Education - Curricula

Paradigm debates in the educational research community are a frequent if not common occurrence. How do paradigm debates in other educational fields, such as curriculum and supervision, shape educators' understanding and practice? In this volume, it is suggested that educators' adherence to particular views...

Originally released in 1969, Towards a Visual Culture is a remarkably relevant read for today's teachers and programmers. Although the technology has evolved, humans remain visual learners and television remains a visual medium. In this book, Gattegno provides a framework for developing effective and...

Learn how to move from a rigid scheduling program to a flexible one. This handbook covers the rationale for a flexible access library program, cooperative planning, implementing a flexible access library media program, winning parents to the program, evaluating the program, and planning district-wide...

Tells how to select a topic, gather research, take notes, organize one's points, and write and format a report or term paper.Author: John Marlowe,Robert SkapuraISBN-10: 0872876500ISBN-13: 9780872876507Publisher: Libraries UnlimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/1988Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.03h x 6.05w x 0.21d

This book defines and contextualizes key concepts for novice and experienced students. Leading scholars in curriculum studies provide short anchor texts that introduce, define, and situate contemporary curriculum theory constructs.Author: Judy WearingISBN-10: 0815348436ISBN-13: 9780815348436Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/25/2019Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x...

This collection of essays by established writers in postmodern pedagogy stakes out new conceptual territories, redefines the field, and presents a complete review of contemporary curriculum practice and theory in a single volumeDrawing upon contemporary research in political, feminist, theological, literary, and racial theory,...

John Dewey was one of the most prominent philosophers and educational thinkers of the twentieth century, and his influence on modern education continues today. In Teachers, Leaders, and Schools: Essays by John Dewey, educators Douglas J. Simpson and Sam F. Stack Jr. have gathered...

Drawing on the work of Eleanor Duckworth, this volume examines Critical Exploration in the Classroom (CEC)--a learning-teaching research practice that positions teachers as researchers of their students' sense-making and learners as theorizers and investigators. By integrating CEC into their teacher education classrooms, chapter authors...

Creativity and the Common Core State Standards are both important to today's teachers. Yet, for many educators, nurturing students' creativity seems to conflict with ensuring that they learn specific skills and content. In this book, the authors outline ways to adapt existing lessons and...

The premise of this book is that written texts and literacy processes are developed within a complex "weave" of particular contexts, or ecologies, and the unique particularity of the learner's experiences, histories, memories and interpretations. LaidlawAuthor: Linda LaidlawISBN-10: 0805850422ISBN-13: 9780805850420Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2005Pages: 236Format:...

In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." His argument is this: No matter how important science and technology seem to industry or government or indeed to the daily life of...

Computers, Curriculum, and Cultural Change: An Introduction for Teachers, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to using computers in educational settings. What distinguishes this text from others on the topic is its focus on: *the issue of how computers are redefining our culture and...

Explores ways in which fiction yields transformative insights for educational theory and practice.Author: Mary Aswell DollISBN-10: 0805829849ISBN-13: 9780805829846Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2000Pages: 270Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.44w x 0.92d

Co-authored by university- and teacher-researchers, this book focuses on the urban elementary teacher researchers' year-long inquiries around literacy topics and on the process of their journeys to create organized literacy instruction--curriculum genresAuthor: Christine C. PappasISBN-10: 0805824014ISBN-13: 9780805824018Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 362Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h...

Addresses the needs of teachers faced with the increase in litigation and cases of educational malpractice. The book provides a framework for safe practice, examines the process of litigation, offers advice to make schools safer.Author: Carole RaymondISBN-10: 0750709847ISBN-13: 9780750709842Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/22/1999Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This text provides guidance for building curriculum structures and examines the models that can be used. Options such as accreditation of prior and experiential learning, incompany accreditation, work-based learning,Author: Mick Betts,Robin SmithISBN-10: 0750708905ISBN-13: 9780750708906Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/1998Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.20w x...

Focusing on the core subjects of Mathematics, English and Science, the book addresses the political agenda in which the core curriculum takes place, and provides practical information and guidance on teaching the three subjects. The book briefly traces the history of these core subjects,...

At the genesis of the Republic of China in 1912, many political leaders, educators, and social reformers argued that republican education should transform China's people into dynamic modern citizens--social and political agents whose public actions would rescue the national community. Over subsequent decades, however,...

For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. Beginning with Ideology and Curriculum (1979), Apple moved to understand the relationship between and among the economy, political and cultural power in...

German education plays a huge role in the development of education sciences and modern universities internationally. It is influenced by the educational concept of Bildung, which defines Germany 's theoretical and curricular ventures. This concept is famously untranslatable into other languages and is often...

Though certainly not a new idea, citizenship education manifests in unique and often unpredictable ways in our contemporary neoliberal era. The question of what it means to be a productive and recognized citizen must now be understood simultaneously along both global and local lines....

How can your local area become a source of inspiration for curriculum development? How can it enhance the teaching and learning at your school?Developing a Local Curriculum explores how your local area and its resources can be used as a stimulus and inspiration for...

This text introduces a model of "layered literacies" as a framework for describing and illustrating how teachers can help students make meaningful interdisciplinary use of digital tools and negotiate the connection between traditional and virtual spaces. Author: Sandra Schamroth AbramsISBN-10: 0415656583ISBN-13: 9780415656580Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

At a time of rapid social change and numerous policy initiatives, there is a need to question the nature and function of school curricula and the purposes of formal public education. Comparing curriculum developments around the globe, Understanding the School Curriculum draws on a...

This highly practical book gives you all the ideas you need to make drama an exciting, regular and integral part of your primary school's curriculum.Author: Miles Tandy,Jo HowellISBN-10: 0415483506ISBN-13: 9780415483506Publisher: David Fulton PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2010Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.80w x 0.50d

What should we teach in our schools and vocational education and higher education institutions? Is theoretical knowledge still important? This book argues that providing students with access to knowledge should be the raison d'être of education. Its premise is that access to knowledge is...

Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in curriculum matters but also covers the latest trends and issues affecting the field. Author: Colin MarshISBN-10: 041546577XISBN-13: 9780415465779Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2009Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x...

Offering a wealth of advice on how to foster creativity on an individual and an institutional level, this book will encourage lecturers to engage with the ideas and practice involved in helping students to be creative in all areas of their study.Author: Norman JacksonISBN-10:...

This book highlights issues that teachers of music in primary and secondary schools confront in their professional practice. It supports them in achieving a greater understanding of the curriculum and its implementation in the classroom.Author: Chris PhilpottISBN-10: 041523719XISBN-13: 9780415237192Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2001Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This book is based upon an empiracal study involving training and practising teachers from seven countries. It looks at various attitudes and practices towards the teaching of values and their place in the curriculum.Author: Eva BurmanISBN-10: 0415157382ISBN-13: 9780415157384Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/23/1997Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize:...

This book focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of international contexts.Author: Rhonda Jenkins,Martin ColesISBN-10: 0415148952ISBN-13: 9780415148955Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/1998Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.46h...

The role of the curriculum co-ordinator is a very varied and sometimes frustrating one for already over-worked teachers. Written by experienced teachers, this book is packed with practical advice to help all co-ordinators in their work.Author: Neil KitsonISBN-10: 0415124093ISBN-13: 9780415124096Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/1996Pages: 242Format:...

The author of this timely book explores the notion of partnership between parents and professionals in the assessment of children's special educational needs. This book will be of interest to anyone involved in the statementing process.Author: Derrick ArmstrongISBN-10: 0415086434ISBN-13: 9780415086431Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/1995Pages: 176Format:...

Provides sample scripts to get the teacher started in using scripted fantasy, and gives advice on classroom management and on processing the fantasy experience without compromising the students' privacy.Author: Eric HallISBN-10: 0415048125ISBN-13: 9780415048125Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/1990Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d

Teaching students about data is becoming increasingly important to the wider purposes of schooling and education. Bringing together international case studies of innovative responses to datafication, this book sets an agenda for how teachers, students and policy makers can best understand what kind of...

This volume shows music educators how music teaching and learning can help address humanity's greatest challenge-the ecological crisis. It provides essential background knowledge in ecomusicology, from compositions about nature, soundscape experiences, activist songs, and practical lesson ideas. Author: Daniel J. Shevock,Vincent C. BatesISBN-10: 0367672650ISBN-13:...

Informed by rigorous research, this book argues that the arts help young people to develop the skills needed to become critical appreciative audiences and socially engaged cultural producers. The authors set out a model for cultural citizenship that goes beyond the classroom, including families,...

The education of young people is context bound. This edited volume explores the contexts that characterise South and South East Asia and their influence on social studies education. There is not a single context across this broad geographical expanse, rather different religions, different political...

In Visible Learning: Lesson Planning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer make explicit how to implement the world-famous Visible Learning(R) research into the bedrock of teaching and preparation - lesson planning.By implementing the Visible Learning(R) data in everyday teaching, this book provides a practical guide...

Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying generational, geographical, and identity positions that speak to the wide array of debates around dramatic canons.Unlike Literature and other fields in the humanities, Theatre and Performance Studies has...

This new edition of Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality critically examines the deep and enduring problems within systems of education in the U.S., in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected...

This collection of cutting-edge work by internationally acclaimed scholars brings together the complementary approaches of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), focusing on how academic discourse organises disciplinary knowledge and the means through which we can teach this in classrooms.Author: J....

This book collects recent and creative theorizing emerging in the fields of curriculum studies and curriculum theory, through an emphasis on provoking encounters. Drawn from a return to foundational texts, the emphasis on an 'encountering' curriculum highlights the often overlooked, pre-conceptual aspects of the...

Examines the effects of curriculum change on teachers and students. This work focuses upon the gendered nature of the curriculum, and how curricular forms include or exclude certain subjects and certain groups. It presents a conceptualization of the field of curriculum that can be...

At no time in the past century have there been fiercer battles over our public schools than there are now. Parents and educational reformers are challenging not only the mission, content, and structure of mass compulsory schooling but also its underlying premise--that the values...

The first collection of the key works of the major curriculum studies scholar William E. Doll, Jr., this volume provides an overview of his scholarship over his fifty-year career and documents the theoretical and practical contribution he has made to the field . The...

Comprising a collection of eleven original chapters by prominent, nationally and internationally known experts, presented here is a long-overdue reassessment and realignment of Curriculum Studies in the UK and international contexts.Author: Alex MooreISBN-10: 0415363950ISBN-13: 9780415363952Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2006Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.44w...

This book draws together a range of issues in the teaching of art and design. Building on their learning about the teaching of art and design on ITT courses, the reader is encouraged to consider and reflect to improve their judgements.Author: Nicholas AddisonISBN-10: 0415266688ISBN-13:...

Teaching Integrated STEM in Middle School is a valuable resource for educators, researchers, and policymakers who are committed to furthering integrated STEM education. Through a review of the literature on the topic, the volume offers a clear understanding of the impact of integrated STEM...

In an era defined by technological advancement and evolving learner needs, the role of educators shifts from content delivery to facilitating meaningful, student-centered learning experiences. Developing teaching competencies that support pedagogical and curricular innovation is critical for educators fostering critical thinking, creativity, and lifelong...