Education - Curricula

This book brings together a group of top international scholars who consider Pedagogy of Critique, Revolutionary Pedagogy and Radical Critical Pedagogy as forms of praxis to examine the paradoxical roles of schooling in reproducing and legitimizing large-scale structural inequalities.Author: S. Macrine, P. McLaren, D....

Assembles essays addressing the recurring question of the 'subject, ' understood both as human person and school subject, thereby elaborating the subjective and disciplinary character of curriculum studiesAuthor: W. PinarISBN-10: 134929277XISBN-13: 9781349292776Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2011Pages: 273Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Recent and increasing efforts to standardize young children's academic performance have shifted the emphases of education toward normative practices and away from qualitative, substantive intentions. Connection to human experience, compassion for societal ailments, and the joys of learning are straining under the pressure of...

Help your students improve their language skills and become stronger readers and writers. In this timely book, literacy experts Amy Benjamin and Barbara Golub offer best practices for fortifying the writer's workshop model with meaningful, relevant instruction in grammar. The book answers questions such...

Adventurous Learning interrogates the word 'adventure' and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Teachers of all kinds can...

This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive to pedagogical and personal growth in...

Instructional Design for Teachers, Second Edition focuses on the instructional design (ID) process specifically for K-12 teachers. The first edition introduced a new, common-sense model of instructional design to take K-12 teachers through the ID process step by step, with a special emphasis on...

In the spirit of models of argument starting with inquiry, this book starts with a question: What might it mean to teach argument in ways that open up spaces for change-changes of mind, changes of practice and policy, changes in ways of talking and...

Universal Access Through Inclusive Instructional Design explores the ways that educators around the world reduce barriers for students with disabilities and other challenges by planning and implementing accessible, equitable, high-quality curricula. Incorporating key frameworks such as Universal Design for Learning, these dynamic contributions highlight...

Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists,　however　the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual artists. Subsequently, the PhD in fine art emerged in the UK...

This book focuses on how to improve the teaching and learning of primary level mathematics education within resource-constrained contexts. It builds on two large numeracy projects within South Africa which speak to broader, global concerns and highlight how research and development not only enables...

Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The book is organized around three key themes: Variations of Classic Horror Tropes, Real Life Horror, and Playing with Publishing....

2013 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice ReviewKumar asks in this volume: Since characteristic features of human consciousness - fear, conditioning, and fragmentation - work against the educational experience, how can we re-imagine curriculum as a space for meditative inquiry and allow it to provide...

With natural systems being exploited at an unsustainable rate, with technologies displacing the need for workers and now even professors, with print-based technologies undermining the intergenerational achievements in the areas of civil liberties and the cultural commons, it is now time for educational reformers...

Little Hands, Busy Minds, Revised Fall Edition contains a timely collection of daily art projects, math ideas, science experiments, songs, rhymes and other fun and easy-to-do activities for young children.Author: Jacqueline Salazar De LopezISBN-10: 0988417065ISBN-13: 9780988417069Publisher: Warren Publishing, IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2014Pages: 162Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize:...

This daily curriculum for young children emphasizes language experiences and social interactions. Showcased are activities that are suitable for a day, week or month. There are fun filled plans for the holidays and more.Author: Jacqueline Salazar De LopezISBN-10: 0985309482ISBN-13: 9780985309480Publisher: Warren Publishing, IncLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Human Drama Across the Curriculum is a bold educational initiative that changes the emphasis from facts to process, from ideas to thinking, from the results of peoples' lives to the lives themselves. It combines the fundamentals of systems thinking with the dramatic fabric of...

A book for anyone who is interested in reading, understanding, composing, and essentially, playing music.Taught in an easy to understand method.Unlike other music instruction books, in that, all of the components that provide a working knowledge of how to understand and play music, are...

Take a box of 15 basic materials anywhere in the world, add a few local recyclables, and teach an amazing range of hands-on science. Topics compiled from books in our popular Activity Sheet series include balancing, electricity, magnetism, pendulums, metrics, animals and plants. No...

Scrutinize the particle and wave nature of light: how it reflects, refracts, focuses; how it adds and subtracts color and splits into rainbows. Optical lab equipment usually costs big bucks. Get better results using little more than 2 ordinary hand lenses Add an extra...

A most compelling and instructive follow-up to Electricity #32, and every bit as much fun. Students employ simple techniques to discover and map interacting magnetic fields, and to graph the strength of magnetic fields over distance. They build compasses, motors, buzzers, and other ingenious...

Something to charm every child in your class: physical activity, art, story-telling, imagining. Explore how creatures blend in, defend themselves, fly away, and otherwise survive in their environments. See how crafty great education can beAuthor: Peg Nazari Marson, Ronald Jay MarsonISBN-10: 0941008509ISBN-13: 9780941008501Publisher: Tops...

This book features true stories about the lives and times of nine children and adults whose contributions to their state's history span nearly two centuries, from the early 1800s to the present day. These stories include accounts of family life, school days, chores, games...

Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy and the literate. He maps out \u201cfour corners\u201d of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller identifies...

In this book, Morris explores the intersection of curriculum studies, Holocaust studies, and psychoanalysis, using the Holocaust to raise issues of memory and representation. Arguing that memory is the larger category under which history is subsumed, she examines the ways in which the Holocaust...

Curriculum management audits are rapidly becoming powerful tools for school improvement in the United States. This book is a clear, step-by-step guide to conducting such an audit.Author: Kimberly M. LoganISBN-10: 0803965443ISBN-13: 9780803965447Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/1997Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 11.06h x 8.32w x 0.35d

Keeping the focus clearly on learning and teaching, the authors explore the practical issues for managers at the institutional level, within the context of their need to understand and analyze key educational values and principles.Author: David MiddlewoodISBN-10: 0761970320ISBN-13: 9780761970323Publisher: Sage Publications LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2001Pages:...

The author examines the immense demands faced by ELL educators and offers specific strategies to address these special challenges.Author: Jerry JesnessISBN-10: 0761931872ISBN-13: 9780761931874Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2004Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.98h x 7.08w x 0.45dReview Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2005 pg. 1073

The author examines the immense demands faced by ELL educators and offers specific strategies to address these special challenges.Author: Jerry JesnessISBN-10: 0761931864ISBN-13: 9780761931867Publisher: Corwin PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2004Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 10.36h x 7.20w x 0.68dReview Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2005 pg. 1073

Understanding and Shaping Curriculum: What We Teach and Why introduces readers to curriculum as knowledge, curriculum as work, and curriculum as professional practice. Author Thomas W. Hewitt discusses curriculum from theoretical and practical perspectives to not only acquaint readers with the study of curriculum,...

Teacher's Edition. Hot Ice introduces drama to students involved in classical and/or Christian education (grades 7 to 12). Using primary sources, Hot Ice, Level 2, surveys the reintroduction of theatre into Europe in the High Middle Ages, explains the explosive influence of the Renaissance,...

What if you could learn to write well using a method that had been successful for thousands of years? Classical Quills I does just that, teaching ancient writing exercises (the progymnasmata) to grammar school students. Designed for upper-elementary students, Classical Quills I offers detailed...

From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the story of a new breed of amazingly innovative courses that inspire students and improve learning Decades of research have produced profound insights into how student learning and motivation can be unleashed--and it's...

We are passionate about having every person be musically skilled in keeping a steady beat and singing in tune. We know that every baby at birth has a genius level for music potential, which then decreases from there. Therefore, this compiled curriculum, BITTY BOPS...

Primary curriculum design has been in sharp focus in recent years. After leading on curriculum design and effective subject leadership for 24 years across multiple schools, Emma has written the handbook for both the complex thinking which underpins primary curriculum design and provided the...

Various pedagogies, such as the use of digital learning in education, have been used and researched for decades, but many schools have little to show for these initiatives. This contrasts starkly with technology-supported initiatives in other fields such as business and healthcare. Traditional pedagogies...

This volume presents a systematic approach to developing advanced English language competence at tertiary level. It includes the reflections of experienced language teachers and teacher-researchers in the English Language Competence programme at the University of Vienna and provides examples of good practice, amalgamating teaching...

Establishing a student-centered classroom environment where learning puts students' interests first is essential for middle school students to learn and thrive. Student success does not simply rely on instruction; it relies on external factors such as school and classroom climate, positive relationships with their...

This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge. Examining art practice in educational settings where emphasis is placed upon a pragmatics of the 'suddenly possible', Atkinson looks at the issues...

This 'Instant Letter Sounds Students' Workbook is book number 39 of 50 total all-inclusive learning to read practice booklets created to build confidence and link to the absolute last skill mastered by the student in Book# 38. In order to be effective and create...

This 'Instant Letter Sounds Students' Workbook is book number 32 of 50 total all-inclusive learning to read practice booklets created to build confidence and link to the absolute last skill mastered by the student in Book# 31. In order to be effective and create...

This 'Instant Letter Sounds Students' Workbook is book number 27 of 50 total all-inclusive learning to read practice booklets created to build confidence and link to the absolute last skill mastered by the student in Book# 26. In order to be effective and create...

Modern technology is creating new challenges for teachers to keep up with today's education and advancing teaching styles. The development of a differentiated curriculum is necessary and needed particularly for a diversified group of students. Differentiated Instructional Design for Multicultural Environments: Emerging Research and...

Underrepresentation of minorities is present in the field of engineering, both in education and practice. As in every profession, diversity and inclusion needs to be incorporated in order to provide the same opportunities for all people. Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Engineering Majors and...

Recent technological advances have opened new platforms for learning and teaching. By utilizing virtual spaces, more educational opportunities are created for students who cannot attend a physical classroom environment. Integrating an Awareness of Selfhood and Society into Virtual Learning is a pivotal reference source...

English Skills Builder series are designed for students to secure their knowledge on key areas in English and practise the application of skills. Blossoms Educational resources have been tried and tested in classrooms for several years and teachers have seen substantial improvements in students'...

English Skills Builder series are designed for students to secure their knowledge on key areas in English and practise the application of skills. Blossoms Educational resources have been tried and tested in classrooms for several years and teachers have seen substantial improvements in students'...

PASS FIRST TIME This textbook provides you with the tools and techniques to ensure your answers align with awarding organisation assessment criteria requirements. While the unit textbook Certificate in Education and Training: Understanding Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in Education and Training provides the information...

This collection of teaching resources contains everything you need for a unit on Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Again. Over 70 open-ended reading questions, 30 multiple choice questions, and three essay questions are aligned with Common Core Standards. The unit includes anticipation activities,...

Language Arts Curriculum for use with Marguerite de Angeli's The Door in the WallAuthor: Cheryl CouteaudISBN-10: 1507650043ISBN-13: 9781507650042Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2015Pages: 92Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.19d