Curricula category: 1261 books
Children's Reading of Film and Visual Literacy in the Primary Curriculum
A Progression Framework Model
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This book draws on a longitudinal study which highlights the beneficial impact of film in the primary curriculum. It provides detailed accounts of both the reading process as understood within the field of literacy education, and of film theory as it relates to issues such as narration, genre and...
Learning to Read the Numbers
Integrating Critical Literacy and Critical Numeracy in K-8 Classrooms. A Co-Publication of The National Council of Teachers of English and Routledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Being a critical reader of numerical information is an integral part of being literate in today’s data-drenched world. Uniquely addressing both mathematics and language issues, this text shows how critical readers dig beneath the surface of data to better evaluate their usefulness and to understand...
Teaching Global Literature in Elementary Classrooms
A Critical Literacy and Teacher Inquiry Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Demonstrating the power of teaching global literature from a critical literacy perspective, this book explores the ways that K-6 educators can infuse diverse texts into their classrooms and find support for their endeavours in teacher inquiry communities. Through carefully analyzed, ethnographically...
English Language Arts Research and Teaching
Revisiting and Extending Arthur Applebee’s Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Taking as a starting point the most enduring insights to emerge from acclaimed researcher Arthur Applebee’s scholarship, this volume brings together leading experts to fully examine his work for its explanatory power and its potential to shape current and future research agendas. Focused on the...
Critical Content Analysis of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Reframing Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
In this book the authors describe their strategies for critically reading global and multicultural literature and the range of procedures they use for critical analyses. They also reflect on how these research strategies can inform classrooms and children as readers. Critical content analysis offers...
Teaching Comics Through Multiple Lenses
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Building off the argument that comics succeed as literature—rich, complex narratives filled with compelling characters interrogating the thought-provoking issues of our time—this book argues that comics are an expressive medium whose moves (structural and aesthetic) may be shared by literature,...
Reading Challenging Texts
Layering Literacies Through the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
Bringing together arts-integrated approaches, literacy learning, and classroom-based research, this book explores ways upper elementary, middle, and high school teachers can engage their students physically, cognitively,...
Identity-Focused ELA Teaching
A Curriculum Framework for Diverse Learners and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Countering the increased standardization of English language arts instruction requires recognizing and fostering students’ unique identity construction across different social and cultural contexts. Drawing on current sociocultural theories of identity construction, this book posits that students...
Critical Practice in P-12 Education
Transformative Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
With an ever growing diverse population and access to new technologies, it is no revelation that education is undergoing a significant transformation in the twenty-first century. What remains a struggle is equipping students to meet modern expectations while trying to provide a platform for learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Continuing its calling to define the field and where it is going, the Second Edition of this landmark handbook brings up to date its comprehensive reportage of scholarly developments and school curriculum initiatives worldwide, providing a panoramic view of the state of curriculum studies globally....
The Reason of Schooling
Historicizing Curriculum Studies, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Problematizing the "reason" of schooling as historical and political, in this book leading international and interdisciplinary scholars challenge the common sense of schooling and the relation of society, education, and curriculum studies. Examining the limits of contemporary notions of...
by JoBeth Allen, Lois Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This dynamic book provides powerful ideas to guide pedagogy and a curriculum model for helping students connect with issues in their lives while meeting standards. Vivid portraits of K–12 classrooms illustrate how teachers used a human rights framework to engage students in critical inquiry...
by Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspired by the author’s research and work with preservice and beginning teachers, this book presents a unique framework to help educators (grades 3–8) embed their efforts to teach social studies for social justice within the context of literacy. It is a resource for using primary and...
Classroom Group Sensory Experiences
Teachers Resource Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Fun, basic sensory groups for various age groups in the classroom
May be suitable for younger classrooms, cross categorical, inclusive and self contained classrooms
Primary focus on motor planning (praxis), proprioception and vestibular input, with integration of other sensory systems
Includes discussion...