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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Participatory Video in Adult Education

Authors: Yang, Kyung-Hwa

Fills the gap in the market between participatory video, critical media study, and adult education
Offers practical ideas for using participatory video
Provides critical insights into participatory video

This book highlights participatory video as an instrument for community-based adult education and focuses in particular on the role that it can play in promoting participatory culture among adult learners. In brief, participatory video refers to participant-centered video making. Today, participant-generated videos can travel farther and faster than ever before, and thus, the perspectives represented can be effectively shared by a large number of people. Participatory video can also offer those involved an opportunity to address issues that matter to them and give voice to their experiences. The author explores this potential based on her experience working with adult learners in a metropolitan community and addresses participatory video in both theory and practice. The target readership is adult educators, but it will also be helpful to researchers who have a particular interest in incorporating video into their community-based work.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

5 b/w illustrations

Topics

Learning and Instruction

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Monday, June 13, 2016

Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures

Editors: Robertson, Margaret, Tsang, Po Keung Eric (Eds.)

Highlights the imperative of listening to local communities when designing policy changes
Provides case studies that illustrate the intersection between everyday life, events and consequences
Proposes a theoretical position on what it means to be a citizen within the Asian/Pacific region

Everyday knowledge offers opportunities for better understanding of significant issues of our times. Reflecting these themes this book places emphasis on community wisdom. The underpinning argument is that our instinctive urge for survival may not be enough if we do not share our collective knowledge and learn more about the everyday habits, beliefs and actions of communities spread across the region. Contributions from researchers active within local communities help build knowledge capacity and support for collaborative research.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

4 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

Topics

Educational Policy and Politics

Sustainable Development

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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Imaginative Science Education: The Central Role of Imagination in Science Education

Authors: Hadzigeorgiou, Yannis

Helps the reader understand the centrality of imagination in human thinking and learning
Helps the reader understand both the theory behind the recommended approaches and the practical applications in the classroom
Includes a wide variety of examples to be used in the classroom
Addresses perhaps one of the most important educational problems, namely how to engage students in science

This book is about imaginative approaches to teaching and learning school science. Its central premise is that science learning should reflect the nature of science, and therefore be approached as an imaginative/creative activity. As such, the book can be seen as an original contribution of ideas relating to imagination and creativity in science education.

The approaches discussed in the book are storytelling, the experience of wonder, the development of ‘romantic understanding’, and creative science, including science through visual art, poetry and dramatization. However, given the perennial problem of how to engage students (of all ages) in science, the notion of ‘aesthetic experience’, and hence the possibility for students to have more holistic and fulfilling learning experiences through the aforementioned imaginative approaches, is also discussed.

Each chapter provides an in-depth discussion of the theoretical background of a specific imaginative approach (e.g., storytelling, ‘wonder-full’ science), reviews the existing empirical evidence regarding its role in the learning process, and points out its implications for pedagogy and instructional practices. Examples from physical science illustrating its implementation in the classroom are also discussed.

In distinguishing between ‘participation in a science activity’ and ‘engagement with science ideas per se’, the book emphasizes the central role of imaginative engagement with science content knowledge, and thus the potential of the recommended imaginative approaches to attract students to the world of science.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

1 b/w illustrations

Topics

Science Education

Learning and Instruction

Teaching and Teacher Education

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Sunday, June 5, 2016

Coursera - The Science of Meditation, Education and Cognitive Shifts

Clifford Saron is a neuroscientist who specializes in training of attention and emotion regulation. He applies electrophysiological and behavioral methods to study sensory and cognitive processes in humans (including those with autism spectrum disorders) , and he is a leading scholar of the tangible effects of meditation.

01. Be Holding The Space of the Brain:

– How the Brain Constructs our Experience of the World;

– Neurons;

– The Brain as an Interconnected System;

– The Brain as a Representational System;

– Neuroplasticity.

02. The Science of Mindfulness against the Background of the Scientific Study of Meditation:

– The Contemporary Context of the Science of Meditation;

– What do People do When they Meditate?

– Mapping the Dimensions of Meditation.

03. The Science of Concentration, Relaxation, Focus and Shamatha:

– The Science of Meditation: A Personal Account;

– The Shamatha Project.

04. Measuring Meditation:

– Measuring Compassion and Meditation, Part I;

– Measuring Compassion and Meditation, Part II – How to Measure Data when Dealing with Meditation;

– Measuring Compassion and Meditation, Part III – Meditation and EEG.

05. The Science of Emotion and Social-Emotional Learning:

– The Science of Emotion;

– Methodology and the Science of Meditation.

also You can watch my other last: Coursera-posts

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Building Global Education with a Local Perspective: An Introduction to Glocal Higher Education

Emmanuel Jean Francois, “Building Global Education with a Local Perspective: An Introduction to Glocal Higher Education”
2014 | ISBN-10: 113739174X | 233 pages | PDF | 2 MB

“Glocal” education melds the economic advantages of globalizing higher education with the benefits of incorporating local perspectives. This book explores glocal education’s rationale; social, cultural, and economic foundations; key concepts; and implementation.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Physical Education in Nursery and Infant Schools

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Mind, Brain, and Education Science: A Comprehensive Guide to the New Brain-Based Teaching

Establishing the parameters and goals of the new field of mind, brain, and education science.

A groundbreaking work, Mind, Brain, and Education Science explains the new transdisciplinary academic field that has grown out of the intersection of neuroscience, education, and psychology. The trend in “brain-based teaching” has been growing for the past twenty years and has exploded in the past five to become the most authoritative pedagogy for best learning results. Aimed at teachers, teacher trainers and policy makers, and anyone interested in the future of education in America and beyond, Mind, Brain, and Education Science responds to the clamor for help in identifying what information could and should apply in classrooms with confidence, and what information is simply commercial hype. Combining an exhaustive review of the literature, as well as interviews with over twenty thought leaders in the field from six different countries, this book describes the birth and future of this new and groundbreaking discipline. Mind, Brain, and Education Science looks at the foundations, standards, and history of the field, outlining the ways that new information should be judged. Well-established information is elegantly separated from “neuromyths” to help teachers split the wheat from the chaff in classroom planning, instruction and teaching methodology.