Secondary Education category: 2117 books
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...
When Grit Isn't Enough
A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-for-All Promise
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Examines major myths informing American education and explores how educators can better serve students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that don’t disadvantage students on the basis of race or income
Each year, as the founding headmaster of the Boston...
Social Media in Higher Education
Teaching in Web 2.0
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
In today’s businesses and society, social media continues to play a vital role in the transformation of communication into an interactive dialogue. The success of social media has encouraged the integration of these aspects in higher education teaching practices. Social Media in Higher Education:...
Adolescence and Education
General Issues in the Education of Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
In this inaugural volume, we solicited chapters from leading scholars in a variety of fields related to education. Our aim was to provide a broad overview of several of the most pressing concerns regarding the education of adolescent students. The volume begins with an historical perspective from Barbara...
The Algebra Solution to Mathematics Reform
Completing the Equation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can we increase mathematics achievement among all students? This book provides a straightforward explanation of how changing mathematics tracking policies to provide algebra instruction to all students by at least eighth grade can bring about changes in both student achievement and teacher performance.Spielhagen...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Although educators continue to face the issue of maintaining quality teaching practices, academic managers and educational developers face significant challenges when changing in higher education teaching strategies. Cases on Quality Teaching Practices in Higher Education presents international case...
Teaching the Holocaust
Practical approaches for ages 11–18
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Teaching the Holocaust * *is an important but often challenging task for those involved in modern Holocaust education. What content should be included and what should be left out? How can film and literature be integrated into the curriculum? What is the best way to respond to students who resist...
Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Institutions, academics & assessment of prior experiential learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILT) was launched in 1999 as a result of the recommendations of the Dearing committee. It is the only national body in the world which promotes the quality of teaching and learning in higher education.
This book has four purposes:
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Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
While many initial education benchmarks are being met, new and continuing challenges exist for adolescent girls in the developing world. Discrimination, violence, marginalization, and health-related issues prevail, making proper education at the middle school level crucial during this unique development...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
What are the key issues in Citizenship Education today?Debates in Citizenship Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with and reflect on some of the key topics, concepts and debates that they will have to address throughout their career. It places the specialist field of Citizenship Education in a wider context and aims to e
Sociological Foundation of Education
100% Pure Adrenaline
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
Education is a social process. It has a social function and above all, it originates in response to social needs and problems. The two-fold relationship between education and society education being both the product and the producer of the social environment, is quite evident. The School, it has been...
The Curiosity of School
Education And The Dark Side Of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
It's one thing we all have in common. We've all been to school. But as Zander Sherman shows in this fascinating, often shocking account of institutionalized education, sending your kids off to school was not always normal. In fact, school is a very recent invention. Taking the reader back to 19th-century...
by Erik C. Ness
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states determine eligibility criteria for these scholarships. The selectivity of merit aid eligibility criteria can be as important as whether or...
by Charlotte Crowder
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
This book is targeted at teenagers and pre-teens, beginning around age 11 when they are first introduced to sex education. This way they will be armed ahead with the information and later, when choices present themselves, may possibly be able call on the decision-making skills introduced.
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