Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage.
A Dream Defaulted explores how the student loan crisis disproportionately affects Black borrowers and why rising student debt is both a cause and consequence of social inequality in the United States.
Informed by years of research and on-the-ground reporting, Schools That Succeed is Karin Chenoweth's most inspiring and compelling book yetan essential read for educators who seek to break the stubborn connection between academic achievement and socioeconomic status.
An incisive study of the mechanisms reinforcing the underrepresentation of women of color in STEM fields and a call for systemic change to address the imbalance.
An incisive study of the mechanisms reinforcing the underrepresentation of women of color in STEM fields and a call for systemic change to address the imbalance.
A highly accessible and easily adaptable conceptual framework that helps educational leaders plan, leverage, and sustain change as they create more equitable schools.
In Systems for Instructional Improvement, Paul Cobb and his colleagues draw on their extensive research to propose a series of specific, empirically grounded recommendations that together constitute a theory of action for advancing instruction at scale.
Using original qualitative and quantitative data, Schools Under Siege confronts the many ways, direct and indirect, in which US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policies and practices disrupt education.
La universidad, conceptualizada desde la Unesco (2015) como un bien común, requiere una real transformación fundamentada en la auto reflexión y análisis socializado desde las implicaciones epistemológicas y conjugadas entre la teoría y la práctica, la relación y sentido de pertinencia con la innovación permanente, provocando el desarrollo, la productividad y una mejor calidad de vida en todos sus aspectos.
La salud mental es un estado de bienestar en el que la persona es capaz de afrontar el estrés normal de la vida, desarrollar sus capacidades, trabajar de forma productiva y contribuir en su comunidad.
Building Culture navigates the complex educational landscape and provides a look at school culture, highlighting key aspects of cultivating culture that leads to great pupil outcomes.
This comprehensive, research-based resource illuminates the challenges and benefits of integrating community-based transformational learning (CBTL) experiences of teachers, students, and the community in early childhood settings.
What its really like to be a parent in the world of higher education, and how academia can make this hard climb a little less steepAcademia has a big problem.
Pretended is a vivid historical, political and cultural account of schools and teaching under Section 28, a law that banned schools in the UK from promoting homosexuality as a 'pretended family relationship'.
El presente libro tiene por finalidad contribuir a la reflexión y el diálogo sobre los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de los resultados sobre los factores de sostenibilidad que permiten consolidar procesos de mejoras orientados a la consolidación de innovaciones educativas en contextos escolares.
La inclusión educativa es el mayor desafío de cualquier sistema educativo pues se trata de ofrecer una educación digna a todos los niños y jóvenes del mundo.
This book examines ways of developing research on young people's sexual cultures in the context of a media-saturated and technology-focused contemporary culture, an area of study that remains relatively unexplored despite heightened concern about young people, sex and culture.
This book examines ways of developing research on young people's sexual cultures in the context of a media-saturated and technology-focused contemporary culture, an area of study that remains relatively unexplored despite heightened concern about young people, sex and culture.
El presente libro indaga desde diferentes perspectivas teóricas y discursivas temas y problemas considerados centrales en el campo educativo y pedagógico.
The Instructional Leadership Cycle introduces a multifaceted model for continuous school and system improvement, founded on an adaptable set of professional practices for K12 leaders.
Preparing Teachers to Educate Whole Students offers a wide-ranging comparative account of how innovative professional development programs in a number of countries guide and support teachers in their efforts to promote cognitive and socio-emotional growth in their students.
This inspiring account of bipartisan political success delivers an expert breakdown of how and why Kansasa politically conservative statewas able to craft a stable, balanced, and equitable system of funding for its public schools.
Co-Creating Equitable Teaching and Learning invites readers to help forge a more inclusive and accessible college education by incorporating student voices via pedagogical partnerships.
In Systems for Instructional Improvement, Paul Cobb and his colleagues draw on their extensive research to propose a series of specific, empirically grounded recommendations that together constitute a theory of action for advancing instruction at scale.
Culturally Responsive School Leadership focuses on how school leaders can effectively serve minoritized studentsthose who have been historically marginalized in school and society.
Savitz-Romer offers a strategic approach to school counseling that enables educational leaders to draw on existing staff to create supportive contexts and programs for students.
Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders.
Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders.
This book presents how neoliberal trends, as reflected in the grouplised school structure, affect teachers' professional learning and daily practice, and discusses how teacher agency is enabled and constrained at both individual and collective levels.
This book presents how neoliberal trends, as reflected in the grouplised school structure, affect teachers' professional learning and daily practice, and discusses how teacher agency is enabled and constrained at both individual and collective levels.
Core Practices for Project-Based Learning offers a framework and essential set of strategies for successfully implementing project-based learning (PBL) in the classroom.
Caregiver involvement is key to a child's reading success story, and libraries are in the perfect position to provide the guidance needed for parents and caregivers to embrace their role as their children's first and most enduring teachers.
