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Issues of Identity in Music Education
Narratives and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Editorial Board: William Bauer, Case Western Reserve University. Susan Wharton Conkling, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Colleen Conway, University of Michigan. Lisa R. Hunter, The State University of New York College at Buffalo. Joshua A. Russell, The Hartt School, University of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
As a set of studies, Diverse Methodologies represents and reflects the music education research community at a truly unique moment. The collection demonstrates the profession's increased motivation, willingness, and desire to expand and enhance the research base and traditions in the study and practice...
Learning Over Time
Learning Trajectories in Mathematics Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The driving forces behind mathematics learning trajectories is the need to understand how children actually learn and make sense of mathematics—how they progress from prior knowledge, through intermediate understandings, to the mathematics target understandings—and how to use these insights to...
Transitions
Symbolic Resources in Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
What do young people do with the novels they read, the films they see, the music they hear and sing? How do these cultural products act as ‘symbolic resources’ in the process of development? And what can we, as researchers, learn by studying people’s uses of fiction? This monograph approaches development...
Peace Jobs
A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book is a guide for college students exploring career options who are interested in working to promote peacebuilding and the resolution of conflict. High school students, particularly those starting to consider college and careers, can also benefit from this book. A major feature of the book...
R.A.C.E. Mentoring Through Social Media
Black and Hispanic Scholars Share Their Journey in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Ivory Tower is and can often be a lonely place for faculty of color. Social injustices run deep and are entrenched within academia. Faculty of color (FOC), more specifically Black and Hispanic, often lament about the ‘Black/Brown’ tax that frequently takes its toll both personally and professionally,...
Mentoring Magic
Pick The Card For Your Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
A Guidebook for Students in Higher Education who are American, International, or Studying Abroad. A wizard waves his wand, a magician produces a rabbit, a fairy godmother casts her spells; the magic of mentoring comes from connections! Ask a person you respect, “How did you get to where you are...
Asian American Education
Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Asian American EducationAsian American Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages presents groundbreaking research that critically challenges the invisibility, stereotyping, and common misunderstandings of Asian Americans by disrupting "customary" discourse and disputing "familiar"...
by Mary Lynn Redmond
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The current thrust in the field of education is to improve teachers’ understanding of how research on best practices can improve student learning. The field of world language education introduces a double, perhaps a triple, bind: teachers must be able to design and deliver instruction that aligns...
Research Informing Practice Practice Informing Research
Innovative Teaching Methologies for World Language Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
“Research Informing Practice—Practice Informing Research: Innovative Teaching Methodologies for World Language Educators” is an edited volume that focuses on innovative, nontraditional methods of teaching and learning world languages. Using teacherresearch projects, each author in the volume...
Latinos/as and Mathematics Education
Research on Learning and Teaching in Classrooms and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This book that explores the mathematics education of Latinos/as in 13 original research studies. Each chapter represents research that grounds mathematics instruction for Latinos/as in the resources to be found in culture and language. By inverting the deficit perspective, this volume redresses the...
Narrowing the Achievement Gap in a (Re) Segregated Urban School District
Research, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The interplay between sociopolitical forces and economic agendas becomes apparent when one examines the June 28, 2007 United States Supreme Court Decision, Parents Involved In Community Schools v. Seattle School District . In a reversal of the 1954 Brown Decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled...
E-Learning and Social Media
Education and Citizenship for the Digital 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The progress of broadband ICT is having a big impact on individual lifestyles and corporate activities. For corporate strategy, broadband use goes beyond improving management efficiency to contributing to enhancing customer services and developing new markets. In addition, the shape of corporate organizations...
Migrants and Refugees
Equitable Education for Displaced Populations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions...