Educational strategies and policy

The industrial monoculture spreading across the globe is highly competitive, greedy and egotistical; in the shaping of educational policy, global communities have accepted a model based on science and technology, which lacks aspects that should be addressed in the goal of education.

The Language of Peace: Communicating to Create Harmony offers practical insights for educators, students, researchers, peace activists, and all others interested in communication for peace.

Research on middle level education indicates that student learning at the middle level has a deep and abiding influence on post-secondary opportunities and career paths.

Education is a contested terrain.

While nation engages in debates concerning central issues of religion and religious diversity in education, the historic saliency of religion and spirituality in the Black community and in the education of its children continues to be largely ignored.

This book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness.

Ethnographic inquiry serves as a unique educational resource that is accessible to students and teachers of all economic and social classes and therefore well suited to building democratic communities in the 21st Century.

Sometimes you need to hear the story from the beginning.

Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education.

This book examines what equity means in a nation where the schools are becoming more diverse.

Filipino Americans have a long and rich history with and within the United States, and they are currently the second largest Asian group in the country.

We are in the midst of yet another global crisis in capitalism.

Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues.

The networks of Tennessee politicians, school leaders, and academics are rife with significant contributors to the national fabric of educational reform.

The currency of social capital serves as an important function given the capacity to generate external access (getting to) and internal accountability (getting through) for individuals and institutions alike.

International Education Inquiries is a book series dedicated to realizing the global vision of Education 2030a.

While critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to leadership.

In Queer Multicultural Social Justice Education: Curriculum (and Identity) Development Through Performance, I take a pragmatic approach sharing my intimate journey, my stories, and myself with you-the reader-as I actively perform and model the development of queer explorations (i.

Sometimes you need to hear the story from the beginning.

The book will be designed primarily for graduate students (or advanced undergraduates) who are learning psychometrics, as well as professionals in the field who need a reference for use in their practice.

Education is a contested terrain.

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Research on middle level education indicates that student learning at the middle level has a deep and abiding influence on post-secondary opportunities and career paths.

This volume continues IAP's dedication to the diverse field of international adult learning in the tradition of those books related to the We Learn and AAHE conferences.

This book is the third volume in the series on Research in Educational Diversity and Excellence.

Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues.

Storybridge to Second Language Literacy makes a case for using authentic children's literature-alternately also referred to as 'stories' or 'real books'-as the medium of instruction in teaching English to young learners, particularly in contexts where children must access general curriculum subjects in English.

Ethnographic inquiry serves as a unique educational resource that is accessible to students and teachers of all economic and social classes and therefore well suited to building democratic communities in the 21st Century.

The current thrust in the field of education is to improve teachers' understanding of how research on best practices can improve student learning.

The Handbook of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education brings together in one source research techniques that researchers can use to collect data for studies that contribute to the knowledge in early childhood education.

This textbook is a comprehensive and practical guide to teaching middle level social studies.

Beyond the Schoolhouse introduces eight paradigm shifts that are urgently needed to challenge inequities in education and improve the conditions for historically marginalized school children.

This edited volume seeks to answer the question, "e;What does it mean to be a critical multimodal scholar in educational spaces?

This book focuses on global education, and policy reforms for refugee and displaced children, which has ascended in importance due to increased conflict migration worldwide.

The Montgomery bus boycott, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and Brown v.

The participation of Black students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, is an issue of national concern.

It is common for teachers and students of education to feel disheartened about the profession and their own aims and purposes once they become conscious of the dehumanizing tendencies of the schooling institution.

Teacher educators have opportunities to include issues of multicultural education, equity, and social justice in the work done with preservice teachers.

The rash of bullying incidents within schools, universities, and workplaces has prompted a public outcry and a call to action.

Today, like no other time in our history, the threat of misinformation and disinformation is at an all-time high.

Federalism has played a central role in charting educational progress in many countries.

This book, the second in the series, is a distinct exploration of how educational policy makers, curriculum developers, educators, learners and social activists can utilize the hitherto untapped rich resource of African traditional oral literature and visual cultures.

In From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond: Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility, Ronald Swartz offers an evolving development of fallible, liberal democratic, self-governing educational philosophies.

The networks of Tennessee politicians, school leaders, and academics are rife with significant contributors to the national fabric of educational reform.

This book is written by a diverse cohort of both of American educators, including professors, teachers, school counselors, and school administrators from pre-K to college levels.

Caribbean Discourse in Inclusive Education Volume II "e;Responding to Learner Diversity and Learner Difficulties"e; shares selected critical reflections and recommendations on the way educational communities respond to student diversity and difficulties learning.

The book Beyond Marginality: Understanding the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Difference in Educational Leadership Research promotes new theoretical and conceptual frameworks for the study of race and ethnicity in educational leadership.

Over the past thirty years, Holt High School in central Michigan has engaged in a quiet revolution that has transformed mathematics teaching and learning in the district.

As the demand for education at all levels has increased, so have the models of meeting these increased demands for education.

Between 1980 and 2005, 45 states were involved in lawsuits around equity of funding and adequacy of education provided to all students in the state.