Curricula category: 1261 books
Democratic Curriculum Leadership
Critical Awareness to Pragmatic Artistry
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book provides educators with guidance on studying and practicing a curriculum problem solving artistry that is focused on deepening students’ subject matter understandings through democratic self and social understandings. The book begins with a discussion of seven principles of curriculum...
Teaching Twos and Threes
A Comprehensive Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This book is for teachers and caregivers of two- and three-year-olds, early Head Start, and college courses in early childhood education.
The pushdown of early learning standards into pre-k means that two- and three-year-olds need their own specialized curriculum; this book offers teachers...
Unlocking Creativity
A Teacher's Guide to Creativity Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Stepping up to the Second Year at University
Academic, psychological and social dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Programmes in higher education tend to focus attention on the student’s first year (because of concerns about student transition and retention) and on their final year (because of student exiting for their future careers). The middle year(s) of programmes receive relatively little attention which...
Talent Knows No Color
The History of an Arts Magnet High School
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In the summer of 1970, the members of the New Orleans Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals understood clearly the realities of race in the South. Houston, Texas, like other Southern cities, had made haste toward racial school desegregation as slowly as the White Southern Federal courts would allow. When the...
Global Values Education
Teaching Democracy and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Global Values Education: Teaching Democracy and Peace , which is the seventh volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in v alues edu- tion globally. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
This book, which is the eighth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in decentralisation, school-based management (SBM) and quality in education globally. This book, which focuses on decentralisation...
Language, Development Aid and Human Rights in Education
Curriculum Policies in Africa and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The debate about languages of instruction in Africa and Asia involves an analysis of both the historical thrust of national government and also development aid policies. Using case studies from Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, Rwanda, India, Bangladesh and Malaysia, Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite argues that...
Internationalization and Global Citizenship
Policy and Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This book examines the integration of the international, global, and intercultural dimensions in contemporary education systems. Yemini provides a comprehensive understanding of the process of internationalization from different angles including policy-making, curriculum implementation, media discourse,...
Curriculum Studies in China
Intellectual Histories, Present Circumstances
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Scholars from three continents collaborate to create a truly global understanding of curriculum in the world's most populous country. This book discusses major topics in curriculum studies in China and shows how Chinese scholars understand their field's history, circumstances, and place in a globalized world.
Knowledge, Control and Critical Thinking in Singapore
State ideology and the politics of pedagogic recontextualization
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
This book examines how critical thinking is regulated in Singapore through the process of what the influential sociologist of education Basil Bernstein termed "pedagogic recontextualization". The ability of critical thinking to speak to alternative possibilities and individual autonomy as...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This book discusses current challenges related to teaching geography, mainly at the secondary school and higher education level. Focusing on a range of current topics, different methods, techniques, materials, applications, and approaches to geography education with a regional Central European perspective,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Mathematics curriculum, which is often a focus in education reforms, has not received extensive research attention until recently. Ongoing mathematics curriculum changes in many education systems call for further research and sharing of effective curriculum policies and practices that can help lead...
Multiliteracies in Motion
Current Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The realities of new technological and social conditions since the 1990s demand a new approach to literacy teaching. Looking onward from the original statement of aims of the multiliteracies movement in 1996, this volume brings together top-quality scholarship and research that has embraced the notion...