Society and Social Sciences

As the educational landscape of America continues to evolve and diversify, college faculty and administrators must be cutting edge in their approaches to create a variety of educational experiences with a greater level of multicultural cognizance.

African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps.

The Art and Science of Mentoring is a collection of chapters and vignettes that honors one of the leading experts of mentoring, Fran Kochan.

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.

Drawing upon the theoretical frameworks of Beauboeuf-Lafontant (2002), Collins (2009), Crenshaw (1991), and Dillard (2012), this volume makes a case for centering the voices and experiences of Black women in the protection and educational uplift of Black children.

This series is dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

This volume is a critical and objective study of the contemporary college student athlete.

A guide for todays classrooms, this collection from leading Joyce scholars explores innovative pedagogical approaches to the works of this often-challenging writerTeaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century presents examples of bold, innovative pedagogical techniques instructors have used to adapt the study of Joyces work for the contemporary classroom.

The purpose of this book is to serve as a guide for designing, developing, and teaching learner centered online courses and/or modules of instruction.

This volume identifies and critically analyzes research studies related to the critical skills, environments, and adult interactions that contribute to young children's literacy development.

This is the first chronicle of the history of social justice as a line of inquiry within the field of educational administration.

For decades, education researchers have understood that school/university partnerships can be beneficial for education reform.

Hailed as a landmark in the development of experimental methods when it appeared in 1975, Design and Analysis of Time-Series Experiments is available again after several years of being out of print.

What is wrong with young people today?

Love, Justice, and Education by William H.

Acquired brain injury (ABI) describes damage to the brain that occurs after birth, caused by traumatic injury such as an accident or fall, or by non-traumatic cause such as substance abuse, stroke, or disease.

The volume represents the continuing of a the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 and developed through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.

This book includes papers written by teachers and how they engage holistic education in their classrooms.

En todo el mundo se multiplican sintomas de desconfianza hacia las instituciones, miedos difusos, turbulencias politicas y liderazgos erraticos que prometen orden mientras profundizan la confusion.

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.

What is a rubric and how are they being used in teacher education and evaluation?

(Orginally published in 2008)The goal of AMTE Monograph 4, "e;Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education: Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching"e;, is to provide detailed accounts of case use that will inform the mathematics teacher education community on the range of ways in which cases can be used to foster teacher learning and the capacity to reflect on and learn from teaching.

This book provides perspectives from authors in six countries (Canada, Colombia, Germany, France, UK, USA) pertaining to adult learning in the 21st Century.

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 book comes as part of a broader project the first editor is developing in collaboration with the other two, aiming critically to articulate the central philosophical issue of time and temporality with Cultural Psychology and related areas in its frontier.

Collective Unravelings of the Hegemonic Web represents the culmination of work that emerged from 2013 Curriculum & Pedagogy annual conference.

Practice and research of peace education has grown in the recent years as shown by a steadily increasing number of publications, programs, events, and funding mechanisms.

An innovation in learning improves upon the implementation of the standard practice or introduces a new practice, thus achieving greater learning outcomes.

(Orginally published in 2010)The seventh monograph of AMTE highlights examples of important scholarship of and for the mathematics teacher education community.

(Orginally published in 2009)The sixth monograph of AMTE highlights examples of the important scholarship of the mathematics teacher education community.

Service-learning is a powerful method of teaching and learning that has been used effectively for more than two decades.

(Orginally published in 2008)The 14 chapters in this monograph provide support for mathematics teacher educators in both their Practical Knowledge and their Professional Knowledge.

The e-learning research literature is characterized by studies that investigate the practice of teaching and learning online (pedagogy) and those that investigate the planning and administrative functions associated with e-learning delivery (management).

This is a critical examination of the people who teach and produce research and scholarship in our institutions of higher education.

Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1970s Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists of the 1970s in contemporary terms.

The purpose of the work/life balance series is to highlight particular challenges that higher education faculty face as they participate in the demands of the academy and try to prevent those demands from invading their personal lives.

In this book, Ernie House reframes how we think about evaluation by reconsidering three key concepts of values, biases, and practical wisdom.

Attrition among doctoral students has become a perennial issue in higher education (Gardner, 2009; Golde, 2000) as 40 to 60 percent of doctoral students do not complete their program of study (Bair &Haworth, 2005).

Arising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice.

This volume continues IAP's dedication to the diverse field of international adult learning in the tradition of those books related to the We Learn and AAHE conferences.

For social studies teachers reeling from the buffeting of top-down educational reforms, this volume offers answers to questions about dealing with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Building Sustainable Futures for Adult Learners is an edited and refereed collection of papers published in conjunction with the joint Adult Higher Educational Alliance (AHEA) and American Association of Adult and Continuing Education Conferences (AAACE).

In classrooms where children's voices are valued, young readers and writers possess power.

In this book, Baez examines a series of governmental "e;technologies"e; that he believes strongly characterize our present.

The School Leadership Program (SLP) is a federal grant sponsored by the United States Department of Education.

This book examines the cases of implementation failure of the Indonesian Anticorruption Law 1971 of the authoritarian New Order regime, and of the Anticorruption Law 1999 of the democratic Reform Order regime.

Our fifth book in the International Research on School Leadership series focuses on the use of data in schools and districts as useful information for leadership and decision making.

Modeling student growth has been a federal policy requirement under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

This volume deals with social, emotional and educational issues of Muslim children growing up in a Western country.

Cultural Psychology is a radical new look in psychology that studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another.