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Finding One’s Way: How Mentoring Can Lead to Dynamic Leadership

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Learn how to set up a mentoring program for your district or school that can help administrators be more effective at each stage of their careers. Crow and Matthews identify the functions, content, and meaning of mentoring in education and introduce the concept of mentoring as a career-long learning tool for educational administrators. They describe the different participants as protTgTs, who want or need assistance, and mentors, who lead and teach. The authors show… More >>

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Researching the Socio-Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education: Issues of Power in Theory and Methodology

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This book examines mathematics education research from socio-political perspectives. It is organised in dialogic units which examine issues such as the critique of existing research results based on the adoption of socio-political approaches; the implications of alternative theoretical tools in researching mathematics education; the tensions emerging while conducting research in highly conflictive environments; the researchers? positioning with respect to research p… More >>

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Visualization: Theory and Practice in Science Education

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External representations (pictures, diagrams, graphs, concrete models) have always been valuable tools for the science teacher. The formation of personal, internal, representations – visualizations – from them plays a key role in all learning, especially in that of science. The use of personal computers and sophisticated software has expanded into the areas of simulation, virtual reality, and animation, and students now engage in the creation of models, a key as… More >>

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