Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Helping Parents Understand Schools
A Different Perspective on Education and Schooling in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
There is a great deal of misunderstanding about how schools in America function and what goes on in the typical classroom. Parents, even relatively young parents, perceive that public schools are just like when they attended. This faulty perception is held by a large portion of the general public. In...
Quiet at School
An Educator's Guide to Shy Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Compared to their more sociable counterparts, shy children are at greater risk for a variety of difficulties in elementary school, including internalizing problems, difficulties with peer relationships, and poorer academic performance. Written by a developmental and an educational psychologist with...
Introducing Neuroeducational Research
Neuroscience, Education and the Brain from Contexts to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Amongst educators, scientists and policy-makers there is a growing belief that the field of education can benefit from an understanding of the brain. However, attempts to bring neuroscience and education together have often been hampered by crucial differences in concepts, language and philosophy....
Assessing Contexts of Learning
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This volume brings together educational effectiveness research and international large-scale assessments, demonstrating how the two fields can be applied to inspire and improve each other, and providing readers direct links to instruments that cover a broad range of topics and have been shown to work...
Inclusive Practices and Social Justice Leadership for Special Populations in Urban Settings
A Moral Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Inclusive Practices and Social Justice Leadership for Special Populations in Urban Settings: A Moral Imperative is comprised of a collection of chapters written by educators who refuse to let the voices of dissent remain marginalized in our discussion of education in the 21st century education. Drawing...
by Kenneth M. Zeichner
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
"… Clear, articulate, and cogent….[Zeichner] exhibits a commitment to a vision of social justice that rightly demands the very best both from society and from those of us who work in schools, communities, and teacher education institutions." -- Michael W. Apple, From the Foreword
In...
Teaching with Joy
Educational Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
This edited collection addresses the growing need for ideas and methods conducive to holistic educational practices and aims to encourage more personal growth in students too often distracted by the background noise of war, violence, racism, and environmental deterioration. The contributors are working...
Hearts and Minds Without Fear
Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Hearts and Minds Without Fear: Unmasking the Sacred in Teacher Preparation is the first book of its kind that focuses on the critical urgency of integrating creativity, mindfulness, and compassion in which social and ecological justice are forefronted in teacher preparation. This is especially significant...
Yes We Can!
Improving Urban Schools through Innovative Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Yes We Can: Improving Urban Schools through Innovative Educational Reform is a empiricallybased book on urban education reform to not only proclaim that hope is alive for urban schools, but to also produce a body of literature that examines current practices and then offer practical implications for...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Family-school partnerships are increasingly touted as a means of improving both student and school improvement. This recognition has led to an increase in policies and initiatives that offer the following benefits: improved communication between parents and educators; home and school goals that are...
American Educational History
School, Society, and the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
American Educational History: School, Society, and the Common Good is an up-to-date, contemporary examination of historical trends that have helped shape schools and education in the United States. Author William H. Jeynes places a strong emphasis on recent history, most notably post-World War II...
Rightist Multiculturalism
Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
For nearly two decades, E. D. Hirsch’s book Cultural Literacy has provoked debate over whose knowledge should be taught in schools, embodying the culture wars in education. Initially developed to mediate against the multicultural "threat," his educational vision inspired the Core Knowledge...
Education Is Upside-Down
Reframing Reform to Focus on the Right Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Education Is Upside Down cuts through adjustments being made at technical levels of educational practice and accountability, challenging ideals and philosophies that have powered American Education for most of the last century. This book explains how and why long-standing approaches generate flawed...
by Alan M. Blankstein, Robert W. Cole, Paul D. Houston
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Join today's most insightful thinkers as they explore the heart, mind, and soul of educational leadership!
This concise volume offers educational leaders key concepts and strategies for framing discussions about closing the equity gap and ensuring high achievement for all learners. As the first...