Extensively updated and revised, this new edition urges teachers to engage in the debate about educational research by undertaking meaningful research themselves. Kincheloe argues that only by engaging in complex, critical research will teachers rediscover their professional status, empower their practice in the classroom and improve the quality of education for their pupils.
Although this book is part of the Teaching Psychological Science series, we researched and wrote this book for anyone, regardless of discipline, who desires to learn more about the teaching of statistics. We conducted exhaustive reviews across disciplines such as education, mathematics, biology, statistics, health, psychology, and social sciences and included both specific and cross-disciplinary discussions and methods throughout the text. Ideally, readers will find the book serves to confirm and provide evidence for their current approaches but more importantly, will also serve as a transformative tool to upgrade course content based on the most recent literature concerning the scholarship of teaching statistics.
This book is written to guide student and novice researchers through their critical reading of a research paper in the field of second language learning.My aim is to help these readers relate the basic knowledge they acquire during introductory courses on investigation in applied linguistics to their own independent reading of research papers. They will be shown ways of approaching the appraisalof the abstract and the introductory section of the study, both of which set the stage by describing the rationale as well as the objective of the work. Similarly, the reader will be given ideas about how to assess the method and procedures section so that he or she can decide, for example, whether the research design was appropriate, and what precautions were taken to guard against threats of validity to the findings.
Prejudice exists in many forms. People discriminate against one another based on race, religion, weight, gender, and more. "Overcoming Prejudice" provides readers with multiple true stories of people who have faced various prejudices and describes how they dealt with it. A final chapter gives readers tips for how to improve their communication skills and prevent stereotyping in their communities.
The first part of this book charts and analyzes the working days of 326 primary school teachers. It shows how they spent their working lives, the nature of the curriculum they taught, and analyzes their work into five main categories: Teaching, Preparation, Administration, Professional Development and Other Activities. The second part comments on the findings by relating them to issues of school management and curriculum manageability and looks at how the idea of "conscientiousness" among primary school teachers may have led to their exploitation.
