Education category: 70663 books
Understanding Contemporary Education
Key themes and issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Understanding Contemporary Education offers an essential exploration of key concepts and issues in education that will allow education studies students, as well as trainee and practising teachers to engage in reflection, not only on work at the classroom level, but on education more broadly. Using...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to arts education across the world. It is divided into six sections; Contextualising Arts Education, Globally and Locally; Arts Education, Curriculum, Policy and Schooling; Arts Education Across the Life Span; Arts Education...
by Fazal Rizvi, Bob Lingard
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Rizvi and Lingard's account of the global politics of education is thoughtful, complex and compelling. It is the first really comprehensive discussion and analysis of global trends in education policy, their effects - structural and individual - and resistance to them. In the enormous body of writing...
Paying for Education
Debating the Price of Progress
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Which type of education should we pay for?
How much education should we pay for?
Can we buy knowledge about how to improve education?
Uniquely presenting a general overview of economic principles applicable to all sectors of education, Paying for Education makes key economic ideas...
Transcendental Learning
The Educational Legacy of Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Transcendental Learning discusses the work of five figures associated with transcendentalism concerning their views on education. Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau all taught at one time and held definite views about education. The book explores these conceptions with chapters on each of...
Creative Physical Education
Integrating Curriculum Through Innovative PE Projects
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Creative Physical Education offers a flexible extended learning experience for children and teens that focuses on physical, cognitive, and interpersonal knowledge and skill development. A combination teacher’s guide and student workbook, Creative Physical Education has everything you need, including...
Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
In elementary schools across the United States, teachers are often tasked with teaching health education or physical education, although they may not have specialist training. Health and Physical Education for Elementary Classroom Teachers: An Integrated Approach is the perfect resource for these...
Multicultural Science Education
Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This book offers valuable guidance for science teacher educators looking for ways to facilitate preservice and inservice teachers’ pedagogy relative to teaching students from underrepresented and underserved populations in the science classroom. It also provides solutions that will better equip...
Engaging Civic Engagement
Framing the Civic Education Movement in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Civic education in higher education is housed in various types of institutions (i.e., community colleges, four year universities, public and private institutions), institutional offices, academic departments, and larger, cross-campus initiatives and organizations. Civic education programs promote...
by Joseph Winnick, David L. Porretta
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The field of adapted physical education and sport has undergone numerous changes in recent years. This new edition of Adapted Physical Education and Sport will help you stay on top of those changes and, in doing so, provide the highest-quality physical education and sport opportunities for students...
Handbook of Arts Education and Special Education
Policy, Research, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The Handbook of Arts Education and Special Education brings together, for the first time in a single reference volume, policy, research, and practices in special education and arts education synthesized to inform stakeholders across a broad spectrum of education. This handbook encompasses arts education...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
The Politics of Education Reforms, which is the ninth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses concerning the politics of education reforms globally. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet...
Education for All
The Future of Education and Training for 14-19 Year-Olds
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
There are two key questions at the heart of the ongoing debate about education and training for all young people, irrespective of background, ability or attainment:
What counts as an educated 19 year old today?
Are the models of education we have inherited from the past sufficient to meet...
Debating Moral Education
Rethinking the Role of the Modern University
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic...