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Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond
The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education. The authors (many of whom, themselves, are noted professors...
by Charles R. Green, Ruthanne KurthSchai
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The fate of public education and therefore the future of our democracy is at risk. Powerful forces are eroding commitment to public schools and weakening democratic resolve. Yet even in deeply troubling times, it is possible to broaden social imagination and empower efforts toward systemic progressive...
Operation Pied Piper
The Wartime Evacuation of Schoolchildren from London and Berlin 193846
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
When war came, the authorities in London and Berlin operated evacuation schemes that sent children into billets and camps in rural reception areas. The children’s exodus either happened orderly and followed years of planning and discussion amongst policy makers (London), or haphazardly following the...
Undertaking Educational Challenges in the 21st Century
Research from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This is Book V in the series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East. The series strives to encourage the presentation of evidence based investigations using data collected on site from the three world regions it considers. A strong focus is on data specific to a nation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The 6th book of the International Review of History Education Series, Contemporary public debates over history education, presents public debates on history education as they appear in 14 different areas of the world, in Asia, Europe, North and South America. In alphabetical order: in Brazil, by Maria...
American Educational Thought 2nd Ed.
Essays from 16401940
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
American Educational Thought: Essays from 16401940 contains primary source readings from the mid 1600s to 1940. The goal of the work is to provide teachers, contemporary scholars of education, and policymakers with the most significant arguments made on the subject of American education during this...
by Tom O'Donoghue, Elaine Lopes, Marnie O’Neill
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Australia is a vast sparsely populated land and from an early date this created problems in terms of providing educational facilities. As part of the solution the nation has had a long tradition of using distance education methods to provide an education for its isolated primary and secondary school...
Priorities of the Professoriate
Engaging Multiple Forms of Scholarship Across Rural and Urban Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Established in 2006, the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education (AABHE), formerly constituted as the Black Caucus (American Association of Higher Education), has been the consistent voice of Black issues in academe. According to the stated mission, the AABHE pursues the educational and...
The Politics of Leadership
Superintendents and School Boards in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
The primary contribution of this book, is not its advocacy of a specific position but rather, its objective analysis of cogent topics. The content prompts us to consider governance in relation to quality education and to ponder alternative policy strategies that have yet to be fully evaluated. As a young...
African American Males and Education
Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial...
Esperanza School
A Grassroots Community School in Honduras
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In Esperanza School: A Grassroots Community School in Honduras, Eloisa Rodriguez takes us into the daily lived experiences of members of a community school, Esperanza School, situated in a rural area in Honduras. Her work engages readers in a critical analysis of what Esperanza School represents for...
Accountability Frankenstein
Understanding and Taming the Monster
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
To understand the current moment in school accountability, one must understand the larger contradictions in education politics. Accountability Frankenstein provides a broader perspective on the school accountability debate by exploring the contradictions inherent in highstakes testing. Accountability...
The Secure Child
Timeless Lessons in Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Secure Child: Timeless Lessons In Parenting and Childhood Education was designed to contribute meaning to the adage “what was old is new again.” Just as ideas in child psychology shifted in the 1960s from a focus on behavior to cognitive stages, we are currently seeing a shift away from stages...
Women Leaders
Advancing Careers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Women Leaders: Advancing Careers recognizes that while the majority of students enrolled in educational leadership preparation programs continue to be women; women’s advancement to top school executive roles is still not comparable to that of men. Despite significant gains in the past decade, the biased...