Curriculum planning and development

The late 1930s and early 1940s were the peak of progressive education in the United States, and Elisabeth Irwin's Little Red School House in New York City was iconic in that movement.

Collage making offers everyone from small children to trained artists the ability to express themselves through images.

Arts educators have adopted social justice themes as part of a larger vision of transforming society.

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

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

Las directrices europeas y a nivel mundial establecen la necesidad de introducir el "espíritu empresarial" o "emprendimiento/emprendedurismo" como un objetivo explícito en los planes de estudios y reconocer formalmente las actividades de formación en ese espíritu empresarial.

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.

The Common Core State Standards are a set of standards for Kindergarten through 12th grade that have been adopted by 45 states in an effort to ensure that all U.

This book critiques the often presumed racial innocence of young children.

This book brings in an international perspective on a much debated area, namely teacher education.

This book focuses on the near total attrition of African American students from school music programmes and the travesty of democratic education that it symbolizes.

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.

Interest by American educators in the Holocaust has increased exponentially during the second half of the twentieth century.

By the late eighteenth century, universities in England and Germany had lost their sense of purpose.

This pioneering book examines how policies to raise efficiency and performance in Europe's universities have profoundly altered ties between government, society and higher education, outlining how Evaluation Agencies have urged Europe's universities to meet the challenge of modernization.

Across much of the world there is now a standard secondary school curriculum based on a traditional array of subjects.

Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.

Andreotti illustrates how postcolonial theory is applied in the contexts of educational research/critique and in pioneering pedagogical projects.

Marxist thinking can offer a critical understanding of education in an international context.

This book challenges educators to be agents of change, to take history into their own hands, and to make social justice central to the educational endeavor.

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

The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in different ways.

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).

A collection of content-based chapters and case studies examining the pedagogical potential and realities of digital literacies in education.

School boards spend almost $500 billion in taxpayer-provided funds, they employ more than 6 million people, offering pensions and lifetime health benefits that have helped build the obligation that has put state governments in fiscal peril.

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

This is the first book devoted to the study of the thought of Albert Schweitzer as it relates to educational theory and practice.

This work examines the impoverished image of life presupposed by the legacy of transcendent and representational thinking that continues to frame the limits of curricular thought.

This book considers how interdisciplinary conversation, critique, and collaboration enrich and transform humanities and social science education for those teaching and studying traditional Americanist fields.

The continuing gap in achievement between traditionally underserved students (students of color, English learners, and poor children) and their middle-class white peers, however, has provoked questions of the effectiveness of current mathematics teaching practices for meeting the needs of these students.

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

Based on research conducted in a three year, mixed-method, multi-site National Science Foundation, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program Project, this book offers a comprehensive look into how engineering department culture and climate impacts the successful retention of female and minority college students.

Neoliberal logics of government shaping childhood today produce market-based frameworks for understanding childhood risks.

This book inquires about the processes through which different higher education systems have determined national higher education policies related to competitiveness, as well as the strategies they have adopted to enhance their global competitiveness.

This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community.

This book analyzes equity and diversity in schools and teacher education.

While much has been written about South African education, now, for the first time, gathered in one collection are glimpses of South African curriculum studies described by six distinctive points of view.

This book unites a dynamic group of scholars who examine linkages among local, national, and international levels of educational policy and practice.

This edited volume brings together historians of education and comparative education researchers to study the educational reconstruction projects that Americans have launched in post-conflict settings across the globe.

This book responds to the needs of urban youth by describing youth development principles in physical activity programs.

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.

This book brings together a group of top international scholars who consider Pedagogy of Critique, Revolutionary Pedagogy and Radical Critical Pedagogy as forms of praxis to examine the paradoxical roles of schooling in reproducing and legitimizing large-scale structural inequalities.

This book contributes in multiple dimensions to the educational literature through an articulation of T.

This book employs a socio-cultural approach to study the organizational dynamics and experiences of self-formation that shape community college life.

This book offers examples from both Christian and secular democratic institutions of higher education and then responds to possible criticisms about how moral education in a comprehensive humanist moral tradition may short change diversity, autonomy and critical thinking.

Educating children and adolescents in public schools about sex is a deeply inflammatory act in the United States.

The 2016 presidential election campaign and its aftermath have underscored worrisome trends in the present state of our democracy: the extreme polarization of the electorate, the dismissal of people with opposing views, and the widespread acceptance and circulation of one-sided and factually erroneous information.

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.

"e;Applebee's central point, the need to teach 'knowledge in context,' is absolutely crucial for the hopes of any reformed curriculum.

Math and science hold powerful places in contemporary society, setting the foundations for entry into some of the most robust and highest-paying industries.