Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Postformal Education
A Philosophy for Complex Futures
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book explains why the current education model, which was developed in the 19th century to meet the needs of industrial expansion, is obsolete. It points to the need for a new approach to education designed to prepare young people for global uncertainty, accelerating change and unprecedented complexity.The...
Equal Rights to the Curriculum
Many Languages, One Message
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
The parents of second language children are often seen but not heard in schools. This book is unique in addressing the many issues facing parents of children whose first language is different from that of the school classroom.
Drawing on teaching theory, the book provides these parents with...
From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond
Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond: Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility, Ronald Swartz offers an evolving development of fallible, liberal democratic, self?governing educational philosophies. He suggests that educators can benefit from having dialogues about questions...
Building Autonomous Learners
Perspectives from Research and Practice using Self-Determination Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This edited work presents a collection of papers on motivation research in education around the globe. Pursuing a uniquely international approach, it also features selected research studies conducted in Singapore under the auspices of the Motivation in Educational Research Lab, National Institute...
by Luigi Iannacci
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Reconceptualizing Disability in Education provides an essential critical exploration of problematic discourses, practices, and pedagogies that inform how disability is presently understood and responded to within the field of education. Luigi Iannacci interrogates and destabilizes ableist grand narratives...
Race, Culture, and Schooling
Identities of Achievement in Multicultural Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Responding to a need for greater cultural competence in the preparation and development of teachers in diverse public school settings, this book investigates the critical developmental and social processes mediating students’ academic identities in those settings posing the greatest challenges to...
by Jenny Leach, Professor Robert E Moon
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
'[This book] is readable, engaging, informative and provoking' - Tony Rae, ESCalate
'The book is encompassing all my own passions as a holistic practitioner; I feel it is multi-cultural, offering powerfully diverse and inclusive ideas of pedagogy. In particular, the concepts of this book are...
Dialogic Pedagogy
The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism as a social theory of language and explains its importance in teaching and learning. Departing from the more traditional teacher-led mode of teacher–student communication,...
Politics and Pedagogy in the "Post-Truth†? Era
Insurgent Philosophy and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Those who are in shock that truth doesn't seem to matter in politics miss the mark: politics has never corresponded with the truth. Rather, political struggle is about the formulation and materialization of new truths. The "post-truth†? era thus offers an important opportunity to push forward...
Education in a Post-Metaphysical World
Rethinking Educational Policy and Practice Through Jürgen Habermas’ Discourse Morality
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
What does it mean to say that a person has been educated? This question forms the basis of global education policy debates; from the way governments establish funding for national school systems, to the way children are treated in the classroom. Should there be a common ethical core to such polices?...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This book is an important account of the state of the art of both theoretical and practical issues in the present-day research on conceptual change. Unique in its complete treatment of the questions that should be considered to further current understanding of knowledge construction and change, this...
Contemplating Dis/Ability in Schools and Society
A Life in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
This book chronicles the professional life of a career-long, inclusive educator in New York City through eight different stages in special and general education. Developing a new approach to research as part of qualitative methodology, David J. Connor merges the academic genre of autoethnography with...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
How can discerning critical hope enable us to develop innovative forms of teaching, learning and social practices that begin to address issues of marginalization, privilege and access across different contexts?
At this millennial point in history, questions of cynicism, despair and hope arise...
Albert Schweitzer’s Legacy for Education
Reverence for Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
This is the first book devoted to the study of the thought of Albert Schweitzer as it relates to educational theory and practice. Rud argues that Schweitzer's life and work offer inspiration and timely insights for both educational thought and practice in our new century.