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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
While the research on bullying and peer victimization has increased considerably over the past 20 years, a number of studies are emerging that document mixed results of bullying and prevention programs. During the last decades, several special issues devoted to research on bullying and victimization...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) presents new opportunities and greater flexibility in efforts to personalize learning for all children. The Handbook on Personalized Learning for States, Districts, and Schools provides insight and guidance on maximizing that new flexibility....
University and School Connections
Research Studies in Professional Development Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
The need for strengthening the connections between universitybased teacher education programs and schools has never been greater in an era where standards and accountability systems often play centric roles in practically all aspects of the education field. Within this context, university educators...
The Role of Leadership Educators
Transforming Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Leadership, as a discipline, leadership education, as a field, and leadership educator, as a profession are still in their infancy and rapidly evolving. As professionals in higher education, we are constantly asked to provide opportunities for students to learn leadership, whether that is inside or...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Mark Twain, the great American writer, once stated that synergy is the bonus achieved when things work together harmoniously. Organizations in the twentyfirst century are driven by a need to achieve synergy for all of their various processes, and organizational structures such as teams have become...
In Praise of Radiant Beings
A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This text is a collection of essays by noted curriculum scholar and philosopher of education, David W. Jardine. It ranges over twentyfive years of work with teachers and students in schools. The main purpose of these essays is to provide teachers with new ways of thinking about their circumstances that...
Beyond the Mind
Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche is unusual in the content and it the format. That’s why it requires an unusual look. It has to do with a man, an intellectual journey and with uncountable travels across the world over the last two decades. This man is Jaan Valsiner and...
by Ole Skovsmose
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The title of the book is Critique as Uncertainty. Thus Ole Skovsmose sees uncertainty as an important feature of any critical approach. He does not assume the existence of any blue prints for social and political improvements, nor that certain theoretical structures can provide solid foundations for...
Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education
Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
(Orginally published in 2008) The goal of AMTE Monograph 4, "Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education: Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching", is to provide detailed accounts of case use that will inform the mathematics teacher education community on the range of ways in which cases can...
Decentralization for Satisfying Basic Needs 2nd Edition
An Economic Guide for Policymakers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
More than one in every five Latin Americans lives on less than 2 a day, and Latin America is the most unequal region in the world. The book tackles the problem of poverty and inequality in Latin America through the novel approach of using the decentralization of government functions to satisfy the basic...
Journal of Character Education Issue
Vol. 11 #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Journal of Character Education is the one professional journal in education devoted to character education. Our goal is to cover the field—from the latest research to applied best practices. We include editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our field, reviews of latest books,...
Consilio et Animis
Tracing a Path to Social Justice through the Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Once the province and tool of élite learning in American society, and the core of the Humanities, the study of the Classics now occupies a tenuous place on the margins of curriculum in most public schools. Administrators of schools and districts with limited resources, teachers, and students of ancient...
Peace Education
Exploring Ethical and Philosophical Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Peace education is now well recognized within international legal instruments and within critical educational literature as an important aspect of education. Despite this, little attention has been given in the critical literature to the philosophical foundations for peace education and the rationale...