Experimental Methods category: 522 books
Today's Youth, Tomorrow's Leaders
How Parents and Educators Can Influence and Guide the Learning Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s Leaders is for parents, teachers, caregivers, directors, educators, administrators and all who work with children to encourage learning. This book has examples of effective practices in early childhood education from different countries worldwide. This book will emphasize...
by Manoj Dole
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
TURNER Industrial Training is a simple e-Book with all about the latest & Important Machines, Hand Tools & Instruments used in Mechanical Engineering & ITI courses like Turner, Fitter, Machinist, Tool & Die Maker. It contains objective questions with underlined & bold correct...
Networked By Design
Interventions for Teachers to Develop Social Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Networked by Design brings together work from leading international scholars in the learning sciences that applies social network theory to teachers’ social interactions and relationships. The volume examines the direct and indirect relationships and communities that teachers navigate, as well as...
PISA and PIRLS
The Effects of Culture and School Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally. They have become benchmarks of education for countries in the world and provide a broad perspective for countries to evaluate their...
Online Courses and ICT in Education
Emerging Practices and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Modern education is characterized by continual change, as educators and students engage with new devices, systems, and resources for improving and enhancing teaching and learning. Online Courses and ICT in Education: Emerging Practices and Applications offers a critical review of current research in...
School Choice and the Question of Accountability
The Milwaukee Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This timely book refocuses the debate about school choice programs with a nonpartisan assessment of the nation’s largest and longest-running private school voucher program-the high profile Milwaukee experiment-and finds that the system undercuts the promise of school choice.The authors argue that...
Educational Communities of Inquiry
Theoretical Framework, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Communications technologies have been continuously integrated into learning and training environments which has revealed the need for a clear understanding of the process. The Community of Inquiry (COI) Theoretical Framework has a philosophical foundation which provides planned guidelines and principles...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Multilingualism is broadly understood as the knowledge and use of two or more languages by individuals in their everyday lives, both private and professional. It is increasingly acknowledged as an important issue of the contemporary world and the interest in the matter of multilingualism is growing...
Foucault and School Leadership Research
Bridging Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Foucault and School Leadership Research illustrates the application of Foucauldian theory to an educational leadership research context, thus staging the ways a researcher negotiates the methodological tensions and contradictions in the conduct of qualitative inquiry within education research.
The...
Trading Zones in Environmental Education
Creating Transdisciplinary Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Environmental educators often adhere to a relatively narrow theoretical paradigm focusing on changing attitudes and knowledge, which are assumed to foster pro-environmental behaviors, which, in turn, leads to better environmental quality. This book takes a different approach to trying to understand...
by Victor C. X. Wang, Lesley Farmer, Judith Parker
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Pedagogy and andragogy are often treated as separate fields, despite their similarities and shared goal of stimulating learning in individuals to the fullest degree possible. Pedagogical and Andragogical Teaching and Learning with Information Communication Technologies displays that teachers can further...
by John P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Originally published in 1988, The Holistic Curriculum addresses the problem of fragmentation in education through a connected curriculum of integrative approaches to teaching and learning. John P. Miller, author of more than seventeen books on holistic education, discusses the theoretical foundations...
by Mary Louise Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book focuses on key contemporary discourses related to sexualities and schooling. Such discourses include: educational strategies used to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students; considerations of how educators might influence students' sexual identity; narratives of risk...