This text is divided into three parts: policy perspectives on urban education reform; the supply, demand and quality of city teachers; and equity and adequacy in urban schools.
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.
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.
The chapters included in this book were commissioned to serve as the background for the national invitational conference sponsored by the LSS at Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education (CRHDE).
Students arrive in our classrooms with complex sociocultural histories that include family, cultural, physical, social, emotional, and prior learning experiences.
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 main question that guided the thinking behind this book can be stated as follows: "e;What kind of leadership behavior must executives of technology-driven organizations display to spur performance excellence?
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.
This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from those presented at the Sixth International Service-learning Research, hosted by Portland State University in Portland, Oregon in October 2006.
The first comprehensive review of all extant "e;Italian"e; chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes "e;Filipino"e; Otherness with the unique condition of "e;Italian"e; ambivalence and alterity within Europe.
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.
The Personal Balanced Scorecard (PBSC) is a journey into the inner self, where values, hopes, dreams and aspirations lie quietly waiting to be discovered.
Over the past five years the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research has welcomed research projects by the very best qualitative, organizational researchers in the world.
Taken together, these authors explore the many and varied challenges faced by teacher educators generally, and social studies teacher educators specifically.
This book is divided into three parts: integrating the non-work context into theories of organizational justice; non-work reactions to injustice; and commentary.
With the publication of this book, the scholarly journal Issues in Education: Contributions from Educational Psychology is moving to a book series publication format.
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.
Through the chapters in this volume we learn about the research foci and/ or questions that these classroom teachers are interested in examining, the mathematics content through which they engaged their students in these explorations, the data sources they used to make sense of their focus and questions, and their roles in the research.