Special Education category: 3739 books
Teacher Education for Inclusion
Changing Paradigms and Innovative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
How teachers might best be prepared to work in schools with an increasingly diverse pupil population is of concern to educational academics, professionals and governments around the world. Changes that have taken place in legislation and practice often fail to taken into account how practitioners...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Co-enrollment programming in deaf education refers to classrooms in which a critical mass of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students is included in a classroom containing mainly hearing students and which is taught by both a mainstream teacher and a teacher of the deaf. It thus offers full access...
Critical Education and Sociomaterial Practice
Narration, Place, and the Social
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Critical Education and Sociomaterial Practice presents a situated approach to learning that suggests the need for more explicit attention to sociomaterial practice in critical education. Specifically, it explores social, place and narrative dimensions of practical experience as they unfold in schools,...
by Barbara Turner, Kristín Unnsteinsdottír
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
This is a manual for training teachers in the Sandtray Play in Education method. It introduces a holistic approach to childhood education that returns the child's natural medium of creative play to the learning environment. Sadly, most approaches to contemporary childhood education are not successful...
by Anil Jha
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
For the past few years, there has been much debate over the adoption, implementation, and maintenance of comprehensive health and sexuality education programs in public schools. Advocates of school based comprehensive health education programs often use a public health approach to substantiate their...
by Charlotte Mason
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature and handling natural objects and collecting experiences on which to...
by Charlotte Mason
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
'Towards a Philosophy of Education' is Charlotte Mason's final book in her Homeschooling Series, written after years of seeing her approach in action. This volume gives the best overview of her philosophy, and includes the final version of her 20 Principles. This book is particularly directed to parents...
Higher Education Learning Outcomes Assessment
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book provides higher education teachers, leaders and policymakers with insights from research on assessing students’ learning outcomes. The book is founded in research, shaped by policy, and designed to be of enduring relevance to practice. Framed by a cycle of continuous quality improvement,...
The Discourse of Disability in Communication Education
Narrative-Based Research for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
This book examines the ways in which communicative practices influence the lives of students and faculty with disabilities in higher education. Offering their own experiences as teachers and students, the authors use qualitative research methods, mainly narrative and autoethnography, to highlight...
by Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This thoroughly updated and extended eighth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods employed by educational research at all stages. Its five main parts cover: the context of educational research; research design; methodologies for educational...
by Joyce Diane Schulz
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
The purpose of this Master Thesis at Argosy University in December 2010 was to identify dominant learning modalities, as understood by the nine Multiple intelligences of Dr. Howard Gardner (Garner, 1993), the intelligences of right/left-brain dominance processing fields leading to whole brain theory...
Teaching As a Subversive Activity
A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods—with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.
Praise for Teaching As a Subversive Activity
“A healthy dose of Postman and Weingartner is a good thing: if they make even a dent in...
Fundamentals of Gifted Education
Considering Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
The field of gifted education is characterized by a perplexing array of perspectives concerning such fundamental issues as definition, identification, curriculum, social and emotional development, and underserved populations. Fundamentals of Gifted Education provides a coherent framework for planning...
The Fat Pedagogy Reader
Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Over the past decade, concerns about a global «obesity epidemic» have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrition permeate society despite significant evidence disputing the «facts» we have come to believe about «obesity». We live in a culture that privileges...