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International Handbook of Curriculum Research

Edited by William F. Pinar ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Continuing its calling to define the field and where it is going, the Second Edition of this landmark handbook brings up to date its comprehensive reportage of scholarly developments and school curriculum initiatives worldwide, providing a panoramic view of the state of curriculum studies globally. Its international scope and currency and range of research and theory reflect and contribute ... Read more

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Continuing its calling to define the field and where it is going, the Second Edition of this landmark handbook brings up to date its comprehensive reportage of scholarly developments and school curriculum initiatives worldwide, providing a panoramic view of the state of curriculum studies globally. Its international scope and currency and range of research and theory reflect and contribute
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Multiracial Identity in Children's Literature

by Amina Chaudhri ...

Series series Routledge Research in Education
Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the U.S., and teachers of diverse populations need to be mindful in selecting literature that their students can identify with. This volume explores how books for elementary school students depict and reflect multiracial experiences through text and images. Chaudhri examines contemporary children’s literature to demonstrate ... Read more

$86.56 CAD

Racially mixed children make up the fastest growing youth demographic in the U.S., and teachers of diverse populations need to be mindful in selecting literature that their students can identify with. This volume explores how books for elementary school students depict and reflect multiracial experiences through text and images. Chaudhri examines contemporary children’s literature to demonstrate
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Patterns of Power, Grades 1-5

Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language

by Jeff Anderson, Whitney La Rocca ...

Author Jeff Anderson and literacy coach Whitney La Rocca lead a vibrant approach to grammar instruction in Patterns of Power, Grades 1-5: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language. Here, young, emergent writers are invited to notice the conventions of the English language and build off them in this inquiry-based approach to instructional grammar.The book comes with standards-aligned ... Read more

$72.82 CAD

Author Jeff Anderson and literacy coach Whitney La Rocca lead a vibrant approach to grammar instruction in Patterns of Power, Grades 1-5: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language. Here, young, emergent writers are invited to notice the conventions of the English language and build off them in this inquiry-based approach to instructional grammar.The book comes with standards-aligned
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Write This Way

Structured lessons and activities for reluctant young writers

by Dr. Gavin Reid, Jenn Clark, Michelle McIntosh ...

Many children avoid writing for a number of reasons – perhaps they find it tedious or frustrating, or perhaps they have dyslexia or dysgraphia. This structured programme of writing activities and lessons makes writing engaging and accessible for reluctant writers, by encouraging primary teachers and learners to work together to develop children's writing skills.The book covers all aspects of ... Read more

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Many children avoid writing for a number of reasons – perhaps they find it tedious or frustrating, or perhaps they have dyslexia or dysgraphia. This structured programme of writing activities and lessons makes writing engaging and accessible for reluctant writers, by encouraging primary teachers and learners to work together to develop children's writing skills.The book covers all aspects of
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Lido English Superheroes

by Lido Learning ...

A collection of beautifully scripted writing projects curated by Grade 8 and 9 students of LIDO Learning, English . The topics and prompts covered are part of the CBSE and ICSE curriculum. Spanning skills of Narrative Writing, Script Writing, and Letter Writing. ... Read more

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A collection of beautifully scripted writing projects curated by Grade 8 and 9 students of LIDO Learning, English . The topics and prompts covered are part of the CBSE and ICSE curriculum. Spanning skills of Narrative Writing, Script Writing, and Letter Writing.
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Early Childhood and Compulsory Education

Reconceptualising the relationship

Edited by Peter Moss ...

Series series Contesting Early Childhood
What should be the relationship between early childhood and compulsory education? What can they learn from one another and by working together?The rapid expansion of early childhood education and care means that most children in affluent countries now have several years at pre-school before compulsory education. This raises an important question about the relationship between the two. Whilst it’s ... Read more

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What should be the relationship between early childhood and compulsory education? What can they learn from one another and by working together?The rapid expansion of early childhood education and care means that most children in affluent countries now have several years at pre-school before compulsory education. This raises an important question about the relationship between the two. Whilst it’s
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Music, Sound, and Vibration

Music and Science Integrated Curriculum

by Marjorie de Muynck ...

Through engaging assignments, this integrated curriculum course design introduces the physics of sound and music, with the exploration of musical styles and their biological effect, along with the newer disciplines of Music Therapy and Sound & Vibrational Healing. While the course is designed for grades 5-6, educators will find a variety of applications and inspiration from individual units, as ... Read more

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Through engaging assignments, this integrated curriculum course design introduces the physics of sound and music, with the exploration of musical styles and their biological effect, along with the newer disciplines of Music Therapy and Sound & Vibrational Healing. While the course is designed for grades 5-6, educators will find a variety of applications and inspiration from individual units, as
... Read more
Focus on Developmentally Appropriate Practice

Equitable and Joyful Learning in Preschool

Edited by Iliana Alanís, Toni Sturdivant ...

Series series Focus on DAP: Equitable and Joyful Learning
**What Does Developmentally Appropriate Practice Look Like in a Preschool Classroom? ** If you’ve ever wondered how effective teachers actually do DAP, this is the book for you. Here, you can peek into classrooms to see teachers making intentional decisions in the six key areas of practice that form the six guidelines for DAP in action: Building a community of learners where everyone is welcomed ... Read more

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**What Does Developmentally Appropriate Practice Look Like in a Preschool Classroom? ** If you’ve ever wondered how effective teachers actually do DAP, this is the book for you. Here, you can peek into classrooms to see teachers making intentional decisions in the six key areas of practice that form the six guidelines for DAP in action: Building a community of learners where everyone is welcomed
... Read more
Children's Literature in the Reading Program

Engaging Young Readers in the 21st Century

Edited by Deborah A. Wooten, PhD, Lauren Aimonette Liang, PhD, Bernice E. Cullinan, PhD ...

This indispensable teacher resource and course text, now revised and updated, addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of incorporating outstanding children's literature into the K–8 reading program. A strong emphasis on diverse literature is woven throughout the fifth edition, with chapters emphasizing the need for books that reflect their readers and presenting dozens of carefully reviewed ... Read more

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This indispensable teacher resource and course text, now revised and updated, addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of incorporating outstanding children's literature into the K–8 reading program. A strong emphasis on diverse literature is woven throughout the fifth edition, with chapters emphasizing the need for books that reflect their readers and presenting dozens of carefully reviewed
... Read more
Strengths-Based Approaches to Educating All Learners with Disabilities

Beyond Special Education

by Michael L. Wehmeyer ...

Michael Wehmeyer, a leading scholar with over four decades of experience as a teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and advocate, provides a cogent but accessible account of the evolution of special education. Offering a compelling vision of where the field should be headed in the next decade, he notes how the digital revolution has made it possible for all learners to gain access to content and ... Read more

$38.49 CAD

Michael Wehmeyer, a leading scholar with over four decades of experience as a teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and advocate, provides a cogent but accessible account of the evolution of special education. Offering a compelling vision of where the field should be headed in the next decade, he notes how the digital revolution has made it possible for all learners to gain access to content and
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A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum

by William E. Doll Jr. ...

Doll draws relationships among the ideas advanced in chaos theory, Piagetian epistemology, cognitive theory, and the work of Dewey and Whitehead. In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction, ... Read more

$27.49 CAD

Doll draws relationships among the ideas advanced in chaos theory, Piagetian epistemology, cognitive theory, and the work of Dewey and Whitehead. In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction,
... Read more
Bridging Educational Leadership, Curriculum Theory and Didaktik

Non-affirmative Theory of Education

Edited by Michael Uljens, Rose M. Ylimaki ...

Series Book 5 - Educational Governance Research
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume argues for the need of a common ground that bridges leadership studies, curriculum theory, and Didaktik. It proposes a non-affirmative education theory and its core concepts along with discursive institutionalism as an analytical tool to bridge these fields. It concludes with implications of its coherent theoretical framing for future ... Read more

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume argues for the need of a common ground that bridges leadership studies, curriculum theory, and Didaktik. It proposes a non-affirmative education theory and its core concepts along with discursive institutionalism as an analytical tool to bridge these fields. It concludes with implications of its coherent theoretical framing for future
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Educating Students to Improve the World

by Fernando M. Reimers ...

Series series Education (R0)
This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. Offering a comprehensive and ... Read more

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This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. Offering a comprehensive and
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Teacher Beliefs as a Complex System: English Language Teachers in China

by Hongying Zheng ...

Series series Education (R0)
The volume is a practical introduction to the ways in which the teachers deal with classroom events in the context of change for researchers, teachers, administrators who wish to implement curriculum reform to EFL in schools. The author provides insights into the beliefs of Chinese teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and their pedagogical choices in the context of the National English ... Read more

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The volume is a practical introduction to the ways in which the teachers deal with classroom events in the context of change for researchers, teachers, administrators who wish to implement curriculum reform to EFL in schools. The author provides insights into the beliefs of Chinese teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and their pedagogical choices in the context of the National English
... Read more
Teaching By Numbers

Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability in Education

by Peter Maas Taubman ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Over the last decade the transformation in the field of education that is occurring under the twin banners of "standards" and "accountability" has materially affected every aspect of schooling, teaching, and teacher education in the United States. Teaching By Numbers, offers interdisciplinary ways to understand the educational reforms underway in urban education, teaching, and teacher education, ... Read more

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Over the last decade the transformation in the field of education that is occurring under the twin banners of "standards" and "accountability" has materially affected every aspect of schooling, teaching, and teacher education in the United States. Teaching By Numbers, offers interdisciplinary ways to understand the educational reforms underway in urban education, teaching, and teacher education,
... Read more
Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue

Edited by Ane Qvortrup, Ellen Krogh, Stefan Ting Graf ...

Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue revives the dialogue between the continental European Didaktik tradition and the Anglo-Saxon tradition of curriculum. It highlights important research findings that bridge cultural differences and argues for a mutual exchange and understanding of ideas.Through analyses of shared conditions and cultural differences, the book invites a critical stance and ... Read more

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Didaktik and Curriculum in Ongoing Dialogue revives the dialogue between the continental European Didaktik tradition and the Anglo-Saxon tradition of curriculum. It highlights important research findings that bridge cultural differences and argues for a mutual exchange and understanding of ideas.Through analyses of shared conditions and cultural differences, the book invites a critical stance and
... Read more
Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning

Thinking the World Together

by David W. Jardine ...

This book is about an ecological-interpretive image of "the basics." Essays detailing everyday, lived events in classroom life are presented to help readers see beneath the surface ordinariness of these events to uncover and examine the underlying complex and contested meanings they contain. Readers are invited to imagine what would happen to our understanding of teaching and learning if we ... Read more

$111.30 CAD

This book is about an ecological-interpretive image of "the basics." Essays detailing everyday, lived events in classroom life are presented to help readers see beneath the surface ordinariness of these events to uncover and examine the underlying complex and contested meanings they contain. Readers are invited to imagine what would happen to our understanding of teaching and learning if we
... Read more
Enhancing the Professional Practice of Music Teachers

101 Tips that Principals Want Music Teachers to Know and Do

by Paul G. Young ...

If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book.Rather than addressing research and theory about music education or the "how-tos" of teaching, these time-honored tips focus on common-sense qualities and standards of ... Read more

$55.79 CAD

If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book.Rather than addressing research and theory about music education or the "how-tos" of teaching, these time-honored tips focus on common-sense qualities and standards of
... Read more
Focus on Developmentally Appropriate Practice

Equitable and Joyful Learning in Kindergarten

Edited by Eva C. Phillips, Amy Scrinzi, Susan Friedman ...

Series series Focus on Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Equitable and Joyful Learning
If you've ever wondered how effective teachers actually do DAP in kindergarten, this is the book for you. You will see how kindergarten educators provide integrated learning opportunities that you can adapt to create a robust learning environment that is play oriented and supportive of required mandates and expectations.You'll read about educators making intentional decisions in key areas of ... Read more

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If you've ever wondered how effective teachers actually do DAP in kindergarten, this is the book for you. You will see how kindergarten educators provide integrated learning opportunities that you can adapt to create a robust learning environment that is play oriented and supportive of required mandates and expectations.You'll read about educators making intentional decisions in key areas of
... Read more
Learning That Transfers

Designing Curriculum for a Changing World

by Julie Stern, Krista Ferraro, Kayla Duncan, Trevor Aleo ...

Series series Corwin Teaching Essentials
"It is a pleasure to have a full length treatise on this most important topic, and may this focus on transferbecome much more debated, taught, and valued in our schools." - John HattieTeach students to use their learning to unlock new situations.How do you prepare your students for a future that you can’t see? And how do you do it without exhausting yourself? Teachers need a framework that allows ... Read more

$38.39 CAD

"It is a pleasure to have a full length treatise on this most important topic, and may this focus on transferbecome much more debated, taught, and valued in our schools." - John HattieTeach students to use their learning to unlock new situations.How do you prepare your students for a future that you can’t see? And how do you do it without exhausting yourself? Teachers need a framework that allows
... Read more
Making Room for Impact

A De-implementation Guide for Educators

by Arran Hamilton, John Hattie, Dylan Wiliam ...

Dial back and make room for impactWith teacher and leader workloads and burnout at an all-time high, it’s time for de-implementation: de-prioritizing and deleting the less effective, higher-cost initiatives we implement in schools. De-implementation allows us to focus on practices that have more supporting evidence and a higher probability of positive impact on students, and at the same time gain ... Read more

$38.39 CAD

Dial back and make room for impactWith teacher and leader workloads and burnout at an all-time high, it’s time for de-implementation: de-prioritizing and deleting the less effective, higher-cost initiatives we implement in schools. De-implementation allows us to focus on practices that have more supporting evidence and a higher probability of positive impact on students, and at the same time gain
... Read more
A Decolonial Curriculum

Knowledge, Knowing, and Coming-to-Know

by David Scott, Sandra Leaton Gray, Rita Chawla-Duggan ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
A Decolonial Curriculum advances the claim that a decolonial and transcolonial curriculum must be grounded in a substantive account of what human beings do, have done and might yet do.It proposes 12 fundamental domains of human life - knowing, communicating, genealogising, positioning, cognising, understanding, enhancing, philosophising, acting in the world, valuing, embodying and creating - as ... Read more

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A Decolonial Curriculum advances the claim that a decolonial and transcolonial curriculum must be grounded in a substantive account of what human beings do, have done and might yet do.It proposes 12 fundamental domains of human life - knowing, communicating, genealogising, positioning, cognising, understanding, enhancing, philosophising, acting in the world, valuing, embodying and creating - as
... Read more
College and Career Ready

Helping All Students Succeed Beyond High School

by David T. Conley ...

Giving students the tools they need to succeed in college and workCollege and Career Ready offers educators a blueprint for improving high school so that more students are able to excel in freshman-level college courses or entry-level jobs-laying a solid foundation for lifelong growth and success. The book is filled with detailed, practical guidelines and case descriptions of what the best high ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

Giving students the tools they need to succeed in college and workCollege and Career Ready offers educators a blueprint for improving high school so that more students are able to excel in freshman-level college courses or entry-level jobs-laying a solid foundation for lifelong growth and success. The book is filled with detailed, practical guidelines and case descriptions of what the best high
... Read more
Sign to Learn

American Sign Language in the Early Childhood Classroom

by Kirsten Dennis, Tressa Azpiri ...

Everyone is talking about signing with young children. As a form of early communication for infants and toddlers, or as a transitioning tool for children just beginning to speak, the benefits of signing with hearing children are endless.Sign to Learn is the first complete introduction to sign language curriculum for hearing preschoolers. In this unique resource, you will learn how to integrate ... Read more

$26.39 CAD

Everyone is talking about signing with young children. As a form of early communication for infants and toddlers, or as a transitioning tool for children just beginning to speak, the benefits of signing with hearing children are endless.Sign to Learn is the first complete introduction to sign language curriculum for hearing preschoolers. In this unique resource, you will learn how to integrate
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