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Transfer of Learning: Progressive Perspectives for Mathematics Education and Related Fields. Research in Mathematics Education
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Hohensee, Charles, Ed.; Lobato, Joanne, Ed. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
This book provides a common language for and makes connections between transfer research in mathematics education and transfer research in related fields. It generates renewed excitement for and increased visibility of transfer research, by showcasing and aggregating leading-edge research from the transfer research community. This book also helps…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Mathematics Education, Learning Theories, Mathematical Logic
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners and STEAM: Teachers and Researchers Working in Partnership to Build a Better Tomorrow
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Spycher, Pamela, Ed.; Haynes, Erin F., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2019
Multilingual students, multidialectal students, and students learning English as an additional language constitute a substantial and growing demographic in the United States. But these groups of students tend to receive unequal access to and inadequate instruction in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM), with their…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Cultural Differences, Multilingualism, Language Usage
Investing in Diversity: Advancing Opportunities for Minorities and the Media. Report of the Aspen Institute Forum on Diversity and the Media.
Garmer, Amy Korzick, Ed. – 1998
This compilation addresses the issues surrounding the provision of more and better media content for minority needs. These papers suggest incentives in the emerging media marketplace that will encourage providing content responsive to minority needs and interests, and they explore the steps needed to get to these new practices. The centerpiece,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Audiences, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Cases on Successful E-Learning Practices in the Developed and Developing World: Methods for the Global Information Economy
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Olaniran, Bolanle A., Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2010
E-learning has become a significant aspect of training and education in the worldwide information economy as an attempt to create and facilitate a competent global work force. "Cases on Successful E-Learning Practices in the Developed and Developing World: Methods for the Global Information Economy" provides eclectic accounts of case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Operations Research, Distance Education
"G" Is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and "Sesame Street."
Fisch, Shalom M., Ed.; Truglio, Rosemarie T., Ed. – 2001
"Sesame Street," 30-years-old in 1999, is possibly the most influential program in children's educational television. This book collects and synthesizes key research studies since the program's inception, describing the processes by which educational content and research are integrated into production, reviewing major studies of the…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Television, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Handbook of Children and the Media.
Singer, Dorothy G., Ed.; Singer, Jerome L., Ed. – 2001
This handbook analyzes effects on children of traditional media, such as television, film, and advertising; and new media, such as the Internet and video games. The chapters are: (1) "The History of Children's Use of Electronic Media" (Paik); (2) "Free Reading: Implications for Child Development" (Desmond); (3) "The Use of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Advertising, Cable Television, Censorship