Science Education Books
Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine
The landmark dermatology text that bridges the gap between science and clinical medicine--updated for today's practice Generations of clinicians, skin biologists, residents, and educators have acclaimed Fitzpatrick's as the most authoritative and...
Fundamentals of Surgical Stimulation
This book explains in detail the behavioural science and human factors that make image guided medical procedures difficult to teach, learn and practice, and offers a new training paradigm with significant benefits for educators, students and...
Educational Games
Educational computer games are related to two disciplines, which are computer sciences (in particular, eLearning and related areas) and games development. This title proposes a pattern-based design approach to overcome the problems and challenges...
Secondary Education in the 21st Century
Gathers the research in the study of Secondary Education in the 21st Century. This title discusses topics such as the argumentation theory and its implications in secondary science learning; an examination of two secondary teachers with different...
Guide to Laser Safety
A Guide to Laser Safety is a practical guide to the safe use of lasers in science, education, industry, telecommunications, medicine and entertainment. It explains...
Foundations of Physical Education, Exercise Science, and Sport
Integrating the presentation of the nature, scope, philosophy, and history of physical education and sport with the growing career opportunities available within this...
Organizational Theory in Higher Education
Organizational Theory in Higher Education offers a fresh take on the models and lenses through which higher education can be viewed by presenting a full range of organizational theories, from traditional to current. By alternating theory and practice chapters, noted scholar Kathleen Manning vividly illustrates the operations of higher education and its administration. Manning's rich and interdisciplinary treatment enables leaders to gain a full understanding of the perspectives that operate on a college campus and ways to adopt effective practice in the context of new and continuing tensions, contexts, and challenges. Special features include: A unique presentation of each organizational model that includes both a theory chapter for contextual background and a case chapter illustrating the perspective in practice Coverage of eight organizational approaches, both traditional as well as those often excluded from the literature-organized anarchy, collegium, political, cultural, bureaucratic, new science, feminist, and spiritual.Consistent organizational elements across each theoretical chapter-including theoretical foundation, structure, metaphor, characteristics, and strengths and weaknesses-so that readers can better assess appropriate fit of theory to particular situations Questions for Discussion and Recommended Readings assist the reader to make connections to their practice and to develop an in-depth understanding of the organizational theories Organizational Theory in Higher Education provides a clear understanding of how organizational models can be used to elicit the most effective practice and to navigate the complexity of higher education today. This important book is ideal for courses in higher education administration and organizational theory and for administrators and practitioners seeking to gain insight into innovative ways to approach organizations.
U.S. Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Education
The success of the United States in the 21st century, its wealth and welfare, may depend on the ideas and skills of its population. This book explores a strategy for improving K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education...
The Inclusion of Environmental Education in Science Teacher Education
In the coming decades, the general public will be required ever more often to understand complex environmental issues, evaluate proposed environmental plans, and...
The Evolution of Science Education as a Field of Research
Research in science education is an international activity. This book uses the studies of more than 75 researchers in 15 countries to see to what extent they provide...
Mixed Methods Research in the Movement Sciences: Case Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Dance
Mixed methods research techniques, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements, have become well established throughout the social, behavioural and natural...
Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces
Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) studies the motion of air and water at several different scales, the fate and transport of species carried along by these fluids, and the interactions among those flows and geological, biological, and engineered systems. EFM emerged some decades ago as a response to the need for tools to study problems of flow and transport in rivers, estuaries, lakes, groundwater and the atmosphere; it is a topic of increasing importance for decision makers, engineers, and researchers alike. The second edition of the successful textbook "Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces" is still aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of fluid mechanical processes occurring at the different interfaces existing in the realm of EFM, such as the air-water interface, the air-land interface, the water-sediment interface, the surface water-groundwater interface, the water-vegetation interface, and the water-biological systems interface. Across any of these interfaces mass, momentum, and heat are exchanged through different fluid mechanical processes over various spatial and temporal scales.In this second edition, the unique feature of this book, considering all the topics from the point of view of the concept of environmental interface, was maintained while the chapters were updated and five new chapters have been added to significantly enlarge the coverage of the subject area. The book starts with a chapter introducing the concept of EFM and its scope, scales, processes and systems. Then, the book is structured in three parts with fifteen chapters. Part one, which is composed of four chapters, covers the processes occurring at the interfaces between the atmosphere and the surface of the land and the seas, including the transport of dust and the dispersion of passive substances within the atmosphere. Part two deals in five chapters with the fluid mechanics at the air-water interface at small scales and sediment-water interface, including the advective diffusion of air bubbles, the hyporheic exchange and the tidal bores.Finally, part three discusses in six chapters the processes at the interfaces between fluids and biotic systems, such as transport processes in the soil-vegetation-lower atmosphere system, turbulence and wind above and within the forest canopy, flow and mass transport in vegetated open channels, transport processes to and from benthic plants and animals and coupling between interacting environmental interfaces. Each chapter has an educational part, which is structured in four sections: a synopsis of the chapter, a list of keywords that the reader should have encountered in the chapter, a list of questions and a list of unsolved problems related to the topics covered by the chapter. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in environmental sciences, civil engineering and environmental engineering, (geo)physics, atmospheric science, meteorology, limnology, oceanography, and applied mathematics.
U.S. Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Education
A large majority of secondary school students fail to reach proficiency in math and science, and many are taught by teachers lacking adequate subject matter knowledge....
U.S. Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Education
The success of the United States in the 21st century, its wealth and welfare, may depend on the ideas and skills of its population. This book explores a strategy for...
Managing Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation
As entrepreneurship education expands, increasing numbers of educational institutions are requiring students in science and engineering to be taught about entrepreneurship, management and innovation. Existing textbooks in these areas are focused on business students and are often inappropriate for science and engineering students. This is the first comprehensive, rigorous and yet accessible textbook for non-business based entrepreneurship courses. Authored by a team with experience of science and industry, the book synthesises the major research in the field, providing students with the knowledge needed to enhance case discussion and analysis. In particular it links the entrepreneur with all the innovation activities necessary to turn technology into a business. This accessible text will be useful for all non-business students who need to understand entrepreneurship, management and innovation. It will also prove a useful introduction to all Masters-level students taking these subjects in business schools.
The X Factor; Personality Traits of Exceptional Science Teachers (HC)
American science education is in trouble. As the United States continues to lag behind other nations in science achievement, the question is asked: how can we better...
Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education
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