Curricula category: 1261 books
by David Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This book is a critical appreciation of the work of sixteen leading curriculum theorists, taking account of the writings of a balance of established thinkers and curriculum analysts from the fields of education, philosophy, sociology and psychology. Together these commentators offer a broad...
Teaching History at University
Enhancing Learning and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Alan Booth draws on a wide range of international research as well as the reflections and experiences of university historians, linking theory and practice. Teaching History at University examines how high-quality history teaching and learning can be achieved in today's universities worldwide. This...
Sound Curriculum
Sonic Studies in Educational Theory, Method, & Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Part of a growing group of works that addresses the burgeoning field of sound studies, this book attends not only to theoretical and empirical examinations, but also to methodological and philosophical considerations at the intersection of sound and education. Gershon theoretically advances the rapidly...
On Indian Ground
California
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
On Indian Ground: California is the first in a series of ten books on American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education. The focus of this text is the 110 tribes in California and the best practices available to educators of native students in K?16. This volume explores the history of California...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
With the dawn of electronic databases, information technologies, and the Internet, organizations, now more than ever, have easy access to all the knowledge they need to conduct their business. However, utilizing and detecting the beneficial information can pose as a challenge. Enhancing Knowledge...
The New Henry Giroux Reader
The Role of the Public Intellectual in a Time of Tyranny
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
The New Henry Giroux Reader presents Henry Giroux’s evolving body of work. The book articulates a crucial shift in his analyses after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack, when his writing took on more expansive articulations of power, politics, and pedagogy that addressed education and culture...
by William J. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
Reflections on the University Scene presents a sample of ideas, thoughts, and points of view, intimate to the university scene. They include the nature of the university, governance, limits of dissent, academic freedom, tenure, collective bargaining, liberal education, admissions, higher education and high-tech, and memorable teachers and teaching.
Citizenship Education around the World
Local Contexts and Global Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Though certainly not a new idea, citizenship education manifests in unique and often unpredictable ways in our contemporary neoliberal era. The question of what it means to be a productive and recognized citizen must now be understood simultaneously along both global and local lines. This edited volume...
Reading the Visual
An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Today’s teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they encounter daily in and out of school. Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how to teach it....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In today's rapidly changing world a constant renewal of knowledge and skills in every human endeavour can be observed. The characteristics of workers and the jobs that they perform have been attended by technological, social, and political change on a global scale. New forms of employment have made...
The Really Useful Maths Book
A guide to interactive teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The Really Useful Maths Book is for all those who want children to enjoy the challenge of learning mathematics. With suggestions about the best ways to use resources and equipment to support learning, it describes in detail how to make learning the easy option for children.An easy-to-follow, comprehensive...
Education Studies in Ireland
the Key Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
A unique book providing a critical overview of the foundation disciplines of education. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the five key disciplines that form the foundation of the study of education: Philosophy of Education, History of Education, Sociology of Education, Curriculum Studies, Psychology of Education.
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Working towards Decolonization, Indigeneity and Interculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which...
by Hongzhi Yang
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This book examines teacher agency in implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform in the Chinese university context. It theorizes the concept of teacher agency from a sociocultural theory perspective and draws on a study conducted in a conservative and less developed area in...