Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA
Challenging OECD’s Educational Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA provides a critical analysis of the OECD’s educational agenda and its main tool, namely, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). Based on an analysis of the OECD’s public documents, including publications, webpages, and videos, d’Agnese...
by Ference Marton
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Necessary Conditions of Learning presents a research approach (phenomenography) and a theory (the variation theory of learning) introduced and developed by Ference Marton and taken up by his wide and varied following around the world—together with their practical applications in educational contexts....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This collection of fresh analyses aims to map the links between educational theory and research, and the geographical and physical spaces in which teaching is practiced and discussed. The authors combine historical and philosophical perspectives in examining the differing institutional loci of education...
The Educational Prophecies of Aldous Huxley
The Visionary Legacy of Brave New World, Ape and Essence and Island
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The visionary legacy of Aldous Huxley is as relevant today as ever. Huxley possessed a sober understanding of the human condition as well as an inspired vision of the human potential. This volume presents an interdisciplinary examination and appreciation of Aldous Huxley’s three visionary novels...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
This new edition brings together leading authorities from across the globe to provide a truly international perspective into educational leadership and management in school and post-school sectors. Covering both developed and developing countries, it is underpinned by a substantially updated analysis...
Coming To Terms
A Theory of Writing Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
In a provocative book-length essay, Patricia Lynne argues that most programmatic assessment of student writing in U.S. public and higher education is conceived in the terms of mid-20th century positivism. Since composition as a field had found its most compatible home in constructivism, she asks,...
Understanding Adult Functional Literacy
Connecting Text Features, Task Demands, and Respondent Skills
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
"This is a genuinely scholarly work ... It is based on [analysis of] the most up-to-date quantitative surveys that we have on adult literacy. These surveys are the gold standard in terms of documenting adult literacy in the United States ...The author analyzes these extensive surveys and puts...
by William F. Pinar
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) asks readers to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to become "educated" in the present moment.
Curriculum theory...
Too Simple to Fail
A Case for Educational Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Too Simple to Fail presents a startling dissection of what is wrong with our educational system and a set of simple, common-sense steps for improving it. This simplicity, Bausell argues, characterizes both the schooling process and the science of education, as witnessed by legions of researchers who...
Educational Genocide
A Plague on Our Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Across our country educational policies and practices are killing our students' desire to learn and teachers' passion to teach. The central theme of this book is that high-stakes testing is having a critically deleterious effect on our students. The fallout impacts parents, teachers, schools, districts...
Multiple Intelligences
New Horizons in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The most complete account of the theory and application of Multiple Intelligences available anywhere
Howard Gardner's brilliant conception of individual competence, known as Multiple Intelligences theory, has changed the face of education. Tens of thousands of educators, parents, and researchers...
Policies and Politics in Malaysian Education
Education Reforms, Nationalism and Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book draws on elements of critical social theory, research on globalization, neo liberalism and education, and Malaysian Studies to understand the interplay of globalization, nationalism, cultural politics and ethnicized neoliberalism in shaping the educational reforms in Malaysia. Using the...
Using Research Evidence in Education
From the Schoolhouse Door to Capitol Hill
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
This book includes a set of rigorous and accessible studies on the topic of “research evidence” from a variety of levels and educational vantage points. It also provides the reader with thoughtful commentaries from leading thinkers in the field. The complex process of acquiring, interpreting,...
Education Policy
Process, Themes and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leaders themselves should be learners, the Leadership for...