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  • Inventions of Teaching

    A Genealogy

    by Brent Davis, Angus McMurtry ...
    This updated edition of Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy presents an examination of the many and varied metaphors of teaching in English. These metaphors serve as sites to excavate conflicting historical, con-ceptual, and philosophical influences that have contributed to modern teaching practices.Though the Eurocentric perspectives of the first edition remain a focus, they are placed in a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Engaging Minds

    Evolving Learning and Teaching

    by Brent Davis, Krista Francis ...
    Engaging Minds: Evolving Learning and Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education. The revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of this groundbreaking introduction to current interdisciplinary studies of teaching and teacher education is structured around five prominent "frames" of formal education, together offering an overview of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Engaging Minds

    Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching

    by Brent Davis, Dennis Sumara, Rebecca Luce-Kapler ...
    Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education. The 3rd edition of this introduction to interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning to teach is restructured around four prominent historical moments in formal education: Standardized Education, Authentic Education, Democratic ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • STEM Education by Design

    Opening Horizons of Possibility

    by Brent Davis, Krista Francis, Sharon Friesen ...
    An accessible text that assumes no prior knowledge, this book is grounded in the realization that "STEM" and "STEM Education" have not yet evolved into fully coherent fields of study, and fills this gap by offering an original model and strategy for developing coherences in a way that both honors the integrity of each of STEM’s constituent disciplines and explores the ways they can amplify one ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Complexity and Education

    Inquiries Into Learning, Teaching, and Research

    by Brent Davis, Dennis Sumara ...
    This book explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to educational research and practice. While its focus is on the theoretical premises and the methodology, not specific applications, the aim is pragmatic--to present complexity thinking as an important and appropriate attitude for educators and educational researchers. Part I is concerned with global issues around ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Spatial Reasoning in the Early Years

    Principles, Assertions, and Speculations

    by Brent Davis, Spatial Reasoning Study Group ...
    Over the past several years, "spatial reasoning" has gained renewed prominence among mathematics educators, as spatial skills are proving to be not just essential to mathematical understanding but also strong predictors of future success beyond the classroom in fields such as science, technology, and engineering. By exploring both primary and emergent dimensions, Spatial Reasoning in the Early ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Teaching Mathematics

    Toward a Sound Alternative

    by Brent Davis ...
    Series series Critical Education Practice
    This book presents an approach to the teaching of mathematics that departs radically from conventional prescription-oriented and management-based methods. It brings together recent developments in such diverse fields as continental and pragmatist philosophy, enactivist thought, critical discourses, cognitive theory, evolution, ecology, and mathematics, and challenges the assumptions that permeate ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Math Teachers Know

    Profound Understanding of Emergent Mathematics

    by Brent Davis, Moshe Renert ...
    What sorts of mathematics competencies must teachers have in order to teach the discipline well? This book offers a novel take on the question. Most research is focused on explicit knowledge–that is, on the sorts of insights that might be specified, catalogued, taught, and tested. In contrast, this book focuses on the tacit dimensions of teachers’ mathematics knowledge that precede and enable ... Read more

    $59.99 USD