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  • A Source Book of Royal Commissions and Other Major Governmental Inquiries in Canadian Education, 1787-1978

    by Cary F. Goulson ...
    Series series Heritage
    This is a comprehensive primary reference to a rich and often neglected storehouse of information on Canada's educational background.As the boundary between full-fledged royal commissions and other official governmental inquiries is not always clear -- and many legislative committee inquiries and special department of education investigations have been as significant in educational development as ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Struggle for the History of Education

    by Gary McCulloch ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    The history of education is a contested field of study, and has represented a site of struggle for the past century of its development. It is highly relevant to an understanding of broader issues in history, education and society, and yet has often been regarded as being merely peripheral rather than central to them.Over the years the history of education has passed through a number of approaches, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Becoming a Teacher through Action Research

    Process, Context, and Self-Study

    by Donna Kalmbach Phillips, Kevin Carr ...
    Becoming a Teacher through Action Research, Third Edition skillfully interweaves the stories of pre-service teaching with the process of action research. This engaging text focuses specifically on the needs of pre-service teachers by providing assistance for all stages of the research experience, including guidance on how to select an area of focus, design a culturally-proficient study, collect ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Demythologizing Educational Reforms

    Responses to the Political and Corporate Takeover of Education

    Edited by Arthur T. Costigan, Leslee Grey ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    There are dozens of myths surrounding educational reform today, maintaining the school’s role in economic competitiveness, the deficiency of teachers, the benefits of increased testing, and the worthiness of privatization. In this volume, the editors argue that this discussion has been co-opted to reflect the values and worldviews of special interest groups such as elites in power, politicians, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Schoolwide Action Research for Professional Learning Communities

    Improving Student Learning Through The Whole-Faculty Study Groups Approach

    Edited by Karl H. Clauset, Dale W. Lick, Carlene U. Murphy ...
    "Clearly shows the success that can occur when a staff learns together. I highly recommend this book to aspiring and beginning principals, as well as those with years of experience."—Paul Young, Executive Director, West After School CenterFormer President, National Association of Elementary School PrincipalsFoster schoolwide professional learning through a collaborative action research model ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Failure-Free Education?

    The Past, Present and Future of School Effectiveness and School Improvement

    by David Reynolds ...
    Series series Contexts of Learning
    David Reynolds is recognised internationally as one of the leaders of the school effectiveness and school improvement movement, and Failure Free Education? brings together for the first time many of his most influential and provocative pieces. Drawing on the author’s work from over three decades, these extracts from his seminal books, chapters, papers and articles combine to give a unique overview ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Reframing Educational Research

    Resisting the 'what works' agenda

    Edited by Valerie Farnsworth, Yvette Solomon ...
    Possibilities for the use of research in educational practice are often written off due to the history, politics and interests of the ostensibly separate worlds that researchers and practitioners occupy. However, a more optimistic account highlights the ways these communities share a common need for practice-based theories, which enable them to make sense of a wide range of issues in education, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Texas Experimental Ranch Story

    Developing Sustainable Rangeland Management Strategies

    by R. K. Heitschmidt ...
    The purpose of this book is to provide a historical overview of the research conducted at the Texas Experimental Ranch (TER) near Throckmorton, TX. Review includes a chronological overview of all refereed journal articles (53 total) publish by researchers working at TER. Dr. Heitschmidt provides a historical perspective of research goals/objectives, methodology, findings, and conclusions for each ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Foucault and School Leadership Research

    Bridging Theory and Method

    by Dr Denise Mifsud ...
    Series series Social Theory and Methodology in Education Research
    Foucault and School Leadership Research illustrates the application of Foucauldian theory to an educational leadership research context, thus staging the ways a researcher negotiates the methodological tensions and contradictions in the conduct of qualitative inquiry within education research.The book draws on an empirical study of a multi-site school collaborative that investigates relations of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Contemporary Perspectives on Research in Creativity in Early Childhood Education

    Edited by Olivia N. Saracho ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood Education
    Recently, a new understanding of creative thought and creative performance has surfaced. It has also attracted the attention of early childhood professional organizations and researchers. Professional organizations have included it in their publications and conferences. While current creativity researchers have initiated a far more sophisticated understanding of young children’s creative thinking, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Advancing Knowledge in Service-Learning

    Research to Transform the Field

    Edited by Karen McKnight Casey, Georgia Davidson, Shelley H. Billig, Nicole C. Springer ...
    Series series Advances in Service-Learning Research
    The purpose of this series of books is to advance the knowledge in the service-learning research field. More importantly, this research is to be used to transform the field. This transformation will come from realizing both the history of service-learning and trying to imagine what the future may look like.The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learning research has come. ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA

    Challenging OECD’s Educational Order

    by Vasco d'Agnese ...
    Series series Theorizing Education
    Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA provides a critical analysis of the OECD’s educational agenda and its main tool, namely, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). Based on an analysis of the OECD’s public documents, including publications, webpages, and videos, d’Agnese argues that PISA is not just an assessment tool, but rather an all-encompassing framework that intends to ... Read more

    $66.99 USD