Curricula category: 1261 books
The Mythopoetics of Currere
Memories, Dreams, and Literary Texts as Teaching Avenues to Self-Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In The Mythopoetics of Currere, Doll uses depth psychology, myth, and literature to offer a new approach to currere, the root of curriculum, through essays exploring significant literary images that open doorways into the fictions that layer the self. Offering a focus on the body, queer love, false...
Designing Groupwork
Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As teachers today work in ever more challenging contexts, groupwork remains a particularly effective pedagogical strategy. Based on years of research and teaching experience, the new edition of this popular book features significant updates on the successful use of cooperative learning to build equitable...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources. And while courses on film studies are taught throughout the world, The Pedagogy of Adaptation makes a strong case for...
Reconsidering Canadian Curriculum Studies
Provoking Historical, Present, and Future Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Comprised of chapters written by established Canadian curriculum scholars as well as junior scholars and graduate students, this collection of essays provoke readers to imagine the different ways in which educational researchers can engage the narrative inquiry within the broader field of curriculum studies.
Dance Education around the World
Perspectives on dance, young people and change
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an increasingly borderless world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development worldwide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates...
Game On!
Screen-Free Fun for Children Two and Up
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
300+ games
Easy games with materials you already have
Fun games for on-the-go and at home
User-friendly and simple games that are adaptable for different ages
Includes an index by age group
Great play resource for family child care programs, child care centers, after-school...
Teaching and Studying the Americas
Cultural Influences from Colonialism to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist fields.
The Pedagogy of Pop
Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success discusses a variety of strategies and approaches for using social and mass media as tools through which...
Handbook of Public Pedagogy
Education and Learning Beyond Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Bringing together scholars, public intellectuals, and activists from across the field of education, the Handbook of Public Pedagogy explores and maps the terrain of this burgeoning field. For the first time in one comprehensive volume, readers will be able to learn about the history and scope of the...
by Lelia Rose Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This textbook develops an 18-week program designed to guide prospective students through creating their own speculative fiction story, that is, a science fiction, fantasy, or horror story. Designed for homeschoolers and small-school settings, this textbook draws on excerpts from dozens of speculative...
The Forms of Things Unknown
Teaching Poetry Writing to Teens and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A college student writes: “These words I write/ open their mouths wide/ screaming the most intimate secrets.”
An inmate in a maximum-security men’s prison writes: “Within my writing, I am able to break down my prison walls and escape, leave the gangster façade behind.”
The...
Welcome to Poetryland
Teaching Poetry Writing to Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Welcome to Poetryland: Teaching Poetry Writing to Young Children draws from Shelley Savren’s forty years of teaching poetry writing in grades pre-K–6 and to focus populations, including gifted and special education students, students in after school programs and at art museums, and homeless, abused,...
by Laura K Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
It’s time to go to sleep for many animals when the weather turns cold. Introduce your class to the sleepy world of hibernation. They’ll learn what it is, famous hibernators, how animals get ready for hibernation and more.
Lesson Plan Includes:
What is Hibernation? (K-2) (3-5) (6-8)
Famous...
by Rob Smith, Katherine Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
From the creator of The Literacy Shed, 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Literacy is packed with new, interesting and practical ideas for new teachers as well as those whose classroom practice needs reinvigorating.
The book covers all aspects of literacy in primary school, with sections on grammar,...