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Education of Students with an Intellectual Disability
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This book is designed as a collegelevel textbook introducing readers to all aspects of intellectual disability in children, from birth to the end of schooling, with an educational focus. The book will be of interest to persons training as special education teachers or who are training as regular teachers...
At a Crossroads
The Educational Leadership Professoriate in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This volume presents the results of a comprehensive study of educational leadership faculty and the departments and programs in which they work. It reports the characteristics, activities, and attitudes of educational leadership faculty members involved in universitybased educational leadership preparation...
Faculty Mentoring
The Power of Students in Developing Technology Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The purpose of this book is to describe the approach and process involved in a program designed to assist faculty in acquiring technology skills and to apply these skills in constructing meaningful learningcentered applications. Most educators will agree that the challenge of developing faculty technology...
Writing for Educators
Personal Essays and Practical Advice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
This book is for new faculty, graduate students, teachers, administrators, and other academics who want to write more clearly and have their work published. The essays focus on writing journal articles, dissertations, grants, edited books, and other writing in educational settings. The authors are...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The purpose of this book is to highlight the efforts of the members of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) to prepare Scholarly Practitioners in the field of education leadership. The volume is edited by Jill Alexa Perry, Executive Director of CPED, a consortium of 86 schools of education...
A Place For Teacher Renewal
Challenging the Intellect, Creating Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Originally Published with Teachers College Press in 1992 Foreword by Maxine Greene Are teachers ever given the credit and respect they deserve? Is there a place where they can go to be treated as intelligent professionals rather than as underpaid tools of school administrations or the government?...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This book is the fifth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. Scholars, both young and established, are invited to publish original analyses, but we especially encourage young scholars to contribute to...
Social Studies Teacher Education
Critical Issues and Current Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Over the past decade, the world has experienced a major economic collapse, the increasing racial inequity and highprofile police killings of unarmed Black and Brown people, the persistence of global terrorism, a largescale refugee crisis, and the negative impacts of global warming. In reaction to...
Teaching ELLs Across Content Areas
Issues and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The book, Teaching ELLs Across Content Areas: Issues and Strategies, is a unique, useful text written for K12 teachers. This book is the culmination of the professional knowledge, expertise, and experience from the distinguished authors who represent the entire range of the content areas, including:...
What the West Can Learn From the East
Asian Perspectives on the Psychology of Learning and Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Education, East and West, is today mostly Western in orientation. Asian perspectives remain relatively unrepresented in curricula, pedagogy and administrative structures. This volume has brought together authors researching in Asia who redress this imbalance and describe what the West can learn from...
Beyond the Campus
Building a Sustainable University Community Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This book explores how we approached the issue of community development in the context of competing interests and a differential power imbalance. We used a processbased model for supporting community transformation, a phenomenon in which universitycommunity partnership is but one example. The people...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Volunteer management has many challenges, not the least of which is how we study it and view it. Academics examine it from a variety of disciplines and practitioners experience it in a variety of contexts. However both approaches have limitations. In academia we go to public administration schools to...
Caring Leadership in Turbulent Times
Tackling Neoliberal Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This book analyzes education reform through the eyes of those entrenched in the process—policy makers, administrators, middle managers, principals, and teachers—in the context of care. A senior administrator, who participated in the implementation of an unprecedented series of reforms that flattened...