Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Education Reform and Social Change
Multicultural Voices, Struggles, and Visions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Education Reform and Social Change is about addressing and changing the structures, policies, and practices of schools that differentially advantage white, middle class, native English speakers over students of color for whom English may be a second or additional language. It is also about helping...
Classroom Authority
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
This book describes and analyzes authority relationships in classrooms through explorations of theory, prior research, and contemporary qualitative studies. The emphasis is on the social construction of authority and the crucial role authority plays in K-16 teachers' pedagogy and students' academic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book will help post-secondary educators to discover the joys and challenges of implementing theoretically grounded civic engagement projects on their campuses. The essays on civic engagement and public scholarship are written by an interdisciplinary group of community college faculty who have...
Understanding Neoliberal Rule in K12 Schools
Educational Fronts for Local and Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global freemarket fundamentalism....
Understanding Neoliberal Rule in Higher Education
Educational Fronts for Local and Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global freemarket fundamentalism....
Human Conditions
The Cultural Basis of Educational Developments
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
First published in 1986, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy, based on anthropological and historical inquiry. It reviews the transitions of Western countries, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China and in doing so investigates cultural...
Educational Linguistics in Practice
Applying the Local Globally and the Global Locally
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
This volume provides a state-of-the-art snapshot of language and education research and demonstrates ways in which local and global processes are intertwined with language learning, use, and policies. Reflecting but also expanding on Nancy Hornberger’s ground-breaking contributions to educational...
Critical Social Issues in American Education
Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for...
Management of educational projects
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
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by Kathy Hall, Alicia Curtin, Vanessa Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This ground breaking book is unique in bringing together two perspectives on learning - sociocultural theory and neuroscience. Drawing on both perspectives, it foregrounds important developments in our understanding of what learning is, where and how learning occurs and what we can do to understand...
Educational Futures
Dominant and Contesting Visions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
This book provides an overview and analysis of current tensions, debates and key issues within OECD nations, particularly Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK, with regard to where education is and should be going. Using a broad historical analysis, it investigates ideas and visions about the future...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and developments in curriculum and pedagogy in Japan, from 1900 to the present day. Drawing on evidence of both cultural encounters and internal drivers for...
Learner's Privilege and Responsibility
A Critical Examination of the Experiences and Perspectives of Learners from Chinese Backgrounds in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is about the learner side of the teaching and learning equilibrium, centering on the educational experiences and perspectives of Chinese students in the United States. These students ranged from kindergarteners, adolescents, undergraduate, graduate, to adult learners, across the educational...
Leaders Who Dare
Pushing the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Here, the authors focus on educators who dare to lead their schools, districts, universities, and educational organizations to new possibilities. The leadership practices of the individuals featured contribute significantly to craft knowledge and to the discourse on contemporary issues of educational...