Educational Theory category: 17068 books
by Ron Avi Astor, Linda Jacobson, Rami Benbenishty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While it is true that children from military families live unique and interesting lives, it is also true that they face many challenges and special circumstances that civilian children and families don't experience. These can include gaps in school attendance and learning due to frequent moves, being...
by Arun Kumar Tyagi
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
The definition of psychology as the science of mind is not acceptable at present. Mind is an ambiguous a concept as the soul. It is not at all possible to carry on scientific observation and experimentation on mind.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. By 2018, 63 percent of all jobs will require at least some postsecondary education or training. Teachers and civic leaders stress the value of study through high school and beyond,...
Educational Leadership at 2050
Conjectures, Challenges, and Promises
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
This is a practical, bold, no-holds barred look at challenges facing educational leaders and the university programs that prepare them through mid-century. It examines key continuities and discontinuities of current times for school, education, and society. Both practice and preparation occur in contested...
Design Research on Learning and Thinking in Educational Settings
Enhancing Intellectual Growth and Functioning
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The key question this book addresses is how to identify and create optimal conditions for the kind of learning and development that is especially important for effectively functioning in the 21st century. Taking a new approach to this long-debated issue, it looks at how a design research-based science...
by W. James Popham
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Educational assessment in a nutshell for busy school leaders!
A leading expert in educational assessment, W. James Popham discusses the key principles that educational leaders need to know about educational assessment to do their work effectively. Readers will come away with crucial understandings...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A trenchant and wide-ranging look at this alarming national trend, Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline is unsparing in its account of the problem while pointing in the direction of meaningful and much-needed reforms.
The “school-to-prison pipeline” has received much attention in the...
Real Education
Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.
Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This volume discusses perspectives on cosmopolitanism, as well as concepts and the work of key figures. For example, it examines educational, philosophical and historical perspectives, deals with such issues as citizenship, internationalism, patriotism, globalization, hegemony and many other topics....
Philosophy and Educational Policy
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
What are the concepts and theories behind current debates about education?
This comprehensive introduction to philosophy of education discusses issues that are of current public interest and debate. It locates education at the heart of questions concerned with culture, ethics, politics, economics...
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
My Pedagogic Creed is the "manifesto" of the new schools. By the time a shot was fired in the middle of a swamp pedagogical could not recognize the centrality of the subject in the educational process. Dewey became the theoretical maximum representative of the progressive school. With the...
Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Lincicome offers a new perspective on Japanese educational debates and policy reforms that have taken place under the guise of internationalization since the mid-1980s. By contextualizing these developments within a historical framework spanning the entire twentieth century, he challenges the argument...
Cuba’s Academic Advantage
Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks...
"Proof," Policy, and Practice
Understanding the Role of Evidence in Improving Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
How can we “fix” our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy makers, practitioners, and educational researchers. While they strive to improve society, there are frequently gulfs of mutual incomprehension among them.Academics,...