Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Federalism and Education
Ongoing Challenges and Policy Strategies in Ten Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Federalism has played a central role in charting educational progress in many countries. With an evolving balance between centralization and decentralization, federalism is designed to promote accountability standards without tempering regional and local preferences. Federalism facilitates negotiations...
Reclaiming Discipline for Education
Knowledge, relationships and the birth of community
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Discipline is of profound educational importance, both inside educational institutions and outside of them in personal and social life. Reclaiming Discipline for Education revisits neglected philosophical ideas about discipline in education and uses these ideas to re-think practices and discourses...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
This evidence-packed guide explores the growing importance of new technologies and situated learning in the vanguard of medical and health sciences education, backed by real-world clinical applications. Its dual emphasis on problem-based learning (PBL) and applied learning is reflected in the range...
Law & Education Inequality
Removing Barriers to Educational Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Over the past decade, No Child Left Behind, Common Core, Race to the Top, data mining initiatives, Title IX gender equity, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and executive actions on immigration illustrate key federal initiatives that have redefined standards,...
Change(d) Agents
New Teachers of Color in Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book examines both the promise and complexity of diversifying today’s teaching profession. Drawing from a 5-year study of 21 new teachers of color working in urban, hard-to-staff schools, this book uncovers a systemic paradox that the teachers confront. They are committed to improving educational...
Dilemmas of Educational Ethics
Cases and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Educators and policy makers confront challenging questions of ethics, justice, and equity on a regular basis. Should teachers retain a struggling student if it means she will most certainly drop out? Should an assignment plan favor middle-class families if it means strengthening the school system...
Minority Students in East Asia
Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
In Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices and Teacher Responses authors discuss their research on minority students’ schooling (elementary to higher education) in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Minority students’ educational issues are...
Children's Lively Minds
Schema Theory Made Visible
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
Teachers often see repetitive behaviors in toddler and preschool classrooms, such as building and knocking down block towers or dumping out toys. When children do these actions over and over it can be irritating to teachers and parents, but viewing these actions through the lens of schema theory,...
Getting to the Heart of Leadership
Emotion and Educational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
'This book makes an important contribution to the literature on educational leadership and should help to shift the emphasis from rational and accountability-related models to an explicit recognition of the importance of emotions to effective leadership' - Educational Management Administration and...
Collaborative Learner Autonomy
A Mode of Learner Autonomy Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The book investigates interest groups and various learning circles, Reading Circles (RCs) learning opportunity in particular, as a mode of in-class and beyond class autonomous learning in the context of English Language Teaching (ELT) at tertiary level in Oman, and in similar contexts in the Middle...
Education and the Family
Passing Success Across the Generations
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Why it is that success, deprivation or disadvantage are so often passed down intergenerationally? What part does education play?
The educational achievement of parents is often reflected in that of their children and there are many underlying causes for such a relationship. Education and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Students often enter higher education academically unprepared and with unrealistic perceptions and expectations of university life, which are critical factors that influence students’ decisions to leave their institutions prior to degree completion. Advances in educational technology and the current...
The Research Process in Educational Settings (RLE Edu L)
Ten Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book presents a series of research biographies based on research experiences in the study of educational settings. The main aim is to provide a set of first person accounts on doing research that combine analysis with description. The contributors have been drawn from the disciplines of sociology...
Becoming Other
From Social Interaction to SelfReflection
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The research reported in this book is unapologetically Meadian. While the work of George Herbert Mead has been of widespread significance, and his name is often cited, there are in fact few empirical studies that have sought to rigorously instantiate his ideas. This is in part because his theory is abstruse...