Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Random Musings
Reflections of a Black Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Random Musings: Reflections of a Black Intellectual focuses on the various racial and cultural challenges facing African-Americans in the context of present day educational, political, and historical realities. The text touches on a wide array of issues, including the psychology of race and power,...
Reflective Teaching
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This popular text provides a clear, succinct explanation of how reflection is integral to teachers’ understandings of themselves, their practice, and their context, and elaborates how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another. The emphasis on the importance of both self...
by Arun Kumar Tyagi
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2011
It has influenced education in many different ways and has give a new turn; a psychological turn to the human mind.
Learning Analytics
From Research to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
In education today, technology alone doesn't always lead to immediate success for students or institutions. In order to gauge the efficacy of educational technology, we need ways to measure the efficacy of educational practices in their own right. Through a better understanding of how learning takes...
Education Game Changers
Leadership and the Consequence of Policy Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Education Game Changers describes policy paradoxes challenging the sustainability of educational provision as we know it and the imperatives they present for educational leadership, business, and governance. This book critiques the paradoxical education policy context while exploring alternative futures...
Educational Leadership Simplified
A guide for existing and aspiring leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Leading in education is a difficult job to do well. Political, financial and organisational pressures need to be managed smartly and difficult decisions need to be made. Written in Bob Bates' trademark style, this guide offers concise and clear support to help you lead and inspire in education. In...
Moving the Rock
Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Advance Praise for Moving the Rock
“The future comes at us fast — which means school reformers don’t have time to wait. They need real tools in real time. That’s why Moving the Rock is so important. Grant Lichtman has guidance for anyone — teachers, parents, administrators, government...
Disruptive Fixation
School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game designers and progressive educational reformers and backed by prominent philanthropic foundations, it promised to reinvent the classroom for the digital age....
Education, Ethnicity, Society and Global Change in Asia
The Selected Works of Gerard A. Postiglione
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single...
Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training
Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Findings
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Many resources are invested in the development and introduction of Quality Assurance Systems in educational institutions all over the world. Our assumption is that, as a result of quality assurance activities, practitioners obtain information about their own functioning and institutional performance...
Political Contexts of Educational Leadership
ISLLC Standard Six
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Co-published with UCEA, this exciting new textbook is the first to tackle the ISLLC Standard #6—the political context of education. This unique volume helps aspiring school leaders understand the dynamics of educational policy in multiple arenas at the local, state, and federal levels. Leaders are...
School Wars
The Battle for Britain's Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
School Wars tells the story of the struggle for Britain’s education system. Established during the 1960s and based on the progressive ideal of good schools for all, the comprehensive system has over the past decades come under sustained attack from successive governments.
Now, with the growing...
by Douglas Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Educational planning should be based on realistic assumptions concerning the children that enter our classrooms. We must recognize that they are a diverse group and that a one-size-fits-all approach in not going to work very well for many students. The notion that all children can live up to a single...
Shift Ed
A Call to Action for Transforming K–12 Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
A comprehensive guide to transforming American schools
Futurist David Houle and educational strategist Jeff Cobb issue a “call to action” to everyone who is concerned about education in America. He argues that reinventing our system is inevitable and we already have the information and...