Overview
- Highlights advances in the theoretical development of comparative didactics
- Illustrates the diversity of methodological approaches for the empirical study of classroom practices
- Explores certain societal challenges faced by didactic research in a changing world
Part of the book series: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research (TPER, volume 6)
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About this book
The collection of chapters in this book supports the continuous growth of comparative research on classroom practices and addresses in a novel manner the need for including international perspectives on Didactics in teacher education programs and graduate schools in education worldwide.
Part 1 highlights the recent advances in the theoretical development of Didactics and more particularly the development of comparative didactics. Part 2 illustrates the diversity and complementarities of theoretical and methodological approaches for the empirical study of classroom practices. Part 3 maps certain societal challenges that didactic research faces in a changing world.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Theoretical Reflections on Research Orientations in Didactics
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Methods and Lenses for Exploring Teaching and Learning in the Classroom
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Didactics Meets Societal Challenges
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kirsti Klette is a distinguished professor at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo. Her research interests include research on teaching and learning, teaching quality, classroom studies and comparative studies. She has been the principal investigator for several international and comparative projects targeted classroom learning including the large-scale video study “Linking Instruction and Student Achievement” (LISA) analyzing how instructional practices in mathematics and language arts impact student learning, and the “Synthesizing Research on Teaching Quality” (SYNTEQ) summarizing how classroom video documentation develop our understanding of teaching quality. She is also the Director of the newly funded Nordic Center of Excellence “Quality in Nordic Teaching” (QUINT) drawing on comparative classroom video data from all Nordic countries. She is one of the founder of the EERA Network 27 Didactics – Learning and Teaching, and she acts as convenor of this network since 2005.
Jonas Almqvist is Professor at the Department of Education, Uppsala University in Sweden. He is the scientific director of the Research Group for Comparative Didactics. He develops research in comparative didactics with a focus on issues of teaching and learning in different subjects (mainly biology, chemistry and physics) in compulsory school and in preschool. He currently leads the international research network “Comparative didactics and professional development for teachers” funded by the Swedish Research Council. He is currently convenor of the EERA Network 27 Didactics – Learning and teaching and he acted as Deputy Link Convenor of this network in the period 2014-2021.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Didactics in a Changing World
Book Subtitle: European Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum
Editors: Florence Ligozat, Kirsti Klette, Jonas Almqvist
Series Title: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20810-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20809-6Published: 28 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20812-6Published: 28 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20810-2Published: 27 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-6691
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6705
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 239
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Curriculum Studies, Learning & Instruction