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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The Cultural Politics of Queer Theory in Education Research represents the editors’ intention to disrupt cycles of thinking about the place of queer theory in educational research. The book aims to encourage dialogue about the objects and subjects of queer research, the forms of politics incited...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Cognition, Education, and Communication Technology presents some of the recent theoretical developments in the cognitive and educational sciences and implications for the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the organization of school and university education. Internationally renowned...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
This book demonstrates the value of approaching education from a sociological and philosophical perspective. Specifically, it addresses current and long-standing educational issues in the Asia-Pacific region, integrating sociological and philosophical insights with practical applications in four key...
Cognitive and Affective Aspects in Science Education Research
Selected Papers from the ESERA 2015 Conference
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This edited volume brings forth intriguing, novel and innovative research in the field of science education. The chapters in the book deal with a wide variety of topics and research approaches, conducted in various contexts and settings, all adding a strong contribution to knowledge on science teaching...
Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education
Case Studies for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education: Case Studies for Teachers is useful to a wide range of individuals interested in increasing their sociocultural awareness and knowledge in order to consider how students’ experiences are shaped in and through physical education classes. This book may be...
The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People
Making educational futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Young people with tenuous relationships to schooling and education are an enduring challenge when it comes to addressing social inclusion, yet their experiences remain overlooked in efforts to widen participation in higher education. The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for...
Understanding Sustainability in Early Childhood Education
Case Studies and Approaches from Across the UK
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This unique book explores research related to education for sustainability within early childhood education in the United Kingdom. Divided into the four home nations, it examines what education for sustainability looks like in practice, discusses the different application and positions of each region,...
Working with Underachieving Students in Higher Education
Fostering inclusion through narration and reflexivity
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Working with Underachieving Students in Higher Education: Fostering Inclusion through Narration and Reflexivity presents an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the relationships between narrative devices and reflexivity in higher education. Stemming from a collaborative European...
Teacher Education in England
A Critical Interrogation of School-led Training
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Models of teacher education in England have undergone major upheaval in recent years. Teacher Education in England draws on the experiences of some of the people directly involved in these changes and explores the implications that they have had on their professional lives. The book also explores...
Education, Self-consciousness and Social Action
Bildung as a Neo-Hegelian Concept
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Education, Self-consciousness and Social Action reconstructs the Hegelian concept of education, Bildung, and shows that this concept could serve as a powerful alternative to current psychologist notions of learning. Taking a Hegelian perspective, Stojanov claims that Bildung should be interpreted...
Transforming Special Education Practices
A Primer for School Administrators and Policy Makers
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Superintendents, central office administrators, principals, school board members and students in the field of education will find this book to be useful in guiding their own professional development and practice. The authors cover a variety of useful topics in special education, ranging from finances,...
Radical Inclusive Education
Disability, teaching and struggles for liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Many people who work in education start out with enthusiastic ideals about education as a positive force that can spur change in the life of the learner and in society at large, yet find themselves frustrated with a bureaucratic system that often alienates and excludes many of its students. This is...
Does Compliance Matter in Special Education?
IDEA and the Hidden Inequities of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book asks a question that many educators may think, but won’t say out loud: Does compliance with IDEA legislation matter? The author acknowledges that, while compliance with IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is important, it can also be an administrative burden that detracts...
Failing the Future
A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1998
Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny’s Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century is drawn from the author’s experience as a distinguished teacher, a prize-winning scholar of American literature, a feminist thinker, and an innovative administrator...