Educational Theory category: 17068 books

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Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century

Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform

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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013

America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in...
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From Teaching to Mentoring

Principles and Practice, Dialogue and Life in Adult Education

by Lee Herman, Alan Mandell
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2005

What is mentoring? What makes a teacher a mentor? From Teaching to Mentoring is an argument for the power, practicality and the basic good of a simple educational idea. The authors advocate a sound, comprehensive and lifelong education, shifting the emphasis of the learning process to the needs of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015

The SAGE Guide to Curriculum in Education integrates, summarizes, and explains, in highly accessible form, foundational knowledge and information about the field of curriculum with brief, simply written overviews for people outside of or new to the field of education. This Guide supports study, research,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which...
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Can Teachers Own Their Own Schools?

New Strategies for Educational Excellence

by Richard K. Vedder
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000

Despite more than 15 years of effort, it is widely acknowledged that internal reform of the public schools has produced little, if any, success. This has led to renewed interest in alternative forms of educational delivery to devolve decision-making through charter schools, public and private voucher...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014

Although cultural issues have a powerful influence on the failure and success of mentoring programs and relationships, there is scant research on this area and little in the way of guidelines that practitioners can use to help assure mentoring success. This book seeks to expand our knowledge and understanding...
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Creating Excellence

Becoming an A+ School

by Vernon G. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018

Creating Excellence: Becoming an A+ School is intended to be used by first year principals who have inherited a school that is failing or not achieving to a desired level, as well as by seasoned principals who are struggling to improve their school’s academic performance. It can also be used effectively...
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Adventurous Learning

A Pedagogy for a Changing World

by Simon Beames, Mike Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016

Adventurous Learning interrogates the word ‘adventure’ and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory....
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Spatial Theories of Education

Policy and Geography Matters

by Kalervo N. Gulson, Colin Symes
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007

This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory. The premise of this book is that drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the competing rationalities underlying educational policy...
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Foundations of Educational Leadership

Developing Excellent and Equitable Schools

by Jeffrey S. Brooks, Anthony H. Normore
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017

Foundations of Educational Leadership provides a fresh and research-based perspective on educational leadership, exploring 10 specific aspects of ‘glocalization’ in which educational leaders must be literate in order to establish and sustain relevant and useful educational experiences for students...
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Curriculum and Imagination

Process Theory, Pedagogy and Action Research

by James McKernan
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007

Curriculum and Imagination describes an alternative ‘process’ model for designing developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum, suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educational process which contains key principles of procedure. This comprehensive and authoritative...
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Søren Kierkegaard

Educating for Authenticity

by Søren Harnow Klausen
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018

This book is a succinct guide to Søren Kierkegaard’s contribution to educational thought. Kierkegaard is not usually known as an educational thinker, but the book shows how his key notions and ideas are nevertheless highly relevant to educational theory and practice. It places them within the context...
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by Jay Dorfman
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013

Based on educational theory and on recognized music teaching methods, Theory and Practice of Technology-Based Music Instruction develops a framework for examining music teaching that uses technology to introduce, reinforce, and assess skills and concepts. The framework guides in-depth discussions...
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Have a Little Faith

Religion, Democracy, and the American Public School

by Benjamin Justice, Colin Macleod
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016

It isn’t just in recent arguments over the teaching of intelligent design or reciting the pledge of allegiance that religion and education have butted heads: since their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heated controversies over religion’s place  in the...
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