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Internationalisation in Secondary Education in Europe
A European and International Orientation in Schools Policies, Theories and Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The scope of the book is an integrated discussion of several aspects of the internationalisation process in secondary education in Europe. The European and International Orientation (EIO) in education is dealt with from different national angles and theoretical visions, supported by recently conducted...
Ethnicity and Race
Creating Educational Opportunities Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
This volume of Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice takes a resource perspective toward culture, ethnicity, and race. Its purpose is to foster global dialog about race and ethnicity, with an emphasis on sharing strategies and solutions. While one might view problems stemming from racial...
by Abraham P. DeLeon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This book is about machines: those that have been actualized, fantastical imaginal machines, to those deployed as metaphorical devices to describe complex social processes. Machines argues that they transcend time and space to emerge through a variety of spaces and places, times and histories and...
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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...
Adolescence in the 21st Century
Constants and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
What is wrong with young people today? This question has captured the concerns of the older generation about the habits and attitudes of the adolescents in their midst. The assumption is that there is indeed something wrong with young people. Even Plato must have rolled his eyes, as he relates his...
Culture, Motivation and Learning
A Multicultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The influence of culture on learning and motivation has been the topic of much research in recent years. Educational and psychological researchers are now aware that the findings of their studies may not apply to other cultures, and that in this age of globalization and multiculturalism it is very...
Toward a Spiritual Research Paradigm
Exploring New Ways of Knowing, Researching and Being
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Spirituality and spiritual experiences have been the bedrock of every civilization and together form one of the highest mechanisms for making sense of the world for billions of people. Current research paradigms, due to their limitation to empirical, sensory, psychologically, or culturally constructed...
Project Based Literacy
Fun Literacy Projects for Powerful Common Core Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Project?Based Learning; it’s a term that most educators have heard and probably have heard good things about, Often, though, they aren’t quite sure precisely what its defining characteristics are other than involving students in projects that are supposed to somehow result in their learning things...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In recent years there has been increasing interest in issues of space and spatiality in the social sciences and humanities generally, if less so in the study of education. This relative lack of interest is surprising given the importance of space and time in the organization of teaching, learning...
Developing a Critical Border Dialogism
Learning from Fellow Educators in Malaysia, Mexico, Canada, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book is based upon research conducted both before and after a visit to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia in March, 2003. During this time period United States (US) bombs fell on Baghdad, Iraq. An invasion of US and British ground forces in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities followed the initial bombing. Events...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
While the research on bullying and peer victimization has increased considerably over the past 20 years, a number of studies are emerging that document mixed results of bullying and prevention programs. During the last decades, several special issues devoted to research on bullying and victimization...
Distance Education
Definition and Glossary of Terms (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Distance Education has become a major topic of interest in the field of educational communications and technology. In response to this interest, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) published the first edition of Distance Education: Definition and Glossary of Terms...
Abstracts of The First Sourcebook on Asian Research in Mathematics Education
China, Korea, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and India
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Mathematics and Science education have both grown in fertile directions in different geographic regions. Yet, the mainstream discourse in international handbooks does not lend voice to developments in cognition, curriculum, teacher development, assessment, policy and implementation of mathematics and...
by Thomas C. Hunt, Ellis A. Joseph, Ronald J. Nuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
This comprehensive compendium of research focuses on key aspects of Catholic education in the United States. The volume includes reviews of research on topics ranging from church documents, spirituality, and the philosophy of Catholic education to parents, students, teachers, administration and governance,...