Education - Curricula

Motor games are incredibly useful in enhancing education and developing critical skills; they can entertain, produce pleasant emotions, improve moods, and increase the level of relationships. Motor games allow social, emotional, and cognitive development as well as the acquisition of motor skills such as...

This book examines course design, student engagement, research, theory, and practices of teaching with and for critical pedagogy in online environments.Author: Shirley R. SteinbergISBN-10: 1433194090ISBN-13: 9781433194092Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2022Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.79d

What should we teach in our schools and vocational education and higher education institutions? Is theoretical knowledge still important?　 This book argues that providing students with access to knowledge should be the raison d'黎re of education. Its premise is that access to knowledge is...

This book invites readers to engage with the rich and complex debates of contemporary English education, outlining new possibilities to revive the teaching of English. Bringing together diverse voices and insights from educators in English across the primary, secondary, further and higher education phases,...

In recent years, the rampant development of worldwide communications and powerful modern technologies has reformulated the idea of distance learning and the transmission of higher education content. Combined with these new developments and the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an apparent need...

Acknowledging teacher and student dialogue as key to student development, this volume takes a critical perspective on notions of classroom participation, extending　previous scholarship to illustrate how critical, dialogic pedagogies can promote equity and inclusivity.　 In proposing and outlining the parameters of "critical dialogic education,"...

Rethinking Languages Education assembles innovative research from experts in the fields of sociocultural theory, applied linguistics and education. The contributors interrogate innovative and recent thinking and broach controversies about the theoretical and practical considerations that underpin the implementation of effective Languages pedagogy in twenty-first-century...

This volume explores unschooling as a growing phenomenon within the broader field of home education and considers the unique position of parents who engage in this self-directed form of education with their children. Drawing on an in-depth hermeneutic phenomenological study, the volume investigates the...

Tact and the Pedagogical Relation focuses on two topics of increasing interest both in teacher education and research, introducing readers to both classical and contemporary text.Author: Norm FriesenISBN-10: 1433190982ISBN-13: 9781433190988Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2022Pages: 202Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.80w...

The need for more empathetic and community-focused students must begin with educators, as service-learning has begun to grow in popularity throughout the years. By implementing service and community aspects into the classroom at an early age, educators have a greater chance of influencing students...

This open access book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs the ways in which the structures of science education-its concepts, categories, policies, and practices-contribute to the exclusion (or problematic inclusion) of Indigenous science while also shaping its ability...

This open access volume draws on a multidimensional model of educational change, the book reviews the field of climate change education and identifies some of the areas in which past efforts have fallen short in supporting effective pedagogical change at scale. It then formulates...

Within the context of recent, and ongoing, plural pandemics such as COVID-19 up/ending lives, social and racial chaos and catastrophe, political pressures, and economic convulsions, The Kaleidoscope of Lived Curricula: Learning Through a Confluence of Crises offers a journey through a collection of scholarly...

What if you could challenge your ninth graders to use geologic theory and standards of measurement to explore different epochs and time periods of the Earth's formation? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Formation of the Earth outlines...

The field of curriculum inquiry has grown rapidly over the last four decades resulting in many new forms of curriculum inquiry to be used as tools to answer unique curriculum-related research questions. There are few texts available that include concise descriptions and elements of...

Faculty and students confront persistent racial, economic, and social inequities in higher education locally, nationally, and globally. To counter these inequities, there has been a recent focus on universities providing an inclusive curriculum that serves the needs of students from a wide range of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This volume showcases a series of chapters that elaborate on Mary Aswell Doll's contributions to the field of curriculum theory through her examination of currere as a mythopoetics. By bringing Doll's Jungian, autobiographical, and literary perspectives into conversation with emergent forms of subjective inquiry-including...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This text offers secondary ELA educators guided instructional approaches for including queer-themed young adult (YA) literature in the English language arts classroom. Each chapter spotlights the reading of one queer-themed YA novel, and offers pre-, during-, and after reading activities that guide students to...

This Alphabet Handwriting workbook will help kids to start learning to write uppercase letters, lowercase letters, words and to improve their handwriting. With 79 pages of practice, your child will develop several capacities: the motor control, self-confidence for confidently writing.The Book comes with: ✔...

Offering the overlooked but essential viewpoint of young people from low-income communities of color and their public schools, Planning Cities With Young People and Schools offers an urgently needed set of best-practice recommendations for urban planners to change the status quo and reimagine the...

Decolonizing the History Curriculum in Malaysia and Singapore is a unique study in the history of education because it examines decolonization in terms of how it changed the subject of history in the school curriculum of two colonized countries - Malaysia and Singapore. Blackburn...

Rather than seeing art as a curricular extra, or a fun break from the curriculum, art in the Using Art Critically series is used, like language, as a tool and toy for learning, rethinking, and outgrowing oneself. The authors' intent is to position art...

This Handbook presents an international collection of essays examining history education past and present. Framing recent curriculum reforms in Canada and in the United States in light of a century-long debate between the relationship between theory and practice, this collection contextualizes the debate by...

This series is endorsed by Cambridge International to support the syllabuses for examination from 2023. Provide students with a clear structured route through the qualification, with opportunities to assess their own progress, as well as reflect on and discuss new ideas and concepts. -...

"This book examines the latest scholarly information on curriculum development, instructional design, and educational benefits of STEAM learning initiatives"--Author: Judith Ann BazlerISBN-10: 1522596364ISBN-13: 9781522596363Publisher: Information Science ReferenceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2019Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.84d

The metrics presently being used to gauge student success have become outdated and irrelevant. Enrollment, persistence, and degree attainment are secondary measures, missing entirely the question of whether students are truly achieving an effective life skillset while attempting to complete degree or graduation fulfillment....

Language Arts, Primary Level (K - 3rd Grade)Goals. There are four general goals for the program: To lead children, grades Kindergarten through Third, into the habit of speaking and writing the English language correctlyTo provide drills which emphasize reproduction of many of the short...

This book examines the ways in which well-being affects educational outcomes. Using an ecological approach, the book defines what we mean by well-being and resilience in education and how this relates to policy and children and young people's rights. The book considers strategies utilised...

The lives of middle school students are dynamic, and their needs and desires are always evolving. They experience more complicated lives as influences of the broader society including popular media and technology, immigration and cultural diversity, amplified political divisiveness, and bullying effect their daily...

Write a fairy tale with help from the Grimm brothers.*50 prompts: 26 Beginnings, 12 Middles, and 12 Endings *Answer Key in the back reveals the origin of the fairy tale prompt. This book is divided into three sections of prompts: Beginnings, Middles, and Endings....

Write a fairy tale with help from the Grimm brothers.*100 prompts: 34 Beginnings, 33 Middles, and 33 Endings*Answer Key in the back reveals the origin of the fairy tale prompt. This book is divided into three sections of prompts: Beginnings, Middles, and Endings. Each...

1. Comics and Hyperreality2. Reading Comics for Citizenship3. Reading Symbolism and Leadership into Comics4. Drawing Citizenship5. Drawing Symbolism and Leadership6. ConclusionAuthor: Angelo J. LetiziaISBN-10: 3030442519ISBN-13: 9783030442514Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2020Pages: 238Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.88d

While there are a lot of books available for those preparing curriculum for the K-12 classroom and theoretical books on curriculum development for those in Curriculum Design Programs, there are very few practical guidebooks for the average college instructor, whether teaching in the traditional...

Following in the steps of the socio-political turn of the discipline, Equity in Mathematics Education: Addressing a Changing World emerged as a response of the editor and the chapter authors to the enormous changes that have in the last years occurred at a global...

For citizenship education in the 21st century, globalization increasingly presents a new challenge and a new opportunity. Since the time when nationalism played a critical role in unifying new nations, nationality and citizenship have been virtually synonymous terms. As a result, the constructed symbiosis...

School Leadership for Refugees' Education examines how educational leaders shape and lead different practices to meet refugee students' educational needs, while also considering issues of equity and social justice. It presents cutting-edge theoretical understanding and rich first-hand research findings, which point out the local...

Grounded in philosophy from John Dewey and Maxine Greene, this book sheds light on difficulties and practicalities of examining culture and politics within the realm of interdisciplinary education. Providing both theoretical and concrete examples of the importance of a contemporary arts education, this book...

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of Play & Culture Studies focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long waited topic to many...

This book brings readers into classrooms and communities to explore critical curriculum issues in the United States throughout the twentieth century by focusing in on the voices of teachers, administrators, students, and families. Framed by an enduring question about curriculum, each chapter begins with...

Forget waiting for the district, state, or national test to find out how your instruction impacts student outcomes. If you are ready to -- rethink how you plan lessons and measure student learning outcomes this planning guide is for you. Did you ever wonder...

There is an inconsistency with urban middle school teachers' perceptions about promoting critical thinking skills within middle schools in a large metropolitan area. By implementing differentiated approaches in mathematics classes that incorporates critical thinking skills, such as modeling activities, open-ended questioning, using Bloom's taxonomy,...

This book focuses on the topic of the multiple-stakeholders that comprise the education community across the P-20 continuum. In various ways and forms, the authors of the chapters found within this book promote the importance of engaging with the diverse array of stakeholders in...

The Interdisciplinary Unit addresses the needs of primary level children, and those of their teachers, and parents, to help them cope with the challenges they face growing up today. This grade 2 book will help young children to understand and manage themselves and their...

35 cards per set, start card and finish card, full card sequences for the teacher to easily track, Sets include 3 European Countries and Capitals, 3 US States and Capitals, 3 World Countries and Capitals, 9 sets of cards.Author: James McMillan BscISBN-10: 1546568913ISBN-13: 9781546568919Publisher:...

This book on decolonising education chastises, heartens and invites academics to seriously commence academic and intellectual manumission by challenging the current toxic episteme - the Western dominant Grand Narrative that embeds, espouses and superimposes itself on others. It exhorts African scholars in particular to...

Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education results from the Joint ICMI/IASE Study Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics: Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education. Oriented to analyse the teaching of statistics in school and to recommend improvements in the training of...