Educational Theory category: 17068 books
by Daniel Muijs, Mel Ainscow, Chris Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Collaboration and networking have recently come to the fore as major school improvement strategies in a number of countries. A variety of initiatives, from government and other agencies, have encouraged collaboration and led to a lot of practical activity in this area. However, at present there are...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The second edition of the Handbook of Test Development provides graduate students and professionals with an up-to-date, research-oriented guide to the latest developments in the field. Including thirty-two chapters by well-known scholars and practitioners, it is divided into five sections, covering...
The End of Ignorance
Multiplying Our Human Potential
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A revolutionary call for a new understanding of how people learn.
The End of Ignorance conceives of a world in which no child is left behind – a world based on the assumption that each child has the potential to be successful in every subject. John Mighton argues that by recognizing the barriers...
Teaching By Numbers
Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Over the last decade the transformation in the field of education that is occurring under the twin banners of "standards" and "accountability" has materially affected every aspect of schooling, teaching, and teacher education in the United States. Teaching By Numbers, offers interdisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
This edited volume provides multidisciplinary and international insights into the policy, managerial and educational aspects of diverse students’ transitions from education to employment. As employers require increasing global competence on the part of those leaving education, this research asks...
To What Ends and By What Means
The Social Justice Implications of Contemporary School Finance Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This unique collection examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting the K-12 education system in the United States. The authors included in this volume provide critiques and explorations of several established theories and policy approaches...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Globalization, Education and Social Justice, which is the tenth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents up-to-date scholarly research on major discourses concerning global trends in education, social justice and policy research. It provides...
Education Policy
Bridging the Divide Between Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
What exactly is education policy, why is it important, and how is it implemented in the real world? Jerome Delaney, a professor of educational administration and former high school principal, answers the big questions about education policy in this powerful and practical primer for students. Informed...
Thinking Critically About Environments for Young Children
Bridging Theory & Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Using a practice-based focus and a researcher lens, the contributors consider the ways in which environments for children enhance or diminish educational experiences, how social constructs about what is good for children influence environmental design, and what practitioners can do in their own work...
Blair’s Educational Legacy
Thirteen Years of New Labour
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Providing an overview and Marxist assessment of Tony Blair and New Labour's UK education policies, structures, and processes, the contributors in this exciting new collection discuss specific aspects of education policy and practices.
by Anne Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book advances an environmental approach to enhancing creativity in schools, by interweaving educational creativity theory with creative industries environmental approaches. Using Anna Craft’s last book Creativity and Education Futures as a starting point, the book sets out an up-to-date argument...
by Maxine Greene
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Special 2018 Edition
From the new Introduction by Michelle Fine, Graduate Center, CUNY :
"Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'"
In The Dialectic of Freedom,...
Schooling Readers
Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction—though now often forgotten—set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth...
"To Remain an Indian"
Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What might we learn from Native American experiences with schools to help us forge a new vision of the democratic ideal—one that respects, protects, and promotes diversity and human rights? In this fascinating portrait of American Indian education over the past century, the authors critically...