The main focus of this volume is to increase our understanding of the "learning turn" referring, in this book, to the frequent occurrence and usage of terms in the last few decades where the word "learning" is the premodifier, such as "learning city" and "learning organization".

From "learning toy" and "learning society" to "learning city" and "learning organization", what is meant by "learning"? The main focus of this volume is to increase our understanding of the "learning turn" referring, in this book, to the frequent occurrence and usage of terms in the last few decades where the word "learning" is the premodifier. The authors also offer insights into the use of the word "learning" as a premodifier in the future and discuss what, if anything, may replace it, such as "knowledge" (as in "knowledge management") and "smart" (as in "smart city"). An extensive range of academic disciplines are covered including political science, economics, human geography, philosophy, linguistics, higher education, working life science, management and organization, and marketing. While a single, overall, unified conclusion is not provided, Making Sense of the Learning Turn presents a variety of voices and perspectives. Some contributors are critical towards the learning turn, explaining it in terms of fashion-following, manipulation, and seduction. Others interpret the learning turn more lightly or suggest a more collective form of learning as an alternative to the individualization of learning that some authors argue has been the case thus far.

This is a very applied companion text to Making Choices for Multicultural Education by Sleeter & Grant. It is based on the five major approaches to multicultural education; especially on the Social Reconstructionist approach advocated in Making Choices for Multicultural Education. This text educates readers on how to take existing lesson plans and re-work them to become multicultural. A discussion explaining why the changes were made follows each lesson plan.

Increasing numbers of adults, looking for some higher meaning in life, are turning to religion for answers. In this book, Linda J. Vogel explores the growing movement toward adult religious education and, drawing on her knowledge from the field of adult learning and development, offers strategies for teaching adults in both Christian and non-Christian settings.

Evidence Based Teaching brings together UK developed strategies, ideas, and advice providing general principles for teaching as well as very specific methods, all of which can substantially improve teaching and a few of which are in common use in the UK. The book demonstrates how to teach school effectiveness and school improvement research. It also shows how to teach thinking skills, multiple representations, and constructivism. The book also examines the best practice in UK university and further education (FE) teaching.

This book focusses on what we know and how we think about workplace learning. It is about understanding the complex and multifaceted field of learning at work and in settings related to employment. It attempts to bring together what is currently known about research on workplace learning in ways which are helpful to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. In particular it focuses on the needed research agenda in this area. The book seeks to capture the rich and varied work which has been undertaken on the increasingly important phenomenon of workplace learning and to describe it in ways which make it accessible. It aims to generate discussion about directions for development of workplace learning and research associated with it.

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 1993 annual conference of the Association of Educational and Training Technology. The contributors address fundamental issues in course design, policy and practice, particularly with regard to the efficiency of new systems.

Discusses the learning and teaching of mathematics in light of the recommendations set forth in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematic's standards.