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Using Limited Resources to Teach Core Ideas from STEM and Social Studies
This chapter discusses the use of limited resources during the teaching of core ideas from STEM and social studies. The co-authors of this chapter...
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Integrating Digital Technologies in Teaching and Learning Through Participation: Case Studies from the Xlab – Design, Learning, Innovation Laboratory
Technology-rich creative and collaborative learning environments are believed to offer powerful settings for children to become acquainted with...
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Ethnicity and education: How Indigenous knowledge and cultural identity are passed on through the Torém ritual of the Tremembé people
The Tremembé people live on the west coast of the Brazilian state of Ceará in three municipalities (Itapipoca, Acaraú and Itarema). Despite having...
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Student J. Wonderful Drinks
J. was an energetic student who listened carefully to his teacher. He was curious and had a sincere desire to learn that sometimes manifested itself...
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Permissible Synthetic Food Dyes in India
Since prehistoric times, people have been fascinated with colors. From cave paintings to the latest gadgets, color has been a constant companion of...
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Jugaad Thinking: Contextualized Innovative Thinking in India Through Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education?
This chapter briefly explicates the cultural, social, and historical ideas related to the term Jugaad in Indian society and its integration with...
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Vocational Education and Training in Lao PDR
Laos is a country in Southeast Asia. In recent years, its economic growth has been rapid, with the development of vocational education. Through the...
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Speech Video Lesson
Students who struggle to read often lack self-confidence, particularly when reading before their peers. Often comorbid with reading difficulties is...
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‘Injurious to the Best Interests of Education’? Teaching and Learning Under the Intermediate Education System, 1878–1922
The personal histories of the teaching profession in Ireland have been largely unrecorded. We know very little of the daily lives of teachers and...
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Where to From Here? Analysis of Cambodia’s 2009–2013 Information Communication Technologies in Education Plan
In 2009, the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport released the Master Plan for Information and Communication Technology in Education....
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What is Science?
What is science? One of my goals for this chapter is to help you to understand what a serious and complex question this is and how history can help...
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Social, Economic and Political Condition of Brazil from Colonial to Modern Times
Around the 1530s the economic and social organizations of the Brazilian society began to crystalize. Over the previous 100 years the Portuguese had...
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A skin abscess model for teaching incision and drainage procedures
BackgroundSkin and soft tissue infections are increasingly prevalent clinical problems, and it is important for health care practitioners to be well...
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Benzoin condensation
Benzoin condensation is an important carbon-carbon bond forming reaction. It is achieved by generating an acyl anion equivalent from one aldehyde...
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Silence of the genes
The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Andrew Fire and Craig Mello for discovering “RNA interference—genesilencing by...
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ActNet - A Heterogeneous Network of Actors for Learning of Parallelism, Communication, and Synchronization
We are proposing a tool designed to help apprenticeship of parallelism and communication, for different kinds of audiences such as schools, colleges...
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Support of Sustainable Development in the Institut Pertanian Bogor
The Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB), like most State universities in Indonesia, plays an important role in the support of sustainable development...