Age: 1758 books
Research Methods in Social Studies Education
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship on social studies education by providing thoughtful reflections on research methods in the field. It is not a “how to” guide but an exploration of key issues related to the design and implementation of empirical studies. The authors are active...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Historians often ignore the daytoday struggles of ordinary people to improve their lives. They tend to focus on the accomplishments of illustrious leaders. Peace Education from the Grassroots tells the stories of concerned citizens, teachers, and grassroots peace activists who have struggled to counteract...
Discovering Cultural Psychology
A Profile and Selected Readings of Ernest E. Boesch
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
This book is a landmark in contemporary cultural psychology. Ernest Boesch’s synthesis of ideas is the first comprehensive theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt’s Völkerpsychologie of the first decades of the twentieth century. Cultural psychology of today is an attempt to advance...
Evaluative Research Methods
Managing the Complexities of Judgment in the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
How do research students and their supervisors respond in a world of ‘fake news’, the destabilisation of public institutions and the rise of populism? The very foundations of our liberal democracies seem to be under threat, and this implicates social inquiry. Postgraduate research remains one...
Civil Society or Shadow State?
State/NGO Relations in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Pólvora, sangre y sexo
dialogismos contemporáneos entre la literatura y el cine en América Latina
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The book examines the links between literature and film in Latin America by using queer theory and a series of recent cultural productions whose arguments destabilize traditional gender roles and heteronormative masculinity. For many years, the connections between a literary text and its film adaptation...
Spark the Brain, Ignite the Pen (SECOND EDITION)
Quick Writes for Kindergarten Through High School Teachers and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A NEW emphasis IN THIS edition of Spark the Brain, Ignite the Pen is writing to learn in the content areas. This edition of the work first published in 2006 includes a collection of classroomtested quick writes designed to assist students in thinking and writing about significant content in the disciplines....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Across the United States, schools face the daunting issue of confronting the widespread effects of bullying, which threaten the physical, emotional, and intellectual well?being and development of youth. Creating and Negotiating Collaborative Spaces for Socially?Just Anti?Bullying Interventions for K?12...
Educational Leadership
Building Bridges Among Ideas, Schools, And Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Educational Leadership: Building Bridges Among Ideas, Schools, and Nations breaks new ground by connecting many ideas to educational leadership that have traditionally been discussed as part of leaders’ contexts by connecting them and showing how international issues can unite scholars and educators...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
While critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to leadership....
Prominent Dutch American Entrepreneurs
Their Contributions to American Society, Culture and Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The book presents the stories of the more successful Dutch American entrepreneurs, active in the United States, with some going back as far as 400 years. The majority of the entrepreneurs covered in the book were active during the past 150 years. Each of the individuals covered represent an enterprise...
Methodological Thinking in Psychology
60 Years Gone Astray?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In recent years an increasing dissatisfaction with methods and thinking in psychology as a science can be observed. The discipline is operating under the tension between the traditional quantitative and the new qualitative methodologies. New approaches emerge in different fields of psychology and...
The Management Process
An Integrated Functional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
(Originally Published in 1963 by R.D. Irwin) The Management Process presents new and traditional subject matter in a diff erent context because it is felt that greater emphasis should be given to the interaction of the management functions. All managers plan, organize, and control the work of others,...
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 14 #1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum. The field includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large....