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Direct linkSalen, Katie; Torres, Robert; Wolozin, Loretta; Rufo-Tepper, Rebecca; Shapiro, Arana – MIT Press (BK), 2011
Quest to Learn, an innovative school for grades 6 to 12 in New York City, grew out of the idea that gaming and game design offer a promising new paradigm for curriculum and learning. The designers of Quest to Learn developed an approach to learning that draws from what games do best: drop kids into inquiry-based, complex problem spaces that are…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Research and Development, Games, Educational Innovation
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
Mark Van Doren, the noted literary scholar, once remarked, "The college is meaningless without a curriculum, but it is more so when it has one that is meaningless." Many current critics of undergraduate curricula in America assent to the crucial need for programmatic renewal in our colleges and universities. They bemoan the cookie-cutter…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, General Education
Lansiquot, Reneta D. – IGI Global, 2013
Involving two or more academic subjects, interdisciplinary studies aim to blend together broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, and epistemology in an educational setting. By focusing on topics or questions too broad for a single discipline to cover, these studies strive to draw connections between seemingly different fields. Cases on…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Organizational Change, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Mamary, Albert – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
This book is the only comprehensive guide available that provides all the tools necessary to create an ideal school. There are many education books out there but most are specific to one aspect of school improvement and do not provide a systemic framework or a total approach. This book does, and it is based on expertise that was developed and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, School Districts, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Kincheloe, Joe L., Ed.; Steinberg, Shirley R., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007
In these vivid, thought-provoking essays, leading scholars draw from their own life experiences to explore the ways in which socio-economic class has shaped their lives and educational practices. Some experienced the sting of poverty as students, while others tell stories of a privileged upbringing and moments of epiphany when they recognized the…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Outcomes of Education, Educational Practices, Educational Objectives
Download full textChapman, David W., Ed.; Mahlck, Lars O., Ed. – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2004
This book presents a compilation of articles based on the premise that the move to advanced technology use in primary and secondary schools offers great hope for improving the access, quality, and efficiency of basic education. The aim of the book is to identify and examine how information technologies can be, and are being, used to strengthen the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Educational Planning, Educational Change
Spaventa, Marilyn, Ed.; Machado, Craig, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2006
English as a second language (ESL) programs in community colleges are as diverse in the models they follow as the students they serve. This volume provides a detailed look at how faculty and administrators are tailoring their ESL programs to best serve the needs of their students and the missions of their institutions. The authors of the thirteen…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Adult Students, Community Colleges
Light, Richard L., Ed.; Osman, Alice H., Ed. – 1978
This volume contains the following papers: (1) "Linguistics, TESOL, and Bilingual Education: An Overview," by J.E. Alatis; (2) "TESOL: Meeting a Social Need," by M. Galvan; (3) "Bilingual Education, TESL, and Ethnicity in New York State," by E.B. Nyquist; (4) "Control, Initiative, and the Whole Learner," by…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication
