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Education and Corporate Social Responsibility
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Corporate social responsibility is becoming rapidly embedded into the strategic planning and operational processes of all organizations, while at the same time our understanding of what is meant by this phenomenon continues to develop and to be extended beyond the domain of the corporate into that...
The Drive to Learn
What the East Asian Experience Tells Us about Raising Students Who Excel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Countless books and articles have offered remedies for the poor learning outcomes of American schoolchildren. Virtually all of these publications share one thing in common: They propose improvements in the policies and practices controlled by adult educators. Grove believes that our children’s poor...
How to Fix South Africa's Schools
Lessons from Schools that Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
South Africa has an education crisis, despite the fact that the government spends the biggest slice of its budget on education, more than any other African country. And yet the crisis persists. Jansen and Blank looked at South African schools that work, in spite of adverse conditions -- schools in...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation provides scholars and laymen with an assortment of theoretical and practical perspectives for questioning contemporary practices and forging new methods of education reform and innovation. This volume is the leading collection of contemporary essays by the...
by Ellen Pope
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Learn common hazards Christians face in undergraduate majors in this simple easy to understand format. Each major is categorized as ideological, technical, or core, followed by a summary of issues concerning to Christians, and recommendations for alternative options where available.
As a...
Building Blocks
Making Children Successful in the Early Years of School
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
A student's entire journey along the educational spectrum is affected by what occurs—and, crucially, by what does not occur—before the age of eight or nine. Yet early learning has never received the attention it deserves and needs. In his latest book, education expert Gene Maeroff takes a hard...
Teaching Democracy
Unity and Diversity in Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Teaching Democracy, Walter Parker makes a unique and thoughtful contribution to the hot debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favor a cultural literacy approach. Parker conclusively demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes...
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Enhancing Social Awareness in the Social Studies Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Understanding and addressing social justice concerns has become a central focus in an increasing number of schools as well as teacher education programs. The activities in this book are grounded in the recognition that personal experience and engagement is essential for meaningful intercultural learning...
Civic Education for Diverse Citizens in Global Times
Rethinking Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This book explores four interrelated themes: rethinking civic education in light of the diversity of U.S. society; re-examining these notions in an increasingly interconnected global context; re-considering the ways that civic education is researched and practiced; and taking stock of where we are...
Creating Socially Responsible Citizens
Cases from the AsiaPacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This book originates from a collaborative research initiative to examine how various societies in the AsiaPacific Region construct moral and civic education, and to what extent these systems achieve the democratic objective of creating socially responsible citizens. In many western societies there...
New Directions in Social Education Research
The Influence of Technology and Globalization on the Lives of Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Through rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a complex global system (Friedman, 2005). With the rise of new technology, local populations, businesses and states are better equipped to participate...
Educating Angels
Teaching for the Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
School reform and accountability tests have been hotly debated for decades, but the goal of reform and accountability has not. Most agree that the main problem with contemporary education is that it fails to adequately prepare students with the “21st century skills” needed to find jobs and promote...
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most enduring and controversial issues in American education concerns the place of individual beliefs and moral standards in the classroom. Noddings argues that public schools should address the fundamental questions that teenagers inevitably rasie about the nature, value and meaning of...
The Textbook as Discourse
Sociocultural Dimensions of American Schoolbooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
The central assumption of The Textbook as Discourse is this: interpreted in the flow of history, textbooks can provide important insights into the nature and meaning of a culture and the social and political discourses in which it is engaged. This book is about the social, political and cultural content...