Educational Theory category: 17068 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Co-published by Routledge for the American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Educational policy continues to be of major concern. Policy debates about economic growth and national competitiveness, for example, commonly focus on the importance of human capital and a highly educated workforce....
Mobile Learning Communities
Creating New Educational Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Mobile Learning Communities explores the diverse ways in which traveling groups experience learning ‘on the run’. This book provides empirical evidence that draws on the authors’ 17 years of continuing research with international occupational Travelers. It engages with themes such as workplace...
by Fazal Rizvi, Bob Lingard
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Rizvi and Lingard's account of the global politics of education is thoughtful, complex and compelling. It is the first really comprehensive discussion and analysis of global trends in education policy, their effects - structural and individual - and resistance to them. In the enormous body of writing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public moral leadership in schools and society. Accordingly,...
Designing Groupwork
Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As teachers today work in ever more challenging contexts, groupwork remains a particularly effective pedagogical strategy. Based on years of research and teaching experience, the new edition of this popular book features significant updates on the successful use of cooperative learning to build equitable...
Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film
Fatal Theory and Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film examines the portrayal of youth in American cinema with Jean Baudrillard's radical social theory and philosophical system. Kline uses Baudrillard's corpus to analyze the troubling effects of the portrayal of youth in American teen films, namely, its contribution...
Children's Books for Grown-Up Teachers
Reading and Writing Curriculum Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Teachers and prospective teachers read children's books, but that reading is often done as a "teacher" – that is, as planning for instruction – rather than as a "reader" engaged with the text. Children’s Books for Grown-Up Teachers models the kind of thinking about teaching...
Asian English Language Classrooms
Where Theory and Practice Meet
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
The teaching of English in the Asian context is always challenging and dynamic because both teachers and learners have diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Equally important, where English is not widely used outside the classroom, English language classrooms are an authentic site of learner...
These Kids
Identity, Agency, and Social Justice at a Last Chance High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others. In These Kids, Kysa Nygreen turns a critical eye on this paradox. Offering the voices and viewpoints of students at a “last...
Microaggression Theory
Influence and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Get to know the sociopolitical context behind microaggressions
Microaggressions are brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership (e.g., race, gender, culture, religion, social class, sexual orientation, etc.). These daily,...
by Dr. Peter Mickan
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
This book applies social theory to curriculum design and sets out a program for language curriculum renewal for the 21st century. It includes many examples of text-based curricula and describes a plan for curriculum renewal based on texts as the unit of analysis for planning, for teaching and for...
by Stephen J. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education,...
Education Policy and Realist Social Theory
Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining aim of education, to be achieved by new managerialist techniques and mechanisms. This book thoughtfully and persuasively argues against...
Researching New Literacies
Design, Theory, and Data in Sociocultural Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with understanding new literacies in theory and in practice. It is based on the idea that one of the best ways of learning how to do good research is by closely...