Curriculum planning and development

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Teaching students how to write more effectively is a goal that English teachers of all levels share.

Everyone is talking about signing with young children.

All children deserve the tools to fight off whatever dragons they encounter and move happily through life.

In recent years, educators have become increasingly concerned about the writing skills of students in elementary, middle, and high school.

Using Informative Assessments towards Effective Literacy Practices offers research driven solutions to improving student literacy success through the exploration of advancements in literacy assessment and instruction.

Current conventions in school evaluation focus on accountability, control and compliance.

This book considers the cognitive nature of courses connected with ICT or using ICT as an integral part of the course, including some views on the associated learning and teaching styles.

This book examines the history of formative assessment in the US and explores its potential for changing the landscape of teaching and learning to meet the needs of twenty-first century learners.

This book addresses the issue of de-spiritualization in education through an interdisciplinary lens.

This book proposes a new way of understanding the concept of currere, first described by William Pinar, as an approach to curriculum studies.

This book explores the concept of the 'hidden curriculum' within doctoral education.

This book focuses on quality work in higher education, and examines the relationship between the organizational and pedagogical dimensions of quality work in higher education.

This book concentrates on the deep historical, political, and institutional relationships between art, education, and excess.

This book presents a literature review of and a state-of-the-art glimpse into current research on affect-related aspects of teaching and learning in and beyond mathematics classrooms.

This book analyzes the murals and texts of the Dunhuang Grottoes, one of the most famous sites of cultural heritage on the Silk Road in Northwest China, from an educational perspective.

This book theorizes shadow education as a new component of curriculum, expanding the concept of curriculum to include this type of learning.

Against a background of increasing inequality and a rising tide of nationalism and populism, this book raises concerns that curriculum is being shaped by powerful non-academic, non-accountable forces and that populism - and its manifestations - represent a grave challenge to learning.

This book focuses on socioecological learning through the touchstone concepts of the Anthropocene, the Posthuman and Common Worlds as Creative Milieux.

This edited volume, now in its second edition, brings together the some of the most important figures in the evolution of Critical Pedagogy and a number of up-and-coming scholars.

This book explores the impact of the Lesson Books of the National Board of Education in Ireland in the nineteenth century.

This book examines the study of citizenship by means of reading and creating graphic novels and comics in the social studies classroom.

This volume explores the history of dance on the historically black college and university (HBCU) campus, casting a first light on the historical practices and current state of college dance program practice in HBCUs.

This book investigates university internationalization in different national contexts and compares internationalization performance across national boundaries.

Through innovative and critical research, this anthology inquires and challenges issues of race and positionality, empirical sciences, colonial education models, and indigenous knowledges.

This volume brings together many of South Africa's leading scholars of education and covers the full range of South African schooling: from financing and policy reform to in-depth discussions of literacy, numeracy, teacher development and curriculum change.

This Handbook presents an international collection of essays examining history education past and present.

This book draws together the perceptions and experiences from a range of international professionals with specific reference to food education.

This book is a rhizomatic curriculum autobiography that charts the author's efforts to develop and promote Australian outdoor environmental education practices that are inclusive of, and responsive to, the places in which they are performed.

This book explores how virtual place-based learning and research has been interpreted and incorporated into learning environments both within and across disciplinary perspectives.

This book, the first on the growing phenomenon of private full-time K-12 Muslim schools in France, investigates whether these schools participate in the communautarisme (or ethnic/cultural separatism) that Muslims are often accused of or if their founding is a sign of integration, given that most of private education in France is subsidized by the government.

This volume conceptualizes and distinguishes storying from narrative and storytelling to establish itself as a method.

This book fills an existing gap within the practice of global citizenship education by offering Asian perspectives.

This edited book addresses the complex topic of writing for scholarly publication by early-career scholars.

This book examines the integration of the international, global, and intercultural dimensions in contemporary education systems.

This book offers insights into the history of mathematics education, covering both the current state of the art of research and the methodology of the field.

This book reflects on how teachers and students use new technologies in classroom settings in order to improve the capacity of teaching and learning in history to successfully meet the challenges of the twenty-first century through a complex understanding of the relation between past and present.

This book carves the beginnings of a new path in the arguably weary discipline of economics.

This book revolves around curriculum making, reciprocal learning, and the best-loved self.

This book focuses on the representation of nature in science education in schools in the United States.

This volume, the first of a two-volume set, provides a foundation for future research and development in science curriculum.

This book offers an important overview of technology-enhanced education in Southern Africa.

This book explores the unique phenomenon of public alternative schools in Toronto, Canada and other large urban areas.

This book examines the formative relationship between nineteenth century American school architecture and curriculum.

This edited volume presents new and original approaches to teaching the French foreign-language curriculum, reconceptualizing the French classroom through a more inclusive lens.

This book explores the philosophical, ideological and practical dimensions of curriculum using an intercultural lens.

This highly original collection presents speculative fiction as fiction-based research to re-imagine education in the  future.

This volume informs the growing number of educational policy scholars on the use of critical theoretical frameworks in their analyses.

This book responds to challenging questions about curricular realignment, especially how a more porous approach to higher education reduces the impact of a "e;siloed"e; curriculum, lessens the tendency toward the fragmentation of knowledge, allows for the development of cross-disciplinary explorations, and promotes new approaches to knowledge and creativity through interdisciplinary integrative learning.

This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan.