Education category: 70663 books
The Essentials of Teaching Health Education
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The Essentials of Teaching Health Education presents a skills-based approach to teaching K-12 health education that prepares students for success in the 21st century. This practical text is endorsed by SHAPE America and written by seasoned and highly credentialed authors with experience in both university...
The Market Imperative
Segmentation and Change in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
It is no surprise that college tuition and student debt are on the rise. Universities no longer charge tuition to simply cover costs. They are market enterprises that charge whatever the market will bear. Institutional ambition, along with increasing competition for students, now shape the economics...
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Are schools making the most of new technologies? Are they tapping into the learning potential of today’s Firefox/Facebook/cell phone generation? Allan Collins and Richard Halverson argue that the way computers have transformed our workplaces and lives can and should be adapted to transform American...
Technology in Education
A Twenty-Year Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Examine the history of the microcomputer and its impact on education!
Under the editorship of D. LaMont Johnson, PhD, a nationally recognized leader in the field of educational computing, Computers in the Schools has been a powerful tool in educational settings. Now, after 20 years, Professor...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Online education, both by for-profit institutions and within traditional universities, has seen recent tremendous growth and appeal - but online education has many aspects that are not well understood.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Online Education provides a thorough and engaging...
Time for Science Education
How Teaching the History and Philosophy of Pendulum Motion can Contribute to Science Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The book's argument depends, as do most proposals in education, upon cer tain positions in the philosophy of education. I believe that education should be primarily concerned with developing understanding, with initiation into worth while traditions of intellectual achievement, and with developing...
The Truth About Our Schools
Exposing the myths, exploring the evidence
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
"A superb, crucial, blistering expose of all the myths about our education system that are all too often used to attack it. Melissa Benn again proves why she is one of country's most formidable education campaigners - and why the powerful should fear her.
Owen Jones, Guardian columnist...
by William E. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Kentucky is nationally renowned for horses, bourbon, rich natural resources, and unfortunately, hindered by a deficient educational system. Though its reputation is not always justified, in national rankings for grades K-12 and higher education, Kentucky consistently ranks among the lowest states...
Changing Higher Education
The Development of Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Making sense of the many changes that have taken place in learning and teaching in higher education in recent years, Changing Higher Education also offers insights into how higher education might develop in the future.
Using the work of Lewis Elton as a starting point, leading researchers...
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings draws on John Dewey's foundational work to reimagine education's aims and curriculum for the 21st century. Noddings looks at education as a multi-aim enterprise in which schools must address needs in all three domains of life: home and family, occupational,...
Reimaging Doctoral Education as Adult Education
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Number 147
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
This volume looks at graduate education, specifically the doctorate, through the lens of adult education practice. Students in doctoral programs are, after all, adults. Building on principles of adult learning, the authors provide examples of academic excellence achieved through the incorporation...
Education and Sustainability
Paradigms, Policies and Practices in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book provides an introduction to the state of sustainability education in Asia. It covers national policies, institutional policies and practices within Asian universities, sustainability considerations for teacher training at schools of education, and pedagogical practices for sustainability...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book provides a practical focus and framework for establishing insightful leadership that will enhance the learning of students with exceptionalities in the 21st century by discussing critical leadership dimensions and topics by leading academics. Topics discussed include the following: shifting...
New Directions in Special Education
Eliminating Ableism in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
A comprehensive study that is also practical and realistic, New Directions in Special Education outlines principles for decisionmaking about special education at every level—from the family to the classroom, school, and district—and for state and federal policy.
With this volume, leading...