Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Leapfrogging Inequality
Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Exemplary stories of innovation from around the world
In an age of rising inequality, getting a good education increasingly separates the haves from the have nots. In countries like the United States, getting a good education is one of the most promising routes to upper-middle-class status,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
This edited volume brings together leading scholars from the fields of educational leadership and policy studies to discuss qualitative, quantitative, and mixed research methods in an accessible and pedagogically well-designed volume. Authors discuss ways in which various research methodologies and...
Bye Bye, Little Red Schoolhouse
The Changing Face of Public Education in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Never before has the hot seat for educational leaders reached such scorching temperatures. Even in a world marked by jarring change over fiercely compact time frames, one constant will not soon change: outcomes accountability. Too often, instructional leaders frantically sprint to a desired achievement...
by F. James Rutherford, Andrew Ahlgren
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 1991
In order to compete in the modern world, any society today must rank education in science, mathematics, and technology as one of its highest priorities. It's a sad but true fact, however, that most Americans are not scientifically literate. International studies of educational performance reveal that...
Primary Science Education in East Asia
A Critical Comparison of Systems and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
This edited volume is a state-of-the-art comparison of primary science education across six East-Asian regions; namely, the People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, and Singapore. While news of ...
Beyond Marginality
Understanding the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Difference in Educational Leadership Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
The book Beyond Marginality: Understanding the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Difference in Educational Leadership Research promotes new theoretical and conceptual frameworks for the study of race and ethnicity in educational leadership. In this volume, new generations of scholars of...
The Conditions for School Success
Examining Educational Exclusion and Dropping Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This book analyses the role played by schools themselves in the high rates of educational exclusion and dropping out that affects many European education systems. The author frames the analysis according to three aspects of justice – redistribution, recognition and care – to explore both how teachers...
Dilemmas in Educational Leadership
The Facilitator's Book of Cases
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, educational consultant and group coach Donna Reid argues that popular vehicles for improving school cultures and student achievement, such as professional learning communities and critical friends groups, too often fail because the participants are unaware or unwilling to make the required...
China's Education Reform
Current Issues and New Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
China's Education Reform: Current Issues and New Horizons collects important research findings of education studies on China conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including the rebuilding of contemporary Chinese education reform,...
by Jean Anyon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
There was only one Karl Marx, but there have been a multitude of Marxisms. This concise, introductory book by internationally renowned scholar Jean Anyon centers on the ideas of Marx that have been used in education studies as a guide to theory, analysis, research, and practice. Marx and Education...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on empirical...
The Adult Learner
The definitive classic in adult education and human resource development
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children?
How does their life experience inform their learning processes?
These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’s pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education...
Awareness in Action
Self-Awareness and Group Process
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Awareness in Action is a user-friendly text/workbook designed for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing mental health degrees (e.g., counseling, psychology, and social work) and other human relations professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, public administration, and business). It has been used...
by Victor C.X. Wang, Kathleen P. King
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Career and Technical Education (CTE) has become a vibrant source of workforce development across the globe. It is no longer an offering only for a specialized sector of students. Instead, it has matured into a sound and meaningful program for high school and postsecondary students across interest areas,...