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by Keqi (David) Liu
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Conscientization and the Cultivation of Conscience constitutes a major contribution to the international literature on the work of Paulo Freire, one of the most influential educationalists of all time. It provides a fresh perspective on the Freirean notion of conscientization, rethinking this pivotal...
by Charles Hubbard Judd
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
This book is the result of eight years of experimentation. In 1909 the Department of Education of The University of Chicago abandoned the practice of requiring courses in the History of Education and Psychology as introductory courses for students preparing to become teachers. For these courses it...
Dewey on Education
Selections, no.3
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Dworkin has gathered some of Dewey’s clearest and most characteristic statements on education and set them in the stream of American social and intellectual history. In addition, he has indicated some of the rich literature available to those who would probe more deeply into Dewey's ideas and the context in which they matured.
Curriculum*-in-the-Making
A Post-constructivist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Curriculum*-in-the-Making theorizes about the living curriculum as an event that is in the making, for the enacted curriculum is something finished, which, only as an object, can be compared to another object. A living curriculum, understood as an event*-in-the-making, leads to a very different appreciation...
Telling Stories in Two Languages
Multiple Approaches to Understanding EnglishJapanese Bilingual Children's Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The topic of bilingualism has aroused considerable interest in research on language acquisition in recent decades. Researchers in various fields, such as developmental psychology and psycholinguistics, have investigated bilingual populations from different perspectives in order to understand better...
Democracy and Education by John Dewey
With a Critical Introduction by Patricia H. Hinchey
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Some hundred years after John Dewey worked to illuminate what it means to educate and how public education serves as the bedrock of democracy, his seminal Democracy and Education speaks urgently not only to critical contemporary educational issues but to contemporary political issues as well. As mania...
Brainstorming Common Core
Challenging the Way We Think about Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
In Eldon "Cap" Lee's new book, standards become guidelines for success rather than deadlines for failure as it is recognized that all children are unique, with different brains and different dreams. This leads to the reality that children are children, not branded on their foreheads for...
Political Will and Improving Public Schools
Seven Reflections for Americans to Consider
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily.
The suggestions for...
The Teaching Self
Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In The Teaching Self: Contemplative Practices, Pedagogy, and Research in Education, a rich collection of voices from diverse settings illustrates the ways in which first-person experiences with contemplative practices lay a foundation for contemplative pedagogy and research in teacher education. Contemplative...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Providing a comprehensive overview of holistic education’s history, conceptions, practices, and research, this Handbook presents an up-to-date, global picture of the field. Organized in five sections, the Handbook lays out the field’s theoretical and historical foundations; offers examples of...
Authentic Assessment in Action
Studies of Schools and Students at Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary schools, how five schools have developed “authentic,” performance-based assessments of students’ learning, and how this work has interacted with and influenced the teaching and learning experiences students encounter in school....
An Arena for Educational Ideologies
Current Practices in Teacher Education Programs
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Educational processes are shaped by societal ideas and values. Different ideologies shape the discourses, content, processes and pedagogies of teacher education processes. The book includes cases or illustrations of teacher education in the Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia and Pistoia traditions,...
Affirming Students' Right to their Own Language
Bridging Language Policies and Pedagogical Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
A Co-publication of the National Council of Teachers of English and Routledge.
How can teachers make sound pedagogical decisions and advocate for educational policies that best serve the needs of students in today’s diverse classrooms? What is the pedagogical value of providing culturally...
Teacher Tenure
An Analysis of the Critical Elements
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The purpose of the book is not to further debate the pros and cons of teacher tenure. Rather it examines the critical elements to better prepare teachers for the tenure application and the tenure decision makers to make better informed evaluation. Teacher Tenure: An Analysis of the Critical Elements...