Curricula category: 1261 books
The Big Book of Nature Activities
A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The average child can identify over one thousand corporate logos, but only ten native plants or animals—a telling indictment of our modern disconnection from nature. Soaring levels of obesity, high rates of ADHD, feelings of stress and social awkwardness, and "Nature Deficit Disorder" are further...
Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory
The "Fascinating Imaginative Realm" of William E. Doll, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The first collection of the key works of the major curriculum studies scholar William E. Doll, Jr., this volume provides an overview of his scholarship over his fifty-year career and documents the theoretical and practical contribution he has made to the field . The book is organized in five thematic...
by William E. Doll Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Doll draws relationships among the ideas advanced in chaos theory, Piagetian epistemology, cognitive theory, and the work of Dewey and Whitehead. In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear,...
Bridging the Skills Gap
Innovations in Africa and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This volume seeks to examine the skills development agenda for youth by exploring two key questions for sustainable livelihoods: What are the skills needed for employability in developing countries, especially in Africa and Asia? And, what skills are currently possessed by students and secondary...
by John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This edition brings Dewey's educational theory into sharp focus, framing his two classic works by frank assessments, past and present, of the practical applications of Dewey's ideas. In addition to a substantial introduction in which Philip W. Jackson explains why more of Dewey's ideas haven't been...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The term ‘public pedagogy’ is given a variety of definitions and meanings by those who employ it. It is often used without adequately explicating its meaning, its context, or its location within differing and contested articulations of the construct. Problematizing Public Pedagogy brings together...
Education to Better Their World
Unleashing the Power of 21st-Century Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his most visionary book, internationally renowned educator Marc Prensky presents a compelling alternative to how and what we teach our children. Drawing on emerging world trends, he elaborates a comprehensive vision for K–12 education that includes new goals, new means, a new curriculum, a new...
The Instructional Leader and the Brain
Using Neuroscience to Inform Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Apply neuroscience to leadership and become a gamechanger
An instructional leader who understands how people learn has the power to transform a school and raise student achievement. Brain pioneer Margaret Glick weaves the fields of cognitive science, educational leadership, and instruction...
by Mortimer J. Adler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The Paideia Proposal is a system of liberal education intended for all children. It was a response to what Adler characterized as the United States' antidemocratic or undemocratic educational system, a holdover from the 19th century, when the understanding of basic human rights fell short of 20th...
The Reformation in Economics
A Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Economic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
This book carves the beginnings of a new path in the arguably weary discipline of economics. It combines a variety of perspectives – from the history of ideas to epistemology – in order to try to understand what has gone so wrong with economics and articulate a coherent way forward. This is undertaken...
The Learner-Directed Classroom
Developing Creative Thinking Skills Through Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Educators at all levels want their students to develop habits of self-directed learning and critical problem-solving skills that encourage ownership and growth. In The Learner-Directed Classroom, practicing art educators (PreK–16) offer both a comprehensive framework for understanding student-directed...
Educating Gifted Students in Middle School
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Understanding and meeting the needs of gifted students in middle school offers unique challenges. This newly revised and expanded second edition of "Educating Gifted Students in Middle School" updates the practical information about meeting these needs offered in the award-winning 2004 edition....
You Don't Have to Be Bad to Get Better
A Leader's Guide to Improving Teacher Quality
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Take your school to the next level!
What are the attributes of strong instructional leaders? How are they able to effect changes in decades-old teaching practice? Discover what it takes to develop, support, and sustain quality teaching in any school environment. School leaders at...
Achieving Success for Kids
A Plan for Returning to Core Values, Beliefs, and Principles
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Achieving Success for Kids is a clarion call to action that explains why we need to save America's children and return our nation and our schools to the core values, beliefs, and principles upon which our nation was founded. In this book, Tim L. Adsit presents a bold, visionary blueprint for change...