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Hacking Instructional Design
33 Extraordinary Ways to Create a Contemporary Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Whether you want to make subtle changes to your instructional design or turn it on its head—Hacking Instructional Design provides a toolbox of options. Discover just-in-time tools to design, upgrade, or adapt your instructional practices. Curriculum design experts Michael and Elizabeth Fisher show...
The New English Class
A GUIDE TO THE WRITING GAME LINGUA GALAXIAE
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book is an overview of the intensive online writing game, Lingua Galaxiae (www.LinguaGalaxiae.com), which studies language as a system in the context of change. Each player has a personal writing coach who provides critiques of the player’s daily writing assignments and final portfolio and...
Educating for Sustainability
Principles and Practices for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Educating for Sustainability presents fundamental principles, theoretical foundations, and practical suggestions for integrating education for sustainability into existing schoolwide systems and programs, organized in three sections: Principles of Education for Sustainability; Fostering a Sustainability...
Ideological, Cultural, and Linguistic Roots of Educational Reforms to Address the Ecological Crisis
The Selected Works of C.A. (Chet) Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In this volume C.A. (Chet) Bowers, whose pioneering work on education and environmental and sustainability issues is widely recognized and respected around the world, brings together a carefully curated selection of his seminal work on the ideological, cultural, and linguistic roots of the ecological...
Online Education
Foundations, Planning, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Online Education is a comprehensive exploration of blended and fully online teaching platforms, addressing history, theory, research, planning, and practice. As colleges, universities, and schools around the world adopt large-scale technologies and traditional class models shift into seamless, digitally...
The Education System is Broken
Strategies to Rebuilding Hope, Lives, and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The intent of this book is to look at our educational system as it currently works and to evaluate not only why this system is broken, but also how we might move forward, together, to fix it.So, how do we fix our failing schools? We begin by finally taking the educator out from behind the desk and...
Science Education from People for People
Taking a Stand(point)
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Contributing to the social justice agenda of redefining what science is and what it means in the everyday lives of people, this book
introduces science educators to various dimensions of viewing science and scientific literacy from the standpoint of the learner, engaged with real everyday concerns...
Beyond the Classroom
Studies on Pupils and Informal Schooling Processes in Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The research on educational history has traditionally focused on its institutional, political and pedagogical aspects, more or less habitually analyzing schooling as a top-down, adult-controlled phenomenon. Even if change has been visible during the last decades, there still remain important topics...
Education in Times of Environmental Crises
Teaching Children to Be Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The core assumption of this book is the interconnectedness of humans and nature, and that the future of the planet depends on humans’ recognition and care for this interconnectedness. This comprehensive resource supports the work of pre-service and practicing elementary teachers as they teach their...
The New Democratic Professional in Education
Confronting Markets, Metrics, and Managerialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely and accessible book examines two waves of business influence that created models of schooling that are out of touch with the experiences of students, the professional expertise of teachers, and the needs and interests of local communities. The book also describes the forms of resistance...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The primacy of education in development agendas is unquestioned. With the gradual acknowledgement of the potential benefits that migration can hold for development, the relationship between migration and education is a growing area of research. Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility explores...
Mastery Teaching Skills
A Resource for Implementing the Common Core State Standards
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards. This book reviews the main features of the Common Core as well as providing implementation examples. Marie Pagliaro provides a thorough list of teaching skills...
Trusting Teachers with School Success
What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Lately, our nation’s strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to “getting tough” with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers’ behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what...
Nonviolence and Education
Cross-Cultural Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In current global politics, which positions China as a competitor to American leadership, in-depth understandings of transnational mutual engagement are much needed for cultivating nonviolent relations. Exploring American and Chinese professors’ experiences at the intersection of the individual,...