Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Forgotten Connections
On culture and upbringing
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Klaus Mollenhauer’s Forgotten Connections: On Culture and Upbringing is internationally regarded as one of the most important German contributions to educational and curriculum theory in the 20th century. Appearing here in English for the first time, the book draws on Mollenhauer’s concern for...
Anger Management
A Practical Guide for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Do you work with angry children? Are you wondering why young people don’t listen when they are angry? Are you exhausted from trying to understand angry behaviour? Are you having difficulty finding specialist help as soon as you need it?
Anger Management is a practical guide that will help...
Educating for Empathy
Service Learning in Public Policy Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Service learning presents an experiential learning opportunity, particularly for students at higher education institutions. At the same time, it allows the university to engage communities and apply its considerable resources addressing community needs. This book, Educating for Empathy: Service Learning...
Everyday Matters in Science and Mathematics
Studies of Complex Classroom Events
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
This book re-examines the dichotomy between the everyday and the disciplinary in mathematics and science education, and explores alternatives to this opposition from points of view grounded in the close examination of complex classroom events. It makes the case that students' everyday experience and...
The Unified Learning Model
How Motivational, Cognitive, and Neurobiological Sciences Inform Best Teaching Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This is a book about how humans learn. Our focus is on classroom learning although the principles are, as the name of this book indicates, universal. We are concerned with learning from pre-school to post-graduate. We are concerned with most bu- ness, industrial and military training. We do not address...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
This book collects and organizes the original studies presented at PROMS 2015 conference on theories and applications of Rasch model. It provides useful examples of the Rasch model used to address practical measurement problems across a range of different disciplines including Item Response Theory...
Knowledge, Pedagogy and Society
International Perspectives on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Over the course of the late-twentieth century Basil Bernstein pioneered an original approach to educational phenomena, taking seriously questions regarding the transmission, distribution and transformation of knowledge as no other before had done. Arguing tirelessly for change, more than any other...
Boredom in the Classroom
Addressing Student Motivation, Self-Regulation, and Engagement in Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
This brief synthesizes current findings on the many aspects of chronic student boredom, its relationship with negative academic, emotional, and health outcomes, and what professionals can do to best address it. Citing the complexity of this common student emotion, the author spotlights boredom susceptibility...
Developmental Tasks
Towards a Cultural Analysis of Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Behavioral and cognitive development is considered here as an ordered change in an individual throughout his or her lifespan, and not as sets of individual differences between persons, nor as stage-like progressions. The concept of developmental task is introduced, stressing contexts within which...
Academic Freedom at American Universities
Constitutional Rights, Professional Norms, and Contractual Duties
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book details the legal and historical development of institutional and professorial academic freedoms to better understand the relationship between these concepts. While some judges and scholars have focused on the divergence of these protections, this book articulates an aligned theory that...
Schools on Trial
How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Schools on Trial is an all-in attack on the American way of education and a hopeful blueprint for change by one of the most passionate and certainly youngest writers on this subject.
Are America’s schools little more than cinder-block gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate...
Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Education
A utopian dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Thomas Jefferson had a profoundly advanced educational vision that went hand in hand with his political philosophy - each of which served the goal of human flourishing. His republicanism marked a break with the conservatism of traditional non-representative governments, characterized by birth and...
The Importance of Average
Playing the Game of School to Increase Success and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The Importance of Average calls attention to the policies and practices that discriminate against the silent majority of students in the American educational system. Arguments presented emphasize the collateral damage caused to average students by legislative mandates, administrative policies, teaching...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Building on earlier publications by Harry Daniels, Vygotsky and Sociology provides readers with an overview of the implications for research of the theoretical work which acknowledges a debt to the writings of L.S. Vygotsky and sociologists whose work echoes his sociogenetic commitments, particularly...