Educational Theory category: 17068 books
With All Your Mind
A Christian Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
With All Your Mind makes a compelling case for the value of thinking deeply about education in America from a historically orthodox and broadly ecumenical Christian point of view. Few people dispute that education in America is in a state of crisis. But not many have posed workable solutions to this...
An Educator's GPS
Fending Off the Free Market of Schooling for America's Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2019
The time has come to focus on teaching and learning that all American students deserve. Quality instruction that engages all students with thinking skills that create successful intelligence for the future of all students is offered throughout traditional public education in the US. But, an adult-centered...
School Belonging in Adolescents
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book explores the concept of school belonging in adolescents from a socio-ecological perspective, acknowledging that young people are uniquely connected to a broad network of groups and systems within a school system. Using a socio-ecological framework, it positions belonging as an essential...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book analyses the experiences of multicultural education in nine very different international settings uncovering insights from a vast variety of educational contexts. Taking a multi-critical approach in reporting and discussing problems faced by increasingly multicultural and multilingual...
Reconceptualising Professional Learning
Sociomaterial knowledges, practices and responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society. The conditions for professional practice and learning are changing dramatically in the wake of globalization, new modes of knowledge production, new...
Writing as a Learning Tool
Integrating Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is an outstanding account of the current state of using writing in service of learning. It presents psychological and educational foundations of writing across the curriculum movement and describes writing-to-learn practices implemented at different levels of education. It provides concrete...
21st Century Skills Development Through Inquiry-Based Learning
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book presents innovative instructional interventions designed to support inquiry project-based learning as an approach to equip students with 21st century skills. Instructional techniques include collaborative team-based teaching, social constructivist game design and game play, and productive...
Understanding Problems of Practice
A Case Study in Design Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Today, K-12 practitioners are challenged to become educational innovators. Yet, little is available to the practitioner to guide their reflection about the design, development, and implementation of these innovations in their own practice. This brief approaches such problems of practice from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
This ambitious multidisciplinary volume assembles diverse critical-theory approaches to the current and future states of networked learning. Expert contributors expand upon the existing literature by analyzing the ethical aspects of networked learning and the ongoing need for more open, inclusive,...
Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching
The Legacy of Gloria Jean Merriex
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching: The Legacy of Gloria Jean Merriex focuses on the theory and practices of a highly successful mathematics teacher of African American children in a high-poverty school. The book aims to contribute to the limited literature base in this area in...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
In the decade preceeding the original publication of this book the discipline of behaviour analysis was becoming increasingly influential in educational circles, but many of the practices we now take for granted were still being pioneered. This book considers the place of behaviour analysis in education...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This volume focuses on our understanding of the reading comprehension of adolescents in a high stakes academic environment. Leading researchers share their most current research on each issue, covering theory and empirical research from a range of specializations, including various content areas,...
Digital Knowledge Maps in Education
Technology-Enhanced Support for Teachers and Learners
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Digital knowledge maps are ‘at a glance’ visual representations that enable enriching, imaginative and transformative ways for teaching and learning, with the potential to enhance positive educational outcomes. The use of such maps has generated much attention and interest among tertiary education practitioners...
by Edmond Hau-fai Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
The book aims to explore distributed leadership in developing curriculum innovations in schools with a target of bringing about theoretical underpinnings in the West with the empirical studies and practices in the East. It examines theoretically the roots of the curriculum leadership studies and practically...