Society and Social Sciences

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

Christian schools and colleges that include spiritual formation and Christian maturity within their mission are facing challenges.

The diversity of research in mathematics education has been addressed as both, a problem and a strength.

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The rapidly transforming environment that we live in has made human resource development (HRD) all the more necessary for the success of today's organizations.

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.

Despite technology's presence in virtually every public school, its documented familiarity and use by youth outside of school, and the wealth of resources it provides for teaching social studies, there has been relatively little empirical research on its effectiveness for the teaching and learning of social studies.

Using discussion in instruction may facilitate spaces where students can engage with difficult and opposing ideas as a form of shared inquiry.

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

The purpose of Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts that are in some way transforming what we know about the extent to which emergent bilinguals (EBs) learn and achieve in educational settings.

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There is only one place where social education can occur and flourish: through the voices that create a pedagogy of change.

Twenty years ago, this book introduced pre-service and in-service foreign language teachers to the basic concepts of critical educational study as applied to foreign language education in the United States.

This edited volume focuses on best practices in experiential learning.

This book is a theoretical inquiry into alternative pedagogies that challenge current standardized practices in the field of science education.

This book is intended for prospective secondary teachers, university education and human development faculty and students, and in-service secondary school teachers.

This book, authored by K-4 elementary educators, working at a publicly funded non-profit charter school, illustrates the power of culturally responsive teaching and learning as it becomes embedded in the New York State Education Curriculum.

Offers a comprehensive account of Operation Earnest Will, analyzing its success as a limited naval war and its lasting lessons for modern military strategy.

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 provides readers with a comprehensive description of procedures and practices that can enhance special education collaboration, consultation and cooperation in classroom learning environments and ancillary educational services.

This much-needed volume is an edited collection of primary sources that document the history of bilingual education in U.

In an age where the quality of teacher education programs has been called into question, it is more important than ever that teachers have a fundamental understanding of the principles of human learning, motivation, and development.

Women's lives are often written on our bodies.

This book is a result of a major research project in Switzerland that brings together the fields of Education and Socio-Cultural Psychology.

Creativity in the West is often perceived as 'cutting edge' and 'ground-breaking' in a singular act of giving birth to the new.

Middle Grades Research: Exemplary Studies Linking Theory to Practice is the first and only book to present what is perhaps the most thoroughly scrutinized group of studies focusing on middle grades education issues ever assembled.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are one of top investment priorities in these days.

In the 'Pocket Money Project,' researchers from four countries, Japan, Korea, China, and Vietnam collaborated and studied how children in those four countries were involved with money, combining various research methods and approaches.

This volume traces the socialization process, professional development, career paths, and theory and research of contemporary pioneers in education and psychology.

The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers.

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

By most accounts, Europe has been mired in a 'demographic crisis' since about 1970.

Every social studies curriculum tells a story.

This book aims to bring together the work of a number of online learning specialists from around the world, to offer the reader a global view of current and recent research and practice in electronic learning from a variety of disciplines and contexts.

In the past decades wide-ranging research on effective integration of technology in instruction have been conducted by various educators and researchers with the hope that the affordances of technology might be leveraged to improve the teaching and learning process.

Colleges and universities face a variety of challenges in meeting the needs of students, and one of the greatest is their ability to respond to student needs while protecting institutional and academic integrity.

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.

Trauma is a public health crisis.

Storybridge to Second Language Literacy makes a case for using authentic children's literature-alternately also referred to as 'stories' or 'real books'-as the medium of instruction in teaching English to young learners, particularly in contexts where children must access general curriculum subjects in English.

Literacy practices have changed over the past several years to incorporate modes of representation much broader than language alone, in which the textual is also related to the visual, the audio, the spatial, etc.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art literature on migration ethics.

International Education Inquiries is a book series dedicated to realizing the global vision of The United Nations' (2015) Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The purpose of this book is to examine and learn lessons from the way leadership for social justice is conceptualized in several disciplines and to consider how these lessons might improve the preparation and practice of school leaders.

Even though diversity is currently conveyed as a ubiquitous principle within institutions of higher education, professionals of color still face issues such as discrimination, the glass ceiling, lack of mentoring, and limited access to career networks.

Transnation: Identity and Mobility in Postcolonial Literature and Culture offers a fresh and thought-provoking exploration of transnationalism, focusing on the mobility of populations who may not physically leave their national borders, but whose potential for movement subtly challenges the power and authority of the state.

Voices of Pineland: Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of "e;Feeblemindedness"e; in Maine by Stephen Murphy tells the story of the Maine School for the Feebleminded, later known as Pineland Hospital and Training Center.

This book explores class formation and political consciousness in contemporary Africa.

As the title indicates, this book highlights the shifting and emergent features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning.

Women and Leadership in Higher Education is the first volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that will be published in upcoming years to inform leadership scholars and practitioners.

Seldom is the practicing P-12 educator, the P-12 practitioner, considered a scholar.