Society and Social Sciences

The Enterprise of Education is Book IV of the research series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

The need for strengthening the connections between university-based teacher education programs and schools has never been greater in an era where standards and accountability systems often play centric roles in practically all aspects of the education field.

Qualitative Research Methods in Education and Educational Technology was written for students and scholars interested in exploring the many qualitative methods developed over the last 50 years in the social sciences.

Leading scholars attempting to illuminate the developing trends in explaining and understanding the role that affect plays in justice and vice versa.

Zhao (Michigan State U.

What do young people do with the novels they read, the films they see, the music they hear and sing?

This book provides readers with the opportunity to hear what experts in the educational community think about the myriad issues involved in improving the quality of all teachers in our nation's classrooms.

This handbook covers such research issues in middle level education as advisory programmes, teaming, effective teachers, staffing, and teacher preparation programmes.

Many books on multicultural education focus on a country and provide indepth discussion of issues pertinent to that country at the time.

This compendium of papers documents educational ICT policies and practices in 37 countries, making it a valuable resource for understanding and comparing ICT-related national policy developments in education.

This volume will highlight papers presented at the second Nebraska Symposium on Information Technology in Education.

This book series on Theory and Research in Educational Administration is about understanding schools.

This volume gathers some of the methods being developed by evaluators from university settings and the private sector.

Advancing Educational Productivity provides a wealth of critical analysis on educational matters at the local, state, national, and international levels.

Schools are increasingly being called upon to aid in the development of resilience in young people in order to be proactive and prevent the consequences of poor social-emotional health and well-being.

This book is the fifth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

This handbook is for practitioners who lead public and private elementary schools, middle schools or high schools.

This book addresses the expectations toward the science standards of various stakeholders including students, parents, teachers, administrators, higher education science and science education faculty members, politicians, governmental and professional agencies, and the business community.

There are many teaching and curriculum programs that attempt to make education relevant to the wider sociocultural environment of learners.

This book is not a comprehensive history of moral education in American schools.

This volume of Adolescence and Education is devoted to an exploration of the challenges facing adolescents and their teachers as well as some of the strategies that have been adopted to address these challenges.

This work looks at race, ethnicity and education in the United States.

Early childhood education has always been an enterprising one.

This book draws on ideas about the nature of teaching and teacher knowledge, teacher development and school reform, and narrative as methodology for understanding the lives and work of teachers.

Scope of the Book: Personal~Passionate~Participatory Inquiry into Social Justice in Education, the first book in the series, features 14 programs of social justice oriented research on life in schools, families, and communities.

This book documents progress to date in what works in distance learning (DL).

In this book Professor Davis illustrates the often unexpected reach of historical research intended originally to fill a knowledge gap.

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

This book introduces and explains this important new technology from the perspective of educators.

No two people were more responsible for the current way lessons are taught worldwide than Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky.

The name of Zoltan P.

This installment in the book series "e;Advances in Service-Learning Research"e;, edited by Shelley H.

The significant change in public schools over the last two decades warrants a response in how we prepare teachers.

This work looks at new directions in human resource management.

This book documents and compares the social organization and academic arrangement of instruction in two remaining modern, public one-teacher schools in rural Nebraska.

As the first volume in a series sponsored by SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American educational Research Association and California Association for Asian and Pacific American Education, this book sheds important light on the educational needs of Asian and Pacific American students in k- college.

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

In an increasingly global learning environment, teachers are challenged to meet a myriad of student needs-provide basic literacy and mathematics skills, improve scientific and technological thinking, increase bilingual and multi-lingual competencies.

This book was written to bring together a summary of the current knowledge on merit pay and to further advance understanding of this type of incentive pay plan.

The chapters in this book should stimulate the reader not only to think about the kind of leadership that is needed to improve schools in the Caribbean (using'schools' in the widest sense to range from early childhood to higher education institutions) but also other forms of support.

This volume represents a serious attempt to understand what it is that structures the pedagogical experience.

This book presents a range of evidence-based analyses focused on the role of contextual factors on urban teacher learning.

Storied Lives: Emancipatory Educational Inquiry-Experience, Narrative, & Pedagogy in the International Landscape of Diversity contains exemplary research practices, strategies, and findings gleaned from the contributions to the 15 issues of the Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum and Instruction (JCI~>CI).

Zambia, the butterfly-shaped, central African country has a population of about 11 million people, and as other Sub-Saharan African countries, has been trying to democratize since the early 1990s.

This book is a product of a dissertation project that was completed in December 2006.

The Secure Child: Timeless Lessons In Parenting and Childhood Education was designed to contribute meaning to the adage "e;what was old is new again.

Assessment for learning is meant to engage, motivate, and enable students to do better in their learning.

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 edition is not just a rehash of old, albeit classic and still important, stuff.

This work captures the voices of TFA novices who offer candid accounts of their experiences in Becoming Teach For America Teachers.