Teacher Educators Professional Learning in Communities explores teacher educators' professional development in the communal model of learning. Learning in groups has proved to be a major avenue for supporting such development and change among teachers and other professions, but one which has received sparse attention with regards to teacher educators development. This book aims to examine such communities in order to identify factors that promote or hinder professional learning for teacher educators.
Blending research on communal learning with seven years of practical...
Teacher Educators Professional Learning in Communities explores teacher educators' professional development in the communal model of learn...
What's So Important About Music Education? presents a new philosophy of music education for the United States, rooted in history and current perspectives from ethnomusicology. J. Scott Goble explores the societal effects of the nation's foundations in democracy and capitalism, the constitutional separation of church and state, and the rise of recording, broadcast, and computer technologies. He shows how these and other factors have brought about changes in the ways music teachers and concerned others have conceptualized music and its importance in education. In demonstrating how...
What's So Important About Music Education? presents a new philosophy of music education for the United States, rooted in history and curre...
By addressing intercultural and multicultural education in a global context, this volume brings together the dynamic discussions and lively debate of intercultural and multicultural education taking place across the world. Not content with discussion of theory or practice at the expense of the other, this collection of essays embodies dialogical praxis by weaving together a variety of epistemologies, ideologies, historical circumstances, pedagogies, policy approaches, curricula, and personal narratives. Contributors take readers to the countries, schools, and nongovernmental agencies where...
By addressing intercultural and multicultural education in a global context, this volume brings together the dynamic discussions and lively debate ...
Today, new media is both augmenting and extending the traditional classroom with a variety of technology-based tools available to both students and faculty, and has created "new" virtual classrooms for anywhere, anytime availability to education. Despite the enormous potential for technology to support the educational enterprise in this emerging "creative" economy, technologies are still not yet fully integrated in the classroom and their association with educational outcomes is as-yet unclear. This book profiles scholarly work from around the world to examine closely the effectiveness of...
Today, new media is both augmenting and extending the traditional classroom with a variety of technology-based tools available to both students and...
As liberal democracies include increasingly diverse and multifaceted populations, the longstanding debate about the role of the state in religiouseducation and the place of religion in public life seems imperative now more than ever.
As liberal democracies include increasingly diverse and multifaceted populations, the longstanding debate about the role of the state in religiouseduc...
The potential of adopting inclusive education to support learning for all is an international phenomenon that is finding its way to the Middle East and the Arabian region. Eman Gaad examines the current status of inclusive education in Arabia and the Middle East through an assessment of the latest international, regional, and local research into inclusive education. With a focus on the more complex areas of related cultural practice and attitudes towards inclusive education in this dynamic and fast-changing part of the world, Gaad offers a research-based analysis of the current educational...
The potential of adopting inclusive education to support learning for all is an international phenomenon that is finding its way to the Middle East...
Contemporary picturebooks open up spaces for philosophical dialogues and offer opportunities to explore ideas and to create meaning collaboratively. Through an exploration of children's responses to picturebooks, the authors paint a way of working philosophically based on respectful listening and creative and authentic interactions.
Contemporary picturebooks open up spaces for philosophical dialogues and offer opportunities to explore ideas and to create meaning collaboratively. T...
This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have occurred in the last decade.
This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on sever...
There has been much public praise for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts to reform public education. However, few scholars have engaged substantively and critically with the organization's work. While the Gates Foundation is the single largest supporter by far of "choice" initiatives particularly with regard to charter school formation, it is pushing public school privatization through a wide array of initiatives and in conjunction with a number of other foundations. What are the implications for a public system as control over educational policy and priority is concentrated...
There has been much public praise for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts to reform public education. However, few scholars have engaged s...
Memory work - the conscious remembering and study of individual and shared memories - is increasingly being acknowledged as a key pedagogical tool in working with children. Giving students opportunities and support to remember and study their selves as individuals and as communities allows them to see their future as something that belongs to them, and that they can influence in some way for the better. This edited volume brings together essays from scholars who are studying the interconnections between pedagogy and memory in the context of social themes and social inquiry within educational...
Memory work - the conscious remembering and study of individual and shared memories - is increasingly being acknowledged as a key pedagogical tool in ...
