Educational Theory category: 17068 books
The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Historian Derrick P. Alridge illuminates Du Bois’s educational thought on a wide variety of issues, such as women and education, black leadership, black identity, civil rights, black higher education, community education, and academic achievement. This incisive examination traces relationships with...
Demythologizing Educational Reforms
Responses to the Political and Corporate Takeover of Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
There are dozens of myths surrounding educational reform today, maintaining the school’s role in economic competitiveness, the deficiency of teachers, the benefits of increased testing, and the worthiness of privatization. In this volume, the editors argue that this discussion has been co-opted...
Extending Educational Reform
From One School to Many
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts...
by Graham Haydon
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
`If you are intending to embark upon or support others taking part in any of the programmes of the National College for School Leadership I would definitely keep this book close by' - Cliff Jones, CPD Update
What are values? Where do our values come from? How do our values make a difference...
Learning, Teaching, and Community
Contributions of Situated and Participatory Approaches to Educational Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
This volume brings together established and new scholarly voices to explore how participatory and situated approaches to learning can contribute to educational innovation. The contributors' critical examinations of educational programming and engagements provide insights into how educators, youth,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Steiner-Khamsi and her colleagues provide an in-depth empirical and critical examination of the practice of global educational policy. Contributors question the value of importing and exporting educational policies, analyze who benefits from these arrangements, and test the effectiveness of adapting...
The Marathon Called Educational Leadership
The Twenty-Six Commandments of Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
In The Marathon Called Educational Leadership: The Twenty-Six Commandments of Success, author and veteran educator Dr. Joe Sinclair describes his lifelong experiences, which ranged from cleaning out sewage ditches to meeting in the Oval Office with President Ronald Reagan. Sinclairs leadership experiences...
Professional Standards for Educational Leaders
The Empirical, Moral, and Experiential Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Unpack the standards and build a plan for leading learning
Evidence increasingly points to a direct link between the curriculum leadership provided by educational leaders and the overall effectiveness of schools. Professional Standards for Educational Leaders introduces the foundations of...
Rudolf Steiner
The Relevance of Waldorf Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This book covers Rudolf Steiner’s biography, presented from an educational point of view and also unfolds the different aspects of Steiner’s educational thought in Waldorf Education. His point of view is unique in that it relates education to a wide horizon of different contexts, such as social,...
by Professor Mike Bottery
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World argues that current crises in educational policies and practice, including the recruitment and retention of educational leaders, ultimately derive from the interactions between four key challenges which also underpin current global and societal issues...
Building the Federal Schoolhouse
Localism and the American Education State
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Over the past fifty years, the federal government's efforts to reform American public education have transformed U.S. schools from locally-run enterprises into complex systems jointly constructed by federal, state, and local actors. The construction of this federal schoolhouse-an educational system...
Transforming Education
Global Perspectives, Experiences and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This research-based volume presents a substantive, panoramic view of ways in which Australia and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America engage in educational programs and practices to transform the learning processes and outcomes of their students. It reveals and analyzes national...
by Judith Ireson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2008
Learners, Learning and Educational Activity offers a new and creative approach to the psychology of learning. The central idea in the book is that learning in schools and other educational settings is best understood by paying attention to both individual learners and the educational contexts in which...
by Robin Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This book presents and argues for a moral theory which draws on most of the major theoretical positions to some degree, but it also spells out the limits and boundaries of a moral theory. In doing so, it exposes a number of common confusions and misunderstandings about morality, and presents a strong...