Education - Elementary

By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children's agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with articles on the subject featured...

By exploring both primary and emergent dimensions, Spatial Reasoning in the Early Years helps define the concept of spatial reasoning and provides compelling evidence of the need for a clear focus within early education specifically.Author: Brent Davis,Spatial Reasoning Study GroupISBN-10: 1138792039ISBN-13: 9781138792036Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This book explores the idea of a childlike education and offers critical tools to question traditional forms of education, and alternative ways to understand and practice the relationship between education and childhood. Engaging with the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben and...

Ocean Activity Workbook for Kids!Children are fascinated by the ocean and all the sea creatures that inhabit it. Here we have created a fun, engaging activity workbook that helps children build an academic foundation that lasts a life time. Dive in and learn some...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world around us and education is no exception. This practical guide demystifies AI for teachers, offering clear, accessible and practical strategies to enhance literacy teaching in a way that is both effective and engaging.Author: Adam BushnellISBN-10: 1041029063ISBN-13: 9781041029069Publisher:...

What is dyslexia? Is it inherited? How is it assessed? And how do I help my classroom students who have it?If you're a busy teacher in need of concise answers to important questions about dyslexia, this guide is for you! Using an accessible question-and-answer...

Calling all readers and writers: Dig into texts as you never have before with SENTENCE DIGS!By digging into the ways words come together to bring meaning to the text, readers can crack open the meaning of complex texts they are reading and writers can...

This fully updated fourth edition of the bestselling textbook Science 5-11 provides a comprehensive introduction to current research and professional practice for teaching science in the primary school.Author: Kendra McMahon,Alan Howe,Chris CollierISBN-10: 1032377704ISBN-13: 9781032377704Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2024Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.69h x 6.85w x...

This book is a set of graded lessons designed to teach children the basic skills of reading. It covers letter sounds, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency. The lessons are illustrated with colorful pictures and engaging stories to make the learning process enjoyable. This book is...

This classic series of readers is designed to teach children to read using a variety of engaging stories and exercises. Volumes 2-3 include readings on history, geography, and science, as well as fables, Bible stories, and poetry. A must-have for any parent or teacher...

Through carefully selected books, journals and multi-media resources, Lynne and Herman Sutter provide teachers and librarians with a broad collection of subjects to guide a student's research and broaden a child's interest base. Each subject, or Pathfinder, is followed by lists of bibliographies of...

Author: Lilian G. KatzISBN-10: 089391066XISBN-13: 9780893910662Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1980Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.41d

Introduce elementary children to six areas of the world-Japan, Italy, Hawaii, Australia, Kenya, and Brazil. Using an integrated approach to authentic learning and assessment and to literacy development, activities teach children about family life, school, games, crafts (such as origami), foods, language, customs, and...

This workbook, to accompany the Facilitator's Manual, is a resource that will be used throughout the year. Its 12 chapters correspond to the 12 training modules in the manual. Contains reproducible notebook pages.Author: Diane R. PageISBN-10: 0810838710ISBN-13: 9780810838710Publisher: R & L EducationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2001Pages:...

Ken and Yetta Goodman are renowned and revered worldwide for their pioneering, influential work in the field of reading/literacy education. In this volume major literacy scholars from around the world pay tribute to their work and offer glimpses of what the future of literacy...

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...

This book encourages readers to explore significant aspects of current thinking in primary education (for ages 3-13) focusing on pedagogy: the study of processes of teaching. The authors consider contexts, knowledge, skills and curriculum within a framework of practice. A distinctive feature is the...

Assessment has become one of the key issues in primary education during the 1990s. These essays bring together perspectives from significant participants involved in assessment in the primary school.Author: Colin ConnerISBN-10: 0750709537ISBN-13: 9780750709538Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/1998Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.62w x 0.56d

Although universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, bilateral aid agencies, national governments, and non-profit organizations, little sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal education. What is universal primary and secondary education intended to...

This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they will understand...

This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, educators and parents' beliefs, and the conditions under which teaching and learning occur shape classroom pedagogy and determine children's attainment.This in-depth, authentic,...

In this controversial new book, Daisy Christodoulou offers a thought-provoking critique of educational orthodoxy. Drawing on her recent experience of teaching in challenging schools, she shows through a wide range of examples and case studies just how much classroom practice contradicts basic scientific principles.Author:...

This text shows how critical literacy is do-able with young children, even in today's context of Common Core Standards, mandates, and pressures, and honors the sophisticated and complex social theorists that young children are. Author: Ken WinogradISBN-10: 0415743214ISBN-13: 9780415743211Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2014Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Literacy is a perennial 'hot topic' in Britain and other English-speaking countries. Concerns about falling standards and a 'literacy crisis' are frequently raised. In response, governments initiate new policies and teaching guidelines. This book addresses the current policies, practices and media debates in England,...

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...

This book takes the reader on a journey through some of Bruner's key concepts in relation to early learning and teaching.Author: Sandra SmidtISBN-10: 041557420XISBN-13: 9780415574204Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2011Pages: 134Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d

School principals are increasingly working in an environment of work intensification, high stakes testing, accountability pressures and increased managerialism. Rather than searching for the latest leadership fad or best practice model, this book suggests that in order to better understand these pressures, the work...

There is a flourishing literature on citizenship education in China that is mostly unknown in the West. Liberal political theorists often assume that only in democracy should citizens be prepared for their future responsibilities, yet citizenship education in China has undergone a number of...

This ground-breaking book argues that spelling and writing need to be given more consideration in teaching and remedial settings. It helps teachers and student teachers to understand the valuable contribution spelling and handwriting makes to literacy development.Author: Diane MontgomeryISBN-10: 0415409241ISBN-13: 9780415409247Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/16/2006Pages:...

This book draws on extensive research to provide a ground-breaking new account of the relationship between dialogue and children's learning development. It closely relates the research findings to real-life classrooms, so that it is of practical value to teachers and students concerned that their...

Delving deeper into the understanding that young children have of stories, this book demonstrates how narrative competence develops in the first eight years of life and how this can be reflected in practice.Author: Peter BaldockISBN-10: 0415384605ISBN-13: 9780415384605Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2006Pages: 142Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.58h...

This widely researched comparative study addresses the critical issue of literacy crises around the world and questions their wider sociological and educational impact. The recurring literacy crises in England and English speaking countries such as the US and New Zealand are linked to wider...

For this essential collection of readings on literacy and language, Teresa Grainger has carefully chosen journal articles and book chapters which offer significant and serious insights into the world of literacy in the twenty-first century.Author: Teresa GraingerISBN-10: 0415327660ISBN-13: 9780415327664Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2003Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This lively and informative text examines children's first experience of non-fiction during the pre-school and foundation years. Its careful consideration of different kinds of quality non-fiction, including books, posters, charts and computer software will provide a helpful framework from which early years teachers can...

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...

In this fascinating book, Jenny Houssart draws on close observations with children in lower mathematics sets in primary schools to investigate why some children opt out of mathematics at an early age.Author: Jenny HoussartISBN-10: 0415315530ISBN-13: 9780415315531Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2004Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.44h x...

This book takes an insightful and in-depth look at the hidden worlds of young children's sexualities. Based upon extensive group interviews and observation, the author illustrates how sexuality is embedded in children's school-based cultures and gender identities.Author: Emma RenoldISBN-10: 0415314968ISBN-13: 9780415314961Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2005Pages:...

Based on extensive research that proves that children actively make sense of literacy outside the official schooling and parental tuition they receive, this book examines how young children take literacy learning into their own hands.Author: Eve Gregory,Susi Long,Dinah VolkISBN-10: 0415306167ISBN-13: 9780415306164Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/2004Pages:...

In this unique examination of education for citizenship, Derek Heater covers two and a half millennia of history encompassing every continent. Education for citizenship is considered from its classical origins through to ideas of world citizenship and multiculturalism which are relevant today. The book...

This book draws upon original research to examine the specific issues affecting boys and education in the first three years of schooling, and uses this research as a basis from which to explore the implications for teachers and early years workers.Author: Paul ConnollyISBN-10: 0415298407ISBN-13:...

This book is concerned with home-school relations from an 'inclusive' perspective, in that it addresses questions common to all schools, but with an emphasis on children with special needs.Author: Sally BeveridgeISBN-10: 041527933XISBN-13: 9780415279338Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2004Pages: 144Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

What is a child?How is the concept of childhood defined?This book aims to explore these perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and understands childhood. The authors focus in particular on the school, a key location within which...

This is a combinated work concerning children's lives in modern cities which brings together international scholars at the forefront of the debate.Author: Pia ChristensenISBN-10: 041525924XISBN-13: 9780415259248Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2002Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.88h x 6.80w x 0.70d

This book explores ways of developing continuity in children's learning from 3-7. It describes three case studies in which tutors on ITT courses work with early years practitioners in a variety of schools, each linked to a pre-school setting.Author: Hilary CooperISBN-10: 0415254728ISBN-13: 9780415254724Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Ruth Dann explores the complex interactions between pupil learning and educational assessment. The author emphasises assessment as a factor in the learning process and examines various assessment strategies and techniques.Author: Ruth DannISBN-10: 0415240069ISBN-13: 9780415240062Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2002Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.16h x 6.12w x...

Drawing on many popular and literary texts, the contributors to this book write with enthusiasm about opportunities for creative teaching and learning, and provide many examples of good practice both inside and outside the Literacy HourAuthor: Holly AndersonISBN-10: 0415203066ISBN-13: 9780415203067Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/1999Pages: 184Format:...

This book presents the findings of the second round of research, replicating the original ORACLE study, and documents the changes - or lack of them - in primary education and teaching practice over the last twenty years.Author: Chris Comber,Maurice Galton,Linda HargreavesISBN-10: 0415170192ISBN-13: 9780415170192Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

This book focuses on the issue of transfer from the primary to the secondary school, using data from the ORACLE study, (Observation and Classroom Learning and Evaluation).Author: Maurice Galton,Linda HargreavesISBN-10: 0415170214ISBN-13: 9780415170215Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2001Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.68h x 6.14w x 0.73d

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:...

This wide ranging sourcebook draws together a range of recent and specially commissioned pieces which examine how policy development and research findings have influenced planning and assessing learning for young children. Topics covered include standards, quality control, league tables, teacher and performance assessment. It...