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Teaching in the Knowledge Society
Education in the Age of Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We are living in a defining moment, when the world in which teachers do their work is changing profoundly. In his latest book, Hargreaves proposes that we have a one-time chance to reshape the future of teaching and schooling and that we should seize this historic opportunity. Hargreaves sets out...
Disobedient Teaching
Surviving and Creating Change in Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This book is about disobedience. Positive disobedience. Disobedience as a kind of professional behaviour. It shows how teachers can survive and even influence an education system that does staggering damage to potential. More importantly it is an arm around the shoulder of disobedient teachers who...
by Victor C.X. Wang, Kathleen P. King
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Career and Technical Education (CTE) has become a vibrant source of workforce development across the globe. It is no longer an offering only for a specialized sector of students. Instead, it has matured into a sound and meaningful program for high school and postsecondary students across interest areas,...
What's the Point of School?
Rediscovering the Heart of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
What's the Point of School? takes the reader beyond the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams in order to reveal the key responsibility of education today: to create students who enjoy learning. With their emphasis on stressful exams and regurgitation of information, Guy Claxton...
by Johanna M. Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Maximize Your School Marketing offers school administrators effective ways to enhance their existing school marketing strategy using the essential elements of public relations, media relations, social media, community partnerships, and fundraising. Extensive examples and case studies serve to illustrate...
Supervision and Evaluation for Learning and Growth
Strategies for Teacher and School Leader Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with national school resource experts to write a comprehensive book on supervision and improvement of learning. Everything you need to know about supervision and student learning, professional development, coaching and evaluation, standards, and creating...
The CDA Prep Guide
The Complete Review Manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The CDA Credential process has recently changed, and while the new procedure may seem overwhelming to early childhood professionals, this guide has been updated to reflect all of the new material and lays out the steps to take to earn the Credential in a less stressful, more meaningful way.
The...
by Gregory Light
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Gregory Light and Marina Micari reject the view that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are elite disciplines restricted to a small number with innate talent. Rich in concrete advice, Making Scientists offers a new paradigm of how scientific subjects can be taught at the college level to underrepresented groups.
Pledging Allegiance
The Politics of Patriotism in American's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What does it mean to be “patriotic” in the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001? And how have the prevailing notions of patriotism—loudly trumpeted in the American media—affected education in American schools? In this spirited book, renowned educational...
Reflecting Children's Lives
A Handbook for Planning Your Child-Centered Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
This book is ideal for entry-level/new preschool teachers, established preschool teachers, and course adoption in early education.
Two new chapters are included: one on child-centered guidance; one on school readiness and child-centered academic teaching. Additionally, some of the stories throughout...
Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World
An Invitation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do we see our schools and the project of education? Is this the best we can do? What would we like our schools to become? How might we get there? In this provocative book, Bill Ayers invites us to dream of schools in which each child “is of infinite and incalculable value.” Blending personal...
Voyage across a Constellation of Information
Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
What do orcs, elves, and information literacy have to do with each others? Find out in Voyage across a Constellation of Information as we take an in-depth look at information literacy practices (how people find, evaluate, and use information) in the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft...
Futures Beyond Dystopia
Creating Social Foresight
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
How can dystopian futures help provide the motivation to change the ways we operate day to day?
Futures Beyond Dystopia takes the view that the dominant trends in the world suggest a long-term decline into unliveable Dystopian futures. The human prospect is therefore very challenging, yet the perception...
The Gestalt of Leadership
A Handbook for Leaders in Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
This book contains several concepts, theories, and components of effective and exemplary leadership. It includes the characteristics required for that leadership: leaned and innate. It then provides real-life examples to illustrate each of those concepts, theories, and components.