Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Educational Leadership
Together Creating Ethical Learning Environments
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The second edition of Educational Leadership: Together Creating Ethical Learning Environments is a groundbreaking work at the forefront of current research into the ethical challenges inherent to leadership. Patrick Duignan combines a new perspective of leadership as an influence relationship, with...
Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity
The Selected Works of William F. Pinar
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
In this volume, Pinar enacts his theory of curriculum, detailing the relations among knowledge, history, and alterity. The introduction is Pinar’s intellectual life history, naming the contributions he has made to understanding educational experience. Study is the center of educational experience,...
La Clase Mágica
Imagining Optimal Possibilities in a Bilingual Community of Learners
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
La Clase Mágica: Imagining Optimal Possibilities in a Bilingual Community of Learners vividly captures the social and intellectual developments and the promises of an ongoing after-school project called La Clase Mágica. It is a blow-by-blow description of the early transformations of a project that...
Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe
Pathways, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Drawing on findings from a large EU-funded research project that took place over three years, this book analyses educational trajectories of young people in eight European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.
Contributors explore...
Persistent Inequality
Contemporary Realities in the Education of Undocumented Latina/o Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The children of undocumented migrants in the U.S. are trapped at the intersection of two systems in crisis: the public education system and the immigration law system. Based on a long tradition of scholarship in Latino education and on newer critical race theory ideas, Persistent Inequality answers...
by Colin Wringe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The relationship between educational practice and the social principles of democracy forms an important strand in the history of educational thought, and is central to the debate on many contemporary issues in the educational field. In this concise, introductory book, Colin Wringe examines the nature...
The Colour of Class
The educational strategies of the Black middle classes
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black middle-class parents’ strategies for supporting their children through school? What role do the educational histories of Black middle-class parents play in their...
Transforming Educational Pathways for Chicana/o Students
A Critical Race Feminista Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book chronicles a 10-year journey to develop and sustain Adelante, a university-school-community partnership designed specifically to address public education’s failure to meet the needs of students of color, particularly Chicana/o students. The authors examine the persistent barriers,...
Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Schools
Examining the impact and opportunities within educational systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This book extends our understanding of the attitudes and behaviors of teachers who improve their schools consistently and considerably. It sets out to critically analyze and examine organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) in schools from a contextual perspective and to display the uniqueness of...
Knowledge Production
Research Work in Interesting Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This collection from a highly impressive international group of educational researchers explores epistemological, methodological, and ethical-political issues in the production of knowledge about educational phenomena in contemporary society. The book is organized in two sections. The first focuses...
Sustainable School Leadership
Portraits of Individuality
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
'Finalist' 2019 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award - Education Practice and Theory
We live in a complex age, with multiple challenges to the practice of educational leadership, and where there is widespread evidence of individuals wanting to retire early from leadership positions,...
by Anat Zohar
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2004
How can educators bridge the gap between "big" ideas about teaching students to think and educational practice? This book addresses this question by a unique combination of theory, field experience and elaborate educational research. Its basic idea is to look at science instruction with...
by Grant Rodwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
How do the moral panics that have plagued school education since it’s nineteenth-century beginnings impact current school education policy? Research has shown young people to be particularly vulnerable to moral panics and, with the rise of social media, the impact of moral panics on school education...
Cognitive Load Theory
A Special Issue of educational Psychologist
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
The papers of this special issue demonstrate that cognitive load theory provides the framework for investigations into cognitive processes and instructional design. The genesis of Cognitive Load Theory emerged from an international symposium organized at the bi-annual conference of the European Association...