Global Voices in Education

<p>1 Prologue.- 2 Introduction.- 3 Some thoughts about teaching and learning.- 4 The concept of educational disadvantage and some implications for the classroom teacher.- 5 Utilization of new knowledge and application of new ideas in education: A discussion of the vitalization of education as a profession and discipline.- 6 Education and the changing economic and industrial order: An international perspective.- 7 Research and the improvement of teaching.- 8 Recent conceptions of children's learning: Implications for classroom practice.- 9 Measuring and monitoring educational achievement.- 10 Engaging children's minds: innovative research and practice.- 11 A personal philosophy of education.- 12 The professional education of teachers.- 13 The timeless teacher: Contemporary research and ancient models.- 14 The value of principled eclecticism in education reform: 1965 and 2005.- 15 Schooling today: Teaching competence, creativity and compassion.- 16 Mediated learning experience (MLE) strategies and children's cognitive plasticity.- 17 Epilogue.</p>