Educational Theory category: 17068 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Instruction tailored to the individual student, learning and teaching outside the limits of time and space—ideas that were once considered science fiction are now educational reality, with the prospect of an intelligent Web 3.0 not far distant. Alongside these innovations exists an emerging set...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The 4th edition of the Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology expands upon the previous 3 versions, providing a comprehensive update on research pertaining to new and emerging educational technologies. Chapters that are no longer pertinent have been eliminated in this...
At a Crossroads
The Educational Leadership Professoriate in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This volume presents the results of a comprehensive study of educational leadership faculty and the departments and programs in which they work. It reports the characteristics, activities, and attitudes of educational leadership faculty members involved in universitybased educational leadership preparation...
Learning from the Federal Market?Based Reforms
Lessons for ESSA
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top?down, market?focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice. The new Every Student Succeeds Act continues along this path, though with decision?making authority now shifted toward the states. These...
Urban Educational Leadership for Social Justice
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The chapters in Urban Educational Leadership for Social Justice: International Perspectives constitute a collection of works that explore dynamics related to equity in multiple contexts. Authors examined these issues in Turkey, Egypt the United States, Thailand and at a global level by comparing and...
Discretionary Behavior and Performance in Educational Organizations
The Missing Link in Educational Leadership and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This volume of "Advances in Educational Administration" examines discretionary behavior/performance, an emerging yet critical phenomenon for educational organizations to be effective in responding to the complex expectations of the 21st century. Discretionary behavior refers to the employee...
by David Galloway, Anne Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Drawing upon extensive research, David Galloway and Anne Edwards analyse the increasing pressures on teachers from the national curriculum and other recent legislation. They look carefully at childrens' learning and behavioural difficulties and show how educational psychology can extend our understanding...
by Professor David Scott, Mayumi Terano, Roger Slee
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Improving education through policy learning is an important notion for countries in need of educational reform. However, identifying a successful set of practices and transferring them from one national setting to another is a complex exercise. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors...
Computing and Educational Studies
A Special Issue of educational Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This special issue calls for a greater awareness of computing as a critical area of study for those interested in educational studies. Its purpose is to open up a wider dialogue about computing and education than has previously existed in the field. The questions raised provide the basis for a lively...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Sponsored by Division 15 of APA, the second edition of this groundbreaking book has been expanded to 41 chapters that provide unparalleled coverage of this far-ranging field. Internationally recognized scholars contribute up-to-date reviews and critical syntheses of the following areas: foundations...
External Influences and the Educational Landscape
Analysis of Political, Economic, Geographic, Health and Demographic Factors in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
While the analysis is not the first to investigate empirically the effects of different individual or household factors on school access and completion of Ghanaians, it extends previous work by simultaneously incorporating individual, household, community, regional and national characteristics...
Achieving Equity for Latino Students
Expanding the Pathway to Higher Education Through Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Despite their numbers, Latinos continue to lack full and equal participation in all facets of American life, including education. This book provides a critical discussion of the role that select K–12 educational policies have and continue to play in failing Latino students. The author draws...
Repositioning Educational Leadership
Practitioners Leading from an Inquiry Stance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This groundbreaking volume encourages today’s educational leaders to reposition the way they think about leadership and its challenges. Experienced school and district leaders reveal how they conceptualize their roles, how they learn by posing and solving problems of practice, and how they cope...
by Ivor Morrish
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In recent years teachers have realized that change has become a permanent factor on the educational scene and therefore its operation or mechanism must not just be accepted, or even rejected, but above all understood. This book presents an approach towards some real understanding of educational changes...