Experimental Methods category: 522 books
Left Behind in the Race to the Top
Realities of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Public education is suffering attacks that are well funded and extraordinarily complex and multifaceted. These conditions make it difficult for educators and citizens to gather the information they need to mount meaningful resistance, especially since mainstream media tends to be uncritically supportive...
On the Side of the Child
Summerhill Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A. S. Neill’s radical approach to child rearing is as controversial today as it was in 1960. Neill’s “code of freedom” emphasized the principles of freedom, love, and positive discipline in the care and education of children. These ideals continue to evoke admiration by many who...
Australian Indigenous Studies
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
This book provides a guide to research and teaching in an Australian Indigenous Studies that is oriented toward the diverse, contemporary world. Central to this perspective is a sensibility to the intercultural complexity of that world – particularly its Indigenous component – and an awareness...
Addressing Challenges Latinos/as Encounter with the LIBRE Problem-Solving Model
Listen-Identify-Brainstorm-Reality-test-Encourage
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Written for educators and professionals, this book examines the cultural challenges Latinos/as encounter as they move from one social setting to the next. Problem solving is presented as a skill, strategy, and protective factor in the development of resiliency and self-efficacy. This solution-oriented...
Improvising the Curriculum
Alternatives to Scripted Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Equipped with cultural tools like cell phones, computers and video cameras, youth are called upon to improvise and construct themselves symbolically in a continuously connected world; yet new teachers and students are still expected to learn and deliver standardized, placeless forms of scripted curriculum....
Leaving Safe Harbors
Toward a New Progressivism in American Education and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2002
To rise to the challenges of postmodern culture, Carlson argues, progressives will need to leave the safe harbors of what is familiar and comfortable. A new progressivism can only be forged of a fundamental re-thinking and re-mythologizing of democratic education. Drawing upon cultural studies perspectives, Carlson interrogates philosophy through p
Feminist Critique of Education
Fifteen Years of Gender Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2005
This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in gender and education over the last fifteen years. It includes over thirty-five seminal articles from the journal Gender and Education, written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe.
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Intelligent and Adaptive Learning Systems
Technology Enhanced Support for Learners and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Technology enhanced learning takes place in many different forms and contexts, including formal and informal settings, individual and collaborative learning, learning in the classroom, at home, at work, and outdoor in real life situations, as well as desktop-based learning and learning by using mobile...
Advancing Education with Information Communication Technologies
Facilitating New Trends
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
The world of education has changed drastically in recent years, mostly due in part to the new technologies being developed implemented. Recent technological innovation has altered the way educators approach teaching and learning. New approaches to teaching are inherently important for any teacher, faculty...
E-Portfolios and Global Diffusion
Solutions for Collaborative Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
As information is increasingly gathered online, the issues surrounding the usefulness, organization and interaction with electronic collection have grown in number and scope. E-Portfolios and Global Diffusion: Solutions for Collaborative Education addresses the emerging requirements, concerns and applications...
Using Concept Mapping to Foster Adaptive Expertise
Enhancing Teacher Metacognitive Learning to Improve Student Academic Performance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Concept mapping is a powerful means to promote metacognitive learning in students and teachers alike. When teachers integrate concept mapping into their instructional planning, they clarify the big ideas, expose new conceptual relationships, and refine learning goals for their students. Salmon and...
Technology-Rich Teaching
Classrooms in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Information and computer technology arrived in classrooms more than three decades ago. Despite the efforts of educators and technologists, much teaching and learning has remained unchanged since it arrived. This is in contrast to the widespread adoption of computer technology in many other endeavors....
Supporting Communication Disorders
A Handbook for Teachers and Teaching Assistants
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This practical handbook provides SENCOs, class teachers and teaching assistants with a step-by-step guide to the identification of speech and language disorders, a basic knowledge of the underlying causes and guidance for developing strategies for support and intervention in the classroom.
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by Abdur Raheem Kidwai
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
This volume, dedicated to Qaisra, collects and presents a series of academic papers and analysis of Qaisras work from around the world that is richly deserved and significant. In the essays, we glean more information about the historical and cultural context for her work and its deep relevance to some of the big issues that currently concern us.