Handbook of Research on Teaching and Learning in K-20 Education

Two Volumes
ISBN: 978-1-4666-4249-2
Verlag: Idea Group,U.S.

Buch, Englisch, 629 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 223 mm x 289 mm, Gewicht: 3418 g

Reihe: Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership

<em>Handbook of Research on Teaching and Learning in K-20 Education</em> provides well-rounded research in providing teaching and learning theories that can be applied to both adults and children while acknowledging the difference between both. This book serves as a comprehensive collection of expertise, research, skill, and experiences which will be useful to educators, scholars, and practitioners in the K-12 education, higher education, and adult education field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Victor C. X.

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Victor C. X. Wang</strong>, a tenured associate professor, joined the faculty at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Wang’s research and writing activities have addressed workforce education, the foundations of adult education, adult teaching and learning, training, transformative learning, cultural issues in vocational and adult education, distance education, human performance technology, instructional/administrative leadership, assessment and evaluation of learning, and curriculum development. He has published more than 150 journal articles, book chapters and books, including two encyclopedias and one handbook of research (each over 1,000 pages long) in 10 years and has been a reviewer for five national and international journals. Currently, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the <em>International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology</em>. He has won many academic achievement awards from universities in China and in the United States, including the Distinguished Faculty Scholarly & Creative Achievement Award. Dr. Wang has taught extensively as a professor in Chinese universities (1989-1997) prior to coming to study and work (Kansas, Arkansas and California, 1997-2011) in the United States. He has taught across the curriculum for the past 23 years in university settings. He has had extensive experience in chairing and mentoring doctoral dissertations. Three of the books he has written and edited have been adopted as required textbooks by major universities in the United States, and in China. In addition, numerous universities worldwide including some Ivy League Universities have cataloged his books and journal articles.