PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING AND TEACHER ISSUES Rookmin Maharaj

Sunday, January 13, 2008 - Dr. Rookmin Maharaj
PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING AND TEACHER ISSUES

Teaching is a profession which is so enormous and so packed with significance that the issues related to it have a consistently high ranking with members of society in virtually every public opinion poll. These issues include multicultural education, teacher training and accreditation, burn-out, teaching under conditions particular to a worldwide certain country, student behavior and preparation, computers in the classroom, parental influence on the teaching process, the changing curriculum and its meaning for teaching, budgetary problems, and a multitude of similar issues. This new book presents issues current to the field from educators and researchers from around the globe.

Table of Contents: Chapter 4.-

Developing Critical Thinking Skills through the use of Computer-Mediated Conferencing; pp. 79-99