Search

This book aims to give instructional designers a better understanding of how learning science can be used in their work. It provides a research-based description of the current state of instructional theory for the learner-centered paradigm of education Covers concepts and methodologies for determining the learning objectives, study content, and the mode of delivery. This book is intended for traditional educators, academics, corporate trainers, and instructional designers and anyone interested in exploring more powerful ways of fostering human learning and development and thinking creatively.

This book aims to give instructional designers a better understanding of how learning science can be used in their work. It provides a research-based description of the current state of instructional theory for the learner-centered paradigm of education Covers concepts and methodologies for determining the learning objectives, study content, and the mode of delivery. This book is intended for traditional educators, academics, corporate trainers, and instructional designers and anyone interested in exploring more powerful ways of fostering human learning and development and thinking creatively.

El presente libro resultado de investigación es un estudio teórico, documental y experencial que indaga relaciones entre algunas experiencias artísticas y la perspectiva filosofía e infancia ¿Qué hay de infancia en el arte y la filosofía? ¿Qué hay de artístico en la infancia y la filosofía?¿Qué hay de filosófico en el arte y la infancia? Es un estudio sistemático de discursos y experiencias para configurar el encuentro de las artes plásticas, la literatura, el cine, el teatro y las artesanías y sus posibles relaciones con la filosofía e infancia, no como una estrategia que se instrumentaliza o se subordina ante el otro, sino como un campo de estudio teórico-metodológico que se encuentra y se tensiona en una mirada filosófica. Cada capítulo conceptualiza la experiencia artística desde un pensamiento estético para vincularlo con la perspectiva, un encuentro de sensibilidades que altera la constitución de sí, del otro y de lo otro. Presenta a su vez, principios metodológicos, que se constituyen en pistas para pensar, argumentar o producir acontecimientos estéticos y filosóficos con la infancia. Se consideran discursos y prácticas de resistencia para ofrecer o habitar el mundo de otro modo mientras se examinan ideas y saberes entre pensamientos curiosos, preguntas y muchas formas creativas, estéticas y sensibles. Porque tejer las artes en sus diferentes manifestaciones configuran escenarios para incentivar un pensar encarnado. Pensar que evidencia una amistad entre las elaboraciones de la imaginación y el necesario juicio de una razón que participa en todo momento de los descubrimientos. Acto reflexivo que forja una relación de mutuo sostenimiento entre lo existente y sus variaciones de sentido, forma y funcionalidad.

Resilience and Wellbeing in Young Children, Their Families and Communities unpicks the theme of resilience and wellbeing through diverse contexts, circumstances, populations and life stories in order to explore its complexity globally.Current societal events have brought forward a need for understanding how to best support and create environments with conditions that promote children's holistic wellbeing. Violence in all its facets, poverty, political conflict and the recent pandemic are among the major realities threatening children, and this demands attention to how resilience can be supported to effectively safeguard children's lived experiences. This book explores resilience from a range of perspectives, research projects and practical support mechanisms for young children, families, educators and communities. It starts with theoretical conceptualizations and goes on to present specific research projects and applied initiatives and how these can be used in application to praxis for young children and their families.Being of interest to educators and human services striving to advocate for and enhance young children's wellbeing, this book will serve as both a useful overview of the many approaches to supporting resilience in young children, while providing a sound theoretical perspective that is accessible for all.

This in-depth exploration discusses the need for addressing diversity and multicultural realities in the classroom from a global perspective. De Melendez and Beck's TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN IN MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS: ISSUES, CONCEPTS, AND STRATEGIES, 6th EDITION, prepares you with the necessary knowledge, skills and strategies to create a developmentally appropriate, respectful and culturally responsive classroom and teaching environment. You'll find practical information and strategies that you can apply to classroom practice for young children. You'll learn to create engaging equitable learning experiences and how to establish respectful relationships between the school, community and family as essential partners that influence a child's success. Questions about non-traditional parents, addressing the well-being and learning needs of young children who are learning a second language, and supporting practices for a child with exceptionalities are also discussed.

This in-depth exploration discusses the need for addressing diversity and multicultural realities in the classroom from a global perspective. De Melendez and Beck's TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN IN MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS: ISSUES, CONCEPTS, AND STRATEGIES, 6th EDITION, prepares you with the necessary knowledge, skills and strategies to create a developmentally appropriate, respectful and culturally responsive classroom and teaching environment. You'll find practical information and strategies that you can apply to classroom practice for young children. You'll learn to create engaging equitable learning experiences and how to establish respectful relationships between the school, community and family as essential partners that influence a child's success. Questions about non-traditional parents, addressing the well-being and learning needs of young children who are learning a second language, and supporting practices for a child with exceptionalities are also discussed.

This in-depth exploration discusses the need for addressing diversity and multicultural realities in the classroom. It prepares you with the necessary knowledge, skills, and strategies to create a developmentally appropriate, respectful, and culturally responsive classroom and teaching environment. You'll find practical information, ideas, and strategies that you can apply to classroom practice for young children. There are guidelines on how to create relationships between the school, community, and family as essential partners that influence a child's success. Questions about how to deal with a bilingual child, a child with exceptionalities, and non-traditional parents are also addressed. Finally, you'll learn the benefits of teaching multiculturalism from a global perspective.

This book presents a collection of papers written by researchers, teachers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of social sciences. The scientific studies include a wide range of topics from the analysis of social science textbooks to the teacher image in newspapers, the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level and the role of organizational silence on the loneliness of academics in work life.