Curricula category: 1261 books
In Praise of Radiant Beings
A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This text is a collection of essays by noted curriculum scholar and philosopher of education, David W. Jardine. It ranges over twentyfive years of work with teachers and students in schools. The main purpose of these essays is to provide teachers with new ways of thinking about their circumstances that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Issues in Art and Design Teaching draws together a range of pedagogical and ethical issues for trainee and newly qualified teachers of art and design, and their mentors in art and design education. Arguing for a critical approach to the art and design curriculum, the collection encourages students...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Media education for digital citizenship is predicated upon the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and produce media content and communication in a variety of forms. While many media literacy approaches overemphasize the end-goal of accessing digital media content through the acquisition of various...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons. Further, essays are included that highlight the person as entwined with other persons and examine who we are in light of communal ties. The...
Memory, Invention, and Delivery
Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge and Culture in Liberal Arts Education for the Future. Selected Proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In a time when liberal arts education is increasingly under attack, this volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. Future citizens, businesswomen and men, scientists, artists and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The quality of students’ learning experiences is a critical concern for all educational institutions. With the assistance of modern technological advances, educational establishments have the capability to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their learning programs. Impact of Learning...
International Perspectives on Teaching Rival Histories
Pedagogical Responses to Contested Narratives and the History Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This book presents a survey of approaches to dealing with ‘rival histories’ in the classroom, arguing that approaching this problem requires great sensitivity to differing national, educational and narrative contexts. Contested narratives and disputed histories have long been an important issue...
Teaching with Reverence
Reviving an Ancient Virtue for Today's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Reverence is a forgotten virtue in teaching and learning. When taken in a broader spiritual sense, it is often associated with a mute and prim solemnity. The essays gathered here examine reverence as a way to understand some of the spiritual dimensions of classroom teaching.
States of Emergency
The Object of American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The contributors to this volume argue that for too long, inclusiveness has substituted for methodology in American studies scholarship. The ten original essays collected here call for a robust comparativism that is attuned theoretically to questions of both space and time.
States of Emergency...
Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of an American National Identity
Education's "Errand Into the Wilderness"
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Present-day America is perceived by many as immersed in a moral crisis, with national identity fractured and uncertainty and anxiety about the future. Public schools in this country are, historically and still today, the major institution charged with preserving and teaching the symbols of national...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
In this volume, educationists and experts on values, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, discuss the question of values and the curriculum in societies which are changing rapidly and in which disagreements about values are sometimes acrimonious.
Critical Pedagogy in Uncertain Times
Hope and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
This book brings together the most important figures in the evolution of Critical Pedagogy to provide comprehensive analyses of issues related to the struggle against the forces of neoliberalism and the imperial-induced privatization, not just in education, but in all of social life through the radical democratizing forces of critical pedagogy.
Curriculum as Institution and Practice
Essays in the Deliberative Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume brings together a collection of essays by William A. Reid that present and elaborate the deliberative tradition of curriculum theory, and examine the implications of a deliberative perspective for approaches to policy making and school systems. The essays illustrate the development of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
With the ninth edition of the four-yearly review of mathematics education research in Australasia, the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) discusses the Australasian research in mathematics education in the four years from 2012-2015. This review aims to critically promote quality research and focus on the building of research capacity in Australasia.