Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Arun Kumar Tyagi
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
The definition of psychology as the science of mind is not acceptable at present. Mind is an ambiguous a concept as the soul. It is not at all possible to carry on scientific observation and experimentation on mind.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. By 2018, 63 percent of all jobs will require at least some postsecondary education or training. Teachers and civic leaders stress the value of study through high school and beyond,...
Leadership
Learning, Teaching, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The purpose of this book is to examine the tensions, gaps, and intersections between the practices of leadership in educational systems, school leadership preparation programs, and the often different worlds of academia and k12 schools. Voices from both academia and k12 schools are used to illustrate...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A trenchant and wide-ranging look at this alarming national trend, Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline is unsparing in its account of the problem while pointing in the direction of meaningful and much-needed reforms.
The “school-to-prison pipeline” has received much attention in the...
Real Education
Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.
Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material....
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
My Pedagogic Creed is the "manifesto" of the new schools. By the time a shot was fired in the middle of a swamp pedagogical could not recognize the centrality of the subject in the educational process. Dewey became the theoretical maximum representative of the progressive school. With the...
Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Lincicome offers a new perspective on Japanese educational debates and policy reforms that have taken place under the guise of internationalization since the mid-1980s. By contextualizing these developments within a historical framework spanning the entire twentieth century, he challenges the argument...
Right to Be Hostile
Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In Right to be Hostile, scholar and activist Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the "school to prison' pipeline phenomenon, showing how disciplinary regulations, pedagogy, pop culture and more not only implicitly advance, but actually normalize an expectation of incarceration...
Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Edited by the leading scholars in the field, Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education provides an overview and introduction to the growing field of disability studies in education, including the application of the interdisciplinary field of disability studies to inclusive education,...
Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Native American Students
Paying the Educational Debt
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
There has been much talk and effort focused on the educational achievement gap between white versus black, Hispanic and American Indian students. While there has been some movement the gap has not appreciably narrowed, and it has narrowed the least for Native American students. This volume addresses...
Educational Policy in an International Context
Political Culture and Its Effects
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide a better understanding of how different countries are responding to the global exchange of policy ideas that includes 'the standards movement' and 'new public management' or accountability in the public sector.
Educational Change
From Traditional Education to Learning Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Educational Change: From Traditional Education to Learning Communities outlines the transition of curriculum and instruction as well as classroom discipline historically. Various discipline approaches are described that vary in their applications in terms of the degree of teacher control and student...
by Susan Groundwater-Smith, Nicole Mockler
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in which practice-based inquiry in educational settings, in a number of different countries and contexts, can transcend current ways of working and thinking such that authentic professional learning is the result.
The...
Rethinking Educational Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry
Essays in Honour of Susan Groundwater-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Susan Groundwater-Smith is one of the most influential voices in the world of educational practitioner inquiry. The convener in Australia of the Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools, she is a staunch advocate of innovative methods of practitioner inquiry with a particular emphasis upon student...