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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The 14 chapters in this book address education policy as it is being implemented in three world regions, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. The diverse authors utilize original local data, interpreting it to describe policy development and implementation across a range of nations who share commonalities...
Democratic Evaluation and Democracy
Exploring the Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Democratic evaluation brings a way of thinking about evaluation’s role in society and in particular, its role in strengthening social justice. Yet the reality of applying it, and what happens when it is applied particularly outside the West, is unclear. Set in South Africa, a newly formed democracy...
Critical Small Schools
Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform features the most current empirical research about the successes and challenges of the small schools movement and the implications of such for urban public educational policy. Situated in a climate of hierarchical...
Class Size and Pupil?Teacher Ratios
Where Education and Economics Collide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book provides a “primer” with respect to the debate about class size between economists and educators. In particular it offers an overview of how economists look at school funding problems, and makes a comparison between the work of the Chicago School and others like Eric Hanushek, which has...
Multicultural Education
Issues, Policies, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on different aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world. The chapters that you are about to read document several important...
Education for Democracy
Contexts, Curricula, Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Part of the "Research in Social Education" series, this text is divided into three parts: contexts; curricula; and assessments. It covers such topics as the irony of exclusion; teaching tolerance; and multicultural citizenship education.
by Ernest R. House
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This reissued book is one of the key works that influenced and shaped the contemporary evaluation field. The book developed a new, expanded conception of the validity of evaluation studies, based on broad criteria of truth, beauty, and justice. It also presented a widelyused typology of evaluation...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Despite technology’s presence in virtually every public school, its documented familiarity and use by youth outside of school, and the wealth of resources it provides for teaching social studies, there has been relatively little empirical research on its effectiveness for the teaching and learning...
Teaching Social Studies
A Methods Book for Methods Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers, features tasks designed to take preservice teachers deep into schools in general and into social studies education in particular. Organized around Joseph Schwab's commonplaces of education and recognizing the role of inquiry as a preferred...
Trust and Governance Institutions
Asian Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This book explores trust in government from a variety of perspectives in the Asian region. The book is divided into three parts, and there are seven Asian countries that have been covered by ten chapters. The first part contains three chapters which focus on two East Asian governments Hong Kong and...
by Yaacov Iram
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This volume on "Education towards a Culture of Peace" is a timely undertaking, since the United Nations has proclaimed the years 20012010 as the "International Decade for a Culture of Peace and NonViolence for the Children of the World." A culture of peace as defined by the UN...
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 12 # 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC). An important historical event in the development of organizations dealing with the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum was the founding of the AATC on October 1, 1993. The members...
Social Justice, the Common Core, and Closing the Instructional Gap
Empowering Diverse Learners and Their Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
There is little doubt that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a controversial entity. They are provocative for the way in which they have been developed, for the ways they are being implemented and evaluated, for their content, and for their failure to explicitly consider the needs, interests,...
Blurring The Lines
Charter, Public, Private and Religious Schools Come Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book, Blurring the Lines, has immediate appeal to policymakers, and analysis in public and private sectors, as well as legal scholars and practitioners. It will be of interest, too, to university teachers working in the areas of "School Law," "School Policy and Politics,"...