Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Teacher Education Yearbook XXIV
Establishing a Sense of Place for All Learners in 21st Century Classrooms and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) Yearbook XXIV offers 16 captivating chapters related to establishing a sense of place or belonging for P-12 students, classroom teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher educators. The chapters include theory, research, concepts, principles, practices, and...
Learning to Learn
International perspectives from theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Learning to Learn provides a much needed overview and international guide to the field of learning to learn from a multidisciplinary lifelong and lifewide perspective. A wealth of research has been flourishing on this key educational goal in recent years. Internationally, it is considered to be one...
Teaching and Learning
Pedagogy, Curriculum and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Teaching and Learning: Pedagogy, Curriculum and Culture is designed to share important theory with readers in an accessible but sophisticated way. It offers an overview of the key issues and dominant theories of teaching and learning as they impact upon the practice of education professionals in the...
Rethinking School Violence
Theory, Gender, Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Taking a sociocultural approach to understanding violence, the authors in this collection examine how norms of gender, culture and educational practice contribute to school violence, providing strategies to intervene in and address violence in educational contexts.
by Christine B. McCormick, PhD, David G. Scherer
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
This accessible text--now revised and updated--has given thousands of future educators a solid grounding in developmental science to inform their work in schools. The book reviews major theories of development and their impact on educational practice. Chapters examine how teaching and learning intersect...
Teacher Education and the Political
The power of negative thinking
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Teacher Education and the Political is a striking book which addresses the nature and purpose of teacher education in a global context characterised by economic and political anxieties around declining productivity and social inclusion. These anxieties are manifested in recent policy developments...
Race Relations and Cultural Differences
Educational and Interpersonal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
A collection of key papers given at three international conferences in Britain, the United States and Canada on race relations and multiculturalism are drawn together in this book. The first section includes three papers on the state of theory in race relations; the second contains papers on educational...
The Nature and Development of Mathematics
Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on Cognition, Learning and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
From an infant’s first grasp of quantity to Einstein’s theory of relativity, the human experience of number has intrigued researchers for centuries. Numeracy and mathematics have played fundamental roles in the development of societies and civilisations, and yet there is an essential mystery to...
Ourselves
Why We Are Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book delves into how we come to terms with ourselves, with other people, and with the world in general. It is about how we come to be what we are, and to think the way we do. It is a book about influences on this process. A particular influence to which Smith gives central consideration is language,...
by Susan Bentham
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
How can you help students most effectively in the classroom? As a Teaching Assistant, you play a vital role in today’s schools. This fully updated new edition will help you get to grips with the main issues to do with psychology and its role in the processes of teaching and learning.
This...
Sound Curriculum
Sonic Studies in Educational Theory, Method, & Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Part of a growing group of works that addresses the burgeoning field of sound studies, this book attends not only to theoretical and empirical examinations, but also to methodological and philosophical considerations at the intersection of sound and education. Gershon theoretically advances the rapidly...
The Plausible Veracity of Life Profligacy among Secondary School Teenagers
A case study of East African countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Pedagogy - Pedagogic Psychology, grade: 'B', Atlantic International University (SOCIAL AND HUMAN STUDIES), course: EDUCATION, language: English, abstract: This course is outlined on three major principles: examining schools teenagers'...
Moving Images of Eternity
George Grant’s Critique of Time, Teaching, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
William F. Pinar presents a comprehensive and original study that demonstrates the significance and pertinence of the scholarship of George Grant for teaching today. While there are studies of Grant’s political philosophy, there has been no sustained study of his teaching. Pinar not only draws upon...
Reconstructing 'Education' through Mindful Attention
Positioning the Mind at the Center of Curriculum and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This book reconstructs the idea and practice of education. Rather than conceiving of education as a process we undergo in which our minds are shaped by a social vision, Oren Ergas turns this notion of education on its head, arguing instead that we ourselves construct education. The multitude of problems...