Education category: 70663 books
Digital citizenship education
Volume 2: Multi-stakeholder consultation report
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
An analysis of good practices, research findings, lessons learned and resources identified across Europe in the area of digital citizenship: empowerment of children through education Most young people in Europe today were born and have grown up in the digital era. Education authorities have the duty...
Physical Best
Physical Education for Lifelong Fitness and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Physical educators play a critical role in shaping the health and fitness of America’s youth—and Physical Best, Fourth Edition, is the resource that will help them achieve success in that role.
Physical Best, developed by experts identified by SHAPE America, has long been the standard in...
Effective Physical Education Content and Instruction
An Evidence-Based and Teacher-Tested Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
As a physical educator (or student preparing to become one), you need to know more than the skills, techniques, and tactics of the sports and activities you teach. You need to understand, among other things, how to create task progressions, how to organize and adapt those tasks, and how to detect...
Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education offers a combination of critical perspectives and practical advice that is ideally suited for individuals interested in enhancing their practice through analysis and critique. The aim is to promote a critical understanding of one’s own practices:...
Reign of Error
The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, “whistle-blower extraordinaire” (The Wall Street Journal), author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System (“Important and riveting”—Library...
Fear and Learning in America
Bad Data, Good Teachers, and the Attack on Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this moving account*, *“America’s Superintendent” John Kuhn lays bare the scare tactics at the root of the modern school “reform” movement. Kuhn conveys a deeply held passion for the mission and promise of public education through his own experience as a school administrator in Texas....
Social Entrepreneurship in Education
Private Ventures for the Public Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Social Entrepreneurship in Education chronicles the twenty-five-year history of entrepreneurs who responded to the call of A Nation at Risk and helped launch an education industry. It tells the story of these 'education entrepreneurs' and the lessons they learned, using entrepreneurial skills to tackle...
Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education
A New Level Playing Field?
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today. Uniting leading scholars in higher education and equality in England, the contributors and editors expose the contradictions arising...
Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Education
A utopian dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Thomas Jefferson had a profoundly advanced educational vision that went hand in hand with his political philosophy - each of which served the goal of human flourishing. His republicanism marked a break with the conservatism of traditional non-representative governments, characterized by birth and...
by Philip W. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of “finding out just what education is.” Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey’s charge to heart and spent the next sixty years contemplating his words. The...
Sociocultural Studies in Education
Critical Thinking for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Sociocultural Studies in Education: Critical Thinking for Democracy fills a void in the education of educators and citizens in a democracy. It explores some of the fundamentals around which disagreements in education arise. It presents a process with which those new to these debates can understand...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on empirical...
Early Childhood Education
History, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Harry Morgan lays the foundations of what early childhood education is by integrating the history of the field with the philosophy and theories behind this discipline. From birth to age eight, when children become integrated into society through their education at school and at home, Early Childhood...
Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education
Resistance, Reclaiming, Organizing, and Black Lives Matter in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education is a cutting-edge investigation of the alarming state of education today. This practical how-to handbook gives readers tactics and strategies to organize and challenge forces that threaten liberatory critical education. Drawn from scholars and...