Tag: Pedagogy

Free Download Robyn T. Brandenburg, "Powerful Pedagogy: Self-Study of a Teacher Educator’s Practice"
English | 2008 | pages: 217 | ISBN: 1402081952, 9048178029 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Powerful Pedagogy: Self-Study of a Teacher Educator’s Practice is the outcome of the author’s systematically questioning her assumptions about teaching and, in various ways, gives voice to the many individuals who have had an impact on the development of the author’s pedagogy as a mathematics teacher educator. Using self-study as both a lens and a methodology to research her practice over the past three years, the author examines the impact of reflection and reflective practice in pre-service teacher education; voice, silence and that which remains "unsaid"; the ways in which teacher identities emerge and develop, and the role of authority and power in learning about teaching.

Free Download Nicola Whitton, "Play and Learning in Adulthood: Reimagining Pedagogy and the Politics of Education"
English | ISBN: 3031139747 | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book provides a theoretical and philosophical examination of games, play and playfulness and their relationships to learning and wellbeing in adulthood. It draws on an interdisciplinary literature base (including game-based learning, game studies, education, psychology, and game design) to present a critical manifesto for playful learning in post-compulsory education and lifelong learning. While there is an established body of work in games and learning in adulthood, and a wide literature on the value of play in childhood, the wider potential of play in adulthood and playfulness is under-explored and still emergent. This book offers a comprehensive overview of play in adulthood, exploring the benefits and drawbacks, examining why play in adulthood is different from play in childhood, the role of play in culture, and making an argument for why it is important in our society that we embrace the principles of playfulness.

Free Download Khalid Berrada, "Pedagogy, Didactics and Educational Technologies: Research Experiences and Outcomes in Enhanced Learning and Teaching at"
English | ISBN: 9811951365 | 2022 | 194 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book presents an overview on ten years of rich experience and innovative development of scientific research around pedagogy, didactics and educative technologies at Cadi Ayyad University. From active learning in traditional teaching to technology enhanced learning, many efforts have been done so far by both researchers and PhD students making from Science Education an essential pillar that should bring innovative solutions and improve quality in teaching and learning in classes. 13 different topics have been selected and converted to chapters summarizing a decennia of active and open research works at the university. The selected chapters are a compilation of initiatives of research that Cadi Ayyad University team’s are developing and experimenting among students. This compilation is unique in the field and country, so that it provides a innovative view on how some key topics are addressed in Higher Education.

Free Download Abdullah Sahin, "New Directions in Islamic Education: Pedagogy and Identity Formation"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1847740332, 1847740588 | PDF | pages: 305 | 2.5 mb
"This ground-breaking book is one of the most significant contributions made in recent years to Islamic education."-John M. Hull, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Free Download Joe L. Kincheloe, "Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction"
English | 2008 | pages: 281 | ISBN: 9048197457, 1402082231 | PDF | 2,6 mb
In a globalized neo-colonial world an insidious and often debilitating crisis of knowledge not only continues to undermine the quality of research produced by scholars but to also perpetuate a neo-colonial and oppressive socio-cultural, political economic, and educational system. The lack of attention such issues receive in pedagogical institutions around the world undermines the value of education and its role as a force of social justice. In this context these knowledge issues become a central concern of critical pedagogy. As a mode of education that is dedicated to a rigorous form of knowledge work, teachers and students as knowledge producers, anti-oppressive educational and social practices, and diverse perspectives from multiple social locations, critical pedagogy views dominant knowledge policies as a direct assault on its goals. Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction takes scholars through a critical review of the issues facing researchers and educators in the last years of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Refusing to assume the reader’s familiarity with such issues but concurrently rebuffing the tendency to dumb down such complex issues, the book serves as an excellent introduction to one of the most important and complicated issues of our time.

Free Download Demystifying Critical Reflection: Improving Pedagogy and Practice with Legitimation Code Theory
Namala Tilakaratna, Eszter Szenes
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032011173 | 267 Pages | True PDF | 7 MB

Free Download Olivia Newman, "Liberalism in Practice: The Psychology and Pedagogy of Public Reason"
English | ISBN: 0262028794 | 2015 | 190 pages | EPUB | 301 KB
An argument that draws on empirical findings in psychology to offer a blueprint for cultivating a widespread commitment to public reason.

Free Download The Gender Question In Education: Theory, Pedagogy, And Politics By Ann Diller, Barbara Houston, Kathryn Pauly Morgan, Maryann Ayim
1996 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0813325633 | PDF | 57 MB
In this innovative book, four prominent philosophers of education introduce readers to the central debates about the role of gender in educational practice, policymaking, and theory. More a record of a continuing conversation than a statement of a fixed point of view, The Gender Question in Education enables students and practicing teachers to think through to their own conclusions and to add their own voices to the conversation.Throughout, the authors emphasize the value of a gender-sensitive perspective on educational issues and the relevance of an ethics of care for educational practice. Among the topics discussed are feminist pedagogy, gender freedom in public education, androgyny, sex education, multiculturalism, the inclusive curriculum, and the educational significance of an ethics of care.The multiauthor, dialogic structure of this book provides unusual breadth and cohesiveness as well as a forum for the exchange of ideas, making it both an ideal introduction to gender analysis in education and a model for more advanced students of gender issues.

Free Download Giuliana Salvato, "Looking Beyond Words: Gestures in the Pedagogy of Second Languages in Multilingual Canada"
English | ISBN: 1443880124 | 2015 | 185 pages | PDF | 830 KB
This book is a result of the growing number of insights found in recent research on gesture studies and language acquisition, which have renewed the attention of scholars in gesture functions and meanings in communication and language learning. Observation of the participation of both gesture and speech in the formulation of meaning has revealed that communication is typically multimodal. This perspective has produced engrossing research questions, particularly in contexts where the combination of languages and cultures is complex and diversified. Competence in multiple languages and in different semiotic systems inevitably impacts the way in which people interact and learn languages. Given its status as a country of immigration, Canada provides such a context for this study. This book discusses the changes that the literature on gesture studies can help implement in current practices of language pedagogy. By including gesture as a nonverbal dimension of language and as a means for language acquisition, it provides a contrast to those traditions that have viewed gesture as a marginal aspect of communication and language learning. In addition, this book offers the results of three research studies in Italian language classes in Canada, showing that gesture enables a multimodal approach in language pedagogy and a richer experience for both teachers and learners.

Free Download Clodomir Andrade, "Thoreau’s Pedagogy of Awakening"
English | ISBN: 0761872728 | 2022 | 146 pages | EPUB, PDF | 637 KB + 8 MB
The book is a poetic and philosophic meditation on Thoreau’s work, highlighting a "Pedagogy of awakening", that is, a path towards a non-dual and enlightening experience with Nature, a possible answer to the need of addressing the urgency and necessity of our troubled times. The urgency stems from a series of crises that humankind is now facing-epidemiological, environmental, social, political, economic; however, all those crises, as many have already observed, might be better understood as different faces, or different modes, of the same underlying crisis: the Anthropocene crisis, that is, the crisis whose ultimate origins lay at our feet, triggered by the way we, humans, inhabit-and impact-this world. It seems consensual that humankind has never faced such a terrible array of combined crises that, for the first time in history, puts our very survival as a species in danger. A dense fog has alighted on this small and beautiful blue planet, and one can only hope that the pains and suffering we have been through for so long are the pangs of a childbirth-a new beginning, a new promise-, and not the gaspings of a sclerotic organism that is on the brink of its final collapse. Thence, the necessity. The necessity of a new way of inhabiting this world. And I believe that an excellent guide to teach us how to do so is Henry David Thoreau.