Educational Theory category: 17068 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
This book focuses on the language of educational research as well as on the language of education. It conceives both as social practices and investigates how rhetoric plays a part in the complex process of historically situated argumentation. The book aims to answer such questions as: ‘What is the...
Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership
Reclaiming School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
A democratic, ethical leader integrates democracy, social justice, and school reform through dialogue and is guided by a sense of responsibility to students, families, and the community. Democratic Ethical Educational Leadership presents a cohesive framework for aspiring and practicing leaders to...
by K. K. Kuriakose
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The industrial monoculture spreading across the globe is highly competitive, greedy and egotistical; in the shaping of educational policy, global communities have accepted a model based on science and technology, which lacks aspects that should be addressed in the goal of education. The book Timeless...
by Abul Pitre
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Drawing from Louis Farrakhan’s decades of teaching on education and leadership this volume brings his ideas into the educational leadership discourse. It explores through a critical framework the purpose of education disclosing how those in powerful positions have shaped educational policy to use...
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
An authoritative look at recent developments in China’s approach to educating its young--and what it means for the rest of the world
Covering psychological ideology, moral education, and current reforms, The History of Chinese Modern Educational Thought summarizes recent developments in Chinese...
Educational Leadership and Moral Literacy
The Dispositional Aims of Moral Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
What makes a moral person moral? Who decides what morality means? What makes leadership practice moral? In today’s schools, what stands as moral leadership? These are questions that reflect the complexity integral to the calculus of human morality, especially in a world that is defined daily by...
Education Reform
Confronting the Secular Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education. It challenges “secular education” as a failed educational model and proposes an alternate model with farreaching potential. It reveals how secular schools have insufficient resources to support the public’s educational...
The Psychology of Illustration
Volume 2: Instructional Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the earliest stages of elementary school to the advanced college level, vari ous types of illustrations are included in educational materials in order to pro mote learning. These illustrative adjuncts are often profuse and, in many cases, they may be the most striking feature that distinguishes...
Controls and Choices
The Educational Marketplace and the Failure of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Many activists and writers have ascribed continuing racial segregation in American schools to a failure of will. In this view, forced transfers of students and other aggressive judicially mandated policies would lead to greater equality in education if only legislators and judges had the will to continue...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice in Educational Leadership provides educational leaders with practical steps for implementing multicultural education into schools. Drawing from multicultural scholars like James Bank’s it equips educational leaders with the knowledge, skills,...
by Allan Luke
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This collection of Allan Luke’s key writings on educational policy, curriculum, and school reform follows the development and use of critical discourse analyses to study educational policy and practice. Turning to a series of narrative analyses of the relationship between politics, culture, economics,...
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry
Possibilities and Tensions in Educational Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry is an edited volume that examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt disruptive qualitative approaches to the study of educational contexts, issues, and phenomena. It presents a collection of innovative and intellectually stimulating chapters...
Vygotsky and Education
Instructional Implications and Applications of Sociohistorical Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1990
The seminal work of Russian theorist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) has exerted a deep influence on psychology over the past 30 years. Vygotsky was an educator turned psychologist, and his writings clearly reflected his pedagogical concerns. For Vygotsky, schools and other informal educational situations...
Improving Quality in Education
Dynamic Approaches to School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This book explores an approach to school improvement that merges the traditions of educational effectiveness research and school improvement efforts. It displays how the dynamic model, which is theoretical and empirically validated, can be used in both traditions. Each chapter integrates evidence...