Curriculum planning and development

From Technicians to Teachers provides theoretical and practical reasons for suggesting that widespread, international curriculum reform of the post-1990 period need not deprofessionalise teaching.

Discussions and Democracy: Motivation, Growth, and the New Social Studies Classroom is written in a vernacular that will springboard and support teachers' understandings of implementing discussion-based approaches in their classrooms.

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.

What is an Ally?

Summarizing data derived from a four-year combined longitudinal/ cross-sectional comparative study of the implementation of one standards-based middle school curriculum program, Mathematics in Context, this book demonstrates the challenges of conducting comparative longitudinal research in the reality of school life.

Incorporate inquiry-based practices into your early childhood classroom or family child care program.

Offering an examination of educational approaches to promote justice, this volume demonstrates the necessity for keeping race, ethnicity, class, language, and other diversities at the core of pedagogical strategies and theories that address queer, trans, gender nonbinary and related issues.

Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy.

During the 1950s, leading American scientists embarked on an unprecedented project to remake high school science education.

This compelling book explores the dimensions of social equity by asking the leading equity scholars to reflect on the responsibility for social equity and how equity can be achieved.

Economics is everywhere.

La formation théologique est une dimension clé de la mission chrétienne.

Learning, the Hardest Job You'll Ever Love is a collage of ideas designed for eighth through twelfth grade students and their parents to have better relationships with one another and with the entire school community, to help and support their communities in different ways, and to appreciate the value of the experiences offered within and outside their communities.

This book explores language teachers' identity learning through the lens of teacher emotions.

In Climbing Parnassus, winner of the 2005 Paideia Prize, Tracy Lee Simmons presents a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin.

The national curriculum provides an outline of core knowledge around which teachers can develop exciting and stimulating lessons to promote the development of pupils' knowledge, understanding and skills as part of the wider school curriculum.

This book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component.

I am delighted to have the opportunity to write this foreword for Karyn Cooper's and Robert White's splendid and compelling edited text on The Practical Critical Educator.

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

"e;What year are you preparing your students for?

This book explores alternative models of civics and citizenship education.

This collection, comprised of chapters focused on the intellectual histories and present circumstances of curriculum studies in Brazil, is Pinar's summary of exchanges (occurring over a two-year period) between the authors and members of an International Panel (scholars working in Finland, South Africa, the United States).

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

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Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives.

Using "e;cultures of curriculum"e; as a lens, this clear, compelling text reveals and critically examines the belief systems and classroom practices of curricular orientations in contemporary American society.

The Hope of American School Reform tells the story of the origins of the reform in science and math education.

The ability to bring meaning to music notation without the assistance of an accompanist playing choral parts is a requisite skill on a musician's journey to self-reliance and full artistic expression.

In this timely book, curriculum expert Gerald A.

This edited volume focuses on challenges facing science education across three areas: curriculum, teacher education, and pedagogy.

"e;This book gives a voice to English language teachers faced with the challenges posed by English language curriculum change.

Originally published in 2000.

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

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!

One of Americas greatest challenges is to reverse the steep decline of the intellectual performance of its young men.

This book focuses on discourses of globalisation in comparative education research and the politics of education reforms.

The curriculum is not a recipe or compendium of what should be taught in a particular grade or at a particular level.

The contributions to this volume aim to stimulate discussion about the role of assessment in the learning experiences of students in music and other creative and performing arts settings.

Originally published in 1979.

A Creative Approach to the Common Core Standards: The Da Vinci Curriculum challenges educators to design programs that boldly embrace the Common Core State Standards by imaginatively drawing from the genius of great men and women such as Leonardo da Vinci.

In this book geography educators from around the globe discuss their research into the power of geographical thinking and consider successful strategies to implement, improve and advance geography education in research and practice.

Sophisticated monograph focussing on attainment at the end of secondary/high school education (and the interface with tertiary education).

This book presents the important role of mathematics in the teaching of financial education.

This book is an edited collection grouped into three key thematic areas.

A Co-Publication of Routledge for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)In recent years there has been increased interest in the nature and role of proof in mathematics education; with many mathematics educators advocating that proof should be a central part of the mathematics education of students at all grade levels.

Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant.