"Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in the subject but also covers the latest trends and issues affecting the fie…
"Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in the subject but also covers the latest trends and issues affecting the fie…
In this text various specialists in education honsider the merits of current thinking on "self-esteem" in relation to their field of expertise. Each concludes that a radical reassessment of the ways in which we think about.
Explains the process and concepts central to the devising of school curriculums, and then places them within the context of the rapidly changing nature of Hong Kong schools. The author addresses basic questions of curriculum intent, teaching method, and student assessment strate…
Written for students of education, this book gives a full account of the basic components of the curriculum -- the intentions, the content taught, the method of teaching and learning, and the assessment. Technical aspects on planning the curriculum, and the social and political …
Drawn from a symposium jointly sponsored by the Educational Leadership Program and the American Council of Learned Societies, this work looks at the requirements of liberal education for the next century and the strategies of getting there. Rethinking Liberal Education proposes …
Rethinking liberal education
Drawn from a symposium jointly sponsored by the Educational Leadership Program and the American Council of Learned Societies, this work looks at the requirements of liberal education for the next century and the strategies of getting there. Rethinking Liberal Education proposes …
"Philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the hum…
"Philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the hum…
Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have rightly been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. Recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry both in the United States and abroa…
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 studentsshould learn and discusses wha…
"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 w…
This handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to teaching science in secondary school: it is designed to guide student teachers through the transition from graduate scientist to practising science teacher and includes classroom management.
The book also serves as an entertaining introduction to emerging theories in cultural studies, progressively illustrating the uses of discourse analysis for comprehending ideology, the implications of power/knowledge links, professional practice as a technology of power, and cur…