Curricula category: 1261 books
Knowledge and the Future School
Curriculum and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Written at a time of uncertainty about the implications of the English government's curriculum policies, Knowledge and the Future School engages with the debate between the government and large sections of the educational community. It provides a forward-looking framework for head teachers, their...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
The implementation of the Common Core State Standards program has spearheaded many changes within the education field. As this initiative is ultimately designed to optimize student performance and success, it is critical that teacher education programs and technological tools being utilized in classrooms...
Designing and Implementing Two-Way Bilingual Programs
A Step-by-Step Guide for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
This indispensable handbook includes professional development plans that meet the specific needs of dual-language programs, strategies for building learning communities for dual-language teachers, and tips for involving parents.
What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated)
Fundamentals of a Good Fourth-Grade Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated
What Your Fourth Grader Needs to Know
How can you help your child at home? This book answers that important question and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed...
What Your Third Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated)
Fundamentals of a Good Third-Grade Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated
What Your Third Grader Needs to Know
What should your child learn in the third grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of...
by Denis Lawton
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
It is often argued that education is concerned with the transmission of middle-class values and that this explains the relative educational failure of the working class. Consequently, distinctive culture needs a different kind of education. This volume examines this claim and the wider question of...
Curriculum and Culture (RLE: Education)
Schooling in a Pluralist Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book demonstrates how it is possible to value, respect and utilise cultural diversity and yet achieve a ‘good education’ for all. The authors contend that few issues in education can be examined in isolation from the world outside. This must surely apply to the question of cultural, social...
by Robin Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book addresses the question ‘What should be taught in schools and why?’. The book begins by stressing the way in which such a question should be approached and goes on to offer a comprehensive and stringent critique of a variety of principles for the selection of curriculum content, with...
Education and the Common Good
Essays in Honor of Robin Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Robin Barrow has been one of the leading philosophers of education for more than forty years. This book is a critical but appreciative examination of his work by some of the leading philosophers of education at work today, with responses from Professor Barrow. It will focus on his work on curriculum,...
Developing the Higher Education Curriculum
Research-Based Education in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
A complementary volume to Dilly Fung’s A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education (2017), this book explores ‘research-based education’ as applied in practice within the higher education sector. A collection of 15 chapters followed by illustrative vignettes, it showcases approaches to engaging...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The Handbook of Social Justice in Education, a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the field, addresses, from multiple perspectives, education theory, research, and practice in historical and ideological context, with an emphasis on social movements for justice. Each of the nine sections explores...
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence
Applying a Model for Democratic Professional Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
An authoritative teacher resource and widely adopted text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of adolescent literacy instruction in the era of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Leading educators describe effective practices for motivating diverse learners in grades 5-12, building comprehension...
by Laura K Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
I Love to Read lesson plans is reading fun for all grade levels. (K-12) This activity packed book has something for every grade level, short stories, recipes, activities, games and more. Encourage your reluctant readers and propel your other students to the next level. Your students will love these...