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Think Tank Research Quality
Lessons for Policy Makers, the Media, and the Public
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Education policy over the past thirty years has been powerfully influenced by wellfunded and slickly produced research reports produced by advocacy think tanks. The quality of think tank reports and the value of the policies they support have been sharply debated. To help policymakers, the media,...
Throwing Voices
Five Autoethnographies on Postradical Education and Fine Art of Misdirection
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This book is a search for the promises of public education and the places where these are broken by critics feeding at the academic and professional trough. This book is a venture in critical autoethnography. Exploring critique through this ethnographic technique has allowed me to bring stories to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Based on the author's work in science and engineering educational research, this book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts,...
The Nation
A Study in Ideology and Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
One may view the idea of the nation as a fundamental "assumption" which defines the manner in which modern man perceives, and experiences, social reality. Thus, just as persons in earlier historical periods tended to possess an absolute faith in the reality of God, so, we may suggest, do persons in contemporary cultures tend to possess an absolute faith in the reality of the nation.
Transcendental Learning
The Educational Legacy of Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Transcendental Learning discusses the work of five figures associated with transcendentalism concerning their views on education. Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau all taught at one time and held definite views about education. The book explores these conceptions with chapters on each of...
by Connie R. Green, Sandra Brenneman Oldendorf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This book is an invaluable resource for enabling teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both their own religion as well as the beliefs of others. The traditions featured include indigenous beliefs throughout the world, Native...
Semiotic Rotations
Modes of Meanings in Cultural Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular...
by Dr. Alf H. Walle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
This workbook is designed to be used with Recovery the Native Way, a short book in this series that deals with the impact that your Native heritage might have on your substance abuse as well as how your traditions might contribute to a fruitful and positive recovery. A person’s culture and its importance...
by Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2019
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THE KOLBRIN BIBLE
A 3600 Year Old Text That Can Rewrite History
The Kolbrin Bible, among many things, narrates the story of human creation and even mentions the existence of ancient cultures (Civilizations) that lived on Earth before the arrival of Adam and Eve. It is perhaps one...
Better Teachers, Better Schools
What Star Teachers Know, Believe, and Do
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
We all know teachers who, in the face of insurmountable district and school level challenges, inspire underserved students to succeed. These teachers are more than good ? they are ‘stars’. Haberman maintains that school districts still gamble when selecting teachers as an overwhelming number are...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Exploring the Impact of the Dissertation in Practice significantly contributes to our understanding of the design and impact of the Dissertation in Practice, the capstone of professional practice doctoral programs. Chapter authors are to be commended for sharing with the reader a broad and reflective...
The Handbook of the Evolving Research of Transformative Learning
Based on the Learning Activities Survey (10th Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Associate Editor: Seamus King This handbook is a much expanded version of the original Learning Activities Survey published by Dr. Kathleen P. King of Fordham University in 1998. Based on her ground breaking research in this field where she used a mixed methodology research approach to study transformative...
In Their Own Words
A Journey to the Stewardship of the Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)—an interinstitutional action project of the Carnegie Foundation—is a consortium of universities pursuing the goals of instituting a clear distinction between the professional doctorate in education and the research doctorate; and improving...
The Course Reflection Project
Faculty Reflections on Teaching ServiceLearning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Servicelearning is entering a postinitiatory phase. At tertiary institutions of all types and sizes, servicelearning programs are common and servicelearning requirements for graduation are growing in popularity. Taken together alongside continued faculty interest in effective teaching these factors...