Curriculum planning and development

This book seeks to critically examine the impacts of 'grand designs' in public policy through a detailed historical analysis of Australian schooling reforms since the 'education revolution' agenda was introduced by the federal government in the late 2000s.

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

How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of societyIn recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and increase their contributions to society.

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.

The largest specialization in faculties of education in Canada is curriculum studies.

This book documents a radical shift in thinking from focusing on the school as the place where curriculum is made to realizing the ways children and families are engaged as curriculum makers in homes, in communities, and in the spaces in-between, outside of school.

Teachers across the country are seeking ways to make their multicultural classrooms come alive with student talk about content.

How do you know if students are with you at the beginning, middle, and end of a lesson?

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At a time of renewed focus on the schools curriculum, Roy Blatchford has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers in education in a brilliant mixture of both practical and conceptual essays about what makes for a positive primary curriculum, 4-11.

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.

In this book international geography educators discuss the ways in which geographical knowledge is recontextualised in schools and consider effective approaches to facilitate, improve and advance geography education in research and practice.

Essential reading for all Reception and Year One teachers, presenting a clear and practical map for effective transition to support children's emotional, social and academic development.

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

Children's speaking, reading, and writing skills are closely connected, and this engaging text guides preservice and practicing teachers in choosing instructional strategies that promote the integrated development of these skills.

This book discusses the recent assessment movements in the eastern and western worlds with particular focuses on the policies, implementation, and impacts of assessment reform on education.

This volume addresses an important gap in the literature on task design and second language use.

This book brings together discussions about Australian arts policy and funding, outcomes of arts engagement in terms of social inclusion, well-being and education.

This book offers new ideas for thinking about how more equitable outcomes might be achieved in New Zealand so that all students are well-equipped to live and work in contemporary society.

This book draws on five philosophers from the continental tradition - Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Ranciere - in order to "e;think about thinking"e; and offer new and surprising answers to the question: How can we educate students to think creatively and critically?

When it was first published in 1997, The Course Syllabus became the gold standard reference for both new and experienced college faculty.

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.

Veteran educator Marilee Sprenger explains how to teach the essential, high-frequency words that appear in academic contexts--and reverse the disadvantages of what she calls word poverty.

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An important challenge for our world is to understand how cultural understanding and geographical education can be linked and used to improve the global society.

This book examines the push and pull of factors contributing to and constraining conversion of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education programs into STEAM (science, technology, engineering, math and arts) education programs.

This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area.

Professional learning networks (PLNs) have been promoted as one way of improving practice in research methodologies and frameworks aimed at the improvement of practice.

The book provides a comprehensive analyses of Vygotsky's and Piaget's theories implementation in modern preschool education.

Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns.

The what, the why, and the how of pedagogical documentationWhat does your classroom say about the childrens ideas, inquiries, learning, and play?

This book examines dominant discourses in human rights education globally.

This book takes up the debate about matching vocational education with the labour market and shows progress in terms of theoretical models, tools (transformation and matching processes), and learning environments.

Veteran educator Marilee Sprenger explains how to teach the essential, high-frequency words that appear in academic contexts--and reverse the disadvantages of what she calls word poverty.

With the vision that children can learn well and achieve excellence if provided with opportunity and challenge, Flack offers exciting ideas and strategies to identify and develop the unique talents found in each one.

Schools in 45 states now administer annual standardized tests, designed to gauge children's proficiency in reading, and, in many cases, to determine who gets promoted and who doesn't.

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

This book examines the evolution and innovation of teacher education in Singapore in the 21st century.

"e;In this 21st century, technological and social changes have never been as rapid as before, and educative practices must evolve and innovate to keep up.

The deck is stacked against educators and parents/caregivers looking for educational adequacy in contemporary US education.

This book explores how the education sector can transition to being truly sustainable and why necessary innovations for educational change are being subverted and undermined when mapped onto the existing industrial educational system.

There are a lot of redundant processes in schools.

This volume explores questions about hope, optimism and the possibilities of the 'new' as expressed in educational thinking on the nature and problem of adolescence.

Stimulate and engage children's thinking as you integrate STEM experiences throughout your early childhood program.

This book explores how the education sector can transition to being truly sustainable and why necessary innovations for educational change are being subverted and undermined when mapped onto the existing industrial educational system.

In Radical Reads, Joni Richards Bodart identified 101 young adult books that featured gritty, complex plots, focused on multidimensional characters, and tackled such difficult subjects as teenage pregnancy, dysfunctional families, gangs, prejudice, violence, drugs, or other provocative issues.

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In this book international geography educators discuss the ways in which geographical knowledge is recontextualised in schools and consider effective approaches to facilitate, improve and advance geography education in research and practice.

In the past few years, the way we think about assessment has undergone a revolution.