Curricula category: 1261 books
Nationalism and History Education
Curricula and Textbooks in the United States and France
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
History education, by nature, transmits an ‘official’ version of national identity. National identity is not a fixed entity, and controversy over history teaching is an essential part of the process of redefining and regenerating the nation. France and the United States have in particular experienced...
by Arthur T. Costigan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Most pre-service education students are enthusiastic about the progressive, constructivist, and student-centered theory and practice advocated in many teacher education programs and by the National Council of Teachers of English. Yet in actual day-to-day practice, teachers often have trouble thinking...
Social Justice, the Common Core, and Closing the Instructional Gap
Empowering Diverse Learners and Their Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
There is little doubt that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a controversial entity. They are provocative for the way in which they have been developed, for the ways they are being implemented and evaluated, for their content, and for their failure to explicitly consider the needs, interests,...
Opportunity to Learn, Curriculum Alignment and Test Preparation
A Research Review
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement. In addition, it presents an elaborate conceptual map in which OTL is regarded as part of a larger concept of curriculum alignment. Major components...
Sustainability Education
Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
How do we equip learners with the values, knowledge, skills, and motivation to help achieve economic, social and ecological well-being? How can universities make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future? Amid rising expectations on HE from professional associations, funders, policy makers,...
A Creative Approach to the Common Core Standards
The Da Vinci Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A Creative Approach to the Common Core Standards: The Da Vinci Curriculum challenges educators to design programs that boldly embrace the Common Core State Standards by imaginatively drawing from the genius of great men and women such as Leonardo da Vinci. A central figure in the High Renaissance,...
Curriculum, Culture and Citizenship Education in Wales
Investigations into the Curriculum Cymreig
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This book explores how culture and citizenship are theorised, promoted and learned throughout schools in Wales. Following a brief history of Welsh education and a discussion of how contemporary cultural identity is theorised through citizenship education curricula, it illustrates how archaic approaches...
The Great Civilized Conversation
Education for a World Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Having spent decades teaching and researching the humanities, Wm. Theodore de Bary is well positioned to speak on its merits and reform. Believing a classical liberal education is more necessary than ever, he outlines in these essays a plan to update existing core curricula by incorporating classics...
Curriculum and the Holocaust
Competing Sites of Memory and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
In this book, Morris explores the intersection of curriculum studies, Holocaust studies, and psychoanalysis, using the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation. Arguing that memory is the larger category under which history is subsumed, she examines the ways in which the Holocaust is...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
In this volume teacher educators explicitly and implicitly share their visions for the purposes, experiences, and commitments necessary for social studies teacher preparation in the twenty-first century. It is divided into six sections where authors reconsider: 1) purposes, 2) course curricula, 3)...
Art and Social Justice Education
Culture as Commons
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Art and Social Justice Education offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked...
by Murray Print
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
This book has been written to provide a current, practical, Australian-based approach to designing and developing curriculum. The demands of schools and educational systems today are such that teachers with practical curriculum skills are highly valued and this book provides a vital source for teachers...
Controversy in the Classroom
The Democratic Power of Discussion
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind, one of the most serious effects has been for educators to worry about the politics of what they are teaching and how they are teaching it. As a result, many dedicated teachers choose to avoid controversial...
by Andrew Auge, Geoffrey Bateman, Harry C. Boyte
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Climate Change across the Curriculum examines ways of thinking and conveying information about climate change across university curricula and within academic disciplines. The contributors provide methods, strategies, rationales, and theoretical justifications for teaching climate issues at the university...