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  • Radical Constructivism in Action

    Building on the Pioneering Work of Ernst von Glasersfeld

    Over the last twenty-five years Ernst von Glasersfeld has had a tremendous impact on mathematics and science education through his fundamental insights into the nature of knowledge and knowing. Radical Constructivism in Action is a new volume of papers honouring his work by building on his model of knowing.The contributions by leading researchers present constructivism in action, tying the authors ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Quantitative Reasoning in Mathematics and Science Education

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book focuses on quantitative reasoning as an orienting framework to analyse learning, teaching and curriculum in mathematics and science education. Quantitative reasoning plays a vital role in learning concepts foundational to arithmetic, algebra, calculus, geometry, trigonometry and other ideas in STEM. The book draws upon the importance of quantitative reasoning and its crucial role in ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

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  • Free Will and Consciousness

    A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will

    In recent decades, with advances in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences, the idea that patterns of human behavior may ultimately be due to factors beyond our conscious control has increasingly gained traction and renewed interest in the age-old problem of free will. In this book, Gregg D. Caruso examines both the traditional philosophical problems long associated with the question of free ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Number Sense

    How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Revised and Updated Edition

    Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Extended Mind

    The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture

    The ability to communicate through language is such a fundamental part of human existence that we often take it for granted, rarely considering how sophisticated the process is by which we understand and make ourselves understood. In The Extended Mind, acclaimed author Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.Building on his previous ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Radical Embodied Cognitive Science

    A proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation and representation.While philosophers of mind have been arguing over the status of mental representations in cognitive science, cognitive scientists have been quietly engaged in studying perception, action, and cognition without explaining them ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Key Ideas in Teaching Mathematics

    Research-based guidance for ages 9-19

    Big ideas in the mathematics curriculum for older school students, especially those that are hard to learn and hard to teach, are covered in this book. It will be a first port of call for research about teaching big ideas for students from 9-19 and also has implications for a wider range of students. These are the ideas that really matter, that students get stuck on, and that can be obstacles to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Phenomenology for Therapists

    Researching the Lived World

    by Linda Finlay ...
    This book provides an accessible comprehensive exploration of phenomenological theory and research methods and is geared specifically to the needs of therapists and other health care professionals.An accessible exploration of an increasingly popular qualitative research methodologyExplains phenomenological concepts and how they are applied to different stages of the research process and to topics ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Vocabulary for the Common Core

    The Common Core State Standards present unique demands on students’ ability to learn vocabulary and teachers’ ability to teach it. The authors address these challenges in this resource. Work toward the creation of a successful vocabulary program, guided by both academic and content-area terms taken directly from the mathematics and English language arts standards. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Vygotsky

    Philosophy and Education

    by Jan Derry ...
    Series series Journal of Philosophy of Education
    Vygotsky Philosophy and Education reassesses the works of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky work by arguing that his central ideas about the nature of rationality and knowledge were informed by the philosophic tradition of Spinoza and Hegel.Presents a reassessment of the works of Lev Vygotsky in light of the tradition of Spinoza and Hegel informing his workReveals Vygotsky’s connection with the ... Read more

    $36.25 USD

  • Gestalt Reconsidered

    A New Approach to Contact and Resistance

    In this original and penetrating work, the origins of the Gestalt psychotherapy model are traced back to its roots in psychoanalysis and Gestalt cognitive and perceptual psychology. Drawing new implications for both Gestalt and psychotherapy in general from these origins - and with special emphasis on the neglected work of Lewis and Goldstein - Wheeler develops a revised model that is more fully ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Scientific Methods: A Tutorial Study Guide

    by Nicoladie Tam ...
    “Scientific Methods” is a part of the college-level Principles of Biology course series and the Neuropsychopharmacology course series textbooks. It is a tutorial written in questions and answers format to describe the methods for investigating and studying biological and natural science.It is a study guide with in-depth explanations. Each section is a modular unit that is self-contained for easy ... Read more

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