Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Translating Theory and Research Into Educational Practice
Developments in Content Domains, Large Scale Reform, and Intellectual Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book shows, in detail and with concrete examples, how educational theory and research can be translated into practice. Well-known researchers who have worked to establish productive, sustainable connections between the knowledge produced by the research community and the practices employed in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2002
Postmodernism has become the orthodoxy in educational theory. It heralds the end of grand theories like Marxism and liberalism, scorning any notion of a united feminist challenge to patriachy, of united anti-racist struggle, and of united working-class movements against capitalist exploitation and...
Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement
A critical perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Motivation, Educational Policy and Achievement seeks to theorise and critique current trends in education through the lens of key ideas from motivational theory. Its purpose is to argue that current educational trends on a macro level are a significant threat to the provision of classroom practices...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Education is a field sometimes beset by theories-of-the-day and with easy panaceas that overpromise the degree to which they can alleviate pressing educational problems. The two-volume Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy introduces readers to theories that have stood the test of time...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
While critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to leadership....
Marxism and Educational Theory
Origins and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
We live in a world where thousands make massive profits out of the labours of others, while those others exist as wage slaves, millions of whom die of starvation and poverty-related illness every year. The fundamental aim of Marxism is the overthrow of the anarchic, exploitative and eco-destructive...
by David Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Educational Philosophy for a Post-secular Age reinterprets post-secular insights for educational theory by recognising that the persistence of religion in contemporary life raises new questions about the place of religion in education. Two common assumptions are critically examined: first, that the...
by Tenko Raykov, George A. Marcoulides
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
This new text provides a state-of the-art introduction to educational and psychological testing and measurement theory that reflects many intellectual developments of the past two decades. The book introduces psychometric theory using a latent variable modeling (LVM) framework and emphasizes interval...
Theory and Educational Research
Toward Critical Social Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Most empirical researchers avoid the use of theory in their studies, providing data but little or no social explanation. Theoreticians, on the other hand, rarely test their ideas with empirical projects. As this groundbreaking volume makes clear, however, neither data nor theory alone is adequate...
Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Post-Structuralist Reader, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This first volume focuses on a collection of texts from the latter twenty years of Educational Philosophy and Theory, selected for their critical status as turning points or important awakenings in post-structural theory. In the last twenty years, the applications of the postmodern and poststructuralist...
by Tania Ferfolja, Criss Jones Diaz, Jacqueline Ullman
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Understanding Sociological Theory for Educational Practices introduces readers to the contemporary classroom through the lens of sociological theory. By compelling readers to think critically and reflexively this book helps future teachers create a welcoming and equitable learning environment for...
Spinoza and Education
Freedom, understanding and empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Spinoza and Education offers a comprehensive investigation into the educational implications of Spinoza’s moral theory. Taking Spinoza’s naturalism as its point of departure, it constructs a considered account of education, taking special care to investigate the educational implications of Spinoza’s...
Education in an Era of Schooling
Critical perspectives of Educational Practice and Action Research. A Festschrift for Stephen Kemmis
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis, who has a long and eminent career as an educational researcher and academic spanning over 40 years. His work in curriculum, evaluation, critical practice, action research and practice theory has been influential across all continents...
Contesting Governing Ideologies
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader on Neoliberalism, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Contesting Governing Ideologies is the third volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice series and represents a collection of texts that provide a cutting-edge analysis of the philosophy and theory of performances of neoliberal ideology in education. In past decades, philosophy...