Professor Of Education: 25 books
Cockeyed Education
A Case Method Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Should educators pay students? Should they make them wear sunglasses, regulate their clothing, allow them to bring animals into classrooms, discourage them from playing videogames, or transform their schools into gymnasiums? These are some of the suggestions that Cockeyed Education examines. This...
Capping Costs
Putting a Price Tag on School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Early and recent school reformers demanded greater funding. They insisted that they needed it to protect children, the economy, and the nation. This book uses the case method to analyze the budgets that they proposed, the rhetoric that they employed, and the resistance that they encountered.
Lopsided Schools
Case Method Briefings
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Lopsided Schools introduces readers to the case method and helps the reader to use the case method to examine the scholastic challenges that critics posed from World War I to the present. Some critics have stirred up educators with threats to reduce their budgets or fire them. Others upset them with...
Commonsense Questions about Instruction
The Answers Can Provide Essential Steps to Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Parents want teachers to explain how they instruct children. They become annoyed when the teachers are silent or surly. Parents counter with explicit, common sense questions: how do teachers arouse interest, design curricula, reinforce discipline, assign grades, designate textbooks, and select technology?...
by Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Teachers Go to Rehab examines the advice given to teachers from multiple critics both historically and recently. This book looks at the scope, cost, and impact of this advice to teachers, as well as the motives behind it. It poses precise questions about the groups that gave the advice. Who were they?...
Parents and Textbooks
Answers that Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Parents wondered exactly what was transpiring in classrooms. Although they asked their children, they did not have complete confidence in their responses. When they quizzed teachers, school administrators, school board members, and politicians, they realized that they sometimes had conflicting interests....
Common Sense Questions about School Administration
The Answers Can Provide Essential Steps to Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Parents have questions for school administrators. They want to know how they hire teachers, erect facilities, select learning materials, protect students, allocate budgets, use data, make forecasts, measure progress, and compete with for-profit schools. This book examines the questions they pose,...
Common Sense Questions about Tests
The Answers Can Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and union leaders who criticized...
Common Sense Questions About Learners
Answers to Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Parents asked educators about their children’s learning. Frustrated when they were ignored, they asked politicians to put pressure on the educators. They were then surprised when the politicians provided personal advice about the optimal way to nurture learning. They were even more surprised when...
Prejudice
From Individual Identity to Nationalism in Young People
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
How do some little angels turn into bigoted little monsters? This is a study of how people's prejudices towards one another develop from an early age. Based on empirical research of children aged five to 11, it explores the nature of categorization and stereotypes - from groups to nations.
Modern Foreign Languages in the Primary School
The What, Why and How of Early MFL Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An overview of the place of modern languages in the primary school in the 21st century. It is written for anyone with an active role in teaching languages in schools today, either at primary or secondary levels. It discusses the practical issues involved in teaching MFL to primary students.
by Professor Dilly Fung, Professor of Higher Education Development & Academic Director UCL Centre for Advancing Learning and
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Is it possible to bring university research and student education into a more connected, more symbiotic relationship? If so, can we develop programmes of study that enable faculty, students and ‘real world’ communities to connect in new ways? In this accessible book, Dilly Fung argues that it...
Alternative Approaches in Music Education
Case Studies from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning. Outlined in twenty-five unique case studies, each program offers a new perspective on music teaching and learning, often falling outside the standard music education curriculum....
Creating a Culture for High-Performing Schools
A Comprehensive Approach to School Reform and Dropout Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
A high-performing school is described as one where student achievement is high and student and teacher absenteeism is low. Student behavior is such that teachers seldom have to control them or tell them what to do. This results in greater time on task, higher teacher morale, low teacher absenteeism,...
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