Society and Social Sciences

The pages of this book illustrate that as instruments of socialization and sites of ideological discourse textbooks are powerful artefacts in introducing young people to a specific historical, cultural and socioeconomic order.

Based on extended, intensive fieldwork in an Australian high school, Challenging the System illuminates issues faced on a daily basis by teachers and educational administrators in many parts of the world.

This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students' historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film.

This book is designed to encourage and support in-service and pre-service teachers who want to conduct classroom-based action research about literacy teaching and learning.

This book has been a work in progress.

This book attempts to offer not just a bird's-eye view of the communities of designers project, but also to help identify broad themes and issues that can inform discussions and policies of technology integration at other institutions.

The invited authors of this edited volume have been prolific in the arena of Real Data Analysis (RDA) as it applies to the social and behavioral sciences, especially in the disciplines of education and psychology.

This book brings together a selection of June Pallot's most significant work.

Civic engagement can take many forms, from individual volunteerism to organizational involvement to electoral participation.

HRM ethics is a root cause of many important problems in business ethics, and may represent the solution to even more.

In the first edition of this book published in 1988, Shirley Engle and I offered a broader and more democratic curriculum as an alternative to the persistent back-to-the-basics rhetoric of the '70s and '80s.

Distance Education has become a major topic of interest in the field of educational communications and technology.

The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history.

The faking of personality tests in a selection context has been perceived as somewhat of a nuisance variable, and largely ignored, or glossed over by the academic literature.

American Evangelicals and Religious Diversity is a qualitative study of how religion and education intersect at one conservative Christian school.

This work expands on the ideas and themes discussed in the first two volumes in this series on education policy: The first book - Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement - examines the importance of teacher quality.

This book brings to social scientists a new look at how human beings are striving towards understanding others-- and through that effort--making sense of themselves.

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.

This edited book is a comparative study on teacher education across ten major Englishspeaking regions of the world (USA, English Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand).

This book focuses on electronic learning communities created through the development and use of the Internet for instruction and training.

A multidisciplinary investigation of service-learning.

An examination of the research relating to school reform proposals.

The purpose of this volume is two-fold.

The mission of the book series, Research in Science Education, is to provide a comprehensive view of current and emerging knowledge, research strategies, and policy in specific professional fields of science education.

Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005).

Podcasting for Teachers is the first volume of a new series from Dr.

A historical overview of research on education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

The goal of this book is to examine the relationship between religion and academic success, both historically and in modern society.

Students arrive in our classrooms with complex sociocultural histories that include family, cultural, physical, social, emotional, and prior learning experiences.

Reading Across International Boundaries, edited by Roger Openshaw and Janet Soler, clearly demonstrates these broader characteristics of debates about the teaching of reading.

The year 2020 presented conflicts in higher education, including a global pandemic, racial protests, cries for Black Lives Matter following the deaths of Black women and men by police, education moved online to virtual classrooms, and the U.

This text looks at how the study of play has gained attention and concerns about play in young children have emerged.

Comprises three sections: emerging models for connecting community services reform; the impact of school- and community-based interventions and children's learning and development; and state and federal policies for building partnerships to improve outcomes for children and families.

The field of second language learning research has grown rapidly in recent years.

This volume identifies and critically analyzes research studies related to the critical skills, environments, and adult interactions that contribute to young children's literacy development.

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

This study on cross cultural perspectives in child advocacy deals with various topics, including support for children's issues, the factors that influence reporting of suspected child abuse and child advocacy's application to education professionals.

The current volume, Advances in Latent Variable Mixture Models, contains chapters by all of the speakers who participated in the 2006 CILVR conference, providing not just a snapshot of the event, but more importantly chronicling the state of the art in latent variable mixture model research.

Mentoring has become an important aspect of professional development in a wide variety of fields such as education engineering and business.

The Other Three R's model began as an American Psychological Association (APA) initiative, sponsored by Robert J.

The purpose of this text is to further flesh out some of the factors--specific dimensions of our n-dimensional hyperspace--important to inquiry in the classroom.

This book is a search for the promises of public education and the places where these are broken by critics feeding at the academic and professional trough.

An exploration of evaluator role and identity.

This book includes contributions from a variety of different perspectives on employee turnover.

This volume is not primarily concerned with what students should learn, nor even how they should learn.

The six writers in this book explore the contribution and the transferability of narrative inquiry from curriculum studies to daily life in education and in healthcare.

This volume deals with a wealth of issues related to self, from the overarching theoretical perspective of Bandura and his careful and thorough analysis of the agentic self, highlighting the complexities of our multiple selves acting in an integrated, holistic, and dynamic fashion, to the engaging and novel treatment of self concept as a rope by John Hattie.

This volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship on social studies education by providing thoughtful reflections on research methods in the field.

This book is titled Forgotten Heroes of American Education because it contains representative writings by significant educators who challenged mainstream thinking.

(published in co-operation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement)As subsequent chapters point out, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires states to provide assistance to districts in improving the schools within their purview.