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Exploring Unequal Achievement in the Schools
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 32.99For over a half century, educational sociologists have struggled to explain the cause of differential academic achievement in the school. This book attempts to offer an explanation by examining the role played by ascribed characteristics of students (race, gender, and class) and educational practices and structures of schools (testing, tracking, and... more...
Issues in English Teaching
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 50.95Issues in English Teaching invites primary and secondary teachers of English to engage in debates about key issues in subject teaching. The issues discussed include: *the increasingly centralised control of the curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy in the school teaching of English in England and Wales as a result of initiatives such as the National... more...
Fieldwork in Educational Settings
RoutledgeFalmer 2001; US$ 51.95This new edition brings original, best-selling text right up-to-date for new researchers and includes a new chapter on computer software for data handling. more...
Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning (TIEL)
R&L Education 2009; US$ 35.99Teaching for Intellectual and Emotional Learning (TIEL): A Model for Creating Powerful Curriculum will help teachers and teacher educators meet their goals of mastery in basic skills and content knowledge as well as intellectual and social emotional development. Sharing the experiences of real teachers who changed their teaching and helped their students... more...
Philosophy and Educational Policy
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 45.95What are the concepts and theories behind current debates about education? This comprehensive introduction to philosophy of education discusses issues that are of current public interest and debate. It locates education at the heart of questions concerned with culture, ethics, politics, economics and shows how key educational issues have to be approached... more...
Standing in the Shadow of Giants
ABC-CLIO 1999; US$ 185.00Who's cheating whom in college writing instruction? This book argues that through binary privileging of the real author (the inspired, autonomous genius) over the transgressive writer (the collaborator or the plagiarist), composition pedagogy deprives students of important opportunities to join in scholarly discourse and assume authorial roles.... more...
Educational Controversies Towards a Discourse of Reconciliation
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 190.00For the last 100 years, people have argued vigorously about a vast number of educational issues. At the heart of the arguments lies the question: What is the purpose of education? This conflict of educational purpose has seen rifts between academics, educators, politicians and parents. The authors of this book don't believe the conflicts need to be... more...
Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education
Wiley 2009; US$ 39.95A collection of scholarly essays, Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education provides an accessible theoretical introduction to the topic of complexity theory while considering its broader implications for educational change. Explains the contributions of complexity theory to philosophy of education, curriculum, and educational research... more...
Real Education
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve , sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America?s educational establishment. Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material. Doing our best for every child requires, above all... more...
Collaboration in Education
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 140.00Collaboration in Education establishes a needed framework for school/university collaborations that will be critical for others wishing to reproduce and participate in these partnerships. The contributors explore the elements necessary for sustainable collaboration in order to provide a frame of reference for others doing this work. This volume... more...









