Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Latino Education
An Agenda for Community Action Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
This landmark volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP)-an initiative focused on school reform and educational research with and for Latino communities. NLERAP's goal is to bring together various constituencies within the broad Latino community...
Bourdieu for Educators
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
***Educational change and reform on a larger scale ** *
Bourdieu for Educators: Policy and Practice, brings the revolutionary research and thinking of Pierre Bourdieu (1930[en]2002) of France to public educational leaders in North America, Canada, Australia, and the U.K. This text brings...
Educational Activity Programs for Older Adults
A 12-Month Idea Guide for Adult Education Instructors and Activity Directors in Gerontology
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
If you have ever found yourself frustrated by the lack of printed materials for ideas to be used in conducting classes or activities with older adults, look no more! Educational Activity Programs for Older Adults is an innovative guide for planning programs that meet the social, recreational, rehabilitative,...
Educating Elites
Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study...
by Tony Bush
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
'This is a very good and much needed book. Written by a very experienced researcher and teacher in the education leadership world it brings together a wealth of understanding and insights in the field of leadership and management development in education' - International Journal of Educational Management
'[T]his...
Crises Of Identifying
Negotiating And Mediating Race, Gender, And Disability Within Family And Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Although there has been an increase in literature regarding children of color with disabilities, it mainly focuses on their experiences in one social context. Crises of Identifying: Negotiating and Mediating Race, Gender, and Disability within Family and Schools includes narratives on the familial...
The New Work of Educational Leaders
Changing Leadership Practice in an Era of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
`If there in one word to describe the issues addressed by Peter Gronn in The New Work of Educational Leaders it's "timely" And if there is one book that education policy makers, system CEOs and education ministers should find the time to read, this is it' - Educare News
`This book...
Questioning the Language of Improvement and Reform in Education
Reclaiming Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Questioning the Language of Improvement and Reform in Education challenges the language used in education by linking the language of both the public and professional domains with the changing intentions of the governance of education. Exploring various issues, which embody the many manifestations...
Curriculum and the Teacher
35 years of the Cambridge Journal of Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Even though the curriculum can be tightly specified and controlled by strong accountability mechanisms, it is teachers who decisively shape the educational experiences of children and young people at school.
Bringing together seminal papers from the Cambridge Journal of Education around the...
Karl Marx
The Revolutionary as Educator
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
This book is an introduction to Karl Marx (1818–1883) as a radical educational thinker. Marx’s own schooling and education are examined and we see how his interest in educational issues was informed by his own experience. Educational themes in Marx’s thinking are identified: the role of education...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This handbook focuses on the often neglected dimension of interpretation in educational research. It argues that all educational research is in some sense ‘interpretive’, and that understanding this issue belies some usual dualisms of thought and practice, such as the sharp dichotomy between ‘qualitative’...
Educational Leadership
Building Bridges Among Ideas, Schools, And Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Educational Leadership: Building Bridges Among Ideas, Schools, and Nations breaks new ground by connecting many ideas to educational leadership that have traditionally been discussed as part of leaders’ contexts by connecting them and showing how international issues can unite scholars and educators...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Democratizing educational access and building capacity in developing countries and amongst indigenous peoples in developed countries may be elusive but are hopeful goals. Many developing countries are striving to reengineer their incoherent education systems at a time when they are most vulnerable,...
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula
A New Direction for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula serves as a standard textbook in graduate and senior level undergraduate classes in colleges and universities to contribute to the existing mass communication and ICT literature. The textbook offers a multi-discipline...