Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: brent davis

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  • STEM EDUCATION BY DESIGN
    BRENT DAVIS / KRISTA FRANCIS / SHARON FRIESEN
    An accessible text that assumes no prior knowledge, this book is grounded in the realization that "STEM" and "STEM Education" have not yet evolved into fully coherent fields of study, and fills this gap by offering an original model and strategy for developing coherences in a way that both honors the integrity of each of STEM’s constituent disciplines and explores the ways they...

    $1,099.00

  • ENGAGING MINDS
    BRENT DAVIS / DENNIS SUMARA / REBECCA LUCE-KAPLER
    Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education. The 3rd edition of this introduction to interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning to teach is restructured around four prominent historical moments in formal education: Standardized Education, Authentic Educat...

    $1,799.00

  • SPATIAL REASONING IN THE EARLY YEARS
    BRENT DAVIS / SPATIAL REASONING STUDY GROUP
    Over the past several years, "spatial reasoning" has gained renewed prominence among mathematics educators, as spatial skills are proving to be not just essential to mathematical understanding but also strong predictors of future success beyond the classroom in fields such as science, technology, and engineering. By exploring both primary and emergent dimensions, Spatial Reason...

    $1,139.00

  • COMPLEXITY AND EDUCATION
    BRENT DAVIS / DENNIS SUMARA
    This book explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to educational research and practice. While its focus is on the theoretical premises and the methodology, not specific applications, the aim is pragmatic--to present complexity thinking as an important and appropriate attitude for educators and educational researchers. Part I is concerned with gl...

    $979.00

  • THE MATH TEACHERS KNOW
    BRENT DAVIS / MOSHE RENERT
    What sorts of mathematics competencies must teachers have in order to teach the discipline well? This book offers a novel take on the question. Most research is focused on explicit knowledge–that is, on the sorts of insights that might be specified, catalogued, taught, and tested. In contrast, this book focuses on the tacit dimensions of teachers’ mathematics knowledge that pre...

    $1,099.00

  • TEACHING MATHEMATICS
    BRENT DAVIS
    This book presents an approach to the teaching of mathematics that departs radically from conventional prescription-oriented and management-based methods. It brings together recent developments in such diverse fields as continental and pragmatist philosophy, enactivist thought, critical discourses, cognitive theory, evolution, ecology, and mathematics, and challenges the assump...

    $1,399.00

  • INVENTIONS OF TEACHING
    BRENT DAVIS
    Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy is a powerful examination of current metaphors for and synonyms of teaching. It offers an account of the varied and conflicting influences and conceptual commitments that have contributed to contemporary vocabularies--and that are in some ways maintained by those vocabularies, in spite of inconsistencies and incompatibilities among popular te...

    $1,099.00