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This treatment of critical thinking theories, old and modern, addresses related concerns expressed by feminists and postmodernists. The author suggests a solution by way of a feminist redescription of critical thinking as constructive thinking, which she relates to classroom settings.

Through classroom scenes and dialogue, this study explores the role that reading to children plays in an early childhood education programme. The author questions prevailing prescriptions for ""developmentally appropriate practice"" and examines the impact of public policy on teachers and pupils.

A history of moral education in American schools. The author traces American traditions of moral education from the colonial era to the present, illuminating both debates about the subject and actual practices in public and private schools, colleges, and universities.

A teacher describes her three years teaching Haitian children in an inner-city preschool. Using her own classroom research, the book explores how teachers find ways to listen closely to children from other backgrounds and the approaches to literature that these children bring with them to school.

This volume argues that schools and educational authorities obstruct the interent learning abilities of children, thereby creating handicaps that often persist through life. He presents contrasting views regarding learning, aiming to combat ""sterile"" attitudes towards teaching.

With contributions from over 70 professional associations, this text covers the ""eight components"" designed to give students the knowledge and skills they need to deal with the problems they face in and out of school. The text discusses topics from health education to nutrition services.

This text offers teachers guidance in helping children develop the mental and physical abilities used in the discovery and creation of meaning through drawing. It provides developmental guidelines, defined objectives and lesson plans for classes from Kindergarten through to Sixth Grade.

This is an account of a year-long project between the author and 13 teachers in which they learned from each other to become better teachers. They dealt with issues concerning the day-to-day life of teaching, including coping with difficult pupils and various success stories.

This is a textbook about the beliefs, issues, and practices at the forefront of literacy education - from language, ethnic, and academic diversity, to social construction of meaning and knowledge. Commentaries by literacy scholars provide an expanded perspective on the many issues raised.

An investigation into the lives of adolescent girls in middle school, this text follows a group of girls in and out of the classroom, focusing on what they read and write. It suggests that literacy plays an important role in maintaining friendship groups and in the construction of the self.

This is the story of ten Mexican immigrant families and of how each goes about the business of surviving and learning to succeed in a new world. It describes how the parents prepare their children for a rapidly changing world so as to become competent adults.

This new edition builds on the theories presented in the first and includes the views of Howard Gardner and Lev Vygotsky, amongst others. It addresses many aspects of anti-bias education, promotes teachers' self awareness, and provides guidelines for setting up multicultural environments.

Employing the idea of teaching as a vocation or calling, this work analyses and interprets case studies drawn from fieldwork. It is based on a three-year study of the everyday working lives of four teachers in a large urban setting.

The author has revised this experiential workbook by adding Carl Jung and Karen Horney to his cast of major personality theorists - Freud, Adler, Erikson, Bandura, Allport, Maslow and Rogers - who provide the context within which students explore aspects of their private experience.

The author first provides a theoretical base for movement programs, then focuses on specific guidelines for observing children's movements and offers ideas for practical games and activities.

Dworkin has gathered some of Dewey's clearest and most characteristic statements on education and set them in the stream of American social and intellectual history. In addition, he has indicated some of the rich literature available to those who would probe more deeply into Dewey's ideas and the context in which they matured.

"Selections from ... Mann's reports (1837-1848) to the Massachusetts Board of Education."

Examines what it takes for for-profits to promote quality and cost effectiveness at scale. Contributors address how policymakers and other education stakeholders can create an environment where the power of for-profit innovation and investment is leveraged to better serve students.

Examines what it takes for for-profits to promote quality and cost effectiveness at scale. Contributors address how policymakers and other education stakeholders can create an environment where the power of for-profit innovation and investment is leveraged to better serve students.