Curricula category: 1261 books
Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education
International perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The integration of popular culture into education is a pervasive theme at all educational levels and in all subject areas. Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education explores how ‘popular culture’ and ‘education’ come together and interact in research and practice from an interdisciplinary...
New Literacies around the Globe
Policy and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The increasing popularity of digitally-mediated communication is prompting us to radically rethink literacy and its role in education; at the same time, national policies have promulgated a view of literacy focused on the skills and classroom routines associated with print, bolstered by regimes of...
Reimagining Schools
The Selected Works of Elliot W. Eisner
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Elliot Eisner has spent the last forty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the enduring issues in arts education, curriculum studies and qualitative research. He has compiled a career-long collection of his finest work including extracts from books, key articles, salient research...
Social Efficiency and Instrumentalism in Education
Critical Essays in Ontology, Phenomenology, and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Distinct among contemporary philosophical studies focused on education, this book engages the history of phenomenological thought as it moves from philosophy proper (the European phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition) through curriculum studies. It thus presents the "best of both worlds"...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This unique collection considers the nature of writing groups inside and outside the academic environment. Exploring writing groups as contextual literacy events, editors Beverly J. Moss, Nels P. Highberg, and Melissa Nicolas bring together contributors to document and reflect on the various types...
Creative Teaching for All
In the Box, Out of the Box, and Off the Walls
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards, cores, and state regulations that strangle motivation...
by William F. Pinar
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate, and to become educated in the present moment in the places we inhabit.
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Research-Based Unit and Lesson Planning
Maximizing Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
By integrating the best of current research and practice in curriculum planning this book presents that comprehensive topic in a manageable form. Examples throughout are representative of different grade levels and subjects areas. It should be understood at the outset that the content offered for...
by David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of curriculum as abundance and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices, the work of specific children, and specific dilemmas, images, and curricular practices that arise in concrete...
Sociology and School Knowledge
Curriculum Theory, Research and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The rise of a radical ‘new’ sociology of education during the early 1970s focused attention on the nature of school knowledge. Although this new approach was set to revolutionize the subject, within a few years, many people considered these developments an eccentric interlude, with little relevance...
by Hongping Annie Nie
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Despite the implementation of numerous reform policies, moral education in China remains problematic. This study presents a student perspective on the dilemma of the moral education curriculum in a Chinese secondary school. Dr. Hongping Annie Nie finds that the school system does not provide a favorable...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Addressing studying as a distinct educational concept and phenomenon in its own right, the essays in this volume consider study and studying from a range of perspectives. Countering dominant educational discourses, which place a heavy emphasis on learning and instruction, the contributors explore...
Wheels in the Head
Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Confucianism to Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. The goal is to explore how governments use education to control and manage...
Contemplating Curriculum
Genealogies/Times/Places
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Contemplating Curriculum takes up world-renowned curricular scholar, teacher, and mentor Ted T. Aoki’s invitation to contemplate where curriculum scholars situate themselves in their work. At the same time it probes into the historical and present conditions that make it both possible and impossible...