While academic, cultural, and racial identities have been important concepts in sociocultural theories of learning and development, less attention has been given to political identity. Research on political identities in education tends to be limited to critical pedagogy or civic education contexts, leaving unexamined the role of political…

The resources presented in this chapter are based on video presenting a variety of practices. This design is based on classroom videos, collected as data in research studies on science classroom practices in relation to students' learning. The first part of the chapter will present the analysis of a 10th grade physics classroom during a teaching…

This research aims to examine the eligibility of and responses from expert media, expert material, practitioners and students' on the 'Fun and Educative' biology module. The module was developed in a fun and educative way presenting various educative games. The research development model is using ADDIE model that consists of five phases: Analysis,…

The 21st century educational platform clamors for the affordance of learner autonomy and empowerment more than control and coercion. This study, therefore considers the reading preferences, motivations, issues, and other factors that govern the choice of literary texts from the perspectives of students towards designing a relevant literature…

Though school is out for the summer, ninth- and tenth-grade students at Union Intermediate High School are burning off energy playing a game of tag on the soccer field. But that is not all they are doing. They are also synthesizing and applying key chemistry concepts they have just learned related to the conditions of the early solar system. They…