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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Home schooling is an important and growing American phenomenon with only our first edition in the field. This new 2nd edition will appeal to the home school world, people interested in American education, and the private school community. Changes in the educational environment in the US over the last...
Thinking with the Dancing Brain
Embodying Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
As seasoned dancers and dance educators, Minton and Faber approach brain function from inside the body as embodiment of thought. Their collection of neurological research about the thought processes in learning and performing dance encompasses a vision of dance as creative art, communication, education,...
Learning Over Time
Learning Trajectories in Mathematics Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The driving forces behind mathematics learning trajectories is the need to understand how children actually learn and make sense of mathematics—how they progress from prior knowledge, through intermediate understandings, to the mathematics target understandings—and how to use these insights to...
Speaking, Reading, and Writing in Children With Language Learning Disabilities
New Paradigms in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
The ability to use language in more literate ways has always been a central outcome of education. Today, however, "being literate" requires more than functional literacy, the recognition of printed words as meaningful. It requires the knowledge of how to use language as a tool for analyzing,...
Valuing Profoundly Disabled People
Fellowship, Community and Ties of Birth
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Growing numbers of human beings live with profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities. Exploring the moral, social and political implications of this trend, Valuing Profoundly Disabled People addresses questions that are high on policy and practice agendas in numerous regions around...
by Joyce VanTassel-Baska
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students provides a concise and thorough introduction to methods for identifying gifted students in the school setting. Including overviews of assessment tools and alternative methods of assessment as well as pertinent discussions concerning the need...
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Interdisciplinary perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) have emerged as a major phenomenon within the education, health, criminal justice and social care systems of many countries, with current prevalence figures suggesting that one in a hundred children and young people have FASDs. In this publication, academics,...
Disability, Sport and Society
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Disability sport is a relatively recent phenomenon, yet it is also one that, particularly in the context of social inclusion, is attracting increasing political and academic interest. The purpose of this important new text – the first of its kind – is to introduce the reader to key concepts...
Advances in Reading Intervention
Research to Practice to Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Effective early reading intervention depends on research and practice that leads to positive changes in classroom practice and better student reading outcomes. This important volume promotes the valuable “research to practice to research” loop, bringing top experts and practitioners together to...
Leaving Safe Harbors
Toward a New Progressivism in American Education and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2002
To rise to the challenges of postmodern culture, Carlson argues, progressives will need to leave the safe harbors of what is familiar and comfortable. A new progressivism can only be forged of a fundamental re-thinking and re-mythologizing of democratic education. Drawing upon cultural studies perspectives, Carlson interrogates philosophy through p
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
As the field of distance and online learning continues to grow, it is important to consider the relationship between students and technology and to find the best possible means to deliver computer-aided instruction. Educational technologists and instructional designers seek to grow the body of research...
Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research
Reflections and Advice from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Action research can be a transformative learning experience that strengthens educators’ practice and empowers our voices. For the novice action researcher, however, it can sometimes be frustrating, isolating, and overwhelming. Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research is an outstanding...
Attachment and Emotional Development in the Classroom
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
As of 2016 the Department for Education (DfE) want to ensure all trainee teachers have an understanding of emotional development and attachment, and so this book presents the key concepts that are essential for training in this area to ensure all teachers are up to date.
Attachment issues and...
by Simon Hayhoe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Philosophy as Disability and Exclusion examines the history of ideas on arts in the education of people who are blind in England, from 1688 to 2010. This book also examines a number of the earlier influences on the enlightenment, and the international context of this topic. The two hypotheses on which...