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Multiple Competencies and Selfregulated Learning
Implications for Multicultural Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Although cultural diversity in classrooms is hardly a new phenomenon, its influences on teaching and learning are increasingly discussed. Cultural diversity could lead to better learning and democracy outcomes. However, it also poses challenges for educators and schools. For example, research has...
The Right to Teach
Creating Spaces for Teacher Agency
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
The current accountability environment of education in the US has focused on the discussions of improving the quality of educational outcomes based on a set of assumptions that exclude the perspectives of the teacher. This book fills important gaps in the educational reform rhetoric from a theoretical...
The Discourse of Character Education
Culture Wars in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
In this book Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s.
The goal is to uncover the ideological...
Who Benefits From Special Education?
Remediating (Fixing) Other People's Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Who Benefits From Special Education?: Remediating (Fixing) Other People's Children addresses the negative consequences of labeling and separating education for students with "disabilities," the cultural biases inherent in the way that we view children's learning difficulties, the social...
Socially Responsible Literacy
Teaching Adolescents for Purpose and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers a new vision for teaching literacy to adolescents that moves beyond reading for its own sake and toward reading as a way to motivate students to connect with their world. The authors draw on the voices of adolescent readers to discover how teachers can encourage their students to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
In this volume in the IAP series on Advances in ServiceLearning Research, top researchers present recent work studying aspects of program development, student and community outcomes, and future research directions in the field of servicelearning and community engagement. These chapters, selected through...
by Denis Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Now in its fifth edition, Foundations of Primary Teaching will be an essential resource for any trainee or practicing primary teacher. Written in a friendly and accessible manner, this book has been updated in line with the new curriculum and provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of...
Education is Special for Everyone
How Schools can Best Serve all Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom. Teacher evaluations are now based on how students perform in their classrooms on yearly standardized tests. The advent of integrating students with special...
The Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm
Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation? Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a radically new model for helping students respond...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Teacher Educators as Members of an Evolving Profession focuses on the overall role of teacher educators who might be seen as leaders involved in the transformation of schools and schooling in a manner appropriate for the requirements of the 21st century. Teacher education is perceived in this book...
The Audacity to Teach!
The Impact of Leadership, School Reform, and the Urban Context on Educational Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Audacity to Teach! is developed from a study of an inner city, urban elementary school that has undergone serial comprehensive reforms. Each act of reform has promised to bring about certain changes that would/will in return improve this particular school. This book explores critical issues such...
The Wrong Direction for Today's Schools
The Impact of Common Core on American Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
The Wrong Direction for Today’s Schools: The Impact of Common Core on American Education is an in-depth analysis of the newest national American education fad, intended to replace the 2002 incarnation of the ESEA, No Child Left Behind. Zarra delves into the “seeds” that produced the Common Core...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This book addresses the need to diversify mainstream forms of assessment currently used in Higher Education in order to re-establish the focus on the learning process. Making assessment central to student learning is about returning to what current research emphasises: the primary beneficiary of assessment...
Educational Policy Borrowing in China
Looking West or looking East?
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects China’s propensity to borrow selected educational policies from elsewhere, particularly North America and Europe. Chinese scholars...