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Getting It in Writing: The Quest to Become Outstanding and Effective Teachers of Writing (Hc)
ISBN: 9781617354823 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sixteen teachers. Sixteen journeys. All on a quest to become outstandingteachers of writing. All taking different paths to acquire and hone those skillsthat make a teacher effective. From kindergarten to college, teachers are facedwith the daunting task of instilling the art of writing in their students. Fromcreative writing to research, the art of writing incorporates the writing process tocreate the inking of our thinking. These 16 teachers from across the nation havetraveled a long and arduous path to seek and to reach for the methods andstrategies that will make them successful writing...
Sixteen teachers. Sixteen journeys. All on a quest to become outstandingteachers of writing. All taking different paths to acquire and hone those skil...
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The Refractive Thinker: Volume II: Research Methodology Second Edition
ISBN: 9780982874066 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Benefits of Collaborative Doctoral Research Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral scholars as they dare to think differently in search of new applications and understandings of research methodology. Drs. Denise Land and Judy Fisher-Blando explore the benefits of case study methodology. Dr. Armando Salas-Amaro expands upon the qualitative multiple-case study method. Dr. Ramon L. Benedetto offers expertise about character-based culture through ethnographic research. Dr. Gillian Silver examines the benefits of Siedman's (1998)...
The Benefits of Collaborative Doctoral Research Celebrate the diffusion of innovative refractive thinking through the writings of these doctoral schol...
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Reuben's Fall: A Rhizomatic Analysis of Disobedience in Kindergarten
ISBN: 9781598744958 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study offers a lens on two kindergarten classrooms, examining moments of disobedience as children interacted with children, their teachers, and the space and time elements of the classroom environments. Through Eisner's educational criticism, author Sherry Leafgren also examines the elements of school, kindergarten and teachers within the spaces of their intersections with the children. While past research has directed our attention to addressing the problem of classroom disobedience, Leafgren provides an opportunity and means to view these familiar actions through fresh lenses of...
This study offers a lens on two kindergarten classrooms, examining moments of disobedience as children interacted with children, their teachers, and t...
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Knowledge-building: Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory
ISBN: 9780415692335 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education and knowledge have never been more important to society, yet research is segmented by approach, methodology or topic. Legitimation Code Theory or 'LCT' extends and integrates insights from Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein to offer a framework for research and practice that overcomes segmentalism. This book shows how LCT can be used to build knowledge about education and society. Comprising original papers by an international and multidisciplinary group of scholars, Knowledge-building offers the first primer in this fast-growing approach. Through case... Education and knowledge have never been more important to society, yet research is segmented by approach, methodology or topic. Legitimation Code T... |
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Beauty and Education
ISBN: 9780415896641 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beauty is something we value instinctively. We find it in art and in nature, in words, images and ideas, seeking it through our senses and through our intellect, in others and in ourselves. This book seeks to re-awaken educators to the power of beauty as an educational concept, to its relevance for schools and the current needs of students and teachers. Drawing upon a range of practical examples, Winston considers the nature and meaning of the experience of beauty, analysing its cognitive, affective and moral energies in order to demonstrate how beauty can provide young minds with some of... Beauty is something we value instinctively. We find it in art and in nature, in words, images and ideas, seeking it through our senses and through ... |
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Decolonizing Research in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Critical Personal Narratives
ISBN: 9780791459805 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from their experiences in cross-cultural research, scholars from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America discuss their attempts to reclaim and reposition the representation of indigenous cultures in their work. They raise critical questions that resist the centrality of the English language as a medium of research and of the Western academy as the locus for knowledge production, reframe cross-cultural research agendas to include ways of knowing that have been excluded all too often, and offer creative ways of using cross-cultural collaboration.
Drawing from their experiences in cross-cultural research, scholars from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America...
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Practitioner Research: Teachers' Investigations in Classroom Teaching
ISBN: 9781617617447 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Identifies pertinent issues related to practitioner research and describes various attempts in theorising teacher research, outlining research agenda, promoting the culture of teacher-led research, building capacity, developing models and examining the thinking about practitioner research.
Identifies pertinent issues related to practitioner research and describes various attempts in theorising teacher research, outlining research agenda,...
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What Counts as Evidence in Educational Settings?: Rethinking Equity, Diversity, and Reform in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781412981910 / Angielski / Miękka / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most durable and robust problem facing educational research since the mid-twentieth century is the persistence of educational inequality. Under new economic, technological and cultural conditions, many diverse populations and communities face emergent and long-standing patterns of educational exclusion and marginalization. The authors examine what constitutes evidence in education research within and across a broad range of educational issues, and how evidence can be, and is used, to shape regional, national, and international educational policies on equity and inclusion. The chapters in...
The most durable and robust problem facing educational research since the mid-twentieth century is the persistence of educational inequality. Under ne...
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Researching Sing Up's Workforce Development: Main Findings from the First Three Years (2007-2010)
ISBN: 9781905351145 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The National Singing Programme Sing Up was officially launched in November 2007 and a team from the Institute of Education, University of London were appointed early that academic term to undertake a research evaluation of key elements of the Programme. One key component of the UK Government's National Singing Programme Sing Up (produced by Youth Music in partnership with Abbot Mead Vickers, Faber Music and The Sage Gateshead) is to ensure that children's singing development is fostered by adults who have appropriate musical knowledge, skills and understanding. Its stated role is to: 'deliver...
The National Singing Programme Sing Up was officially launched in November 2007 and a team from the Institute of Education, University of London were ...
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Critical Praxis Research: Breathing New Life Into Research Methods for Teachers
ISBN: 9789400717893 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical Praxis Research (CPR) is a teacher research methodology designed to bridge the divide between practitioner and scholar, drawing together many strands to explain the research process not just as something teacher researchers do, but as a fundamental part of who teacher researchers are. Emphasizing the researcher over the method, CPR embraces and amplifies the skills and passions teachers naturally bring to their research endeavours. Emerging from the tradition of critical pedagogy, Critical Praxis Research: Breathing New Life into Research Methods for Teachers transcends longstanding...
Critical Praxis Research (CPR) is a teacher research methodology designed to bridge the divide between practitioner and scholar, drawing together many...
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The Struggle for Economic Support of the Indigenous Business Women in Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9781450041850 / Angielski / Twarda / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "True development, justice and the fulfillment of the maximumeconomic and social potential of Zimbabwe can take place only whendevelopment experts give serious and adequate consideration to the keyroles women play in their economies and societies. While social policyhas improved women's lives in some important ways, it has failed toimprove w omen's poorer economic situation compared to men."
"True development, justice and the fulfillment of the maximumeconomic and social potential of Zimbabwe can take place only whendevelopment experts giv...
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Evidence Informed Leadership in Education
ISBN: 9781441180568 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past three decades politicians, journalists, researchers within the academy, and neo-liberalist critics of state schools have articulated that educational research is neither meaningful nor worthwhile. Yet empirical evidence has revealed that research plays a key role in informing decisions made by educational leaders. This book explores the tools needed to conduct ethical educational research, and the contribution postgraduate research might make to the training and development of educational leaders and their thinking and practice within educational settings. Recent debates position...
In the past three decades politicians, journalists, researchers within the academy, and neo-liberalist critics of state schools have articulated that ...
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Improving Teacher Education Through Action Research
ISBN: 9780415898027 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been a dearth of studies on teacher educators using action research to improve their own practice. This book is the first systematic study of a group of teachers examining and enhancing their own practice through the inquiry process of action research. This book presents a broad overview of a variety of methodologies that can be used to improve teacher preparation and professional development programs. It is a 'must read' book for those educators who are new to the college teaching profession and for those who are aspired to be outstanding and successful lecturers. There has been a dearth of studies on teacher educators using action research to improve their own practice. This book is the first systematic stud... |
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Technical and Vocational Education and Training: An Investment-Based Approach
ISBN: 9781441187482 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vocational education is central to the plans of policy makers around the world; it underpins the development of the poorest economies, and the continued competitiveness of the richest. Technical and Vocational Education and Training debates the key issues: * How far can the same principles be applied to vocational learning in universities, colleges, schools and the workplace?* Do the needs of learners and the needs of the economy always coincide? Should teachers focus on the delivery of skills or the development of cultures?* What will determine whether what is learnt corresponds to what is...
Vocational education is central to the plans of policy makers around the world; it underpins the development of the poorest economies, and the continu...
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Applying Theory to Educational
ISBN: 9780470972366 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Applying Theory to Educational Research provides educational researchers with an accessible introduction to the process of selecting and applying theories in their work.
Applying Theory to Educational Research provides educational researchers with an accessible introduction to the process of selecting and applyi...
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Children of the Normal School: 60 Years in El Rito, 1909-1969
ISBN: 9780865348462 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone was in for a surprise in 1909 when New Mexico declared open the Spanish American Normal School at El Rito. The school had been founded to train teachers for the vast region of the "Rio Arriba" in which there were few schools and the citizenry still did not speak English, sixty years after becoming a territory of the United States. The Territory of New Mexico, in quest of statehood, had decided that fluency of its people in English would earn it the right to become one of the Forty-eight, which it did three years later. State and school officials were dismayed that few students were...
Everyone was in for a surprise in 1909 when New Mexico declared open the Spanish American Normal School at El Rito. The school had been founded to tra...
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The Role of Research in Educational Improvement
ISBN: 9781934742129 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, leading scholars in the field examine the available research on the use of evidence in education and provide suggestions for strengthening the research-to-practice pipeline.
Critics within and outside the field of education often point out the absence of a strong reciprocal connection between research and practice. The emergence of standards-based reform and the passage of NCLB have generated increasing pressure for evidence-based decision making at all levels. Yet there is little clarity about how research results are actually used in education, or what kinds of... In this book, leading scholars in the field examine the available research on the use of evidence in education and provide suggestions for strengtheni...
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Action Research for Higher Educators
ISBN: 9781933146850 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is a scholarly monograph for practical use for higher education faculties. Specifically the monograph is aimed at faculties in historically Black and minority colleges and universities but its scope also includes the hundreds of state and private institutions that are trying to raise the level of research engagement among their core faculty. The lessons learned and the techniques observed worldwide by the authors are also included in this work and the study covers general application of action research for responsive proactive intervention in classroom instruction and improvement of...
This work is a scholarly monograph for practical use for higher education faculties. Specifically the monograph is aimed at faculties in historically ...
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And Sadly Teach: Teacher Education and Professionalization in American Culture
ISBN: 9780299121808 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Education, Epistemology and Critical Realism
ISBN: 9780415617185 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work addresses fundamental questions in relation to education and its epistemology from a critical realist position. A broad range of themes and crucial issues are addressed in the book.
This work addresses fundamental questions in relation to education and its epistemology from a critical realist position. A broad range of themes and ...
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