Information Age Publishing: 1717 books
Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East
An Historic Overview
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries Vol. 2
A Critical Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Over the course of the past decade and a half, we, Samuel Totten and Jon E. Pedersen, have coedited a series of books on teaching and learning about social issues. Our goal has been to build a series that would broadly represent the work that has been undertaken over the past 110 plus years related...
Multiliteracies
Beyond Text and the Written Word
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Multiliteracies: Beyond Text and the Written Word emphasizes literacies which are, or have been, common in American culture, but which tend to be ignored in more traditional discussions of literacy—specifically textual literacy. By describing multiliteracies or alternative literacies, and how they...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
A timely collection of sound research addresses father involvement in their children’s education. Promising Practices for Fathers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education visits a less known side of parent involvement, the side of fathers’ active engagement with their children’s education...
by Herbert J. Walberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
(Published in cooperation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement) As suggested by the title, the purpose of this Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement is to provide principles for restructuring and substantially improving schools. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In keeping with the tradition set forth in volumes 14, this fifth volume, Creating Visions for University School Partnerships: A Volume in Professional Development School Research, continues to exemplify current thinking of practitioners and researchers in the field. The range of authors from the...
Expanding Opportunities to Link Research and Clinical Practice
A Volume in Research in Professional Development Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This volume in the Research in Professional Development Schools book series considers the role professional development schools (PDSs) play in expanding opportunities for linking research and clinical practice. As in past volumes of this series, PDS practitioners and researchers make a compelling case...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Currently, peace education remains marginalized in our education system, however, a united front can be formed and powerful paradigms can empower educators to play a critical role in peace building through scholarship, practice and activism. Indeed, educators around the world are developing effective...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language in academic settings, also referred to academic language, has gained attention in the field of second language learning owing to new understandings of the complexities of language inherent in learning academic content, and new efforts to assess English learners’ language proficiency in...
Reclaiming Communist Philosophy
Marx, Lenin, Mao, and the Dialectics of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book is unique in its utilization of the natural sciences to explain and illustrate key concepts of communist philosophy. In its recapitulation of the spirit of Engels’s unfinished manuscript, The Dialectics of Nature, it relies on the physical sciences developed since Engels’s time to reaffirm...
Beyond Retention
Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Justice, and Fairness for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Fairness, and Justice for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education, Brenda Marina and Sabrina N. Ross address the continued underrepresentation of women faculty of color at predominantly White colleges and universities through a creative convergence...
Prairie Power
Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
originally published by University of Missouri (May 2004) Prairie Power is a superb collection of oral histories from the 1960s focused on former student radicals at the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University. Robbie Lieberman presents a view of Midwestern...
Love, Justice, and Education
John Dewey and the Utopians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Love, Justice, and Education by William H. Schubert brings to life key ideas in the work of John Dewey and their relevance for the world today. He does this by imagining continuation of a highly evocative article that Dewey published in the New York Times in 1933. Dewey wrote from the posture of having...