Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Adaptive Education
An Inquiry-Based Institution
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The obstacles that prevent the latest educational research reaching the classroom are daunting: few channels to communicate the results of educational research, fewer opportunities for teachers to participate in research themselves, and little support for honing a scientific approach to teaching.
The...
by James K. Luiselli
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Conducting Behavioral Consultation in Educational and Treatment Settings is a practitioner’s guide to implementing consultation with multidisciplinary care-providers for children and adults who have learning and behavioral challenges. The book focuses on the interactive, problem-solving, dispute...
Right to Be Hostile
Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In Right to be Hostile, scholar and activist Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the "school to prison' pipeline phenomenon, showing how disciplinary regulations, pedagogy, pop culture and more not only implicitly advance, but actually normalize an expectation of incarceration...
by Scott Abernathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
“A powerful, detailed, and exceptionally balanced critique of NCLB. It offers some hope for how we might overcome its faults. No legislator or educational expert should be allowed to get away with not reading it—whether to agree or disagree. It’s a must learning experience.”
—Deborah...
Educational Leadership and Technology
Preparing School Administrators for a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Providing models of exemplary use and the latest research, Educational Leadership and Technology reveals the transformational power of emerging technologies to improve student learning, and explores how leaders can bring about this technology integration. This book provides an overview of roles and...
by Dr Christine Wise, Marion Cartwright, Pete Bradshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
This volume provides an overview of key contemporary themes in educational leadership. It focuses on developing professional capacity, organisation improvement and the implementation of change, looking at theoretical frameworks and concepts, recent research studies and case examples of effective practice.
The...
Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Edited by the leading scholars in the field, Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education provides an overview and introduction to the growing field of disability studies in education, including the application of the interdisciplinary field of disability studies to inclusive education,...
Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Native American Students
Paying the Educational Debt
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
There has been much talk and effort focused on the educational achievement gap between white versus black, Hispanic and American Indian students. While there has been some movement the gap has not appreciably narrowed, and it has narrowed the least for Native American students. This volume addresses...
Transcendental Learning
The Educational Legacy of Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Transcendental Learning discusses the work of five figures associated with transcendentalism concerning their views on education. Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau all taught at one time and held definite views about education. The book explores these conceptions with chapters on each of...
Educational Policy in an International Context
Political Culture and Its Effects
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide a better understanding of how different countries are responding to the global exchange of policy ideas that includes 'the standards movement' and 'new public management' or accountability in the public sector.
Creating Engagement between Schools and their Communities
Lessons from Educational Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Creating Engagement between Schools and their Communities: Lessons from Educational Leaders addresses how educational leaders have made efforts to reconnect their schools to their communities and the varied goals they achieved. The contributors of this book are educational leaders who have stayed...
Leading Technology-Rich Schools
Award-Winning Models for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book shows how award-winning secondary schools and districts are successfully using technology and making systemic changes to increase student engagement, improve achievement, and re-invigorate the teaching and learning process. Through in-depth case studies, we see how experienced school...
Educational Change
From Traditional Education to Learning Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Educational Change: From Traditional Education to Learning Communities outlines the transition of curriculum and instruction as well as classroom discipline historically. Various discipline approaches are described that vary in their applications in terms of the degree of teacher control and student...
Teaching Challenges in Secondary Schools
Cases in Educational Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This case study book serves as a valuable tool for professors and instructors of educational psychology. It contains 17 cases that represent current areas of interest in Educational Psychology embedded within current challenges that teachers face in today’s middle and high school classrooms. The...