Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Parenting, Family Policy and Children's Well-Being in an Unequal Society
A New Culture War for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Western societies face many challenges. The growing inequality and the diminishing role of the welfare state and the rapid accumulation of the resources of a finite planet at the top 1% have made the world an inhospitable place to many families. Parents are left alone to deal with the big societal...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant implications for educational policy and practices. The chapters in this collection speak to two complementary but analytically distinguishable aspects...
Educational Innovations and Contemporary Technologies
Enhancing Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
For the education system to remain responsive to the needs and demands of its multiple stakeholders it must embrace the innovation and research produced by contemporary technology. This book traverses a wide range of conceptual, disciplinary, methodological, national and sectoral boundaries to explore the challenge presented.
Mainstreams, Margins and the Spaces In-between
New possibilities for education research
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book explores the complexities of investigating minorities, majorities, boundaries and borders, and the experiences of researchers who choose to work in these spaces. It engages with issues of ethics, disclosure and representation, and contends with and seeks to contribute to emerging debates...
Scale-Up in Education
Ideas in Principle
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Scale-Up in Education, Volume 1: Ideas in Principle examines the challenges of 'scaling up' from a multidisciplinary perspective. It brings together contributions from disciplines that routinely take promising innovations to scale, including medicine, business, engineering, computing, and education....
by Kenneth Fetterman
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This e-book provides a detailed overview of the curriculum development process as it pertains to three fundamental levels of instruction (i.e. awareness, exploration, preparation). It contains an anthology of the historically significant (and relevant) Bloom's (1956) Taxonomy of educational objectives:...
by Janie Pickett
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
A collection of qualitative research studies by 4 doctoral candidates in an Education and Library Leadership program at Sam Houston State University. The research focuses on increasing effective implementation of library programs for school and community college students.
Specific areas of...
Strengthening Families, Communities, and Schools to Support Children's Development
Neighborhoods of Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Drawing on a range of contexts influenced by the Promise Neighborhoods Program—a federal place-based initiative to improve educational outcomes for students in distressed urban and rural neighborhoods—this book outlines effective characteristics and elements for implementing supplementary education....
by Peter Woods
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume describes and analyses exceptional educational events – periods of particularly effective teaching representing ultimates in teacher and pupil educational experience. The events themselves are reconstructed in the book through teacher and pupil voices and through documentation. A model...
Implementing Educational Language Policy in Arizona
Legal, Historical and Current Practices in SEI
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This volume is a unique contribution to the study of language policy and education for English Learners because it focuses on the decade long implementation of “English Only” in Arizona. How this policy influences teacher preparation and classroom practice is the central topic of this volume....
Breaking Through the Access Barrier
How Academic Capital Formation Can Improve Policy in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Breaking Through the Access Barrier argues that the policies designed to address inequalities in college access are failing to address underlying issues of inequality. This book introduces academic capital formation (ACF), a groundbreaking new theory defined by family knowledge of educational options...
Every Child Matters
A Practical Guide for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
In this groundbreaking and forward-looking resource, Rita Cheminais clearly explains the impact of the Every Child Matters agenda for teachers working in a range of educational settings. Based on the latest national legislation and developments in education, the book provides an up-to-the-minute guide...
Back to Common Sense
Rethinking School Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
There are times in today's educational world when it seems as if common sense has lost its place as a factor in critical decision making. This book strives to provide alternative, practical, and commonsense solutions to decision making in several traditional areas of education. Intended for professional...
#EdJourney
A Roadmap to the Future of Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Your formula for managing innovation and transforming learning
#EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education is a refreshing change from the negativity so common in the world of education today. Over the course of a 3-month solo road trip across the United States, author Grant Lichtman discovered...