Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Thoughts Concerning Education in the Works of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
An Introductory Study in Comparative Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is an investigation of the thoughts concerning education in the writings of one of the most original educators of the eighteenth century. Unappreciated and largely overlooked - as was Schopenhauer - by the contemporary educators, Lichtenberg nevertheless presented his generation, and generations...
Virtuous Educational Research
Conversations on Ethical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This is a book of conversations with researchers working across Europe, the USA and Africa. It aims to illuminate the lived reality of educational research on a wide variety of topics, including family life in rural South Africa, support for self-harming students in the UK, character development in...
by Daniel L. Duke
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Despite the rising interest in school districts, there are relatively few comprehensive resources available for graduate students in educational leadership programs. The Challenges of School District Leadership takes the position that the best way to prepare the next generation of school district...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Supporting Teaching and Learning brings together theoretical perspectives, practical educational ideas and current academic debates to help students develop their knowledge and understanding of core educational issues. It explores the professional relationships necessary for quality learning and encourages...
Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education
Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The fourth edition of the best-selling text, Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education, continues to address the increasing interest in ethics and assists educational leaders with the complex dilemmas in today’s challenging and diverse society. Through discussion and analysis of real-life...
by Paul E Newton, Stuart D Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
**Lecturers, request your electronic inspection copy to review it for your course. **
Validity is the hallmark of quality for educational and psychological measurement. But what does quality mean in this context? And to what, exactly, does the concept of validity apply? These apparently innocuous...
Black Education
A Quest for Equity and Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This highly focused collection of papers, commissioned by the National Urban League, offers a candid and courageous portrait of black education in transition. This is a period, as the editors note in their opening remarks, that is characterized by a huge shift from federal responsibility for minority...
Working (With/out) the System
Educational Leadership, Micropolitics and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This edited collection of chapters from invited scholars, explores issues of social justice and micropolitics in educational institutions. More specifically, it examines the ways in which social justice workers navigate, or can navigate, (micro) political systems in their quest to promote social justice....
by William Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
What is the most significant factor for explaining why some individuals are more successful than others – genetic inheritance, privileged background or luck? Although conventional approaches stress the prime importance of one of these, Tyler argues that such theories fail to deal adequately with...
Improving Schools and Educational Systems
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement.
This...
Educational Dimensions of School Lunch
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education. Lunch, in this view, is about providing students the nourishment they need in order to attend to academic content and the tests that assess whether content has been learned. In contrast, the...
Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out!
Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Parents, young people, community organizers, and educators describe how they are fighting systemic racism in schools by building a new intersectional educational justice movement.
Illuminating the struggles and triumphs of the emerging educational justice movement, this anthology tells the...
Bringing Knowledge Back In
From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
'This book tackles some of the most important educational questions of the day... It is rare to find a book on education which is theoretically sophisticated and practically relevant: this book is.' From the Foreword by Hugh Lauder
What is it in the twenty-first century that we want young...
The Flipped Classroom
Practice and Practices in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Teaching and learning within higher education continues to evolve with innovative and new practices such as flipped teaching. This book contributes to the literature by developing a much deeper understanding of the complex phenomenon of flipped classroom approaches within higher education. It also...