Sociology and anthropology

Confirming his moniker as 'America's philosopher of democracy,' John Dewey engaged in a series of public debates over the course of his lifetime, vividly demonstrating how his thought translates into action.

Why do people from similar backgrounds who read the same text construct different meanings?

What and how to teach in the K-16 classroom history has been a perennial and, at times, heated debate.

Nearly all chapters in this volume are contemporary original research on personality, stress, and coping in educational contexts.

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.

Sixteen teachers.

This book is grounded in the author's experiences of teaching mathematics for prospective elementary school teachers and conducting research on their understanding of mathematical concepts.

Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research SIG of AERA, this inaugural volume in the new IAP book series, The Handbook of Resources in Middle Level Education, focuses on the contributions and impact of the leaders of the modern middle school movement.

Asian American Education--Asian American Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages presents groundbreaking research that critically challenges the invisibility, stereotyping, and common misunderstandings of Asian Americans by disrupting 'customary' discourse and disputing 'familiar' knowledge.

This book offers ideas that secondary teachers, university content faculty, and teacher educators can use to challenge traditional literacy practices and demonstrate creative, innovative ways of incorporating new literacies into the classroom, all within a strong theoretical framework.

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

Australia is a vast sparsely populated land and from an early date this created problems in terms of providing educational facilities.

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 presents the results of a comprehensive study of educational leadership faculty and the departments and programs in which they work.

To truly move toward a more peaceful society, it is imperative that peace education better address structural and institutional violence.

Filling in the Blanks is a book dedicated to helping policymakers, researchers, academics and teachers, better understand standardized testing and the Black-White achievement gap.

This volume, offering a critical perspective on studies on education and society is a valuable resource to instructors who teach in the fields of teacher education, social studies, educational leadership, social work, social, cultural and philosophical foundations of education, sociology, political science, and global studies as well as their students.

This book that explores the mathematics education of Latinos/as in 13 original research studies.

The work of school, family and community partnerships is complex and messy and demands a thoughtful and deep investigation.

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.

Students in public schools serving poor and working-class students are inundated by the effects of high-stakes examinations.

Time and again, the authors have observed how a great program faculty creates unique learning experiences to everybody's satisfaction.

The communication and technology revolution presents each age group of adults with new expectations for learning.

Epistemologies of Ignorance provide educators a distinct epistemological view on questions of marginalization, oppression, relations of power and dominance, difference, philosophy, and even death among our youth.

This book is provided as a guide, encouragement and handbook for faculty to introduce digital media in language you can understand and provide strategies and activities you can quickly assimilate into your teaching.

Investigating University-School Partnerships: A Volume in Professional Development School Research, the fourth book in the PDS Research Series developed by the same editors, includes a collection of organized papers that represent the best and latest examples of practitioner thinking, research, and program design and evaluation in the field at the national level.

This Trainee Manual is designed to be used in conjunction with an instructor-directed program based on material in Behavior Modeling Training for Developing Supervisory Skills: Instructor Manual, by the same author.

Empiricism provides the backbone of knowledge creation within social science disciplines (e.

Because school history often relies on reading and writing and has its own discipline-specific challenges, it is important to understand the language demands of this content area, the typical writing requirements, and the language expectations of historical discourse.

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

Research on service-learning and community engagement has exploded over the past decade.

This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators.

This volume, The New Social Studies: People, Projects and Perspectives is not an attempt to be the comprehensive book on the era.

After the New Public Management had evolved in English speaking countries, it became a role model for the reform of public administration all throughout the world.

The professional conference has been, for many years, the primary tool for continuing education and networking in many professions.

The goal of this volume of Research in Science Education is to examine the relationship between science education policy and practice and the special role that science education researchers play in influencing policy.

Improving Schools to Promote Learning is a concise and common-sense examination of all the moving parts that drive student learning.

Breaking the Chains of Culture looks at trust in organizations and the role it plays in building successful relationships at the individual, team, and organization level.

Optimizing Talent is the must have book for every leader and manager looking to sustain the ultimate workforce.

This book is designed to help you achieve one specific goal.

Embodied wisdom: Meditations on memoir and education by Alison Pryer, Ph.

In response to No Child Let Behind, states have developed mathematics curriculum frameworks that outline their intended curriculum for grades K-8.

This reissued book is one of the key works that influenced and shaped the contemporary evaluation field.

Values, attitudes, and beliefs have been depicted in movies since the beginning of the film industry.

Issues of language in mathematics learning and teaching are important for both practical and theoretical reasons.

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

This book, Blurring the Lines, has immediate appeal to policy-makers, and analysis in public and private sectors, as well as legal scholars and practitioners.

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.

How do people use education to respond to change?

In a most timely volume addressing many of the connections among current fiscal and employment crises to adult education, Learning for Economic Self-Sufficiency highlights the problems and challenges that low-literate adults encounter in various environments.