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by Kym Kostos
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
As a parent you wonder how you will pick the best school for your child to attend? You have three choices as a parent; public, private or home schooling. Even if you are paying tuition for a school, the deciding factors are always important. In Volume 1, I will go over the three types of...
Digital citizenship education
Volume 1: Overview and new perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Supporting children and young people to participate safely, effectively, critically and responsibly in a world filled with social media and digital technologies is a priority for educators the world over. Most young people in Europe today were born and have grown up in the digital era. Education authorities...
The Handbook of the Evolving Research of Transformative Learning
Based on the Learning Activities Survey (10th Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Associate Editor: Seamus King This handbook is a much expanded version of the original Learning Activities Survey published by Dr. Kathleen P. King of Fordham University in 1998. Based on her ground breaking research in this field where she used a mixed methodology research approach to study transformative...
by Kafi Kumasi
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
A series of questions about libraries posed by youth and answered by future librarians at Wayne State University; practicing librarians; and library science professors. Edited by Kafi D. Kamasi, Ph.D., with a foreword by Carl A. Harvey, II, President of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).
by Christopher Waterworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Do we buy technology in schools without questioning why? How many times have you been amazed by a piece of technology? If you're like me, then quite often! I love technology, I love the way it has changed the way I work, how it has inspired me and how it has enabled me to publish things I never...
Seven Times Smarter
50 Activities, Games, and Projects to Develop the Seven Intelligences of Your Ch ild
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What Is Smart?
There's evidence of so much more than "reading, writing, and 'rithmetic" in every child -- at least seven distinct intelligences, according to the theory of multiple intelligences, developed by Harvard's Dr. Howard Gardner. In Seven Times Smarter, veteran educator Laurel Schmidt...
Small Schools, Education, and the Importance of Community
Pathways to Improvement and a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Small Schools, Education, and the Importance of Community focuses on three successful approaches for using the school as a catalyst for community development and revitalization, particularly in rural areas. The strategies also work well in suburban and urban areas. The three approaches described include:...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What comes after the reconceptualization of curriculum studies? What is the contribution of the next wave of curriculum scholars? Comprehensive and on the cutting edge, this Handbook speaks to these questions and extends the conversation on present and future directions in curriculum studies through...
Becoming Activist
Critical Literacy and Youth Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Becoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City. Intentionally polyvocal, the voices of the five youth are featured prominently to highlight the shifting articulation...
The Good School
How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Award-winning education journalist Peg Tyre mines up-to-the-minute research to equip parents with the tools and knowledge necessary to get their children the best education possible
We all know that the quality of education served up to our children in U.S. schools ranges from outstanding to...
by John Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities,...
Empowering Education
Critical Teaching for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively adapts the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for North American classrooms. In Empowering Education Shor offers a comprehensive theory and practice...
by Kenneth M. Zeichner
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
"… Clear, articulate, and cogent….[Zeichner] exhibits a commitment to a vision of social justice that rightly demands the very best both from society and from those of us who work in schools, communities, and teacher education institutions." -- Michael W. Apple, From the Foreword
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Transformative Language Arts, an emerging field and profession, calls on us to use writing, storytelling, theater, music, expressive and other arts for social change, personal growth, and culture shift. In this landmark anthology, Transformative Language Artists share their stories, scholarship and...