Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents
Studies from India
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This book provides a fresh approach to studies on adolescents with visual impairment. It threads through the three elements of disability (visual impairment), psychosocial development of adolescents, and their educational achievement. It highlights how these concepts traverse across and cast an irrefutable...
Placing Practitioner Knowledge at the Center of Teacher Education
Rethinking the Policies and Practices of the Education Doctorate
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Rethinking the Education Doctorate so that practitioner knowledge is at the center of programmatic concern in teacher education raises provocative education policy/practice considerations. Participants in the national Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) are doing just this. Their accounts...
by K. Marjoribanks
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book represents a major advance in examining the problem of how to reduce inequalities in the educational and occupational attainment of students from different socio-economic, ethnic and race group backgrounds. It integrates qualitative and quantitative research orientations and methodologies....
Building for a Sustainable Future in Our Schools
Brick by Brick
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book explores how educators can transform improvements from the dynamic process of teaching into far-reaching, sustainable reforms that can secure a more prosperous future for students and the world they inhabit. It establishes the role of leadership in educational sustainability and highlights...
Educational Leaders Without Borders
Rising to Global Challenges to Educate All
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Building from the history of inequality in education up to current problems, this text posits viewpoints on how to cultivate humanistic leaders in education to best benefit underserved children around the world. Among perspectives examined are economic, cultural, and political circumstances that...
Thinking About Schools
New Theories and Innovative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
As its title implies, this book has a deceptively simple mission: to prepare would-be school leaders to draw upon a variety of theoretical perspectives when thinking about schools and schooling. It shows how theories can function as cognitive tools to be mastered, carefully stored in one's intellectual...
Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education
In Quest of a U.S. Democratic Politics of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The book provides a historical overview of adult literacy theory, policy, practice, and research from the mid-1980s to the present. The main focus is a descriptive analysis of three distinctive schools of literacy: the Freirean-based participatory literacy movement grounded in oppositional politics...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
There is currently a rapidly growing interest in inquiry learning and an emerging consensus among researchers that, particularly when supported by technology, it can be a significant vehicle for developing higher order thinking skills. Inquiry learning methods also offer learners meaningful and productive...
Asia's Educational Edge
Current Achievements in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and India
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
The United States in the past half-century has consistently led the world in the strength of its economy and in scientific research and development. Now, this position at the forefront of industry and innovation is threatened. Asia's Educational Edge warns that the United States relies heavily on...
Knowledge Hierarchies in Transnational Education
Staging dissensus
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Transnational education seeks equivalence in standards and/or relevance of outcomes through the transfer of Western theories, concepts and methods. Utilising a critique-interpretative approach, Jing Qi argues that equivalence/relevance-oriented approaches to transnational education assume the legitimacy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Formal ethical review of research proposals is now almost the default requirement for all – staff and students – planning research under the auspices of colleges and universities in many parts of the world. With notable exceptions, the extant literature discussing educational research ethics takes...
The Hidden Role of Software in Educational Research
Policy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Educational research often discounts the uniqueness and ubiquity of software and the hidden political, economic and epistemological ways it impacts teaching and learning in K-12 settings. Drawing on theories and methodologies from English education, critical discourse analysis, multimodal semiotics...
Washback in Language Testing
Research Contexts and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004
Washback refers to the influence of language testing on teaching and learning. This volume, at the important intersection of language testing and teaching practices, presents theoretical, methodological, and practical guidance for current and future washback studies.
In the field of language...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
America faces a crisis in education and its accompanying effects on the nation's economic and social life. Educators and policy makers need to document the extent of this crisis, to gauge its potential impact, and to develop educational strategies that would boost achievement; this has turned the...