Educational Reform category: 2687 books
Language, Education and Neoliberalism
Critical Studies in Sociolinguistics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This edited volume presents an empirical account of how neoliberal ideas are adopted on the ground by different actors in different educational settings, from bilingual education in the US, to migrant work programmes in Italy, to minority language teaching in Mexico. It examines language and education...
Learning the City
Cultural Approaches to Civic Learning in Urban Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book explores a cultural understanding of cities and processes of civic learning by scrutinizing urban educational topics from a cultural studies perspective. This book approaches the city as a cultural fabric that consists of social, material and symbolic dimensions, and describes how civic...
Verbal Protocols in Literacy Research
Nature of Global Reading Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This volume offers an updated analysis of the methodology of reading and reading research since 1995, when the landmark book Verbal Protocols of Reading: The Nature of Constructively Responsive Reading by Michael Pressley and Peter Afflerbach was published. It offers a thorough cross-analysis of the...
Early Formal Education
Current Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The future of any society lies in its ability to train and socialize its young. The stability of its institutions, political systems, the productivity of its industrial resources, and the creativity of its intellectual talent reflect the success of those who have been given responsibility for shaping...
by Luigi Iannacci
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Reconceptualizing Disability in Education provides an essential critical exploration of problematic discourses, practices, and pedagogies that inform how disability is presently understood and responded to within the field of education. Luigi Iannacci interrogates and destabilizes ableist grand narratives...
Education Roads Less Traveled
Solving America's Fixation on Four-Year Degrees
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Every year, large numbers of American young people who are not terribly interested in attending a four-year college reluctantly enroll anyway, effectively pressured by combinations of parents, peers, teachers, guidance counselors, and the normative air they breathe. More than occasionally, they wind...
Teacher Education in England
A Critical Interrogation of School-led Training
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Models of teacher education in England have undergone major upheaval in recent years. Teacher Education in England draws on the experiences of some of the people directly involved in these changes and explores the implications that they have had on their professional lives. The book also explores...
Rural Education Research in the United States
State of the Science and Emerging Directions
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This volume represents current and futuristic thinking of seminal rural education researchers, with the goal of providing perspectives and directions to inform the work of rural education research, practice, and policy. With an emphasis on leveraging collaboration among key rural education stakeholders,...
Captivating Classrooms
Educational Strategies to Enhance Student Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Captivating Classrooms explores the specific role that student engagement plays in education, it argues that there are myriad factors that undergird meaningful student learning and participation—such as motivation, exciting teaching strategies, reinventing literacy instruction, and authentic assessment....
Securing the Schoolyard
Protocols that Promote Safety and Positive Student Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
This book was written as a resource guide for educational and mental health professionals and policymakers, as well as families and communities seeking to develop programming to reduce school violence and promote safe, engaging, and effective schools. This book explores the growing crisis in school...
Sounding the Alarm in the Schoolhouse
Safety, Security, and Student Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
Sounding the Alarm in the Schoolhouse: Safety, Security, and Student Well-Being was written as a resource guide for educational and mental health professionals and policymakers, as well as families and communities seeking to develop programming to reduce school violence and promote safe, engaging,...
Closing the School Discipline Gap
Equitable Remedies for Excessive Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Educators remove over 3.45 million students from school annually for disciplinary reasons, despite strong evidence that school suspension policies are harmful to students. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that disciplinary policies and practices that schools control directly exacerbate...
Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance
Poverty, Literacy, and the Development of Information Capital
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is a compelling, eye-opening portrait of two communities in Philadelphia with drastically different economic resources. Over the course of their10-year investigation, the authors of this important new work came to understand that this disparity between affluence and poverty has created a knowledge...
by Marcelo Giglio
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Creative Collaboration in Teaching focuses on the question of how best to facilitate creative collaboration among students in the classroom setting—with a focus on music composition and from the perspective of social-cultural psychology. This book is comprehensive, cutting-edge and scholarly in...