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Becoming a Teacher
Marsh, Becoming a Teacher, 5e continues to offer pre-service teachers a practical and user-friendly guide to learning to teach that students find invaluable throughout their entire degree. Marsh covers a comprehensive introduction to teaching methodology, preparing pre-service teachers for the challenges they face in a 21st-century classroom. Throughout the text, students are given the chance to reflect on the major issues facing teachers and students through the use of case studies, classroom examples and references providing opportunities to research topics further.
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ASCD in Retrospect
Nine past presidents, the current president, and the executive director of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) contributed a chapter each to this history of ASCD and the fields it has represented since its founding in 1943. The book's editor, William Van Til, provides an introductory overview of the organization's developing role through the years. The individual chapters and their authors are "ASCD and Its Beginnings," by J. Galen Saylor; "ASCD and Group Process," by Alice Miel; "ASCD and Supervision: The Early Years," by Prudence Bostwick; "ASCD and Curriculum Development: The Early Years," by William M. Alexander; "ASCD and Social Forces," by Van Til; "ASCD and Ethnic Groups," by Phil C. Robinson; "ASCD and Research," by Jack Frymier; "ASCD and the Humanist Movement," by Arthur W. Combs; "ASCD and Supervision: The Later Years," by Gerald R. Firth; "ASCD and Curriculum Development: The Later Years," by O. L. Davis, Jr.; and "ASCD and the Years Ahead," by Gordon Cawelti. (PGD)
Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent
Educational reform, and to a lesser extent educational dissent, occupy a prominent place in the annals of U.S. education. Whether based on religious, cultural, social, philosophical, or pedagogical grounds, they are ever-present in our educational history. Although some reforms have been presented as a remedy for society′s ills, most programs were aimed toward practical transformation of the existing system to ensure that each child will have a better opportunity to succeed in U.S. society. Educational reform is a topic rich with ideas, rife with controversy, and vital in its outcome for school patrons, educators, and the nation as a whole. With nearly 450 entries, these two volumes compri...
The Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education
The Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education offers a comprehensive overview with seven anchor essays on key topics like curriculum, social equity, and leadership. It includes alphabetically organized entries on important concepts, people, and publications, providing context and guiding readers to further sources.
Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies
The study of curriculum, beginning in the early 20th century, first served the areas of school administration and teaching and was used to design and develop programs of study. The field subsequently expanded and drew upon disciplines from the arts, humanities, and social sciences to examine larger educational forces and their effects upon the individual, society, and conceptions of knowledge. Curriculum studies now embraces an array of academic scholarship in relation to personal and institutional needs and interests while it also focuses upon a diverse and complex dynamic among educational experiences, practices, settings, actions, and theories. The Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies provi...
Educating for Humanity
This book explores the international landscape of educational scholarship, policy, and practice. Tucker argues there is a fundamental aim for world education. It is to educate complete human beings in all their dimensions, such that they become the best persons they can be, and participate fully in ‘the human story’. Tucker asks: What is the world of education for? What is it that early childhood centers, schools and local communities are meant to do for children and their learning? Representing a decade of research, the text examines the most common concepts of the purposes of education, human nature and learning offered by scholars, international authorities and pedagogies, nations, ed...
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