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  • The Scopes Monkey Trial

    by Randy Moore, William McComas ...
    Series series Images of America
    The 1925 case against high school coach and science teacher John Scopes, arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of a Tennessee state law, was America's original "Trial of the Century." The proceedings began as a publicity stunt but grew into a landmark event in the nation's history. The trial featured three-time presidential candidate and fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan, who ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature of Science in Science Instruction

    Rationales and Strategies

    Edited by William McComas ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Nature of Science (NOS), one of the most important aspects of science teaching and learning, and includes tested strategies for teaching aspects of the NOS in a variety of instructional settings. In line with the recommendations in the field to include NOS in all plans for science instruction, the book provides an accessible resource of background ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

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  • Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

    by Marc Brysbaert, Kathy Rastle ...
    Engage with key historical and conceptual issues in psychology Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology, 3rd Edition, by Brysbaert & Rastle offers a unique and engaging introduction to key historical and conceptual issues in psychology. The text draws on a broad range of issues and themes, both contemporary and historical, helping you understand the philosophical context from which ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Science

    Teaching School Subjects 11-19

    Edited by Vanessa Kind, Keith Taber ...
    Series series Teaching School Subjects 11-19
    In recognizing that new teachers often feel disempowered by the subject expertise they bring into teaching, this book not only covers the training standards for NQTs and the Induction Standards, but takes the reader beyond this by fully exploring issues relating to subject knowledge in learning to teach.Divided into three sections the book covers:framing the subject - defining subject knowledge ... Read more

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  • Teaching Secondary Science

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Geoff Woolcott, Robert Whannell ...
    Teaching Secondary Science: Theory and Practice provides a dynamic approach to preparing preservice science teachers for practice. Divided into two parts - theory and practice - the text allows students to first become confident in the theory of teaching science before showing how this theory can be applied to practice through ideas for implementation, such as sample lesson plans. These examples ... Read more

    $88.59 USD

  • Science Education for Gifted Learners

    Edited by Keith S. Taber ...
    Science is central to our modern technological society, yet many of the most able pupils who could become the scientists of tomorrow turn away from science as soon as they have a choice in their studies. Science is often seen to be difficult or boring, and fails to engage or challenge those who are most suited to excel in scientific studies.This book asks what classroom teachers can do to make ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Chaos and Complexity in Psychology

    The Theory of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

    Edited by Stephen J. Guastello, Matthijs Koopmans, David Pincus ...
    While many books have discussed methodological advances in nonlinear dynamical systems theory (NDS), this volume is unique in its focus on NDS's role in the development of psychological theory. After an introductory chapter covering the fundamentals of chaos, complexity and other nonlinear dynamics, subsequent chapters provide in-depth coverage of each of the specific topic areas in psychology. A ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Practical Work in School Science

    Which Way Now?

    Edited by Jerry Wellington ...
    Practical work has been part of science education for just over 100 years and is accepted as an essential and exciting part of understanding this discipline. Although it can be costly and sometimes messy, it simply has to be done if students and teachers are to progress in their understanding. Schools and universities invest millions of pounds in it and the National Curriculum reveres it - but ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Science Learning, Science Teaching

    by Jerry Wellington, Gren Ireson ...
    Now fully updated in its fourth edition, Science Learning, Science Teaching offers an accessible, practical guide to creative classroom teaching and a comprehensive introduction to contemporary issues in science education. Aiming to encourage and assist professionals with the process of reflection in the science classroom, the new edition re-examines the latest advances in the field and changes to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Reflexive Practice

    Dialectic Encounter in Psychology & Education

    by Angela Mary Lisle ...
    At the heart of this book is the notion of reflexive practice as a meta-cognitive self-reflexive learning style for personal and professional development. Reflexive practice is covered in a multidimensional way. It is examined as part of the personal development of a student, as personal development of the educator and as a thinking style of the individual in the agency-structure dialectic of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Re-examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education

    Edited by Amanda Berry, Patricia Friedrichsen, John Loughran ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Science Series
    Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) has been adapted, adopted, and taken up in a diversity of ways in science education since the concept was introduced in the mid-1980s. Now that it is so well embedded within the language of teaching and learning, research and knowledge about the construct needs to be more useable and applicable to the work of science teachers, especially so in these times when ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research on Science Education, Volume II

    Edited by Norman G. Lederman, Sandra K. Abell ...
    Building on the foundation set in Volume I—a landmark synthesis of research in the field—Volume II is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art new volume highlighting new and emerging research perspectives.The contributors, all experts in their research areas, represent the international and gender diversity in the science education research community. The volume is organized around six themes: theory ... Read more

    $190.99 USD