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Teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom
Choice Reviews Online
Introduction: Teaching to Transgress 1. Engaged Pedagogy 2. A Revolution of Values: The Promise of Multicultural Change 3. Embracing Change: Teaching in a Multicultural World 4. Paulo Freire 5. Theory as Liberatory Practice 6. Essentialism and Experi...
SociologyAestheticsEpistemologyPhilosophy
Moderate (9.3)
DOI: 10.5860/choice.32-4628
Journal Article
The Use of Cronbach’s Alpha When Developing and Reporting Research Instruments in Science Education
Research in Science Education
Cronbach’s alpha is a statistic commonly quoted by authors to demonstrate that tests and scales that have been constructed or adopted for research projects are fit for purpose. Cronbach’s alpha is regularly adopted in studies in science education: it...
Cronbach's alphaScience educationAlpha (finance)PsychologyMathematics education
Very Difficult (15.6)
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-016-9602-2
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The Culture of Education
Harvard University Press eBooks
In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how educ...
NarrativeConstrual level theoryPedagogySociologyIndex (typography)
Very Difficult (17.2)
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv136c601
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Learning to Teach in Higher Education
This bestselling book is a unique introduction to the practice of university teaching and its underlying theory. This new edition has been fully revised and updated in view of the extensive changes which have taken place in higher education over the ...
Mathematics educationPsychologyPedagogy
Very Difficult (15.1)
DOI: 10.4324/9780203507711
Book
Interviewing as qualitative research a guide for researchers in education and the social sciences
The third edition of this bestselling resource provides clear, step-by-step guidance for new and experienced interviewers to help them develop, shape, and reflect on interviewing as a qualitative research process. While proposing a phenomenological a...
InterviewQualitative researchContext (archaeology)Resource (disambiguation)Engineering ethics
Very Difficult (16.1)
Journal Article
Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research
Review of Educational Research
Despite the very extensive literature on dropout from higher education, much remains unknown about the nature of the dropout process. In large measure, the failure of past research to delineate more clearly the multiple characteristics of dropout can...
Dropout (neural networks)PsychologyProcess (computing)Measure (data warehouse)Mathematics education
Very Difficult (21.2)
DOI: 10.3102/00346543045001089
Journal Article
Executive Summary of the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III)
JAMA
Our website uses cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to use our site, or clicking "Continue," you are agreeing to our Cookie Policy | Continue JAMA HomeNew OnlineCurrent IssueFor Authors Publications JAMA JAMA Network Open JAMA Cardiolo...
MedicineFamily medicineOtorhinolaryngologyMEDLINEPsychiatry
Very Difficult (25.8)
DOI: 10.1001/jama.285.19.2486
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Handbook of Research on Science Education
This state-of-the art research handbook provides a comprehensive, coherent, current synthesis of the empirical and theoretical research concerning teaching and learning in science and lays down a foundation upon which future research can be built. St...
Science educationLearning sciencesMathematics educationCurriculumSociology
Very Difficult (20.0)
DOI: 10.4324/9780203824696
Journal Article
Higher education as a filter
Journal of Public Economics
EconomicsFilter (signal processing)Computer science
DOI: 10.1016/0047-2727(73)90013-3
Book
Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education
DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library)
Ethics has been discussed largely in the language of the father, Nel Noddings believes: in principles and propositions, in terms such as justification, fairness, and equity. The mother's voice has been silent. The view of ethics Noddings offers in th...
Argument (complex analysis)EpistemologyNatural (archaeology)MoralityPsychology
Moderate (8.8)
Book
The Process of Education
American Journal of Physics
Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. Bruner's foundational case for the spiral curriculum has influenced a generation of educators and will continue to be a source o...
Process (computing)Process managementComputer scienceBusinessProgramming language
Very Difficult (15.2)
DOI: 10.1119/1.1969598
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Research Methods in Education
This is a new edition of one of our best-selling textbooks. The authors have thoroughly updated the fourth edition and included more text on current developments in research practice, action research, developments in ICT, questionnaire design, ethnog...
Psychology
Very Difficult (17.7)
DOI: 10.4324/9780203224342
Reference Entry
National Center for Education Statistics
Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology
More than any other school founded after the Civil War, the Charles Sumner School served as the cornerstone for the development of educational opportunities for black citizens in the District of Columbia. The significance assigned to its design and c...
Statistics educationCenter (category theory)StatisticsLibrary scienceGeography
Very Difficult (14.6)
DOI: 10.4135/9781412963848.n192
Book
Motivation in Education: Theory, Research, and Applications
Chapter 1. Motivation: Introduction and Historical Foundations Chapter 2. Expectancy-Value Theories of Motivation Chapter 3. Attribution Theory Chapter 4. Social Cognitive Theory Chapter 5. Goals and Goal Orientations Chapter 6. Interest and Affect C...
GlossaryExpectancy theoryAttributionSociocultural evolutionAffect (linguistics)
Difficult (13.1)
Journal Article
Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
Biochemical Education
MemphisGeorge (robot)Higher educationState (computer science)Center (category theory)
Very Difficult (15.6)
DOI: 10.1016/0307-4412(89)90094-0
Journal Article
Student involvement: A developmental theory for higher education.
Even a casual reading of the extensive literature on student development in higher education can create confusion and perplexity. One finds not only that the problems being studied are highly diverse but also that investigators who claim to be studyi...
PerplexityCasualPsychologyReading (process)Confusion
Very Difficult (16.5)
Journal Article
Chronicle of Higher Education
The Women s Review of Books
History
DOI: 10.2307/4022859
Book
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
SSRN Electronic Journal
Human Capital is Becker's study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Becker looks at the effects of investment in education on earnings and employment, and shows how his theory m...
Human capitalEarningsEconomicsInvestment (military)Labour economics
Difficult (12.6)
Book
Case Study Research in Education : A Qualitative Approach
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Québec government)
Bibliogr.: p. 207-219
Case study researchQualitative researchData collectionManagement scienceComputer science