Educational Theory category: 17068 books
New Media and Learning in the 21st Century
A Socio-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This volume brings together conceptualizations and empirical studies that explore the socio-cultural dimension of new media and its implications on learning in the 21st century classroom. The authors articulate their vision of new-media-enhanced learning at a global level. The high-level concept is...
Leadership for Tomorrow
Beyond the school improvement horizon
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
In Leadership for Tomorrow: Beyond the School Improvement Horizon Malcolm Groves, Andrew Hobbs, and John West-Burnham present a vision-led analysis of what needs to change if schools are really to equip children and young people to thrive in our ever-changing world.Continually adding improvements...
Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education
From Theory to Practice- Selected papers from the 2013 ICLHE Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Higher education has seen dramatic changes in the past quarter of a century, notably in the language used for instruction. Universities worldwide are increasingly switching to English enabling them to attract a wide student population. This book presents a new collection of original papers showing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the development of morality. Since the publication of the first edition, ground-breaking approaches to studying the development of morality have re-invigorated debates about what it means to conceptualize and measure...
Handbook of Work-Family Integration
Research, Theory, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
In today's industrialized societies, the majority of parents work full time while caring for and raising their children and managing household upkeep, trying to keep a precarious balance of fulfilling multiple roles as parent, worker, friend, & child. Increasingly demands of the workplace such...
by Li Jilin
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
This book discusses situational instruction – a topic that is particularly relevant to Chinese language teaching and learning – in the context of research in the field. Employing real-world classroom case studies, it focuses on contextualized literacy, reading and writing. It also includes the...
Disabling Characters
Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Disabling Characters provides detailed analyses of selected young adult (YA) novels and short stories. It looks at the relative agency of the disabled character, the behavior of the other characters, the environment in which the character must live, the assumptions that seem to be underlying certain...
Practice, Learning and Change
Practice-Theory Perspectives on Professional Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The three concepts central to this volume—practice, learning and change—have received very different treatments in the educational literature, an oversight directly confronted here. While learning and change have been extensively theorised, their various contexts articulated and analysed, practice...
by David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of curriculum as abundance and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices, the work of specific children, and specific dilemmas, images, and curricular practices that arise in concrete...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book evaluates the educational system of the United States from schools for the young up to universities and various forms of adult education. It is not confined to the evaluation of intellectual achievement. Rather it tries to arrive at some judgment as to whether schools help people acquire...
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age
New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age tells the story of a group of K–12 teachers as they began to connect with digital making and learning pedagogies. Guiding questions at the heart of this qualitative case study asked how teaching practices engaged with and responded to the maker movement and digital...
Teaching on a Tightrope
The Diverse Roles of a Great Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Teaching on a Tightrope offers those seeking to play the teacher's role a way of thinking about the major components of teaching. These components or dimensions are described in terms of pairings that interact and overlap with each other, e.g., teaching as art and science, content and process, theory...
by Dr Roland Meighan, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
John Holt, the American educator, was passionate about the need for alternatives to traditional institutional schooling, seeing schools as often hindering children from learning rather than helping them; he became an important proponent of homeschooling or 'unschooling', was a pioneer in youth rights...
Conceptions of Culture
What Multicultural Educators Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The concept of culture stands, clearly but unsteadily, at the heart of multicultural education. This book provides a systematic, in-depth understanding of the role that culture plays in the massive literature of multicultural education as multiple and antithetical definitions of culture exist. The...