Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Education Matters
60 years of the British Journal of Educational Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Education Matters draws together a selection of the most influential papers published in the British Journal of Educational Studies by many of the leading scholars in the field over the past sixty years. This unique collection of seminal articles published since the first issue of the Journal provides...
Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools
The Real War on Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools: The Real War on Literacy is an eye-opening examination of the real world consequences of the political pressures and influences on teachers today. In particular, it looks at how the political actions of the conservative right disempower and control teachers,...
Black British Intellectuals and Education
Multiculturalism’s hidden history
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Ask any moderately interested Briton to name a black intellectual and chances are the response will be an American name: Malcolm X or Barack Obama, Toni Morrison or Cornel West. Yet Britain has its own robust black intellectual traditions and its own master teachers, among them C.L.R. James, Claudia...
Deleuze and Guattari, Politics and Education
For a People-Yet-to-Come
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Deleuze & Guattari, Politics and Education mobilizes Deleuzian-Guattarian philosophy as a revolutionary alternative to the lingering forms of transcendence, identity politics, and nihilism endemic to Western thought. Operationalizing Deleuze and Guattari's challenge to contemporary philosophy,...
Innovations in Educational Psychology
Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
"[This book] is solid in its topic coverage and deliveryÖ Readers will glean a multitude of new ideas from the theories and approaches presented in this book, ranging from cultural aspects of teaching to Sternberg's WICS model."
--Doody's
This book serves as a comprehensive review of...
The Ambiguity of Teaching to the Test
Standards, Assessment, and Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2004
Testing is one of the most controversial of all state and federal educational policies. The effects of testing are quite ambiguous. The same test may lead to different consequences in different circumstances, and teachers may use very different strategies to prepare students for tests. Although most...
Levinas and Education
At the Intersection of Faith and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas. It provides an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics,...
Race, Gender and Educational Desire
Why black women succeed and fail
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
'This book is a great genealogy of black women's unrecognised contributions within both education and the wide social context. I think it constitutes an important piece of work that is totally missing from the existing literature'
- Diane Reay, Professor of Education, Cambridge University
Race,...
by Eugene E. Garcia, Erminda Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Young Hispanic children are the largest and fastest growing ethnic minority population in the United States, representing diverse racial, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds. Educational skills and achievement lag significantly for this population, creating an unacceptable achievement gap at the...
by Lois Christensen, Jerry Aldridge
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Among the welter of books on critical pedagogy, this volume will be especially valued for its direct focus on early years and elementary educators. Benefiting from the considered views of two veteran teachers of critical pedagogy, the volume is far more than a knowledge-rich resource, offering as...
Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum
Eastern Thought, Educational Insights
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
This volume broadens the horizon of educational research in North America by introducing a comprehensive dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies and perspectives on the subject of curriculum theory and practice. It is a very timely work in light of the progressively globalized nature of education and educational studies and the increasing
Education, Experience and Existence
Engaging Dewey, Peirce and Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Education, Experience and Existence proposes a new way of understanding education that delves beneath the conflict, confusion and compromise that characterize its long history. At the heart of this new understanding is what John Dewey strove to expound: a coherent theory of experience. Dewey’s reputation...
by Deborah P. Britzman
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The concept of education—its dangers and promises and its illusions and revelations—threads throughout Sigmund Freud’s body of work. This introductory volume by psychoanalytic authority, Deborah P. Britzman, explores key controversies of education through a Freudian approach. It defines how...
Intellectual Virtues and Education
Essays in Applied Virtue Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational theory and practice. In particular, characteristics under the rubric of "responsibilist" virtue...