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Race, Ethnicity and Education
What is Taught in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
This edited book is a comparative study on teacher education across ten major Englishspeaking regions of the world (USA, English Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand). The focus on individual regions is reflective of a comparative...
Preserving History
The Construction of History in the K16 Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
What and how to teach in the K16 classroom history has been a perennial and, at times, heated debate. Beginning as early as 1892, the question of what knowledge is of the most worth and what should be the central function of the history curriculum became a focus of many interested in education. It...
History Education 101
The Past, Present, and Future of Teacher Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Historians and teacher educators nationwide are now engaged in discussions about the importance of history teacher preparation. Interest within the history profession about the teaching of K12 history has increased significantly during the past two decades, particularly since the controversy over...
by Diana HiattMichael
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
This publication features HiattMichael’s research and practice during thirtyfour years as Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University. The chapters represent a range of her major thoughts on teaching, curriculum and familycommunity involvement...
Innovation and Implementation in Rural Places
School-University-Community Collaboration in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This volume focuses on innovative school-university-community collaborations that are being implemented in rural places in the United States. A foundational belief that underpins the contributions to this volume is that rural communities contain within themselves the resources to promote and sustain...
Learning at the Back Door
Reflections on NonTraditional Learning in the Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Wedemeyer stresses that learning is a natural idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource. It is not dependent upon teaching, schooling, or special environments, althoughproperly usedthese resources enhance learning. There is a powerful subculture of independent learners...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The importance of social studies assessment is beyond question. The National Council of the Social Studies’ C3 Framework recognizes the importance of high?quality assessments—its major objective, a “deep understanding of the sociocultural world,” has as its underpinning the idea that students...
No Reluctant Citizens
Teaching Civics in K-12 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
American democracy is at a critical crossroads. Rancor, division, and suspicion are the unfortunate byproducts of the contentious 2016 presidential election. The election also bred a measure of civic uncertainty where citizens of all ages struggle to find and define their roles within a functioning...
Digging Deeper
Activities for Enriching and Expanding Social Studies Instruction K?12
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Experts in social studies education and gifted education share teacher?tested strategies for differentiating social studies in K?12 classrooms. Chapter authors showcase best?practice and research?based lessons and activities that enrich and expand social studies instruction while building K?12 students’...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
For social studies teachers reeling from the buffeting of topdown educational reforms, this volume offers answers to questions about dealing with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Each chapter presents and reviews pertinent standards that relate to the social studies. Each chapter also deals...
Home Schooling In Full View
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This book is a reader that describes, discusses and analyzes homeschooling from an array of different and international perspectives. We portray the energy of this movement, looking at the history of “education writ large” in a larger social, political and religious context. Like most movements...
Ferocious Resolve
Politics, Courage, and What it’s Like to be a Professor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This is a critical examination of the people who teach and produce research and scholarship in our institutions of higher education. The insights revealed through probing interviews with individual professors who have made careers in the halls of academia help readers understand the politics, power...
Advancing Equity and Diversity in Student Affairs
A Festschrift in Honor of Melvin C. Terrell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This Festschrift has a dual purpose: (a) highlight how student affairs has grown as a field of practice in response to the growth of student diversity on college campuses, and (b) honor the remarkable career of Melvin C. Terrell. As one of the unique contributions to higher education attributed to the...