Special Education category: 3739 books
School Education
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
'School Education', the third volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling Series, consists of thoughts about the teaching and curriculum of children aged 9-12, either at school or at home. She suggests that parents should practice what she calls "masterly inactivity"-not neglectful or permissive...
Quarterly Essay 35 Radical Hope
Education & Equality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In Radical Hope, one of Australia’s most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions: How to ensure the survival of a people, their culture and way of life? And can education transform the lives of the disadvantaged...
Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment in Higher Education
A Guide for the Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully in a diverse range of teacher education courses. Educators from disciplines as diverse as theater arts, early childhood, psychology, mathematics, and...
Leaving to Learn
How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
In this provocative book, authors Washor and Mojkowski observe that beneath the worrisome levels of dropouts from our nations high school lurks a more insidious problem: student disengagement from school and from deep and productive learning. To keep students in school and engaged as productive learners...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This title looks at the dogmatism that limits the perspectives of professionals, policymakers, and other stakeholders in gifted education. In a field where concepts and definitions surrounding high ability have been contested for many years, there is increasing interest in clarifying these notions...
Increasing Diversity in Gifted Education
Research-Based Strategies for Identification and Program Services
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Increasing Diversity in Gifted Education shows teachers, administrators, and other interested parties how to finally meet the educational needs of high-potential students across all racial, ethnic, language, and economic groups as well as some categories of disability. Using this book, educators of...
Deeper Learning
How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Solid sales track of HC edition: over 5,000 copies now sold
New foreword by a high-profile education advocate: Russlynn Ali served as the assistant secretary of civil rights at the DOE under Obama, was the founding director of The Education Trust-West, and currently runs XQ, a high school innovation...
by Anne Robinson Bruce M Shore Donna L Enersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Best Practices in Gifted Education provides concise up-to-date research-based advice to educators administrators and parents of gifted and talented youth. The 29 practices included in this volume are the result of an extensive examination of educational research on what works with talented youth....
Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education
What the Research Says
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education: What the Research Says is the definitive reference book for those searching for a summary and evaluation of the literature on giftedness, gifted education, and talent development. The book presents more than 50 summaries of important topics in the...
Transforming Education with New Media
Participatory Pedagogy, Interactive Learning, and Web 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The possibilities that online platforms and new media technologies provide, in terms of human connection and the dissemination of information, are seemingly endless. With Web 2.0 there is an exchange of messages, visions, facts, fictions, contemplations, and declarations buzzing around a network of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
While governing bodies have mandated that all students have the right to an education, with disabled students treated to the same rights and opportunities as non-disabled students, policymakers do not always agree on what all-inclusive education should look like. Challenges Surrounding the Education...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
«Tradition and Innovation in Education» presents a number of articles that deal with topics as varied as outdoor education in Estonian kindergartens, student teacher lesson analysis skills, activities that bridge the theory-practice gap and the identity of academics in a changing university environment....
An Introduction to Steiner Education
The Waldorf School
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
"To educate youth ... is to ennoble the mind, to fire the imagination, to fortify the will and to quicken initiative for life.' So writes Francis Edmunds in this inspiring, authoritative and popular introduction to Steiner (Waldorf) Education. Rudolf Steiner's educational system, well established...
Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities
A Vision for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities...