Educational Theory category: 17068 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I personally learned to know Ralph Tyler rather late in his career when, in the 1960s, I spent a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His term of office as Director of the Center was then approaching its end. This would seem to disqualify me thoroughly...
The Design of Learning Experience
Creating the Future of Educational Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This book delves into two divergent, yet parallel themes; first is an examination of how educators can design the experiences of learning, with a focus on the learner and the end results of education; and second, how educators learn to design educational products, processes and experiences. The...
Identifying Special Needs
Diagnostic Checklists for Profiling Individual Differences
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Identifying Special Needs provides expert guidance to recognising and categorising the specific characteristics of a range of special needs. Drawing on her experience as an educational psychologist and special education teacher, Glynis Hannell provides easy-to-use checklists to help teachers quickly...
Researching Educational Leadership and Management
Methods and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Carrying out leadership research in educational establishments can be challenging, but it is also rewarding. This accessible book offers sound practical advice and a clear conceptual framework for this research. Drawing on their extensive expertise, the authors show you how to prepare to carry out...
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Disciplinary Approaches to Educational Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
In today's higher education climate academic staff are encouraged to focus not only on the up-to-date content of their teaching, but also to identify the most effective ways to engage students in learning, often alongside other key transferrable skills. This had led to a growing requirement for staff...
PISA and PIRLS
The Effects of Culture and School Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally. They have become benchmarks of education for countries in the world and provide a broad perspective for countries to evaluate their...
Effectiveness of Time Investments in Education
Insights from a review and meta-analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book analyzes the productivity and effectiveness of a variety of time investments in education. It explores the methods used in education to optimize the time that students are exposed to learning content. Such methods include expanding official school time, optimizing “time on task”, providing...
Embodied Wisdom
Meditations on Memoir and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Embodied wisdom: Meditations on memoir and education by Alison Pryer, Ph.D. explores the interconnectedness of body, mind and spirit within diverse educational contexts. Evocative, sensual prose carries the reader on a journey through the personal and the remembered in a layered series of autobiographical...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
"James Altschuld, David Kumar, and their chapter authors have produced an upbeat, provocative, visionary, and useful volume on educational evaluation. Of special utility is its grounding in issues and practices relating to evaluations of science and technology education. The book should appeal...
by Carl Bereiter
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
In this book, Carl Bereiter--a distinguished and well-known cognitive, educational psychologist--presents what he calls "a new way of thinking about knowledge and the mind." He argues that in today's Knowledge Age, education's conceptual tools are inadequate to address the pressing educational...
Educational Values and Cognitive Instruction
Implications for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This volume is a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art research on thinking, cognitive instruction, social values, and reform. Cognitive instruction for at-risk students is discussed in great detail along with a thorough examination of the teaching of thinking skills from the viewpoint of educational...
Political Pressures on Educational and Social Research
International perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Political Pressures on Educational and Social Research draws upon a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to consider the problems that can arise when research findings diverge from political directions for policy. Chapters explore the impacts this can have on the researchers, as well...
Culture, Transnational Education and Thinking
Case studies in global schooling
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The notion of thinking skills as a key component of a 21st century school education is now firmly entrenched in educational policy and curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world. However, there has been relatively little questioning of the manner in which educational globalisation has facilitated...
Educational Innovation in Economics and Business
Educating Knowledge Workers for Corporate Leadership: Learning into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Many workplaces have become characterized as learning organizations where knowledge workers provide the required competitive edge. Due to the dynamic changes in the economic structures, adaptive, generative, lifelong, and continuous learning have become norms. Leaders in the corporate world have a...