Education - Curricula

Evocative and provocative, this book presents the points of view of (often junior) scholars in the social sciences whoused non-standard methods or writing practices to challenge the "research-as-usual" paradigm in the academy. The authors discuss their lived personal experiences, as well as their struggles...

Ted T. Aoki, the most prominent curriculum scholar of his generation in Canada, has influenced numerous scholars around the world. Curriculum in a New Key brings together his work, over a 30-year span, gathered here under the themes of reconceptuaAuthor: Ted T. AokiISBN-10: 0805847413ISBN-13:...

While teachers value children's play, they often do not know how to guide that play to make it more educational. This volume reflects current research in the child development and early childhood education fields.Play has been part of early childhood programs since the initial...

Bringing the Internet to School presents the results of one of the first comprehensive studies of Internet-implementation in K-12 schools. Based on the information gleaned from this groundbreaking study, two experts in the field of high-technology and schools, Janet Ward Schofield and Ann Locke...

Curriculum and subject leadership in schools has recently gained substantial attention from both researchers and policy-makers. The Teacher Training Agency (TTA) has reinforced the importance of subject leadership in school improvement, proposing a new measure of such leadership competence through the creation of national...

This timely book seeks to demonstrate the coherence of lesbian and gay studies. It introduces the reader to the principal inter-disciplinary approaches in the field and critically assesses their strengths and weaknesses whilst asking: What is lesbian and gay studies? When did it emerge?...

This book shows how to design and develop educational programmes that are linked, logical and successful.Author: Jennifer MoonISBN-10: 0749437464ISBN-13: 9780749437466Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 10.32h x 7.34w x 0.82d

A guide to the provision of adaptive teaching for students with special educational or physical needs, aimed at lecturers, course designers, and tutors.Author: Stuart PowellISBN-10: 0749436107ISBN-13: 9780749436100Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2003Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Reflecting the current turn in curriculum work that underscores the relationship between theory and practice, this volume brings together the voices of curriculum theorists working within academic settings and practitioners working in schools and other educational settings. This collection engages readers in the complicated...

This book is about curriculum change in secondary schools and shows how the quality of education has been affected by increasing intervention from central government. Following the story of one secondary school between 1957 and 2004, Norman Evans looks at: * the school before...

Author: Susan M. LeistISBN-10: 0595138268ISBN-13: 9780595138265Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

This guide for educators looks at major issues in language testing and provides knowledge, techniques, and strategies to design and implement assessments for use in classrooms that maximize fairness and validity for all students.Author: María del Rosario BasterraISBN-10: 0415999790ISBN-13: 9780415999793Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2010Pages: 320Format:...

What comes after the reconceptualization of curriculum studies? What is the contribution of the next wave of curriculum scholars? Comprehensive and on the cutting edge, this Handbook speaks to these questions and extends the conversation on present and future directions in curriculum studies.Author: Erik...

In this groundbreaking book, Kristen Buras provides the first detailed, critical examination of the Core Knowledge movement and explores the history and cultural politics underlying neoconservative initiatives in education.Author: Kristen L. BurasISBN-10: 0415962641ISBN-13: 9780415962643Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2008Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.30w x...

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling.Author: Michael W. AppleISBN-10: 041595861XISBN-13: 9780415958615Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/17/2009Pages: 512Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.30lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.20w x 1.30dReview Citation(s):...

Providing teachers with the theoretical stances and pedagogical tools to develop a beneficial Language Arts practice, this book empowers teachers to be effective even within the confines of a testing- and accountability-driven curriculum.Author: Arthur T. CostiganISBN-10: 0415955777ISBN-13: 9780415955775Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2007Pages: 208Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize:...

Teaching in Eden provides any teacher with powerful and virtually free tools that he or she can use to alter the fundamental nature of the educational experience. The tools are simple instructional devices that require only a teacher's time, and the courage to break...

As technological innovation continues to affect language pedagogy, there is an increasing demand for information, exemplars, analysis and guidance. This edited volume focuses on international perspectives in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in all of its forms, including Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Network-Based Language Learning,...

This book explains the purpose and nature of place- and community-based education and provides multiple examples of its practice. The detailed descriptions of learning experiences set both within and beyond the classroom will help readers begin the process of advocating for or incorporating local...

For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder...

If teacher education, as a field of study, is to contribute to the revitalization, re-moralization and re-politicization of Education, this book argues that it needs to be alert to questions of teachers' intellectual and political freedom and to concerns about the legitimacy of what...

This book brings together international scholars of critical multiculturalism to directly and illustratively address what a transformed critical multicultural approach to education might mean for teacher education and classroom practice.Author: Stephen MayISBN-10: 0415802849ISBN-13: 9780415802840Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/24/2010Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Bringing together scholars, public intellectuals, and activists from across the field of education, the Handbook of Public Pedagogy explores and maps the terrain of this burgeoning field.Author: Jennifer A. SandlinISBN-10: 0415801265ISBN-13: 9780415801263Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2009Pages: 710Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.05lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.20w x 1.60dReview Citation(s):...

Our students must become skilled at finding answers and using information to succeed in college, careers, and daily life. Using inquiry, writing, and technology to infuse passion into the classroom research paper motivates students and results in deeper learning. In this practical, research-based book,...

National identity in Moldova remains contested despite repeated attempts by governments, historians, and educators to cultivate a shared sense of national belonging through the development of history textbooks. Concern over professional status and distrust of the government's motivations halted these reforms, demonstrating that the...

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...

Compelling and highly engaging, this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practice that can be adapted to any context. Author: Hilary Janks,Kerryn Dixon,Ana FerreiraISBN-10: 0415528097ISBN-13: 9780415528092Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2013Pages: 166Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.63lbsSize:...

A critical exposition of the work of sixteen of the most important names in curriculum theory, taking in a wide range of views and perspectives from across the UK, the US and Europe.Author: David ScottISBN-10: 0415339847ISBN-13: 9780415339841Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2007Pages: 164Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.21h...

Developing Effective 16-19 Teaching Skills aims to enhance the competence of student- teachers in secondary schools and FE college as they confront sixteen to nineteen teaching for the first time. Based around the new standards set out in Qualifying to Teach and the Fento...

Using case studies of best practice, the book offers practical guidance for practitioners in both primary and secondary schools, enabling you to widen the scientific experience and understanding of your pupils.Author: Martin BraundISBN-10: 0415321166ISBN-13: 9780415321167Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2004Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.96h x 6.98w...

This book highlights the issues that invariably confront those involved with the teaching of Religious Education. Questioning the assumptions underlying the legal requirements governing the teaching of RE it raises questions of rationale.Author: Lynne Broadbent,Alan BrownISBN-10: 0415262526ISBN-13: 9780415262521Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2002Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize:...

This generic book heads the Open University's flexible PGCE series of 'readers'. Through this new series, student teachers and practising teachers looking to update their knowledge, will be introduced to the big issues of their subject.Author: Steven HutchinsonISBN-10: 0415260663ISBN-13: 9780415260664Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2002Pages: 332Format:...

This book argues that a properly constructed personal, social and health education curriculum is needed to enhance pupils' personal and social development - both at primary and secondary levelsAuthor: Martin Buck,Sally Inman,Miles TandyISBN-10: 0415250412ISBN-13: 9780415250412Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2003Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.78h x 5.70w...

This book explores the impact that new Information and Communication Technologies are having on teaching and the way children learn, addressing key issues in the UK and internationally.Author: VIV EllisISBN-10: 0415234298ISBN-13: 9780415234290Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2001Pages: 264Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

An inspirational look at how to foster children's creativity whilst following the National Curriculum. A practical book it will ring bells with educators who want to teach with originality and scope.Author: Anna CraftISBN-10: 0415200946ISBN-13: 9780415200943Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/1999Pages: 208Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.30w...

This book tackles the issue of whether and how thinking should be taught in schools and explores how best to help children become effective thinkers and learners.Author: Robert BurdenISBN-10: 0415172012ISBN-13: 9780415172011Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/1998Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

In this collection of essays, David Hornbrook and a team of contributors focus on practical strategies for developing the drama curriculum in primary and secondary schools. The book also clearly explain the theory behind these strategiesAuthor: David HornbrookISBN-10: 0415168821ISBN-13: 9780415168823Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/1998Pages: 214Format:...

There is an urgency and importance in learning to live in sustainable ways, but environmental education does not hold the priority position in formal schooling that it should. This text sets out to discover why this is so.Author: Joy PalmerISBN-10: 0415131960ISBN-13: 9780415131964Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

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...

Nicomachus was a philosopher-mathematician living circa 200 AD and originally from the city of today's Jerash, Jordan. His work was foundational both for the study of mathematics in the liberal arts curriculum and for the mathematical philosophy of the later Platonists. His work on...

Word study is to intermediate grades as phonics is to primary grades. Older students face multisyllabic words, which can be challenging to read and write. The key is to help them identify common spelling patterns and large chunks of words they can sound out....

This book explores what constitutes valid or powerful educational knowledge and the role of educational theorising in questions of educational practice. It examines the challenges facing the 'deliberative' educational knowledge traditions of educational foundations, curriculum theory and Didaktik as a consequence of the rising...

What We Call Middle School Mathematics addresses the content of the middle school mathematics program across the grade levels involved. This book strives to have middle school mathematics teachers understand how the mathematics at their individual grade fits into the overall middle school mathematics...

Youth titled this book Personal Truths because they shared their personal journeys, what they think of themselves, what others think of them, and who they are when their masks are removed. Artists encourage us to recognize personal truths may differ from what society values...

What We Call Middle School Mathematics addresses the content of the middle school mathematics program across the grade levels involved. This book strives to have middle school mathematics teachers understand how the mathematics at their individual grade fits into the overall middle school mathematics...

As a principal, you wear many hats, including that of instructional leader. But it's impossible to be an expert in all areas of instruction, assessment, curriculum, and data analysis. Danny Steele takes the pressure off your shoulders and shows how you can add value...

Author: Guy TchibozoISBN-10: 3031998030ISBN-13: 9783031998034Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2025Pages: 394Format: Hardcover

Each Puzzle Pack contains a variety of puzzles, worksheets, and games to reinforce important content like characters' names, places, symbols, and important details as well as vocabulary words within the text. Includes: Crosswords - Word Searches - Matching - Fill In The Blanks -...

Each Puzzle Pack contains a variety of puzzles, worksheets, and games to reinforce important content like characters' names, places, symbols, and important details as well as vocabulary words within the text. Includes: Crosswords - Word Searches - Matching - Fill In The Blanks -...

Each Puzzle Pack contains a variety of puzzles, worksheets, and games to reinforce important content like characters' names, places, symbols, and important details as well as vocabulary words within the text. Includes: Crosswords - Word Searches - Matching - Fill In The Blanks -...