Curricula category: 1261 books
Theorizing Teaching and Learning in Asia and Europe
A Conversation between Chinese Curriculum and European Didactics
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
There has been much debate in recent times between the Anglo American tradition of curriculum studies and the Continental and North European tradition of didactics (Didaktik). As important as such debate has been, this book seeks to add new voices to the debate representing ideas and traditions from...
The State of Global Education
Learning with the World and its People
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
A battle is being waged in classrooms and capitals around the world over the goals and objectives of the future of global education. While there is growing research in the area of global education, much remains to be uncovered, challenged, and learned through sound empirical research and conceptual...
Constructivism and the New Social Studies
A Collection of Classic Inquiry Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The New Social Studies refers to a flurry of academic and commercial activity during the 1960s and 1970s that resulted in the mass development and dissemination of revolutionary classroom materials and teacher resources. In science as well as social studies, a spirit of “inquiry-based teaching”...
Diversity in Mathematics Education
Towards Inclusive Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
This book presents a research focus on diversity and inclusivity in mathematics education. The challenge of diversity, largely in terms of student profiles or contextual features, is endemic in mathematics education, and is often argued to require differentiation as a response. Typically different...
History Education in the Formation of Social Identity
Toward a Culture of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
In order to determine how history education can be harnessed to reduce conflict attitudes and intentions and create a culture of peace, this book examines how history curricula and textbooks shape the identities of their students through their portrayals of ingroup and outgroup identity, intergroup boundaries, and value systems.
by Kevin Blackburn, ZongLun Wu
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries – Malaysia and Singapore. Blackburn and Wu’s book...
STEM Road Map
A Framework for Integrated STEM Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
STEM Road Map: A Framework for Integrated STEM Education is the first resource to offer an integrated STEM curricula encompassing the entire K-12 spectrum, with complete grade-level learning based on a spiraled approach to building conceptual understanding. A team of over thirty STEM education professionals...
Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom
Interpreting the Reggio Emilia Approach in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How is a compelling, exemplary curriculum created in schools in spite of the pressures to implement a standardized one? In this book, teachers and principals share their experiences with emergent curriculum, and with the creative practices they’ve developed in urban classrooms kindergarten to...
Curriculum and Pedagogy in Inclusive Education
Values into practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
While activists, politicians and policy-makers grapple with the big picture, teachers and learners are making inclusion happen in their day-to-day lives. This unique text shows the importance and reality of curriculum and pedagogy in developing inclusive practice in a range of settings.
Bringing together...
The Focus Factor
8 Essential Twenty-First Century Thinking Skills for Deeper Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring practical “how to” classroom examples, this teacher-friendly introduction examines the importance of an essential set of thinking skills that supports the Common Core State Standards and future success for students in 21st-century life, school, and work. Starting with cognitive...
A Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School
Why Reading Fiction Matters in an Age of Scientific Objectivity and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools—at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected—this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach...
by Martin Mills, Amanda Keddie, Peter Renshaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
In many English-speaking countries, teachers are encouraged to differentiate their classrooms, and in some cases, through various policy mechanisms. This encouragement is often accompanied by threats and sanctions for not making the grade. By exploring the ways in which one education system in Australia...
From 'Science in the Making' to Understanding the Nature of Science
An Overview for Science Educators
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
The Nature of Science is highly topical among science teacher educators and researchers. Increasingly, it is a mandated topic in state curriculum documents. This book draws together recent research on Nature of Science studies within a historical and philosophical framework suitable for students...
Accessing the Curriculum for Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Using the TEACCH programme to help inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
This brand new edition of Accessing the Curriculum for Learners with Autistic Spectrum Disorders will provide educators with the principles and practices of Structured Teaching and how to apply these to enable learners to access the curriculum, whatever that curriculum may be.
This unique resource...