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Moving Teacher Education into Urban Schools and Communities
Prioritizing Community Strengths
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!
When teacher education is located on a university campus, set apart from urban schools and communities, it is easy to overlook the realities and challenges communities face as they struggle toward social, economic,...
Learning to Lead, Second Edition
Effective Leadership Skills for Teachers of Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This second edition includes updated stories, examples, research, and theories to reflect cultural and professional changes 2. Contains two new chapters: "School-Age Care: Leadership Connections with Schools and Communities" and "Nurturing Leadership in Children" 3. Combines leadership...
The Social Foundations Reader
Critical Essays on Teaching, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations course. Instead, most provide a...
Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era
Teaching and Learning in an Age of Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This landmark text was one of the first to introduce and analyze contemporary concepts of curriculum that emerged from the Reconceptualization of curriculum studies in the 1970s and 1980s. This new edition brings readers up to date on the major research themes (postmodernism,ecological, hermeneutics,...
Rethinking the Way We Teach Science
The Interplay of Content, Pedagogy, and the Nature of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Offering a fresh take on inquiry, this book draws on current research and theory in science education, literacy, and educational psychology, as well as the history and philosophy of science, to make its case for transforming the way science is taught.
Re-thinking the Way We Teach Science addresses...
Die Akademisierungsfalle
Warum nicht alle an die Uni müssen | Mit Berufsbiografien von Rahel Eckert-Stauber
Language: German
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa - das Gespenst der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit. Jeder vierte erwerbsfähige Jugendliche in der EU ist ohne Arbeit. In der Schweiz hingegen liegt die Jugendarbeitslosigkeit auf tiefen drei bis vier Prozent. Ein wichtiger Grund dafür liegt im dualen Berufsbildungssystem der...
Debating Single-Sex Education
Separate and Equal?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.
Few school reforms have engendered as much controversy as single sex public education.
This book examines the...
Swinging Pendulums
Cautionary Tales for Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Filled with more than twenty-five essays on familiar topics to those who care for and teach young children, Swinging Pendulums is sure to stir discussion, support policy revision, and help early childhood professionals find the middle ground on issues in early childhood education. These thought- and...
by Sant'Agostino
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Un testo fondamentale per comprendere il pensiero pedagogico ed educativo del nostro tempo. San’Agostino pone alcune domande centrali per la formazione dell’uomo alla conoscenza e al sapere: come si conosce? Come si accede al sapere? Quale rapporto esiste tra il docente e il discente? Quali sono...
Why I Teach
Inspirational True Stories from Teachers Who Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
A Celebration of the Power of Teaching
There is a moment for most teachers when the lure of working with kids surpasses all logic: You know, you just know, that you are meant to teach. But in the day-to-day crush of details and bus duty, politics and paperwork, or kids without their homework for the...
Tales out of School
A Challenge to Catholic Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Tales Out of School presents a memoir offering a critical examination of the culture that exists with with an analysis of the unconscious and theoretical dimensions of this psychological and sociological agenda. Author Linda Arbour reflects upon her experience as student, teacher, and administrator...
Romances with Schools
A Life of Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
John I. Goodlad has been an unflagging voice for humanistic ideals in education for more than six decades and has helped reframe the modern discourse on the role and function of schools. For Goodlad the goal of public education is to help children become free and full participants in a democratic...
Their Name Is Today
Reclaiming Childhood in a Hostile World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
There’s hope for childhood. Despite a perfect storm of hostile forces that are robbing children of a healthy childhood, courageous parents and teachers who know what’s best for children are turning the tide.
Johann Christoph Arnold, whose books on education, parenting, and relationships...
Rethinking the Human Person
Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Recent developments in the natural and social sciences have brought great benefits to humanity, both in terms of our material wellbeing and our intellectual and conceptual capacities. Yet, despite a broad ethical consensus and highly developed innate faculties of reason and conscience, there seems...