Educational Theory category: 17068 books
by Phillip T. Slee, Grace Skrzypiec
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book focuses on well-being at school in association with positive peer relationships and bullying. Taking an integrative and community-based approach, the book outlines the significance of student-school relationships for well-being and emphasizes the importance of school and classroom climate...
Serve and Learn
Implementing and Evaluating Service-learning in Middle and High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
This volume makes two important contributions: First, it provides a framework grounded in theory and best professional practice that middle and high school teachers, their students, and community partners can use to design, implement, and evaluate service-learning projects that address authentic community...
Theory of Mind
Beyond the Preschool Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with other approaches to the study of social understanding. By highlighting the relationship between early and later...
Non-Western Educational Traditions
Local Approaches to Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children—as well as what counts for them as "education"—may...
The International Handbook on the Sociology of Education
An International Assessment of New Research and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
The twentieth century has been marked by the expansion of educational opportunities worldwide. It has been the century of education, and the role of the state in the promotion of public education has been decisive. Yet, at the millennium's turn efforts to diminish the role of the state are rapidly...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The International Handbook on Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice creates a first-of-its-kind international forum on conceptualizing the meanings of social justice and leadership, research approaches in studying social justice and combating social injustices, school, university and teacher...
Motivation for Achievement
Possibilities for Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Understanding student and teacher motivation and developing strategies to foster motivation for students at all levels of performance are essential to effective teaching. This text is designed to help prospective and practicing teachers achieve these goals. Its premise is that current research and...
The SoJo Journal
Volume 3 #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is an international peerreviewed journal of educational foundations. The Department of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay, whose mission is to prepare and influence bold, socially responsible leaders...
The Role of Criticism in Understanding Problem Solving
Honoring the Work of John C. Belland
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In 1991, Denis Hlynka and John Belland released Paradigms Regained, a well received reader for graduate students in the field of educational technology. The Role of Criticism in Understanding Problem Solving updates some of those ideas initially proposed in Paradigms Regained, and extends the conversation...
An Anthropology of Learning
On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book has one explicit purpose: to present a new theory of cultural learning in organisations which combines practice-based learning with cultural models - a cognitive anthropological schema theory of taken-for-granted connections - tied to the everyday meaningful use of artefacts. The understanding...
The SoJo Journal
Volume 1 #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is an international peerreviewed journal of educational foundations. The Department of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay, whose mission is to prepare and influence bold, socially responsible leaders who...
Leading Educational Change
Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole-System Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“You won’t find a better book on whole-system change that covers so much ground in such an accessible form than Leading Educational Change!”—From the Foreword by Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE, University of Toronto“This book tackles critical issues...
Educational Entrepreneurship
Realities, Challenges, Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
This lively and provocative book introduces this burgeoning field for readers concerned with K-12 education in the United States--and with efforts to reform and improve it.
Entrepreneurship has emerged in recent years as an unprecedented and influential force in U.S. K-12 education. Yet the...
by Shoob, Sara
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Featuring sound educational strategies based on solid research and proven methodology, this exceptional resource provides teachers with best practices in social studies instruction that can be immediately implemented in the classroom. Authored by two social studies experts with more than 60 years...