Education - Curricula

This book advocates for a radical change in music teaching and learning methods, allowing for a break from the traditional conservatory model still in use in many classrooms. The product of twenty years of interdisciplinary work by musicians, music teachers, and psychologists, the book...

Improving the Relational Space of Curriculum Realisation outlines an approach to intervention that helps educators solve problematic patterns in their networks, leverage resources better within and across school networks, and embed relational conditions that are conducive to ambitious curriculum goals being realised.Author: Claire Sinnema,...

This book is a guide for educators on how to develop and evaluate evidence-based strategies for teaching biological experimentation to thereby improve existing and develop new curricula. It unveils the flawed assumptions made at the classroom, department, and institutional level about what students are...

Looking for a way to engage and motivate your students? Look no further than "Gamifying Education"! This easy-to-read guide shows you how to apply the principles of game design to your classroom, transforming learning into an exciting, interactive experience. This book provides practical strategies...

Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams. DBQs can be...

1. Dialogic Interdisciplinary Self-Study through the Practice of Duoethnography Section One: Duoethnographies of Classroom Practice2. In Search of an Artistic Curriculum Identity 3. Tracing the Roots of a Desire for Mutualist Teaching and Learning: Valuing Community Building and Democratic Classrooms 4. Talking with Rousseau:...

Against Race- and Class-Based Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education is a case study of two Chicago early childhood programs, both serving high-need populations. One program is Reggio Emilia-inspired, using a fully emergent curriculum, natural environmental elements, and investigative learning. It is a program philosophy...

A rich, comparative case study systematically exploring two program approaches for preparing teachers of color, Gist's work explores culturally responsive pedagogy as a strategy for organizing teacher education.Author: C. GistISBN-10: 1137436255ISBN-13: 9781137436252Publisher: Palgrave PivotLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2014Pages: 152Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

Holocaust education is a controversial and rapidly evolving field. This book, which critically analyses the very latest research, discusses a number of the most important debates which are emerging within it. Adopting a truly global perspective, Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education explores both teachers'...

Comprised of chapters written by established Canadian curriculum scholars as well as junior scholars and graduate students, this collection of essays provoke readers to imagine the different ways in which educational researchers can engage the narrative inquiry within the broader field of curriculum studies.Author:...

The Eighth Edition of Contemporary Curriculum: In Thought and Action prepares readers to participate in the discussion of curriculum control and other matters important to K-12 and university educators. The text highlights major philosophies and principles, examines conflicting conceptions of curriculum, and provides the...

Author: Roxanne Cullen, Michael Harris, Reinhold R. HillISBN-10: 1118049551ISBN-13: 9781118049556Publisher: Jossey-BassLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2012Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.34w x 0.97d

This handbook guides teachers who facilitate talking circles regarding Indian Residential Schools to promote healing, reconciliation, and truth telling. Stories are a traditional way of passing knowledge, history, and culture to Indigenous People. Through that lens, we look inwards to find ourselves as Canadians....

This edited volume is a collection of empirical scholarship that focuses on curriculum as knowledge connected to the Latinx diaspora from three perspectives: content/subject matter; goals, objectives, and purposes; and experiences. In an effort to fill a void in scholarship in curriculum studies/theory for/from...

The Core Facts, Core Cases series is meant to complement full length texts on different subjects of the law in Zambia. Written in a concise style, it is a useful and thorough support accessible to students, and practitioners alike. Books in the series are...

How can we develop, select, and implement challenging curriculum for our gifted students when the "standard" curriculum is not a good fit? Learn the key features of challenging curriculum as defined by researcher in the field of gifted education.Author: Jennifer G. Beasley, Leighann PenningtonISBN-10:...

Expanding Vocabulary Through KJV Bible Verses: Book 1 incorporates Bible, vocabulary, writing, and copywork. If Bible verse memorization is desired, memorizing the weekly Bible verse may be incorporated. As a stand-alone workbook, there is no teacher's guide, nor is one necessary. The instructions are...

Kindergarten Stories and Morning Talks, with over 125 Illustrations is an updated edition of the 1894 kindergarten story curriculum. Enlarged original text with greater line spacing makes this 2010 edition easier to read aloud to children. Cardamom Publishers has also added over 125 vintage...

Learn about Chemistry with TOPS Learning Systems. An excellent introduction to chemical analysis, even for students with no chemistry background. Follow simple flowcharts to separate mixtures, observe safe interactions between household substances, compare pH, and more. Simple and elegant.Author: Peg Nazari Marson, Ronald Jay...

Great hands-on math: assemble sequences with pennies, create art based on the Fibonacci sequence, fold clever curves, travel a Mobius strip. Go on to crack bar codes, solve puzzles, experience a generalization that turns out to be false. From limits to logarithms, build both...

This practical book enables elementary educators, classroom teachers, library media and technology specialists, and administrators to understand and implement the Big6 approach to information and technology skills learning. The Big6(TM) approach, the most widely known and used information problem-solving model, encourages information-based problem-solving and...

This book deals with large-scale or macro-level instructional design, which is referred to by other authors variously as curriculum development, course design, training system design or instructional systems design. The emphasis throughout the book is on the application of a systems approach, which implies...

The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern...

Inventions of Teaching: A Genealogy is a powerful examination of current metaphors for and synonyms of teaching. It offers an account of the varied and conflicting influences and conceptual commitments that have contributed to contemporary vocabularies--and that are in some ways maintained by those...

This unique collection considers the nature of writing groups inside and outside the academic environment. Exploring writing groups as contextual literacy events, editors Beverly J. Moss, Nels P. Highberg, and Melissa Nicolas bring together contributors to document and reflect on the various types of...

Graduate students and teachers of introductory graduate courses in curriculum have many textbooks to choose from. What is special about Fundamentals of Curriculum: Passion and Professionalism, Second Edition? Content and approach: Clear, focused, and tightly structured, this text provides essential information and resources education...

In 1969, Bill Pinar was privileged to study with Dwayne Huebner at Teachers College. In a large room with 70 others, he watched an extraordinary figure in the distance--speaking a tongue few of them grasped--whom they all found compelling. They knew they were in...

Get started with an innovative approach to teaching history that develops literacy and higher-order thinking skills, connects the past to students' lives, and meets state and national standards (grades 7-12). Now in a second edition, this popular book provides an introductory unit to help...

Teacher's Edition. The ninth-century English king Alfred the Great is perhaps best known for his military victories against the Vikings, but Asser's portrait of him also shows Alfred as a man of great personal character. In both his public and private life, Alfred sought...

TEACHER'S EDITION. What if you could learn to write well using a method that had been successful for thousands of years? Classical Quills I does just that, teaching ancient writing exercises (the progymnasmata) to grammar school students. Designed for upper-elementary students, Classical Quills I...

All you need to teach third grade spelling is included in this one book. Improving Your Spelling Skills/ Book 3 is the third in a series for first through eighth grade. It is a user-friendly workbook with exercises for daily work for the entire...

Problem-based learning online is a burgeoning area, crying out for support in all the disciplines, but particularly health, medicine, education and social care that are already advanced users of problem-based learning in higher education. This book provides highly grounded research based ways for those...

Highlighting Rita L. Irwin's significant work in the fields of curriculum studies and arts education, this collection honors her well-known contribution of a/r/tography to curriculum studies in the form of arts based educational research and, beyond this, her contributions towards understanding the inseparability of...

Responsive learning and responsible learning have not been considered and utilized appropriately in the past, especially in light of the post-pandemic higher education landscape. A discussion and consideration of the different elements that make up responsive and responsible learning such as agency, agility, mindfulness,...

Addressing studying as a distinct educational concept and phenomenon in its own right, the essays in this volume consider study and studying from a range of perspectives. Countering dominant educational discourses, which place a heavy emphasis on learning and instruction, the contributors explore questions...

Jewish education is not a commodity to be acquired or taught in easily defined and understandable portions. Rather, it is an encounter with the Jewish tradition which, if done properly, can and should leave both students and teachers challenged, shaken, and deeply introspective. A...

Responsive learning and responsible learning have not been considered and utilized appropriately in the past, especially in light of the post-pandemic higher education landscape. A discussion and consideration of the different elements that make up responsive and responsible learning such as agency, agility, mindfulness,...

Assembles essays addressing the recurring question of the 'subject, ' understood both as human person and school subject, thereby elaborating the subjective and disciplinary character of curriculum studiesAuthor: W. PinarISBN-10: 0230110339ISBN-13: 9780230110335Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2011Pages: 273Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy. Both undermined the 1960s' new social studies, a dynamic reform movement centered on inquiry, issues, and social activism. Dramatic academic freedom controversies ended reform and led to a conservative restoration. On one side...

Pedagogy deals with the theory and practice of learning. It studies the learning processes and how they influence and are influenced by the psychological, social and political development of the learners. It aims to study how skills and knowledge are imparted in an educational...

The approach to teaching which deals with the theory and practice of learning as well as its effects on the psychological, social and political development of learners is termed as pedagogy. Pedagogical considerations are focused on learning space, hidden curriculum, learning theories, distance learning,...

​This book examines contexts and possibilities in Aotearoa New Zealand education contexts arising from the international trend for open, flexible, innovative learning environments (ILE), specifically on the pedagogical load. The book responds to questions such as: What does it mean to teach, learn or...

This book will tell you about the miraculous transformation of primates into modern humans, and how it took about 20 million years. Under what circumstances our ancestors almost went extinct. What became the main reasons for the awakening of consciousness and reaching the top...

Mastery learning is an instructional approach that empowers every student to progress with confidence.Using flexible pacing and targeted supports, teachers guide students through a cyclic process of preparation, demonstration, and formative feedback until there is a mutual agreement between teacher and student that the...

A new short story collection from the author of Colour-Coated Identity and Colours of Hope and Despair.A poignant series of poetry and stories. Some fictional, some autobiographical, others philosophical.Author: Bala MudalyISBN-10: 0648038653ISBN-13: 9780648038658Publisher: Tale PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2022Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

BIPOC Alliances: Building Communities and Curricula is a collection of reflective experiences that confront, challenge, and resist hegemonic academic canons. BIPOC perspectives are often scarce in scholarly academic venues and curriculum. This edited book is a curated collection of interdisciplinary, underrepresented voices, and lived...

This book discusses how Big Data could be implemented in educational settings and research, using empirical data and suggesting both best practices and areas in which to invest future research and development. It also explores: 1) the use of learning analytics to improve learning...

With increasing diversity and widening disparities in the United States and globally there are significant challenges and opportunities throughout the educational landscape. Today's educational stakeholders, particulary public school administrators and teachers, must re-envision education and collectively build equity-centered systems, structures, and practices. Confronting systemic...

The change process is immensely complex. It is a journey, not a blueprint. How we make that journey in the present should be informed by our experiences in the past. This book takes the reader through that journey, traversing the stages of initiation, design,...

Today's educators face a critical challenge that goes beyond the curriculum: they must nurture appropriate social and emotional behaviors by providing youth with the conflict-resolution and leadership skills necessary for modern life. The Leadership Program's Violence Prevention Project delivers on that need with an...