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Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies
The Case of Black Academic Underachievement
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy...
Teaching Ethics in Schools
A New Approach to Moral Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teaching Ethics in Schools provides a fresh approach to moral education. Rather than conveying a set of mandated values, codes of conduct, behaviour management plans or religious instruction, moral education is presented as an essential aspect of study throughout the school curriculum. Ethical concepts...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The National Association for Multicultural Education in Washington, D.C., listed a number of issues that the school curriculum should address with reference to multicultural education, including racism, sexism, classism, linguicism, ablism, ageism, heterosexism, and religious intolerance. It is noteworthy...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Zambia, the butterflyshaped, central African country has a population of about 11 million people, and as other SubSaharan African countries, has been trying to democratize since the early 1990s. Clearly, though, the promise of political reform did not fulfill the expectations of the public, and with...
Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and Human Development
Exploring Time, Mediation and Collectivity in Contemporary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In most Western developed countries, adult life is increasingly organized on the basis of short-term work contracts and reduced social security funds. In this context it seems that producing efficient job-seekers and employees becomes the main aim of educational programs for the next generation. Through...
Dynamic Teaching in the 21st Century
Empowering Tools and Strategies for Teachers Who Want to Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Reshaping education from the ground up.
International author and grassroots education expert, Ian Davies, exposes the essential issues causing so much grief in our schools today. His candid thoughts and empowering strategies will inspire educators who have all but given up hope. In a time when...
by E.L Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This is my world. I live it daily, and this book is here to educate those people that think this lifestyle is a fad, a joke, and not real. I will break it down for you. I will introduce you to the many levels of BDSM and smash any misconceptions you have. This book will have you fascinated and even...
Focused Observations
How to Observe Young Children for Assessment and Curriculum Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This books is for caregivers and classroom teachers of children from birth through age 5.
This book can be course adopted in early childhood methods classes.
A new chapter on portfolio development is included. Additional updates include references to the third edition of the National...
Declaring War Against Schooling
Personalizing Learning Now
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Declaring War Against Schooling documents 100 years of educational wars between Visionary learning leaders and Traditional school people. Ironically, to win the existing war, both opposing groups must unify to overthrow the control of education by politicians.
Declaring War Against Schooling...
The Graveyard of School Reform
Why the Resistance to Change and New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
The Graveyard of School Reform: Why the Resistance to Change and New Ideas explores the critical role resistance plays in defeating valued programs for students, parents, and staff. It is time for education reformers to face the hard truths about the skilled and destructive forces of resisters and...
Re-Engaging Students for Success
Planning for the Education Teaching Performance Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
As of spring 2015 in the states of New York, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin all pre-service teacher candidates are required to pass the Education Teaching Performance Assessment to earn initial teaching certification. California, Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts are planning to adopt the edTPA...
by James H. Stronge, Xu Xianxuan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
For years, students in the United States have lagged behind students in many other countries on such measures of achievement as the PISA and TIMSS assessments. In an increasingly globalized world, such a gap is worrisome. Armed with statistics, examples, and cautionary tales from Scandinavia to Japan,...
Straitjacket
How Overregulation Stifles Creativity and Innovation in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Public schools have been placed in a straitjacket over the past 30 years through overregulation as a result of the growing power of the federal government over public education, expanding court decisions, state government legislation, school board policies and procedures, and the media's influence...
by Kevin K. Kumashiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his latest book, leading educator and author Kevin Kumashiro takes aim at the current debate on educational reform, paying particular attention to the ways that scapegoating public school teachers, teacher unions, and teacher educators masks the real, systemic problems. He convincingly demonstrates...