Education

Robert Lake explores with the reader what is meant by imagination in the work of Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire and their relevance in an era of increasingly standardized and highly scripted practices in the field of education.

This book examines what equity means in a nation where the schools are becoming more diverse.

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.

This book explores how we approached the issue of community development in the context of competing interests and a differential power imbalance.

Although STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) has been diversely defined by various researchers (e.

The purpose of this practical guide is to facilitate college students' academic success by fostering self-regulated learning skills or learning to learn through the use of Integrative Learning Technologies (ILT).

The driving forces behind mathematics learning trajectories is the need to understand how children actually learn and make sense of mathematics-how they progress from prior knowledge, through intermediate understandings, to the mathematics target understandings-and how to use these insights to improve instruction and student learning.

The achievement, schooling, and the ethnic identities of Asian American students are among the core areas in the field of Asian American education, yet there is much that remains to be uncovered, verified, contradicted, and learned through sound research, especially as the Asian American population rapidly increases in size and in the diversification of its characteristics.

For a long time, many American educators and educational stakeholders have drawn their ideas for educational reforms from ideas generated in Europe and Asia for the changing demographics of America's diverse classrooms.

Every day we wake up, send our children to school, go to work, attend sports or other entertainment events, etc.

International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions to become non-exploited/non-exploitive contributing members of the 21st century.

Clinical simulations give teachers opportunities to enact and reflect on professional knowledge, skills, and decisions.

Our fourth book in the International Research on School Leadership series focuses on school leadership in an era of high stakes accountability.

Clinical simulations provide teachers with opportunities to enact professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions.

Though the Filipino American population has increased numerically in many areas of the United States, especially since the influx of professional immigrants in the wake of the 1965 Immigration Act, their impact on schools and related educational institutions has rarely been documented and examined.

This book is an attempt to relate moral formation to democratic life and to the emotional emotion of shame.

The seven chapters address long-standing concerns from first-hand perspectives regarding women of color faculty in the academy, the marginalization of women of color scholars in the academy and the benefits of mentoring support.

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.

In 2010, Hispanics represented one out of every six people in the U.

The impetus for this volume comes from reflecting on many years of experience, successes and failures in development evaluation in Asia and Africa, and from recent work supported by the Rockefeller Foundation on Rethinking, Reshaping, and Reforming Evaluation.

The current thrust in the field of education is to improve teachers' understanding of how research on best practices can improve student learning.

In spite of No Child Left Behind and the support provided by Response To Intervention, significant numbers of students continue to struggle with literacy.

Although cultural issues have a powerful influence on the failure and success of mentoring programs and relationships, there is scant research on this area and little in the way of guidelines that practitioners can use to help assure mentoring success.

With new student assessments and teacher evaluation schemes in the planning or early implementation phases, this book takes a step back to examine the ideological and historical grounding, potential benefits, scholarly evidence, and ethical basis for the new generation of test based accountability measures.

President Obama has on a number of occasions rejected policies that have been tried and do not work.

Over the course of the past decade and a half, we, Samuel Totten and Jon E.

Bernard Spodek, one of the most important figures in contemporary early childhood education, has been a seminal figure in early childhood education for approximately six decades.

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

This book is a valuable resource for teachers and other professionals who are looking for a proven way to increase cultural appreciation and awareness.

Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place is a collection of essays about the South by people who identify as both Southern and queer.

This book is the 8th Volume in the Research on Stress and Coping in Education Series.

Reflective journals have been used by post-secondary educators in a wide variety of teacher-training courses to encourage students to better understand the topics that they are studying.

The experience and knowledge acquired in teacher education courses should build important fundamentals for the future teaching of mathematics.

Few resources exist for individuals who wish to subscribe to a practical, applied learning approach to higher education administration.

This volume sheds new light on the question of a "e;Soviet model"e; by examining how a particular Soviet system of science and higher education emerged, how it was exported and imported across varying local, national and international settings, and how key aspects of it outlived the political system that fostered it.

Living at the Intersections: Social Identities and Black Collegians brings together 21 diverse authors from 14 different institutions, including our nation's most prestigious public and private universities, to advance the use of intersectionality and intersectional approaches in studying Black students in higher education.

While nation engages in debates concerning central issues of religion and religious diversity in education, the historic saliency of religion and spirituality in the Black community and in the education of its children continues to be largely ignored.

Scholars and practitioners in the fields of education and educational psychology have come to agree that conceptions of learning and teaching, student and teacher motivation, engagement, learning and teaching strategies, and by implication, student academic achievement and teacher effectiveness are also influenced by a sociocultural context where the schooling process takes place.

This book focuses on interim and formative assessments as distinguished from the more usual interest in summative assessment.

The varied chapters of this book seek to capture the complexities of teaching and learning in today's schools, and they share an interest in exploring the influences of knowledge construction in the moment and over time.

Globalization has a profound effect on the mission and goals of education worldwide.

There are only a few studies that investigate the actual small-scale classroom processes and approaches that allow for students to participate in "e;doing"e; critical science and none that compare CSE to traditional classroom contexts.

Through its research-to-practice focus, this book honors the professional contributions of Professor Barry J.

The current movement toward more and better research experiences for undergraduates has spread across disciplines in the arts, humanities, science, mathematics, and engineering beyond the "e;research university"e; to the full range of post-secondary institutions of higher education.

Women and Leadership in Higher Education is the first volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that will be published in upcoming years to inform leadership scholars and practitioners.

Volume 2 of the Research in Careers series focuses on the search for authenticity in one's career.

The Common Core Standards have recently been adopted in most states across the nation and teachers are in the process of getting to the core of these standards.

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

The industrial monoculture spreading across the globe is highly competitive, greedy and egotistical; in the shaping of educational policy, global communities have accepted a model based on science and technology, which lacks aspects that should be addressed in the goal of education.

Although the social reality is stark for progressive scholars who engage in scholarly activities or are committed to guiding their students to develop a social-just praxis in the circles of higher education, some scholars have found fissures amid the alienating, often hostile academic world to learn, grow, and create transformative communities.