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Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
This groundbreaking volume brings together major figures in Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore some of today's most important issues in education. Scholars examine the achievement/opportunity gaps from both historical and contemporary perspectives, as well as the overrepresentation of minority students in special education and the school-to-prison pipeline. Chapters also address school reform and the
...7) Mapping the moral domain: a contribution of women's thinking to psychological theory and education
Publisher
Center for the Study of Gender, Education, and Human Development, Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
xxxix, 324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Elsevier
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Section I. Shifting the Focus to the Patient: 1. The Problem of Health Literacy; 2. The Patient's Perspective; 3. Education Theory -- Section II. Effective Teaching and Learning: 4. Information Exchange; 5. The Science and Theories of Learning; 6. Health Promotion Theories -- Section III. Patient Knowledge: 7. Patient Learning; 8. Informational Seasons of Knowledge 9. The Brain and Memory -- Section IV. Information Delivery Methodology: 10. The PITS...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Current book publications in the form of study skills books for dyslexic higher education students written by dyslexia practitioners and education professionals have to date been focused on the delivery of effective cognitive study skills strategies with less emphasis on supporting students with developing techniques to manage anxiety and stress in relating to their academic courses. Yet, if negative emotional consequences of dyslexia are exacerbated,...
10) Maria Montessori
Author
Series
Publisher
Lincoln Children's Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Maria grew up in Italy at a time when girls didn't receive an equal education to boys. But Maria's mother was supportive of her dreams, and Maria went on to study medicine. She later became an early years expert - founding schools with her revolutionary educational theories and changing the lives of many children. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical...
11) Essays
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
British writer and educator Arthur Christopher Benson possessed a wide-ranging intellect and published prodigiously throughout his entire life. This eclectic selection of his most popular essays runs the gamut from literature to philosophy, with some discussion of pedagogy and educational theory along the way.
Author
Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Teaching Strategies for Nurse Educators, 3e, prepares graduate nursing students to be nurse educators in settings of staff development, patient education, or academia-covering commonalities of teaching that pertain to all three. Based on a strong foundation in educational theory and practical teaching strategies, constructive information and cutting-edge content emphasize the theories and strategies most likely to be used in the field of nursing...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Based on the lectures given by Dr. Maria maria Montessori at Ahmedabad, during the first training course to be held after her internment in India, which lasted till the end of World War 2. In it she illustrated the unique mental powers of the young child which enable him to construct and firmly establish within but a few years- without teachers, without any of the usual aids of education, nay almost abandoned and often obstructed all the characteristics...
14) Emotions, learning, and the brain: exploring the educational implications of affective neuroscience
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The once banned and burned treatise on the nature of education from the eighteenth-century philosopher and author of The Social Contract.
Considered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau himself to be the "best and most important" of all his writings, Émile set off a firestorm when it was first published in 1762. It was banned in Paris and burned in Geneva, but later served as the inspiration for a new national system of education during the French Revolution.
In...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
xx, 353 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us--not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid....
Author
Language
English
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Description
A groundbreaking work that explores the fundamental relationship between education and democracy. In this influential book, Dewey presents his philosophy of education, emphasizing the importance of education in fostering democratic ideals and active participation in a democratic society. The book begins by highlighting the essential role of education in the development of individuals as active, engaged citizens. Dewey argues that education should...
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