Educational Theory category: 17068 books
What Learning Looks Like
Mediated Learning in Theory and Practice, K-6
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this unique collaboration, the authors bring to life the theory of mediated learning. Through numerous examples and scenarios from classrooms and museums, they show how mediated learning helps children to become more effective learners. Readers learn the steps in the process, including analyzing...
School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice
Challenging the Orthodoxy?
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book provides a contemporary overview of school effectiveness and improvement. It charts the development theory and research in this area and looks at the contribution made to policy and practice. It also challenges some assumptions that have become ingrained into the theoretical and methodological...
by Sofia J. Hadjileontiadou, Sofia B. Dias, José A. Diniz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Technology has dramatically changed the way in which knowledge is shared within and outside of traditional classroom settings. The application of fuzzy logic to new forms of technology-centered education has presented new opportunities for analyzing and modeling learner behavior. Fuzzy Logic-Based...
Curriculum, Pedagogy and Educational Research
The Work of Lawrence Stenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Lawrence Stenhouse was one of the most distinguished, original and influential educationalists of his generation. His theories about curriculum, curriculum development, pedagogy, teacher research, and research as a basis for teaching remain compelling and fresh and continue to be a counterpoint to...
Educational Accountability
International perspectives on challenges and possibilities for school leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Educational Accountability: International perspectives on challenges and possibilities for school leadership provides an opportunity to assess, reflect on, and discuss current issues surrounding accountability policies in education from around the globe and the implications they hold for school leadership....
Educational Research
Contemporary Issues and Practical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
What is educational research? What are its current approaches, methods and methodologies? How should existing literature be reviewed and evaluated critically? What are the key philosophical debates in and on educational research? How should research in education be conducted and how should it be presented?...
Philosophers as Educational Reformers (International Library of the Philosophy of Education Volume 10)
The Influence of Idealism on British Educational Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This volume assesses how far the ideas and achievements of the 19th century British Idealist philosophical reformers are still important for us today when considering fundamental questions about the structure and objectives of the education system in England and Wales. Part 1 examines those ideas...
Jerome Bruner
Developing a Sense of the Possible
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Jerome S. Bruner (1915- ) is one of the best known and most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. He has made significant contributions to cognitive psychology and educational theory. This book presents a brief introduction to Jerome Bruner’s educational ideas and details their influences...
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education
Rethinking the temporal complexity of self and society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education argues that by rethinking the way we relate to time, we can fundamentally rethink the way we conceive education. Beyond the contemporary rhetoric of acceleration, speed, urgency or slowness, this book provides an epistemological, historical and theoretical...
Migrants and Refugees
Equitable Education for Displaced Populations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions...
Beyond Obsolete
How to Upgrade Classroom Practice and School Structure
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Americans have seen it all in education over the last twenty years: charter schools, vouchers, private schools, ever-changing sets of technology, increased funding for schools, decreased funding for schools, accountability measures for teachers, and on and on. These schemes never seem to make any...
Foucault and Educational Leadership
Disciplining the Principal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
School principals are increasingly working in an environment of work intensification, high stakes testing, accountability pressures and increased managerialism. Rather than searching for the latest leadership fad or best practice model, this book suggests that in order to better understand these pressures,...
Knowledge-building
Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Education and knowledge have never been more important to society, yet research is segmented by approach, methodology or topic. Legitimation Code Theory or ‘LCT’ extends and integrates insights from Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein to offer a framework for research and practice that overcomes...
by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Antonio Damasio
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
An orientation to affective neuroscience as it relates to educators.
In this ground-breaking collection, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang—an affective neuroscientist, human development psychologist, and former public school teacher—presents a decade of work with the potential to revolutionize...