Education category: 70663 books
A New Education for New Minds
A Conversation About Mind-Centered Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The education system provides a great way to peer into the potential of the human mind, but its come up short in unleashing it.
Marquis R. Nave, who has taught English at the college level for 10 years, has discovered that students minds are the center of education and that their ideas about...
by Jane F. Schielack, Stephanie L. Knight
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“You hold in your hands a model for how to turn complex partnerships among scientists, educational researchers, and practitioners into effective learning ecologies. . . . This volume provides helpful insights on how to plan and execute long-term professional engagement that is situated in...
by Peter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Originally published in 1975, Strategies for Postsecondary Education looks at how postsecondary education absorbs an increasing proportion of education budgets in developed countries. The book analyses the inequalities in the American postsecondary education system and compares its performance with...
A History of Popular Education
Educating the People of the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Popular Education is a concept with many meanings. With the rise of national systems of education at the beginning of the nineteenth-century, it was related to the socially inclusive concept of citizenship coined by privileged members with vested interests in the urban society that could only be achieved...
Investment in Learning
The Individual and Social Value of American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The value of higher education has been under attack as seldom before in American history. We are told of the overeducated American, of the case against college, and of the failure of education to contribute significantly to the reduction of inequality. In this environment, republication of an exceptionally...
Teacher Education in the 21st Century
Singapore’s Evolution and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This book examines the evolution and innovation of teacher education in Singapore in the 21st century. It covers teacher education reforms in the conceptualising and implementing of the Teacher Education for the 21st Century (TE21) Model and discusses curriculum improvements that are aligned to new...
Researching IT in Education
Theory, Practice and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Serious criticisms of research on IT in education have been published recently in both the UK and the USA. Researching IT in Education aims to provoke thought and discussion among practising researchers by considering a range of approaches to undertaking quality research. Establishing priorities and...
Developing Research in Mathematics Education
Twenty Years of Communication, Cooperation and Collaboration in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Developing Research in Mathematics Education is the first book in the series New Perspectives on Research in Mathematics Education, to be produced in association with the prestigious European Society for Research in Mathematics Education. This inaugural volume sets out broad advances in research in...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
While the general agreement in education remains that the more senses involved in learning, the better we learn; the question still remains as to the distinction between the education of children and the education of adults. Handbook of Research on Teaching and Learning in K-20 Education provides well-rounded...
Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development
Learning Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Teachers, both in and beyond teacher education programmes, are continual learners. As society itself evolves, new settings and the challenges they provide require new learning. Teachers must continually adapt to new developments that affect their work, including alterations to qualification systems,...
Advancing Social Studies Education through Self-Study Methodology
The Power, Promise, and Use of Self-Study in Social Studies Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Advancing Social Studies Education through Self-Study Methodology provides a collection of works that highlights ways in which self-study of teaching and teacher education practices can advance conversations and knowledge in social studies education. Some of the pieces chosen for this book will provide...
Ability, Equity, and Culture
Sustaining Inclusive Urban Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This comprehensive book is grounded in the authentic experiences of educators who have done, and continue to do, the messy everyday work of transformative school reform. The work of these contributors, in conjunction with research done under the aegis of the National Institute of Urban School Improvement...
Untold Narratives
African Americans Who Received Special Education Services and Succeeded Beyond Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This edited book reflects a much needed area of scholarship as the voices of African American (AA) or Black students defined by various labels such as learning disability, blindness/visual impairment, cognitive development, speech or language impairment, and hearing impairment are rare within the...
Education is Special for Everyone
How Schools can Best Serve all Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom. Teacher evaluations are now based on how students perform in their classrooms on yearly standardized tests. The advent of integrating students with special...