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Secondary education : the key concepts / Jerry Wellington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wellington, J. J. (Jerry J.)
- Series:
- Routledge key guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Secondary.
- High school teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 193 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2006.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A comprehensive critical survey of the controversies, theories and practices central to secondary education today, this book provides teachers, researchers, parents and policy-makers alike with a vital new references resource. Secondary Education: The Key Concepts covers a wide range of important topics and debates, including: Assessment, Citizenship, Curriculum, E-learning, Exclusion, Learning theories, Work experience. Fully cross-referenced, with extensive suggestions for futher reading and on-line resources, Secondary Education: The Key Concepts is the essential guide to theory and practice in the twenty-first-century classroom.
- Contents:
- Accelerated learning
- Action research
- Affective domain
- Alternative frameworks
- Assessment
- Authentic labour
- Authentic learning
- Autism
- Bloom's taxonomy
- Brain-based learning
- CAL, Computer assisted learning
- Case study
- Citizenship
- Classroom assistants
- Cognition
- Cognitive acceleration
- Communities of practice
- Constructivism
- Continuing professional development (CPD)
- Controversial issues
- Creativity
- Criterion referenced assessment
- Critical pedagogy
- Cultural capital
- Curriculum
- Diagnostic assessment
- Differentiation
- Discovery learning
- Dyslexia
- Education for sustainability
- E-learning (also covering on-line learning and web-based learning)
- Emotional intelligence
- Equal opportunities
- Evidence-based practice
- Exclusion
- Formative assessment
- Gifted and talented
- ICT
- Inclusion
- Informal learning
- Intelligence, IQ
- Internet, the
- Key skills (core skills)
- Learning society
- Learning styles
- Learning theories
- Mastery learning
- Meaningful learning
- Metacognition
- Motivation
- Multiple intelligences
- Pastoral care
- Peer tutoring
- Post-modernism
- Problem-based learning
- Reflective practice
- Secondary education
- Situated cognition
- Specialist schools
- Spiral curriculum
- Thinking skills
- Transfer of learning
- Work experience
- Zone of proximal development (ZPD).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780203488317
- 0203488318
- Publisher Number:
- 99990107733
- 9780415344036
- 9780415344043
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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