Curriculum planning and development

Education for living or earning a living?

This book, which is the eighth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in decentralisation, school-based management (SBM) and quality in education globally.

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

The almost universal rejection of the notion of symbols as `carriers of meaning' has created the need to find an alternative for the use of models as embodiments of mathematical concepts.

Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus.

Since its original publication, Conflicts in Curriculum Theory has firmly established itself as the key volume that not only advanced alternative ways to think about education and curriculum but also introduced innovative scholarship and a radical conceptual grammar for the field.

Advances in Business Education & Training is a Book Series to foster advancement in the field of Business Education and Training.

This book takes a developmental perspective at the use of scoring rubrics to assess student work.

An essential text in literacy and teaching methods, this book introduces the concept of identity in literacy learning and provides guidance toward designing identity-based literacy instruction in early childhood and elementary classrooms.

Curriculum Implementation Leadership and Equity in Education: Curriculum Struggles and Hopes in Jamaica During the Post-Independence Era takes a critical historical perspective on how curriculum is understood, tracing major national curriculum implementation efforts within primary and secondary schools in Jamaica from the 1970s to 2000s.

This book explores the historicized complexities of myths of manhood through a curriculum study that examines the historical emergence of the current propagandization of attacks on manhood in US public life.

Here, veteran teacher Cheri Pierson Yecke details the chronological history of the middle school movement in the U.

This edited volume explores a range of educational effects on student learning that resulted from a long-term study using a creative visual arts curriculum designed for mobile media (smartphones and tablets) and used in art classrooms.

Thanks to learning science and to the creativity of teaching and learning professionals, we know much more about the ways students learn experientially and collaboratively.

Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book highlights how South African educational practices, discourses and structures normalize cisheteronormativity, along with how these are resisted within schools and through contemporary forms of activism.

The Third edition of this well-received and widely used Handbook brings together an entirely new set of chapters, to reflect progress and new themes in the ten years to 2022.

Here, veteran teacher Cheri Pierson Yecke details the chronological history of the middle school movement in the U.

This book provides qualitative scholars, particularly those in self-study, with timely research and practical resources for applying critical friendship as a research tool.

Librarians and faculty members offer perspectives, workshop initiatives, and classroom strategies to assist readers in increasing news literacy on their campus.

The first systematic analysis of American literature textbooks used by college instructors in the last century Scholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

An era of sweeping cultural change in America, the postwar years saw the rise of beatniks and hippies, the birth of feminism, and the release of the first video game.

This book brings together the most important figures in the evolution of Critical Pedagogy to provide comprehensive analyses of issues related to the struggle against the forces of neoliberalism and the imperial-induced privatization, not just in education, but in all of social life through the radical democratizing forces of critical pedagogy.

In diesem Buch wird der Einsatz und die Nutzung von Geschichtsschulbüchern im österreichischen Schulsystem im Bereich der Sekundarstufe I untersucht und es werden Einblicke aus der Perspektive von Lehrenden und Lernenden präsentiert.

Schooling, Society and Curriculum offers a much needed reassessment and realignment of curriculum studies in the UK and international contexts.

This volume identifies, problematizes, and discusses issues specific to the design of educational programs for teacher candidates from working class, ethnic- and language-minority, and immigrant backgrounds, taking as its starting point the distinctive, complex perspectives that these candidates bring to the university classroom.

This book addresses an important, yet under-researched domain in interpreting education: how theoretical training models should be responsive to context.

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.

In this book, Block critically examines the political and social critique now directed at the teaching profession, and to look at some ethical positions the teacher regularly and already takes in the course of her daily life in the classroom.

The current educational culture of standards, accountability, and creeping educational capitalism finds teachers increasingly teaching laundry lists of facts and skills.

Inspires early childhood educators to use innovative practices through stories from real teachers who use emergent curriculum in their classrooms.

Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an approach to learning and teaching that aims to develop reasoning and judgement.

This book brings the key ideas and concepts of social realism to bear on current debates in the fields of knowledge and curriculum.

This book explores intersections between sense of place, the formation of identity, indigeneity and colonisation, literature and literary study, the arts, and a revisioned school curriculum for the Anthropocene.

The Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education is a comprehensive reference text, covering every topic in the field with entries ranging from short descriptions to much longer pieces where the topic warrants more elaboration.

Universal Access Through Inclusive Instructional Design explores the ways that educators around the world reduce barriers for students with disabilities and other challenges by planning and implementing accessible, equitable, high-quality curricula.

What does the secondary school library media specialist need to know about technology in the twenty-first century?

A revolution in history education is propelling historical thinking and knowing to the forefront of history and social studies education in North America and beyond.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Technology Education draws together international perspectives on contemporary praxis in technology education from philosophy to empirical research.

This book examines educational semiotics and the representation of knowledge in school science.

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

Merry argues that most voluntary separation experiments in education are not driven by a sense of racial, cultural or religious superiority.

Este libro pretende ser un texto de consulta, con respuestas claras sobre los diversos conceptos musicales que se abordan en los estudios musicales iniciales, contextualizados en nuestra realidad cultural.