Aims & Objectives

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953852687Author Dr JoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 159g

The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its importance, there is a need for tools to improve principalship, particularly ones emphasizing those...

Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times is a sequel to a 2010 work with the similar title, Urban Catholic Education: Tales of Twelve American Cities. Together, these works explore the historical contours of the Catholic parochial...

Together we can build enough momentum to see Jim Crow lying silent and still in his grave. This book shouts out ways that we can and must respond to the sickening accumulation of racially inspired and systemically sanctioned deaths. Today, we remember...

In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953852427Author Heather LyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 821g

This collection of essays initiates a conversation about the educational interests of the young and considers the potential for pedagogical transformation. Organized into three parts, dealing with the pedagogy of care, child honouring and telling...

The Social Theory in Education Primer shows how classical sociology sets the frame for theory and research in education. Three major paradigms are explained in their historical context, and are used as a key to making sense of contemporary work that...

Curriculum*-in-the-Making theorizes about the living curriculum as an event that is in the making, for the enacted curriculum is something finished, which, only as an object, can be compared to another object. A living curriculum, understood as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925826647Author Cheryl LaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdWeight(grams)...

This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education and knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role...

This book attempts to explore the nature of quality assurance policies and practices in three universities in the Southern African region. It looks at how they were developed, the parties that were involved in the policy process, the implications of such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655779257Author Molly EfratFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint BooxaiPublisher BooxaiWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358723793Author Utanova Vaziraxon Maxmudjon QiziFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643174716Author Sylvia P SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 213g

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. This book overturns the typical conception of standards, empowering educators by providing concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be...

Mirrors of the Mind uses East Asian epistemology and cultural concepts as new conceptual tools to address fundamental questions that educators encounter. The book invites readers to critically reflect on commonly held assumptions about learning,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649909275Author Dr BryantFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 203g

This focused, original work examines human rights education in India and offers key insights into larger international educational policy discussions. "Schooling for Social Change" offers fresh perspectives on the emerging field of human rights...

Practicing Disability Studies in Education: Acting Toward Social Change celebrates the diversity of contemporary work being developed by a range of scholars working within the field of Disability Studies in Education (DSE). The central idea of this...

The topic of bilingualism has aroused considerable interest in research on language acquisition in recent decades. Researchers in various fields, such as developmental psychology and psycholinguistics, have investigated bilingual populations from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224111152Author G S DedhrotiyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Nirmohi PublicationPublisher Nirmohi PublicationWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223552154Author Cheryl AngstFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Cheryl AngstPublisher Cheryl AngstWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223301226Author Cheryl AngstFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Cheryl AngstPublisher Cheryl AngstWeight(grams) 127g

As divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that "the other side is too far gone." An authentic difficult dialogue has the power to mobilize our shared humanity in addressing...

This book explores the diversity-related labour that marginalized faculty, students, and staff are expected to perform because of their social identities – i.e., “identity taxation” in US higher education institutions. It compiles new research on...

How should the Holocaust be taught in schools, and to what end? What role should religious education play in recounting and remembering this human catastrophe? How has the nature and purpose of religious education changed and developed over time? What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988542089Author Carol MutchFormat PaperbackImprint New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) PressPublisher New Zealand Council for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953852373Author Michael EarnshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 259g

The revised edition of A Different View of Urban Schools updates a unique story about the realities of urban education in America and provides new insights on the origin of urban education issues; the route to a diverse and effective teaching force; and...

In "Come Closer," community activists, scholars, and theatre artists describe their Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) work and how they are transforming TO for new purposes, new audiences, and new settings. Each chapter features a first-person...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648025075Author Patricia Ruggiano SchmidtFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Corporate Assault on Youth examines childhood as a social construction increasingly influenced by corporations and commercialism. Through case studies, critical analysis, and historical/philosophical research, the essays collected here expose the...

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. This book overturns the typical conception of standards, empowering educators by providing concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be...

This book examines the ways in which PDSs build cultural competence for various stakeholders including pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, school leaders, college faculty, and K-12 students. Given the increased national attention on the opportunity...

This book offers easily implemented strategies for use with secondary and undergraduate students to promote greater engagement with the realities of diversity and commitment to social justice within their classrooms. Defining diversity broadly, the book...

How We Take Action brings together practical examples of social justice in language education from a wide range of contexts. Many language teachers have a desire to teach in justice-oriented ways, but perhaps also feel frustration at how hard it is to...

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 chapters that...

Thirteen contributions from academics representing a variety of disciplines confront issues relating to social justice in a post-9/11 world. Sample topics include the politics of coalition building among progressive educators and the role of...

In this volume in the ""IAP series on Advances in Service-Learning Research"", top researchers present recent work studying aspects of program development, student and community outcomes, and future research directions in the field of...