Society and Social Sciences

The volume 3 of this series is designed to present educators with current research and emerging issues in teaching, learning and motivation in a multicultural context.

This unique and visionary text is a compilation of fascinating case studies by New York State teachers, parents and professors.

This book is divided into seven chapters including: a broad overview of mathematical cognition; development of mathematical cognition; working memory, automaticity and mathematical problem solving; mathematical problem solving; and methematical learning disabilities.

Computer science is increasingly becoming an essential 21st century skill.

Look, Listen, Learn, LEAD: A District-Wide Systems Approach to Teaching and Learning in PreK-12 lays out the transformational journey of Hampton City Schools (HCS), an urban school division of 30 schools in southeastern Virginia.

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

The book is based on the recently held Symposium on mathematics and its connections to the arts and sciences, namely the second Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS2)Symposium in Odense, Denmark (May 29-31, 2007).

The book provides new conceptual frameworks to understand good practice in the field of mobile learning.

Algebra is the gateway to college and careers, yet it functions as the eye of the needle because of low pass rates for the middle school/high school course and students' struggles to understand.

Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top-down, market-focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice.

In this book, a study is presented that investigates how municipal politicians make sense of recent European crises.

This installment of selected writings by James D.

This book provides a detailed account of an educational experiment in a middle school in Shanghai, China.

Ademas disponible en ingles: Rethinking Education for a Global, Transcultural WorldRepensar la educacion es esencial en un mundo, global, transcultural, cambiante y comunicado.

Racism by Another Name: Black Students, Overrepresentation, and the Carceral State of Special Education is a thought-provoking and timely book that provides a landscape for understanding and challenging educational (in)opportunities for Black students who are identified for special education.

More than one in every five Latin Americans lives on less than $2 a day, and Latin America is the most unequal region in the world.

This is the third and final book in the series Transformative Pedagogies in Teacher Education.

This is the second (revised) edition of the book published in 2010 under the same title.

The glossy and polished college videos, view books, and websites catered to the marketplace of students.

Educating in Ethics for the Professions: A Compendium of Research, Theory, Practice, and an Agenda for the Future offers a state-of-the-art discussion on the part of applied ('professional') ethics educators who describe the teaching of ethics for their professions and who collectively represent a wide-ranging array of professions.

This book is a straightforward and entertaining primer on college teaching.

Effective leadership is the necessary ingredient in achieving educational improvement in schools; everything rises and falls on leadership.

Learning, as it is being increasingly recognized, is centrally predicated upon students' well-being.

It is more important than ever to share best practices with emerging leaders in the social services and education fields, as leaders and students need to understand the practical application of policies and theories.

This book is a continuation of the first text entitled "e;Pyrrhic Victory The Cost of Integration"e;.

From a field developed out of the need to train military personnel at scale to its current role in enabling virtual learning and training experiences, instructional design has developed into a complex, multifaceted discipline.

The current volume, the fourth in the series, provides a broad look at the meaning and understanding of diversity and inclusion in organizations.

Curriculum Windows Redux: What Curriculum Theorists 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 in contemporary terms.

In an era of constant connection, it can be challenging to prioritize time for reflection.

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.

Although teachers, school counselors, and administrators are all situated within educational settings tasked with supporting students' educational development, rarely do these professionals have sufficient opportunities to learn from and collaborate with one another before entering these schools.

The pages of this book paint a portrait of thirteen scholars and their lifelong professional accomplishments in and contributions to teaching, service, and research in global international education around the world.

Mathematics teacher education includes the mathematics content teachers need to understand, ways that pedagogical approaches are developed, messages about the nature of mathematics teaching and learning, and interfaces between tertiary preparation and school contexts.

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The primary purpose of this book is to invite educators to (re)think what it means to critically conceptualize knowledge about the world.

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

Some people are worse off than others.

This book emerges from "e;Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces"e;, an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary project uniting social scientists, postcolonial scholars, and artists worldwide to raise critical issues related to the death of migrants.

This seminal book is the original and definitive text presenting gender, sex and relationship diversity (GSRD) therapy as its own therapeutic approach rather than simply a set of techniques or "e;add on"e; to other modalities in working with LGBTQ+ clients and other marginalised populations.

The study reported in this volume adds to the growing body of evaluation studies that focus on the use of NSF-funded Standards-based high school mathematics curricula.

This is a book for teachers, especially new and soon-to-be teachers.

Race and racism are a foundational part of the global and American experience.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue (CTD) is a publication of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC), a national learned society for the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum.

We examine Hart's peripatetic career as teacher, editor, journalist, lecturer, and public philosopher.

While the research on bullying and peer victimization has increased considerably over the past 20 years, a number of studies are emerging that document mixed results of bullying and prevention programs.

Making of the Future is the first English-language coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology-TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists.

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about how schools in America function and what goes on in the typical classroom.

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.

Memory and learning are seen as mental phenomena and generally studied as brain processes, for example, within various branches of psychology and neuroscience.

Beyond the Online Course: Leadership Perspectives on e-Learning addresses a need for the growing body of professionals who are called upon to lead the online/distance learning efforts at their various organizations.