Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Quality and Inequality of Education
Cross-National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
This cogent analysis of data on education and society from a variety of sources sets out to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on the quality of education and the way it relates to various forms of inequality in modern societies, particularly in Europe. The authors examine not only...
by Kenneth Fetterman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
This manuscript addresses the need to bring about more effective teacher training and propagate innovative schools in the United States (and abroad). It is intended to serve as a policy statement and position paper which will enable political forces to rally behind a comprehensive strategy that will...
New Developments in Critical Race Theory and Education
Revisiting Racialized Capitalism and Socialism in Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This book considers new developments in Critical Race Theory (CRT) in times of austerity and assesses both the impact of British CRT or ‘BritCrit’, and CRT’s continuing growth in the US. Following transatlantic impact of the first and only book-length response from a Marxist perspective—Critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This book examines the conduct and purposes of educational research. It looks at values of researchers, at whose interests are served by the research, and the inclusion or exclusion of practitioners and subjects of research. It asks if educational research should be explicitly committed to promoting...
Educational Transitions in Post-Revolutionary Spaces
Islam, Security, and Social Movements in Tunisia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Educational Transitions in Post-Revolutionary Spaces explores the transformation of the education system in Tunisia following the Jasmine Revolution, the first of a wave of revolutions known as the Arab Spring.
The authors provide a detailed account of how Tunisia's robust education system...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The aim of this volume entitled Digital Technologies: Sustainable Innovations for improving Teaching and Learning is to contribute in the global discussion on digital technologies as the means to foster sustainable educational innovations for improving the teaching, learning and assessment from K-12...
Blame Teachers
The Emotional Reasons for Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
There is a story going around about the public schools and the people who teach in them—a story about how awful our nation’s teachers are and why we should blame teachers for the poor state of our public schools. But is the story about teachers right or fair? Why do so many people point fingers...
Morally and Otherwise Right Lives, Education and Upbringing
A Rational Basis for Citizenship, Liberty and Peace, and a Theory about Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Morally and Otherwise Right Lives, Education and Upbringing proposes a new theory concerning values. This is argued to be a rationally-justified, evidence-based theory. It has one universally-applicable general value, under which come many specific values, e.g., non-sexism. The book discusses practical...
Educational Psychology Practice
A New Theoretical Framework
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book sets out a proposal for applying psychological and educational psychology concepts to improve work with children and young people. It also suggests how some of the criticism aimed at pedagogical-psychology practice can be answered.
In several respects educational psychology practice...
Open and Distance Education Theory Revisited
Implications for the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
This book explores foundational theories that have been applied in open and distance education (ODE) research and refined to reflect advances in research and practice. In addition, it develops new theories emerging from recent developments in ODE. The book provides a unique and up-to-date source of...
Cognitive Strategy Research
From Basic Research to Educational Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Highly regarded experts review the state of the art in cognitive strategy research with an emphasis on the transition from laboratory to educational contexts. Basic research on models of competent learning are discussed, as well as specific instructional applications in educational domains such as...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them. It is argued that the antidote to this is, however, not to aspire to ‘thought itself’, but...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity has become of global importance in places where many never would have imagined. Increasing diversity in the U.S., Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and Asia strongly suggests that a homogeneitybased focus is rapidly becoming an historical artifact. Therefore,...
Modern Educational Psychology
An Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Many contemporary issues in educational psychology become clearer when set against the perspective of their historical antecedents. Originally published in 1969, this book provides a survey of the most important ideas and experiments in educational psychology at the time, showing how they have helped...