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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Learning often begins with an experience in the body. Our body can tighten or feel expansive depending on different learning contexts. This experience of learning in the body is crucial to holistic education. This book explores embodied learning from several perspectives. This first section explores...
Bridging the Gap
A Parent's Guide to Elementary Education in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Finally! The go-to guide that parents have been asking for.
Bridging the Gap: A Parent's Guide to Elementary Education in the 21st Century** was truly written out of necessity.**
The goal of this guide is to you give some real and direct information about how education works...
Mapping Corporate Education Reform
Power and Policy Networks in the Neoliberal State
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Mapping Corporate Education Reform outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network analysis and powerful data visualization tools, the authors identify the problematic roots of these relationships...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Historians in recent years have paid considerable attention to sport and leisure in the past, and historians of education are no exception. The chapters in this book showcase the breadth and depth of scholarship in this area, bringing new perspectives to bear on the history of physical education in...
Challenges to Japanese Education
Economics, Reform, and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this volume, eight leading Japanese scholars present their research on profound and sensitive issues facing Japanese society, much of which has not been available to the English-speaking world. Traveling from Japan to engage in a unique forum at University of California, they joined eminent Professors...
Situational Context of Education
A Window Into the World of Bilingual Learners
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
This book gives educators important answers to the urgent question of how teachers and schools can facilitate language minority and immigrant students' progress in school. It offers an innovative and powerful method teachers and students can use to study the situational context of education, providing...
Teacher Education in Challenging Times
Lessons for professionalism, partnership and practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Teacher education is experiencing a period of dramatic and arguably irrevocable change within a wider context of turbulence in the English education system. With contributions from a range of teacher educators and academics in the field, Teacher Education in Challenging Times presents sustainable,...
The Theory and Practice of Development Education
A pedagogy for global social justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Development education is much more than learning about development; it is a pedagogy for the globalised societies of the twenty-first century that incorporates discourses from critical pedagogy and postcolonialism, and a mechanism for ensuring that differing perspectives are reflected within education,...
by June Tran
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Pedagogy - Adult Education, grade: Pass, La Trobe University Melbourne, course: Doctor of Education, language: English, abstract: Graduate employability has become a highly topical and contested issue in Vietnam. Many employers report...
Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education
Learning to Transgress
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Higher education has been presented as a solution to a host of local and global problems, despite the fact that learning and assessment can also be used as mechanisms for exclusion and social control. Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education: Learning to Transgress demonstrates that even...
Rethinking Outdoor, Experiential and Informal Education
Beyond the Confines
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book seeks to bring together the two disciplines of informal and outdoor education, and challenges readers to think differently about outdoor and adventure education. It develops core ideas and thinking about informal education within outdoor settings, and explores how its principles and practice...
Standing Together
American Indian Education as Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The majority of American Indian students attend public schools in the United States. However, education mandated for American Indian students since the 1800s has been primarily education for assimilation, with the goal of eliminating American Indian cultures and languages. Indeed, extreme measures...
Assessment in Higher Education
Issues of Access, Quality, Student Development and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Assessment in Higher Education brings together in one place most of the major issues confronting higher education in the 1990s. These include enhancing student access, development, and success in higher education; transforming admissions testing to meet expanding educational needs; resolving the politics...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Researchers, educators, professional organizations, administrators, parents, and policy makers have increased their involvement in the assessment and evaluation of early childhood education programs. This interest has developed swiftly during the last decades. The National Association for the Education...