Now in its sixth edition, Doing History offers a unique perspective on teaching and learning
history in the elementary and middle grades. Through case studies of teachers and students …

Current approaches to understanding learning imply that authentic learning experiences
assist students to develop appropriate and effective understandings. Authentic learning …

Early childhood education is a field that includes practitioners in nursery schools,
elementary schools, Head Start centers, child care centers, family homes, and other …

Under the banner of constructivism, a world-wide change in the orientation to school
learning has taken place. In the context of the constructivist movement an important question …

materials encompassed by Continuing the Learning Journey were produced for
schools,(QCA, 2005). This has been welcomed by Early Years professionals as the …

Researchers tested whether writing increases ecological literacy in undergraduate
elementary education students. The authors asked students to write 3 guided essays …

We report here an instructional method designed to address the cognitive gaps in children's
mathematical development where operational conceptions give rise to structural …

This article addresses the question of the development of abstract thinking from an activity
theoretical (Vygotskian) point of view. On the basis of a review of theories on abstraction (eg …

This qualitative case study investigates graduate students' perspective changes apropos
their crossnational collaborative learning experience while participating in an online …

“I believed that, when most of [the] scholars talked about play, they fundamentally
presupposed it to be either a form of progress, an exercise in power, a reliance on fate, a …