Aims category: 994 books
From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism
ReConceptualizing Minority Education in PostSoviet Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Rarely do we find books in educational research that are both thick in context and rich in theory. Usually books emphasize one over the other. Authors that engage in thick descriptions tend to fall short of explaining what larger theoretical issue their case stands for. Vice versa, authors who make a...
by Patty Ann
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Are you searching for the perfect job? Then start by finding the perfect job fit for you! A JOB FIT 4 YOU is a quick guide to help you evaluate your skills AND interests for targeting that perfect career that is waiting just for you! Included is a unique critique at how work environments determine...
Sold Out
How Marketing in School Threatens Children's Well-Being and Undermines their Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
If you strip away the rosy language of “school-business partnership,” “win-win situation,” “giving back to the community,” and the like, what you see when you look at corporate marketing activities in the schools is example after example of the exploitation of children for financial gain.
Over...
Degrees and Pedigrees
The Education of America’s Top Executives
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The book answers the questions of how and where America educates its leading chief executive officers. Where are America’s top executives educated? What do they study? Do they typically attend the nation’s most elite colleges? Or do they, like millions of other students, choose colleges because...
Reclaiming Our Children, Reclaiming Our Schools
Reversing Privatization and Recovering Democracy in America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
*Reclaiming Our Children,*Reclaiming our Schools offers both a comprehensive censure of the current corporate interest in privatizing public schooling as well as a framework for attaining meaningful education reform based in democracy and the combined will of the public. Using current research and...
Surpassing Shanghai
An Agenda for American Education Built on the World's Leading Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
This book answers a simple question: How would one redesign the American education system if the aim was to take advantage of everything that has been learned by countries with the world’s best education systems?
With a growing number of countries outperforming the United States on the most...
Learning Outside the Classroom
Theory and Guidelines for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Learning Outside the Classroom outlines theory and practice that will enable and encourage teachers to systematically and progressively incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities in a wide variety of environments and with diverse populations of pupils....
Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South
Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies.
Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western...
Speaking of Fourth Grade
What Listening to Kids Tells Us About School in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Fourth grade is ground zero in the fierce debates about education reform in America. It’s when kids (well, some of them) make the shift from learning to read” to reading to learn,” and tomes have been written about the fourth-grade year by educators, administrators, philosophers, and pundits....
by Richard Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
The study skills in this booklet should enable students to: -1) Know what type of Conclusion to write2) Write a clear Conclusion related to the Assignment3) Draw up a well-structured 'Addendum'4) Understand the purpose of Appendices and Footnotes5) Design...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come...
Transitioning from a Theological College to a Christian University
A Multi-Case Study in the East African Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
The decision for ministerial training institutions to become broader educational institutions that offer courses outside the traditional areas of theology is certainly not unique to a specific geographical context. While there are many examples of notable institutions making this transition in North...
Can Educators Make a Difference?
Experimenting with, and Experiencing, Democracy in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
As the title of this book suggests, how we understand, perceive and experience democracy may have a significant effect on how we actually engage in, and with, democracy. Within the educational context, this is a key concern, and forms the basis of the research presented in this volume within a critical,...
The Superintendent and the CFO
Building an Effective Team
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Building a strong relationship with the CFO is essential for superintendents seeking to build sustainable educational programs for all students. Benzel and Hoover use their CFO and superintendent experience to identify what future leaders in both roles need to know and be able to do with respect to...