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1 online resource (xxii, 177 pages) : illustrations |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Researching and extending developments in contemporary educational practice / Jennifer Lock, Petrea Redmond and Patrick Alan Danaher -- Managing developments In education: social-business-learning as opportunity and challenge for corporate learning / Sabine Seufert and Christoph Meier -- Thinking collaboratively in educational environments: shared metacognition and co-regulation in communities of inquiry / D. Randy Garrison and Zehra Akyol -- The changing nature of educational support for students with disabilities / Shalene Werth and Shaunaugh Brady -- A vision and language for schoolwide pedagogical improvement / Lindy Abawi -- Evaluation as an educational development to improve practice: teacher ICT knowledge, skills and integration / Karen Trimmer -- Exploring teaching developments: influencing sustainable engineering practice / David Thorpe -- Conceptualising, implementing and evaluating the use of digital technologies to enhance mathematical understanding: reflections on an innovation-development cycle / Linda Galligan, Christine McDonald, Carola Hbohm, Birgit Loch and Janet Taylor -- Mass media -- entertainer of children? Raising this issue and proposing productive solutions / Jennifer Donovan. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Educational innovations.
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Educational technology.
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Education. |
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Educational strategies & policy. |
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Teacher training. |
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Central government policies. |
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Examinations & assessment. |
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Sociology. |
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EDUCATION -- Essays. |
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. |
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EDUCATION -- Reference. |
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Educational innovations. |
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Educational technology. |
| Added Author |
Lock, Jennifer, 1962- editor.
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Redmond, Petrea, 1966- editor.
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Danaher, Patrick Alan, 1959- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Educational developments, practices and effectiveness. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 9781137469922 (OCoLC)897784949 |
| ISBN |
9781137469939 (electronic bk.) |
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1137469935 (electronic bk.) |
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1349691801 |
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9781349691807 |
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9781137469946 |
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1137469943 |
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9781137469922 |
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1137469927 |
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9781349691807 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/9781137469939 |
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