This book focuses on empirical research in statistics education. It presents an overview of the current state of research and highlights perspectives for the future development of the field. The contributions cover a broad range of topics, including cognitive aspects of learning statistics, the use of technology, teacher education, curriculum development, and assessment. The book also discusses…
This study focuses on how skin color influences perceptions of opportunities and academic orientation among 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. Specifically, it analyzes how students modify—or maintain—their racial/ethnic identification in response to others’ perceptions based on skin tone.
This book discusses the role of semiotics—the study of signs and symbols—in mathematics education. It brings together international researchers who examine how meaning is constructed through gestures, diagrams, language, and other semiotic systems during mathematical learning and teaching. The chapters explore a variety of theoretical frameworks, including Peircean and Vygotskian semiotics,…
This book explores how students in higher education can take charge of their own learning using multiple modes—such as text, video, and digital tools. It highlights strategies that promote self-directed learning and examines how multimodal approaches enhance student engagement, autonomy, and academic success
This Element develops an original analytical foundation for studying institutional remaking and its political dynamics. It explains how institutional remaking can be observed and provides a typology comprising five areas of institutional production involved in institutional remaking: novelty, uptake, dismantling, stability, and interplay.
Recognizing Green Skills Through Non-formal Learning discusses how environmentally relevant skills can be developed and validated outside formal education. It emphasizes the role of community programs and informal training in supporting sustainable development and green employment
Fundamental rights to education and employment are essential pathways for the social inclusion of people with autism. This book begins with an overview of international and European legal frameworks that protect these rights—most notably the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Articles 24 & 27)—and then offers a detailed examination of domestic legislation, case law,…
The collective monograph is devoted to consideration of the problems and prospects of student training in higher education, namely its pedagogical, philological, psychological and intercultural aspects. The main task of higher education today is personal development, formation of professional and social-communicative competence of students.
Problem solving in mathematics education has been a prominent research field that aims at understanding and relating the processes involved in solving problems to students’ development of mathematical knowledge and problem solving competencies. The accumulated knowledge and field developments include conceptual frameworks to characterize learners’ success in problem solving activities, cogn…
“This book is aimed at improving contemporary educational practice by rooting it in clear analytical thinking. The book utilizes the analytic approach to philosophy of education to elucidate the meaning of the terms ‘education,’ ‘moral education,’ ‘indoctrination,’ ‘contemporary American Jewish education,’ ‘informal Jewish education,’ ‘the Israel experience,’ and ‘Is…