Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Teaching About Hegemony
Race, Class and Democracy in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Political progressives in Canada and the United States are deeply concerned by the manner in which their countries treat their poor. They are dismayed at the dismantling of the social welfare state, the weakening of public education systems and the grotesque and ever-growing inequality of wealth....
From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism
ReConceptualizing Minority Education in PostSoviet Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Rarely do we find books in educational research that are both thick in context and rich in theory. Usually books emphasize one over the other. Authors that engage in thick descriptions tend to fall short of explaining what larger theoretical issue their case stands for. Vice versa, authors who make a...
Leadership with a Conscience
Educational Leadership as a Moral Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful...
by Carol Aubrey
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
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'…a major contribution to the limited literature and research on leadership in childhood education.' - Professor Tony Bush, Editor of Educational Management,...
Creative Selves / Creative Cultures
Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book addresses and demonstrates the importance of critical approaches to autoethnography, particularly the commitment that such approaches make to theorizing the personal and to creating work that embodies a social justice ethos. Arts-based and practice-led approaches to this work allow the explanatory...
The Micro-Politics of the School
Towards a Theory of School Organization
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Stephen Ball’s micro-political theory of school organization is a radical departure from traditional theories. He rejects a prescriptive ‘top down’ approach and directly addresses the interest and concerns of teachers and current problems facing schools. In doing so he raises question about...
by Phillip Gammage
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The book provides a synthesis of a broadly-based social-psychology of education and bridges the gap between theory and practice in education by emphasising the relationship between research and actuality. The author discusses the major issues in childhood socialisation relating to schooling, achievement...
Sartre and No Child Left Behind
An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Sartre and No Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling
asks two fundamental questions: “Who do students become as a result of inhabiting impoverished urban schools for eight hours a day, five days a week, over the course of several years? What happens to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contributors to this volume seek to trace, in the face of current challenges, historical and contemporary debates surrounding English Studies.
Dancing to Learn
The Brain's Cognition, Emotion, and Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Dancing to Learn: Cognition, Emotion, and Movement explores the rationale for dance as a medium of learning to help engage educators and scientists to explore the underpinnings of dance, and dancers as well as members of the general public who are curious about new ways of comprehending dance. Among...
Vygotsky’s Notebooks
A Selection
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book consists of previously unpublished manuscripts by Vygotsky found in the first systematic study of Vygotsky’s family archive. The notebooks and scientific diaries gathered in this volume represent all periods of Vygotsky’s scientific life, beginning with the earliest manuscript, entitled...
Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
The Reflective Professional
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
'This book provides teachers in higher education with what they need - a compelling framework for improving student learning. It combines a comprehensive synthesis of the latest research on learning and teaching with practical strategies for implementing it in their classrooms' - Professor Ken Bain,...
Conflicts in Curriculum Theory
Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This book challenges educators to be agents of change, to take history into their own hands, and to make social justice central to the educational endeavor. Paraskeva embraces a pedagogy of hope championed by Paulo Freire where people become conscious of their capacity to intervene in the world to make it less discriminatory and more humane.
Science Education for Diversity
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Reflecting the very latest theory on diversity issues in science education, including new dialogic approaches, this volume explores the subject from a range of perspectives and draws on studies from around the world. The work discusses fundamental topics such as how we conceptualize diversity as well...