EDUCATIONAL THEORY -- EDUCATIONAL THEORY -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 ADOLESCENT EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES: DO PEER NETWORKS MATTER? -- ABSTRACT -- RELEVANT RESEARCH ON SCHOOL SEGREGATION -- RELEVANT RESEARCH ON PEER NETWORKS -- HYPOTHESES -- Data and Methods -- Dependent Variables -- INDEPENDENT VARIABLES -- Individual-Level Measures -- School-Level Variables -- Analytic Strategy -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 CONSTRUCTIVISM AS EDUCATIONAL THEORY: CONTINGENCY IN LEARNING, AND OPTIMALLY GUIDED INSTRUCTION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- A CONSTRUCTIVIST PERSPECTIVE ON LEARNING -- Meaningful Learning -- personal Meaning-Making -- ELEMENTS OF A CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY OF LEARNING -- Key Constructivist Premises -- The Genetic Element -- Pre-Wiring and Pre-Dispositions -- Cognitive Development -- Implications for Teaching: Intuitive Theories, and Alternative Conceptual Frameworks -- CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHING -- Two Types of Concepts -- Modern Ideas about Concept Development -- The Zone of Next Development -- Scaffolding Learning -- Conceptual Trajectories and Student-Centred Teaching -- CONSTRUCTIVISM AND APPROACHES TO TEACHING -- The Myth of Minimally Guided Instruction? -- Discovery Learning and Constructivist Perspectives -- Constructivism And Enquiry Learning -- CONSTRUCTIVISM AS OPTIMALLY GUIDED INSTRUCTION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 BRIDGING EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES AND SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT: IMPLEMENTATIONS AND FINDINGS FROM RESEARCH STUDIES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES -- 2.1. Virtual Theatre -- 2.1.1. Subjects -- 2.1.2. Materials -- 2.1.3. Methodology -- 2.1.4. Results -- 2.2. Educational Robotics Laboratory -- 2.2.1. Subjects -- 2.2.2. Materials -- 2.2.3. Methodology -- 2.2.4. Analysis of the Results.

2.2.5. Some Remarks on Educational Robotics Laboratory -- 2.3. Chua's Circuit Laboratory -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 ONE NIGHT IN NIGHT SCHOOL TO HIGH SCHOOL IN BRAZIL: SOME IMPRESSIONS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Development -- The Arrival -- The First Time -- The Second Time -- The Third Time -- The Playground -- Bed Time -- Fifth Time -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 PRE-SERVICE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS ABOUT MATHEMATICS PROBLEMS AND THE NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVING -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHOD -- Participants -- Data Collection Instrument -- RESULTS -- Results Regarding the Questionnaire Items -- Results Regarding the Mathematics Problems -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 SYNTHESIS OF LEARNING IN THE PATCHWORK TEXT: PATCHWORK ASSESSMENT OR PATCHED WORK ASSESSMENT? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- The Patchwork Text Assessment Method -- Is There Always Synthesis of Learning In Patchwork Assessment? -- Pre-Structural -- Uni-Structural -- Multi-Structural -- Relational -- Extended Abstract -- Proposed Implementation of a Patchwork Text as Assessment for the Study of English Literature -- Literature Teaching and the SOLO Taxonomy -- Literature Teaching, Literature Theories and the Patchwork Text -- Reader-Response Theory -- Stylistics and Language Theory -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 E-MATHS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MATHEMATICAL LEARNING -- 3. NEW EDUCATIONAL PARADIGMS -- From Remote Times, the History of the Human Being Is Developed by a Successive Chain of Steps and Sometimes Jumps, Until the Relative Sophistication of the Modern Brain and Its Culture -- 4. MATHEMATICAL GAMES AND PUZZLES -- 5. SOME RELATIONSHIPS WITH E-MATH -- 6. ABOUT FUZZY LOGIC -- 7. EDUCATION AND COMPUTING -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 8 COGNITIVE DIVERSITY IN INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATIONAL THEORY DEVELOPMENT -- ABSTRACT -- COGNITIVE DIVERSITY IN INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATIONAL THEORY DEVELOPMENT -- WHY IS EDUCATION FAR MORE COMPLEX THAN COMMONLY BELIEVED? -- EDUCATION AS A HIGHLY COMPLEX, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PHENOMENON -- EMBRACING COGNITIVE DIVERSITY IN EDUCATIONAL THEORIZING -- SOME EXAMPLES OF INTERDISCIPLINARY BORROWING THAT CAN ENRICH EDUCATIONAL THEORY -- CRITIQUES OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS -- ETHICAL PHILOSOPHERS AND PRIMATOLOGISTS MAGNIFYING ALTRUISM -- CENTRIFUGAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND IMPRECISE DEFINITIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- AUTHOR BIO -- INDEX.