Cooperative learning is one of the most widespread and fruitful areas of theory, research,
and practice in education. Reviews of the research, however, have focused either on the …

National governments and employers have argued that it is important for all sectors of
education to prepare individuals who are able to think well and for themselves.'Good …

This entry includes the following topics: the defining properties of the bioecological model;
the model applied; developmental science in the discovery mode; some concrete examples; …

This essay argues that the success of organizations depends on their ability to design
themselves as social learning systems and also to participate in broader learning systems …

In today's fast changing and interconnected global world, researchers in a variety of areas
have come to see identity as an important analytic tool for understanding schools and …

Publisher Summary Research on self-regulated learning (SRL) and measurement protocols
used in this chapter are relatively new and inherently intertwined enterprises. Each helps to …

Multiliteracies considers the future of literacy teaching in the context of the rapidly changing
English language. Questions are raised about what constitutes appropriate literacy teaching …

This book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the
learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. The book is divided into a …

This article is about classroom assessment—not the kind of assessments used to give
grades or to satisfy the accountability demands of an external authority, but rather the kind of …

This updated and revised edition of Hamers and Blanc's successful textbook presents state-
of-the-art knowledge about languages in contact from individual bilingualism (or bilinguality) …