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Education Reform
A Self-Scrutinizing Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Professor Sarason candidly confronts his “errors of omission and commission, mistakes, and emphases” in his half-century involvement in educational reform. No other major figure in this arena has made public such a searching self-critique. Sharing his thoughts about the future of...
The Power of the Image
Emotion, Expression, Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
We think primarily in images, and only secondarily in words, while both the image and the word are preceded by the bodily, the visceral, the muscular. This holds even for mathematical thinking. It is the entire motor system, including facial expressions and bodily gestures, that underlies not just...
CriticalService Learning as a Revolutionary Pedagogy
An International Project of Student Agency in Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This volume will be a valuable resource to instructors who teach in the fields of teacher education, social studies, educational leadership, social work, social, cultural and philosophical foundations of education, sociology, political science, and global studies as well as their students. Due to...
Strategien der Lehrerbildung / Strategies for Teacher Training
Zur Steigerung von Lehrkompetenzen und Unterrichtsqualitaet / Concepts for Improving Skills and Quality of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Der Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beiträgen der XX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung, die vom Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen, der Litauischen Universität für Bildungswissenschaften in Vilnius (LEU) und der Pädagogischen...
Multiple Competencies and Selfregulated Learning
Implications for Multicultural Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Although cultural diversity in classrooms is hardly a new phenomenon, its influences on teaching and learning are increasingly discussed. Cultural diversity could lead to better learning and democracy outcomes. However, it also poses challenges for educators and schools. For example, research has...
The Right to Teach
Creating Spaces for Teacher Agency
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
The current accountability environment of education in the US has focused on the discussions of improving the quality of educational outcomes based on a set of assumptions that exclude the perspectives of the teacher. This book fills important gaps in the educational reform rhetoric from a theoretical...
The Discourse of Character Education
Culture Wars in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
In this book Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s.
The goal is to uncover the ideological...
Who Benefits From Special Education?
Remediating (Fixing) Other People's Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Who Benefits From Special Education?: Remediating (Fixing) Other People's Children addresses the negative consequences of labeling and separating education for students with "disabilities," the cultural biases inherent in the way that we view children's learning difficulties, the social...
Socially Responsible Literacy
Teaching Adolescents for Purpose and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers a new vision for teaching literacy to adolescents that moves beyond reading for its own sake and toward reading as a way to motivate students to connect with their world. The authors draw on the voices of adolescent readers to discover how teachers can encourage their students to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
In this volume in the IAP series on Advances in ServiceLearning Research, top researchers present recent work studying aspects of program development, student and community outcomes, and future research directions in the field of servicelearning and community engagement. These chapters, selected through...
by Denis Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Now in its fifth edition, Foundations of Primary Teaching will be an essential resource for any trainee or practicing primary teacher. Written in a friendly and accessible manner, this book has been updated in line with the new curriculum and provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of...
Education is Special for Everyone
How Schools can Best Serve all Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom. Teacher evaluations are now based on how students perform in their classrooms on yearly standardized tests. The advent of integrating students with special...
The Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm
Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation? Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a radically new model for helping students respond...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Teacher Educators as Members of an Evolving Profession focuses on the overall role of teacher educators who might be seen as leaders involved in the transformation of schools and schooling in a manner appropriate for the requirements of the 21st century. Teacher education is perceived in this book...