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School Climate and Culture vis-à-vis Student Learning
Keys to Collaborative Problem Solving and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
The purpose of School Climate and Culture vis-à-vis Student Learning is to describe a reform that improves test scores, reduces dropouts and decreases bullying behavior. There are six areas that must be improved in order to accomplish this purpose. These six areas are the following: discipline, basic...
The Evolution of Teaching
A Guidebook to the Advancement of Teaching, Teacher Education, and Happier Careers for Early Career Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Evolution of Teaching invites teachers to rethink what teachers and schools do. The need to rethink the role of teachers is driven by an abundance of data showing that teachers are increasingly unhappy with their work. Most critically, they feel a loss of control over their work and their profession...
Understanding Poverty in the Classroom
Changing Perceptions for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
People who live in poverty consider life in different ways than those who have adequate basic resources. Many educators tend to see the world through their middle-class worldview. Because of this, they do not understand these significant and often rational differences. They may misinterpret behavior...
More than a Curriculum
Education for Peace and Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Exploring the field of peace education, the bulk of the book analyzes and critically evaluates contemporary schools and universities. Providing some successful and notsosuccessful alternative school and university projects and experiments, the book proposes peace and development education as a life...
Is Everyone Really Equal?
An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education.
Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource...
The Wrong Kind of Different
Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can multiculturalism go wrong? Through extensive interviews conducted in a large Midwestern district, Antonia Randolph explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of “colorblind multiculturalism.” She...
Critical Pedagogies of Consumption
Living and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse"
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
"Utopian in theme and implication, this book shows how the practices of critical, interpretive inquiry can help change the world in positive ways…. This is the promise, the hope, and the agenda that is offered."--Norman K. Denzin, From the Foreword
"Its focus on learning, education...
Languages of Education
Protestant Legacies, National Identities, and Global Aspirations
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
In this landmark contribution to the study of the formation of the modern school, Daniel Tröhler applies one of the most recognized methods of historical research to an analysis of the "language" of the academic discipline of education. Arguing the value of looking at languages rather than...
by Douglas Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Educational planning should be based on realistic assumptions concerning the children that enter our classrooms. We must recognize that they are a diverse group and that a one-size-fits-all approach in not going to work very well for many students. The notion that all children can live up to a single...
Teaching By Numbers
Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Over the last decade the transformation in the field of education that is occurring under the twin banners of "standards" and "accountability" has materially affected every aspect of schooling, teaching, and teacher education in the United States. Teaching By Numbers, offers interdisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Education, Capitalism and the Global Crisis focuses on Andrew Gamble’s book The Spectre at the Feast and its analysis of the background to, conduct of, and possible consequences and opportunities brought about by, the current global economic crisis. The views expressed represent a range of responses...
Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory
The "Fascinating Imaginative Realm" of William E. Doll, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The first collection of the key works of the major curriculum studies scholar William E. Doll, Jr., this volume provides an overview of his scholarship over his fifty-year career and documents the theoretical and practical contribution he has made to the field . The book is organized in five thematic...
by William E. Doll Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Doll draws relationships among the ideas advanced in chaos theory, Piagetian epistemology, cognitive theory, and the work of Dewey and Whitehead. In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear,...
Education Networks
Power, Wealth, Cyberspace, and the Digital Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools. Joel Spring documents and examines the economic and political interests and forces —including elite networks, the for-profit education industry,...