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Direct linkHarrison, Lisa M., Ed.; Hurd, Ellis, Ed.; Brinegar, Kathleen, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2020
Originally published as a special issue of the "Middle School Journal," this book presents integrative curriculum as a foundational element of the middle school. By addressing the current gap in literature on curriculum integration in the middle grades, this text explores how learning can be organized around authentic concepts or…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Integrated Curriculum, Middle School Teachers, Teaching Methods
Nagy-Zekmi, Silvia, Ed.; Hollis, Karyn, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
The representation of the economic, political, cultural and, more importantly, global interrelations between agents involved in the process of intellectual activity is at the core of the inquiry in this volume that scrutinizes a distinct transformation occurring in the modalities of intellectual production also detectable in the changing role of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Academic Discourse, Role of Education, Educational Change
Cotton, Tony, Ed. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2012
This book challenges educators to envisage an education system which sees as its goal a more socially just world. It explores the question of how education, both formal and informal, can positively impact on all pupils' life chances and life experiences. The contributors to the book take the view that access to an equitable education for all is a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), Empowerment
Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Hickey, M. Gail, Ed.; Lanahan, Brian K., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"Even the Janitor Is White" addresses challenges faced by teacher educators who are committed to diversity education. The chapters in this volume invite readers to reflect on their own practice as teacher educators as well as consider ways in which that practice might be improved. More than forty percent of students in U.S. schools are…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Preservice Teacher Education, Multicultural Education, Education Majors
Howell, Leanne L., Ed.; Lewis, Chance W., Ed.; Carter, Norvella, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Yes We Can: Improving Urban Schools through Innovative Educational Reform is a empirically-based book on urban education reform to not only proclaim that hope is alive for urban schools, but to also produce a body of literature that examines current practices and then offer practical implications for all involved in this arduous task. This book is…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, School Restructuring, Test Results
Peer reviewedFeingold, Ronald S.; Zlotkowski, Edward; Fiorentino, Leah Holland; Collier, Connie S.; Lawson, Hal A.; Almond, Len – Quest, 1997
Five articles on service-based scholarship present broad issues confronting higher education, with a focus on physical education, and explore problems associated with current models. The articles note the need to move toward a more service-based model with significant connections to the community and society and present various barriers to the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Role, Educational Change, Educational Research
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This collection of papers includes lessons learned from a 3-year collaboration among faculty who had pursued a scholarly inquiry of service-learning, integrated service-learning into their curricula, altered their teaching, forged partnerships with community based organizations, and developed measures and methodologies for assessing results. The…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
McLeod, Susan H., Ed.; Miraglia, Eric, Ed.; Soven, Margot, Ed.; Thaiss, Christopher, Ed. – 2001
Celebrating the achievements of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) by highlighting the promise of its future, this book presents 12 essays that describe how WAC programs have adapted and continue to adapt to meet new challenges. Essays in the book explain strategies for continuing WAC programs in an atmosphere of change; explore new avenues of…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Lewis, Anne, Ed. – 2003
This volume contains 14 essays and commentaries on youth development penned by educators, policymakers, and leaders of youth development organizations. The papers, written to commemorate 10 years of American Youth Policy Forum's service, were originally presented at a forum in Washington, D.C., in January 2003. Following are the papers:…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Adolescents, Citizenship Education
Allen, Lili; Almeida, Cheryl; Cushman, Kathleen; DeSalvatore, Larry; Malarkey, Tom; Steinberg, Adria – 2000
This volume features the reform journeys of six American high schools. The six high schools portrayed here include four large comprehensive high schools (Oakland Technical High in Oakland, California, and Brighton High in Boston, Massachusetts, are urban; Sir Francis Drake in Marin County, California, and Rex Putnam in North Clackamas, Oregon, are…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Career Academies, Career Education, Case Studies
Martin, G. Eugene, Ed. – 2000
These 38 essays in 4 units are directed toward the future of technology education. Unit I: Evolving into the 21st Century has one essay, entitled "The Past Defines the Paths to be Taken" (Jerry Streichler). Essays 2-18, in Unit II: Exemplary Practices for the 21st Century, are "Developing a Curriculum Process" (Bryan Albrecht);…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Demography
