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Emerging thought and research on student, teacher, and administrator stress and coping
This collection presents research on strategies, paradigms, and theories related to stress, coping, and prevention for students, teachers, and administrators. It analyzes data from action research, program evaluation, surveys, qualitative interviewing, autoethnography, and mixed methods in the U....
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A research perspective
This book explores factors contributing to the academic success of pre-service teachers in South Carolina. It offers insights from diverse universities, highlighting challenges and contributing factors. The book is valuable for teacher educators, professional organizations, and learning communities.
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Culturally responsive strategies for reforming stem higher education
This book chronicles the introspective and contemplative strategies employed within a uniquely-designed professional development intervention that successfully increased the self-efficacy of STEM faculty in implementing culturally relevant pedagogies in the computer/information sciences.
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Academic mobility
This book offers a contemporary perspective on the mobility of academics across the globe. With contributions from authors based across 4 continents focusing on the experience of academic mobility in Africa, Australia, Europe, the Gulf and the United States, the volume is both comprehensive and r...
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Storybridge to second language literacy
This book advocates using authentic children's literature to teach English to young learners. It presents theoretical foundations, research evidence, and classroom vignettes supporting story-based instruction. It's valuable for TESOL students, educators, and teacher development courses, offering ...
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Ethics, ethnography and education
Drawing on a diverse range of studies conducted in England, Scotland, South America, India, and the Basque Country, this volume argues that administrative and conceptual change is needed to ensure that ethnographers commit fully to conscientiously managing ethics in-situ.
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American educational history journal vol 40 issue 1 & 2
The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed research journal examining educational topics from diverse disciplinary perspectives. It promotes scholarly dialogue across backgrounds, including political science, history, curriculum, and teacher education.
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Rethinking science education
This book explores the philosophy of science education, its value for curriculum, instruction, and teacher pedagogy. It examines why past reforms have been partially successful and argues that educational theory, history, philosophy, and sociology of science should inform pedagogy.
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Why teach with cases?
This is the first book for educators that combines case pedagogy at a philosophical level with evidence from practical experience into a single volume. It is an implementation ready resource that converges with a time of change in the field of education, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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International schooling and education in the 'new era'
This book looks to ask critical questions about the driving force behind the growth of 'International Education' and 'international Schooling' and offers an original 'demand-supply' framework for understanding this expansion.
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Problems in algebra for teachers
This book offers a collection of school mathematics problems for teachers, aiming to deepen their knowledge and develop reasoning skills. It helps teachers anticipate and analyze student errors. Suitable for math education courses, professional development, and independent studies.
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Innovative approaches, practices, and strategies in adult education
As higher education continues to evolve, institutions are reimagining how they serve adult learners—students who bring diverse experiences, responsibilities, and aspirations to the classroom.
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Still working while black
This book shares the experiences of Black student affairs practitioners, offering advice on navigating the field. It addresses challenges like racism and discrimination, emphasizing the need for equity and inclusivity in higher education. The book provides strategies to support Black professional...
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Strong states, weak schools
Why are governments pushing to centrally regulate teaching and learning at this historical moment? Do these accountability mechanisms succeed in boosting student achievement? How are teachers responding to top-down rules, incentives, and the recasting of what knowledge counts inside school? This ...
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Opportunities and challenges in teacher recruitment and retention
This book explores teacher recruitment and retention, emphasizing teachers' voices and careers. It addresses issues in recruiting a diverse workforce, challenges in the classroom, and high-need areas like early childhood, Black male, STEM, and urban teachers. It concludes with a call for teacher ...
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Embodied wisdom
Embodied Wisdom by Alison Pryer, Ph.D., explores the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit in education through autobiographical essays. It addresses love, desire, and eros in teaching, examines family and school pedagogies, and considers Zen pedagogy and popular culture's role in identity...
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Religion, the first amendment, and public schools
This book explores the threat of White Christian Nationalism to the separation of church and state in U.S. public schools. It addresses religious freedom, education law, and teaching for inclusive citizenship, offering practical resources to counteract xenophobia and protect religious diversity.
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The abcs of structured discovery cane travel for children
The ABCs of Structured Discovery Cane Travel for Children teaches essential non-visual concepts, techniques, and mobility skills for blind or visually impaired students. It focuses on independence, problem-solving, and mental mapping using the long, white cane. Parents and instructors will find v...
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Homeschooling in new view
This 2nd edition explores the growing phenomenon of homeschooling in the US, appealing to homeschoolers, education enthusiasts, and the private school community. It examines changes in the educational environment, with 4% of US school-age children now homeschooled.
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Dissertating during a pandemic
This book explores the experiences of doctoral students of color writing dissertations during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights challenges and opportunities, offering feedback on how professors can support these students. The authors come from diverse disciplines and institutions, providing va...
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Educational standardisation in a complex world
This book presents the reader with tools to challenge accepted ideas about the standardising forces transforming educational reality, by discussing standards and standardisation from a range of different theoretical perspectives and contexts.
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Enhancing writing skills
This book features papers from the Carnegie Writers, Inc. 1st Annual Conference, offering resources for writers to sustain and enhance their skills. Topics include genre-based writing, creativity, mechanics, academic writing, and writing as a business. It aims to foster networking, provide publis...
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Gifted education in asia
Gifted Education in Asia: Problems and Prospects critically assesses gifted education in nine Asian countries/regions, includes global commentaries, and projects future developments. It highlights the importance of cultivating human capital in Asia's growing economy. The book is informative for p...
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National identity
This volume explores national identity, discussing Essentialist and Postmodernist views, and suggests it as an ideal-type concept for analysis. It includes case studies on various countries and examines factors affecting national identity, such as governance, economic crises, and social changes, ...
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Assessment of higher order thinking skills
This book explores the assessment of higher-order thinking skills through applied cognitive psychology and measurement theory. Covering problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, and more, it examines conceptual models, assessment methods, and practical considerations.
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Finding john galt
This volume explores the history of gifted education, highlighting key contributors, political and policy issues, and notable programs. It uses Ayn Rand’s concept of “men [and women] of the mind” to frame giftedness as a quality extending beyond academics into various aspects of gifted individual...
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Educational practices in china, korea, and the united states
This book, explores educational practices in the US, China, and South Korea. It compares curriculum, especially in teaching English, and examines student stress, physical education, and pedagogical styles. It also discusses parental involvement, women's aspirations, and modern technologies in edu...
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The art and science of mentoring
This collection honors mentoring expert Fran Kochan, showcasing her ability to blend theory and practice. It includes insights from top scholars and personal essays from those she mentored. Through research and tributes, this volume celebrates her lasting impact as a scholar, mentor, and friend.
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Technology for transformation
This book unites educational technology and social justice, exploring technology's transformative potential. It appeals to K-12 teachers, teacher educators, scholars, and policy makers, offering ideas for incorporating technology toward emancipatory aims. Suitable for courses in media literacy, d...
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Curriculum windows
This book explores how curriculum texts and theorists from the 1990s can inform modern education. The authors examine key works from the era, offering insights into curriculum, teaching, and leadership. This reflection helps educators address current challenges by learning from past theories and ...
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Advancing women in academic stem fields through dual career policies and practices
This book explores the underrepresentation of women, particlarly Latinas and other women of colour, in STEM academia. Through essays and case studies, it highlights how dual career policies can improve equity, recruitment, and retention, offering best practices for inclusion.
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Ubiquitous learning
This book explores the future of education by integrating digital media and education. It combines theory, research, and practice to enhance technology use in teaching and learning. It's valuable for researchers, educators, administrators, and industry leaders to improve teaching and student enga...
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Leadership for learning
This book examines leadership and governance in early childhood education and care (ECEC) for children aged 1-5. It highlights ECEC's role in early intervention, lifelong learning, eliminating child poverty, and fostering social inclusion in diverse populations.
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Improving student learning
"Improving Schools to Promote Learning" examines the factors driving student learning, linking research, policies, and practices at various levels. Herbert J. Walberg covers topics like technology, charter schools, and instruction, offering practical recommendations and references for improved st...
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Sensuous curriculum
This volume explores the intersection of sensory experiences and education, highlighting how sensory understandings shape educational politics. It addresses key questions about education from various theoretical and practical perspectives, making it a valuable resource for critical studies of sen...
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The secure child
This book offers practical insights into helping children cope with changing worlds, drawing on William E. Blatz's work from the 1930s. It examines his contributions to human development, parenting, and education, and includes a guide on a functional approach to parenting and childhood education.
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Inspiring student writers
This book offers practical and theoretical guidance on improving student writing from middle grades to master's level. It covers autobiographical writing, dealing with rejection, and strategies for dialect differences. Valuable for teacher education programs, it enhances writing through user-frie...
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The emperor has no clothes
This book provides theoretical and practical approaches for addressing racism, drawing on the author's experience and social justice theory. It covers the impact of Western culture, privileged resistance, dominant culture, and a process for teaching about racism, ending with strategies for collec...
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Basic elements of survey research in education
Survey Methods in Educational Research offers a practical guide to creating, implementing, evaluating, and disseminating survey instruments in educational and social science research. It covers topics like survey design, data analysis, validity, and effective communication of results, providing v...
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Pedagogy in higher education
Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a critical context for the exploration of the complex ways that pedagogy impacts the stakeholders of universities, and their interrelationships.
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Charter school funding considerations
This book provides a comprehensive overview of charter school funding and operations, authored by experts in the field. It covers financial management, funding equity, and the impact on district school finances. Special considerations for special education and transportation are also discussed, o...
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Language and social justice
Language and Social Justice is the fourth volume in ISLS's Readings in Language Studies series. It offers international perspectives on language and social justice across three themes: culture, teaching practices & pedagogy, and policy. This volume continues ISLS's mission to disseminate peer...
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Places of curriculum making
Focusing on school as place where curriculum is made to realizing the ways children and families are engaged as curriculum makers in homes, in communities, and in the spaces in-between, outside of school, this book investigates the tensions experienced by teachers, children and families as they m...
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Killing ideas softly? the promise and perils of creativity in the classroom
This book offers practical suggestions for teachers to incorporate creativity into their curriculum without radical changes. It provides insights and examples to help teachers make slight adjustments that support students' creative potential and enhance learning, blending theory with vivid classr...
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Combat zone
This book exposes a hidden war against public schools, part of a broader social movement targeting government, science, women, immigrants, the poor, and unions. It details strategies to undermine public education, such as privatization, political interference, and excessive testing.
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Narrative inquiries into curriculum making in teacher education
Explores how individuals' identity and personal practical knowledge are being formed, shifted or interrupted through moments in teacher education.
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Culture and learning
Twenty-seven academics from the UK, U.S., and New Zealand contribute 18 essays on the impact of social structure on educational learning, educational access, and opportunity and outcomes, in an effort to renew the debate concerning the sociology of school attainment.
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Changemakers! practitioners advance equity and access in out-of-school time programs
This book emphasizes the need for impactful and engaging learning experiences for all youth, especially underserved populations. It highlights the challenges organizations and OST professionals face, such as funding, outreach, and engaging immigrant families, and offers solutions.
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Virtual teams in higher education
This book helps higher education students work in virtual teams across different countries, time zones, and cultures. It guides students and teachers through virtual team projects, addressing challenges and providing advice on collaboration, administration, and research in virtual teamwork.
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Emotion and school
The book differs from other books on emotions in teaching by acknowledging all relationships within the complex system of schools and the ways that emotion influences the relationship and practice of the those working within schools- administration, teacher-peer, teacher- student, and veteran- no...
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Unfinished business
This book highlights the stories of Americans who returned to college after years, overcoming stigma and challenges. It emphasizes the role of advisors, family support, and programs like prior learning assessment in helping them succeed, urging institutions to better serve these students.
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Schooling in modern european society
Everyone accepts that education should be for all, but how is education best provided? This book, deals with problem areas in European education; for example school quality, examinations, the teaching of foreign languages, and science education. It also spells out the role of basic education in f...
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Understanding teacher stress in an age of accountability
This book explores teacher stress amid increasing accountability demands, suggesting remedies like administrative support, better materials, specialized resources, parental support, and professional recognition. It includes perspectives from the U.S., Australia, Turkey, Malaysia, and the Netherla...
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Who controls the preparation of education administrators?
The volume offers diverse perspectives from university professors in educational administration, moving beyond traditional organizational theory. It explores changing patterns in institution production, state regulation's impact on administrator pathways, and future directions in educational admi...
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R.a.c.e. mentoring through social media
This book addresses the challenges faced by faculty of color in academia, highlighting social injustices and inadequate mentoring. It discusses the R.A.C.E. Mentoring group, created to support scholars of color, and emphasizes the importance of community and activism in achieving change.
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Instructional psychology
Celebrates Erik De Cortes' scientific career in the international scientific field of instructional psychology. This book addresses the core topics of the learning sciences from a diversity of perspectives. Its sixteen chapters are grouped into 6 sections, including: Learning and Development; Lea...
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Analyzing influences
This volume examines influences on music education decision-making, from administrators’ perspectives to teachers’ practices. Featuring essays on trends in teacher preparation, it offers key insights for educators, researchers, and policymakers.
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Theory of change
Melding together robust academic research with examples of practice, Theory of Change speaks to those concerned with the developments in access and widening participation and explores the origins and debates around the approach in Higher Education, and specific applications across key stages of s...
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Ict for education, development, and social justice
This book explores the role of ICT in education, development, and social justice globally. It presents case studies on using ICT for sustainable development and social change. Objectives include analyzing backgrounds and contexts, appreciating international dimensions, and exploring ICT's potenti...
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Ict and innovation in teaching learning methods in higher education
ICT and Innovation in Teaching Learning Methods in Higher Education is a collection of interventions and collaborative practices from across the world that showcase the multifaceted ways of how various institutions have been engaged in supporting teaching and learning with the use of technology.
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More like life itself
This book emphasizes the importance of using simulations in social studies to engage students in real-life processes. It highlights the need for training resources to help teachers implement simulations effectively. By integrating simulations, social studies can become more meaningful and reflect...
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Institutional transformation to engage a diverse student body
Helps readers engage with a number of core higher education (HE) issues that have dominated UK and International policy. This title helps them in developing the concept of institutional transformation and student engagement to widen participation in HE and improve student retention and success.
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The organizational and human dimensions of successful mentoring programs and relationships
This book explores mentoring in various fields, emphasizing opportunities for those traditionally overlooked. It includes chapters on mentoring in diverse settings and populations, analyzing organizational factors and the human side of mentoring. Ideal for those interested in fostering success th...
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Transforming public education in africa, the caribbean, and the middle east
This volume explores the expansion of public education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, highlighting factors like ethnic background, gender, religion, and ability/disability. It documents the status, success, and limitations of public education's transformation efforts, providing po...
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Contemporary perspectives on research in creativity in early childhood education
This volume presents diverse theories and research on young children's creativity. It includes critical analyses of literature on creativity development, theories, and practices. The chapters cover various approaches and critical issues like imagination and problem-solving.
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Leadership strategies for promoting social responsibility in higher education
This book explores the theoretical underpinnings and interventions of CSR practised by universities across the globe and the role their leadership plays in promoting this. It provides international examples from the US, Africa, Europe and Asia, with implications and insights for university leader...
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The lives of working class academics
A collection of autoethnographies written by academics who self-define as being from a working class heritage. Each one is an account of their lives, their experiences, and their journeys into becoming a higher education professional, in an industry still steeped in elitism.
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School leadership in a diverse society
The book prepares school leaders for increasing diversity in K-12 schools, emphasizing the principal's role in promoting cultural and social diversity. It provides tools for ensuring high academic achievement and a sense of belonging for all students, addressing recent diversity-related issues an...
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How stakeholders can support teacher quality
This book compiles insights from the Milken Family Foundation's 2006 National Education Conference. It builds on previous volumes, examining the roles of teachers, education, government, and private sectors in enhancing teacher quality. The book explores efforts to improve the teaching force from...
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Interdisciplinary higher education
Offers a contemporary of our understanding and practice of interdisciplinary higher education. This book considers a range of theoretical perspectives on interdisciplinarity: the nature of disciplines, complexity, leadership, group working, and academic development.
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Fallow lands of plenty
Fallow Lands of Plenty explores a high school's attempt to feed itself, unraveling neoliberal education's dependence and control. It highlights community cooperation, resilience, and relocalized food systems. The narrative spans from Appalachian soil to a school's cafeteria, proposing a new pedag...
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Preparing parent leaders as co/instructors in higher learning for teacher education
This book is a first-person narrative from a parent/community advocate, highlighting frustrations of urban working-class parents of color in engaging teachers. It emphasizes the role of Parent U-Turn in equipping novice teachers and offers seven strategies for success in urban schools, based on p...
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Learning from the federal market based reforms
Over the past 20 years, educational policy has focused on market-based reforms and privatization. The Every Student Succeeds Act continues this trend, shifting authority to states. This book examines the evidence on these reforms, showing little success and advocating for broader societal investm...
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