American history shall be viewed as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as
knowable, teachable, and testable, and shall be defined as the creation of a new nation …

This review examines the literature on teacher epistemic cognition, epistemic beliefs, and
calibration to consider the relation between these constructs and instruction that emerged …

The authors use their experience with a professional development project to propose a
model of teacher community in the workplace. They describe a project that brought together …

This article constitutes a critique from the inside of constructivist pedagogy. It begins with a
short history of constructivist pedagogy and its relationship to constructivist learning theory. It …

This article examines the notion of quality teaching, exploring its conceptual, empirical and
normative properties. We begin by analyzing the concept of teaching, separating it into its …

The study reported here used general ideas about employees' performance to develop and
test a model of teachers' effects on students' achievement in mathematics using data from …

Teachers interested in promoting student inquiry often feel a tension between that agenda
and the more traditional agenda of" covering the content." Efforts in education reform devote …

The literature rooted in Vygotsky's theories has focused on the more strictly cognitive
aspects of the process of the co-construction of mind, leaving the affective nature of these …

Recent education literature and research has focused on identifying effective core teaching
practices to inform and help shape teacher education and professional development …

In this chapter, our task is to discuss the research to date on teacher learning. We interpret
this task as an opportunity to explore literature around the question: How do teachers learn …