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Pedagogy

The Strategic and Resource Implications of a New Model of Learning
A policy to initiate powerful changes to current educational arrangements. Such a transformation of learning is drawn from 5 areas of research

Schooling Context Institute, is a nonprofit research organization, that has been exploring and clarifying just what is involved in a humane sustainable culture - and how we can get there.

The Curriculum and Pedagogy Institute, University of Alberta
(CPIn) is a collaborative association of staff, graduate students and professionals who are dedicated to the pursuit of theoretical and applied issues in the areas of curriculum and pedagogy: a meta site.

Teaching and Learning on the Net
A meta site of articles on technology and its application to education.

Five Dimensions of Learning
Teaching and learning occurs in complex ecosystems, dynamic environments where teachers, students, materials and supplies, texts, technologies, concepts, social structures, and architectures are interdependently related and interactive. These five dimensions cannot be 'separated out' and treated individually; rather, they are dynamically interwoven.

Learning & Instruction: The TIP Database
TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.

Learning and Teaching
Theories of the brain and how they can be used to improve teaching styles.

Creatology: Brain Science for the 21st Century
Creatology includes the direct teaching of learning styles, thinking techniques, memory techniques, mind mapping, multiple intelligences and creativity by whole brain learning

Caring Thinking: The new intelligence
For Lipman, Caring Thinking is seen to be the third of the three 'C's' that encapsulate the nature of the gifted intellect: Creative aspect, Critical aspect, and Caring aspect.

The Society for Critical Exchange
Our various interdisciplinary projects, conferences and symposia serve to advance the role of theory in academic and intellectual arenas.

Jean Piaget Society
The Society's aim is to provide an open forum, through symposia , books , our journal , and other publications , for the presentation and discussion of scholarly work on issues related to human knowledge and its development.

Constructivism as a Paradigm for Teaching and Learning
Constructivism is basically a theory -- based on observation and scientific study -- about how people learn. It says that people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences.

The Emergence of Constructivist Compatible Pedagogies Margaret Riel.
It was found that where teachers had a collaborative role orientation rather than solely a classroom focus and where a professional culture emerged schoolwide, teachers were more likely to report engaging in teaching practices consistent with current constructivist reform ideas.

Index to Links

Accountability
Associations
Assessment Literacy
Australian Education Departments
Australian Tertiary Sector
Brain Based Learning
Bullying Prevention
Climate and Culture
Current Issues
Curriculum Development
Decision Making
Early Childhood
Educational Leadership
Emotional Intelligence
Equity and Diversity
Educational Resources
Futures Education
Governance
Indigenous Education
Leadership-New Science
Leadership Resources
Learning Styles
Learning Technologies
Local Management
Partnerships-Community
Pedagogy
Performance Management
Professionalism
Psychology
Questionnaires and Surveys
Research Methods
Rural Matters
School Reform
Schools-Commercialism
Self Assessment
Special Education
Strategic Planning
Students at Risk
Systems Thinking
Tools for Leaders
Values and Ethics
Women and Leadership

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