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  • The Importance of Average

    Playing the Game of School to Increase Success and Achievement

    by Stephen Farenga, Daniel Ness, Dale D. Johnson, Bonnie Johnson ...
    The Importance of Average calls attention to the policies and practices that discriminate against the silent majority of students in the American educational system. Arguments presented emphasize the collateral damage caused to average students by legislative mandates, administrative policies, teaching practices, parenting beliefs, and adherence to strict psychological constructs. Each of these ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Knowledge under Construction

    The Importance of Play in Developing Children's Spatial and Geometric Thinking

    by Daniel Ness, Stephen J. Farenga ...
    Knowledge under Construction investigates how young children develop spatial, geometric, and scientific thinking skills-particularly those associated with architecture. Based on original research and analysis of videotapes of children's play with blocks, the authors' findings suggest that such play is anything but pointless. Their conclusions fill in gaps in our current understanding of how ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Trivializing Teacher Education

    The Accreditation Squeeze

    by Dale D. Johnson, Bonnie Johnson, Stephen J. Farenga, Daniel Ness ...
    Trivializing Teacher Education: The Accreditation Squeeze presents a critical analysis of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). This accreditation organization has been in existence for 50 years and claims to accredit approximately 700 teacher education programs that prepare two-thirds of the nation's teachers. There is no convincing research, however, that NCATE's ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Spatial Intelligence

    Why It Matters from Birth through the Lifespan

    by Daniel Ness, Stephen J. Farenga, Salvatore G. Garofalo ...
    Spatial Intelligence examines public and professional conceptions of the relationships between thinking about spatial attributes and active engagement in spatially related constructions and designs. Even though children’s and adolescents’ spatial propensities in constructive activities parallel the skills needed by professionals in both established and emerging fields, spatial education is often ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development

    by Stephen J. Farenga, Daniel Ness ...
    This comprehensive and exhaustive reference work on the subject of education from the primary grades through higher education combines educational theory with practice, making it a unique contribution to the educational reference market. Issues related to human development and learning are examined by individuals whose specializations are in diverse areas including education, psychology, sociology ... Read more

    $220.99 USD

  • International Handbook of Research on STEAM Curriculum and Practice

    Edited by Stephen J. Farenga, Salvatore G. Garofalo, Daniel Ness ...
    This comprehensive handbook delves into timely issues in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts/architecture, and mathematics) curriculum and praxis. Cutting-edge research will help STEAM educators and researchers recognize and appreciate students’ understanding of STEAM concepts, as well as capture contemporary educational, psychological, and social issues within the STEAM context. Drawing ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum

    Festschrift in Honor of Dale D. Johnson

    Edited by Daniel Ness, Stephen J. Farenga ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
    Through conversations in honor of Dale D. Johnson, this booktakes a critical view of the monoculture in curriculum and policy that has developed in education with the increase of federal funding and privatization of services for public education, and examines the shift from public interest and control to private and corporate shareholder hegemony. Most states’ educational responsibilities ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

    by Lee Ross, Richard E Nisbett ...
    How does the situation we're in influence the way we behave and think? Professors Ross and Nisbett eloquently argue that the context we find ourselves in substantially affects our behavior in this timely reissue of one of social psychology's classic textbooks. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • How Learning Works

    Eight Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching

    by Marsha C. Lovett, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro, Susan A. Ambrose, Marie K. Norman ...
    Apply these eight learning principles for more effective teachingAs educators in the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, we are continuously challenged to keep our courses effective, engaging, relevant, and inclusive. The updated and expanded second edition of How Learning Works can help! It incorporates the latest research, provides a wider range of strategies, and adds a new principle ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Reading in the Brain

    The New Science of How We Read

    by Stanislas Dehaene ...
    A renowned cognitive neuroscientist?s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the ?reading paradox?: Our cortex is the product of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences

    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    The interdisciplinary field of the learning sciences encompasses educational psychology, cognitive science, computer science, and anthropology, among other disciplines. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences, first published in 2006, is the definitive introduction to this innovative approach to teaching, learning, and educational technology. In this significantly revised third edition, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Understanding Human Values

    by Milton Rokeach ...
    This volume presents theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in understanding, and also in the effects of understanding, individual and societal values. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD