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Voices from the Middle
Narrative Inquiry By, For and About the Middle Level Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The need for continued research at the middle level is clear and urgent. The previous volumes in this Handbook series testify to this urgency. While quantitative studies continue to be essential, there is a critical need to understand the complexities of the middle level community. One way to capture...
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 13 # 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum. The field includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large....
Measuring History
Cases of StateLevel Testing Across the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005). Yeager and Davis highlight the rich and ambitious teaching that can occur in the broad context of statelevel testing. In this book, the chapter authors and I bring the particular state history...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Servicelearning is an exciting pedagogy and field of study, offering insight into how academic study and community engagement blend to create social change. In its most traditional conceptualization, servicelearning activities typically manifest within communities where outside individuals address a...
Dialogue and Difference in a Teacher Education Program
A 16Year Sociocultural Study of a Professional Development School
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This book is a longitudinal study of a 10year experimental teacher education program. Followup studies and writing continued for 6 years after the program closed. This case study describes a search for effective and socially just practices within a longterm reform initiative intended to prepare teachers...
ServiceLearning Pedagogy
How Does It Measure Up?
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Servicelearning is a powerful method of teaching and learning that has been used effectively for more than two decades. Its efficacy has been researched in a variety of ways and this volume continues to expand that research base. In particular, in this volume, ServiceLearning Pedagogy: How Does It...
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 17 # 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum. The field includes those working on the theory, design and evaluation of educational programs at large....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
It has become increasingly critical for both novice and experienced educators to bring to their diverse classrooms a set of dispositions, skills, and experiences that will enhance learning for all students, especially pupils from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. Intercultural teaching experiences...
Great Expectations
What Kids Want From Our Urban Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book explores meaningful and effective use of student voice in urban school renewal efforts through strategies that include: surveys, interviews, focus groups, visual and video projects, social media, and student participation in governance. Chapters provide a definition of student voice, context...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The work of school, family and community partnerships is complex and messy and demands a thoughtful and deep investigation. Currently, parent and community involvement does not draw on school reform and educational change literature and conversely the school change literature often ignores the crucial...
Surmounting All Odds Vol. 2
Education, Opportunity, and Society in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Volume 2 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.
The New Social Studies
People, Projects and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
This volume, The New Social Studies: People, Projects and Perspectives is not an attempt to be the comprehensive book on the era. Given the sheer number of projects that task would be impossible. However, the current lack of knowledge about the politics, people and projects of the NSS is unfortunate...
Leadership for Social Justice
Promoting Equity and Excellence Through Inquiry and Reflective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The purpose of this book series is to promote research on educational leadership for social justice. Specifically, we seek edited volumes, textbooks, and full!length studies focused on research that explores the ways educational leadership preparation and practice can be a means of addressing equity...
Making Our Ideas Clear
Pragmatism in Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This book brings pragmatic theory and praxis into dialogue with contemporary psychodynamic ideas, practitioners, and clinical issues. Generally considered as a historical footnote to psychoanalysis, the chapters in this volume demonstrate pragmatism’s continued relevance for contemporary thought....