Social research and statistics

As academics in postcolonial Caribbean countries, we have been trained to believe that research should be objective: a measurable benefit to the public good and quantifiable in nature so as to generalize findings to develop knowledge societies for economic growth.

Classification and regression trees (CART) is one of the several contemporary statistical techniques with good promise for research in many academic fields.

Over the past decade, the world has experienced a major economic collapse, the increasing racial inequity and high-profile police killings of unarmed Black and Brown people, the persistence of global terrorism, a large-scale refugee crisis, and the negative impacts of global warming.

10 Great Curricula is a collection of stories written by educators who have come to understand curricula differently as a result of their engagement with a graduate course and its instructor.

This book will interest readers learning about or developing strategies for improving higher education systems and institutions in developing countries.

This book locates recent developments in teacher certification in North America within a broader, international policy context characterized as hegemonic neo-liberalism wherein economic rationalism has begun to trump professional judgment.

Pressing Forward: Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America's High Schools is organized to place secondary education, specifically the goals of preparing young adults to be college and career ready, in contemporary perspective, emphasizing the changing global economy and trends in policy and practice.

(Originally Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004)There is a national consensus that teachers who teach middle-grades and elementary mathematics need deeper and broader exposure to mathematics in both their undergraduate and in their graduate studies.

At the 1998 annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, we organized a roundtable discussion session titled "e;Innovating organizational justice: Cultural, value, and stakeholders' perspectives.

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

Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations.

As Western educational practices have become global, the cultural aspects and the problems associated with them have become more apparent as they are contrasted with local ways of learning and knowing in the widely diverse societies around the world.

Much has been written about the cognitive and academic language needs of those learning English as a new language (be it a second language in the United States or other English-speaking countries or as a foreign language in all other parts of the world).

Clinical Teacher Education focuses on how to build a school-university partnership network for clinical teacher education in urban school systems serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations.

The past two decades have seen an increased interest in education, especially in core areas such as mathematics, language and science.

The Handbook on Teaching Social Issues, 2nd edition, provides teachers and teacher educators with a comprehensive guide to teaching social issues in the classroom.

The Pursuit of Excellence: Kentucky State University, 1886-2020 is a compelling examination of the most diverse public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The rapid change that higher education is undergoing is impacting all of the core mission elements: teaching and learning, research, service, and engagement with the external world (e.

Mathematics teacher education has a critical role to play in preparing teachers to put at center stage goals to support equity in mathematics education and to diversify student interest and participation in mathematics.

This book is a longitudinal study of a 10-year experimental teacher education program.

Music teachers around the world have positively influenced the lives of children.

Memory construction and national identity are key issues in our societies, as well as it is patriotism.

Much has been written about the cognitive and academic language needs of those learning English as a new language (be it a second language in the United States or other English-speaking countries or as a foreign language in all other parts of the world).

Young children are coming of age surrounded by information and communication technology (ICT).

The purpose of this empirical inquiry of state-recognized "e;Honor Schools of Excellence"e; was to explore how these schools of distinction are (or are not) promoting and supporting both academic excellence and systemic equity for all students.

Large, comprehensive urban high schools were designed and constructed with the belief that they could meet the needs of all its students, academic and otherwise.

Mathematics teacher education has a critical role to play in preparing teachers to put at center stage goals to support equity in mathematics education and to diversify student interest and participation in mathematics.

Case studies have become a widely-used instructional tool in many educational environments.

Kappa Delta Pi is an international honor society in Education founded in 1911.

Recently, a new understanding of creative thought and creative performance has surfaced.

The scope of the book is an integrated discussion of several aspects of the internationalisation process in secondary education in Europe.

The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public moral leadership in schools and society.

Education has rarely been absent from local and national public discourse.

This book sets out to answer the call for the historic turn in organization studies through the development of an alternative methodology for history, one that we call ANTi-History.

(orginally published by Lexington Books, A division of Rowman & Littlefield)Researching and Teaching Social Issues: The Personal Stories and Pedagogical Efforts of Professors of Education is comprised of original personal essays in which notable teacher educators delineate the genesis and evolution of their thought and work vis-a-vis the teaching of social issues.

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Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations.

Scholarship related to financial and consumer education largely concerns itself with the acquisition, management, and growth of financial resources.

Women's lives are often written on our bodies.

Yes We Can: Improving Urban Schools through Innovative Educational Reform is a empirically-based book on urban education reform to not only proclaim that hope is alive for urban schools, but to also produce a body of literature that examines current practices and then offer practical implications for all involved in this arduous task.

This edited book highlights the importance and complexity of the assistant principalship.

Thirty-six of the best thinkers on family and community engagement were assembled to produce this Handbook, and they come to the task with varied backgrounds and lines of endeavor.

10 Great Curricula is a collection of stories written by educators who have come to understand curricula differently as a result of their engagement with a graduate course and its instructor.

The twin objectives of the series Psychological Perspectives on Contemporary Educational Issues are: (1) to identify issues in education that are relevant to professional educators and researchers; and (2) to address those issues from research and theory in educational psychology, psychology, and related disciplines.

This book describes the struggles in which inclusive-minded administrators find themselves when they promote equity initiatives.

There is an increasing proliferation of service-learning courses in colleges and universities in the U.

Contemporary science teaching approaches focus on fostering students to construct new scientific knowledge as a process of inquiry rather than having them act as passive learners memorizing stated scientific facts.

Women Leaders: Advancing Careers recognizes that while the majority of students enrolled in educational leadership preparation programs continue to be women; women's advancement to top school executive roles is still not comparable to that of men.

This third book in International Research on School Leadership, focuses on the changing nature of instructional leadership in the 21st century.

How is history represented?