Curricula category: 1261 books
China’s Education, Curriculum Knowledge and Cultural Inscriptions
Dancing with The Wind
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
With a focus on the role of discourse and language in education, this book examines China’s educational reform from an original perspective that avoids mapping on Westernized educational sensibilities to a Chinese environment. Zhao untangles the tradition-modernity division expressed in China’s...
by John Macalister, I.S.P. Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Crystal-clear and comprehensive yet concise, this text describes the steps involved in the curriculum design process, elaborates and justifies these steps, and provides opportunities for practicing and applying them. The description of the steps is done at a general level so that they can be applied...
Religion in the Classroom
Dilemmas for Democratic Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Dilemmas surrounding the role for religious beliefs and experiences permeate the school lives of teachers and teacher educators. Inspired by the need for teachers and students to more fully understand such dilemmas, this book examines the relationship between religion and teaching/learning in a democratic...
Critical Thinking for Better Learning
New Insights from Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Critical Thinking for Better Learning shifts the focus from teaching to learning and from presenting information to creating challenges that teach students how to think in your discipline. The shift derives from three new insights from cognitive science: that we think by analogy, that we learn best...
Teaching STEM Outdoors
Activities for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
First outdoor STEM book
Filled with practical suggestions, ideas, and resources for implementing STEM activities outdoors
Uses STEM strategy responsive to the developmental needs of young children
Incorporates STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and outdoor learning—two...
Embracing Mathematics
On Becoming a Teacher and Changing with Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This alternative textbook for courses on teaching mathematics asks teachers and prospective teachers to reflect on their relationships with mathematics and how these relationships influence their teaching and the experiences of their students. Applicable to all levels of schooling, the book covers...
Curriculum in a New Key
The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Ted T. Aoki, the most prominent curriculum scholar of his generation in Canada, has influenced numerous scholars around the world. Curriculum in a New Key brings together his work, over a 30-year span, gathered here under the themes of reconceptualizing curriculum; language, culture, and curriculum;...
by Bena Kallick, Jeff Colosimo
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Data experts provide detailed guidelines on analyzing information from curriculum maps and assessments, making decisions based on data, and changing school culture to enhance learning outcomes.
by Jonathan Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This third edition explores the key practical and theoretical issues underpinning cross-curricular teaching and learning across the early years, primary education and lower secondary school. Combining findings from research and educational theory with examples of thought-provoking teaching in schools,...
Subjectivity, Curriculum, and Society
Between and Beyond the German Didaktik and Anglo-American Curriculum Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
In this book Tero Autio traces not only the key philosophical currents that structure traditional Anglo-American instrumental curriculum theory and Didaktik theories of curriculum which are lesser-known in the U.S., but also the divide between them and, implicitly, the opportunities for traversing this divide. Using careful historical and theoretic
by George E. Newell, David Bloome, Alan Hirvela
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Focused on the teaching and learning argumentative writing in grades 9-12, this important contribution to literacy education research and classroom practice offers a new perspective, a set of principled practices, and case studies of excellent teaching. The case studies illustrate teaching and learning...
Bourdieu, Language-based Ethnographies and Reflexivity
Putting Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Offering a unique and original perspective on Bourdieu, language-based ethnographies,and reflexivity, this volume provides a nuanced, in-depth discussion of the complex relationship between these interconnected topics and their impact in real-world contexts. Part I opens the book with an overview...
Transnational Curriculum Standards and Classroom Practices
The New Meaning of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Focusing on the meaning of teaching, Transnational Curriculum Standards and Classroom Practices contributes to a deepened understanding of what it means to be a teacher in an institutional context ranked high on the policymakers’ agenda. While the policy literature emphasises efficiency in teaching,...
Reclaiming Knowledge
Social Theory, Curriculum and Education Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Reclaiming Knowledge asserts the necessity of a strong view of knowledge for a robust sociology of knowledge, for both researching the curriculum and developing policy. Divided into four sections or investigations, the central question underlying this book is how, in a world of uncertainty and challenge, do we develop a responsible knowledge practice?