Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Youth in Education
The necessity of valuing ethnocultural diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Youth in Education explores the multiple, interrelated social contexts that young people inhabit and navigate, and how educational institutions cope with increasing ethnic, cultural and ideological diversity. Schools, families and communities represent important settings in which young people must...
Communicative Competence, Classroom Interaction, and Educational Equity
The Selected Works of Courtney B. Cazden
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In the ***World Library of Educationalists***series, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or practical contributions—so the world can read...
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook
Volume 35, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
This book highlights the latest in educational technology. Here are ideas that are not only intellectually intriguing but also practical and practice-building, inspiring educators to move beyond traditional teaching roles toward learning design.
Educational Technology to Improve Quality and Access on a Global Scale
Papers from the Educational Technology World Conference (ETWC 2016)
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This is an edited volume based on expanded versions of the best 30 papers presented at ETWC 2016 in Bali. Included are contributions from the keynote speakers of ETWC 2016: Robert Branch, Tian Belawati, Steve Harmon, Johannes Cronjé, Marc Childress, Mike Spector, Chairul Tanjung, and Rudiantara. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The Educational Media and Technology Yearbook has become a standard reference in many libraries and professional collections. It provides a valuable historical record of current ideas and developments in the field. Part one of this updated volume, “Trends and Issues in Learning, Design and Technology,”...
Chicana/o Struggles for Education
Activism in the Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Much of the history of Mexican American educational reform efforts has focused on campaigns to eliminate discrimination in public schools. However, as historian Guadalupe San Miguel demonstrates in Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activisim in the Community, the story is much broader and more varied...
The Equality Act for Educational Professionals
A simple guide to disability inclusion in schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
"A definite must for SENCOS." -- Urmston Junior School
"A good insight into process of tribunal and what the Equality Act means." -- Team Leader, St Paul's CE Primary School
'A much needed resource in supporting schools, centres, day nurseries and community childcare provision to understand...
Education as Freedom
African American Educational Thought and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role...
BrownEyed Leaders of the Sun
A Portrait of Latina/o Educational Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This volume focuses on the important relationship between racial and ethnic identity and requirements for Latino/a educational leaders today. As the racial and ethnic diversity of communities continues to rise, there is an increasing need for the diversification of school leaders who can improve student...
Taoist Lessons for Educational Leaders
Gentle Pathways to Resolving Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
This book explores ways in which educational leaders can apply the wisdom of the Tao in their day-to-day work in schools. It offers an alternative to the standard ways of western thinking to give the leader more possibilities when confronting a situation. We tend to value immediate and decisive action,...
Radical Inclusive Education
Disability, teaching and struggles for liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Many people who work in education start out with enthusiastic ideals about education as a positive force that can spur change in the life of the learner and in society at large, yet find themselves frustrated with a bureaucratic system that often alienates and excludes many of its students. This is...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This book is the third volume in the series on Research in Educational Diversity and Excellence. The goal of this series is to bring issues of diversity and educational risk to the forefront of national attention in order to assist the nation’s diverse students at risk of failure to achieve academic...
Past, Present, and Future Possibilities for Philosophy and History of Education
Finding Space and Time for Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
On the occasion of the retirement of Paul Smeyers, this book considers the state and status of the philosophy and history of education today.
Over the last 20 years, the conditions in which research takes place have changed considerably. They have done so in ways that are often less than favourable...
by Dr William H. Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Philosophical Reflections on Neuroscience and Education explores conceptual and normative questions about the recent programme which aims to underpin education with neuroscientific principles. By invoking philosophical ideas such as Bennett and Hacker's mereological fallacy, Wittgenstein's the first-person/third-person...