Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Leading Standards-Based Education Reform
Improving Implementation of Standards to Increase Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Standards-based education (SBE) has been the dominant educational reform movement since the early 1980s, reinforced by federal and state accountability systems. This book examines the efforts of educational leaders in implementing SBE to improve student achievement in a variety of demographic contexts...
Handbook of Asian Education
A Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives.
Using a culture-based framework,...
Learning from Dynamic Visualization
Innovations in Research and Application
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This volume tackles issues arising from today’s high reliance on learning from visualizations in general and dynamic visualizations in particular at all levels of education. It reflects recent changes in educational practice through which text no longer occupies its traditionally dominant role as...
Frames of Mind
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
The book that revolutionized our understanding of human intelligence.
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences has been hailed by educators for decades and applied in hundreds of schools worldwide. In Frames of Mind, Gardner challenges the widely held notion that intelligence is a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Addressing studying as a distinct educational concept and phenomenon in its own right, the essays in this volume consider study and studying from a range of perspectives. Countering dominant educational discourses, which place a heavy emphasis on learning and instruction, the contributors explore...
Competence Assessment in Education
Research, Models and Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings. It presents the scientific projects of the priority program “Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and Evaluating Educational Processes,” which...
by Charles H Judd
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
No influence has more profoundly affected educational thought and practice during the late 19th and early 20th centuries than the science of psychology. This volume discusses the major differences between education prior to the influence of educational psychology and then examines the impact this had on the education of children and the experience of teachers.
by Professor Richard Pring
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
This classic text in educational research literature has been thoroughly updated to take into account new philosophical theories and the current political context for educational research. Remaining, however, are the three, key central themes: the nature of social science in general; the nature of...
Roy Bhaskar
A Theory of Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
This book provides an account of an original educational philosophy, developed by one of the most significant philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Roy Bhaskar. Though he directed his attention to wider matters than education, his philosophy has implications for the...
Exploring Education and Professional Practice
Through the Lens of Practice Architectures
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book was written to help people understand and transform education and professional practice. It presents and extends the theory of practice architectures, and offers a contemporary account of what practices are composed of and how practices shape and are shaped by the arrangements with which...
Complexity and Education
Inquiries Into Learning, Teaching, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This book explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to educational research and practice. While its focus is on the theoretical premises and the methodology, not specific applications, the aim is pragmatic--to present complexity thinking as an important and appropriate...
by Colin Wringe
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This text, first published in 1988, examines the underlying rationale of educational aims as applied to individual pupils, social policies and supposedly intrinsic values. This book explorestraditional educational aims such as developing the potential and autonomy of individuals or the promotion of...
Cognitive Development
Neo-Piagetian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories. Like Piaget, neo-Piagetian theorists take a constructivist approach to cognitive development, are broad in scope, and...
Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy
Marking the Limits of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Library marketing and advertising in schools are now very widespread practices. Since libraries and schools have been strongly linked to economic performance, adopting marketing and advertising techniques into them is often seen as a natural extension of that linkage. But should that be the case?...