Curricula category: 1261 books
Global Conversations in Literacy Research
Digital and Critical Literacies
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
In this volume, renowned literacy and language education scholars who have shaped policy and practice aimed toward social justice and equity address current intellectual and practical issues in the teaching of literacy in classrooms and educational environments across diverse and international settings....
Alternative Approaches to Education
A Guide for Teachers and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Alternative Approaches to Education provides parents and teachers with information and guidance on different education options in the UK and further afield. This new and expanded edition, including additional chapters and up-to-date contact details, explains the values, philosophies and methods of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The elearning research literature is characterized by studies that investigate the practice of teaching and learning online (pedagogy) and those that investigate the planning and administrative functions associated with elearning delivery (management). This edited volume directs attention to pedagogy...
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 18 # 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum. The field includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large....
Learn to Think and Write
A Paradigm for Teaching Grades 4-8, Advanced Levels
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
The EPILLAW Paradigm is a practical method for developing writing skills. It consists of an original nine-level taxonomy and sequential methodology of listening, speaking, writing and reading. In this method, the development of writing precedes the development of reading. The work consists of two...
by Jo Angela Oehrli
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A collection of reflections about information and digital literacy practice in schools, libraries, museums, and informal learning settings.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
As children, we would have spilt glasses of milk, dropped things, and broken things. As children, therefore, we would have developed intuitions about how the world ‘works’, but we would not necessarily have been able to explain these ‘workings’. It would only have been till we entered formal...
The Audacity to Teach!
The Impact of Leadership, School Reform, and the Urban Context on Educational Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Audacity to Teach! is developed from a study of an inner city, urban elementary school that has undergone serial comprehensive reforms. Each act of reform has promised to bring about certain changes that would/will in return improve this particular school. This book explores critical issues such...
Problem-Based Learning
An Inquiry Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
A step-by-step guide for teaching your students to think critically and solve complex problems!
Problem-based learning expert John Barell troubleshoots the PBL process for teachers, drawing from practical classroom experience. Step-by-step procedures make this remarkably effective teaching...
by David McNamara, Professor David Mcnamara
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
In this provocative book, David McNamara argues that a `teacher-centred' approch to teaching in the primary school, especially in the later years is actually in the best interests of the children - that the teacher must be seen to have ultimate responsibility for what and how children learn. He attempts...
Human Rights Education
Theory, Research, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity and freedom of all peoples. Since the founding of the...
Charting a New Course
Reinventing High School Classes for the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The purpose of this book is to encourage teachers and administrators to move beyond traditional course structures and to ask them to consider designing experiential curriculum that is interdisciplinary and focused on solving real world problems. Why do this? Both authors believe that the current model...
Rigorous Reading, Texas Edition
5 Access Points for Comprehending Complex Texts
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Newly revised and updated throughout, this new Texas Edition has been specially developed to align with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards.
The Pursuit of Curriculum
Schooling and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
In this farreaching discussion of curriculum and liberal education, William A. Reid compares curriculum making to the idea of “pursuit.” Like justice, Reid argues that curriculum is not something that we own or possess in a material sense; rather, it is an achievement that anyone involved in schooling...