Curricula category: 1261 books
by V. Andreotti
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Andreotti illustrates how postcolonial theory is applied in the contexts of educational research/critique and in pioneering pedagogical projects. She offers an accessible and useful overview and comparison of theoretical debates related to critiques of Western/Northern hegemony.
Wonder-Full Education
The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how...
by Kieran Egan
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education – Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effectively learn, and how they can be helped towards educational maturity. While drawing on a wide range of philosophical and psychological literature,...
Whole School Projects
Engaging Imaginations Through Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this new and practical contribution to the importance of imagination in learning, Kieran Egan and his colleagues demonstrate how individual contributions to a coherent large-scale project can produce enormous results of great educational value. Helping all participants to feel pride for more than...
Five Paradigms for Education
Foundational Views and Key Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Newell compares the fundamental assumptions of five major worldviews of education and their implications for classroom practice, incorporating history and case studies and posing questions about the limits and benefits of employing each today.
Views from Inside
Languages, Cultures, and Schooling for K?12 Educators
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The goal of this text is to help teachers in diverse classrooms understand the importance of students’ culture, languages, and schooling experiences to curriculum, assessment, and student achievement. Readers will learn about aspects of specific cultures and languages that are important to their...
by Liam Gearon
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Religion has achieved ever greater prominence in debates about citizenship at every level of cultural, economic, social and political life. Citizenship through Secondary Religious Education highlights some of the key issues surrounding citizenship for the R.E. teacher.
Topics selected include...
Advanced Concept Maps in STEM Education
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Concept mapping has often been acknowledged as an efficient instrument for aiding students in learning new information. Examining the impact this tool provides in STEM fields can help to create more effective teaching methods. Advanced Concept Maps in STEM Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities...
by J. White
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Across much of the world there is now a standard secondary school curriculum based on a traditional array of subjects. This is the first work to tell the story of its invention, from the sixteenth century until the present day. The book concludes with a sketch of an alternative: a curriculum based on a well-argued set of fundamental aims.
by Laurence Peters, Mike Peters
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This ground breaking work treats the Trump presidency as a "teachable moment." It is designed to help English Language Arts teachers engage with their students concerning the 45th president of the United States' multiple strategies for winning and holding power. The book provides many lesson...
The Moral Curriculum
A Sociological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Teachers are, and always have been seen as agents of respectability in our society, but today this role is far less easily defined than it once was. Now, for most teachers, the whats and hows of moral behaviour, guidance and instruction have become debatable issues. In this book the author gives us...
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 12 # 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC). An important historical event in the development of organizations dealing with the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum was the founding of the AATC on October 1, 1993. The members...
School Knowledge for the Masses
World Models and National Primary Curricular Categories in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
First published in 1992, this book presents unique quantitative data on the content coverage of primary education in a large number of countries since 1920. It demonstrates that these curricular outlines tend to be surprisingly similar across very disparate countries, and suggests the world processes...
by Mojdeh Bayat
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
A copublication with the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Addressing Challenging Behaviors and Mental Health Issues in Early Childhood focuses on research-based strategies for educators to address challenging behaviors of children during early childhood and elementary school years. Utilizing...