Why Do We Have A Knowledge Deficit

Author : E. D. Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780547346960

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The Knowledge Deficit by E. D. Hirsch Pdf

"An important message, eloquently expressed." --Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works "If we did what E.D. Hirsch said, and made sure that all students, regardless of race, income, or neighborhood, were exposed to a rich, challenging, sequenced curriculum in important subjects, schools could make a much bigger difference than they already do." --Ed McElroy, president, American Federation of Teachers "[Hirsch] wants to reverse the current emphasis on reading as a mechanical process and replace it with content-rich curriculum that will turn all children into knowledgeable readers. It's a worthy goal for our schools in an increasingly competitive globalized world." New York Post "On many fronts, Hirsch's book challenges the conventional educational wisdown. Parents ought to check it out." --Rocky Mountain News "[A] powerful argument . . . [Hirsch's] well-reasoned, common-sense proposals address a vital issue, and his book provides a valuable addition to the debate on public policy in education." --Richmond Times-Dispatch —

Author : Janet Giltrow,Richard Gooding,Daniel Burgoyne
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770488052

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Academic Writing: An Introduction - Fourth Edition by Janet Giltrow,Richard Gooding,Daniel Burgoyne Pdf

Academic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook—and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The book seeks to introduce student readers to the lively community of research and writing beyond the classroom, with its complex interactions, values, and goals. It presents writing from a range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, cultivating students’ awareness of the subtle differences in genre. The fourth edition has been revised throughout and includes a new chapter on visual rhetoric, a new section on the academic peer review system, updated examples, expanded exercises, and new glossary entries.

Author : Chelsea Heinbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 1634000951

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Dismantling Deficit Thinking in Academic Libraries by Chelsea Heinbach Pdf

"Explores the history of deficit thinking in higher education. Discusses pedagogical models that recognize students' prior knowledge and experiences. Provides a series of principles for anti-deficit teaching. Explores practical application of these principles in various academic library environments"--

Author : Melanie Jasper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118307786

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Professional Development, Reflection and Decision-making for Nurses by Melanie Jasper Pdf

Vital Notes for Nurses: Professional Development, Reflection andDecision-making provides a concise, accessible introduction toprofessional development, reflective practice and clinicaldecision-making. Vital Notes for Nurses: Professional Development, Reflectionand Decision-making explores the core strategies of reflectivepractice and decision-making underlying professional nursingdevelopment. Separate chapters on reflective writing,evidence-based practice, clinical supervision and portfoliosdemonstrate the inter-relationship between professional developmentand professional practice. It is aimed at both student andqualified nurses, recognising that professional development is alife-long commitment. It provides clear guidance to helppractitioners think critically about their actions, work withinprofessional boundaries, be accountable for their actions and planfor their future. * Provides a concise introduction to professional development,reflective practice, and clinical decision-making * Written in a clear accessible style which assumes no priorknowledge * Enables students to consider and develop their practice in orderto become competent practitioners * Each chapter includes learning objectives, scenarios and casestudies * In the Vital Notes for Nurses series

Author : Patricia A. Potter (Ph. D.),Anne Griffin Perry
Publisher : Mosby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0323098851

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Fundamentals of Nursing by Patricia A. Potter (Ph. D.),Anne Griffin Perry Pdf

This money saving package includes the 7th edition of Potter: Fundamentals of Nursing Enhanced Multi-Media Edition Textbook with FREE Clinical Companion and Simulation Learning System.

Author : C. Candlin,J. Crichton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230299023

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Discourses of Deficit by C. Candlin,J. Crichton Pdf

Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances. The book offers examples of how adopting multiple perspectives on research can provide a rich explanatory analysis of the construct of 'deficit' in a range of domains.

Author : Rand J. Spiro,Bertram C. Bruce,William F. Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351607230

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Theoretical Issues in Reading Comprehension by Rand J. Spiro,Bertram C. Bruce,William F. Brewer Pdf

Research in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence – the three disciplines that have the most direct application to an understanding of the mental processes in reading – is presented in this multilevel work, originally published in 1980, that attempts to provide a systematic and scientific basis for understanding and building a comprehensive theory of reading comprehension. The major focus is on understanding the processes involved in the comprehension of written text. Underlying most of the contributions is the assumption that skilled reading comprehension requires a coordination of text with context in a way that goes far beyond simply chaining together the meanings of a string of decoded words. The topics discussed are divided into five general areas: Global Issues; Text Structure; Language, Knowledge of the World, and Inference; Effects of Prior Language Experience; and Comprehension Strategies and Facilitators, and represent a broad base of methodology and data that should be of interest not only to those concerned with the reading process, but also to basic science researchers in psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and related disciplines.

Author : Jo Mackiewicz,Isabelle Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317666912

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Talk About Writing by Jo Mackiewicz,Isabelle Thompson Pdf

Talk about Writing: The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors offers a book-length empirical study of the discourse between experienced tutors and student writers in satisfactory conferences. The study uses a research-driven, iteratively tested framework to help writing center directors, tutors, writing program administrators, rhetoric and composition researchers, first-year composition instructors, and others interested in talk about writing to systematically analyze tutors’ talk and to use that analysis to train new tutors. The book strives toward two main goals: to provide an analytical research and assessment tool—the coding scheme—that other researchers can use to understand writing center tutor talk and to provide a close, empirical analysis of experienced tutor talk that can facilitate tutor training. The study details tutors’ use of three categories of tutoring strategies—instruction, cognitive scaffolding, and motivational scaffolding—at macro- and microlevels and results in practical recommendations for improving tutor training.

Author : William Badke
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781780633053

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Teaching Research Processes by William Badke Pdf

Information literacy may be defined as the ability to identify a research problem, decide the kinds of information needed to tackle it, find the information efficiently, evaluate the information, and apply it to the problem at hand. Teaching Research Processes suggests a novel way in which information literacy can come within the remit of teaching faculty, supported by librarians, and reconceived as ‘research processes’. The aim is to transform education from what some see as a primarily one-way knowledge communication practice, to an interactive practice involving the core research tasks of subject disciplines. This title is structured into nine chapters, covering: Defining research processes; Research ability inadequacies in higher education; Research processes and faculty understanding; Current initiatives in research processes; The role of disciplinary thinking in research processes; Research processes in the classroom; Tentative case studies in disciplinary research process instruction; Research processes transforming education; and Resourcing the enterprise. The book concludes by encouraging the reader to implement the teaching of research processes. Engages the domain of teaching faculty rather than librarians only Analyzes the reasons why the research processes concept represents a gap in academia Focuses on research ability as a process that can be taught within disciplines

Author : Editors : Raj Kapila & Uma Kapila
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171886205

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Economic Developments In India : Monthly Update, Volume -107 Analysis, Reports, Policy Documents by Editors : Raj Kapila & Uma Kapila Pdf

Author : Gert Biesta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350098008

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Educational Research by Gert Biesta Pdf

With so much technical information about research methods it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture of why we carry out educational research and where and how research might contribute to the improvement of education. Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction steps you through the wider social and political contexts of educational research, focusing on fundamental questions such as what education actually 'is' and what it is for. In doing so, the book raises questions that more 'orthodox' introductions to the theory and practice of educational research often leave aside. Gert Biesta covers a range of key issues which permeate any educational research project, including the roles of theory in research, what it means and takes to improve education, the nature of educational practice, the history of educational research and scholarship, the connection between research, professionality and democracy and what the social and political dimensions of academic publishing are. Each chapter includes a set of questions to stimulate further discussion.

Author : Dr Hilary Tovey,Dr Karl Bruckmeier
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409488064

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Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society by Dr Hilary Tovey,Dr Karl Bruckmeier Pdf

Based on the EU-funded CORASON research project, this volume brings together and compares studies into rural and sustainable development processes in 12 European countries. In doing so, it identifies key trends and reveals the changing nature of development processes on the way towards a knowledge society. The book examines the differences between the preconditions and contexts relevant to rural development strategies and those relevant to sustainable development strategies. It explores whether the concept, goals and nature of rural development is better understood and adopted by rural actors than those of sustainable development. Finally by focusing on the ideas and practices of sustainable resource management- a component in both rural and sustainable development objectives- it links with knowledge used by actors involved in rural development.

Author : Jo Owen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470687895

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The Death of Modern Management by Jo Owen Pdf

We are at the start of a new wave of management. The recent financial crisis highlighted problems not just in the economic system, but also in the way that many companies are governed and managed. Now modern management has reached its end game and we approach a new era in leadership. Rather than the certainties of command and control, this new epoch will be based on co-operation and commitment. There has been a strategic revolution - instead of following the rules, we now have to make them. For some this represents great risk; for others it is an enormous opportunity. The Death of Modern Management is a how-to guide for surviving and thriving amidst the new uncertainties of contemporary business. "...a joyride through new ideas, memorable stories and superb writing." Philip Kotler "Jo Owen gives a fascinating insight into how 21st century management now works. It is helpful to have someone with his experience, intellect and vision explain the radical changes in a way that makes sense and is immediately usable." Juliet Hope, CEO, Startup “Jo Owen delivers a robust and wide-ranging assault on the delusions of management, strategy, finance and marketing that have created an aura of justified mistrust around the modern corporation, but does so with wit, lucidity and lots of enlivening illustrations. The answers for 21st century business are helpfully accessible.” Professor Nigel Nicholson, London Business School, author of Managing the Human Animal and Family Wars "...offers insights that help encourage different thinking." Director Magazine

Author : Robert E. Kelley
Publisher : Currency
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812931693

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How to Be a Star at Work by Robert E. Kelley Pdf

"Do you know what it takes to be a star at work? Robert Kelley has the answer." --Fast Company STARS ARE MADE, NOT BORN Find out what separates stars from average performers Learn how to be the top pick for the choice jobs Use nine star-performer strategies to become a member of the select "ten-for-one" club, with ten times the productivity of the average worker Find out how using the nine strategies enables you to out-perform people with supposedly better credentials New in this edition: special insights for women and members of minority groups

Author : Paul A. O'Keefe,Judith M. Harackiewicz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319555096

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The Science of Interest by Paul A. O'Keefe,Judith M. Harackiewicz Pdf

This exceptional volume analyzes the intricate roles interest plays in cognition, motivation and learning, and daily living, with a special focus on its development and maintenance across life domains. Leading experts discuss a spectrum of interest ranging from curiosity to obsession, and trace its functions in goal-setting, decision-making, self-regulation, and performance. New research refines the current knowledge on student interest in educational settings and the social contexts of interest, with insights into why interest levels change during engagement and in the long run. From these findings, contributors address ways to foster and nurture interest in the therapy room and the classroom, for optimum benefits throughout life. Among the topics covered: · Embedding interest within self-regulation. · Knowledge acquisition at the intersection of situational and individual interest. · The role of interest in motivation and engagement. · The two faces of passion. · Creative geniuses, polymaths, child prodigies, and autistic savants. · The promotion and development of interest. A robust guide to a fascinating area of study, The Science of Interest synthesizes the field’s current knowledge of interest and indicates future directions. Its chapters contribute depth and rigor to this growing area of research, and will enhance the work of researchers in education, psychologists, social scientists, and public policymakers.