Educational Theory category: 17068 books
Dialogue and the Development of Children's Thinking
A Sociocultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
This book draws on extensive research to provide a ground-breaking new account of the relationship between dialogue and children’s learning development. It closely relates the research findings to real-life classrooms, so that it is of practical value to teachers and students concerned that their...
Building on Resilience
Models and Frameworks of Black Male Success Across the P-20 Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
How do we fix the leaky educational pipeline into a conduit of success for Black males?That the issue is critical is demonstrated by the statistics that only 10% of Black males in the United States are proficient in 8th grade reading, only 52% graduate from high school within four years, and only 35...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The rapid changes in the composition of school-age youth around the world have catalyzed a growing concern about how to address children’s mental health and education. Grounded in this increasingly global perspective, The International Handbook of Consultation in Educational Settings is designed...
by Jan Nespor
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In this study of computer-mediated instruction (CMI) in a U.S. research university that is the site of nationally known innovations in this area, Jan Nespor traces the varying material and organizational entanglements of a constantly reconfiguring network of people, things, categories, and ideas that...
Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking
Educational Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias. It "blames the victim" for school failure instead of examining how schools are structured to prevent poor students and students of color from learning. Dismantling Contemporary Deficit Thinking provides comprehensive critiques...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
As a social justice endeavor, one of the goals of inclusive education is to bolster the education of all students by promoting equal opportunities for all, and investing sufficient support, curriculum and pedagogy that cultivates high selfconcepts, emphasizes students’ strengths rather than weaknesses,...
Handbook of Latinos and Education
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Providing a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship relevant to educational issues which impact Latinos, this Handbook captures the field at this point in time. Its unique purpose and function is to profile the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education....
Cognitive Abilities and Educational Outcomes
A Festschrift in Honour of Jan-Eric Gustafsson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book addresses problems and challenges that face educational measurement at a time when multipurpose usage of observational data from educational assessments, tests and international surveys has become a growing global trend. While the construction of educational measures and use of educational...
Educational Technology and Narrative
Story and Instructional Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This volume is the result of a 2016 research symposium sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) focused on the growing theoretical areas of integrating story and narrative into educational design. Narrative, or storytelling, is often used as a means for understanding,...
Foucault and School Leadership Research
Bridging Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Foucault and School Leadership Research illustrates the application of Foucauldian theory to an educational leadership research context, thus staging the ways a researcher negotiates the methodological tensions and contradictions in the conduct of qualitative inquiry within education research.
The...
Improving Educational Gender Equality in Religious Societies
Human Rights and Modernization Pre-Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In this book, Al-Kohlani examines fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010 in response to “religious theory” that associates certain religions with gender inequality and “modernization theory” which downplays the role of religion on gender inequity and associates gender...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Edusemiotics is a pioneering area of study that connects semiotics – the science of signs – with educational theory and the philosophy of education. This volume reflects cutting-edge research by scholars in education and in semiotics worldwide, bridging the two discourses to present the state...
Advances in instructional Psychology, Volume 5
Educational Design and Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Investigators have moved back and forth between design efforts and basic studies in cognition to improve both application and fundamental knowledge. This volume's theme is this interaction between practice and science with the opportunity for reflecting on findings in order to understand them and...
The Dynamics of Educational Effectiveness
A Contribution to Policy, Practice and Theory in Contemporary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book brings together the current thinking and research of two major investigators in the field of educational effectiveness. After defining educational effectiveness, the authors analyse the various theories and strands of research within educational effectiveness, especially with respect to...