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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Students’ school motivation and engagement are key contributors to the quality of their academic learning and performance, as well as growth in other important areas of life (social, emotional, and physical health). Fostering motivation and engagement is thus a meaningful educational purpose, both...
The Language of Peace
Communicating to Create Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Language of Peace: Communicating to Create Harmony offers practical insights for educators, students, researchers, peace activists, and all others interested in communication for peace. This book is a perfect text for courses in peace education, communications, media, culture, and other fields....
The No People
Tribal Tales of Organizational Cliff Dwellers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This book focuses on capturing one of the most important elements in successful leadership giving followers a voice and motivating them to use that voice to help the leader be successful. The book is based on taking real stories of effective versus ineffective leaders from around the world, and sharing...
Dreams Deferred
Dropping Out and Struggling Forward
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
(Sponsorship: AERA Division B, Division K, and Bilingual Education SIG) In Dreams Deferred, a followup to Of Borders and Dreams (1996), Chris Carger takes us further into the life of Alejandro Juarez, Jr., and his family. This work envelopes readers in “la vida real,” real life. Carger followed...
Classical Social Theory in Use
Interpretation and Application for Educators and Other NonSpecialists
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book provides an introduction to classical social theory through discussion, application, and synthesis of the work of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and George Herbert Mead. Rather than merely summarizing and evaluating their continuing influence, their ideas and ways of reasoning are applied in...
Inheriting As People Think It Should Be
From Money To Mementos
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
What obligations to each other do people have or think they have? That question comes up in relation to family and marriage relationships, to law, and to moral reasoning. This novel and highly readable book takes it up in relation to inheritances: to what people think they should leave or be left,...
Varied Perspectives on Play and Learning
Theory and Research on Early Years Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book brings together an international group of researchers reporting on their work about play and early childhood education across 13 countries Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Germany, Hong Kong, United States of America, India, The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Singapore, China and Australia. It contributes...
Democracy and Decency
What Does Education Have to Do With It?
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Democracy can mean a range of concepts, covering everything from freedoms, rights, elections, governments, processes, philosophies and a panoply of abstract and concrete notions that can be mediated by power, positionality, culture, time and space. Democracy can also be translated into brute force,...
Learning from Media
Arguments, Analysis, and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
This volume incorporates essays questioning the metaanalyses of computerbased instruction research, Robert Kozma's counterpoint theory of "learning with media", sciencebased technology verus experiencebased craft and sciencebased "authentic technologies".
Learning From Media 2nd Ed.
Arguments, Analysis, and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Richard Clark’s observation that “…media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers our groceries causes changes in our nutrition” is as misunderstood today as it was when first published in the Review of Educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This volume examines the assessment of higher order thinking skills from the perspectives of applied cognitive psychology and measurement theory. The volume considers a variety of higher order thinking skills, including problem solving, critical thinking, argumentation, decision making, creativity,...
Messengers of Music
The Legacy of Julia E. Crane
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Music teachers around the world have positively influenced the lives of children. From Susan Udell who reaches out to over 3,000 students in Madison Wisconsin through her Handchimes program, to Deidre Roberts who shares the love of music to children in poverty stricken areas of Pakistan, Ecuador and...
Finding Meaning in Civically Engaged Scholarship
Personal Journeys, Professional Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The essays in this volume are a collection of reflective narratives, rather than traditional scholarly treatises. The book is divided into two parts. The first part describes our individual journeys as each of us found our way to civically engaged scholarship and came to see it as critical to our...
Examining the Assistant Principalship
New Puzzles and Perennial Challenges for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
This edited book highlights the importance and complexity of the assistant principalship. As noted in all the chapters, the assistant principal is a critical partner in creating a professional learning community that serves all students well. Often neglected or ignored in the literature, assistant...