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Risk, Schooling, and Equity
Risk, Schooling, and Equity offers insights from a range of theoretical and practical viewpoints into current conceptions of risk and its effect on access to opportunity. The authors challenge existing frameworks and approaches, discuss how children and youth experience and live with risk in and out of school, and suggest ways to reduce institutional barriers to students’ full engagement in school. By examining risk at different levels and through different lenses, the volume provides a critical look at both the issues and the venues that allow us to understand the problems that persist as well as the opportunities, spaces, and places for change…. More >>
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An Introduction to Oracy: Frameworks for Talk
Oracy is a subject currently undergoing examination, due to the emphasis placed upon it by the National Curriculum. With an emphasis on practice, but embracing the major theoretical issues involved, this book contains numerous exercises, examining the issues surrounding oracy in schools. It describes the many ways in which teachers can encourage pupils to talk, using picture books, media-based discussions and English as a second language…. More >>
An Introduction to Oracy: Frameworks for Talk
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School Behaviour and Families: Frameworks for Working Together
This book focuses on the relationship that schools have with parents and carers, especially in the early stages of behavioral difficulty. It aims to promote the best possible partnership with parents in what is often a sensitive and emotionally fraught situation. It contains an overview of the context and a general theoretical framework for home school interactions on behavior; research findings on factors which facilitate or inhibit effective partnerships, helping teachers understand why some parents/carers are reluctant to become involved or may appear aggressive and suggests ways in which schools might usefully respond; and chapters written by contributors with specific expertise in working with parents … More >>
School Behaviour and Families: Frameworks for Working Together
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History of Multicultural Education: Conceptual Frameworks and Curricular Issues
This benchmark 6-volume set documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the U.S. By collecting and providing a framework for key publications spanning the past thirty-forty years, these volumes provide a means of understanding and visualizing the development, implementation, and interpretation of multicultural education in American society. These volumes do not promote any one scholar’s or group’s vision of multicultural education, but include conflicting ideals that inform multiple interpretations. Each volume contains archival documents organized around a specific theme: Volume 1: Conceptual Frameworks and Curricular Content … More >>
History of Multicultural Education: Conceptual Frameworks and Curricular Issues
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Developmentally Appropriate Practice in “Real Life”: Stories of Teacher Practical Knowledge
Using observations, interviews, and reviews of videotapes with teachers, this study shows how some teachers have an allegiance simultaneously to two contradicatory frameworks for action: developmentally appropriate practice and teacher dominion…. More >>
Developmentally Appropriate Practice in “Real Life”: Stories of Teacher Practical Knowledge
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