Ruth Cigman

In a pamphlet published in 2005 Mary Warnock expressed concerns about some of the concepts that she had helped to introduce in the field of...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40118-0 (Routledge)

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Stories, Pictures and Reality

Two Children Tell

By Virginia Lowe

Stories, Pictures and Reality follows two children as they work out the reality status of stories and pictures, with a daily parent-observer record from the...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39724-7 (Routledge)

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Shift to the Future

Rethinking Learning with New Technologies in Education

By Nicola Yelland

New technologies are dramatically changing the face of education and the nature of childhood itself. In Shift to the Future, Nicola Yelland examines the ways...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95319-1 (Routledge)

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