Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Participatory Action Research and Educational Development
South Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This volume brings together diverse thinkers and practitioners on Participatory Action Research (PAR) and educational development in South Asia. Contributors draw from their research and field experiences on how PAR is currently being understood, theorized, debated, and implemented for education of...
by Carrie Birch
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This is a book about connections between social and educational inequalities in the UK. It draws on empirical research into how these inequalities impact on lives, particularly those of adults who, having left school with few or no qualifications, are likely to suffer social exclusion. Through life...
Storied Inquiries in International Landscapes
An Anthology of Educational Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Storied Lives: Emancipatory Educational Inquiry—Experience, Narrative, & Pedagogy in the International Landscape of Diversity contains exemplary research practices, strategies, and findings gleaned from the contributions to the 15 issues of the Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum and Instruction...
Educational Leadership Preparation
Innovation and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Ed.D. and Graduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
This book explores the efficacy of innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to educational leadership preparation implemented at universities across the United States that serve K-12 populations in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.
Education and Its Discontents
Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Education and Its Discontents: Teaching, the Humanities, and the Importance of a Liberal Education in the Age of Mass Information, by Mark Moss, is an exploration of how the traditional educational environment, particularly in the post-secondary world, is changing as a consequence of the influx of...
Dynamics in Education Politics
Understanding and explaining the Finnish case
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Dynamics in Education Politics: Understanding and Explaining the Finnish Case introduces a new theoretical framework characterised as Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP). Albeit the topicality of comparative research is obvious in the current era of global large-scale assessment,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Although W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most significant educational thinkers of the twentieth century, many are still unaware of his relevance in this field. DuBois on Education corrects this oversight by collecting Du Bois's major writings on education in one volume. Together these selections powerfully...
Beyond Tourism
A Practical Guide to Meaningful Educational Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
If young people are to be adequately prepared for a complex and interdependent global society, educational experiences must consider the broader world in which teachers and their students live. Teachers can be central to the process of intercultural development, and must encourage and model an intercultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This volume presents different conceptual and theoretical frameworks as well as research methods that have helped educational researchers to study emotions. It includes innovative approaches that push the methodological boundaries that have served educational researchers until now and proposes new...
by Martyn Long, Clare Wood, Karen Littleton
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Written in an accessible and engaging style, this second edition of The Psychology of Education addresses key concepts from psychology which relate to education. Throughout the text the author team emphasise an evidence-based approach, providing practical suggestions to improve learning outcomes,...
Educational Learning and Development
Building and Enhancing Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Through ten research projects, this book explores the topic of educational learning and development in order to examine issues that are impacting, either positively or negatively, on current research in this area. The authors explore the capacity building potential of the projects and what factors impacted on or assisted their development.
Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944)
Educational Philosophy in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This edited volume focuses on the life and work of Makiguchi Tsunesaburo (1871-1944), a Japanese elementary schoolteacher, principal, educational philosopher, author, activist, and Buddhist war resister who has emerged as an important figure in international education. Makiguchi is the progenitor...
by Daniel Wentland
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
The truth is often hard to face, but if educators and politicians continue to avoid the realities associated with the educational process, then enormous amounts of time and energy will continue to be spent chasing a variety of educational illusions. Daniel Wentland meshes economics, psychology, philosophy,...
Radical Reforms
Perspectives on an era of educational change
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
This book draws on the lessons from one of the most intensive periods of educational reform in any country during recent times. The post-1997 English experience, under a New Labour government, is used to illustrate the opportunities and challenges associated with attempting to develop a world class...