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The CDA Prep Guide
The Complete Review Manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The CDA Credential process has recently changed, and while the new procedure may seem overwhelming to early childhood professionals, this guide has been updated to reflect all of the new material and lays out the steps to take to earn the Credential in a less stressful, more meaningful way.
The...
by Gregory Light
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Gregory Light and Marina Micari reject the view that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are elite disciplines restricted to a small number with innate talent. Rich in concrete advice, Making Scientists offers a new paradigm of how scientific subjects can be taught at the college level to underrepresented groups.
Pledging Allegiance
The Politics of Patriotism in American's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What does it mean to be “patriotic” in the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001? And how have the prevailing notions of patriotism—loudly trumpeted in the American media—affected education in American schools? In this spirited book, renowned educational...
Reflecting Children's Lives
A Handbook for Planning Your Child-Centered Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
This book is ideal for entry-level/new preschool teachers, established preschool teachers, and course adoption in early education.
Two new chapters are included: one on child-centered guidance; one on school readiness and child-centered academic teaching. Additionally, some of the stories throughout...
Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World
An Invitation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do we see our schools and the project of education? Is this the best we can do? What would we like our schools to become? How might we get there? In this provocative book, Bill Ayers invites us to dream of schools in which each child “is of infinite and incalculable value.” Blending personal...
Voyage across a Constellation of Information
Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
What do orcs, elves, and information literacy have to do with each others? Find out in Voyage across a Constellation of Information as we take an in-depth look at information literacy practices (how people find, evaluate, and use information) in the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft...
Futures Beyond Dystopia
Creating Social Foresight
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
How can dystopian futures help provide the motivation to change the ways we operate day to day?
Futures Beyond Dystopia takes the view that the dominant trends in the world suggest a long-term decline into unliveable Dystopian futures. The human prospect is therefore very challenging, yet the perception...
The Gestalt of Leadership
A Handbook for Leaders in Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book contains several concepts, theories, and components of effective and exemplary leadership. It includes the characteristics required for that leadership: leaned and innate. It then provides real-life examples to illustrate each of those concepts, theories, and components.
by Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system—with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source, Joel Spring introduces readers to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and...
Guest Editor'S Introduction Es V40#1
J.KOZOL'S SAVAGE INEQUALAIT.
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Molly Cummings Carney, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teacher accountability has been a major strategy for “fixing” education for the last 2 decades. In this book, Cochran-Smith and her research team argue that it is time for teacher educators to reclaim accountability by adopting a new approach that features intelligent professional responsibility,...
Nurturing the Whole Student
Five Dimensions of Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Nurturing the Whole Student: Five Dimensions of Teaching and Learning begins with the assumption that education is at its best—healthiest, most engaging, and most effective—when it is holistic. By holistic , the authors mean that the various dimensions of the teacher and student are honored and...
Transforming Professional Practice
A Framework for Effective Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Educational accountability for excellence begins with educational leaders. In the past decade states have adopted revised requirements for school and district leaders in K-12 public schools with reliance on national standards like ELCC and ISLLC leadership standards. The development of Common Core...
Unequal Childhoods
Young Children's Lives in Poor Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
An expert in her field, Helen Penn discusses the inequalities between and within countries of childhood poverty and how this poverty is recognized and defined through the following case-studies:
Kazakhstan - once part of the Soviet Union
Swaziland - a country in Southern Africa devastated by...