Education

This unique and visionary text is a compilation of fascinating case studies by New York State teachers, parents and professors.

This book introduces and explains this important new technology from the perspective of educators.

No two people were more responsible for the current way lessons are taught worldwide than Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky.

The name of Zoltan P.

This installment in the book series "e;Advances in Service-Learning Research"e;, edited by Shelley H.

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

This work looks at new directions in human resource management.

This book documents and compares the social organization and academic arrangement of instruction in two remaining modern, public one-teacher schools in rural Nebraska.

As the first volume in a series sponsored by SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American educational Research Association and California Association for Asian and Pacific American Education, this book sheds important light on the educational needs of Asian and Pacific American students in k- college.

Functional literacy, cultural literacy, and progressive literacy are just a few of the many terms one can invoke when attempting to define literacy.

In an increasingly global learning environment, teachers are challenged to meet a myriad of student needs-provide basic literacy and mathematics skills, improve scientific and technological thinking, increase bilingual and multi-lingual competencies.

This book was written to bring together a summary of the current knowledge on merit pay and to further advance understanding of this type of incentive pay plan.

The chapters in this book should stimulate the reader not only to think about the kind of leadership that is needed to improve schools in the Caribbean (using'schools' in the widest sense to range from early childhood to higher education institutions) but also other forms of support.

This volume represents a serious attempt to understand what it is that structures the pedagogical experience.

This book presents a range of evidence-based analyses focused on the role of contextual factors on urban teacher learning.

Storied Lives: Emancipatory Educational Inquiry-Experience, Narrative, & Pedagogy in the International Landscape of Diversity contains exemplary research practices, strategies, and findings gleaned from the contributions to the 15 issues of the Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum and Instruction (JCI~>CI).

Zambia, the butterfly-shaped, central African country has a population of about 11 million people, and as other Sub-Saharan African countries, has been trying to democratize since the early 1990s.

This book is a product of a dissertation project that was completed in December 2006.

The Secure Child: Timeless Lessons In Parenting and Childhood Education was designed to contribute meaning to the adage "e;what was old is new again.

Assessment for learning is meant to engage, motivate, and enable students to do better in their learning.

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.

This edition is not just a rehash of old, albeit classic and still important, stuff.

This work captures the voices of TFA novices who offer candid accounts of their experiences in Becoming Teach For America Teachers.

The book has two parts.

This Handbook provides windows into worldwide research endeavors, including countries not usually widely known in international education studies.

This book offers a first-hand look at the importance of human resource management (HRM) processes to not just one public agency but a large group of public administration entities that rely on a public HRM agency (the Personnel Board of Jefferson County) for its HRM processes.

A key factor in successful learning at all ages is a learner's motivation.

Religion and spirituality make critical contributions to an inclusive vision for the welfare of minorities, the marginalized and other disadvantaged groups in societies and cultures around the globe.

In many international settings, developing economies are in danger of declining as the digital divide becomes the knowledge divide.

Wedemeyer stresses that learning is a natural idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource.

The book is based on the recently held Symposium on mathematics and its connections to the arts and sciences, namely the second Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS2)Symposium in Odense, Denmark (May 29-31, 2007).

American Educational Thought: Essays from 1640-1940 contains primary source readings from the mid 1600s to 1940.

The reprint of Henri Savall's classic Work and People, originally published in French in 1974, is part of the Research in Management Consulting series effort to look backward as well as forward in examining trends, perspectives, and insights - especially from different countries and cultures - into the world of management consulting.

Historians and teacher educators nationwide are now engaged in discussions about the importance of history teacher preparation.

The purpose of this book is to offer higher education leaders, scholars, consultants, and observers a full range of strategy tools that can be applied to the higher education industry.

Interdisciplinarity is increasingly viewed as a necessary ingredient in the training of future oriented 21st century disciplines that rely on both analytic and synthetic abilities across disciplines.

This series of Works on stress and coping is centered on understanding the sources, experiences, and consequences of stress and coping in the educational arena.

Getting our students to write and write well is a process Tom Scheft explains and explores, offering practical and theoretical guidance, while providing uplifting, thought provoking examples of a writing assignment for students middle grades through master's level.

In the past 25 years there has been an enormous increase in the amount of research exploring issues of gender and schooling.

(orginally published by Jossey-Bass 1990)Changing Problem Behavior in Schools presents an innovative approach to dealing with classroom behavior problems that can be used successfully by teachers as all grade levels, counselors, and administrators.

Exploring Values Through Multimedia, Literature and Literacy Events was written by teachers and educational researchers for classrooms and schools interested in developing learning communities that develop critical and compassionate future citizens.

(orginally published by Allyn & Bacon 1997)This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service.

This volume focuses on family and community connections with education during the high school years.

The first volume of the series, Maintaining Focus, Energy, and Options Over the Career, examines how individuals enact and keep their career vital over their work life.

Studies in School Improvement is the eighth volume in a series on research and theory in school administration dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

This volume will examine the historical emergence of the concept of career including early ideas about the meaning and role of work and how it fits with life.

Our goal in writing this book was to validate teachers for strong efforts in their life's work.

This book is for new faculty, graduate students, teachers, administrators, and other academics who want to write more clearly and have their work published.

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Part of the "e;Research in Social Education"e; series, this text is divided into three parts: contexts; curricula; and assessments.