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Innovation and Implementation in Rural Places
School-University-Community Collaboration in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This volume focuses on innovative school-university-community collaborations that are being implemented in rural places in the United States. A foundational belief that underpins the contributions to this volume is that rural communities contain within themselves the resources to promote and sustain...
Learning at the Back Door
Reflections on NonTraditional Learning in the Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Wedemeyer stresses that learning is a natural idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource. It is not dependent upon teaching, schooling, or special environments, althoughproperly usedthese resources enhance learning. There is a powerful subculture of independent learners...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The importance of social studies assessment is beyond question. The National Council of the Social Studies’ C3 Framework recognizes the importance of high?quality assessments—its major objective, a “deep understanding of the sociocultural world,” has as its underpinning the idea that students...
No Reluctant Citizens
Teaching Civics in K-12 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
American democracy is at a critical crossroads. Rancor, division, and suspicion are the unfortunate byproducts of the contentious 2016 presidential election. The election also bred a measure of civic uncertainty where citizens of all ages struggle to find and define their roles within a functioning...
Digging Deeper
Activities for Enriching and Expanding Social Studies Instruction K?12
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Experts in social studies education and gifted education share teacher?tested strategies for differentiating social studies in K?12 classrooms. Chapter authors showcase best?practice and research?based lessons and activities that enrich and expand social studies instruction while building K?12 students’...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
For social studies teachers reeling from the buffeting of topdown educational reforms, this volume offers answers to questions about dealing with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Each chapter presents and reviews pertinent standards that relate to the social studies. Each chapter also deals...
Home Schooling In Full View
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This book is a reader that describes, discusses and analyzes homeschooling from an array of different and international perspectives. We portray the energy of this movement, looking at the history of “education writ large” in a larger social, political and religious context. Like most movements...
Ferocious Resolve
Politics, Courage, and What it’s Like to be a Professor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This is a critical examination of the people who teach and produce research and scholarship in our institutions of higher education. The insights revealed through probing interviews with individual professors who have made careers in the halls of academia help readers understand the politics, power...
Advancing Equity and Diversity in Student Affairs
A Festschrift in Honor of Melvin C. Terrell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This Festschrift has a dual purpose: (a) highlight how student affairs has grown as a field of practice in response to the growth of student diversity on college campuses, and (b) honor the remarkable career of Melvin C. Terrell. As one of the unique contributions to higher education attributed to the...
Using Past as Prologue
Contemporary Perspectives on African American Educational History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In 1978, V. P. Franklin and James D. Anderson coedited New Perspectives on Black Educational History. For Franklin, Anderson, and their contributors, there were glaring gaps in the historiography of Black education that each of the essays began to fill with new information or fresh perspectives. There...
Educational Opportunity in Rural Contexts
The Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The impetus behind this volume stems from reflections on commemorations of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision. Brown turned 60 in May of 2014, and many special issues of peer?reviewed journals were dedicated to that anniversary. Unlike most special issues and volumes, we sought to highlight...
Policy, Leadership, and Student Achievement
Implications for Urban Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This is the second book in the series examining student achievement. The chapters in this book reflect the scholarly papers presented at the July 2006 Education Policy, Leadership Summer Institute (EPLSI) by K16 educators, researchers, community advocates, and policymakers who work in urban communities....
Critical Times in Curriculum Thought
People, Politics, and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This book is designed to be used at a master’s level for a degree in curriculum and instruction, teacher education or educational leadership. It could be used as a primary or a supplementary text. The book is divided into three parts: The first section focuses on the contributions of noted educators...
Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries Vol. 3
A Critical Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
EDUCATING ABOUT SOCIAL ISSUES IN THE 20th and 21st Centuries: A Critical Annotated Bibliography, Volume 3 is the third volume in a series that addresses an eclectic host of issues germane to teaching and learning about social issues at the secondary level of schooling, ranging over roughly a one hundred...