Society and Social Sciences

This volume is an outgrowth of the Conference on Research on the Enacted Mathematics Curriculum, funded by the National Science Foundation and held in Tampa, Florida in November 2010.

This book aims at exploring the profound effects of Covid-19 on people's ways of life at home and at work, and offers strategies and expert advice for 'survival' as the world finds itself in a new reality that has formed by the pandemic.

Education is a main issue in all countries.

This book provides a state-of-the-art assessment of citizen participation practice and research in the United States.

Most of the literature involving the work of women leaders has addressed barriers that historically have required women to struggle to "e;get to the top,"e; the "e;styles"e; of women leaders, and gender issues women leaders continue to face in society and the workplace.

Teachers increasingly are being charged to conduct research on teaching and learning in their classes.

Democratizing Leadership: Counter-hegemonic Democracy in Organizations, Institutions, and Communities promotes leadership in the democratization of culture to counter the current hegemony of domination and cultivate an alternative hegemony of collaboration.

Teachers provide today's youth with the tools to become a positive part of society.

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

Teacher education has long relied on locally-developed assessments that lack reliability and validity.

This book is designed for higher education instructors.

This book focuses on practical and productive techniques that can be used in a variety of behavior crisis situations that may occur in a classroom.

A foundational tenet of the Out-of-School Time (OST) field is that all youth deserve impactful and engaging learning experiences.

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.

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.

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 Allyn & Bacon 1997)This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service.

Experts in social studies education and gifted education share teacher-tested strategies for differentiating social studies in K-12 classrooms.

The field of education has been and will continue to be essential to the survival and sustainability of the Black community.

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

In keeping with the tradition set forth in volumes 1-4, this fifth volume, Creating Visions for University- School Partnerships: A Volume in Professional Development School Research, continues to exemplify current thinking of practitioners and researchers in the field.

This book presents a range of evidence-based analyses focused on the role of contextual factors on urban teacher learning.

By relying on the educational models of Wilberforce University and Morehouse College, this study gathered historical artifacts that provide critical responses to the following research questions: What were the similarities and differences between the social, historical, political and cultural forces that led to the founding of the colleges?

The general theme of this book is to present the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in test development.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction by an extraordinary range of experts to the recent and rapidly developing field of learning analytics.

Research on the Self relates to various phenomena including self-esteem, self-concept, self-verification, self-awareness, identity, self-efficacy, passion, self-determination, goals etc.

Through this book, we seek to describe improvement science in action for educators, schools, districts, universities, and communities.

Public education has expanded to serve large populations across the regions of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

The primary purpose of this book is to serve as a resource in teacher preparation programs.

This book explores the wide range of contexts in which research into creating connections in learning and teaching may take place.

This edited book reflects a much needed area of scholarship as the voices of African American (AA) or Black students defined by various labels such as learning disability, blindness/visual impairment, cognitive development, speech or language impairment, and hearing impairment are rare within the scholarly literature.

The field of educational technology is exploding in terms of innovations being developed daily.

Contemporary Challenges Confronting School Leaders is the eleventh in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

Philosophy as Disability and Exclusion examines the history of ideas on arts in the education of people who are blind in England, from 1688 to 2010.

Cultural psychology explores the mutual constitution of persons-minds and socialcultural worlds.

This book is about emerging models of design that are just beginning to be used by ID types.

This book is a defense of linguistic pluralism and language policies and practices in education that sustain that ideal.

Studies in School Improvement is the eighth volume in a series on research and theory in school administration dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

An important goal in contemporary educational psychology research is adolescent students' development of higher-order thinking, which includes, among other things, that these students become competent and independent learners and problem solvers.

Research on help seeking has primarily focused on classrooms interactions that consist primarily of students asking teachers and peers for help.

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.

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.

Pathways to Transformation: Learning in Relationship is an edited collection that synthesizes current research on transformative learning and expands the current knowledge-base.

What's Worth Learning?

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum.

Events on Wall Street and Main Street reveal that some business leaders make dramatically unethical self-serving decisions that ignore the public interest.

The principle of equality has always been considered as one of the fundamental values of modern societies; it compels administration to provide equal treatment to all subjects it enters in touch with, which is normally expressed as a general prohibition of discrimination.

This book challenges the reader to consider issues of language and linguistic discrimination as they impact world language education.

Social justice and leadership education are inextricably linked.

Throughout history, silences have been an inherent process of historical production - privileged narratives masquerade as definitive history, and those deemed less worthy are mute (Trouillot, 1995).