Curricula category: 1261 books
Teaching History with Big Ideas
Cases of Ambitious Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
In the case studies that make up the bulk of this book, middle and high school history teachers describe the decisions and plans and the problems and possibilities they encountered as they ratcheted up their instruction through the use of big ideas. Framing a teaching unit around a question such as...
Curriculum, Pedagogy and Educational Research
The Work of Lawrence Stenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Lawrence Stenhouse was one of the most distinguished, original and influential educationalists of his generation. His theories about curriculum, curriculum development, pedagogy, teacher research, and research as a basis for teaching remain compelling and fresh and continue to be a counterpoint to...
by Charlotte Danielson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2006
Every school relies on teachers who informally and voluntarily lead various efforts in the school. These teachers may not be appointed leaders or paid leaders, but they are committed leaders: they see a need and they respond to it. What do these teacher leaders do that is different from the work...
World Yearbook of Education 2012
Policy Borrowing and Lending in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
The phenomenon of "travelling reforms" has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny. The fact that the same set of educational reforms is transferred from one country to another made scholars wonder whether policy transfer has increased as a result...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
It has long been recognised that specialised knowledge is at the core of what distinguishes professions from other occupations. The privileged status of professions in most countries, however, together with their claims to autonomy and access to specialised knowledge, is being increasingly challenged...
Mathematics
Teaching School Subjects 11-19
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This accessible and thought-provoking book considers what beginning teachers need to know about learning, teaching, assessment, curriculum and professional development, in the context of teaching mathematics to eleven to nineteen year olds. It is part of a new series of books that has as its starting...
Globalisation and Historiography of National Leaders
Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Globalisation and Historiography of National Leaders: Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks, the 18th book in the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, explores the interrelationship between ideology, national identity, national history and historical...
Critical Democratic Education and LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum
Opportunities and Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This book illustrates the relationship between politics and the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues are taught in schools. This book examines relationships between society, schools, and LGBTQ inclusion in order to understand perennial issues related to critical...
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most enduring and controversial issues in American education concerns the place of individual beliefs and moral standards in the classroom. Noddings argues that public schools should address the fundamental questions that teenagers inevitably rasie about the nature, value and meaning of...
The Textbook as Discourse
Sociocultural Dimensions of American Schoolbooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
The central assumption of The Textbook as Discourse is this: interpreted in the flow of history, textbooks can provide important insights into the nature and meaning of a culture and the social and political discourses in which it is engaged. This book is about the social, political and cultural content...
Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature
Worldly Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
In one volume, this edited collection provides both a theoretical and praxis-driven engagement with teaching world literature, focusing on various aspects of critical pedagogy. Included are nine praxis-driven essays by instructors who have taught world literature courses at the university level.
Booker T. Washington
The Architect of Progressive Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Booker T. Washington: The Architect of Progressive Education unveils Washingtons contributions to the development and history of progressive education. It exposes the ignorance of his critics and the distortions that have defined his legacy.----The book places Washington into the appropriate historical...
Necessary Spaces
Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In Necessary Spaces: Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South, Saundra Murray Nettles takes the reader on a journey into neighborhood networks of learning at different times and places. Using autobiographical accounts, Nettles discusses the informal instructional practices...
Beyond the Grammar Wars
A Resource for Teachers and Students on Developing Language Knowledge in the English/Literacy Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Are there evidence-based answers to the broad question "What explicit knowledge about language in teachers and/or students appears to enhance literacy development in some way"? Distinguished by its global perspective, its currency, and its comprehensiveness, Beyond the Grammar Wars:
provides...