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The Language of Inclusive Education
Exploring speaking, listening, reading and writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Language of Inclusive Education is an insightful text which considers the writing, speaking, reading and hearing of inclusive education. Based on the premise that humans use language to construct their worlds and their realities, this book is concerned with how language works to determine what...
Achieving Excellence in Medical Education
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
A goldmine of theoretical insights and practical suggestions, Achieving Excellence in Medical Education, Second Edition explores the essential question facing medical educators and learners today: What is our vision of educational excellence, and what can we do to enhance our performance?
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Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics
Ontological and Epistemological Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
This book provides a fresh and unique overview of the modernization and internationalization of Chinese higher education, focusing on Chinese higher education from 1949 to 2018. It presents the Ontological Positivism Model (Conceptualization-Explicit-Formal-Share), concentrating on concepts of Chinese...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This edited volume contributes to a burgeoning field of critical scholarship on the news media and education. This scholarship is based on an understanding that the news media has increasingly applied a neoliberal template that mediates knowledge and action about education. This book calls into question...
Pressing Forward
Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America’s High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Pressing Forward: Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America’s High Schools is organized to place secondary education, specifically the goals of preparing young adults to be college and career ready, in contemporary perspective, emphasizing the changing global economy and trends in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
This book uses the publicly available TEDS-M data to answer such questions as: How does teacher education contribute to the learning outcomes of future teachers? Are there programs that are more successful than others in helping teachers learn to teach mathematics? How does the local and national...
by Abigail G. Scheg
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Online education is a long-term goal at most higher-education institutions in the United States, but very few faculty members have sufficient training or knowledge of online pedagogy. As a result, students are not receiving the highest quality education, and institutions are struggling with student retention...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2011
The International Handbook of Jewish Education, a two volume publication, brings together scholars and practitioners engaged in the field of Jewish Education and its cognate fields world-wide. Their submissions make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the field of Jewish Education as...
Journal of Character Education - Issue
Vol. 14 #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
The Journal of Character Education is the only professional journal in education devoted to character education. It is designed to cover the field—from the latest research to applied best practices. We include original research reports, editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our...
Journal of Character Education
Vol. 14 #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
The Journal of Character Education is the only professional journal in education devoted to character education. It is designed to cover the field—from the latest research to applied best practices. We include original research reports, editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our...
Journal of Character Education Issue
Vol. 10 #2
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The Journal of Character Education is the one professional journal in education devoted to character education. Our goal is to cover the field—from the latest research to applied best practices. We include editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our field, reviews of latest books,...
Stealing from the Mother
The Marginalization of Women in Education and Psychology from 1900-2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
This book is the only available compilation of women in education and psychology whose work has been marginalized, forgotten, or attributed to their male colleagues. This resource includes women from the progressive era (1900-1950), the psychological period (1950-2000), and the political period (2000-2010)....
English Language Teacher Education in Chile
A cultural historical activity theory perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Over the last two decades, Chile has been driven by an economic imperative to build the capability of citizens to be competent in the English language, resulting in a high demand for teachers of English. As a consequence, teacher education programs have modified their curricula to meet the challenges...
Whos Afraid of Multilingual Education?
Conversations with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins, Ajit Mohanty and Stephen Bahry about the Iranian Context and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To date, the Iranian mother tongue debate has remained far from the international scholarly exchanges of ideas about multilingual education. This book bridges...