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ESL, EFL and Bilingual Education
Exploring Historical, Sociocultural, Linguistic, and Instructional Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This collection of essays examines the historical, social, cultural, and educational foundations of ESL/EFL/Bilingual Education. The four themes of this book are: ¨ Historical, Legal and Political Foundations of Bilingual/ESL Education ¨ Linguistic and Sociocultural Issues in ESL/EFL Education ¨...
Governing Fables
Learning from Public Sector Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives advocates the importance of narrative for public servants, exemplifies it with a rigorously selected and analyzed set of narratives, and imparts narrative skills politicians and public servants need in their careers. Governing Fables turns to narratology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
While the concept of integration or an interdisciplinary curriculum has been around for decades, the purposeful practice of integration is a relatively new educational endeavor. Though classroom teachers often say they “integrate,” there generally seems to be a lack of understanding of what this...
Advances in Multilevel Modeling for Educational Research
Addressing Practical Issues Found in Real?World Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The significance that practitioners are placing on the use of multilevel models is undeniable as researchers want to both accurately partition variance stemming from complex sampling designs and understand relations within and between variables describing the hierarchical levels of these nested data...
Think Tank Research Quality
Lessons for Policy Makers, the Media, and the Public
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Education policy over the past thirty years has been powerfully influenced by wellfunded and slickly produced research reports produced by advocacy think tanks. The quality of think tank reports and the value of the policies they support have been sharply debated. To help policymakers, the media,...
Throwing Voices
Five Autoethnographies on Postradical Education and Fine Art of Misdirection
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This book is a search for the promises of public education and the places where these are broken by critics feeding at the academic and professional trough. This book is a venture in critical autoethnography. Exploring critique through this ethnographic technique has allowed me to bring stories to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Based on the author's work in science and engineering educational research, this book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts,...
The Nation
A Study in Ideology and Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
One may view the idea of the nation as a fundamental "assumption" which defines the manner in which modern man perceives, and experiences, social reality. Thus, just as persons in earlier historical periods tended to possess an absolute faith in the reality of God, so, we may suggest, do persons in contemporary cultures tend to possess an absolute faith in the reality of the nation.
by Connie R. Green, Sandra Brenneman Oldendorf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
This book is an invaluable resource for enabling teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both their own religion as well as the beliefs of others. The traditions featured include indigenous beliefs throughout the world, Native...
Semiotic Rotations
Modes of Meanings in Cultural Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular...
by Dr. Alf H. Walle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
This workbook is designed to be used with Recovery the Native Way, a short book in this series that deals with the impact that your Native heritage might have on your substance abuse as well as how your traditions might contribute to a fruitful and positive recovery. A person’s culture and its importance...
Better Teachers, Better Schools
What Star Teachers Know, Believe, and Do
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
We all know teachers who, in the face of insurmountable district and school level challenges, inspire underserved students to succeed. These teachers are more than good ? they are ‘stars’. Haberman maintains that school districts still gamble when selecting teachers as an overwhelming number are...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Exploring the Impact of the Dissertation in Practice significantly contributes to our understanding of the design and impact of the Dissertation in Practice, the capstone of professional practice doctoral programs. Chapter authors are to be commended for sharing with the reader a broad and reflective...
In Their Own Words
A Journey to the Stewardship of the Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)—an interinstitutional action project of the Carnegie Foundation—is a consortium of universities pursuing the goals of instituting a clear distinction between the professional doctorate in education and the research doctorate; and improving...