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Legitimation Code Theory eBook Series

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  • Teaching Science

    Knowledge, Language, Pedagogy

    Edited by Karl Maton, J. R. Martin, Y. J. Doran ...
    Series series Legitimation Code Theory
    Science has never been more important, yet science education faces serious challenges. At present, science education research only sees half the picture, focusing on how students learn and their changing conceptions. Both teaching practice and what is taught, science knowledge itself, are missing. This book offers new, interdisciplinary ways of thinking about science teaching that foreground the ... Read more

    RM 215.59

  • Knowledge-building

    Educational studies in Legitimation Code Theory

    Edited by Karl Maton, Susan Hood, Suellen Shay ...
    Series series Legitimation Code Theory
    Education and knowledge have never been more important to society, yet research is segmented by approach, methodology or topic. Legitimation Code Theory or ‘LCT’ extends and integrates insights from Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein to offer a framework for research and practice that overcomes segmentalism. This book shows how LCT can be used to build knowledge about education and society. ... Read more

    RM 278.32

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    by W. Paul Vogt, PhD, Dianne C. Gardner, PhD, Lynne M. Haeffele, PhD ...
    Systematic, practical, and accessible, this is the first book to focus on finding the most defensible design for a particular research question. Thoughtful guidelines are provided for weighing the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs. The book can be read sequentially or readers can dip into chapters on specific stages of ... Read more

    RM 211.79

  • Research & Resources in Support of This We Believe

    by Association for Middle Level Education ...
    Research and Resources in Support of This We Believe is an invaluable and concise guide for educators and those dedicated to the education of young adolescents. This edition, an essential companion to NMSA/AMLE's position paper, This We Believe: Keys to Educating Young Adolescents, articulates the research related to the middle school concept and the 16 characteristics of successful middle grades ... Read more

    RM 39.17 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Variability Is the Rule a Companion Analysis of K-8 State Mathematics Standards

    Edited by John P. Smith III ...
    Series series Research in Mathematics Education
    In response to No Child Let Behind, states have developed mathematics curriculum frameworks that outline their intended curriculum for grades K–8. While some have indicated that districts or individual schools may use their framework as a model for specific curricular programs, others have taken a more prescriptive or even mandatory stance. Collectively, these frameworks present a sense of the ... Read more

    RM 173.69

  • Improving Survey Methods

    Lessons from Recent Research

    Edited by Uwe Engel, Ben Jann, Peter Lynn, Annette Scherpenzeel, Patrick Sturgis ...
    Series series European Association of Methodology Series
    This state-of-the-art volume provides insight into the recent developments in survey research. It covers topics like: survey modes and response effects, bio indicators and paradata, interviewer and survey error, mixed-mode panels, sensitive questions, conducting web surveys and access panels, coping with non-response, and handling missing data. The authors are leading scientists in the field, and ... Read more

    RM 344.97

  • The War Against Excellence

    The Rising Tide of Mediocrity in America's Middle Schools

    by Cheri Pierson Yecke ...
    Here, veteran teacher Cheri Pierson Yecke details the chronological history of the middle school movement in the U. S. by tracing its evolution from academically-oriented junior high schools to the dissolution of academics in the middle schools of the late 1980s and beyond. In this book, evidence is presented to show how leaders of this movement designed to use the middle school as a vehicle to ... Read more

    RM 160.69

  • Negotiating Privilege and Identity in Educational Contexts

    by Adam Howard, Brianne Wheeler, Aimee Polimeno ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Recent efforts emphasize the roles that privilege and elite education play in shaping affluent youths’ identities. Despite various backgrounds, the common qualities shared among the eight adolescents showcased in this book lead them to form particular understandings of self, others, and the world around them that serve as means for them to negotiate their privilege. These self-understandings are ... Read more

    RM 137.18

  • Yes We Can! Improving Urban Schools Through Innovative Education Reform

    Edited by Leanne Howell, Chance W. Lewis, Norvella Carter ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement
    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 filled with real-world strategies to implement in ... Read more

    RM 173.69

  • Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve

    Profiles of Programs Helping All Students to Learn

    by James Deneen ...
    Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve compares the academic achievements of students in the United States to those of students in other countries. Examining fundamental questions and educational issues, James Deneen identifies what all students should learn and discusses what American students currently learn.Deneen argues that failing schools can become successful by studying examples of ... Read more

    RM 167.59

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    The Use and Misuse of Digital Technologies in Higher Education

    by Michael Flavin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is about how technologies are used in practice to support learning and teaching in higher education. Despite digitization and e-learning becoming ever-increasingly popular in university teaching settings, this book convincingly argues instead in favour of simple and convenient technologies, thus disrupting traditional patterns of learning, teaching and assessment. Michael Flavin uses ... Read more

    RM 419.29

  • The Pedagogy of Creativity

    by Anna Herbert ...
    The Pedagogy of Creativity represents a groundbreaking study linking the pedagogy of classroom creativity with psychoanalytical theories. Taking a classroom-based example of poststructuralist methodology as its starting point, Anna Herbert’s investigation explores the relationship between creativity seen in psychological activity, such as dreams, and creativity seen in the classroom, asking the ... Read more

    RM 215.59