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Other Kinds of Families: Embracing Diversity in Schools
Turner-Vorbeck and Miller Marsh contend that the vast diversity found in schools and society today suggests an urgent need to reconsider the ways in which families are currently represented and addressed in school curriculum and culture. In this important volume, they provide critical and theoretical analyses combined with narrative experiences to address such issues as multi-generational views of the schooling experiences of immigrant families, the educational needs of gay and lesbian families, the representation of adoption and adoptive families in children s literature, and the experiences of homeless students and their families with the educational system…. More >>
Other Kinds of Families: Embracing Diversity in Schools
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Teaching Science in Secondary Schools: A Reader
Recent years have seen a huge emphasis placed upon science as a core element of the school curriculum. Teaching Science in the Secondary School introduces and explores issues entailed in the teaching and learning of this subject…. More >>
Teaching Science in Secondary Schools: A Reader
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Spiritual, Moral, Social, & Cultural Education: Exploring Values in the Curriculum
Explores how the school curriculum can address issues generally referred to by OFSTED as “spiritual, moral, social and cultural perspectives” (SMSC). It includes: a discussion of the development and educational aspects of SMSC; how SMSC can be developed in each curriculum area within current constraints; ways in which teachers can be encouraged to establish sound policies and activities so they can make the curriculum relevant for today’s (and tomorrow’s) concerns; and help for teachers to see new perspectives in their subjects which will inspire and guide their pupils’ own thinking about values…. More >>
Spiritual, Moral, Social, & Cultural Education: Exploring Values in the Curriculum
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Encyclopedia of American Education
The only comprehensive reference to the development and present state of American education, “Encyclopedia of American Education, Third Edition” includes more than 2,000 entries spanning the colonial period to the present. This authoritative three-volume reference provides a wealth of information on virtually every aspect of education, from the evolution of school curriculum, education funding, and church-state controversies to the latest debates on multiculturalism, prayer in school, and sex education. Author Harlow G. Unger, one of the country’s foremost education experts, has substantially updated existing entries and added more than 40 new entries. Appendixes include significant federal legislation, importa… More >>
Encyclopedia of American Education
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A History of Ideas in Science Education: Implications for Practice
By allowing key scientists, researchers, professors, and classroom teachers of science to speak for themselves through their published writings about what is best and needed for the field, Dr DeBoer presents a fascinating account of the history of science education in the United States from the middle of the 19th century to the present. The book relates how science first struggled to find a place in the school curriculum and recounts the many debates over the years about what that curriculum should be. In fact, many of what we consider modern ideas in science education are not new at all but can be traced to writings on education of one hundred years ago. The book is aimed at all those interested in science edu… More >>
A History of Ideas in Science Education: Implications for Practice
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