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Conceptualizing Truth: Implications for Teaching and Learning. Studies in the Philosophy of Education
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Krahenbuhl, Kevin S. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2022
It has been widely noted that society has moved away from seeing truth as an objective and, in some ways, important part of what it means to be educated. Varied conceptions of truth have existed and have been debated in the halls of academia for years but recently a shift has occurred in which truth has lost its status broadly as a virtue. In…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Role, Teaching Methods
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Asking a Different Question. Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series
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Ladson-Billings, Gloria – Teachers College Press, 2021
For the first time, this volume provides a definitive collection of Gloria Ladson-Billings's groundbreaking concept of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP). After repeatedly confronting deficit perspectives that asked, "What's wrong with 'those kids?,'" Ladson-Billings decided to ask a different question, one that fundamentally shifted the…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Disadvantaged, Learning Processes
What Is Important to Middle School Students in Their Relationships with Their Teachers? A Journey Into Phenomenology. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
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Theresa Kauffman – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
In 2009, I began my journey to earn an EdD with determination and passion but found the road included twists and turns that required perseverance and patience. By examining middle school students' perceptions about the role their relationship with a teacher has in the learning process, I listened for elements of their experiences that might inform…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Middle School Teachers, Phenomenology
Medical Education for the 21st Century
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Firstenberg, Michael S., Ed.; Stawicki, Stanislaw P., Ed. – IntechOpen, 2022
Medical education has undergone a substantial transformation from the traditional models of the basic classroom, laboratory, and bedside that existed up to the late 20th century. The focus of this text is to review the spectrum of topics that are essential to the training of 21st-century healthcare providers. Modern medical education goes beyond…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Educational Change, 21st Century Skills, Information Management
Social Media for Active Learning: Engaging Students in Meaningful Networked Knowledge Activities
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Dennen, Vanessa – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2019
How can social media help transform a student's learning experience and promote active engagement with learning content and peers? "Social Media for Active Learning" helps instructors achieve this goal. Many people use social media in their everyday lives, seeking information and informal learning opportunities via their online networks.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
Literacy, Gender, & Work in Families and in School.
Solsken, Judith W. – 1993
Part of a series exploring how language influences and is influenced by educational processes, this book describes difficulties boys and girls experience in learning to read and write due to gendered divisions of labor. The book draws on an ethnographic study that followed 13 children from kindergarten through second grade and found that, in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Childhood Attitudes, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style