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Multiple lenses on the mind

Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner

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International Perspectives on Education

Continuum, 2008

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...This chapter reviews three major lines of work: first, how the mind is organized; second, how various changes of mind take place; and third, five kinds of minds we will need to cultivate in the future. Three of these minds have to do...

Self-esteem, self-confidence and individualized education

Kristján Kristjánsson

Kristján Kristjánsson

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International Perspectives on Education

Continuum, 2008

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...In this chapter, I rehearse the rise and fall of the self-esteem movement and ask what will happen in education once its worm-can has been fully opened. Some critics think that the self-esteem fallacy may have infected the ideas behind...

Mind, Society, and Literacy

Rodrigo Ramos-Zúñiga

Rodrigo Ramos-Zúñiga

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Developing Culturally and Historically Sensitive Teacher Education : Global Lessons from a Literacy Education Program

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...The human brain is the result of, at the level of the species, hundreds of thousands of years of evolution; and, at the individual level, a lifetime of biological maturation and social mediation. Originally serving to enable the human...

“Youth need images for their imaginations and for the formation of their memory”

David W. Jardine

Dr. David W. Jardine is a Full Professor of Education at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the author and co-author of seven other books in education, over 80 articles in refereed scholarly journals, and dozens of book chapters. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Pedagogy Left in Peace : Cultivating Free Spaces in Teaching and Learning

Continuum, 2012

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...I It is necessary that a man should dwell with solicitude on, and cleave with affection to, the things which he wishes to remember. Thomas Aquinas, paraphrasing the Ad Herennium (cited in Yates 1974, p. 75) I've recently...

Reforming the connections: the personal, social and cognitive in learning and young people’s lives

Colleen McLaughlin

Colleen McLaughlin

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International Perspectives on Education

Continuum, 2008

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...This chapter explores the personal, social and emotional needs of young people and argues that these are inextricably linkend to, and influenced by, the learning processes in school. It also explores the personal and social aspects...

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education (Australia)

Deborah Pino-Pasternak

Deborah Pino-Pasternak is a senior lecturer at Murdoch University, Western Australia . Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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...The Australian context Australia is a federation of six states and two mainland territories. In 2009, the federal government agreed on a National Quality Framework for Early Childhood including national-level legislation and regulatory...

Overview of Childhood (Chile)

Marigen Narea

Marigen Narea is Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Principal Investigator at the Center for Advanced Studies on Educational Justice, Chile Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Marjorie Murray

Marjorie Murray is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Principal Investigator at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research, Chile Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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...Theoretical approaches to childhood and childhood studies In Chile, paediatrics, developmental psychology, economics, and educational research are the most important approaches to childhood studies in terms of volume of research...

Transitions in Primary Education (Canada)

Ayesha Siddiqua

Ayesha Siddiqua is a PhD candidate at McMaster University, Canada . Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Magdalena Janus

Magdalena Janus is an associate professor at McMaster University, Canada . Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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...Research on transitions in primary education Transition to kindergarten is a time characterized by many changes for children and their families (Laverick 2008; McIntyre et al. 2010). During this time, children are required to adapt quickly...

Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education (Canada)

Rosamund Stooke

Rosamund Stooke is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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...Nature of observation and assessment Skills and understandings In Canada, responsibility for early learning and care programs and services and initial early childhood teacher education resides with provincial and territorial governments...

Learning from experience in teaching

Anne Edwards

Anne Edwards

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Learning Teaching from Experience : Multiple Perspectives and International Contexts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...(Conversation between two teachers in an English high school in 2012) Teacher A: ‘I don’t use Assessment for Learning in my lessons.’ Teacher B: ‘Why not?’...