Education category: 70663 books
Teaching in Special Education
Managing the Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Teaching In Special Education: Managing the Chaos addresses the question-how do special education teachers function in general education settings? The text describes the experiences of special education teachers in diverse settings at a time when federal law and assessment requirements drive educational...
by Neil Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
This book engages with the political, philosophical and policy debates around contemporary democratic socialism and state education. It examines contemporary education and education systems, as well as democratic socialism in the context of the complex political world we live in currently. It takes...
Balancing Life and Education While Being a Part of a Military Family
A Guide to Navigating Higher Education for the Military Spouse
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Military spouse education is an often overlooked topic. With the proliferation of service member programs and benefits, and the spotlight on them, it is not uncommon for spouses to neglect looking into their own educational opportunities and benefits. The hectic life of a military family also often...
Education Marginalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Policies, Politics, and Marginality
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This book focuses on education policy framework for educating marginalized children in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses “marginality” as a critical discourse to highlight the complicated ways education policy making in sub-Saharan Africa have constructed and perpetuated marginality in the region since...
Narrative and Metaphor in Education
Look Both Ways
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Human beings rely equally on narrative (or storytelling) and metaphor (or analogy) for making sense of the world. Narrative and Metaphor in Education integrates the two perspectives of narrative and metaphor in educational theory and practice at every level from pre-school to lifelong civic education....
by Meena Kumari
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Education policy are the principles and government policy-making in educational sphere, as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems. Education occurs in many forms for many purposes through many institutions. Examples include early childhood education,...
Assessment-Driven Instruction in Physical Education
A Standards-Based Approach to Promoting and Documenting Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
For the savvy educator, assessment can be a powerful tool for informing teaching decisions, improving student learning, and helping students achieve learning standards. Learn how to make the most of assessment with Assessment-Driven Instruction in Physical Education. With this text and web resource,...
The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education is the definitive guide for future K-12 physical educators, as well as current teachers and administrators, and is an appropriate resource for learning to teach at both the elementary and the secondary levels.
Preparing Future Teachers for Success
The...
Heart Education
Strategies, Lessions, Science, and Technology for Cardiovascular Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Capitalize on teens’ fascination with technology! Heart Education: Strategies, Lessons, Science, and Technology for Cardiovascular Fitness uses heart monitoring technology to help students learn concepts of cardiovascular fitness in a fun and innovative way. With the benefits of immediate and constant...
A Teacher's Guide to Adapted Physical Education
Including Students With Disabilities in Sports and Recreation, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A healthy, active lifestyle for all students: That's the promise of physical education, and the goal of this comprehensive textbook. Now in a thoroughly updated fourth edition, this text prepares current and future PE teachers to lead welcoming, inclusive classes where every student participates,...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Most African countries can take pride in the unmistakable progress towards the Education for All (EFA) goals for 2015 agreed at the Dakar 2000 World Education Forum, thanks to the combined impact of laudable education reforms, substantially increased public financing of education and greater flows of...
by James O. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
With refreshing eloquence, James O. Freedman sets down the American ideals that have informed his life as an intellectual, a law professor, and a college and university president. He examines the content and character of liberal education, discusses the importance of letters and learning in forming...
Making Sense of Education
An Introduction to the Philosophy and Theory of Education and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Making Sense of Education provides a contemporary introduction to the key issues in educational philosophy and theory. Exploring major past and present conceptions of education, teaching and learning, this book makes philosophy of education relevant to the professional practice of teachers and student...
by David Corson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
This introductory text for students of linguistics, language, and education provides background and up-to-date information and resources that beginning researchers need for studying language diversity and education.
Three framing chapters offer an update on the philosophy of social research,...