Curricula category: 1261 books
The Critical Merits of Young Adult Literature
Coming of Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This examination of the literary effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective answers two key questions asked by many teachers and scholars in the field: Does young adult literature stand up on its own as literature? Is it worthy of close study?
The...
Religion in the Public Schools
Negotiating the New Commons
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Since September 11, 2001, the profile of religion's role in our global society has increased significantly. Religion has long been a force in people's lives as numerous studies and polls show, yet we continue to struggle with understanding differing religious traditions and what they mean for our...
The Classroom
Encounter and Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
What goes on in a classroom? can mean "Are teachers imparting knowledge that will raise test scores?" or it can mean much more. In this series of essays, Block addresses the nature of the classroom as a place for encounter and engagements: with curriculum materials and books, between teachers and students, and with the self.
The Precarious Future of Education
Risk and Uncertainty in Ecology, Curriculum, Learning, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This volume examines the challenges weighing on the future of education in the face of globalization in the twenty-first century. Bringing together eleven authors who explore the paradox of an “after” to the future of education, each chapter in this book targets three important areas: ecology...
Starting with Character
Activities for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Starting with Character focuses on character development in infants, toddlers, and twos. This guide provides everything needed for preparing the environment, creating routines, and evaluating individual learning styles. Lesson plans and steps for creating new lessons are provided, as well as guides...
Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Postmulticulturalism
Shifting the Locus of Learning in Urban Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This volume identifies, problematizes, and discusses issues specific to the design of educational programs for teacher candidates from working class, ethnic- and language-minority, and immigrant backgrounds, taking as its starting point the distinctive, complex perspectives that these candidates bring to the university classroom.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Collective Unravelings of the Hegemonic Web represents the culmination of work that emerged from 2013 Curriculum & Pedagogy annual conference. The notion of the hegemonic web is the defining theme of the volume. In this collection, authors struggle to unravel and take apart pieces of the complex...
Teaching Language Teachers
Scaffolding Professional Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Teaching Language Teachers: Scaffolding Professional Learning provides an updated view of as well as a reader-friendly introduction to the field of Teaching Teachers, with special reference to language teaching. By taking a decidedly Sociocultural perspective, the book addresses the main role of the...
The Exhaustion of Difference
The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy,...
Teaching Matters Most
A School Leader’s Guide to Improving Classroom Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A laser-beam focus on improving instruction to improve learning
If we want to change how students write, compute, and think, then teachers must transform the old “assign-and-assess” model into engaging, coherent, and rigorous instruction. The authors show school leaders how to make this...
Reading and Representing Across the Content Areas
A Classroom Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This groundbreaking work redefines traditional ideas of what a “text” should be, incorporating new kinds of multimodal texts to revitalize instruction within and across disciplines. The authors provide examples of innovative representations to aid learning in earth science, language arts,...
The Social Studies Helper
Creative Assignments for Exam Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Based on the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy, The Social Studies Helper easily integrates technology into every core high school social studies course as well as two electives. These creative assignments are designed to appeal to visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning styles as the students...
by Roger C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." His argument is this: No matter how important science and technology seem to industry or government or indeed to the daily life of people, as a society we believe that those...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
A student’s learning experience can be enhanced through a multitude of pedagogical strategies. This can be accomplished by visually engaging students in classroom activities. Visual Imagery, Metadata, and Multimodal Literacies Across the Curriculum is a pivotal reference source that examines the role...