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Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
ix, 168 p.
Description
"Education and the Soul is the first book to comprehensively address how the soul can be nourished in educational settings. The book explores the nature of the soul and offers teaching/learning approaches that can be used to nurture the development of students' souls. It also examines how institutions such as schools have souls and what can be done to care for a school's spiritual life."--Jacket
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxvi, 453 p.
Description
Hewitt introduces audiences to curriculum as knowledge curriculum as work, and curriculum as professional practice. This text not only acquaints readers with the study of curriculum, but also helps them to become effective curriculum practitioners.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"Work with students at all levels to help them read novelsWhole Novels is a practical, field-tested guide to implementing a student-centered literature program that promotes critical thinking and literary understanding through the study of novels with middle school students. Rather than using novels simply to teach basic literacy skills and comprehension strategies, Whole Novels approaches literature as art. The book is fully aligned with the Common...
Pub. Date
[2006], c1991
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (80 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
This teleconference for teachers, administrators, and parents addresses the issues of improving comprehension; cognitive coaching; the link between thinking, reading, and writing; and the integration of instruction and assessment. The program features Syracuse University Professor Harold Herber, Professor Dorothy Strickland of Rutgers University, Robert Peterkin of Harvard University's Urban Superintendents' Program, Fairfax County (Virginia) teacher...
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Since the original publication of L. Dee Fink's “Creating Significant Learning Experiences”, higher education has continued to move in two opposite directions: more institutions encourage faculty to focus on research, obtaining grants, and publishing, while accreditation agencies, policymakers, and students themselves emphasize the need for greater attention to the quality of teaching and learning.
Now the author has updated his bestselling classic,...
Series
Bold visions in educational research volume 74
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (262 pages).
Description
"Teaching and learning are profoundly personal experiences, yet systems of education often prioritize agendas that alienate people rather than engage them. Reconceptualizing teaching and learning as a co-constructed praxis places individuals at the heart of education and, in so doing, regards knowledge acquisition as a process of understanding that is dynamically and personally negotiated at the intersection of self, subject, and relationality. This...
Series
Innovation and sustainability volume Volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (300 pages).
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xx, 335 p.
Description
Graduate students and teachers of introductory graduate courses in curriculum have many textbooks to choose from. What is special about Fundamentals of Curriculum: Passion and Professionalism, Second Edition? Content and approach: Clear, focused, and tightly structured, this text provides essential information and resources education professionals need to effectively deal with the urgent and important curriculum problems they face in schools today....
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The Social Studies Curriculum, Fourth Edition updates the definitive overview of the issues teachers face when creating learning experiences for students in social studies. The book connects the diverse elements of the social studies. The book connects the diverse elements of the social studies curriculum - civic, global, social issues - offering a unique and critical perspective that separates it from other texts. Completely updated, this book includes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 164 pages)
Description
At the heart of education, are two fundamental questions: What should we teach? And How should we, teach it? Educators striving to design and deliver the best-possible learning experiences can feel overwhelmed by the possibilities. To help them make these critical decisions, Angela Di Michele Lalor identifies five key priorities of a curriculum that matters-practices, deep thinking, social and emotional learning, civic engagement and discourse, and...
