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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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Methods and design principles for financial innovation, explaining the supply side for interoperability in finance- and insurance-tech
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. In this second part of the INFINITECH book series, the basic concepts for FinTech referring to the diversity in the use of technology to underpin the delivery of financial services are reviewed.
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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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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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Academic language in second language learning
This book critiques the distinction between academic and social language, exploring how English learners interact with academic content. It includes research on language learning in school settings, organized into three sections. Ideal for graduate students, teacher educators, and researchers in ...
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Critical conversations about religion
Interfaith initiatives on college campuses aim to increase collaboration and awareness of different religious cultures. Edwards reviews the goals and processes of the interfaith movement, offering warnings and suggestions for social justice-oriented dialogue. Through case studies, the book explor...
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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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Images of time
This book explores the challenges of learning history through the lens of time. It defines historical time and its key concepts, such as chronology, periodization, and relics. The study highlights the importance of historical consciousness for a democratic society and provides insights into effe...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Digital transformation
This book examines digital transformation, highlighting the pitfalls of technology-centered approaches and the importance of organizational factors. It suggests starting with transformation using methods like BPM, SEAM, or OD. The volume evaluates performance improvements, risks and ways technolo...
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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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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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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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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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Research methods in human resource management
This volume aims to improve research methods in HRM, addressing issues like construct validity, sample correspondence, causal inferences, and more. It provides resources for researchers to enhance validity in HRM, industrial and organizational psychology, and organizational behavior, promoting be...
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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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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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Sports and understanding organizations
This volume uses sports metaphors to understand organization and management processes, aiming to improve leadership and productivity. Each chapter presents new ways to view organizational constructs through sports, offering insights into the role sports play in understanding organizations globally.
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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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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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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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Critical literacy and its impact on black boys' reading readiness
This book addresses the persistent academic challenges faced by African American boys in Special Education, highlighting the impact of historical academic discrimination and inadequate educational policies. It emphasizes the need for culturally relevant reading instruction to strengthen students'...
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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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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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Behavioral strategy for competitive advantage
This book examines how behavioral strategy contributes to creating competitive advantage, covering topics like decision timing, regulatory focus in management, and managerial role impacts on alliance performance. This volume offers both empirical and conceptual insights into behavioral strategy's...
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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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Selected writings from the journal of the british columbia association of mathematics teachers
This volume celebrates 50 years (1962-2012) of the Vector journal, featuring 50 articles from each decade. It offers historical context and contemporary views on mathematics education in British Columbia, serving as a resource for teachers, educators, researchers, and students.
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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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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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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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Intimacy
This book explores the concept of intimacy in cultural psychology, highlighting its fluid boundaries and its role in identity formation. It examines how intimacy spaces are redefined in a globalized world and considers intimacy as culture in the making, emphasizing its lived experience and its im...
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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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Critical questions, critical perspectives
This book is aimed at a wide range of language educators, including foreign language teachers, ESL teachers, bilingual education teachers, and heritage language teachers. It addresses issues relevant to all age groups, focusing on critical perspectives in language education rather than teaching m...
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Re-imagining transformative leadership in teacher education
This book focuses on transformative leadership in teacher education, emphasizing the need for changes to improve outcomes for Black, Indigenous, and racialized students. It offers strategies and perspectives for teacher educators, experienced teachers, and school leaders to address diversity and ...
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Making a spectacle
This volume reignites dialogue on inclusive education, examining curriculum and pedagogy as tools for recovery from political trauma. It addresses issues like school shootings, police violence, racial profiling, and unequal access to education, highlighting diverse perspectives on social justice ...
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Educating teachers and tomorrow's students through service-learning pedagogy
This book explores service-learning in teacher education, highlighting its benefits and complexities. It includes an interview with Andy Furco, a leader in the field, and offers historical insights and future guidance. Themes include self-efficacy, community connections, diversity, and program de...
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Educational leadership for ethics and social justice
This book examines leadership for social justice across various disciplines, including philosophy, sociology, and political science. It suggests re-examining social justice in educational leadership to gain deeper insights and improve practice.
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Family formation among youth in europe
This book, part of the EU-funded COST Action YOUNG-IN, explores structural disadvantages and opportunities in family formation among youth in eleven countries. It analyzes demographic trends, socioeconomic settings, and family policies, highlighting the transition to parenthood and common challen...
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Intercultural competence in instructed language learning
This book addresses the challenge of integrating cultural components in language learning, bridging intercultural competence with second language pedagogies. It provides a framework for fostering cultural reflection, supporting FL educators in advocating for their programs, and offering practical...
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Faculty learning communities
This book explores Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) as impactful professional learning for higher education faculty, focusing on diversity, equity, and belonging. It covers frameworks for antiracist and social justice-oriented teaching, their impact on teaching practices and student learning, ...
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Service-learning for diverse communities
This book provides a foundation for service-learning (SL) practices with English Learners, guiding readers through SL core values, examples, and models. The new edition updates pedagogical practices, TESOL and WIDA Standards, and includes chapters on technology, digital badging, virtual tutoring,...
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Researching and teaching social issues
This book features personal essays by notable teacher educators on their experiences teaching social issues. They discuss influences, aspirations, frustrations, contributions, and current work. The stories are engaging, reflective, and provide unique pedagogical insights into teaching social issues.
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Real-life distance education
This book documents experiences of implementing distance learning to solve real-life problems, providing guidance for understanding and analysis. It helps develop analytic and problem-solving skills through diverse case studies, useful for educational technology, instructional design, learning sc...
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Received wisdom, kernels of truth, and boundary conditions in organizational studies
This volume questions received wisdom in organizational studies, presenting 14 papers that offer new perspectives on organizational behavior. It explores how authority and tenacity shape knowledge, leading to unquestioned assumptions and potential negative effects. The chapters reveal confirmatio...
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Teacher education at the edge
This book series aims to realize Education 2030's vision of inclusive, equitable quality education and lifelong learning. It provides a forum for diverse voices, covering topics like early childhood development, equal access, sustainable living skills, literacy, and safe learning environments.
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This fist called my heart
This volume presents essays that showcase McLaren's theory construction and advocacy for a just society. It tracks his intellectual growth, contributions to critical pedagogy, multiculturalism, and humanist Marxism, highlighting his resistance to capitalist empire.
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Re-envisioning higher education
This book emphasizes holistic learning in higher education, integrating mind, body, and spirit. It highlights the importance of compassion, care, and service, and explores contemplative methods like meditation, qigong, yoga, arts, and dance to gain wisdom and balance, enhancing reflective and tra...
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Tell me this
In Tell Me This a diverse array of voices—including educators, leaders, researchers, and parents—combines to tell a rich and complex story of human connection.This groundbreaking work blends rigorous academic research with deeply personal narratives, offering a unique exploration of belonging in ...
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Promising practices for family involvement in schooling across the continents
This installment in the book series "Family, School, Community, Partnership", edited by Diana B. Hiatt-Michael, focuses on Promising Practices for Family Community Involvement Across the Continents.
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Addressing the achievement gap
This book's chapters were commissioned for a national conference by the LSS at Temple University's CRHDE, supported by the Institute of Education Sciences. The opinions expressed do not reflect the positions of the supporting agencies, and no official endorsement should be inferred.
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