Global prospects for education : development, culture, and schooling
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Global prospects for education : development, culture, and schooling
American Psychological Association, 1998
1st ed
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Festschrift for Harold Stevenson
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Inspired by the work of developmental psychologist Dr. Harold Stevenson, this book advances an important scientific agenda: sharing and integrating expert knowledge about children's development and schooling around the world. A sometimes controversial and always vital subject of concern among educators, mathematical learning skills and performance constitute a major area of focus, including the identification of effective teaching techniques associated with high mathematics achievement. Literacy, from preschool to long-term retention after formal schooling ends, receives a similarly multinational reinterpretation and analysis. Readers searching for the latest thinking on these topics should find provocative discussions of cultural and cross-national academic performance and schooling as well as developmental aspects of learning, literacy and numeracy.
Table of Contents
- A Biological Model of Academic Development
- Mathematics Learning and Teaching in the School Context - Reflections from Cross-Cultural Comparisons
- Cultural Contexts of Schooling Revisited - a Review of "The Learning Gap" From a Cultural Psychology Perspective
- Contexts of Achievement
- Video Surveys - New Data for the Improvement of Classroom Instruction
- Learning About Orthography - a Cross-Linguistic Approach
- Assessing Young Children's Literacy Strategies and Development
- Literacy Retention - Comparisons Across Age, Time and Culture
- Literacy Expectations and the Shaping of Cognition
- Japanese Collectivism and Education.
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