Empowering Educators Proven Principles and Successful Strategies

Empowering educators can be understood in two ways simultaneously: educators who work effectively and successfully to empower their students and thereby the families and communities to whom their students belong; and the need for these same educators to be themselves empowered by means of appropriate resources and support, relevant professional development opportunities and access to up-to-date research to enhance their content and pedagogical knowledge. The distinctiveness of this book's approach lies in the range of teaching and learning 'hot topics' and 'wicked problems' that each chapter draws on to explore these parallel manifestations of empowering educators. The book presents a number of proven principles and successful strategies that have been demonstrated by rigorous research to be effective in assisting teachers to carry out their fundamental mission of helping their students to achieve significant learning outcomes.

Kevin Larkin is Lecturer in Mathematics Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Australia. He is the current Vice-President Communications for the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia.

Marta Kawka is Lecturer in Visual Arts, Media Arts and Technologies Education in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Australia and an artist.
 
Karen Noble is Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) in the Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Henriette van Rensburg is Associate Professor (Special Education) in the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
 
Lyn Brodie is Associate Dean (Students) in the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Patrick Alan Danaher is Associate Dean (Research and Research Training) in the Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He is also currently Adjunct Professor in the School of Education and the Arts in the Higher Education Division at CQUniversity, Australia.

Foreword; Marc Clarà

1. Empowering Educators; Promoting Enabling Teaching and Learning in Research and Practice; Kevin Larkin, Marta Kawka, Karen Noble, Henriette van Rensburg, Lyn Brodie and Patrick Alan Danaher

2. Investigating Inquiry Pedagogy: Cracking The Code of Learning; Brad McLennan and Karen Peel

3. Transformative Pedagogy in Preparing Teachers through the Study of Immigrant Experiences; June A. Gordon

4. Neuroscientific Possibilities for Mainstream Educators; Jennifer McIntyre

5. The Homogenising Effect of Standardised Curriculum on Pedagogy; Yvonne Salton

6. Teachers' and Counsellors' Transformative Practices in an Age of Standardisation; Deborah A Day and Ann Vibert

7. Empowering Educators through Professional Learning; Jeanne Keay and Christine Lloyd

8. Self-Identified Teaching Styles of Junior Development and Club Professional Tennis Coaches in Australia; Mitchell Hewitt and Ken Edwards

9. Voices from Sudan: The Use of Electronic Puzzles in an Adult Refugee Community Learning; Henriette van Rensburg and Betty Adcock