Full Description
This proposed volume will profile research projects and methods that are at the top of the innovation curve in terms of their implications for teaching and teacher education. Chapters included in this volume include profiles of cutting edge work on methodological possibilities of studying diversity in online settings, engaging diverse adolescents and their parents in online coursework, working effectively with adolescents in need of credit recovery, pre-empting failure with the practical use of blended coursework for young children, supporting students with various types of disabilities in online settings, problematizing and unpacking the work of teachers in online settings as they plan for and attend to the needs of students who have not succeeded in traditional school situations, examining issues of glocality and ecosophia as pedagogical stances, and framing the work of teacher educators as they conceptualize curriculum to meet the needs of diverse students in taking online courses and thriving in virtual learning environments.
Contents
Exploring Pedagogies for Diverse Learners Online.
List of Contributors.
Exploring Pedagogies for Diverse Learners Online.
Copyright page.
Advances in Research on Teaching.
University of Kansas Editorial Team.
Foreword.
Section Introduction: Promises of Digital Technology for Teaching and Learning.
Digital Technologies and Diverse Learning in Teacher Education: Reassembling the Social Perspective.
Section Introduction: Reimagining Support for Online Learners.
Parental Engagement in Online Learning Environments: A Review of the Literature.
Rhetorical Constructions of Parents by Online Learning Companies: A Study of Parent Testimonials.
Providing Chances for Students to Recover Credit: Is Online Learning a Solution?.
Section Introduction: Thinking about Online Practice.
Ecosophic Teaching Using a Pedagogy of the Glocal.
Mapping Relational Models for Online Teacher Preparation and Professional Development.
With New Eyes: Online Teachers' Sacred Stories of Students with Disabilities.
Afterword.
Blended Learning for Students with Disabilities: The North Carolina Virtual Public School's Co-Teaching Model.
About the contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Editor's Notes.
Resource Students' Use of Internet Inquiry Strategies in an Online Inquiry Project.
