Author: Marshall, Catherine Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text offers a view into the big picture of assertive idealistic professionals' lives by presenting rich qualitative data on the impetus behind educators' activism and the strategies they used to ...
Author: Canter, Lee Publisher: Solution Tree Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book contains the best concepts and teacher-tested strategies by Lee Canter plus new content. A special emphasis on the needs of new and struggling teachers includes practical actions for earning...
Description: Beyond Binaries in Education Research explores the ethical, methodological, and social justice issues relating to conceptualizations of binary opposites in education research, particularly where one s...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beyond Binaries in Education Research explores the ethical, methodological, and social justice issues relating to conceptualizations of binary opposites in education research, particularly where one s...
Author: Ogbu, John U. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Focuses on the role of community forces in academic disengagement among Black American Students at every social class level; the study extends Ogbu's ongoing research on minority education.
Description: The sad fact is that many youths and children do not feel safe either at school or at home. In recent years, there have been increases in bullying, teacher assault, and student-to-student physical alt...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume provides new perspectives into the challenges of citizenship education in the age of globalization and in the context of multicultural and conflict-ridden societies.
Author: Graff, Gerald Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Our schools and colleges often make the intellectual life seem more impenetrable, narrowly specialized, and inaccessible than it is or needs to be, argues this eminent scholar and educator, whose prov...
Author: Binder, Amy J. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for ...
Author: Shapiro, H. Svi Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that c...
Author: Majors, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Exclusion and expulsion of black children from schools is endemic in the US and UK. This book takes a long, hard look at the two countries and uncovers what they can learn from each other about approa...
Author: Paechter, Carrie Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Despite improvements in girls' relative academic success at the school leaving level, and despite suggestions in the press that boys are now the underachievers, girls remain second-class citizens in e...
Author: Meyer, Heinz-Dieter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Scholars from the US & Europe explore the promise of "civil society" to rejeuvenate systems of public education that are frequently characterized by bureaucratic over-regulation, lack of diversity and...
Author: Fisher, Roy Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Demonstrating how popular culture both reflects and constructs social and professional ideas about the teacher, this book looks at a number of themes that are central to debates about education includ...
Author: Nucci, Larry P. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book brings together the results of 25 years of research on the domain theory of social cognitive development. On the basis of that research - which shows that morality is a domain distinct from ...
Description: This book scrutinizes how social - common sense - knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in different social and psychological contexts, particularly in research related to education, s...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodological concerns, issues, and directions.Encourages int...
Description: Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodological concerns, issues, and directions.Encourages int...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores the resurgence of interest in phenomenology as a philosophy and research movement among scholars in education, the humanities and social sciences. Brings together a series of essays...
Author: Ansalone, George Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most disturbing problems in American education today is the unequal achievement of children in schools. Few problems have sparked greater concern than the issue of why students from differe...
Author: White, John Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Can we teach others how to lead a fulfilling life? The notion of personal well-being has recently shot up the political and educational agendas, placing the child's well-being at the heart of the scho...
Author: White, John Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Can we teach others how to lead a fulfilling life? The notion of personal well-being has recently shot up the political and educational agendas, placing the child's well-being at the heart of the scho...
Author: Salmon, Diane Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Presents the Relational Lit. Curriculum, & shows how it can aid teachers in dealing w/various social conflicts among elem. school children in a fashion that allows students to grow from relational cha...
Description: The American public school system, once the envy of the world, is now a cesspool of political correctness, ineptitude and violence, yet its administrators demand - and receive - far more funding per c...
Author: Baldwin, Steve / Holgate, Karen Publisher: WND Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The American public school system, once the envy of the world, is now a cesspool of political correctness, ineptitude and violence, yet its administrators demand - and receive - far more funding per c...
Author: Maher, Frances A. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Explores issues of gender & teaching to help practicing/prospective teachers understand & modify their basic beliefs & assumptions, & become acquainted w/ other points of view. 3rd volume in "Reflecti...
Author: Bettis, Pamela J. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Explores the everyday lives of adolescent girls in terms of how forming one's identity--becoming somebody--takes place in a myriad of places beyond the formal classroom and curriculum.
Description: This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometr...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Persuasive evidence demonstrates that gender equality in education is central to economic development. Despite more than two decades of accumulated knowledge and evidence of what works in improving ge...
Author: Hill, Dave Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written by an impressive international array of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars, Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences lays bare the motivations, organi...
Author: Spring, Joel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This is the first book to explore the meaning of equality and freedom of education in a global context and their relationship to the universal right to education. It also proposes evaluating school sy...
Author: Spring, Joel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: explores the meaning of equality and freedom in (global) ed. and relationship to universal rights to ed. Specifically, how ed. rights vary between civilizations. Focuses on Confucian, Islamic, Western...
Author: Lakes, Richard D. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book takes a critical look at the impact of globalization as it relates to educating women for work. It explores current efforts in a number of nations to make vocational education and training g...
Author: Spring, Joel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism. He ...
Author: Dewey, John Publisher: Frederick Ellis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Dewey was an American psychologist and philosopher. "How We Think" is the dissected process/analysis of thinking/thought. Professor Dewey divides this book into 3 parts - 'The Problem of Training...
Author: McGivney, Veronica Publisher: NIACE Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In order to promote lifelong learning we need to give greater recognition and value to the huge variety of informal learning that is conducted in community settings. This report is based on a short Df...
Author: Faguet, Emile Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: PREFACE This volume is designed to show the way to the beginner, to satisfy and more especially to excite his initial curiosity. It affords an adequate idea of the march of facts and of ideas. The rea...
Author: White, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John White draws on the work of Galton, Pearson, Burt, Goddard and Terman in his search for the truth about intelligence testing. He looks at the similarities between the views of the Galtonians and t...
Author: White, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The nature of intelligence and how it can be measured has occupied psychologists, educationalists, biologists and philosophers for hundreds of years. However, there has been little investigation ...
Author: Winch, Christopher Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a clear and lively manner, this new reference explains all of the essential concepts used in contemporary and modern philosophy of education. It also provides invaluable background on the classic e...
Description: This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major them...
Author: Tsui, Amy Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major them...
Author: Shapiro, H. Svi Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Svi Shapiro offers both an analysis of the role of education in producing and maintaining attitudes and values that contribute to our competitive, socially unequal, instrumental, consumerist, and self...
