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Integrated Approach to Technology in Education in India

Implementation and Impact

Edited by Amina Charania ...

This book explores the evolution of Integrated approach to Technology in Education (ITE), an initiative of Tata Trusts in India, and the many innovative ways in which it has helped enrich the learning process and fostered new skills for young people, especially those living in challenging environments.The book offers an in-depth look into authentic, creative and project-based learning experiences ... Read more

$77.61 CAD

This book explores the evolution of Integrated approach to Technology in Education (ITE), an initiative of Tata Trusts in India, and the many innovative ways in which it has helped enrich the learning process and fostered new skills for young people, especially those living in challenging environments.The book offers an in-depth look into authentic, creative and project-based learning experiences
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Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media

The Politics of Mediatisation

by Aspa Baroutsis, Bob Lingard ...

Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media offers an original, theorised, and empirically based account of contemporary (re)presentations, (re)articulations, and (re)imaginings of education policy through news and new media.In its thorough exploration of the uses and effects of newspapers and Twitter in education policy, the book provides a detailed, research-based account of ... Read more

$72.68 CAD

Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media offers an original, theorised, and empirically based account of contemporary (re)presentations, (re)articulations, and (re)imaginings of education policy through news and new media.In its thorough exploration of the uses and effects of newspapers and Twitter in education policy, the book provides a detailed, research-based account of
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Curriculum and Imagination

Process Theory, Pedagogy and Action Research

by James McKernan ...

Curriculum and Imagination describes an alternative ‘process’ model for designing developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum, suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educational process which contains key principles of procedure.This comprehensive and authoritative book:offers a practical and theoretical plan for curriculum-making without objectivesshows that a ... Read more

$77.61 CAD

Curriculum and Imagination describes an alternative ‘process’ model for designing developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum, suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educational process which contains key principles of procedure.This comprehensive and authoritative book:offers a practical and theoretical plan for curriculum-making without objectivesshows that a
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Becoming Great Universities

Small Steps for Sustained Excellence

by Richard J. Light, Allison Jegla ...

How campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to greatBecoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers practical steps that everyone on campus—from presidents to first-year undergraduates—can take to enhance student life and learning.This incisive book, written in a friendly and engaging style, draws on ... Read more

$41.39 CAD

How campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to greatBecoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers practical steps that everyone on campus—from presidents to first-year undergraduates—can take to enhance student life and learning.This incisive book, written in a friendly and engaging style, draws on
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National Identity and Educational Reform

Contested Classrooms

by Elizabeth Worden ...

Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
National identity in Moldova remains contested despite repeated attempts by governments, historians, and educators to cultivate a shared sense of national belonging through the development of history textbooks. Concern over professional status and distrust of the government’s motivations halted these reforms, demonstrating that the success of such efforts greatly depends on teachers’ and citizens’ ... Read more

$75.14 CAD

National identity in Moldova remains contested despite repeated attempts by governments, historians, and educators to cultivate a shared sense of national belonging through the development of history textbooks. Concern over professional status and distrust of the government’s motivations halted these reforms, demonstrating that the success of such efforts greatly depends on teachers’ and citizens’
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Transatlantic Reflections on the Practice-Based PhD in Fine Art

by Jessica Schwarzenbach, Paul Hackett ...

Series series Routledge Research in Education
Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, however the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual artists. Subsequently, the PhD in fine art emerged in the UK and is now offered by approximately 40 universities. Today the doctorate is offered in most English-speaking nations, much of the EU, and ... Read more

$77.61 CAD

Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, however the PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual artists. Subsequently, the PhD in fine art emerged in the UK and is now offered by approximately 40 universities. Today the doctorate is offered in most English-speaking nations, much of the EU, and
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Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum

Edited by Lesley Aers, Nigel Wheale ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1991, Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum provides a context for debates about the place of Shakespeare within the English curriculum in the 1990s, and examines the possibilities in teaching Shakespeare afforded by the application of contemporary critical approaches, such as communication, cultural and gender studies, in the classroom and seminar room. The collection will be ... Read more

$54.20 CAD

First published in 1991, Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum provides a context for debates about the place of Shakespeare within the English curriculum in the 1990s, and examines the possibilities in teaching Shakespeare afforded by the application of contemporary critical approaches, such as communication, cultural and gender studies, in the classroom and seminar room. The collection will be
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Understanding the School Curriculum

Theory, politics and principles

by Alex Moore ...

At a time of rapid social change and numerous policy initiatives, there is a need to question the nature and function of school curricula and the purposes of formal public education. Comparing curriculum developments around the globe, Understanding the School Curriculum draws on a range of educational, philosophical and sociological theories to examine the question ‘What is a curriculum for?’ In ... Read more

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At a time of rapid social change and numerous policy initiatives, there is a need to question the nature and function of school curricula and the purposes of formal public education. Comparing curriculum developments around the globe, Understanding the School Curriculum draws on a range of educational, philosophical and sociological theories to examine the question ‘What is a curriculum for?’ In
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RAD Musical Theatre Graded Syllabus

by RAD Royal Academy of Dance ...

The official syllabus handbook for the Royal Academy of Dance's Musical Theatre Graded Examinations, covering Primary through to Grade 8.Devised for teachers, students and examiners, this comprehensive guide sets out a progressive framework for training performers in singing, acting and dance/movement, tracing musical theatre from its origins in music hall and operetta through to the contemporary ... Read more

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The official syllabus handbook for the Royal Academy of Dance's Musical Theatre Graded Examinations, covering Primary through to Grade 8.Devised for teachers, students and examiners, this comprehensive guide sets out a progressive framework for training performers in singing, acting and dance/movement, tracing musical theatre from its origins in music hall and operetta through to the contemporary
... Read more
Research into Secondary School Curricula

Edited by Paul Heywood, Kenneth Wain, James Calleja ...

This book identifies neglected areas of research and indicates how research results can be integrated in secondary school curricula. It compares research findings and encourages cooperation in a field of particular interest. ... Read more

$96.09 CAD

This book identifies neglected areas of research and indicates how research results can be integrated in secondary school curricula. It compares research findings and encourages cooperation in a field of particular interest.
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Power Dynamics in Education

Shaping the Structure of School Education in India

by Chetan Sinha ...

The educational domain provides a platform for social mobility and social change. This book investigates the new National Educational Policy (NEP) to understand how it can bring social justice and transform education in a meaningful way to match the imagination of students from diverse groups. The author discusses matters of emotion and authority in education and argues for the need for ... Read more

$73.91 CAD

The educational domain provides a platform for social mobility and social change. This book investigates the new National Educational Policy (NEP) to understand how it can bring social justice and transform education in a meaningful way to match the imagination of students from diverse groups. The author discusses matters of emotion and authority in education and argues for the need for
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Creating Transformative Online Communities in Higher Education

by Patrick R. Dempsey ...

Creating Transformative Online Communities in Higher Education provides a practical approach for building authentic learning experiences into the design and delivery of online teaching and learning systems. Combining three conceptually related ideas—complexity theory, transformative learning, and the Community of Inquiry—this novel, highly applicable framework enables instructors to create ... Read more

$61.59 CAD

Creating Transformative Online Communities in Higher Education provides a practical approach for building authentic learning experiences into the design and delivery of online teaching and learning systems. Combining three conceptually related ideas—complexity theory, transformative learning, and the Community of Inquiry—this novel, highly applicable framework enables instructors to create
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Super Spellers

Seven Steps to Transforming Your Spelling Instruction

by Mark Weakland ...

Many teachers are frustrated with how spelling is traditionally taught and finding the time to support young spellers with explicit strategy instruction. Author Mark Weakland developed Super Spellers: Seven Steps to Transforming Your Spelling Instruction, an approach to teaching spelling in a way that is research-based and tied to authentic reading and writing. Super Spellers helps teachers ... Read more

$55.43 CAD

Many teachers are frustrated with how spelling is traditionally taught and finding the time to support young spellers with explicit strategy instruction. Author Mark Weakland developed Super Spellers: Seven Steps to Transforming Your Spelling Instruction, an approach to teaching spelling in a way that is research-based and tied to authentic reading and writing. Super Spellers helps teachers
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Curriculum and Assessment in English 11 to 19

A Better Plan

by John Richmond, Andrew Burn, Peter Dougill, Angela Goddard, Mike Raleigh, Peter Traves ...

Curriculum and Assessment in English 11 to 19: A Better Plan provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a clear, balanced and forceful critique of the current English curriculum and its associated examinations for 11- to 19-year-olds in England, and of developments in the area during the past thirty years.The book restates fundamental truths about how ... Read more

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Curriculum and Assessment in English 11 to 19: A Better Plan provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a clear, balanced and forceful critique of the current English curriculum and its associated examinations for 11- to 19-year-olds in England, and of developments in the area during the past thirty years.The book restates fundamental truths about how
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Nationalism and History Education

Curricula and Textbooks in the United States and France

by Rachel Hutchins ...

Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
History education, by nature, transmits an ‘official’ version of national identity. National identity is not a fixed entity, and controversy over history teaching is an essential part of the process of redefining and regenerating the nation. France and the United States have in particular experienced demographic and cultural shifts since the 1960s that have resulted in intense debates over ... Read more

$61.59 CAD

History education, by nature, transmits an ‘official’ version of national identity. National identity is not a fixed entity, and controversy over history teaching is an essential part of the process of redefining and regenerating the nation. France and the United States have in particular experienced demographic and cultural shifts since the 1960s that have resulted in intense debates over
... Read more
The Media-Savvy Middle School Classroom

Strategies for Teaching Against Disinformation

by Susan Brooks-Young ...

The Media-Savvy Middle School Classroom is a practical guide for teachers of Grades 5-8 who want to help their students achieve mastery of media literacy skills. Today’s fake news, alternative facts, and digital manipulations are compromising the critical thinking and well-being of middle grade learners already going through significant personal changes. This actionable book prepares teachers to ... Read more

$56.66 CAD

The Media-Savvy Middle School Classroom is a practical guide for teachers of Grades 5-8 who want to help their students achieve mastery of media literacy skills. Today’s fake news, alternative facts, and digital manipulations are compromising the critical thinking and well-being of middle grade learners already going through significant personal changes. This actionable book prepares teachers to
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Queer Activism in South African Education

Disrupting Cis(hetero)normativity in Schools

by Dennis A. Francis ...

Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book highlights how South African educational practices, discourses and structures normalize cisheteronormativity, along with how these are resisted within schools and through contemporary forms of activism.Not only does it add fresh insights to the existing research literature on gender, ... Read more

$75.14 CAD

Offering a vital, critical contribution to debates on gender, sexuality and schooling in South Africa, this book highlights how South African educational practices, discourses and structures normalize cisheteronormativity, along with how these are resisted within schools and through contemporary forms of activism.Not only does it add fresh insights to the existing research literature on gender,
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Food Futures in Education and Society

Edited by Gurpinder Singh Lalli, Angela Turner, Marion Rutland ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food.Food education has gained much attention because the challenges that influence food availability and eating in schools also extend ... Read more

$72.68 CAD

This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food.Food education has gained much attention because the challenges that influence food availability and eating in schools also extend
... Read more
Exploring Aesthetic Approaches to Arts Integration

Providing Opportunities for Productive, Holistic and Inclusive Learning in Early Childhood and Primary Education

by Marina Sotiropoulou-Zormpala ...

Series series Routledge Research in Arts Education
This book re‑examines the role of arts integration in the preschool and primary school curricula, arguing for the creation of an educational environment where children can process every taught subject as an aesthetic stimulus.Deriving from the author’s earlier work, this scholarly volume attempts to develop novel criteria for arts integration curricula, through examining the effects of different ... Read more

$80.07 CAD

This book re‑examines the role of arts integration in the preschool and primary school curricula, arguing for the creation of an educational environment where children can process every taught subject as an aesthetic stimulus.Deriving from the author’s earlier work, this scholarly volume attempts to develop novel criteria for arts integration curricula, through examining the effects of different
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Community-based Transformational Learning in Early Childhood Settings

Integrating Experiences of Teachers, Students, and the Community

Edited by Christian Winterbottom, Vickie E. Lake, Adrien Malek-Lasater ...

This comprehensive, research-based resource illuminates the challenges and benefits of integrating community-based transformational learning (CBTL) experiences of teachers, students, and the community in early childhood settings. Balancing historical context with theoretical underpinnings, ongoing research, and current practice, this multi-authored volume demystifies the praxeology of CBTL. It ... Read more

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This comprehensive, research-based resource illuminates the challenges and benefits of integrating community-based transformational learning (CBTL) experiences of teachers, students, and the community in early childhood settings. Balancing historical context with theoretical underpinnings, ongoing research, and current practice, this multi-authored volume demystifies the praxeology of CBTL. It
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Language Planning in the Asia Pacific

Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka

Edited by Robert Kaplan, Richard Baldauf ...

This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous to the situations described while the other ... Read more

$75.14 CAD

This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous to the situations described while the other
... Read more
How Arts Education Makes a Difference

Research examining successful classroom practice and pedagogy

Edited by Josephine Fleming, Robyn Gibson, Michael Anderson ...

Series series Routledge Research in Education
This book presents ground-breaking research on the ways the Arts fosters motivation and engagement in both academic and non-academic domains. It reports on mixed method, international research that investigated how the Arts make a difference in the lives of young people. Drawing on the findings of a longitudinal quantitative study led by the internationally renowned educational psychologist Andrew ... Read more

$89.93 CAD

This book presents ground-breaking research on the ways the Arts fosters motivation and engagement in both academic and non-academic domains. It reports on mixed method, international research that investigated how the Arts make a difference in the lives of young people. Drawing on the findings of a longitudinal quantitative study led by the internationally renowned educational psychologist Andrew
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Sound Curriculum

Sonic Studies in Educational Theory, Method, & Practice

by Walter S. Gershon ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Part of a growing group of works that addresses the burgeoning field of sound studies, this book attends not only to theoretical and empirical examinations, but also to methodological and philosophical considerations at the intersection of sound and education. Gershon theoretically advances the rapidly expanding field of sound studies and simultaneously deepens conceptualizations and educational ... Read more

$77.61 CAD

Part of a growing group of works that addresses the burgeoning field of sound studies, this book attends not only to theoretical and empirical examinations, but also to methodological and philosophical considerations at the intersection of sound and education. Gershon theoretically advances the rapidly expanding field of sound studies and simultaneously deepens conceptualizations and educational
... Read more
Judith Butler and Education

Edited by Deborah Youdell ...

Series series Education and Social Theory
The work of Judith Butler has been at the forefront of both theorising the subject as a product of power and explicating possibilities for political alliances and action that are available to such subjects. Mobilising a range of philosophical resources from Hegel and Foucault to Lacan, Levinas Wittig and Arendt, her work has held a core concern with the way that the subject is made in terms of sex ... Read more

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The work of Judith Butler has been at the forefront of both theorising the subject as a product of power and explicating possibilities for political alliances and action that are available to such subjects. Mobilising a range of philosophical resources from Hegel and Foucault to Lacan, Levinas Wittig and Arendt, her work has held a core concern with the way that the subject is made in terms of sex
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