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Direct linkMcDonald, Tracy, Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011
This concluding volume in the series presents the work of faculty who have been moved to make sustainability the focus of their work, and to use service learning as one method of teaching sustainability to their students. The chapters in the opening section of this book-- Environmental Awareness--offer models for opening students to the awareness…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Service Learning, Social Responsibility, Ecology
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
Kyeong-Ju Seo, Kay, Ed.; Pellegrino, Debra A., Ed.; Engelhard, Chalee, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
Designing Problem-Driven Instruction with Online Social Media has the capacity to transform an educator's teaching style by presenting innovative ways to empower problem-based instruction with online social media. Knowing that not all instructors are comfortable in this area, this book provides clear, systematic design approaches for instructors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Distance Education
Stewart, Trae, Ed.; Webster, Nicole, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
Interest in and research on civic engagement and service-learning have increased exponentially. In this rapid growth, efforts have been made to institutionalize pedagogies of engagement across both K-12 and higher education. As a result, increased positive attention has been complemented equally by well-founded critiques complicating experiential…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Evaluators, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textKirstein, Kurt D., Ed.; Hinrichs, Judy M., Ed.; Olswang, Steven G., Ed. – Online Submission, 2011
In the evolving world of higher education, both online and in the classroom, the discovery and integration of effective new practices is crucial in preparing today's growing number of adult students for tomorrow's dynamic and evolving workplace and to meet the educational demands of busy adult students. In "Authentic Instruction and Online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Adult Students
Dowson, Martin, Ed.; Devenish, Stuart, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
Religion and spirituality make critical contributions to an inclusive vision for the welfare of minorities, the marginalized and other disadvantaged groups in societies and cultures around the globe. Religious movements and spiritual traditions work to improve social outcomes for disenfranchised groups by enriching educational, political, and…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Social Justice, Education
Troxel, Wendy G., Ed.; Cutright, Marc, Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2008
For more than 25 years, educators have developed and institutionalized efforts to help first-year students succeed. This monograph collects case studies from 22 institutions that have created programs and initiatives to support their first-year students. The programs range from encouraging civic engagement and academic achievements to…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Academic Achievement, Problem Based Learning, Service Learning
Devine, Richard, Ed.; Favazza, Joseph A., Ed.; McLain, F. Michael, Ed. – 2002
This essays in this volume, 19th in a series, discuss why and how service-learning can be implemented in Religious Studies and what that discipline contributes to the pedagogy of service-learning. Part 1, "Service-Learning and the Dilemma of Religious Studies," contains: (1) "Service-Learning and the Dilemma of Religious Studies: Descriptive or…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Program Development, Religious Education
Eliason, Grafton T., Ed.; Patrick, John, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2008
"Career Development in the Schools" describes a dynamic process that continues to evolve in its rationale and practice. In many schools and in a variety of scholarly writings, the status of career development is controversial. Some observers assert that career development should be seen as a by-product of all of the knowledge and activities that…
Descriptors: Career Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Career Counseling, Counselor Role
Dantas-Whitney, Maria, Ed.; Rilling, Sarah, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2010
This volume in the TESOL Classroom Practice Series presents instructional practices that are particularly successful with children and adolescent language learners. These practices take into account the unique needs and characteristics of these age groups and reflect a wide range of educational contexts, goals, and challenges from classrooms in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web Sites, Literacy Education, Electronic Publishing
American Association of School Librarians (NJ3), 2009
As Gail Bush reports, "each section of this monograph includes articles that invite the reader to explore his or her own response to the authors' messages... The purpose here is not to set in stone principles and practices to be followed blindly but to present a disposition toward intellectual behaviors that seriously consider our responsibilities…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Library Research, Democracy, School Libraries
Cohan, Audrey, Ed.; Honigsfeld, Andrea, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break the traditional mold of teacher education. Section…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Program Descriptions, Vignettes
Jacoby, Barbara – 2003
The chapters in this collection contain information, exemplary models, and practical tools to make service-learning succeed. The chapters are: (1) "Fundamentals of Service-Learning Partnerships" (Barbara Jacoby); (2) "Developing a Theory and Practice of Campus-Community Partnerships" (Sandra Enos and Keith Morton); (3) "Assessment as a Means of…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship
Pelham, Anabel, Ed.; Sills, Elizabeth, Ed.; Eisman, Gerald S., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
Starting from the premise that the health status, vulnerability to accidents and disease, and life spans are determined by the organization, delivery, and financing (or lack thereof) of health care, this book explores how educators and community caretakers teach the complex web of inter-connection between the micro level of individual health and…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health, Public Health, Health Promotion
Harkavy, Ira, Ed.; Donovan, Bill M., Ed. – 2000
This volume, 16th in a series about service learning and the academic disciplines, focuses on the ways service learning adds immediacy and relevance to the study of history. The authors of this collection provide answers to why history and service learning should be connected, and they describe strategies to bring this about. The chapters are: (1)…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, History, Intellectual Disciplines
