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  • Improving Reading Achievement and Attitudes through Accelerated Reader by Roughan, Gearóid
    Gearóid Roughan

    Improving Reading Achievement and Attitudes through Accelerated Reader

    The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the Accelerated Reader program on children's reading achievement and motivation to read in a senior primary school classroom. The Accelerated Reader is a computerised reading management program created by Renaissance Learning that enables...
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  • Conceptions of Giftedness and Creativity from Africa by Ngara, Constantine
    Constantine Ngara

    Conceptions of Giftedness and Creativity from Africa

    Recently, gifted education has become an arena of much debate. Contradictions and disagreements surround how we define and select gifted students into special programming. Conventional tools and models are all grounded in the West. When applied in gifted programming, IQ-based models fail to identify...
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  • Education without borders by Bagnall, Nigel
    Nigel Bagnall

    Education without borders

    Education without borders is divided into two sections relating to the International Baccalaureate (IB) over a forty-year-period. The first is a comparative study of the IB Diploma in Australia and Canada. Drawing heavily on the work of Bourdieu, it argues that the IB has...
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  • Reforming the Middle Years Curriculum by Scagliarini, Richard
    Richard Scagliarini

    Reforming the Middle Years Curriculum

    Closely tracking the experiences of a small group of teachers and administrators at an international school in Japan for over two years, the dynamics of middle years curriculum reform are identified and illuminated in this volume. Presented as a metaphor of a growing tree,...
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  • Counsellor 'Know Thyself' by Wong-Wylie, Gina
    Gina Wong-Wylie

    Counsellor 'Know Thyself'

    Grounded in a qualitative research investigation involving five doctoral graduands from a counselling department at a Canadian university, this book focuses on reflective practice in the context of counsellor personal and professional development. Deeply personal stories of loss, abuse, family, anguish, and sexual identity...
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  • Learning Management System "BLACKBOARD(TM) DESIGN" by Douglas, Jamal
    Jamal Douglas

    Learning Management System "BLACKBOARD(TM) DESIGN"

    Learning Management System (LMS) software package is used to help the less technologically savvy educators to overcome the burden of designing their own websites as teaching tools Blackboard(TM) was rated as the best leading online tool to enhance the learning and teaching environment especially...
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  • Analysis of Impact of HIV on Children's Education in Zambia by Matimba, Peter
    Peter Matimba

    Analysis of Impact of HIV on Children's Education in Zambia

    This book critically analyzes effectiveness and sustainability of educational models in mitigating impact of HIV on children in Zambia. It is based on research findings carried out in four (4) communities in Lusaka district, Zambia. The target audience of this book include policy makers,...
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  • Learning about Social-ethical Issues using Evaluative Constructivism by Conner, Lindsey
    Lindsey Conner

    Learning about Social-ethical Issues using Evaluative Constructivism

    This book describes a case study investigation about how 18 year olds learn about the social and ethical issues associated with cancer. In this classroom, students were guided through a range of interactive participatory activities, conducted research and wrote essays to demonstrate their understanding....
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  • Amharic Second Language Teachers' Pedagogical Grammar Approach by Alemu, Mellese Gelaneh
    Mellese Gelaneh Alemu

    Amharic Second Language Teachers' Pedagogical Grammar Approach

    Amharic is the second largest language, next to Arabic, in terms of number of speakers with in the Semitic language family. This language of wider communication is an official or working language of The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) and some regions with...
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  • Inverting the Classroom by Strayer, Jeremy
    Jeremy Strayer

    Inverting the Classroom

    With the rise of technology use in college classrooms, many professors are structuring their instruction in innovative ways. The inverted classroom is a structure that uses technology to move lectures outside the classroom and uses learning activities to move practice with concepts inside the...
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  • Skating the zones by Stevens, Carol
    Carol Stevens

    Skating the zones

    Six African American male community college students share their innermost thoughts and adjustment experiences at a predominantly White community college. Steeped in the qualitative tradition, the researcher does not stand aloof. She tells each student's story using "poetic transcriptions" and blends in her experiences,...
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  • Understanding PK-8 Preservice Teachers' Intentions to Teach Economics by Kang, Rui
    Rui Kang

    Understanding PK-8 Preservice Teachers' Intentions to Teach Economics

    Large-scale, national surveys conducted over the past two decades have revealed a trend of low economic literacy among America's teens and adults. In addition, research indicates that PK-12 teachers in the United States have limited training in economics and often hold negative attitudes toward...
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  • Academic Delay of Gratification by Bembenutty, Héfer
    Héfer Bembenutty

    Academic Delay of Gratification

    This book reports new findings associating learners' willingness to delay gratification with their academic achievement, motivation for learning, and use of cognitive and self-regulated learning strategies. This book calls the attention of learners, parents, and educators to the vital role that delay of gratification...
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  • "Beyond-The-Box" Thinking on Future War by Vicente, João
    João Vicente

    "Beyond-The-Box" Thinking on Future War

    The interaction of globalization and technology diffusion will impact warfare's diversity, affordability, and effectiveness. Moreover, the widening socio-economic gap, climate changes, human migrations, and resources competition, all increase the potential for the rise of interstate conflicts. Thus, an increasingly broader range of instruments and...
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  • Service-Learning: Motivations for K-12 Teachers by Krebs, Marjori
    Marjori Krebs

    Service-Learning: Motivations for K-12 Teachers

    The purpose of this study is to describe the essence of the service-learning experience for K-12 teachers, specifically exploring teacher motivations for initiating service-learning in the classroom. The guiding questions that directed this study include a) How do teachers understand and describe their experiences...
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  • Current Awareness Program of Saint Louis University Library by Diaron, Rina
    Rina Diaron

    Current Awareness Program of Saint Louis University Library

    The study looked into the methods of current awareness services being employed in Saint Louis University Library as perceived by the library users composed of the non-teaching personnel, faculty members, and students. It also looked into the basic requirements of the different methods of...
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  • Student Mobility in France: A Study of Three Institutions by Langan, Elise
    Elise Langan

    Student Mobility in France: A Study of Three Institutions

    One of the goals of the creation of the European Union was to eliminate barriers of movement among member states. To increase mobility and create a more effective work force, the EU set up partnerships between education and industry. One of the goals was...
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  • School Political Education in Taiwan by Huang, Yi-Cheng
    Yi-Cheng Huang

    School Political Education in Taiwan

    "School Political Education in Taiwan: Theory and Practice" offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principles and practice of political education implemented in schools in Taiwan. The first part of this book centres on the historical and theoretical perspectives of...
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  • Gender Differences on International Mathematics Assessment by Liu, Ou Lydia
    Ou Lydia Liu

    Gender Differences on International Mathematics Assessment

    Differential gender performance on math assessment has received continuing attention in the United States. However, research on math gender differences has been thwarted by the lack of rigorous methodology and the lack of generalizable findings. This book, investigates the math gender issue among fifteen-year...
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  • Shifting Horizons of Understanding by Thurgood Sagal, Jane
    Jane Thurgood Sagal

    Shifting Horizons of Understanding

    In Saskatchewan, research-based evidence demonstrates the provincial curriculum-as-plan is not necessarily realized in practice. While contributing to an understanding of how teachers interpret curriculum in their practice, the author explores ways to facilitate such study with teachers. This qualitative study explores how four teachers...
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  • Global Learning Environment by Savelyeva, Tamara
    Tamara Savelyeva

    Global Learning Environment

    Can we connect the rural college classrooms of Virginia, Siberia, and Baden-Württemberg? Have the efforts to link students with the international academic centers been fruitful? By providing the definition of Global Learning Environment (GLE), this book makes the vision of global education a reality...
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  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in the Early Childhood Classroom by Moyo, Doreen
    Doreen Moyo

    Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in the Early Childhood Classroom

    This ethnographic study explored how the promotion of culturally responsive pedagogy may lead to narrowing students' achievement gaps. Whereas existing research studies focus on multicultural education, the research problem in this study addressed an existing gap in literature in early childhood education. Key questions...
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  • Cross-linguistic Transfer of Reading Skills in Bilingual Children by Pang, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Pang

    Cross-linguistic Transfer of Reading Skills in Bilingual Children

    There is a dynamic relationship between oral and reading skills in bilingual development. The current study investigated bilingual English-Chinese children's knowledge of first (L1) and second language (L2) to determine the nature of transfer of literacy skills between two non-cognate languages. The study showed...
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  • The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment by Morgan, Clara
    Clara Morgan

    The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment

    The OECD PISA: Unraveling a Knowledge Network traces the construction of an international student assessment by the Organzation for International Co-operation and Development (OECD). The PISA is analyzed within the context of the global architecture of education where various agents such as the OECD...
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  • Rural and Urban Teaching Experiences by Preston, Jane P.
    Jane P. Preston

    Rural and Urban Teaching Experiences

    Researched utilizing a qualitative approach, this exploration into rural and urban teaching captures the experiences of eight Canadian teachers and their personal views concerning rural and urban schools. The groundwork preceding this study is described, the results of the study are presented, and a...
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  • Western Multicultural Education and Japanese Educational System by Wada, Ryoko
    Ryoko Wada

    Western Multicultural Education and Japanese Educational System

    Modern Japanese society is affected by various outside influences, particularly from Western countries, which come to bear most on young people. Historically, outside influences were found to be non significant in Japan until modern times; after the opening of Japan, the society as whole...
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  • Suburban Students Become Urban Teachers: Are They Prepared? by Novick, Allison
    Allison Novick

    Suburban Students Become Urban Teachers: Are They Prepared?

    Through this book Dr. Allison Novick-Occhipinti sought to explore how pre-service education teachers enrolled in a one-year Master of Arts teacher education certification program believed the program had impacted and shaped their attitudes and pedagogy. The book is meant to identify the concerns and...
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  • Liberal Arts Education in the United States of America by Chung, Jennifer
    Jennifer Chung

    Liberal Arts Education in the United States of America

    This book investigates a philosophy of higher education, which, on a modern, international scale, occupies but a tiny microcosm of the world's institutions of tertiary learning. Nevertheless, liberal arts colleges uphold traditional values of education; therefore, remain as one of the last survivors of...
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  • Adolescent Girls' Embodied Identities by Fisette, Jennifer
    Jennifer Fisette

    Adolescent Girls' Embodied Identities

    Schools are institutions that produce and reproduce the meanings society has given to the construction of the body. Adolescent girls try to navigate the physical changes that occur within their bodies and compare themselves to their peers and the socially constructed idealized female body....
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  • Football Apprenticeships in England by Sanders, Alan
    Alan Sanders

    Football Apprenticeships in England

    This book examines the vocational socialisation processes that young people must undertake in order to be offered a full time contract by an English professional football club. Aspiring young footballers often make speculative decisions about career choice during the years which Ginsberg described as...
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  • Simulation and eLearning by Bernsteiner, Andrea
    Andrea Bernsteiner

    Simulation and eLearning

    This book discusses research findings on the use of simulations in eLearning. It is shown that the benefits of using simulations in eLearning affect not only motivation, but also cognitive, social and emotional levels. Special emphasis is put on the aspect of gender and...
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  • Changing Careers to Become a School Teacher by Etherington, Matthew
    Matthew Etherington

    Changing Careers to Become a School Teacher

    Changing careers to become a school teacher explores the career transition journey of 17 mature age individuals who had for particular reasons decided to leave their first careers and become elementary school teachers. Their career transitions were sometimes taken in response to resolving a...
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  • Teachers' interpretation and enactment of curriculum policy by Blignaut, Sylvan
    Sylvan Blignaut

    Teachers' interpretation and enactment of curriculum policy

    Over the last few years various scholars have examined the policy-practice dichotomy by focusing on different issues that make the translation of policy into classroom practice problematic. Few of these studies however, have considered the crucial role that teacher epistemologies play in the translation...
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  • Teacher Concerns about Service-Learning by Kern, Michael
    Michael Kern

    Teacher Concerns about Service-Learning

    Service-Learning is a rapidly growing teaching innovation. Despite the proliferation of service-learning research, little has focused on the teacher, particularly the personal dimension involved in implementing such an innovation. The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' concerns regarding service-learning using the seven...
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  • What Makes Public School Teachers Stay, Leave or become Non-teachers? by Mittapalli, Kavita
    Kavita Mittapalli

    What Makes Public School Teachers Stay, Leave or become Non-teachers?

    This work differentiated three groups of public school teachers: those who Leave, those who become Non-teaching educators and those who Stay in teaching and then analyzed their personal characteristics, beliefs, and perceptions leading to their decision. Low pay was cited as one of the...
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  • Gifted Students' Attitudes towards Science and Classroom Environment by Cürebal Söğüt, Fulya
    Fulya Cürebal Söğüt

    Gifted Students' Attitudes towards Science and Classroom Environment

    Gifted students have different learning characteristics than other students that need to be taken into consideration when planning instruction and curriculum. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the differences on gifted student's attitudes toward science and their preferred classroom climate during...
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  • Mathematics is Story by Sterenberg, Gladys
    Gladys Sterenberg

    Mathematics is Story

    Mathematics is often viewed as a set of invariant prepositions, theorems, and axioms. However, from a historical perspective, these mathematical objects and results have evolved and are contingent on cultural developments within society. Studies of teacher learning suggest that teachers tend to make sense...
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  • Green Street Then and Now by Macer, Christine
    Christine Macer

    Green Street Then and Now

    What do students remember about environmental education programs in which they participated? Do environmental education programs help develop pro- environmental behaviour? What kinds of questions should we be asking ourselves when we develop environmental education programs? Through an evaluative framework, this research will attempt...
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  • The Recognition of Prior Learning in Higher Education by Hendricks, Mohamed Natheem
    Mohamed Natheem Hendricks

    The Recognition of Prior Learning in Higher Education

    This research investigates how Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in higher education promotes social transformation. Through analysing a specific RPL programme, some conclusions on this matter were drawn. This research, a qualitative study, analyses official documents, institutional reports, learning portfolios - produced by RPL...
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  • Dynamic Dialogue in Learning and Teaching by Nissilä, Säde-Pirkko
    Säde-Pirkko Nissilä

    Dynamic Dialogue in Learning and Teaching

    The repost discusses student teachers' learning paths to teachership and pedagogical thinking skills. The research material was collected from vocational field, but is adaptable to all secondary and tertiary teaching. The topicality of the study is related to current changes in education and working...
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  • Measuring Information Literacy Skills in Education by Beile, Penny
    Penny Beile

    Measuring Information Literacy Skills in Education

    This text describes the development and validation of an information literacy assessment scale specific to education. Information literacy has been recognized by a number of professional organizations and accrediting bodies as an essential skill for success in the 21st century, and consequently has become...
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  • A Journey to Transformism in Australian Teacher Education by Dyson, Michael
    Michael Dyson

    A Journey to Transformism in Australian Teacher Education

    This book presents an alternative way of perceiving both formal schooling and teacher education. It challenges the educational community to examine the current practice of education and suggests a transforming alternative. Using the methodology and writing style of auto ethnography, the author has investigated...
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  • Solution Focused Classroom Guidance by Leggett, Elsa Soto
    Elsa Soto Leggett

    Solution Focused Classroom Guidance

    Solution Focused Counseling as a classroom guidance intervention can have a positive effect in a classroom setting. Solution Focused Classroom Guidance curriculum provides a useful framework for professional school counselors and teachers to present a positive, hopeful, and beneficial paradigm for students. Solution Focused...
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  • Tales from the Pond by Plunkett, Margaret
    Margaret Plunkett

    Tales from the Pond

    This book presents an alternative interpretation of a practice that tends to attract a great deal of negative press - that of ability grouping. Often viewed as elitist and a means of reinforcing the status quo in unequal societies, the educational practice of grouping...
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  • Scientific Literacy by Akdur, Tunç Erdal
    Tunç Erdal Akdur

    Scientific Literacy

    The purpose of this study was to explore whether instructional activities carried out in science courses support the development of some scientific literacy components at basic education level. Subjects of the present study were 90 students in ages 12-14 from 6th, 7th and 8th...
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  • Personalizing Learning by Webster, Ray
    Ray Webster

    Personalizing Learning

    Business in the Knowledge Society needs managers and employees who are autonomous lifelong learners, flexible and adaptable. To enable this, education in the 21st Century requires that students become active and independent learners. A key problem is how is this transition, from the relatively...
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  • Talk and Learning by Buckley, Beth
    Beth Buckley

    Talk and Learning

    This book is based on the premise that lack of attention is paid to speaking and listening in the classroom and that little opportunity exists for peer collaboration. It outlines a research project that focuses on the attitudes of teachers and children to speaking,...
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  • Language Policy in West Africa by Bukari, James
    James Bukari

    Language Policy in West Africa

    This book provides a new perspective by examining the language policies of Ghana and Burkina Faso and supplements existing studies on language policy in West Africa. The study reports the social attitudes of Ghanaians towards the French language and whether or not there is...
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  • The management of children with ADHD by McClintock, Laura
    Laura McClintock

    The management of children with ADHD

    This research study has sought to examine and evaluate how the presence of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) impacts upon the educational and behavioural climate of the mainstream classroom. It also addresses the effectiveness of a range of approaches to the management...
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  • Deconstructing Ageism Through Educational Curriculum by Beletic, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Beletic

    Deconstructing Ageism Through Educational Curriculum

    Deconstructing Ageism Through Educational Curriculum examines a school-based curriculum designed to educate grades 3, 6 and 9 students about aging, ageism and intergenerational relations. The work discusses ageism, intergenerational programs, and evaluation. An implementation evaluation of the resource "Growing Up, Growing Older" was conducted,...
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Education Books

Education books are a broad category of literature that provides information, insights, and guidance on various aspects of learning, teaching, and educational theories. These books are written by experts, scholars, and practitioners in the field of education and are intended for both educators and learners alike. Education books cover a diverse range of topics, including but not limited to pedagogy, curriculum development, educational psychology, educational leadership, special education, assessment and evaluation, instructional technology, and educational policy. They are designed to cater to individuals at different stages of their educational journeys, from early childhood education to higher education and beyond.

The primary objective of education books is to enhance understanding and promote effective learning. They not only provide theoretical knowledge but also offer practical strategies, tips, and real-life examples to help educators and learners apply these concepts in different educational settings. These books often incorporate case studies, research findings, and evidence-based practices to support their arguments and suggestions.

Education books are typically divided into subcategories based on their focus, such as educational philosophy, educational research, educational administration, or subject-specific books like math education or science education. This categorization allows readers to explore specific areas of interest within the broader field of education. Moreover, education books are constantly evolving to keep up with the changing demands and trends in education. They are often revised and updated to incorporate new research findings, changes in educational policies, and advancements in technology. This ensures that readers have access to the most relevant and up-to-date information in the field. 

Whether you are a student looking to supplement your learning or an educator in search of educational materials for your classroom, White Rain Book House has your needs covered. Our collection encompasses subjects such as mathematics, science, history, literature, geography, art, and more. Each book is meticulously chosen to align with the latest curriculum and educational standards, ensuring that customers receive accurate and up-to-date information.

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