Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Changing Minds and Brains—The Legacy of Reuven Feuerstein
Higher Thinking and Cognition Through Mediated Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Decades before educators began to draw teaching and learning implications from neuroscientists’ groundbreaking findings on brain plasticiy, Reuven Feuerstein had already theorized it and developed practices for teaching and developing higher level cognition and learning for all students, even...
Leading the Evolution
How to Make Personalized Competency-Based Education a Reality (An Educational Leadership Guide to Competency-Based Education for Student Engagement)
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Now is the time to evolve from the existing model of schooling into one that is more innovative, relevant, effective, and successful. Leading the Evolution introduces a three-pronged approach to driving substantive change (called the evolutionary triad) that connects transformative educational leadership,...
The Global Educational Policy Environment in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Gated, Regulated and Governed
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This volume focuses on the rise of educational regulation and educational governance in a post-2015 era. Across the globe, unfettered globalization is being curtailed and cooperation and collaboration at the regional level appears to be at an unprecedented high, yet there are still substantial disparities...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book aims to provide a wide ranging analysis of the educational challenges posed by the treaty signed in Maastricht in 1992. It brings together an international group of specialists in the fields of educational theory, philosophy of education, politics of education, comparative education, and...
by Anab Whitehouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
‘Educational Horizons' explores the nature of the relationship between education and the reality problem from a variety of perspectives. In the process of doing so, a variety of topics that shape, orient, and influence the manner in which education is engaged and understood are engaged through critical...
Muslim Schools, Communities and Critical Race Theory
Faith Schooling in an Islamophobic Britain?
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This book explores the position of Muslim schools in contemporary Britain. A Critical Race Theory approach is used to consider some of the specific issues faced by Muslim schools, in particular those looking to become state-funded. The book provides a critically considered and meaningful application...
A Ten-Minute Approach to Educational Leadership
A Handbook of Insights for All Level Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Educational leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for ways to improve the functioning of their institutions. This book provides them with a unique approach to diagnosing a school, school system or college’s organizational health and determining what interventions might be necessary...
Popular Educational Classics
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The last half century has created deep tensions in how we analyze educational and social change. Educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens have had to cope with competing belief systems in evaluating and acting upon school policies and practices. This illuminating book untangles many of the...
by Professor Clifford P. Harbour
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
'Honorable Mention' 2016 PROSE Award - Education Theory
Today, community colleges enroll 40% of all undergraduates in the United States. In the years ahead, these institutions are expected to serve an even larger share of this student population. However, faced with increasing government pressure...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The editors of this volume suggest that there are missing elements in the conceptualization upon which standard test theory is based. Those elements are models for just how people know what they know and do what they can do, and the ways in which they increase these capacities. Different models are...
Mainstreams, Margins and the Spaces In-between
New possibilities for education research
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book explores the complexities of investigating minorities, majorities, boundaries and borders, and the experiences of researchers who choose to work in these spaces. It engages with issues of ethics, disclosure and representation, and contends with and seeks to contribute to emerging debates...
by Jeffrey A. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Self-regulation in education is a familiar and important topic for all educators: professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. As educational standards require that students take control of what and how they learn, self-regulation skills are essential to student success....
Teaching Students Thinking Skills and Strategies
A Framework for Cognitive Education in Inclusive Settings
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Developing the ability to think is a major part of education, which helps students become independent learners and participate fully in a learning environment.
This book sets out the theory and outlines a model for implementing the teaching of thinking at whole-school, group and individual...
by Janie Pickett
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
A collection of qualitative research studies by 4 doctoral candidates in an Education and Library Leadership program at Sam Houston State University. The research focuses on increasing effective implementation of library programs for school and community college students.
Specific areas of...