Educational Developments, Practices and Effectiveness: Global Perspectives and Contexts

200 Pages·2015·0.965 MB·English

by  Jennifer Lock, Petrea Redmond, Patrick Alan Danaher (eds.)

Educational Developments, Practices and Effectiveness
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Educational
Developments, Practices
and Effectiveness
Global Perspectives and Contexts
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Jennifer Lock
UniversityofCalgary,Canada
Petrea Redmond
UniversityofSouthernQueensland,Australia
Patrick Alan Danaher
UniversityofSouthernQueensland,Australia
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To educators who are implementing and researching
educational development practices that make a difference in
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables ix
ForewordbyThomasMichaelPower xi
Acknowledgements xiii
NotesonContributors xv
ListofAbbreviations xxii
1 ResearchingandExtendingDevelopmentsin
ContemporaryEducationalPractice 1
JenniferLock,PetreaRedmondandPatrickAlanDanaher
Section I EducationalDevelopments
andImprovingOutcomesforLearners
andTeachers
JenniferLock
2 ManagingDevelopmentsinEducation:
Social–Business–LearningasOpportunityandChallenge
forCorporateLearning 17
SabineSeufertandChristophMeier
3 ThinkingCollaborativelyinEducationalEnvironments:
SharedMetacognitionandCo-Regulationin
CommunitiesofInquiry 39
D.RandyGarrisonandZehraAkyol
4 TheChangingNatureofEducationalSupportfor
StudentswithDisabilities 53
ShaleneWerthandShaunaughBrady
5 AVisionandLanguageforSchoolwide
PedagogicalImprovement 68
LindyAbawi
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viii Contents
Section II EducationalDevelopments
andSpecialisedDisciplinesofKnowledge
PetreaRedmond
6 EvaluationasanEducationalDevelopmenttoImprove
Practice:TeacherICTKnowledge,SkillsandIntegration 93
KarenTrimmer
7 ExploringTeachingDevelopments:Influencing
SustainableEngineeringPractice 111
DavidThorpe
8 Conceptualising,ImplementingandEvaluatingtheUse
ofDigitalTechnologiestoEnhanceMathematical
Understanding:Reflectionsonan
Innovation–DevelopmentCycle 137
LindaGalligan,ChristineMcDonald,CarolaHobohm,
BirgitLochandJanetTaylor
9 MassMedia–EntertainerorEducatorofChildren?
RaisingThisIssueandProposingProductiveSolutions 161
JenniferDonovan
Index 176
Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 ProfileofePortfolioasalearninginnovationinan
organisation 21
2.2 Social–business–learning 23
2.3 Optionsregardingthefuturefocusofcorporate
learninganddevelopment 27
2.4 Examplesofsocialmediaemployedfortraining
processesincompanies 30
2.5 Coordinatingtheinnovationandchangeprocess 33
3.1 Communityofinquirytheoreticalframework 45
5.1 Therefractive,phenomenologicalresearchprocess:
Illustratingthephasesofdepiction,reduction,
interpretationandimplicationsinthecasestudy
schools 76
5.2 SunnyFields’visionandmetaphoricalimagery 78
5.3 ForresterHill’svisionandmetaphoricalimagery 79
5.4 StMonica’svisionandmetaphoricalimagery 80
6.1 Conceptualframework(DepartmentofEducationand
Training,2006) 97
6.2 Relativestrengthoftherelationshipoffactorsrelated
totheICTcompetenceofteachers(Departmentof
EducationandTraining,2006) 101
6.3 ThefrequencyoftheprofessionaluseofICTs
(DepartmentofEducationandTraining,2006) 102
6.4 TherelativeinfluenceofICTcompetenceandICT
integration(DepartmentofEducationandTraining,
2006) 103
6.5 ICTcompetenceandintegration(Departmentof
EducationandTraining,2006) 106
6.6 Strategicdirections(DepartmentofEducationand
Training,2006) 107
7.1 Continuousimprovementloop–progressive
developmentofstudents 126
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