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Education for Civic and Political Participation
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Political transformations have a decisive power to shape education systems in general and teacher education programs in particular. How these processes unfold is especially interesting in educational systems which are not generally known to Anglo-Saxon educators, like Germany, Russia, or China. Several...
Education and Social Dynamics
A Multilevel Analysis of Curriculum Change in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Education and Social Dynamics offers a new approach to analyzing curriculum change by investigating the entanglement of education and society in markedly heterogeneous Turkey, which has recently witnessed nation-wide curriculum reforms. While the new curriculum has attempted to homogenize all Turkish...
Having an Impact on Learning
The Public Relations Professional and the Principal
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
A public relations director and a principal have mostly the same goals in helping students achieve at high levels. While each might go about impacting student learning in different ways, they both work to make education better. In Having an Impact on Learning, the husband and wife team of Matt and...
Gratitude
A Way of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
This valuable book will give educators solution-based methods and research-based resources to improve classroom culture, as well as enabling schools to elevate students’ engagement and academic achievement. In addition, activities will be provided that will help teachers improve their own lives...
Practicing Disability Studies in Education
Acting Toward Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Practicing Disability Studies in Education: Acting Toward Social Change celebrates the diversity of contemporary work being developed by a range of scholars working within the field of Disability Studies in Education (DSE). The central idea of this volume is to share ways in which educators practice...
Post-formalism, Pedagogy Lives
As Inspired by Joe L. Kincheloe
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Joe L. Kincheloe (1950–2008) was one of North America’s leading critical pedagogy scholars. He defined post-formalist thought in terms of deconstruction, affectivity, and non-linearity. His deconstruction focused on the context of ideas, ideologies, and teaching. It was a form of sociological...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political, moral and cultural practice, drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey and Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire. This impassioned book opens by discussing the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending...
Practicing Core Reflection
Activities and Lessons for Teaching and Learning from Within
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Practicing Core Reflection features 78 concrete educational activities and exercises based on research. These can be used individually and in groups to support 'teaching and learning from within.’ Core Reflection is an approach focused on people's personal strengths and on using practical strategies...
by Belle Alderman, Patricia Milne
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2005
Work-based learning, in which professional work experience is closely integrated with professional study, now forms an important part of many courses in tertiary institutions. A Model for Work-Based Learning offers a plan designed to enhance the professional experience through facilitated mentoring...
Expanding Curriculum Theory
Dis/positions and Lines of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Expanding Curriculum Theory, Second Edition carries through the major focus of the original volume—to reflect on the influence of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "lines of flight" and its application to curriculum theorizing. What is different is that the lines of flight have since...
Variability in assessor responses to undergraduate essays
An issue for assessment quality in higher education
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Academic standards in higher education depend on the judgements of individual academics assessing student work; it is in these micro-level practices that the validity and fairness of assessment is constituted. However, the quality of assessments of open-ended tasks like the coursework essay is difficult...
The Crucial Voice of the People, Past and Present
Education’s Missing Ingredient
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Crucial Voice of the People, Past and Present, Young presents important insights into what can be done to “fix” America’s public education system. Her research and observations are eye opening and provide all readers with a galvanizing focus on what needs to be done and how to get there....
by Ian Thompson, Ian Menter
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This book addresses key issues related to teaching pupils from disadvantaged and impoverished backgrounds and provides a valuable reference and pedagogical tool for teachers and teacher educators. Research has consistently shown that the most economically disadvantaged pupils have the poorest educational...