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Two major real-world problems prompted this study: maintaining the Catholic identity of the Catholic schools, and increasing interest in character education.

The author chronicles his family's experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983).

While Research on the effectiveness of electronic portfolios for assessment and accreditation is emerging, many who are now using, or who are beginning to use, electronic portfolios are looking to justify the cost and effort involved.

A Scandinavian perspective on evaluating educational reforms.

The idea of Peace Linguistics (PL) has been around for decades.

Taken together, these authors explore the many and varied challenges faced by teacher educators generally, and social studies teacher educators specifically.

This book is the first volume in the series Research in Educational Diversity and Excellence.

The aim of this volume is to provide a detailed description of the process of initiating, maintaining and assessing a top quality elementary school foreign language program and to assist planners by providing them with a workable model.

This unique volume of writings by educators in the field working with women's literacy reveals the many ways in which addressing women's empowerment through literacy continues to impact lives.

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.

This work looks at service learning.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC).

A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Approximately 25% of Latin Americans live on less than $2 a day, and Latin America is the most unequal region of the world.

What do we really mean when we make embarrassing mistakes in conversation?

This volume presents the very important issue of integrating culture into the second language classroom.

In the chapters that follow, the history and current status of early childhood education in selected countries, along with a review of current research that is being conducted in these countries will be presented.

The authors of the nine other chapters in this book have struggled with the issues discussed above in several different ways.

This book argues that conventional interpretations of Freudian psychology have not accounted for the existence and complexity of death anxiety and its intrinsic relation to the creation of illusions and delusions.

This book is a reader that describes, discusses and analyzes homeschooling from an array of different and international perspectives.

This book will be a practical guide to developing and implementing online courses.

This book argues that conventional interpretations of Freudian psychology have not accounted for the existence and complexity of death anxiety and its intrinsic relation to the creation of illusions and delusions.

There is a misty-eyed vision of Bhutan which has popularized it as 'the last Shangri-la', the hidden Himalayan jewel, the travel destination of celebrities and unique-experience-hunters.

The book is divided into three parts.

The editors and contributors of these ten articles focus on the idea that communication includes both what is happening and being said among participants in a classroom and also the politics, values and ideologies that serve as the foundation of the practice.

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.

Budgeting for national defense is a complex endeavor, particularly for a nation like the U.

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.

This anthology is the second volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group-Research on the education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and California Association for Asian and Pacific American Education.

The field of education generally, and teacher education particularly, is experiencing some general disquiet with traditional approaches to the identification and classification of knowledge.

This volume makes a significant contribution to the crisis management literature.

The purpose of this book is to reach out to teachers, parents, coaches, and students who may be hoping to, or just investigating the possibility of, how to get started with robotics.

This book focuses on the inherent contradiction between bureaucracy, hierarchy, and the vision inspired by the architecture of modern information technology of a more egalitarian culture in public organizations.

This book analyzes the impact of culture on employee justice judgments and reactions to perceptions of fairness and unfairness.

Covering such issues as teaching quality, the interface between public and private schooling, and measuring school efficiency, this text addresses the improvement of educational productivity in the USA

This book explores the diversity of American roles in such cross-cultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world.

A demonstration of instructional design, from the point of view of what the learner is going to do.

In this Third Volume of the series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East, the volume continues with the previously established overarching purpose of publishing chapters that are based upon research conducted in those regions by scholars, many of whom are indigenous to the regions they write about and are, therefore, able to provide cultural insights about relevant issues, as well as nonindigenous scholars who have conducted their studies in countries within the regions or about those regions.

Teacher preparation programs in the United States and around the world have finally begun to address this deficiency in their programs.

The purpose of this book is to document the work of the Show-Me Project (1997-2007) and to highlight lessons learned about curriculum implementation.

The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on dif-ferent aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world.

The purpose of this book is to describe the approach and process involved in a program designed to assist faculty in acquiring technology skills and to apply these skills in constructing meaningful learning-centered applications.

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 volume covers topics including: translation issues in cross-cultural research; African American teachers for African American students; the social mediation of metacognition; and cross-cultural similarities and differences in affective meaning of achievement.

This volume seeks to address select questions drawn from the matrix of the complex issues related to culturally responsive evaluation.

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.

This is the second in a series of monographs by the Family, School, Community Partnership (FSCP) Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.