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The ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines are reader-friendly introductions to the most important fields of knowledge in the liberal arts. Written by leading scholars for both students and the general public, they will be appreciated by anyone desiring a...

Students, parents, and educators at all levels are increasingly frustrated, demoralized, burned out, and discontented with education and schooling today. At no previous time has it been more necessary to revitalize hope in the promise of education or to...

In 2009, the first edition of Transformative Innovation set out a blueprint for educational reform in Scotland. This second edition incorporates the results and practical experience of introducing and managing that reform. The book's message has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820481470Author Peter L. McLarenFormat PaperbackPage Count 411Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 790g

As diversity continues to increase in the United States, ethnic, cultural, social-class, and linguistic gaps are widening between teachers and their students. The rapidly changing educational landscape presents unique challenges and opportunities for...

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Many teacher resources explore the fundamentals of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This one takes UDL to the next level for educators who understand the basics-and can't wait to start using UDL in their lesson plans and classrooms.In this practical,...

Ferrara, Jacobson, and their colleagues illuminate how community schools become a comprehensive, place-based strategy that both supports high-quality teaching and learning and addresses out-of-school barriers to success. They provide first-hand accounts...

Feminist research has both held and contested experience as a category of epistemological importance, often as a secular notion. However, spirituality and sacred knowing are also fundamental to a Black/endarkened feminist epistemology in teaching and...

This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive history of moral education in American schools provides an invaluable historical context for contemporary debates. McClellan traces American traditions of moral education from the colonial era to the present,...

What happens when teachers share power with students? In this text, Ira Shor - one of the earliest proponents of critical pedagogy in the United States - relates the story of an experiment that nearly went out of control. Shor provides the reader with a...

Table of Contents 1. From Here to Integrity Ron Best, Chris Watkins and Caroline Lodge 2. Integrity and Uncertainty - Why Young People Need Doubtful Teachers Guy Claxton 3. The Child Tricia David 4. Curriculum for the Future Ian Barr and...

In Diverse Families, Desirable Schools, Mira Debs offers a richly detailed study of public Montessori schools, which make up the largest group of progressive schools in the public sector. As public Montessori schools expand rapidly as alternatives to...

Strength Basing, Empowering and Regenerating Indigenous Knowledge Education demonstrates how to bring Indigenous Knowledges to the forefront of education practice and provides educators with the tools to enact culturally responsive curricula and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777191337Author Sensei Paul DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint SenseipublishingPublisher SenseipublishingWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994448323Author Hopper DebbieFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Life Skills 4 KidsPublisher Life Skills 4 Kids

In Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet define character in three very different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999875503Author David FreemanFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint David FreemanPublisher David FreemanWeight(grams) 235gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820452241Author Carey JewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

What we want for schools reveals what we value as a society. "What's the point of school?" Parents have a stock set of responses, but the question remains unsettled, even two centuries after the Prussians invented compulsory education. The Prussian...

This interactive playbook provides the language, moves, and evidence-based advice you need to nurture social and emotional learning in yourself, your students, and your school.About the AuthorNancy Frey is professor of educational leadership at San Diego...

As interest in competency-based education (CBE) continues to grow by leaps and bounds, the need for a practical resource to guide development of high-quality CBE programs led the authors to write this book. Until now, there has been no how-to manual that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820444246Author Tom A. O'DonoghueFormat HardbackPage Count 183Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 390g

This handbook is a much expanded version of the original Learning Activities Survey published by Dr. Kathleen P. King of Fordham University in 1998. Based on her ground breaking research in this field where she used a mixed methodology research approach...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765971956Author Chris AmiraultFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shell Education PubPublisher Shell Education PubWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798337322971Author Jitendra PandeyFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint Information Science ReferencePublisher IGI Global

Examines various aspects of citizen education programs that serve contemporary youth in the United States.This book offers a groundbreaking examination of citizenship education programs that serve contemporary youth in schools and communities across the...

What does it look like to let go of Whiteness? Whiteness promotes a form of hegemonic thinking, which influences not only thought processes but also behavior within the academy. Working to dismantle the racism and whiteness that continue to keep...

How should new knowledge systems for the academy be reflective of a 60,000-year-old Aboriginal histories? Indigenous Knowledges: Privileging Our Voices offers an answer to this question with generative and sometimes challenging narratives and addresses a...

How should new knowledge systems for the academy be reflective of a 60,000-year-old Aboriginal histories? Indigenous Knowledges: Privileging Our Voices offers an answer to this question with generative and sometimes challenging narratives and addresses a...

In a rapidly globalizing world, the pressing challenge for science and mathematics educators is to develop their transdisciplinary capabilities for countering the neo-colonial hegemony of the Western modern worldview that has been embedded historically,...

Much has been written in Canada and South Africa about sexual violence in the context of colonial legacies, particularly for Indigenous girls and young women. While both countries have attempted to deal with the past through Truth and Reconciliation...

Much has been written in Canada and South Africa about sexual violence in the context of colonial legacies, particularly for Indigenous girls and young women. While both countries have attempted to deal with the past through Truth and Reconciliation...

Integrating experience and observations with theoretical ideologies and philosophical dispositions, the author provides a refreshing methodology and vision to the development of curriculum and instruction for administrative leaders, educators and...

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Since 2014, the international community has felt overwhelmed by refugees and asylum seekers searching for opportunities in which to rebuild their lives. Indeed, large numbers can result in turmoil and concern in resettlement countries and with national...

Conversations related to epistemology and methodology have been present in comparative and international education (CIE) since the field's inception. How CIE phenomena are studied, the questions asked, the tools used, and ideas about knowledge and...

Advancing Critical Pedagogy and Praxis Across Educational Settings is both an inquiry and response of gratitude to the work of critical scholars, educators, practitioners, and researchers who honor the complex realities of partnerships between school...