Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Quantitative Data Analysis in Education
A Critical Introduction Using SPSS
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This book provides a refreshing and user-friendly guide to quantitative data analysis in education for students and researchers. It assumes absolutely no prior knowledge of quantitative methods or statistics. Beginning with the very basics, it provides the reader with the knowledge and skills necessary...
Strategic Curriculum Change in Universities
Global Trends
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The curriculum is a live issue in universities across the world. Many stakeholders – governments, employers, professional and disciplinary groups and parents – express strong and often conflicting views about what higher education should achieve for its students.
Many universities are reviewing...
Educational Research and Policy-Making
Exploring the Border Country Between Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book provides a fascinating insight into the sometimes troubled relationship between ‘research’ and ‘policy-making’ in education. It shows how each of these areas of social and intellectual endeavour is in a state of dynamic change and how, as a result, they are becoming more mutually...
The Relevance of the Leadership Standards
A New Order of Business for Principals
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The work of school leaders is critical in this era, and there is heightened attention on the roles of the leaders as linked to student achievement and school improvement; school culture and climate; and the variables that impact achievement, improvement, culture and climate. The demands on school...
by Ronald Woods, Robin Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This introductory text, now in its fourth edition, is a classic in its field. It shows, first and foremost, the importance of philosophy in educational debate and as a background to any practical activity such as teaching. What is involved in the idea of educating a person or the idea of educational...
Permissible Advantage?
The Moral Consequences of Elite Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
This study of Edgewood Academy--a private, elite college preparatory high school--examines what moral choices look like when they are made by the participants in an exceptionally wealthy school, and what the very existence of a privileged school indicates about American society. It extends Peshkin's...
Education for Self-transformation
Essay Form as an Educational Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of ‘lived experience’ can articulate itself in the first person. Working through...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Applying a languaging perspective, this volume frames the teaching and learning of literacy, literature, language, and the language arts as social and linguistic actions that generate new questions to make visible social, cultural, psychological, linguistic, and educational processes. Chapter authors...
The Enlightened Eye
Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice, Reissued with a New Prologue and Foreword
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now available from TC Press with a new foreword by Nel Noddings and a new prologue by P. Bruce Uhrmacher and Christy McConnell Moroye, this classic text on qualitative research is ideal for both novice and established researchers. Eisner’s seminal work on mind, education, and research explores...
Schooling Students Placed at Risk
Research, Policy, and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book examines historical approaches and current research and practice related to the education of adolescents placed at risk of school failure as a result of social and economic conditions. One major goal is to expand the intellectual exchange among researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and...
Mothers United
An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In urban American school systems, the children of recent immigrants and low-income parents of color disproportionately suffer from overcrowded classrooms, lack of access to educational resources, and underqualified teachers. The challenges posed by these problems demand creative solutions that must...
Every Person Is a Philosopher
Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect...
Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching
Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“The title promises ideas for effective teaching, and the book delivers on this promise in clear, compelling, and believable prose. This is a book for educators, for policy makers, for parents, and even for presidents.” —From the Foreword byRobert Calfee, professor emeritus, Stanford...
Language, Culture, and Teaching
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic...