Information Age Publishing: 1717 books
Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning
(A Project of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and written by leading experts in the field of mathematics education, the Handbook is specifically designed to make important, vital scholarship accessible to mathematics education professors, graduate students, educational researchers, staff...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Trust has a constituent role in human societies. It has been treated as a scientific topic in many disciplines. Yet, despite the fact that trust and distrust come to life primarily in human communication and through language, it has seldom been analyzed from a communicative or linguistic perspective....
Psychology in Black and White
The Project of a TheoryDriven Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This book is long awaited within the contemporarily creative field of cultural psychologies. It is a theoretical synthesis that is at the level of innovations that Sigmund Freud, James Mark Baldwin, William Stern, Kurt Lewin, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky and Jan Smedslund have brought into psychology...
Teachers’ Personal Epistemologies
Evolving Models for Informing Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The focus of this book is to explore teachers’ evolving personal epistemologies, or the beliefs we hold about the origin and development of knowledge in the context of teaching. The chapters focus on a range of conceptual frameworks about how university and field?based experiences influence the connections...
AfricanAmerican MiddleIncome Parents
How Are They Involved in Their Children's Literacy Development?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
"Ethel Robinson has written an amazing book. As she wisely argues, despite a rapidly growing middle and upper class, popular media and public debates continue to view AfricanAmerican families from a deficit perspective. Portrayals of AfricanAmerican families in newspapers, television, and contemporary...
Culture, Self, and, Motivation
Essays in Honor of Martin L. Maehr
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The authors of the chapters in this volume—past and present collaborators of Marty Maehr, and a few of his former graduate students along the years—are motivational researchers who conduct research using diverse methods and perspectives, and in different parts of the world. All, however, see their...
Temporality
Culture in the Flow of Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book comes as part of a broader project the first editor is developing in collaboration with the other two, aiming critically to articulate the central philosophical issue of time and temporality with Cultural Psychology and related areas in its frontier. Similarly to the previous milestone in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
(This is a condensed version of Inspiring Student Writers: Strategies and Examples for Teachers.) Being an educator is a wonderfully fulfilling career, but it’s not for everyone. It is also, at times, a frustrating, stressful, aggravating, depressing occupation. Far too many people think working...
by Robert L. Hampel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Paul Diederich worked in five new organizations dedicated to transforming American schools: the Ohio State University lab school, the Eight Year Study, a Harvard institute to revamp English language instruction, the University of Chicago's Board of Examiners, and the Educational Testing Service. Throughout...
The First 100 Days in the Main Office
Transforming A School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book presents a series of cultural situations that could occur within the first onehundred days of a school year: responding to entrenched vocabularies and behaviors, addressing professional and instructional bad habits, enacting alternative teaching scripts, leveraging a policy blindside, redefining...
Organizational Behavior
An EvidenceBased Approach, 13th Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Our goal with this 13th Edition is to keep this first mainline organizational behavior text uptodate with the latest and relevant theory building, basic and applied research, and the bestpractice applications. We give special recognition of this scientific foundation by our subtitle An EvidenceBased...
Talent Knows No Color
The History of an Arts Magnet High School
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In the summer of 1970, the members of the New Orleans Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals understood clearly the realities of race in the South. Houston, Texas, like other Southern cities, had made haste toward racial school desegregation as slowly as the White Southern Federal courts would allow. When the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This book series, International Research on School Leadership focuses on how presentday issues affect the theory and practice of school leadership. For this inaugural book, we focused on the challenges facing new principals and headteachers. Because the professional lives of school leaders have increasingly...
Educational Restructuring
International Perspectives on Traveling Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006