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Examines how white women teacher dispositions intersect (and/or interact) with their racial identity development, the concept of whiteness, institutional racism, and cultural perspectives of racial difference. All of which, as the authors in this volume argue, matter for nurturing a teaching practice that leads to more equitable schooling outcomes for youth of colour.

Distance Learning journal is a premiere outlet for articles featuring practical applications of distance education in states, institutions, and countries. Distance Education: Statewide, Institutional, and International Applications of Distance Education, Second Edition is a collection of readings from Distance Learning journal written by practitioners for practitioners.

Reflecting on the past and investing in the future, this volume is aimed at filling the fundamental gap that exists in our understanding of the drivers of corporate social performance, its evolution and relationships with existing concepts and theories, and the paradoxes that come from those connections.

Reflecting on the past and investing in the future, this volume is aimed at filling the fundamental gap that exists in our understanding of the drivers of corporate social performance, its evolution and relationships with existing concepts and theories, and the paradoxes that come from those connections.

Distance Learning journal is a premiere outlet for articles featuring practical applications of distance education in states, institutions, and countries. Distance Education: Statewide, Institutional, and International Applications of Distance Education, Second Edition is a collection of readings from Distance Learning journal written by practitioners for practitioners.

An eclectic internationally circulated peer reviewed journal which focuses on mathematics content, mathematics education research, innovation, interdisciplinary issues and pedagogy. The journal exists as an independent entity. It is published on a print-on-demand basis.

With decades of real world experience in the field, Steven Schmidt and Susan Yelich Biniecki have developed a practical guide for those who are involved in the organization and administration of educational programs for adults. In a no nonsense approach, Organization and Administration of Adult Education Programs ""talks"" to you as an administrator about topics that are important to you.

The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) in its 2015 position paper on Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education provides a list of actions for mathematics teacher educators (MTE's) to help them develop and implement equitable practices. This volume provides an excellent resource to start conversations describing the enactment of these actions.

Examines the broad question of how students learn physics in a model-centred classroom. This book thoroughly addresses the ""coherence versus fragmentation"" debate in science education, and is the first to advance and explore the hypothesis that deep science learning is regressive and revolutionary.

Explores the field of subjectivity, offering the reader different and innovative views on this challenging theme. This book is an asset for all those interested in understanding how the mind operates as a subjectifying process and how this subjectifying mind is simultaneously the product and the content of feeling and unique and unrepeatable subjective life.

The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) in its 2015 position paper on Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education provides a list of actions for mathematics teacher educators (MTE's) to help them develop and implement equitable practices. This volume provides an excellent resource to start conversations describing the enactment of these actions.

National discourse on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) among educators, policymakers and AAPI communities underscores the need for more research that can inform policy and practice that will enhance educational opportunities for AAPIs who are underserved in higher education. This book focuses on diverse topics, many of which do not appear in the current literature.

National discourse on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) among educators, policymakers and AAPI communities underscores the need for more research that can inform policy and practice that will enhance educational opportunities for AAPIs who are underserved in higher education. This book focuses on diverse topics, many of which do not appear in the current literature.

What are the variables associated with success? What determinants may mediate whether or not change efforts actually lead to more sustainable systems? And, how do such change efforts differ from strategic planning? To begin answering such questions, this volume brings together a number of scholars who present conceptualizations and preliminary research insights concerning organisational change.

What are the variables associated with success? What determinants may mediate whether or not change efforts actually lead to more sustainable systems? And, how do such change efforts differ from strategic planning? To begin answering such questions, this volume brings together a number of scholars who present conceptualizations and preliminary research insights concerning organisational change.

Presents a collection of essays by noted curriculum scholar and philosopher of education, David W. Jardine. It ranges over twenty-five years of work with teachers and students in schools. The main purpose of these essays is to provide teachers with new ways of thinking about their circumstances that side step some of the panic and exhaustion that is all too typical of many school settings.

Typically, books on evaluation in the second and foreign language field deal with large programs and often result from large?scale studies done by the authors. The challenge for ordinary second and foreign language classroom teachers is that they must extrapolate techniques or strategies for evaluation from a very large scale to a much smaller scale, that of the course. At the same time, classroom teachers are responsible for outcomes of their courses and need to do evaluation on a scale and for needs of their choosing. Evaluating Second Language Courses is designed for classroom teachers who are dealing with a single course, and who wish to understand and improve some aspect of their course.

Priovides an experience-based, firsthand, seamless examination of what the author's term "crossover pedagogy". Nobody has yet produced a case-based, hands-on, book-length treatment of how (and why) faculty and student affairs administrators can co-teach, co-author, and co-consult with one another as co?equal educators and campus leaders.

Teacher burn out contributes to the epidemic of early career exit. However, there are teachers who survive burn out and thrive as career-long educators. This book results from an in-depth qualitative study that explored one 40-year veteran teacher's career narrative, analysing how she not only survived the burn out epidemic, but also thrived as a highly effective career-long urban teacher.

Discusses the new beginning teacher portfolio, including its required elements, federal and state policies concerning teacher evaluation, and research from the authors' own programmes. Higher education faculty members and language teacher preparation program coordinators who would like to better understand edTPA requirements will find this book of interest.

Addresses specific issues of significance for individuals involved with the undergraduate mathematics content preparation of prospective elementary teachers. Teaching mathematics content courses to this group of students presents unique challenges. This book is designed to support instructors who teach these students in mathematics content for elementary teachers courses.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the field; it contains alphabetically organized entries that address important concepts, ideas, terms, people, organizations, publications, and research studies specifically related to middle grades education. This edition contains over 210 entries from nearly 160 expert contributors, a 25% increase in the number of entries over the first edition.