Curricula category: 1261 books
Student Engagement and Participation
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The delivery of quality education to students relies heavily on the actions of an institution’s administrative staff. Effective teaching strategies allow for the continued progress of modern educational initiatives. Student Engagement and Participation: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Distance learning is becoming increasingly prevalent in educational settings around the world as it provides more flexibility and access to classes for students and educators alike. While online classrooms are proving to be popular, there is a significant gap in the personalization and humanization of...
Planning and Developing Open and Distance Learning
A Framework for Quality
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book is aimed at those who are considering, or just starting to plan open and distance learning courses. It offers practical advice on how to find your students, expand your audience and become cost-effective without compromising quality. The main areas covered are:
basic principles and...
by Anita Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book examines the effects of education exchange on educational sovereignty in Indonesia. Since independence, Indonesia has increasingly relied on the education programs of foreign providers. The author draws from critical education, dependency, and transnational and interdependence theories to...
Teacher Education and Teaching as Struggling for the Soul
A Critical Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Challenging conventional ways of thinking about school reforms and teacher education, this book analyses how the "knowledge systems" which organize how teachers’ observe, supervise, and evaluate children produces norms that have the effect of excluding children who are poor and of color....
by Ference Marton
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Necessary Conditions of Learning presents a research approach (phenomenography) and a theory (the variation theory of learning) introduced and developed by Ference Marton and taken up by his wide and varied following around the world—together with their practical applications in educational contexts....
by Connie Jo Smith, Charlotte M. Hendricks, Becky S. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Children develop a sense of security and self-worth by becoming familiar with themselves, their home, and the world around them. Increase children’s awareness of their own communities and the ways they can help within their home and environment with this Community and Environment curriculum. It...
A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization
An Imaginative Dialogue with Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization In A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization: An Imaginative Dialogue with Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire, a volume in Landscapes of Education [Series Editors: William H. Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago & Ming...
by A. Stoller
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In Knowing and Learning as Creative Action, Aaron Stoller makes the case that contemporary schooling is grounded in a flawed model of knowing, which draws together mistakes in thinking about the nature of the self, of knowledge, and of reality, which are contained in the epistemological proposition:...
Mathematics Lesson Study Around the World
Theoretical and Methodological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
This book introduces the specifics of mathematics lesson study with regard to regional/national particularities, discussing the methodological and theoretical tools that can be used to pursue research on lesson study (its forms, contents, effects etc.) from an international perspective. Lesson study...
Place-based Curriculum Design
Exceeding Standards through Local Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Place-based Curriculum Design provides pre-service and practicing teachers both the rationale and tools to create and integrate meaningful, place-based learning experiences for students. Practical, classroom-based curricular examples illustrate how teachers can engage the local and still be accountable...
Knowledge at the Crossroads?
Physics and History in the Changing World of Schools and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
There is much discussion about what needs to change in education institutions in the 21st century, but less attention given to how core disciplinary studies should be considered within that context. This book is based on a major 4-year research study of history and physics in the changing environment...
Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment
Re-thinking Curriculum as Counter-Conduct and Counter-Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Winner of the 2019 AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Outstanding Book Award
This book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy. Examining the powerscape in which education...
Managing Diverse Classrooms
How to Build on Students' Cultural Strengths
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
How does the home culture of Latino immigrant students differ from the “mainstream” culture of U.S. schools? Why is it important for teachers to understand the differences? How can educators take advantage of students’ cultural traits to improve classroom management, student performance, and...