Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Towards Self-improving School Systems
Lessons from a city challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
This important new book draws lessons from a large-scale initiative to bring about the improvement of an urban education system. Written from an insider perspective by an internationally recognized researcher, it presents a new way of thinking about system change. This builds on the idea that there...
Pluralism and American Public Education
No One Way to School
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created. The book challenges the philosophical basis for the traditional common school model and defends the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
The integration of new technology and global collaboration has undoubtedly transformed learning in higher education from the traditional classroom setting into a domain of support services, academic programs, and educational products which are made available to learners. The Handbook of Research on Transnational...
Forever After
New York City Teachers on 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Forever After presents the untold stories of what happened in New York City schools on September 11, 2001. These moving, first-hand accounts reveal the amazing wisdom and courage of public school teachers and administrators who cared for and protected the children in schools near the World Trade Center...
Bullying
Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Bullying: Experiences and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender provides a valuable insight into the experiences of young people and how bullying can impact upon them in the school environment. The book offers an introduction to the key issues associated with bullying on the grounds of sex and sexual orientation, and points to key policies and guidanc
Better Worlds
Education, Art, and Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia provides a fresh examination of utopia and education. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, the authors explore utopia not as a model of social perfection but as the...
Disciplines of Education
Their Role in the Future of Education Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Are the disciplines of education ghosts of a productive past or creative and useful forms of inquiry? Are they in a demographic and organisational crisis today?
The contribution of the ‘foundation disciplines’ of sociology, psychology, philosophy, history and economics to the study of...
by Darius Prier
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
News media, film, and the music industry have become powerful sources of misrepresentation of Black male life in the social imagination of white society. The pedagogy of popular culture has important implications for educators and youth advocates who desire to challenge the myths and distortions that...
Neu zugewanderte Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene an Berufsschulen
Ergebnisse einer Befragung zu Sprach- und Bildungsbiografien
Language: German
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Die sprachliche und berufliche Qualifizierung von jungen Geflüchteten sowie allen anderen neu zugewanderten jungen Menschen erfolgt in Bayern zu großen Teilen an Berufsschulen. Schülerinnen und Schüler in Berufsintegrationsklassen im zweiten Schuljahr haben in einer Online-Erhebung Auskunft zu...
by John I. Goodlad
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this thought-provoking and eloquent volume, John Goodlad speaks to all of us who are faced with making critical choices for our nation’s children, whether it be in the election arena, our local schools, or within the personal setting of the family. His discussion covers some of our most basic...
School Leadership Effects Revisited
Review and Meta-Analysis of Empirical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
This highly detailed study maps four decades of evolution of the concept of what constitutes effective school leadership. It analyses the theoretical background to these developments and advocates the utility of thinking of a ‘lean’ form of school leadership that is comparable to the concept of...
Coteaching in Teacher Education
Innovative Pedagogy for Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
This book provides a concise and comprehensive overview of the practice of coteaching, including its benefits and educational and social implications. Coteaching plays an important role in enhancing the experience and effectiveness of pre-service and in-service teachers during school experience at...
Global Migration and Education
Schools, Children, and Families
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Global Migration and Education makes a notable contribution to understanding the issues faced by immigrant children, their parents, and educators as they interact in school settings, and to identifying the common challenges to, and successes in, educational institutions worldwide as they cope with these issues. Global in scope, there are chapters f
by Patricia A. Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Selected as a "Favorite Book for Educators in 2018" by Greater Good.
From the author of Mindfulness for Teachers, a guide to supporting trauma-exposed students.
Fully half the students in U.S. schools have experienced trauma, violence, or chronic stress. In the face of this...