Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Scientific Inquiry in Mathematics - Theory and Practice
A STEM Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This valuable resource provides an overview of recent research and strategies in developing and applying modelling to promote practice-based research in STEM education. In doing so, it bridges barriers across academic disciplines by suggesting activities that promote integration of qualitative science...
Medium of Instruction Policies
Which Agenda? Whose Agenda?
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2003
Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality.
In many multiethnic and multilingual countries, the choice of a language for the...
Critical Pedagogy and Cognition
An Introduction to a Postformal Educational Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
This book simultaneously contributes to the fields of critical pedagogy and educational psychology in new and innovative ways by demonstrating how critical pedagogy, postformal psychology, and Enlightenment science, seemingly separate and distinct disciplines, are actually part of the same larger,...
Handbook of Culturally Responsive School Mental Health
Advancing Research, Training, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Schools across the United States – as well as much of the world – are experiencing widespread change. Students are more diverse ethnically, academically, and emotionally. More attention is being paid to abuse and neglect, violence and bullying, and the growing inequities that contribute to student...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The importance of fairness, validity, and accessibility in assessment is greater than ever as testing expands to include more diverse populations, more complex purposes, and more sophisticated technologies. This book offers a detailed account of fairness in assessment, and illustrates the interplay...
Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools
Transition, Assessment, and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Every day, children and adolescents worldwide return to the educational setting having sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The possible negative consequences of TBI range from mild to severe and include neurological, cognitive, emotional, social, and behavioral difficulties. Within the school...
by Sinan Kanbir, M. A. (Ken) Clements, Nerida F. Ellerton
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
In this well-illustrated book the authors, Sinan Kanbir, Ken Clements, and Nerida Ellerton, tackle a persistent, and universal, problem in school mathematics—why do so many middle-school and secondary-school students find it difficult to learn algebra well? What makes the book important are the...
Education, Inequality and Social Class
Expansion and Stratification in Educational Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Education, Inequality and Social Class provides a comprehensive discussion of the empirical evidence for persistent inequality in educational attainment. It explores the most important theoretical perspectives that have been developed to understand class-based inequality and frame further research....
by Benjamin Michael Superfine
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Since the desegregation of public schools in the 1950s, the concept of standards-based reform has become a central topic within educational policy. Every American state is now required to enact standards-based reform policies while shifting responsibility away from the government and holding schools...
Global Voices in Education
Ruth Wong Memorial Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book brings together selected lectures given by eminent educationalists in memory of Ruth Wong, an influential figure in the field of education. The lectures represent the powerful ideas seeded by Dr Wong and address the challenges of education in Singapore’s journey from a textbook case of...
Excursions and Recursions
Through Power, Privilege, and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
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,...
The Power in the Room
Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
How community-centered, peer-to-peer, youth knowledge exchanges are evolving into a strong economic and political foundation on which to build radical public education.
Following in the rich traditions in African American cooperative economic and educational thought, teacher-organizer Jay Gillen...
Gender and Leadership in Education
Women Achieving Against the Odds
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The under-representation of women in leadership positions in educational settings is a widely acknowledged, complex phenomenon that seems to persist, despite the fact that teaching as a profession is dominated by women. Over recent decades, scholars have investigated the factors contributing towards...
by Neil Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
This book engages with the political, philosophical and policy debates around contemporary democratic socialism and state education. It examines contemporary education and education systems, as well as democratic socialism in the context of the complex political world we live in currently. It takes...