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Through rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a complex global system (Friedman, 2005). With the rise of new technology, local populations,...

Part of the "Research in Social Education" series, this text is divided into three parts: contexts; curricula; and assessments. It covers such topics as the irony of exclusion; teaching tolerance; and multicultural citizenship education.Book...

This book explores the intersections between curriculum studies and sustainability. Recognizing that a bioregion is our "life place" and that curriculum studies is the interdisciplinary study of lived experience, this book engages in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955533348Author Julie JamisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Quantum Shift PublishingPublisher Quantum Shift PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

This innovative book examines the aesthetic event of education. Extending beyond the pedagogy of art or art appreciation, Tyson E. Lewis takes a much broader view of aesthetics and argues that teaching and learning are themselves aesthetic performances...

Are public charter schools more effective than traditional public schools? This book provides quantitative evidence to answer this question and considers a better way to undertake a policy of school choice. School Choice: A Balanced Approach is the most...

This book is an attempt to relate moral formation to democratic life and to the emotional emotion of shame. The argument is that shame is essential to moral formation, that it tells us when we are violating our own moral norms. Contrary to common belief,...

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...

Development of this text has been based on the notion that workforce education and development (WFED) systems-such as, secondary and postsecondary vocational and technical education (VTE), career education and guidance, human resource and organizational...

In our current systems of education, there is a trend toward compartmentalizing knowledge, standardizing assessments of learning, and focusing primarily on quantifiable and positivist forms of inquiry. Contemplative inquiry, on the other hand, takes us...

Twenty-seven academics from the UK, U.S., and New Zealand contribute 18 essays on the impact of social structure on educational learning, educational access, and opportunity and outcomes, in an effort to renew the debate concerning the sociology of...

Whatever the goal of a liberal education, whether it is acquiring a core body of knowledge, a style of thinking, or the development of character, these essays suggest the importance of the academic community, characteristic of the small university, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757548512Author Festus E ObiakorFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This book proposes an approach to values education centered on an analysis of the relationship between thinking and valuing and focused on strategies for nurturing the capacity for sustained, disciplined, and informed reflection on the issues of moral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977999682Author Turk A. LouisFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Dayspring Publisher LLCPublisher Dayspring Publisher LLCWeight(grams) 533g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981950105Author Darcia NarvaezFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Alliance for Catholic Education PressPublisher Alliance for Catholic Education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993963322Author Kathryn JefferiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Mariposa Press (NM)Publisher Mariposa Press (NM)Weight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986642616Author Neil KarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Psylon PressPublisher Psylon PressWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm) 127mm * 203mm * 4mm

There is a growing consensus in society on the need for schools and colleges to address the issue of moral education, despite argument over the philosophy that should guide it. This compilation is reflective of the cognitive developmental approach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648580058Author Vasyl SukhomlynskyFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Urhobo Historical SocietyPublisher Urhobo Historical SocietyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820467382Author Elizabeth P. QuinteroFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820458144Author Bernadette M. BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 580g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820469102Author David M. Callejo PerezFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820441290Author Peter J. McLarenFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 900g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837189772Author A. Whitney GriswoldFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820458281Author Mary E. WeemsFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 220g

The development of students as "stewards of the discipline" should be the purpose of doctoral education. A steward is a scholar in the fullest sense of the term-someone who can imaginatively generate new knowledge, critically conserve valuable and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820439815Author Carolyn R. HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 180g

Since World War II the regulation of conduct in the United States has become problematic. This condition has been recognized by ordinary citizens in the soaring crime rates, illegitimate births, neglect of the public good and increase in special and...

Armitage taught for one year in a British grammar school from 1971 to 1972 when the school amalgamated with a secondary modern school to form a comprehensive school. He followed the political practices and episodes of the amalgamation in relation to...

Drawing on elements of progressive education, existential theory, feminist pedagogy, and values education, critical humanism combines the holistic-psychological concerns of humanistic education with the sociopolitical contextualization of critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981950112Author Darcia NarvaezFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Alliance for Catholic Education PressPublisher Alliance for Catholic Education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820461496Author Patricia H. HincheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 280g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820479460Author Cynthia A. McDanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 330g

This book calls for a new type of teacher education that empowers teachers to be self-directed professionals. Joe Kincheloe believes that the current trend of teaching teachers to learn an empirical knowledge base which they then implement in their...

Discover the techniques, advice, and innovations for transforming your classroom into an engaging, creative and effective learning environment for students of every grade. A lifelong teacher and professor of education, Pat Hensley, turns decades of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268029562Author Wilson D. MiscambleFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame...

Go Forth and Do Good: Memorable Notre Dame Commencement Addresses brings together twenty-four notable graduation speeches, ranging from the words General Sherman delivered in 1865 to President George W. Bush's remarks in 2001. Also included in this fine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648580041Author Vasyl SukhomlynskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint EJR Language Service Pty. LimitedPublisher EJR Language Service Pty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820461724Author Barbara J. Thayer-BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams)...