Curriculum planning and development

This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis, who has a long and eminent career as an educational researcher and academic spanning over 40 years.

This volume presents a distinctively Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to the theorizing, understanding, and critique of curriculum in higher education.

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Despite the implementation of numerous reform policies, moral education in China remains problematic.

This book details the development and impacts of anti-sexism professional development (PD) workshops for preservice teachers.

This volume explores two aspects of change within higher education: macro factors governing and influencing the institutional environment, and micro issues taking place within the institutions themselves.

Without conscious consideration of diversity in the curriculum, there is a danger that teachers fall back on a narrow syllabus.

La escuela se enfrenta a una serie de retos y desafios que ponen a prueba las competencias y habilidades del profesorado actual.

Transform your child's education from institutional compliance to intellectual freedom.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

Understanding Curriculum is a critical introduction to contemporary curriculum theory and practice.

This book brings together significant international research in technology education through a focus on contemporary Ph.

In this book we outline an optimistic, aspirational and unashamedly ambitious agenda for schooling.

This book is a theoretical and practical guide to implementing an inquiry-based approach to teaching which centers creative responses to works of art in curriculum.

How Schools Transform explores the process of transformation.

Together with Leah Crawford, Angela Jenkins and Julie Sargent, Bob Cox has compiled this rich resource, complete with vivid illustrations by Victoria Cox, to help teachers enhance their learners' engagement with challenging texts and develop their writing skills as budding wordsmiths.

Originally published in 1980.

How are curriculum policies translated into opportunities to learn in the classroom?

Thousands of educators worldwide are already using Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's Understanding by Design (UbD) as a framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that lead students to deep understanding of content.

Creativity in the English Curriculum is essential reading for anyone involved or interested in the teaching of English, offering both a detailed history of how creativity has informed the tradition of teaching English, and how it should be used to position this teaching in the future.

This book explores four interrelated themes: rethinking civic education in light of the diversity of U.

This book advocates for a radical change in music teaching and learning methods, allowing for a break from the traditional conservatory model still in use in many classrooms.

A must-have guide for everyone working in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Gamelan and American academic institutions have maintained their close association for more than sixty years.

In The Teacher's Gradebook, Barry Raebeck, a practicing secondary school English teacher, shares the grading strategies that he uses so successfully with his own students.

Distinguished educators Arthur L.

This volume addresses critical challenges and issues facing foreign language departments in colleges and universities across the U.

This edited book makes an epistemic claim that disability studies' approaches to curriculum are doing more than merely critiquing how privileged knowledge excludes disability from curriculum theory and praxis.

From All Quiet on the Western Front and Gone with the Wind to No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire, many of the most memorable films have been adapted from other sources.

This book explores the pivotal role that geography as a school subject plays in helping every young person achieve their educational potential.

`A definite must-have for all teachers of English confronted with early multilingualism' - Times Educational Supplement The activities and guidance in this book will help teachers to develop the confidence and meet the individual needs of young children with English as an additional language across different settings.

In History and Imagination, elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship.

This book helps band directors teach and develop successful jazz programs in middle schools and high schools.

What teacher hasn't sometimes believed that the entire class understands a lesson, even though only a few students are nodding their heads and answering questions?

By integrating the best of current research and practice in curriculum planning this book presents that comprehensive topic in a manageable form.

Learning to Connect explores how teachers learn to form meaningful relationships with students, especially across racial and cultural differences.

This book has been designed to add to the study and experience of early childhood ideas and experience in an international context.

'A beautifully reasoned argument, in the age of cuts, as to why the arts absolutely must be at the very heart of primary education' – Jon Snow

Studying the arts, including visual arts, music, dance, drama and literature, has numerous benefits across the primary curriculum.

There is a long history of interest in 'strangers' and 'strangeness' in the West.

Contemporary education is held captive by an obsession with assessment.

Activities for Teaching Gender and Sexuality in the University Classroom is the first interdisciplinary collection of activities devoted entirely to teaching about gender and sexuality.

Using casual language and a straightforward approach, Better Writing: Beyond Periods and Commas provides students with an easy-to-read and effective guide for developing their writing skills.

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

This book presents an historical and contemporary overview of Early Childhood Education for Sustainability (ECEfS).

This edited volume examines new ways of teaching mathematics through a cross-cultural reciprocal learning project between sister schools in Canada and China.

This volume features scholars who use a critical geography framework to analyze how constructions of social space shape education reform.

In the original book Continuous Provision, Alistair Bryce-Clegg covered what effective continuous provision should look like and how practitioners could achieve it by linking their provision directly to assessment.

This book offers research-based models of exemplary practice for educators at all grade levels, from primary school to university, who want to integrate human rights education into their classrooms.