Educational Theory category: 17068 books
by David Galloway, Anne Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A companion volume to Primary School Teaching and Educational Psychology, this book concerns itself with the day-to-day business of teaching in a secondary school. Throughout the book four themes reoccur: that teachers can best understand the development of children by observing their learning and...
by Frank Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Based on two conferences, this volume explores trends during the 1960s and 1970s in inner city areas in the United Kingdom. It describes how the inner city is losing jobs and skilled workers and, as the population falls, the number of disadvantaged people and those claiming benefits is increasing....
Curriculum
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This updated second edition of Curriculum: From Theory to Practice provides an introduction to curriculum theory and how it relates to classroom practice. Wesley Null builds upon recent developments while at the same time continuing to provide a unique organization of the curriculum field into five...
Dialectics of 9/11 and the War on Terror
Educational Responses
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Dialectics of 9/11 and the War on Terror: Educational Responses examines how global financial and socio-political systems propagate a lopsided dialectic of current events that influences teachers’ pedagogies of 9/11 and the War on Terror. The lopsided dialectic is one that encourages patriotism...
Educational Reform in Post-Soviet Russia
Legacies and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This volume consists of a collection of essays devoted to study of the most recent educational reform in Russia. In his first decree Boris Yeltsin proclaimed education a top priority of state policy. Yet the economic decline which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union dealt a crippling blow...
The Finnish Education Mystery
Historical and sociological essays on schooling in Finland
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
The quality of students’ learning experiences is a critical concern for all higher education institutions. With the assistance of modern technological advances, educational establishments have the capability to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their learning programs. Developing Effective...
Connecting Policy and Practice
Challenges for Teaching and Learning in Schools and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2005
Written by members of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching, the papers in this volume were presented at an international teaching conference on the issues of theory and practice. Using these contributions from experienced researchers, most of whom are practising teachers, this...
A Time for the Humanities
Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the human,...
by Dr. Ross H. Millikan
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
This text seeks to re-establish the place and the importance of a valuesbased, philosophically-underpinned, national educational provision, through which reason and integrity, intellect and morality, caring and sharing, are more highly valued as educational outcomes than are narrow academic achievements...
Team Teaching and Team Learning in the Language Classroom
Collaboration for innovation in ELT
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book reignites discussion on the importance of collaboration and innovation in language education. The pivotal difference highlighted in this volume is the concept of team learning through collaborative relationships such as team teaching. It explores ways in which team learning happens in ELT...
Educational Justice
Teaching and Organizing Against the Corporate Juggernaut
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
That education should instill and nurture democracy is an American truism. Yet organizations such as the Business Roundtable, together with conservative philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Walmart’s owners, the Waltons, have been turning public schools into corporate mills. Their top-down programs,...
by Mark Brundrett, Christopher Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leaders themselves should be learners, the Leadership for...
Understanding the Black Flame and Multigenerational Education Trauma
Toward a Theory of the Dehumanization of Black Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Unlike any text to date, this revolutionary study surveys Black research and literature to determine the processes formal education uses to dehumanize Black students. This is a socio-historical analysis of the Black Flame trilogy (BFT), W. E. B. Du Bois’s unparalleled, thirty-year study of Atlanta,...