Age: 1758 books
Joinedup History
New Directions in History Education Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Debates about the identity of school history and about the nature and purpose of the learning that does, can and should take place in history classrooms continue in many countries around the world. At issue, in many of these debates, beyond the concerns about history and national identity, are often...
by Simon Hayhoe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Philosophy as Disability and Exclusion examines the history of ideas on arts in the education of people who are blind in England, from 1688 to 2010. This book also examines a number of the earlier influences on the enlightenment, and the international context of this topic. The two hypotheses on which...
Critical Pedagogy in the TwentyFirst Century
A New Generation of Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twentyfirst century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholareducators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset of a much larger movement for critical transformation...
Unsettling Beliefs
Teaching Theory To Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
This volume explores issues involved with teaching social theory to preservice teachers pursuing degrees through teacher education programs and experienced teachers and administrators pursuing graduate degrees. The contributors detail their experiences teaching theoretical perspectives regarding race,...
Challenging Status Quo Retrenchment
New Directions in Critical Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This year (2012) marks ten years of No Child Left Behind and the U.S. federal government’s official designation of what qualifies as “scientifically based research” (SBR) in education. Combined, these two policies have resulted in a narrowing of education via standardization and high stakes...
by Terry Osborn
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This book introduces preservice and inservice foreign language teachers to the basic concepts of critical educational study as applied to the sociological position occupied by foreign language education in the United States. Although contemporary foreign language teachers typically know about second...
New Perspectives in Service Learning
Research to Advance the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Promising Practices to Support Family Involvement in Schools is a musthave volume for every contemporary educator. This monograph provides a broad array of exciting researchsupported practices to reform schools for the benefit of students, teachers, administrators, families and their communities....
Distance Education
Definition and Glossary of Terms (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Distance Education has become a major topic of interest in the field of educational communications and technology. In response to this interest, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) published the first edition of Distance Education: Definition and Glossary of Terms...
Views from Inside
Languages, Cultures, and Schooling for K?12 Educators
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The goal of this text is to help teachers in diverse classrooms understand the importance of students’ culture, languages, and schooling experiences to curriculum, assessment, and student achievement. Readers will learn about aspects of specific cultures and languages that are important to their...
Stress and Quality of Working Life
Conceptualizing and Assessing Stress
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Workrelated stress is costly not only to employees, but also to organizations and society. For example, it is estimated that workrelated stress, depression, and anxiety costs British employers £1,035 per employee and that workplace stress costs the US economy up to 300 billion annually. However, elevated...
Education Reform
Confronting the Secular Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education. It challenges “secular education” as a failed educational model and proposes an alternate model with farreaching potential. It reveals how secular schools have insufficient resources to support the public’s educational...
Schools as Radical Sanctuaries
Decolonizing Urban Education through the Eyes of Youth of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Large, comprehensive urban high schools were designed and constructed with the belief that they could meet the needs of all its students, academic and otherwise. By and large, however, these schools have only done a good job of sorting students for specific jobs in a society based on capitalism and White...
Interdisciplinarity, Creativity, and Learning
Mathematics with Literature, Paradoxes, History, Technology, and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Interdisciplinarity is increasingly viewed as a necessary ingredient in the training of future oriented 21st century disciplines that rely on both analytic and synthetic abilities across disciplines. Nearly every curricular document or vision statement of schools and universities include a call for...