Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Mindful Teaching and Learning
Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Mindful Teaching and Learning: Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being features a community of scholar-practitioners from across disciplines, methodologies, and ideological perspectives exploring and examining contexts that support mindful teaching, mindful learning, and a pedagogy of well-being. Collectively,...
Sensuous Curriculum
Politics and the Senses in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
The sensuous is the human experience, unfolding our everyday experiences and articulating our affects. Without sensory information, we could neither know nor be. This is because we gain information through our senses and interpret that information as perceptions, the sociocultural frames used to analyze...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
This volume stimulates critical discussions of the different variants of implementation, translation and scaling research approaches. It presents an integrated collection of different implementation and scaling studies that analyse the different facets of co-design, learning design, curriculum development,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This volume is the first major production of the globalisation research strand of the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University. This book makes a significant contribution to the theory of and research in globalisation and education, and tackles the topics of superdiversity and...
Education and the Culture of Consumption
Personalisation and the Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
For nearly 200 years the organisational form of the school has changed little. Bureaucracy has been its enduring form. The school has prepared the worker for the factory of mass production. It has created the 'mass consumer' to be content with accepting what is on offer, not what is wanted. However,...
Leading Learning
Process, Themes and Issues in International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leaders themselves should be learners, the Leadership for...
Educated in Whiteness
Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Educators across the nation are engaged in well-meaning efforts to address diversity in schools given the current context of NCLB, Race to the Top, and the associated pressures of standardization and accountability. Through rich ethnographic accounts of teachers in two demographically different secondary...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments provides students, faculty, and instructional designers with a clear, concise introduction to the major pedagogical and psychological theories and their implications for the design of new learning environments for schools, universities, or corporations....
Remaking the Concept of Aptitude
Extending the Legacy of Richard E. Snow
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
The unique perspective of Richard E. Snow, in recent years one of the most distinguished educational psychologists, integrates psychology of individual differences, cognitive psychology, and motivational psychology. This capstone book pulls together the findings of his own 35 years of research on...
Theories of Learning for the Workplace
Building blocks for training and professional development programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Workplace and professional learning, lifelong learning, adult learning, learning in different contexts have become of more and more interest and now dominate all aspects of 21st century life. Learning is no longer about ‘storing and recall’ but ‘development and flow’.
Theories of Learning...
Blended Learning in Practice
A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A guide to both theory and practice of blended learning offering rigorous research, case studies, and methods for the assessment of educational effectiveness.
Blended learning combines traditional in-person learning with technology-enabled education. Its pedagogical aim is to merge the scale,...
Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and Human Development
Exploring Time, Mediation and Collectivity in Contemporary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In most Western developed countries, adult life is increasingly organized on the basis of short-term work contracts and reduced social security funds. In this context it seems that producing efficient job-seekers and employees becomes the main aim of educational programs for the next generation. Through...
by Professor Richard Pring, Professor Richard Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Bertrand Russell's History of Philosophy refers to Dewey as 'generally admitted to be the leading living philosopher of America'. This honourable mention lay partly in his pragmatic theory of meaning, through which so many baffling philosophical problems were claimed to have been solved – as well...
Personal Epistemology
The Psychology of Beliefs About Knowledge and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of personal epistemology from a psychological and educational perspective. Both theory building and empirical research have grown dramatically in the past decade but, until now,...