Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Creative Schools
The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by Ken Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking.
Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education,...
Cleverlands
The secrets behind the success of the world’s education superpowers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Lucy Crehan is a respected teacher, education consultant and researcher who wrote a 40,000 word report on global teacher career structures for UNESCO.
Education policy is a timeless and constantly debated topic in the UK and abroad. This is an impeccably researched and documented exploration...
Waiting for ""SUPERMAN""
How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Each book includes a 15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need.
The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have...
Fear and Learning in America
Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this moving account*, *“America’s Superintendent” John Kuhn lays bare the scare tactics at the root of the modern school “reform” movement. Kuhn conveys a deeply held passion for the mission and promise of public education through his own experience as a school administrator in Texas....
Change.edu
Rebooting for the New Talent Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
It’s no wonder American higher education is facing a crisis.
While low-income students can’t find a spot in their local community colleges for lack of funding, public four-year universities are spending staggering sums on luxurious residence halls, ever-bigger football stadiums, and obscure...
Miseducating for the Global Economy
How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
All across the United States, corporations, politicians, economists, educators – and now, most remarkably, Ivanka Trump – cry out for new “education for the twenty-first century economy.” Meanwhile, millions of Americans face increasing difficulty finding well paying, secure jobs. But the...
A Decade of Research on School Principals
Cases from 24 Countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This book provides a unique map of the focus and directions of contemporary research on school leadership since 2000 in 24 countries. Each of these directions has its own particular cultural, educational and policy history. Taken together, the various chapters in the volume provide a rich and varied...
Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education
Philosophies of Iethi'nihstenha Ohwentsia'kekha (Land)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Indigenous scholars have been gathering, speaking, and writing about Indigenous knowledge for decades. These knowledges are grounded in ancient traditions and very old pedagogies that have been woven with the tangled strings and chipped beads of colonial relations.
Pathways for Remembering...
by Richard Aldrich, Dennis Dean, Peter Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In the 1990s education has become one of the major social and political questions of the day. This book has been written to provide an authoritative guide to the issues which underlie the formulation of educational policy. It stands both as a substantial historical study in its own right and as an essential background and introduction to the current educational debate.
Alchemy of the Soul
An African-centered Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author’s life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experiences, was to start an African-centered school. The dream in the night ignited the journey that led to this book, which was to discover answers to critical...
Quarterly Essay 35 Radical Hope
Education & Equality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In Radical Hope, one of Australia’s most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions: How to ensure the survival of a people, their culture and way of life? And can education transform the lives of the disadvantaged...
Blowout!
Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led...
by Paul T. Hill, Ashley E. Jochim
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
America’s education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school—something that large educational bureaucracies are notoriously...
by Magdalena Matulewicz
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Take your family to one of the most stunning lagoons in the world! Let them touch the azure water with their bare feet while on board of a traditional Greek boat just to discover the world full of wonders. Solve the mystery of the Elafonissi pink sand and find the way to the secret beach to meet Mr...