Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 17 # 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum. The field includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large....
Origins of Mass Communications Research During the American Cold War
Educational Effects and Contemporary Implications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
In this critical examination of the beginnings of mass communications research in the United States, written from the perspective of an educational historian, Timothy Glander uses archival materials that have not been widely studied to document, contextualize, and interpret the dominant expressions...
Leadership
Learning, Teaching, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The purpose of this book is to examine the tensions, gaps, and intersections between the practices of leadership in educational systems, school leadership preparation programs, and the often different worlds of academia and k12 schools. Voices from both academia and k12 schools are used to illustrate...
Positive School Leadership
Building Capacity and Strengthening Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This landmark book translates positive and asset-based understandings of organizations to develop a powerful model of school leadership that is grounded in both existing research and the complexities of life in schools. The authors—both senior scholars in educational leadership—apply insights...
Curriculum Leadership by Middle Leaders
Theory, design and practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Curriculum Leadership by Middle Leaders focusses on major issues relating to the continuing national and international discourse on curriculum leadership, and highlights the vital role of middle leaders in schools. School leadership has focused primarily on first-order change involving school leaders...
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 16 # 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly fields of teaching and curriculum. The fields includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large....
Too Scared To Learn
Women, Violence, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Too Scared to Learn explores the impact of women's experiences of violence on their learning, and proposes radical changes to educational programs through connecting therapeutic and educational discourses. Little attention has previously been paid to the impact of violence on learning.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Achievement goal theory has emerged as one of the preeminent approaches to motivation. Goals, Goal Structures, and Patterns of Adaptive Learning presents the findings of a large scale, longitudinal study that use goal theory as the lens through which to examine the relation among achievement goals,...
Curriculum Theory
Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Second Edition of Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns by Michael Stephen Schiro presents a clear, unbiased, and rigorous description of the major curriculum philosophies that have influenced educators and schooling over the last century. The author analyzes four educational...
by Tony Bush
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
In this established text Tony Bush presents the major theories of educational management, and links them to contemporary policy and practice. Leadership continues to be one of the major criteria used to differentiate the models; but the author now makes clear links between educational management theories...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Equity, Opportunity and Education in Postcolonial Southeast Asia addresses the ways in which colonial histories, nationalist impulses and forces of globalization shape equity and access to education in Southeast Asia. Although increasingly identified as a regional grouping (ASEAN), Malaysia, Indonesia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Teaching with Disney, the first comprehensive volume on Disney as cultural pedagogy and classroom praxis, explores what it means to teach, learn, and live in a world where many familiar discourses are dominated by The Walt Disney Company. The book analyzes the ways in which the powerful messages of...
Curriculum Studies as an International Conversation
Educational Traditions and Cosmopolitanism in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Examining Curriculum Studies from an international perspective, this book focuses on the relations between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American educational traditions. Informed by William F. Pinar’s conceptualization of curriculum as currere, Johnson-Mardones reconsiders curriculum as an international...
Learning Outside the Classroom
Theory and Guidelines for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Learning Outside the Classroom outlines theory and practice that will enable and encourage teachers to systematically and progressively incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities in a wide variety of environments and with diverse populations of pupils....