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Pathways to Transformation
Learning in Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Pathways to Transformation: Learning in Relationship is an edited collection that synthesizes current research on transformative learning and expands the current knowledgebase. This book is timely and significant as it provides a synthesis of some of the most exciting research in two fields: adult...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The central issue of this volume is how to meet the linguistic and academic needs of the increasing numbers of English learners (ELs). At the center of educational turns is the role of school professionals in this Common Core Standards era. Teacher education programs and professional development,...
Language and Mathematics Education
Multiple Perspectives and Directions for Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Issues of language in mathematics learning and teaching are important for both practical and theoretical reasons. Addressing issues of language is crucial for improving mathematics learning and teaching for students who are bilingual, multilingual, or learning English. These issues are also relevant...
Structural Equation Modeling
A Second Course (2nd ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Sponsored by the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group for Educational Statisticians This volume is the second edition of Hancock and Mueller’s highlysuccessful 2006 volume, with all of the original chapters updated as well as four new chapters. The second edition, like...
World Language Teacher Education
Transitions and Challenges in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The significant change in public schools over the last two decades warrants a response in how we prepare teachers. This volume is an effort to share the contributors’ knowledge, experience and ideas with colleagues, particularly with novice language teacher educators. The suggestions in the chapters...
Partnering for Progress
Boston University, the Chelsea Public Schools, and Twenty Years of Urban Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
For decades, education researchers have understood that school/university partnerships can be beneficial for education reform. K12 institutions derive benefits from working with professors and university students, and higher education institutions use local schools as sites for teacher training and...
Language Matters
Reflections on Educational Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
"This book addresses a timely and very important topic: language in education. Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses language, and virtually everyone has strong views about language. In the educational domain this seems to be especially true. Language is not...
The Education of the Hispanic Population
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This volume brings together the latest research and scholarship on Latinos in the United States. This book is special in terms of the broad scope of topics covered and methodologies employed in pursuit of knowledge about Latino students. This collection is also unique in that it features the work of...
Critical Mathematics Education
Theory, Praxis and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Mathematics is traditionally seen as the most neutral of disciplines, the furthest removed from the arguments and controversy of politics and social life. However, critical mathematics challenges these assumptions and actively attacks the idea that mathematics is pure, objective, and value?neutral....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The word "critical" in the title of this collection has three meanings, all of which are relevant. One meaning, as applied to a situation or problem, is "at a point of crisis". A second meaning is "expressing adverse or disapproving comments or judgments". A third is related to the verb "to critique",...
Rethinking Science Education
Philosophical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This book presents a “philosophy of science education” as a research field as well as its value for curriculum, instruction and teacher pedagogy. It seeks to rethink science education as an educational endeavour by examining why past reform efforts have been only partially successful, including...
Dial M for Mentor
Reflections On Mentoring in Film, Television and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This book takes stories of learning relationships from popular films, television programmes and literature, and uses them as a catalyst for beginners and experts alike to reflect critically on their own mentoring and coaching practice. How realistic are our expectations of personal change, and to what...
Relatively and Philosophically Earnest
Festschrift in honor of Paul Ernest's 65th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Paul Ernest’s name is synonymous with social constructivism as a philosophy of mathematics. His contributions to mathematics education have occurred at a very fundamental level and to a extent shaped theory development in this field. His research addresses fundamental questions about the nature...
Civil Sociality
Children, Sport, and Cultural Policy in Denmark
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Sally Anderson's book on sport, cultural policy, and “civil sociality” in Denmark has been a long time in coming, but it's well worth the wait. Based on many years of familiarity with Danish society, and countless hours of intensive fieldwork, Dr. Anderson provides us with a unique anthropological...