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Giuseffi, Francesco G., Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Today's global educational environment includes the emergence of adult learners participating in formal and informal educational encounters for the purposes of professional development or personal enrichment. These learners must possess the conceptual and attitudinal idea of self-directed learning in order to be skilled workers and fulfilled human…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Adult Education, Andragogy, Learning Analytics
Honig, Alice Sterling – Brookes Publishing Company, 2010
Research shows that stress in the crucial early years of a child's life can pose dramatic, lasting challenges to development, learning, and behavior. This is the practical book early childhood professionals need to recognize stress in young children--and intervene with proven relief strategies before pressures turn into big problems. Developed by…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Mental Health Workers, Home Visits, Young Children
Swift, Mary A. – Belknap and Hamersley, 1837
This textbook is a primary-grade course in natural philosophy. The form of question and answer was used in the manuscript, and is retained as the simplest method of teaching children. It has been used in this form in several schools, and the satisfaction expressed by the children has induced the author to allow its publication. Twenty-three…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Morrison, Timothy, Ed.; Martin, Linda, Ed.; Boggs, Merry, Ed.; Raine, I. LaVerne, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2010
For its 53rd annual meeting, the Association of Educators and Researchers met in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Marriott Charlotte City Center. This year's conference theme was "Building Literacy Communities", which was also used as the title for this year's Yearbook, Volume 32. This organization has long been the home of some of the nation's…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Influence of Technology, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Banks, David – Information Science Publishing, 2006
Taking advantage of user-friendly technology, Audience Response Systems (ARS) facilitates greater interaction with participants engaged in a variety of group activities. Each participant has an input device that permits them to express a view in complete anonymity, and the composite view of the total group appears on a public screen. ARS can then…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Higher Education, Group Activities, Audience Response
Macero, Jeanette D., Ed.; And Others – 1989
Selected papers presented at a conference on the contributions of and to the new immigrants in North America include: "Realizing the Dream" (Len Fox); "From Gattegno to Freire: Musings on a Decade Gone By" (James A. Lydon); "The New Immigrants" (Doris W. Koo); "Haitian Immigrants in the U.S.: Migration and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Foreign Students