Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Better Teachers, Better Schools
What Star Teachers Know, Believe, and Do
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
We all know teachers who, in the face of insurmountable district and school level challenges, inspire underserved students to succeed. These teachers are more than good ? they are ‘stars’. Haberman maintains that school districts still gamble when selecting teachers as an overwhelming number are...
Social and Emotional Education in Primary School
Integrating Theory and Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
This book synthesizes concepts, findings, and best practices for a complete guide to planning, implementing, and evaluating social and emotional education (SEE) programs. Emphasizing "caught" as well as taught lessons, it offers a whole-school framework for SEE, with content, rationales,...
A Think-Aloud and Talk-Aloud Approach to Building Language
Overcoming Disability, Delay, and Deficiency
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While self-talk like “Now we are buckling you in the car seat so we can go to the store” is common parental practice, this book shows how teachers, parents, and therapists can take this to higher levels to advance language cognitive development and learning potential. Based on neuroscience...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Mary Louise Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform...
by Denis Lawton
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
It is often argued that education is concerned with the transmission of middle-class values and that this explains the relative educational failure of the working class. Consequently, distinctive culture needs a different kind of education. This volume examines this claim and the wider question of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The Handbook of Social Justice in Education, a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the field, addresses, from multiple perspectives, education theory, research, and practice in historical and ideological context, with an emphasis on social movements for justice. Each of the nine sections explores...
Cognition, Education, and Multimedia
Exploring Ideas in High Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Computers have become a topic of concern, debate, argument, dogmatism, and inquiry among a variety of people who are interested in the fate and effectiveness of the educational system. This book presents working hypotheses of ways in which computers may fit into and/or transform classroom education....
Transitions to Early Care and Education
International Perspectives on Making Schools Ready for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Transitions to new educational experiences are a universal rite of passage encountered by children worldwide. This volume in the Educating the Young Child: Advances in Theory and Research, Implications for Practice series provides early childhood educators with a resource that focuses on the transitions...
Help Seeking in Academic Settings
Goals, Groups, and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Building on Karabenick’s earlier volume on this topic and maintaining its high standards of scholarship and intellectual rigor, Help Seeking in Academic Settings: Goals, Groups, and Contexts brings together contemporary work that is theoretically as well as practically important. It highlights current...
Auto/biography & Pedagogy
Memory & Presence in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research. The book moves from...
U.S. Latinos and Education Policy
Research-Based Directions for Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
With the American dream progressively elusive for and exclusive of Latinos, there is an urgent need for empirically and conceptually based macro-level policy solutions for Latino education. Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Carefully curated to highlight research from more than twenty countries, the International Critical Pedagogy Reader introduces the ways the educational phenomenon that is critical pedagogy are being reinvented and reframed around the world. A collection of essays from both historical and contemporary...
by Gavin T. L. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. A multifaceted and politically charged topic, assessment ranges from informal interactions with learners in classrooms to systematic...
Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism
Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
This important book looks at developments that are changing our understanding of the role of education in citizenship and the possibilities of democratic participation. The first chapter reviews theories of citizenship and education based on the classical contributions to political theory of C.B....