Education

There is an urgent need to provide academic professionals with individual, institutional, and contextual accounts of their careers and career-making endeavors.

This book provides an introduction to classical social theory through discussion, application, and synthesis of the work of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and George Herbert Mead.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC).

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.

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 volume understands itself as an invitation to follow a fundamental shift in perspective, away from the self-contained 'I' of Western conventions, and towards a relational self, where development and change are contingent on otherness.

Co-published with TESOL PressThere is a growing need for knowledge and practical ideas about the preparation of teachers for English language learners (ELLs), a growing segment of the K-12 population in the United States.

A group of multiethnic scholars and practitioner researchers explore concepts of teaching for social justice and preparing teachers to work towards social justice in schools and communities.

YIS has been thought as an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychological and more in general social science.

This book is intended for educators, parents and community activists interested in reclaiming our public schools and reclaiming the public narrative around education policy.

The purpose of this book is to explore the talents, work styles, attitudes, and issues that members of the Millennial generation are bringing with them as they enter the workforce.

The dangers of age segregation and the benefits of age integration are examined.

Managing technological innovations and related policy and strategy issues have been a central focus of the new millennium.

Education is a main issue in all countries.

This year (2012) marks ten years of No Child Left Behind and the U.

This book brings together the voices of leading English Education researchers who work to offer views into the changing landscape of English as a result of the use of digital media in classrooms, out of school settings, universities and other contexts in which readers and writers work.

We recognize that our society and demands for lifelong learning changes rapidly, and needs to continue to be rapidly effectively infused in changing forms into the teaching and learning process.

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.

The Language of Peace: Communicating to Create Harmony offers practical insights for educators, students, researchers, peace activists, and all others interested in communication for peace.

What is the purpose of public education?

This work integrates the core instructional leadership tasks of all principals: supervision, evaluation, and professional development.

This volume, the ninth volume in the Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education, is a compilation of research studies focusing on the use and implementation of common planning time (CPT) in middle level schools.

Cultural Competence in America's Schools: Leadership, Engagement and Understanding focuses on explicating the impact of culture and issues of race and ethnicity on student learning, teacher and leadership efficacy, and educational policy making in our nation's public school system.

Research on middle level education indicates that student learning at the middle level has a deep and abiding influence on post-secondary opportunities and career paths.

Education is a contested terrain.

Normalites: The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States is a new original work which explores the experiences of three women, Lydia Stow, Mary Swift and Louisa Harris, who were pioneers in the movement in teacher education as members of the first class of the nation's first state normal school established in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1839.

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

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.

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

Ethnographic inquiry serves as a unique educational resource that is accessible to students and teachers of all economic and social classes and therefore well suited to building democratic communities in the 21st Century.

Racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity has become of global importance in places where many never would have imagined.

The purpose of this publication is to provide school leaders and other educators with insight into practical uses of data and how to create school cultures conducive to effective data use.

Over the last 35 years, studies focusing in young children's knowledge about the mental world have developed into an important area.

Developing and Sustaining Adult Learners is the second volume in a series of scholarly publications associated with the annual Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA, The Alliance) conference.

This book is a study of the contributions of Catholic K-12 schools in the United States to the public interest from the 1800's to the present.

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The impetus for this volume lives in a rich and vibrant past.

Sometimes you need to hear the story from the beginning.

Until recently educators were expected to provide all the knowledge students would need to ensure their future.

This book brings together an international group of researchers reporting on their work about play and early childhood education across 13 countries - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Germany, Hong Kong, United States of America, India, The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Singapore, China and Australia.

This book provides the most current and complete version of statements defining a competent instructional designer, for those who are or aspire to practice in virtually any context, anywhere in the world.

Creativity is a hot topic in education.

Play therapy interventions are critical elements of providing responsive services within the context of comprehensive school counseling programs.

Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education.

Public education is suffering attacks that are well funded and extraordinarily complex and multifaceted.

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

The purpose of the volume is to explore the theory, development and use of visual displays and graphic organizers to improve instruction, learning and research.

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

High stakes testing, standards, and accountability politics is taking us away from the importance of the affective domain in curriculum development.

Filipino Americans have a long and rich history with and within the United States, and they are currently the second largest Asian group in the country.