Curricula category: 1261 books
Captive University
The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This comparative history of the higher education systems in Poland, East Germany, and the Czech lands reveals an unexpected diversity within East European stalinism. With information gleaned from archives in each of these places, John Connelly offers a valuable case study showing how totalitarian...
by Petra Hendry
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
How can curriculum history be re-envisioned from a feminist, poststructuralist perspective? Engendering Curriculum History disrupts dominant notions of history as linear, as inevitable progress, and as embedded in the individual. This conversation requires a history that seeks re-memberance not representation,...
Spirituality and Pedagogy
Being and Learning in Sacred Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book offers teachers and teacher-educators an inspiring alternative to narrowly conceived prescriptions for instruction. Through this collection of contemplative essays, the author explores the meaning of school classrooms as sacred spaces for nurturing student growth and learning. Narrative...
by Mike Artell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The author writes a wonderful story. The illustrator creates incredible images. But what can educators bring to their read-alouds? Do the read-alouds ROCK? The fact is, every read-aloud is a performance. And every aspect of a read-aloud performance informs a child's understanding and appreciation of...
Common Core Standards and Banned Books Week
A Thematic Guide to Introducing Banned and Challenged Books in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Banned Books Week is celebrated the last full week in September and strives to make the public aware of books that have been banned or challenged in schools and public libraries, as well as in bookstores and other venues. Founded in 1982, the event is sponsored by the American Library Association,...
Teaching With Text-Based Questions
Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Help your students navigate complex texts in history/social studies and English language arts! This book shows you how to use a key tool—text-based questions—to build students’ literacy and critical thinking skills and meet the Common Core State Standards. You’ll learn how to ask text-based...
Argument as Dialogue Across Difference
Engaging Youth in Public Literacies
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
In the spirit of models of argument starting with inquiry, this book starts with a question: What might it mean to teach argument in ways that open up spaces for change—changes of mind, changes of practice and policy, changes in ways of talking and relating? The author explores teaching argument...
Teaching with DBQs
Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams. DBQs can be implemented year-round...
The Arts in Children's Lives
Context, Culture, and Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Seventeen authors, whose work represents the best of contemporary research and theory on a constellation of issues concerning the role of the arts in children's lives and learning, address critical issues of development, context, and curriculum from perspectives informed by work with children in formal...
Art, Disobedience, and Ethics
The Adventure of Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge. Examining art practice in educational settings where emphasis is placed upon a pragmatics of the ‘suddenly possible’, Atkinson looks at the issues of ethics,...
Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum
Eastern Thought, Educational Insights
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
This volume broadens the horizon of educational research in North America by introducing a comprehensive dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies and perspectives on the subject of curriculum theory and practice. It is a very timely work in light of the progressively globalized nature of education and educational studies and the increasing
by Andrew Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Spirituality and Education introduces the basic contours of current debate in a form accessible to both classroom teachers across the curriculum range, and to school managers. It covers all key areas, including:
* problems of defining spirituality
* government legislation and supporting documentation
*...
by Vincent Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book describes a system designed to create an education system that takes full advantage of technology and does away with having to attend a specific location at specific times. The system is designed to nurture outliers such as advanced students or non advanced students as well as present the...
Reinventing Curriculum
A Complex Perspective on Literacy and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
In this book, Linda Laidlaw explores the questions: What happens when children begin to write? Why is it that the teaching and practice of writing seems at times to be difficult in schools? How might teachers work differently to create more inviting spaces for developing literacy? The premise is that...