Aims Objectives category: 994 books
Embodied Wisdom
Meditations on Memoir and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Embodied wisdom: Meditations on memoir and education by Alison Pryer, Ph.D. explores the interconnectedness of body, mind and spirit within diverse educational contexts. Evocative, sensual prose carries the reader on a journey through the personal and the remembered in a layered series of autobiographical...
Healthy Schools
The Hidden Component of Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Creating conditions for better teaching and learning to occur has become an important responsibility for today’s school leaders. Principals must attend to building and sustaining healthy school cultures.
The authors take the reader on a journey through several different situations that occur at...
by Joanna Bull, Colleen McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
The rapid development and integration of computer-assisted assessment (CAA) in mainstream post-compulsory educational institutions today make this an exciting and invaluable reference text. It provides a practical, research-based guide on a subject that is becoming increasingly important as educational...
Lessons from the Teachers for a New Era Project
Evidence and Accountability in Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Chronicling a high-profile and ambitious teacher preparation reform project that took place across 11 diverse U.S. institutions, this volume examines the strategies, program changes, accomplishments, and challenges from the Teachers for a New Era Project (TNE). TNE aimed to improve the preparation...
Sourcebook of Experiential Education
Key Thinkers and Their Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Experiential education is a philosophy and methodology for building knowledge, developing skills, and clarifying values by engaging learners in direct experience and focused reflection. To understand experiential education, what should one be reading? This sourcebook introduces philosophers, educators,...
Teaching, Pedagogy, and Learning
Fertile Ground for Campus and Community Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Teaching, Pedagogy, and Learning: Fertile Ground for Campus and Community Innovations brings together narratives of pedagogical innovation aimed at increasing student engagement and performance and bolstering faculty teaching effectiveness and satisfaction. These trans-disciplinary, trans-pedagogical...
Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education
Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This book spotlights six themes or «lenses» for understanding and analyzing education and its relation to oppression and anti-oppressive transformation. It brings together multiple perspectives on anti-oppressive education from various contexts, including K-12 schools, teacher education programs,...
Making our Schools the Best in the World
Re-imagining Education Outside the Proverbial Box
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
This book answers the questions on what must be done to meet the educational goals required to maintain our democratic form of government, provide the knowledge and skills required for our free enterprise system, and to give each individual, as Lincoln said, “an unfettered start and fair change...
What Works in Girls' Education
Evidence for the World's Best Investment
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls.
Gene Sperling, author of the seminal 2004 report published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and Rebecca Winthrop, director of the Center for Universal...
Doing Good
Inspiring Activities and Ideas for Young People to Make the World a Better Place
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
“When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.” —His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama
Are young people more interested in Snapchat than actually talking to each other? Is the local mall the first place families think of to go when they want to be happy?...
by Billie F. Birnie
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
A Guide to Organizational Strategies for Thinking and Writing offers teachers and students ten patterns for arranging ideas that will expand their repertoire of organizational skills. Each pattern is illustrated by passages that model the strategy, and each is accompanied by an assignment that invites...
The Validation Plan
Awakening and Incorporating the Essential Virtues for a Good Life Leading to Respect, Harmony, and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Whether we like to think about it or not, our nations culture is awash with negativity, incivility, insults, bickering, self-centeredness, violence, deaths, and hate groups. But there is a way to counteract these societal harms and resulting behaviors. In The Validation Plan, author James E. Pirkle,...
Engaging Eager and Reluctant Learners
STEM Learning in Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This book will help educators design STEM programs and lessons that foster teamwork and thinking while getting students actively involved in their own learning. There are many practical ideas and lesson plans that will help teachers reach both eager and reluctant learners. The suggestions for STEM...
Focused Portfolios(tm)
A Complete Assessment for the Young Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
Offers an innovative method to accurately document children's growth and development by observing them in the midst of their everyday activities. Used for years in programs across the country, this easy-to-use system helps teachers assess children's progress in four areas (Favorites, Friends, Family,...