Educational Theory category: 17068 books
by Robert Maribe Branch
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
The Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate (ADDIE) process is used to introduce an approach to instruction design that has a proven record of success. Instructional Design: The ADDIE Approach is intended to serve as an overview of the ADDIE concept. The primary rationale for this book is...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
This book explores teaching and learning in lower secondary classrooms in the three PISA domains science, mathematics and reading. Based on extensive video documentation from science, math and reading classrooms in Norwegian secondary schooling, it analyzes how offered and experienced teaching and...
Educational Developments, Practices and Effectiveness
Global Perspectives and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Exploring a range of educational developments and practices in different national contexts in Australia, Canada and Switzerland, this book analyses the effectiveness of such initiatives. Case studies in the book include business and online education, supporting students with disabilities and school-wide pedagogical improvement.
Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum
From Policy to Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This volume provides a multi-faceted and critical analysis of the Singapore curriculum in relation to globalization. First, it details reform initiatives established by the Singapore government to meet the challenges posed by globalization. Next, Globalization and the Singapore Curriculum presents...
Faith, Mission and Challenge in Catholic Education
The selected works of Gerald Grace
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key article, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable...
Flip the System
Changing Education from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Education is threatened on a global scale by forces of neoliberalism, through high stakes accountability, privatization and a destructive language of learning. In all respects, a GERM (Global Education Reform Movement) has erupted from international benchmark rankings such as PISA, TIMMS and PIRL,...
Why Public Schools?
Voices from the U.S. and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
What is the purpose of public education? What is the value of taxpayer supported public schools? Who is invited to answer these questions? Except among policymakers, few publicly answer or debate these questions. Instead, the neoliberal forces of competition and deregulation seem to be driving education...
School Choice Tradeoffs
Liberty, Equity, and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Educational policy in a democracy goes beyond teaching literacy and numeracy. It also supports teaching moral reasoning, political tolerance, respect for diversity, and citizenship. Education policy should encourage liberty and equality of opportunity, hold educational institutions accountable, and...
The Diverted Dream
Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1989
In the twentieth century, Americans have increasingly looked to the schools--and, in particular, to the nation's colleges and universities--as guardians of the cherished national ideal of equality of opportunity. With the best jobs increasingly monopolized by those with higher education, the opportunity...
Transforming Professional Practice
A Framework for Effective Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Educational accountability for excellence begins with educational leaders. In the past decade states have adopted revised requirements for school and district leaders in K-12 public schools with reliance on national standards like ELCC and ISLLC leadership standards. The development of Common Core...
Schools or Markets?
Commercialism, Privatization, and School-business Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2004
This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools. Critical essays examine the central theme of commercialism via a unique multiplicity of real-world examples. Topics include:
*privatization of school food services;
*oil company ads...
Innovations in Lifelong Learning
Critical Perspectives on Diversity, Participation and Vocational Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
This book opens up ways to engage critically with what counts as innovatory practice in lifelong learning today, locating its discussion of innovations in lifelong learning within an international and comparative framework.
Innovations in Lifelong Learning engages first hand with issues and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
School Leadership in Diverse Contexts demonstrates the centrality of context to understanding school leadership. It offers varied portrayals of leadership in a diverse range of distinct settings. Each chapter highlights the prominence of context in understanding the realities of school leadership,...
by Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Written specifically for education studies students, this accessible text offers a clear introduction to education policy. It aims to help the reader understand what is meant by educational policy, how policy can be made and the main discourses that have driven education.
Capturing the essential...