Teachers College Press: 606 books
Curriculum Integration
Designing the Core of Democratic Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The quintessential resource on the important topic of curriculum integration! Going well beyond other books on this subject, James Beane details the history of curriculum integration and analyzes current critiques to provide a complete theory of curriculum integration. He defines curriculum integration...
Impactful Practitioner Inquiry
The Ripple Effect on Classrooms, Schools, and Teacher Professionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How does practitioner inquiry impact education? Examining the experiences of practitioners who have participated in inquiry projects, the authors present ways in which this work has enabled educators to be positive change agents. They reveal the difference that practitioner inquiry has made in their...
Black Male(d)
Peril and Promise in the Education of African American Males
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, the author of the bestseller Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools examines the chronic under-performance of African American males in U.S. schools. Citing a plethora of disturbing academic outcomes for Black males, this book focuses on the historical, structural, educational,...
African American Males in School and Society
Practices and Policies for Effective Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this groundbreaking and timely volume Vernon Polite and James Earl Davis have brought together the perspectives and research findings of eminent scholars who study the educational and social lives of African American males. The result is a volume that brims with new outlooks and viewpoints—a...
Art and Cognition
Integrating the Visual Arts in the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this in-depth text, the preeminent art education scholar Arthur Efland not only sheds light on the problems inhibiting art education, but also demonstrates how art contributes to the overall development of the mind. Delineating how the development of artistic interests and ability is an important...
Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools
Closing the Achievement Gap in America's Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While race and culture remain important variables in how young people experience schools, they are often misunderstood by educators and school personnel. Building on three studies that investigated schools successful in closing the achievement gap, Tyrone Howard shows how adopting greater awareness...
Early Childhood Education for a New Era
Leading for Our Profession
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her provocative new book, Stacie Goffin presents a leadership manifesto to the field of early childhood education: It should step forward as an agent for change by assuming responsibility for the competent practice of its practitioners and for facilitating positive results for children and their...
Guiding Principles for the New Early Childhood Professional
Building on Strength and Competence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With growing evidence about the critical period of birth to age 5 for child development and learning, the imperative to professionalize the early childhood education workforce has never been greater. In this follow-up to The New Early Childhood Professional: A Step-By-Step Guide to Overcoming Goliath,...
The States of Child Care
Building a Better System
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As the U.S. economy continues to falter and families face ongoing wage stagnation and widening income inequalities, there is an urgent need for a better, integrated approach to child care. This accessible, up-to-date account of the chronic issues plaguing child care reform offers viable solutions...
Performance-Based Pay for Educators
Assessing the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides an in-depth analysis of a performance-based pay initiative and crystalizes the design issues and implementation challenges that confounded efforts to translate this promising policy into practice. This story has much to say to academics and policymakers who are trying to figure...
Teaching Minds
How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Professor Roger Schank has long been one of the world’s most innovative thinkers about education. This book is the culmination of his lifetime of thinking about teaching and learning. Although I’ve known Roger for over 20 years, I’ve learned a lot from this book and I know...
What's Worth Teaching?
Rethinking Curriculum in the Age of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This important contribution to the future of education, by bestselling author and renowned cognitive scientist Allan Collins, proposes a school curriculum that will fit the needs of our modern era. Offering guidelines for deciding what is important to learn in order to become a knowledgeable person,...
by William E. Doll Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Doll draws relationships among the ideas advanced in chaos theory, Piagetian epistemology, cognitive theory, and the work of Dewey and Whitehead. In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear,...
Inequality for All
The Challenge of Unequal Opportunity in American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inequality for All makes an important contribution to current debates about economic inequalities and the growing achievement gap, particularly in mathematics and science education. The authors argue that the greatest source of variation in opportunity to learn is not between local communities, or...