Educational Theory category: 17068 books
The Moral Work of Teaching and Teacher Education
Preparing and Supporting Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What makes teaching a moral endeavor? How can we prepare classroom practitioners for engaging in that moral endeavor in meaningful and effective ways? This volume brings together leading scholar who draw upon both their academic expertise and substantial wisdom of practice to offer a variety of perspectives...
Cooperative Learning
The Social and Intellectual Outcomes of Learning in Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This book recognizes the importance of cooperative learning, in contrast to the traditional classroom, as an effective approach to learning. Its coverage of the subject ranges across the educational spectrum, from pre-school years to university, and offers a fresh perspective on a topic that has gained...
Neuroscience and Education
A Philosophical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This volume makes a philosophical contribution to the application of neuroscience in education. It frames neuroscience research in novel ways around educational conceptualizing and practices, while also taking a critical look at conceptual problems in neuroeducation and at the economic reasons driving...
by Susan Groundwater-Smith, Nicole Mockler
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Teacher Professional Learning in an Age of Compliance: Mind the Gap examines ways in which practice-based inquiry in educational settings, in a number of different countries and contexts, can transcend current ways of working and thinking such that authentic professional learning is the result.
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by Richard G. Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
This work is concerned with appraising the contemporary ethical impact of lifelong learning ideology and advocacy on education, through focusing on trends in educational policy and management that flow from the ideology. It has its origins in the author's concern that many of those trends are being...
Rethinking Educational Practice Through Reflexive Inquiry
Essays in Honour of Susan Groundwater-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Susan Groundwater-Smith is one of the most influential voices in the world of educational practitioner inquiry. The convener in Australia of the Coalition of Knowledge Building Schools, she is a staunch advocate of innovative methods of practitioner inquiry with a particular emphasis upon student...
Cultural Compatibility in Educational Contexts
Japanese Native-Speaker Teachers in Australian Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Cultural Compatibility in Educational Contexts examines the mechanism of control and efficacy underlying specific cultural contexts, intercultural value differences, and consequential conflicts, which invisibly and unintentionally cause communication difficulties and negative performances. This specific...
School Education in India
Market, State and Quality
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This volume examines how the public and private domains in school education in India are informed and mediated by current market realities. It moves beyond the simplistic dichotomy of pro-state versus promarket factors that define most current debates in the formulations of educational reform agendas...
by Christopher Winch
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This title, first published in 1990, engages in the current debates about the teaching of literacy and the reform of education. Based on his dissatisfaction with prevalent theories of educational achievement and his experience of teaching in elementary schools, Winch argues that the dichotomy of biological...
Spaces of Teaching and Learning
Integrating Perspectives on Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This integrated collection of perspectives on the spaces of teaching and learning uses ‘learning space’ to place educational practice in context. It considers the complex relationships involved in the design, management and use of contemporary learning spaces. It sheds light on some of the problems...
by Mei-Yee Wong
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This book examines, from a sociological perspective, teacher-student power relations in classroom learning and teaching. The case study consists of four Hong Kong primary schools—and sixteen classrooms therein—that were selected as research sites to explore the concept of teacher-student power...
Dispositions of Leadership
The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Dispositions of Leadership: The Effects on Student Learning and School Culture stands alone as an approach for developing leaders who are adaptive and can thrive in unpredictable settings. Educational leadership is a domain of its own, apart from business and industry, combining an effective learning...
An Agenda for Equity
Responding to the Needs of Diverse Learners
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
The vast numbers of new educational policies, programs, and practices being implemented as educational reform in American public schools have not been analyzed for short or long-term effectiveness or impact on students and their learning. Not only are conditions for many learners still a concern,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Dieser Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beiträgen der XIX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung zum Thema Bildungswissenschaft auf der Suche nach globaler Identität, die vom Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen, der Litauischen...