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The World Leaders in Education
Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The World Leaders in Education: Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods explores the practices and policies that the highest-ranking nations in education implement to achieve their success. Topics include the education of disadvantaged students; cultural attitudes toward education;...
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence
Applying a Model for Democratic Professional Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners...
Pasión por enseñar
La identidad personal y profesional del docente y sus valores
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Excelente introducción al mundo de los estudios humanos de la educación, tanto para educadores principiantes como para docentes con experiencia que quieran revisar sus valores y metas educativas. El autor sostiene que un aprendizaje y una enseñanza eficaz sólo es posible si se basan en el ejercicio...
Educadores comprometidos
Qué son, qué hacen, por qué lo hacen y lo que verdaderamente importa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Comprender qué influye en la calidad de la profesión docente a lo largo de la vida resulta clave para conseguir un compromiso y una efectividad permanentes. Las políticas educativas, las condiciones del lugar de trabajo, las emociones, la capacidad de resiliencia, el liderazgo… Este libro nace...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Virtual worlds are places where humans interact, and as such they can be environments for research and learning. However, they are complex and mutable in ways that more controlled and traditional environments are not. Although computer-mediated, virtual worlds are multifaceted social systems like...
by Paulo Freire
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Pedagogy of the Heart represents some of the last writings by Paulo Freire. In this work, perhaps more so than any other, Freire presents a coherent set of principles for education and politics. For those who have read Freire's other works the book includes new discussions of familiar subjects including...
Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents
Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents is THE essential resource for middle and high school English language arts teachers to help their students understand and address the urgent issues and challenges facing life on Earth today....
Teaching Outside the Box but Inside the Standards
Making Room for Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many educators feel caught between mandates to meet literacy standards and the desire to respond to individual students’ interests, skills, and challenges. This book illustrates how a dialogical approach to practice will enable teachers to meet the needs of today’s diverse student population...
by Deborah Appleman
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Incarcerated bodies, liberated minds: a narrative of literacy education behind bars.
Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most dehumanizing conditions. Deborah Appleman chronicles her work teaching college- level classes at a high- security prison...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Continuing its calling to define the field and where it is going, the Second Edition of this landmark handbook brings up to date its comprehensive reportage of scholarly developments and school curriculum initiatives worldwide, providing a panoramic view of the state of curriculum studies globally....
The Enlightened Eye
Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice, Reissued with a New Prologue and Foreword
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now available from TC Press with a new foreword by Nel Noddings and a new prologue by P. Bruce Uhrmacher and Christy McConnell Moroye, this classic text on qualitative research is ideal for both novice and established researchers. Eisner’s seminal work on mind, education, and research explores...
Non-Western Educational Traditions
Local Approaches to Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children—as well as what counts for them as "education"—may...
Learning and Collective Creativity
Activity-Theoretical and Sociocultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This book brings together leading representatives of activity-theoretically-oriented and socioculturally-oriented research around the world, to discuss creativity as a collective endeavour strongly related to learning to face the societal challenges of our world. As history shows, major accomplishments...
The Reason of Schooling
Historicizing Curriculum Studies, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Problematizing the "reason" of schooling as historical and political, in this book leading international and interdisciplinary scholars challenge the common sense of schooling and the relation of society, education, and curriculum studies. Examining the limits of contemporary notions of...