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From the Margins to the Mainstream
Enhancing Social Awareness in the Social Studies Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Understanding and addressing social justice concerns has become a central focus in an increasing number of schools as well as teacher education programs. The activities in this book are grounded in the recognition that personal experience and engagement is essential for meaningful intercultural learning...
Civic Education for Diverse Citizens in Global Times
Rethinking Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This book explores four interrelated themes: rethinking civic education in light of the diversity of U.S. society; re-examining these notions in an increasingly interconnected global context; re-considering the ways that civic education is researched and practiced; and taking stock of where we are...
Creating Socially Responsible Citizens
Cases from the AsiaPacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This book originates from a collaborative research initiative to examine how various societies in the AsiaPacific Region construct moral and civic education, and to what extent these systems achieve the democratic objective of creating socially responsible citizens. In many western societies there...
New Directions in Social Education Research
The Influence of Technology and Globalization on the Lives of Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Through rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a complex global system (Friedman, 2005). With the rise of new technology, local populations, businesses and states are better equipped to participate...
Educating Angels
Teaching for the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
School reform and accountability tests have been hotly debated for decades, but the goal of reform and accountability has not. Most agree that the main problem with contemporary education is that it fails to adequately prepare students with the “21st century skills” needed to find jobs and promote...
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most enduring and controversial issues in American education concerns the place of individual beliefs and moral standards in the classroom. Noddings argues that public schools should address the fundamental questions that teenagers inevitably rasie about the nature, value and meaning of...
The Textbook as Discourse
Sociocultural Dimensions of American Schoolbooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
The central assumption of The Textbook as Discourse is this: interpreted in the flow of history, textbooks can provide important insights into the nature and meaning of a culture and the social and political discourses in which it is engaged. This book is about the social, political and cultural content...
The War against Excellence
The Rising Tide of Mediocrity in America's Middle Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
Here, veteran teacher Cheri Pierson Yecke details the chronological history of the middle school movement in the U. S. by tracing its evolution from academically-oriented junior high schools to the dissolution of academics in the middle schools of the late 1980s and beyond. In this book, evidence...
by Johanna M. Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Fundamentals of School Marketing begins with a clear presentation of the benefits of school marketing and defines exactly what school marketing is and what it is not. The book then provides a step-by-step guide to planning and initiating a successful school marketing program. Considerable attention...
Social Justice Education
Inviting Faculty to Transform Their Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
"This collection of essays on social justice in higher education is at once practical and inspiring. Editors Skubikowski, Wright, and Graf have selected essays that explore how faculty can work to infuse social justice goals at multiple levels in higher education, including the theoretical, intra- and...
Reading the World, the Globe, and the Cosmos
Approaches to Teaching Literature for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.
The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the classroom. Utilizing a method of pedagogical...
Stop High-Stakes Testing
An Appeal to America's Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to America's Conscience is a compelling indictment of the use of high-stakes assessments with punitive consequences in our public schools. The authors trace the history of the policy and document the inequities for children of poverty that undergird high-stakes...
Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools
The Real War on Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools: The Real War on Literacy is an eye-opening examination of the real world consequences of the political pressures and influences on teachers today. In particular, it looks at how the political actions of the conservative right disempower and control teachers,...
Storied Inquiries in International Landscapes
An Anthology of Educational Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Storied Lives: Emancipatory Educational Inquiry—Experience, Narrative, & Pedagogy in the International Landscape of Diversity contains exemplary research practices, strategies, and findings gleaned from the contributions to the 15 issues of the Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum and Instruction...