Special Education category: 3739 books
Understanding Gifted Adolescents
Accepting the Exceptional
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Understanding Gifted Adolescents: Accepting the Exceptional addresses the basis of exclusive education for gifted adolescents from the theoretical perspective of social identity. Using the lens of social identity theory and adolescent development related to giftedness, this book builds the case for...
by Rosemary S. Callard-Szulgit, EdD, University at Buffalo; author
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Parents of gifted students have often experienced the frustration of trying to get an appropriate education for their children in public and private schools. Teachers have equally experienced the frustration of trying to educate these students due to classroom demands. Over the past two decades, Callard-Szulgit...
Strategies for Inclusion
Physical Education for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Transitioning students with disabilities into inclusive physical education environments is an important and sometimes challenging task. But Strategies for Inclusion, Third Edition, makes that transition much smoother and better for all parties involved.
Lots of New Resources and Material
The...
Exploring Critical Issues in Gifted Education
A Case Studies Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Although the best way to provide professional development for educators is through field experiences and hands-on practice, it is not always easy or even possible to organize such encounters, especially in the field of gifted education. In order to better prepare educators to work with gifted and...
by Diana Lawrence-Brown, Mara Sapon-Shevin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This important book provides a unique merging of disability studies, critical multiculturalism, and social justice advocacy to develop both the knowledge base and the essential insights for understanding and implementing fully inclusive education. Although inclusion is often viewed in schools as primarily...
Hip Hop Genius
Remixing High School Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Many educators already know that hip-hop can be a powerful tool for engaging students. But can hip-hop save our schools? In Hip Hop Genius, Sam Seidel introduces an iteration of hip-hop education that goes far beyond the usual approach of studying rap music as classroom content and looks instead at...
Home Schooling In Full View
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This book is a reader that describes, discusses and analyzes homeschooling from an array of different and international perspectives. We portray the energy of this movement, looking at the history of “education writ large” in a larger social, political and religious context. Like most movements...
Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education
Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Higher education is facing a renaissance in terms of its approaches to teaching and learning and the use of physical and virtual spaces. Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Concepts for the Modern Learning Environment documents real-world experiences of innovators in higher education...
Loneliness and Solitude in Education
How to Value Individuality and Create an Enstatic School
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Analysing loneliness and solitude in schools and exploring how to deal with them is a vital task. In recent research for the author’s Spirit of the School project, a number of pupils, teachers and headteachers described times when they felt lonely and times when they felt the need for healthy solitude....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
With the demand to maintain a competitive advantage, the assessment and evaluation of education is vital in measuring the knowledge and skills of the students, community, and educational system as a whole by providing educators with the facts needed to enhance and improve the learning process. Cases...
Inclusion in the City
Selection, Schooling and Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Inclusion in the City explores inclusion and exclusion in the context of policy and practice in one English city - Birmingham. Here, a commitment to redressing the inequalities experienced by many learners has been inhibited by difficulty in securing agreement to a definite policy for inclusion and,...
Leadership in Post-Compulsory Education
Inspiring Leaders of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Leadership of different kinds exists at many levels in the post-compulsory sector-from principles to programme leaders, administrative staff and even caretakers. Based around case studies of current leaders in post-compulsory education, this unique book explores a number of leadership models and styles...
Addressing Tensions and Dilemmas in Inclusive Education
Living with uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Based on extensive research, Addressing Tensions and Dilemmas in Inclusive Education presents a contemporary and critical analysis of the interaction between different perspectives and positions in the field of inclusive education.
Referring to existing attitudes on the education of children...
Effective Teaching in Gifted Education
Using a Whole School Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Effective teaching for gifted and talented students is high on the agenda of school systems across the world. Written by leading international scholars in the field, Effective Teaching in Gifted Education presents a thoroughly enlightening analysis of the practice of schools judged to be outstanding...