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Wilfred Carr – Routledge Research in Education, 2025
This concise, digestible book shows how the cultivation of reason became the defining aim of western education, and critiques how this aim has been eclipsed in recent decades by the neoliberal system of mass schooling imposed by the state. Chapters outline succinctly the history of western education and its origins in Ancient Greece, demonstrating…
Descriptors: Western Civilization, Educational Practices, Abstract Reasoning, Educational History
Xiaoheng Kitty Yan, Editor; Ami Mamolo, Editor; Igor' Kontorovich, Editor – Research in Mathematics Education, 2025
This book brings together leading researchers in mathematics education to share personal narratives of key mathematical moments or ideas that inspired, surprised, or helped direct their research. While the fruits of research activities and products are shared at scholarly conference and journals, the footprints of mathematics that ignited the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Researchers, Mathematics
Nicole L. Fonger – Teachers College Press, 2024
An essential understanding of the uses and practices of algebra remain out of reach for many students. In this book, award-winning researcher Dr. Nicole Fonger addresses the issue of how to support all learners to experience algebra as meaningful. In a highly visual approach, the book details four research-based lenses with examples from 9th-grade…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Social Justice, Algebra
Dunn, Patricia A. – Teachers College Press, 2021
"Drawing Conclusions" explores the use of juxtaposed visual representations (JVRs) to help preservice teachers grapple with abstract concepts, theories, or complex controversies in education. Acting as both a learning tool and an intellectual spark, JVRs are two simple contrasted sketches that students produce on a divided sheet of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Concept Formation, Abstract Reasoning
Keisha Varma – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
Increasingly, research on cognition, learning, and education seeks to understand the cognitive processes underlying conceptual understanding. This is especially true for efforts to understand how students learn science. The present case summarizes work that examines 6- to 10-year-old students engage in scientific reasoning to learn new scientific…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Abstract Reasoning
Suh, Jennifer M.; Seshaiyer, Padmanabhan – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016
"Modeling Mathematical Ideas" combining current research and practical strategies to build teachers and students strategic competence in problem solving.This must-have book supports teachers in understanding learning progressions that addresses conceptual guiding posts as well as students' common misconceptions in investigating and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving
Reznitskaya, Alina; Wilkinson, Ian A. G. – Harvard Education Press, 2017
"The Most Reasonable Answer" is an innovative and comprehensive guide to engaging students in inquiry dialogue--a type of talk used in text-based classroom discussions. During inquiry dialogue, students collectively search for the most reasonable answers to big, controversial questions, and, as a result, enhance their argumentation…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Classroom Communication, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking