Education

One of the most important books in the history of psychometrics has been virtually unavailable to scholars and students for decades.

In this far-reaching discussion of curriculum and liberal education, William A.

This book is motivated by our experiences in working with students and their families in urban communities.

The failure of American education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the inability of educational researchers, policy makers and judicial officials to disentangle the complex definitions that have emerged in a post-segregated society.

The book provides a description of the cognitive revolution which began in the 1950s and reached full fruition in the late 1960s.

Strong system-wide support is increasingly being identified as laying an important role in policy efforts aimed at increasing student achievement (Hightower, Knapp, March, and McLaughlin: 2002).

The Advances in Service-Learning Research book series was established to initiate the publication of a set of comprehensive research volumes that would present and discuss a wide range of issues in this broad field called service-learning.

Through the chapters in this volume we learn about the questions that capture the attention of teachers, the methodologies they use to gather data, and the ways in which they make sense of what they find.

This volume of Advances in Teacher Education is about beliefs held by teachers and addresses the important topic of teacher beliefs from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

This book can be used as a graduate school text for courses in school buildings and facilities.

The contributors in this book identify and clearly discuss contemporary and critical issues, challenges and opportunities in HRM.

In this volume, R.

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

The primary purpose of this book is to trace the theoretical methodological foundations of American educational technology.

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

This publication is a very significant cooperative effort of the Department of Audiovisual Instruction and the National Society for Programmed Instruction.

This is Book V in the series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

In this volume, David Geary provides a comprehensive theory that brings children's education into the 21st century, and provides directions for the development of a new discipline, "e;evolutionary educational psychology.

Education, East and West, is today mostly Western in orientation.

This volume of The David C.

One may view the idea of the nation as a fundamental "e;assumption"e; which defines the manner in which modern man perceives, and experiences, social reality.

The hybridity and dynamism of today's interconnected, interdependent and culturally diverse world poses challenges and opportunities for learning and communication.

This series is dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

This monograph reports on an analysis of a small part of the mathematics curriculum, the definitions given to quadrilaterals.

This book on bilingual education policy represents a multidimensional and longitudinal study of "e;policy processes"e; as they play out on the ground (a single school in Los Angeles), and over time (both within the same school, and also within the state of Georgia).

This volume showcases the efforts of real teachers using the teaching events from real middle school classrooms.

Originally this book was meant only to recommend a way to pay for placing modern technology into all of our country's public schools.

This book sets out to explore the intersections between matters not frequently yoked in academic discussions: spirituality, social justice, and the learning of world languages.

The pages of this book illustrate that as instruments of socialization and sites of ideological discourse textbooks are powerful artefacts in introducing young people to a specific historical, cultural and socioeconomic order.

Based on extended, intensive fieldwork in an Australian high school, Challenging the System illuminates issues faced on a daily basis by teachers and educational administrators in many parts of the world.

This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students' historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film.

This book is designed to encourage and support in-service and pre-service teachers who want to conduct classroom-based action research about literacy teaching and learning.

This book attempts to offer not just a bird's-eye view of the communities of designers project, but also to help identify broad themes and issues that can inform discussions and policies of technology integration at other institutions.

The invited authors of this edited volume have been prolific in the arena of Real Data Analysis (RDA) as it applies to the social and behavioral sciences, especially in the disciplines of education and psychology.

HRM ethics is a root cause of many important problems in business ethics, and may represent the solution to even more.

In the first edition of this book published in 1988, Shirley Engle and I offered a broader and more democratic curriculum as an alternative to the persistent back-to-the-basics rhetoric of the '70s and '80s.

Distance Education has become a major topic of interest in the field of educational communications and technology.

The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history.

The faking of personality tests in a selection context has been perceived as somewhat of a nuisance variable, and largely ignored, or glossed over by the academic literature.

American Evangelicals and Religious Diversity is a qualitative study of how religion and education intersect at one conservative Christian school.

This work expands on the ideas and themes discussed in the first two volumes in this series on education policy: The first book - Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement - examines the importance of teacher quality.

This book aims to bring together the work of a number of online learning specialists from around the world, to offer the reader a global view of current and recent research and practice in electronic learning from a variety of disciplines and contexts.

This edited book is a comparative study on teacher education across ten major Englishspeaking regions of the world (USA, English Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand).

This book focuses on electronic learning communities created through the development and use of the Internet for instruction and training.

A multidisciplinary investigation of service-learning.

An examination of the research relating to school reform proposals.

The purpose of this volume is two-fold.

The mission of the book series, Research in Science Education, is to provide a comprehensive view of current and emerging knowledge, research strategies, and policy in specific professional fields of science education.

Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005).

Podcasting for Teachers is the first volume of a new series from Dr.