Curricula category: 1261 books
Curriculum Studies in Mexico
Intellectual Histories, Present Circumstances
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.S., this volume reports how curriculum studies scholars in Mexico understand their field's intellectual history, its present circumstances, and the relations among these intersecting domains with globalization.
Curriculum Studies in Brazil
Intellectual Histories, Present Circumstances
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
This collection, comprised of chapters focused on the intellectual histories and present circumstances of curriculum studies in Brazil, is Pinar's summary of exchanges (occurring over a two-year period) between the authors and members of an International Panel (scholars working in Finland, South Africa, the United States).
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Every year, significant numbers of immigrant children from Mexico enter classrooms in the United States. These immigrants comprise a heterogeneous group of students with diverse needs, abilities, and experiences. Transnational and Borderland Studies in Mathematics Education is the first collection...
Curriculum Studies as an International Conversation
Educational Traditions and Cosmopolitanism in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Examining Curriculum Studies from an international perspective, this book focuses on the relations between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American educational traditions. Informed by William F. Pinar’s conceptualization of curriculum as currere, Johnson-Mardones reconsiders curriculum as an international...
Education in Ireland
Challenge and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
A contemporary snapshot of Irish education, this book positions 21st-century Irish education at the centre of the creation of the knowledge economy and outlines the challenges and changes presented as a result of a changing education system and society.
Part 1: The Changing System charts selected...
Equality, Citizenship, and Segregation
A Defense of Separation
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Merry argues that most voluntary separation experiments in education are not driven by a sense of racial, cultural or religious superiority. Rather, they are driven among other things by a desire for quality education, not to mention community membership and self respect.
by Anne Jordan, Orison Carlile
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This book offers a comprehensive guide to ideas on creativity in education, along with the major theories related to creativity.
Learning on Your Feet
Incorporating Physical Activity into the K–8 Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In this much-needed book, you’ll learn how incorporating physical activity into the classroom can improve students’ engagement, achievement, and overall wellness. Students typically spend most of the day sitting at their desks, and many don’t have recess or PE, yet research shows that regular...
Engaging Curriculum
Bridging the Curriculum Theory and English Education Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Explicitly linking curriculum inquiry to English education via recurring themes of representation, democracy and knowledge, this book is a call for both researchers and practitioners to engage with curriculum, explicitly and deliberatively, as both a concept and a question. The approach is broadly...
The Environmental Toolkit for Teachers
First Steps to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
The Environmental Toolkit for Teachers is the essential guide to reducing your school's ecological footprint and creating and embedding a sustainability ethos. Whether you are a teacher eager to make your classroom a more eco-friendly environment or a head teacher who wants to set up a whole school...
Think Again
A Philosophical Approach to Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Contemporary education is held captive by an obsession with assessment. The culture of 'teaching-to-the-test' and 'spoon-feeding' has distorted the purpose of teaching and destroyed the joy of free enquiry.
This book offers practical advice on how to use philosophy as the cornerstone of a new...
New Understandings of Teacher's Work
Emotions and Educational Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance. In this book, scholars from around the world explore the connections between...
Mathematical Literacy
Developing Identities of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Why do so many learners, even those who are successful, feel that they are outsiders in the world of mathematics? Taking the central importance of language in the development of mathematical understanding as its starting point, Mathematical Literacy explores students’ experiences of doing mathematics...
Dilemmas of Science Teaching
Perspectives on Problems of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This book explores sixteen contemporary issues in science education by examining the practical dilemmas these issues provoke for teachers. It is a unique book which presents student-teachers with personal and professional insights into a whole range of science topics including the laws of science,...