Special Education category: 3739 books
International Perspectives on Science Education for the Gifted
Key issues and challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
In the spirit of encouraging international dialogue between researchers and practitioners, often working within isolated traditions, this book discusses perspectives on science education for the gifted informed by up-to-date research findings from a number of related fields. The book reviews philosophy,...
Voices of Resistance and Renewal
Indigenous Leadership in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Western education has often employed the bluntest of instruments in colonizing indigenous peoples, creating generations caught between Western culture and their own. Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be led, Voices of Resistance and Renewal applies...
de-testing and de-grading schools
Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing paradox: education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading. This commitment persists despite ample research, theory, and philosophy revealing the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. This trend in ubiquitous technology has also found its way into the learning process at every level of education. The Handbook of Research on Education and Technology in a Changing Society offers an in-depth description of concepts related...
STEM Education for High-Ability Learners
Designing and Implementing Programming
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
STEM Education for High-Ability Learners: Designing and Implementing Programming focuses on the rigorous articulation of quality STEM education programming to develop STEM talent among high-ability and gifted learners. The intent of this book is to provide a comprehensive resource for educators designing...
A Century of Contributions to Gifted Education
Illuminating Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A Century of Contributions to Gifted Education traces the conceptual history of the field of gifted education. Bookended by Sir Francis Galton’s Hereditary Genius published in 1869, and Sidney Marland’s report to the United States Congress in 1972, each chapter represents the life and work of...
Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education
Introducing an Intra-Active Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Going Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide in Early Childhood Education focuses on the use of pedagogical documentation as a tool for learning and transformation. Based on innovative research, the author presents new approaches to learning in early childhood education, shifting attention to the force...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Inclusion concerns the overcoming of barriers to learning and participation for all, regardless of ability or disability, and is now a central tenet of basic education policy globally. Increasingly, teachers need to be able to implement inclusion into their daily practice.
This book stems from its...
Alternative Approaches to Education
A Guide for Teachers and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Alternative Approaches to Education provides parents and teachers with information and guidance on different education options in the UK and further afield. This new and expanded edition, including additional chapters and up-to-date contact details, explains the values, philosophies and methods of...
Education and Disability in the Global South
New Perspectives from Africa and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Education and Disability in the Global South brings together new and established researchers from a variety of disciplines to explore the complexities and dilemmas encountered in providing education to children and young people with disabilities in countries in South Asia and Africa.
Applying...
Languages and Languaging in Deaf Education
A Framework for Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Languages and Languaging in Deaf Education offers a profound vision for deaf education and studies, as author Ruth Swanwick offers bold contributions towards a new pedagogical framework. With a primary focus on the language and learning experiences of deaf children, this book creates a crucial dialogue...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Caribbean Discourse in Inclusive Education Volume II “Responding to Learner Diversity and Learner Difficulties” shares selected critical reflections and recommendations on the way educational communities respond to student diversity and difficulties learning. These contexts include the Caribbean,...
Language, Power, and Resistance
Mainstreaming Deaf Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The current policy of educating d/Deaf and h/Hard of hearing (DHH) students in a mainstream setting, rather than in the segregated environments of deaf schools, has been portrayed as a positive step forward in creating greater equality for DHH students. In Language, Power, and Resistance, Elizabeth...
Experiential Learning
Experience as the Source of Learning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Experiential learning is a powerful and proven approach to teaching and learning that is based on one incontrovertible reality: people learn best through experience. Now, in this extensively updated book, David A. Kolb offers a systematic and up-to-date statement of the theory of experiential learning...