Society and Social Sciences

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

Biographical ruptures and their repairs: Cultural transitions in development represents the efforts of bridging theoretical, methodological, and practice oriented issues revolving around the notion of biographical ruptures and their repairs.

This is a book about four rural secondary schools of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, a newly independent Central Asian state of the former USSR.

(Originally published as: Hitler's Ideology: A Study in Psychoanalytic Sociology)Why did Hitler initiate the Final Solution and take Germany to war?

In Are You Mixed?

There is little doubt that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a controversial entity.

Career Counseling Across the Lifespan: Community, School, and Higher Education is the latest volume in the Issues in Career Development Book Series, edited by Grafton Eliason, John Patrick, and Jeff Samide, from California University of Pennsylvania.

This handbook is a much expanded version of the original Learning Activities Survey published by Dr.

Dieses Buch untersucht die scheinbar grundlegende Herausforderung in der Neurowissenschaft von heute: zu verstehen, wie die vom menschlichen Gehirn erzeugte Erfahrung mit der physischen Welt, in der wir leben, in Beziehung steht.

When war came, the authorities in London and Berlin operated evacuation schemes that sent children into billets and camps in rural reception areas.

Second Language Testing for Student Evaluation and Classroom Research and its accompanying Student Workbook are introductory-level resources for classroom teachers of all levels of experience, and early-career graduate students in applied linguistics, TESOL, and second/foreign language teaching programs.

There is a story going around about the public schools and the people who teach in them-a story about how awful our nation's teachers are and why we should blame teachers for the poor state of our public schools.

Cogito, ergo sum.

In recent years there have been significant changes in education across the globe, largely as a result of changing demographics, technological developments, and increased globalization.

Substantial research has been put forth calling for the field of social studies education to engage in work dealing with the influence of race and racism within education and society (Branch, 2003; Chandler, 2015; Chandler & Hawley, 2017; Husband, 2010; King & Chandler, 2016; Ladson-Billings, 2003; Ooka Pang, Rivera & Gillette, 1998).

The book conducts a comprehensive analysis of codified international legal instruments and documents in their application to children in street situations, employing soft law documents to elucidate treaty interpretation and supplement existing legal standards.

Es una verdad de perogrullo que estamos viviendo, desde hace unas decadas, una crisis global y, quizas final, de la civilizacion occidental.

Educational Research, The National Agenda, and Educational Reform examines the origins, history, nature, purposes, and status of educational research by focusing on the relationships among educational research, the national agenda, educational reform, and the social and behavioral sciences.

This book provides an insightful view of effective teaching practices in China from an international perspective by examining the grades 7-12 mathematics teacher preparation in the Shandong province of China.

The Soul of Higher Education: Contemplative Pedagogy, Research and Institutional Life for the Twenty-first Century contributes to an understanding of the importance and implications of a contemplative grounding for higher education.

This edited volume explores various issues pertaining to the education of children with disabilities in Africa, the Caribbean and Middle East.

This book series on Research in Behavioral Strategy will cover the essential progress made thus far in this admittedly fragmented literature and elaborate upon fruitful streams of scholarship.

This is a ground-breaking research study on Black immigrant identities in South African schools.

Mathematics is traditionally seen as the most neutral of disciplines, the furthest removed from the arguments and controversy of politics and social life.

The youth of today is confronted with a myriad of challenges of living in a world that has never been more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.

Indigenizing Education: Transformative Research, Theories, and Praxis brings various scholars, educators, and community voices together in ways that reimagines and recenters learning processes that embody Indigenous education rooted in critical Indigenous theories and pedagogies.

The general theme of this book is to encourage the use of relevant methodology in data mining which is or could be applied to the interplay of education, statistics and computer science to solve psychometric issues and challenges in the new generation of assessments.

Dieses Buch untersucht die scheinbar grundlegende Herausforderung in der Neurowissenschaft von heute: zu verstehen, wie die vom menschlichen Gehirn erzeugte Erfahrung mit der physischen Welt, in der wir leben, in Beziehung steht.

Remember the pots hammered by spoons from high Manhattan windows, and parades of cars and pick-up trucks holding dear the medical professionals responding to covid-19.

The purpose of the book series is to present reviews of current research in specific areas of early childhood education.

In his now classic Voices of Collective Remembering, James V.

This volume demonstrates how principals influence success in 14 elementary schools across Mexico.

Managers are increasingly employing teams as a primary work unit in organizations, but they are struggling with how to effectively lead the emerging team structures.

STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is a fairly new concept in American education.

More Women on Boards: An International Perspective is the seventh volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice book series.

Like the schools in which it is taught, social studies is full of alluring contradictions.

The Ivory Tower is and can often be a lonely place for faculty of color.

To sustain contemporary movements towards educational equity, postsecondary leaders at all levels need resources that connect evidence-based critiques of structural inequities to forward-thinking visions for a more socially-just academy.

Functional literacy, cultural literacy, and progressive literacy are just a few of the many terms one can invoke when attempting to define literacy.

Given the complexity of learning, an increasingly diverse student population, and growing demands on today's teachers, educational psychology has never been more relevant for informing instructional practice.

As our student population diversifies rapidly, there is a critical need to better understand how national, regional, and/or local policies impact youth in school settings.

As authors, we are convinced that the time has finally arrived in academe for an extensive, experience-based, firsthand, seamless examination of what we are calling crossover pedagogy.

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.

This volume in the Research in Professional Development Schools book series considers the role professional development schools (PDSs) play in expanding opportunities for linking research and clinical practice.

Also available in a color versionAMTE, in the Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics (SPTM), puts forward a national vision of initial preparation for all Pre-K-12 teachers who teach mathematics.

All educators in teacher education want to know what factors contribute to the academic success of undergraduate education majors or pre-service teachers.

The current thrust in the field of education is to improve teachers' understanding of how research on best practices can improve student learning.

Following on from the preceding volume in this series that focused on innovation and implementation in the context of school-university-community collaborations in rural places, this volume explores the positive impact of such collaborations in rural places, focusing specifically on the change agency of such collaborations.