Curricula category: 1261 books
Improvement by Design
The Promise of Better Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation’s notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted school systems. Various programs have tried to do that, but...
Connecting the Dots in World History, A Teacher's Literacy Based Curriculum
From the Fall of the Western Roman Empire to Death of Genghis Khan
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In his previously written articles and books, Chris Edwards has argued that Teaching should be considered a field that is separate from both the field of Education and from the content area fields. Teaching is a field which synthesizes content and method for classroom application. All of the other...
Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning across Disciplines
Comparative Theory and Practice in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This research-based book dissects and explores the meaning and nature of Inquiry in teaching and learning in schools, challenging existing concepts and practices. In particular, it explores and contests prevailing attitudes about the practice of inquiry-based learning across the Science, Geography...
Adolescent Literacies
A Handbook of Practice-Based Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Showcasing cutting-edge findings on adolescent literacy teaching and learning, this unique handbook is grounded in the realities of students' daily lives. It highlights research methods and instructional approaches that capitalize on adolescents' interests, knowledge, and new literacies. Attention...
Designing Tasks in Secondary Education
Enhancing subject understanding and student engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Engaging students in learning about their subject is a central concern for all teachers and teacher educators. How teachers view and use the pedagogic potential of different tasks to engage pupils with knowledge in different subjects, is central to this endeavour.
Designing Tasks in Secondary...
Border Crossings
Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies...
Beyond Tourism
A Practical Guide to Meaningful Educational Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
If young people are to be adequately prepared for a complex and interdependent global society, educational experiences must consider the broader world in which teachers and their students live. Teachers can be central to the process of intercultural development, and must encourage and model an intercultural...
Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency
Composing Identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In this book, Bronwyn T. Williams explores how perceptions of agency—whether a person perceives and feels able to read and write successfully in a given context—are critical in terms of how people perform their literate identities. Drawing on interviews and observations with students in several...
Linking K-2 Literacy and the Common Core
Mini-Lessons that Work!
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The skills and strategies students practice to become proficient writers also nudge them closer to becoming proficient readers, so how can K-2 teachers connect reading and writing instruction in meaningful ways that allow students to go deeper in their thinking? This revised second edition provides tips,...
by Denis Lawton
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book deals with curriculum issues and problems, and one of its aims is to help practising teachers to clarify their own theory and practice in relation to the curriculum. The contributors look at three popular theories or sets of assumptions held by teachers: the child-centred view of education;...
by Andrew Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This book explores the practice of teaching secondary English, engaging teachers with theory and policies to enable them to reflect on their processes.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book reappraises the British and American experience in curriculum studies, the curious way in which it has been dominated by certain ideas and introduces the reader to alternative ways of perceiving, defining and approaching its problems. It provides a radical critique of the whole area, presenting...
Summer Learning
Research, Policies, and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
This book brings together up-to-date, research-based evidence concerning summer learning and provides descriptions and analyses of a range of summer school programs. The chapters present theory and data that explain both the phenomenon of summer learning loss and the potential for effective summer...
Public Acts
Disruptive Readings on Making Curriculum Public
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
As this book documents local, specific, and contextualized acts of resistance and offers a detailed analysis of varied forms of public literacies, it functions as a template to inform and inspire resistant practices in diverse communities.