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  • Place-based Curriculum Design

    Exceeding Standards through Local Investigations

    by Amy B. Demarest ...
    Place-based Curriculum Design provides pre-service and practicing teachers both the rationale and tools to create and integrate meaningful, place-based learning experiences for students. Practical, classroom-based curricular examples illustrate how teachers can engage the local and still be accountable to the existing demands of federal, state, and district mandates. Coverage includes connecting ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Learning Outside the Classroom

    Theory and Guidelines for Practice

    by Simon Beames, Robbie Nicol, Peter Higgins ...
    Learning Outside the Classroom outlines theory and practice that will enable and encourage teachers to systematically and progressively incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities in a wide variety of environments and with diverse populations of pupils. This is the first textbook based around the curriculum for prospective and practising primary and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Adventurous Learning

    A Pedagogy for a Changing World

    by Simon Beames, Mike Brown ...
    Adventurous Learning interrogates the word ‘adventure’ and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Teachers of all kinds can adapt these guidelines for indoor and outdoor teaching in their own ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools

    by Gregory A. Smith, David Sobel ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people’s attention beyond the classroom to the world as it actually is, and to engage them in the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Education to Better Their World

    Unleashing the Power of 21st-Century Kids

    by Marc Prensky ...
    “Marc Prensky—one of the smartest people working in educational reform today—offers us a lucid, inspiring, optimistic, doable, and crucial blueprint for how we can build a future with the schools children desperately need in our modern, high-risk, highly complex, fast-changing, and imperiled world.”—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Summer Learning

    Research, Policies, and Programs

    Edited by Geoffrey D. Borman, Matthew Boulay ...
    This book brings together up-to-date, research-based evidence concerning summer learning and provides descriptions and analyses of a range of summer school programs. The chapters present theory and data that explain both the phenomenon of summer learning loss and the potential for effective summer programs to mitigate loss and increase student achievement.Summer Learning: Research, Policies, and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Grandpa and Grandma Travel Australia

    by Sean Dunlop ...
    Illustrated by Sean Dunlop ...
    This interactive eBook follows a Grandpa and Grandma's road trip adventure around Australia. With striking illustrations and easy-to-read text, this can be a child's first look at Australia's major cities, landmarks, natural wonders and Aboriginal culture. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education

    Bringing Life to Schools and Schools to Life

    by Dilafruz Williams, Jonathan Brown ...
    Offering a fresh approach to bringing life to schools and schools to life, this book goes beyond touting the benefits of learning gardens to survey them as a whole-systems design solution with potential to address myriad interrelated social, ecological, and educational issues. The theoretical and conceptual framework presented creatively places soil at the center of the discourse on sustainability ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Way We Teach Science

    The Interplay of Content, Pedagogy, and the Nature of Science

    by Louis Rosenblatt ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Science Series
    Offering a fresh take on inquiry, this book draws on current research and theory in science education, literacy, and educational psychology, as well as the history and philosophy of science, to make its case for transforming the way science is taught.Re-thinking the Way We Teach Science addresses major themes in national reform documents and movements--how to place students at the center of what ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Handbook of Public Pedagogy

    Education and Learning Beyond Schooling

    Edited by Jennifer A. Sandlin, Brian D. Schultz, Jake Burdick ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    Bringing together scholars, public intellectuals, and activists from across the field of education, the Handbook of Public Pedagogy explores and maps the terrain of this burgeoning field. For the first time in one comprehensive volume, readers will be able to learn about the history and scope of the concept and practices of public pedagogy.What is 'public pedagogy'?What theories, research, aims, ... Read more

    $190.00 USD

  • Problematizing Public Pedagogy

    Edited by Jake Burdick, Jennifer A. Sandlin, Michael P. O'Malley ...
    The term ‘public pedagogy’ is given a variety of definitions and meanings by those who employ it. It is often used without adequately explicating its meaning, its context, or its location within differing and contested articulations of the construct. Problematizing Public Pedagogy brings together renowned and emerging scholars in the field of education to provide a theoretical, methodological, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Instructional Leadership Toolbox

    A Handbook for Improving Practice

    Edited by Sandra L. Gupton ...
    "I applaud Gupton′s focus on the learner. This is the most important tenet for a school administrator′s decision making. Each chapter describes a portion of school leadership that the successful principal needs to master."—Sharon Madsen Redfern, PrincipalHighland Park Elementary School, Lewistown, MTUse these powerful leadership tools to build teamwork and improve instruction!Every school leader ... Read more

    $35.09 USD