This text explores learning at all ages with a particular focus on middle and high school classrooms. The contributors discuss the factors which complicate the production of readers and writers who understand, learn from and think critically about the information in various forms of text.
This text explores learning at all ages with a particular focus on middle and high school classrooms. The contributors discuss the factors which compl...
This volume is an attempt to synthesize the understandings we have about reading to learn. Although learning at all ages is discussed in this volume, the main focus is on middle and high school classrooms--critical spaces of learning and thinking. The amount of knowledge presented in written form is increasing, and the information we get from texts is often conflicting. We are in a knowledge explosion that leaves us reeling and may effectively disenfranchise those who are not keeping up. There has never been a more crucial time for students to understand, learn from, and think critically...
This volume is an attempt to synthesize the understandings we have about reading to learn. Although learning at all ages is discussed in this volume, ...
Perspectives on Conceptual Change presents case study excerpts illustrating the influence on and processes of students' conceptual change, and analyses of these cases from multiple theoretical frameworks. Researchers in reading education have been investigating conceptual change and the effects of students' prior knowledge on their learning for more than a decade. During this time, this research had been changing from the general and cognitive--average effects of interventions on groups of students--to the specific and personal--individuals' reactions to and conceptual change with...
Perspectives on Conceptual Change presents case study excerpts illustrating the influence on and processes of students' conceptual change, and ...
Perspectives on Conceptual Change presents case study excerpts illustrating the influence on and processes of students' conceptual change, and analyses of these cases from multiple theoretical frameworks. Researchers in reading education have been investigating conceptual change and the effects of students' prior knowledge on their learning for more than a decade. During this time, this research had been changing from the general and cognitive--average effects of interventions on groups of students--to the specific and personal--individuals' reactions to and conceptual change with...
Perspectives on Conceptual Change presents case study excerpts illustrating the influence on and processes of students' conceptual change, and ...
