Methods category: 10193 books
Teaching as Scholarship
Preparing Students for Professional Practice in Community Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book is about teaching for professional practice and explores ways to engage students in the classroom. It draws on the principles of rigorous scholarship and focuses on interactive learning between the class and the professor and among the students. Each contributor addresses the need to connect...
Principled Practices for Adolescent Literacy
A Framework for Instruction and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book presents an evidence-based framework for understanding the literacy needs of adolescents. The premise is that educators and other critical stakeholders need to understand evidence-based principles in order to develop effective curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners. Recommendations...
Alternative Approaches to Education
A Guide for Teachers and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Alternative Approaches to Education provides parents and teachers with information and guidance on different education options in the UK and further afield. This new and expanded edition, including additional chapters and up-to-date contact details, explains the values, philosophies and methods of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Research on middle level education indicates that student learning at the middle level has a deep and abiding influence on postsecondary opportunities and career paths. As research continues to highlight the urgency of engaging middle level students in academic learning, it is increasingly clear that...
Exemplary Elementary Social Studies
Case Studies in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In many elementary classrooms, social studies has taken a back seat to English Language Arts and Mathematics in the wake of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top This volume is not another handwringing lament. On the contrary, the elementary educators who have contributed to this volume have a positive...
When Critical Multiculturalism Meets Mathematics
A Mixed Methods Study of Professional Development and Teacher Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
When Critical Multiculturalism Meets Mathematics details the development and outcomes of a teacher professional development project that merged multiculturalism and mathematics. In six compact chapters the authors describe the impetus for their multi-year project and present rich case studies of nine...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Critical qualitative research informs social education through a lens that ensures the investigation of issues in education tied to power and privilege, ultimately leading to advocacy and activism. The concept of critical is increasingly challenged in this age of neoliberal reform; nevertheless, critical...
Reading Champs
Teaching Reading Made Easy
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Reading is one of the most important fundamental skills that children learn. Unfortunately, many children still struggle to read proficiently, leaving parents to seek alternative educational environments and educators to seek innovative teaching methods. With that in mind, seasoned reading specialist...
Literacy in the Early Years
Reflections on International Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This edited collection provides an in-depth exploration of different aspects of contemporary early childhood literacy research and the implications for educational practice. Each chapter details how the research was conducted and any issues that researchers encountered in collecting data with very...
Caring Leadership in Turbulent Times
Tackling Neoliberal Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This book analyzes education reform through the eyes of those entrenched in the process—policy makers, administrators, middle managers, principals, and teachers—in the context of care. A senior administrator, who participated in the implementation of an unprecedented series of reforms that flattened...
Constructivism and the New Social Studies
A Collection of Classic Inquiry Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The New Social Studies refers to a flurry of academic and commercial activity during the 1960s and 1970s that resulted in the mass development and dissemination of revolutionary classroom materials and teacher resources. In science as well as social studies, a spirit of “inquiry-based teaching”...
The Artful Educator
Creative, imaginative and innovative approaches to teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Is teaching an art, rather than a science? Instead of measuring education and reducing everything to data, what if we looked at it through the lens of the arts? Sue Cowley demonstrates how teachers can become artists, sculptors, actors, dancers, musicians, playwrights, poets, designers and directors,...
Morality Behind Bars
An Intervention Study on Fostering Moral Competence of Prisoners as a New Approach to Social Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Prisoners prefer moral ideals like justice and responsibility just as much as non-prisoners. However, they lack moral competence, which Georg Lind has defined as the ability to solve conflicts through deliberation and communication rather than through violence, deceit and power. The data of this experimentally...
by Alan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The Brilliant Support Activities series contains photocopiable activities for use with slower learners or pupils with learning difficulties at Key Stage 2. The books introduce one concept per sheet, using simple language and clear, black line illustrations making them easy to read and understand....