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An UnCommon Theory of School Change
Leadership for Reinventing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is for educators who believe that schools need to be improved and are hopeful that real change can be achieved. The authors argue that if educators want to create more equitable, socially just, and learner-focused schools, then they need a more robust, transformational theory of school change—an...
A Political Sociology of Educational Knowledge
Studies of Exclusions and Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Bringing together the sociology of knowledge, cultural studies, and post-foundational and historical approaches, this book asks what schooling does, and what are its limits and dangers. The focus is on how the systems of reason that govern schooling embody historically generated rules and standards...
Guide pratique de l'école primaire et maternelle en Belgique
Guide pratique à l'usage des parents
Language: French
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Les programmes et les apprentissages enfin expliqués aux parents.La scolarité maternelle et primaire est un des moments les plus importants dans la vie de nos enfants, elle conditionnera bien souvent tout le reste de leur vie.Mais l’école a changé et change encore. Elle suscite beaucoup de questions...
Prove It!
Achieving Quality Recognition for Your Early Childhood Program
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Pursuing third-party endorsements and accreditation is a significant undertaking for child care centers and preschools. Prove It! guides practitioners through the process of preparation, connecting criteria to classroom practices—including hygiene practices, quality interactions, quality learning...
by Ivan Illich
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Este libro es una crítica a la educación tal y como se lleva a cabo en las economías "modernas". Lleno de observaciones críticas sobre los planes de estudios de su tiempo, el libro puede parecer desfasado, pero sus afirmaciones y propuestas básicas siguen siendo tan radicales y certeras...
Teaching that Matters
Engaging Minds, Improving Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Teaching that Matters invites principals and teachers to make changes that will allow all students to succeed. Thoms urges administrators and teachers to reconsider traditional practices in light of today’s media-driven culture and digitally wired students. While sensitive to the challenges schools...
Arts Education and Curriculum Studies
The Contributions of Rita L. Irwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Highlighting Rita L. Irwin’s significant work in the fields of curriculum studies and arts education, this collection honors her well-known contribution of a/r/tography to curriculum studies in the form of arts based educational research and, beyond this, her contributions towards understanding...
by Wendy Banning, Ginny Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Early child care providers and educators, including preschool teachers, child care centers, and kindergarten teachers, will find this book to be a useful resource. It may also be used in academic settings as a textbook in courses such as early childhood, human development, preschool/kindergarten curriculum,...
See You When We Get There
Young Teachers Working for Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Gregory Michie’s first bestseller, Holler If You Hear Me, put him on the map as a compelling and passionate voice in urban education. In his new book, Michie turns his attention to young teachers of color, and once again provides readers with a unique and penetrating look inside public school classrooms....
Maximum Impact Education
Six Strategies to Raise Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Have high schools killed the American Dream?
Across America 857 unmotivated and unskilled students drop out of school each hour of every school day. Billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted. Solutions for this national disaster have eluded educators for decades.
Until now.
In Maximum...
Excursions and Recursions
Through Power, Privilege, and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public moral leadership in schools and society. Accordingly,...
Complexifying Curriculum Studies
Reflections on the Generative and Generous Gifts of William E. Doll, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
The essays in this volume bring together leading-edge scholars to illuminate the work of William E. Doll, Jr., as a key curriculum thinker of global impact, and introduce his work and influence to new generations of scholars, teachers, and students of education. Drawing on their individual contexts,...
Worth Striking For
Why Education Policy is Every Teacher's Concern (Lessons from Chicago)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Written by activist educators, Worth Striking For speaks to teachers and teachers-to-be about the drastic changes in the landscape of public education in recent decades and focuses on what they need to know about the debates and complex issues of reform affecting their lives and professions.The...
Dysconscious Racism, Afrocentric Praxis, and Education for Human Freedom: Through the Years I Keep on Toiling
The selected works of Joyce E. King
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
A dynamic leader and visionary teacher/scholar, Joyce E. King has made important contributions to the knowledge base on preparing teachers for diversity, culturally connected teaching and learning, and inclusive transformative leadership for change, often in creative partnership with communities....