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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What comes after the reconceptualization of curriculum studies? What is the contribution of the next wave of curriculum scholars? Comprehensive and on the cutting edge, this Handbook speaks to these questions and extends the conversation on present and future directions in curriculum studies through...
Becoming Activist
Critical Literacy and Youth Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Becoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City. Intentionally polyvocal, the voices of the five youth are featured prominently to highlight the shifting articulation...
The Good School
How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Award-winning education journalist Peg Tyre mines up-to-the-minute research to equip parents with the tools and knowledge necessary to get their children the best education possible
We all know that the quality of education served up to our children in U.S. schools ranges from outstanding to...
by John Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities,...
Empowering Education
Critical Teaching for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively adapts the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for North American classrooms. In Empowering Education Shor offers a comprehensive theory and practice...
by Kenneth M. Zeichner
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
"… Clear, articulate, and cogent….[Zeichner] exhibits a commitment to a vision of social justice that rightly demands the very best both from society and from those of us who work in schools, communities, and teacher education institutions." -- Michael W. Apple, From the Foreword
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Transformative Language Arts, an emerging field and profession, calls on us to use writing, storytelling, theater, music, expressive and other arts for social change, personal growth, and culture shift. In this landmark anthology, Transformative Language Artists share their stories, scholarship and...
Achieving Results
Maximizing Student Success in the Schoolhouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
As a result of this distressing information on the challenges facing our educators, this book was written to highlight approaches and strategies that have been found to improve student outcomes. Administrative factors, educational policy and law, implementation of evidence-based teaching practices,...
by Jay Dorfman
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Based on educational theory and on recognized music teaching methods, Theory and Practice of Technology-Based Music Instruction develops a framework for examining music teaching that uses technology to introduce, reinforce, and assess skills and concepts. The framework guides in-depth discussions...
Moral Education in America's Schools
The Continuing Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This book is not a comprehensive history of moral education in American schools. Rather, it is an episodic history that deals with selected periods, movements, and individuals throughout the course of American education history from the time of colonial Massachusetts in the 17th century up to present...
Visible Learning for Teachers
Maximizing Impact on Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning.
Visible...
The Relevance of Higher Education
Exploring a Contested Notion
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Most statements today about higher education begin with the assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant, however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental. Relevance may be a true standard of judgment,...
Knowledge in the Making
Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
How free are students and teachers to express unpopular ideas in public schools and universities? Not free enough, Joan DelFattore suggests. Wading without hesitation into some of the most contentious issues of our times, she investigates battles over a wide range of topics that have fractured school...
How To Pass a Test
Is this the direction of Australian education today?
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
‘The measure of how well a school suits your child, and consequently how successful it is in educating your child, does not come from looking up an unreliable and highly variable ranking on the internet. It comes from observing your child, being engaged in the school environment and building up...