Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

Assessment for learning is meant to engage, motivate, and enable students to do better in their learning. This volume collects research studies from Europe, North and South America, Asia, and New Zealand that have focused on how students in primary, secondary, and tertiary education conceive of, experience, understand, and evaluate assessments.

Educational meanings and models are influenced by different populations and different social and historical contexts. International comparisons can shed interesting light on the issues. This book provides an international comparative understanding of language policy, its relation to educational practice, and the debates within the field.

Educational meanings and models are influenced by different populations and different social and historical contexts. International comparisons can shed interesting light on the issues. This book provides an international comparative understanding of language policy, its relation to educational practice, and the debates within the field.

A monograph that intends to showcase successful implementation of mathematical discourse in the classroom. It addresses such questions as: How does a teacher begin to learn about using discourse purposefully to improve mathematics teaching and learning? Can on-line classrooms be discourse-rich? And what would that look like?

A monograph that intends to showcase successful implementation of mathematical discourse in the classroom. It addresses such questions as: How does a teacher begin to learn about using discourse purposefully to improve mathematics teaching and learning? Can on-line classrooms be discourse-rich? And what would that look like?

Intends to sample the projects and individuals involved with the New Social Studies (NSS) in an attempt to provide an understanding of what came before and to suggest guidance to those concerned with social studies reform in the future - especially in light of the standardization of curriculum and assessment underway in many states.

Examines in detail with issues of leadership. At the theoretical level it explores appropriate models of leadership in the effort to create effective schools; at the practical level, it looks at the importance of the principal's role. It will prove informative not only to current and prospective leaders but also to students and scholars with an interest in Caribbean education.

This book was written specifically for students and faculty involved in professional practice dissertation work. It addresses both the tasks and procedures that professional practice dissertations have in common with dissertations in ""research"" doctoral programs as well as the tasks and issues that are more common in professional practice doctoral programs.

Suitable for parents who want to improve their child's academic situation in school, this practical guide gives parents effective strategies for making the helpful and realistic choices for children experiencing difficulty with their schoolwork. It helps parents learn how build an effective cooperative relationship with their child at home.

Managing is a continuous operation or process involving the interaction of the management functions. Managers must plan for organizing activity, organize for it, and control it, and they must perform these same functions for control. This book emphasises on the interaction of the management functions.

Covers the results of investigation of social realities and their public representation in Brazilian poor communities, with an emphasis on the use of cultural tools to survive and create psychological and social novelty under conditions of severe poverty. This book includes other studies conducted in other Brazilian areas and in Cali, Colombia.

Covers the results of investigation of social realities and their public representation in Brazilian poor communities, with an emphasis on the use of cultural tools to survive and create psychological and social novelty under conditions of severe poverty. This book includes other studies conducted in other Brazilian areas and in Cali, Colombia.

Presents middle-level and high school teachers with the necessary background knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to help adolescents become religiously literate learners and citizens. This book is suitable for teacher educators, middle-level and high school teachers in various content areas, administrators, school boards, and parents.

As the primary purpose of social studies is to prepare the young people of today to be the citizens of tomorrow, it is necessary to examine how technology tools impact, improve, and otherwise affect teaching and learning in social studies. This work focus

As the primary purpose of social studies is to prepare the young people of today to be the citizens of tomorrow, it is necessary to examine how technology tools impact, improve, and otherwise affect teaching and learning in social studies. This work focus

Contains primary source readings from the mid 1600s to 1940. This work intends to provide teachers, contemporary scholars of education, and policymakers with some of the most significant arguments made on the subject of American education during this time period.

Intends to sample the projects and individuals involved with the New Social Studies (NSS) in an attempt to provide an understanding of what came before and to suggest guidance to those concerned with social studies reform in the future - especially in light of the standardization of curriculum and assessment underway in many states.

Addresses reliability and validity issues in growth modelling and value added modelling and presents the latest development in this area. In addition, some persistent issues have been approached from a new perspective. This edited volume provides a very good source of information related to the current explorations in student growth and teacher effectiveness evaluation.

Addresses reliability and validity issues in growth modelling and value added modelling and presents the latest development in this area. In addition, some persistent issues have been approached from a new perspective. This edited volume provides a very good source of information related to the current explorations in student growth and teacher effectiveness evaluation.

Provides expert third party reviews of research reports produced by advocacy think tanks which have influenced education policy over the past thirty years. It brings together 21 reviews, focusing on the arguments and evidence used by think tanks to promote reforms such as vouchers, charter schools and alternative routes to teacher certification.

Offers candid accounts of teachers experiences in becoming Teach For America Teachers. Woven into the book, are perspectives from mentors who worked alongside TFAers, administrators who hired them, corporate CEOs who supported them, and policies that privileged TFA over non-TFA teachers. These accounts offer rich, descriptive vignettes that present the challenges TFAers faced, as they occurred.

"e;We become what we love,"e; states Jim Garrison in Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching. This provocative book represents a major new interpretation of Dewey's education philosophy. It is also an examination of what motivates us to teach and to learn, and begins with the idea of education of eros (i.e., passionate desire)"e;the supreme aim of education"e; as the author puts itand how that desire results in a practical philosophy that guides us in recognizing what is essentially good or valuable. Garrison weaves these threads of ancient wisdom into a critical analysis of John Dewey's writings that reveal an implicit theory of eros in reasoning, and the central importance of educating eros to seek "e;the Good."e; Chapters: Plato's Symposium: Eros, the Beautiful, and the Good Care, Sympathy, and Community in Classroom Teaching: Feminist Reflections on the Expansive Self PlayDoh, Poetry, and "e;Ethereal Things"e; The Aesthetic Context of Inquiry and the Teachable Moment The Education of Eros: Critical and Creative Value Appraisal Teaching and the Logic of Moral Perception This book can be used in graduate courses in foundations, teacher education, philosophy of education, qualitative research, arts and education, language and literacy, and women and education. Jim Garrison is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. He is pastpresident of the John Dewey Society and a winner of the Society's Outstanding Achievement Award.