Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in
curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not …

Synthesizing information on language arts gleaned from research on emergent literacy,
early childhood education, and special education, this book underscores what is being …

We wished to devise a measure of dissimilarity (D) which could predict psychophysical
discrimination performance for Snellen letter pairs in peripheral vision. Threshold size for …

In this review we summarize some of the accomplishments and shortcomings of
constructivist accounts of reading and writing activity as part of our argument for social and …

In classrooms that operate as learning communities, the social and learning purposes
advance together through all participants being involved and engaged in building …

Cooperative groups work to make each member a more successful student. Compelling
research conclusively proves that group learning increases students′ academic and social …

[spa] Esta tesis doctoral es el resultado de una Investigación que recoge el proyecto de un
nuevo Centro Educativo que pretende incorporar, en las prácticas cotidianas, el uso de las …

This book presents a new vision of curriculum--one that invites students to read with
important social ideas in mind and write with the purpose of making the world a better place …

Packed with ideas and instructional activities that cut across all content areas, this engaging
book provides a comprehensive framework for promoting vital Web literacy skills in grades 3 …

Methods that Matter argues passionately that teaching does matter and that the methods
teachers employ not only affect student achievement but also condition the quality of human …