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The Data Collection Toolkit
Everything You Need to Organize, Manage, and Monitor Classroom Data
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Collecting data on behavior, academic skills, and IEP goals is an essential step in showing student progress-but it can also be a complicated, time-consuming process. Take the worry and stress out of data collection with this ultra-practical resource, packed with the tools you need to organize, manage,...
by Richard Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
The study skills in this booklet should enable students to: -1) Plan a written assignment2) Understand the different types of assignment3) Select a pertinent title4) Take into account the reader’s needs and wishes5) Pick out the differences between essay and report writing6) Avoid plagiarism7) Organize his/her work effectively
The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education
Passionate Lives in Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Pinar positions himself against three pressing problems of the profession:
the crime of collectivism that identity politics commits,
the devaluation of academic knowledge by the programmatic preoccupations of teacher education, and
the effacement of educational experience by standardized...
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
How can Academic Developers provide evidence of the effectiveness and ‘added value’ of their work to the key stakeholders within their institutions?
Written for Academic Developers, academic administrators and others responsible for promoting organizational change, Evaluating the Effectiveness...
by Daniel Wentland
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
The truth is often hard to face, but if educators and politicians continue to avoid the realities associated with the educational process, then enormous amounts of time and energy will continue to be spent chasing a variety of educational illusions. Daniel Wentland meshes economics, psychology, philosophy,...
Happiness, Hope, and Despair
Rethinking the Role of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. Happiness, Hope, and Despair argues, however, that education has an important role to play in deepening our understanding of suffering and despair as well as happiness...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars offer new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy in schools and higher education. The goal is to open up...
We're In This Together
Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
We’re In This Together: Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education is a timely book that explores the use by public schools of private education companies to meet the needs of some of the nation’s most challenged and challenging students. The book examines variations of use by...
When Research Matters
How Scholarship Influences Education Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
When Research Matters considers the complex and crucially important relationship between education research and policy.
In examining how and under what conditions research affects education policy, the book focuses on a number of critical issues: the history of the federal role in education...
by Jay W. Rojewski
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Development of this text has been based on the notion that workforce education and development (WFED) systems—such as, secondary and postsecondary vocational and technical education (VTE), career education and guidance, human resource and organizational development (HROD), and adult training and...
Conducting Hermeneutic Research
From Philosophy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philosophical hermeneutic perspective. It is an invaluable resource for graduate students about to embark in hermeneutic research and for academics or other researchers...
Mentoring
The key to a fairer world
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
When Jack Manning Bancroft founded AIME in 2005, building a bridge of mentoring between university students and Indigenous Australian high school kids, few people would have predicted that the initial cohort of 25 kids would grow to more than 15,000 students having completed the program by 2017, mentored...
Educating Marginalized Communities in East and Southeast Asia
State, civil society and NGO partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Despite the enshrinement by the United Nations in 1948 of education as a universal human right, and despite the ideals espoused in the Education for All declaration in Dakar in 1990, it is patently clear that these ideals remain far from realized for a substantial portion of humankind. Especially...
Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States
Searching for a New Model in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Buddhist-Based Universities in the United States: Searching for a New Model in Higher Education investigates four Buddhist universities in the United States, each of which offers degrees in liberal arts and professional fields while simultaneously educating their students in the philosophy and practices...