Educational Theory category: 17068 books
The Implementation of Health Promoting Schools
Exploring the theories of what, why and how
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Developing a ‘healthy school’ has been a key aim for many schools across the globe, yet achieving successful implementation and sustaining the positive benefits has proven to be challenging. In this much-needed text, the contributors draw upon their wide range of international expertise and experience...
by Victoria Door, Ian Menter
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
This book encourages teacher educators to promote flexible and sustainable practice in their students, enabling them to flourish within an ever-changing educational environment. Research from the UK and US strongly indicates that a coherent theory-practice approach to teacher preparation is key. The...
Listening to and Learning from Students
Possibilities for Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This book embraces the idea of listening to and learning from students. Although many educational theorists have long argued that incorporating children’s perspectives about teaching and curriculum has the potential for increasing students’ interest and participation in learning, their radical...
Challenges to Teacher Education in Difficult Economic Times
International perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Teacher education in a financial crisis – what are the consequences and how can probity be maintained?
Education, like most other parts of everyday life, is experiencing the challenges brought about by global financial constrictions. This book presents the experiences and views of practising...
by Carlo Raffo
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
An enduring educational concern that has plagued researchers and policy makers in a number of affluent countries is the endemic nature of educational inequalities. These inequalities highlight distinct differences in the educational skills, knowledge, capabilities and credentials between learners’...
Dynamic Perspectives on Creativity
New Directions for Theory, Research, and Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
This edited volume provides a venue for scholars whose work challenges the typical, static conceptions, and methods of studying creativity. More specifically, the book will serve as an effort to introduce more dynamic definitions, conceptions, and approaches for studying creativity in the context...
Critical Curriculum Leadership
A Framework for Progressive Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Although traditional curriculum and instructional leadership frameworks have dominated educational administration training for almost thirty years, it has become increasingly clear that even the most recent frameworks have failed today’s leaders who struggle with the politics of curriculum decisions...
by Shirley Larkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Metacognition is known to be an important factor in academic achievement; however it is also important in a wider life context. The ability to reflect upon how we are thinking can help us to make wiser decisions in all aspects of our life.
This book addresses how metacognition might be...
by Edgar Stones
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The purpose of this book is to promote discussion about educational objectives generally and objectives in the teaching of educational psychology in particular. To this end, Part 1 contains a review of the literature concerned with these two subjects, and also reports on investigations into the views...
Ethics and International Curriculum Work
The Challenges of Culture and Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The widely cited, though highly contested, idea that “the world is flat” (Friedman, 2004) carries with it a call for education to provide a leveling effect across continents and cultures Students in Skokie or in Skopje, as the theory goes, are expected to experience a school curriculum that shares...
Education Reconfigured
Culture, Encounter, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
As philosophers throughout the ages have asked: What is justice? What is truth? What is art? What is law? In Education Reconfigured, the internationally acclaimed philosopher of education, Jane Roland Martin, now asks: What is education? In answer, she puts forward a unified theory that casts education...
Visual Pedagogy
Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2002
In classrooms, museums, health clinics and beyond, the educational uses of visual media have proliferated over the past fifty years. Film, video, television, and digital media have been integral to the development of new pedagogical theories and practices, globalization processes, and identity and...
Culture, Community, and Educational Success
Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDs—tie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through their...
The Changing Face of Special Educational Needs
Impact and implications for SENCOs, teachers and their schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Fully revised with the requirements of the 2014 new SEN Code of Practice, this second edition of The Changing Face of Special Educational Needs shows teachers, SENCOs and students in teacher training how to respond to the rapidly changing context of special education. This highly practical and accessible...