Visualization in Mathematics, Reading and Science Education
Visualizations—either self-created or external visual stimuli used as an aid to learning—are probably as old as learning itself. Yet surprisingly little research has been done either into how precisely they help us learn, or how to produce ones that are effective pedagogical tools. This volume, a comprehensive review of theory and research on the use of visualization in mathematics, science and reading, contrasts the two dominant theoretical paradigms of how people construct and interpret visualizations.
500 Tips for Open and Flexible Learning, but it is a sign of the times that in the half-dozen years since its predecessor was published, e-learning and online learning have become quite dominant among the various manifestations of open learning, hence the tweaking of the title of the book.
A critical read offering fresh, objective look at US diversity. Well organized with abundant and useful information easy to find.
Short-term visitors to the U.S. will find advice for surviving customs and immigration, finding an apartment, doing business, obtaining health care, and navigating the supermarket, bank and post office. If you plan to stay longer, you will find practical pointers for getting along at work, school, and at home; buying a house; making and keeping American friends; and understanding dominant American values in a diverse and complex society. Living in the U.S.A. is a comprehensive guide to attitudes, customs, manners and daily life in the United States.
Working at the crossroads of
contemporary geographical and cultural theory, the book explores how
social spaces function as sites which foreground D. H. Lawrence and
Virginia Woolf's critiques of the social order and longings for change.
Looking at various social spaces from homes to nations to utopian space
brought into the here and now the book shows the ways in which these
writers criticize and deconstruct the contemporary symbolic, physical,
and discursive spatial topoi of the dominant socio-spatial order and
envision a more liberating and inclusive human geography. In addition,
the book calls for the need to redress the tendency of some spatial
theories to underestimate the political potential of literary discourse
about space, instead of simply and mechanically appropriating some
theoretical concepts to literary criticism. One of the central findings
in the book, therefore, is that literary texts can perform subversive
interventions in the production of social space through their critical
interaction with dominant spatial codes.
