Teaching of a specific subject

This book is a theoretical inquiry into alternative pedagogies that challenge current standardized practices in the field of science education.

Democratic evaluation brings a way of thinking about evaluation's role in society and in particular, its role in strengthening social justice.

Teacher effectiveness and licensure in the United States continue to be scrutinized at the state and national levels.

The new generation of tests is faced with new challenges.

Science is unique among the disciplines since it is inherently hands-on.

Research in Science Education (RISE) Volume 6, Research Based Undergraduate Science Teaching examines research, theory, and practice concerning issues of teaching science with undergraduates.

Racism and ignorance churn on college campuses as surely as they do in society at large.

A team of researchers from 35 states across the country developed a survey designed to create a snapshot of social studies teaching and learning in the United States.

The title of the book is Critique as Uncertainty.

This book integrates research, action research, best practice and case studies detailing how some educators have embraced the opportunities afforded by mobile learning.

In the past twenty years, the importance of reflection has been recognized by all professions, especially the education profession.

In traditional educational research, race is treated as merely a variable.

Visual Data in Science Education builds upon previous work done by the editors to bring some definition to the meaning of visual data as it relates to education, and highlighted the breadth of types and uses of visual data across the major academic disciplines.

The world is ever changing and the way students experience social studies should reflect the environment in which they live and learn.

The central issue of this volume is how to meet the linguistic and academic needs of the increasing numbers of English learners (ELs).

Literacy researchers and educators are currently involved in exciting international literacy projects.

This edited book offers concrete information and useful suggestions to graduate students who are seeking employment at institutions of higher education in North America and other parts of the world.

While the concept of integration or an interdisciplinary curriculum has been around for decades, the purposeful practice of integration is a relatively new educational endeavor.

Sponsored by the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group for Educational StatisticiansThis volume is the second edition of Hancock and Mueller's highly-successful 2006 volume, with all of the original chapters updated as well as four new chapters.

A Book for Every Teacher: Teaching English Language Learners is a unique and compressive text written for mainstream classroom teachers.

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines.

Education professionals interested in understanding student writing will want to read this book.

This edited book is a new and valuable resource for students, teachers, and practitioners, providing a detailed exploration of how qualitative research can be applied in the field of peace and conflict studies.

The teaching and learning of mathematics in Alberta - one of three Canadian provinces sharing a border with Montana - has a long and storied history.

This volume presents the very important issue of integrating culture into the second language classroom.

The intent of this monograph is to showcase successful implementation of mathematical discourse in the classroom.

Most of the 12 articles are from a 1992 double issue of Linguistics and Education devoted to intertextuality--the notion that texts influence each other.

Through the chapters in this volume we learn about the research foci and/ or questions that these classroom teachers are interested in examining, the mathematics content through which they engaged their students in these explorations, the data sources they used to make sense of their focus and questions, and their roles in the research.

Leadership, as a discipline, leadership education, as a field, and leadership educator, as a profession are still in their infancy and rapidly evolving.

Volume 1 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.

Following in the steps of the socio-political turn of the discipline, Equity in Mathematics Education: Addressing a Changing World emerged as a response of the editor and the chapter authors to the enormous changes that have in the last years occurred at a global level (for example, the ongoing war in Syria, the political [in]actions of powerful nations to fight climate change, the rise of far-right parties in many countries around the world, and so on).

This work looks at race, ethnicity and education in the United States.

This volume was written primarily for teachers who have developed (or who are being encouraged to develop) an awareness of and commitment to teaching mathematics for understanding.

The aim of this volume is to provide a detailed description of the process of initiating, maintaining and assessing a top quality elementary school foreign language program and to assist planners by providing them with a workable model.

For citizenship education in the 21st century, globalization increasingly presents a new challenge and a new opportunity.

Rarely do we find books in educational research that are both thick in context and rich in theory.

Our innovative spirit and creativity lies beneath the comforts and security of today's technologically evolved society.

This book introduces pre-service and in-service foreign language teachers to the basic concepts of critical educational study as applied to the sociological position occupied by foreign language education in the United States.

This anthology is the second volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group-Research on the education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and California Association for Asian and Pacific American Education.

(Published in Co-operation with the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics)According to NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, "e;Technology is essential in teaching and learning of mathematics; it influences the mathematics that is taught and it enhances students' learning.

For thousands of years, religion has been a key element of human societies.

Without contraries there is no progression.

Many books on multicultural education focus on a country and provide indepth discussion of issues pertinent to that country at the time.

Includes discussion on the rationale of teaching about genocide; the history of genocide; and 10 cases studies of genocide perpetrated in the 20th century.

The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on dif-ferent aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world.

The significant change in public schools over the last two decades warrants a response in how we prepare teachers.

A study of successful reading instruction.

Taken together, these authors explore the many and varied challenges faced by teacher educators generally, and social studies teacher educators specifically.

A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Working with Mixed Heritage Students offers a collection of writings that bridges the social science and educational literature related to mixed heritage identity development and schooling in diverse contexts.