Re-imagining Curriculum
Title | Re-imagining Curriculum PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Quinn |
Publisher | AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2019-11-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1928480381 |
The book argues that academics, academic developers and academic leaders need to undertake curriculum work in their institutions that has the potential to disrupt common sense notions about curriculum and create spaces for engagement with scholarly concepts and theories, to re‑imagine curricula for the changing times. Now, more than ever in the history of higher education, curriculum practices and processes need to be shared; the findings of research undertaken on curriculum need to be disseminated to inform curriculum work. We hope the book will enable readers to look beyond their contextual difficulties and constraints, to find spaces where they can dream, and begin to implement, innovative and creative solutions to what may seem like intractable challenges or difficulties.
(Re)Imagining Elementary Social Studies
Title | (Re)Imagining Elementary Social Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah B. Shear |
Publisher | IAP |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 164113075X |
The field of elementary social studies is a specific space that has historically been granted unequal value in the larger arena of social studies education and research. This reader stands out as a collection of approaches aimed specifically at teaching controversial issues in elementary social studies. This reader challenges social studies education (i.e., classrooms, teacher education programs, and research) to engage controversial issues--those topics that are politically, religiously, or are otherwise ideologically charged and make people, especially teachers, uncomfortable--in profound ways at the elementary level. This reader, meant for elementary educators, preservice teachers, and social studies teacher educators, offers an innovative vision from a new generation of social studies teacher educators and researchers fighting against the forces of neoliberalism and the marginalization of our field. The reader is organized into three sections: 1) pushing the boundaries of how the field talks about elementary social studies, 2) elementary social studies teacher education, and 3) elementary social studies teaching and learning. Individual chapters either A) conceptually unpack a specific controversial issue (e.g. Islamophobia, Indian Boarding Schools, LGBT issues in schools) and how that issue should be/is incorporated in an elementary social studies methods courses and classrooms or B) present research on elementary preservice teachers or how elementary teachers and students engage controversial issues. This reader unpacks specific controversial issues for elementary social studies for readers to gain critical content knowledge, teaching tips, lesson ideas, and recommended resources. Endorsement: (Re)Imagining Elementary Social Studies is a timely and powerful collection that offers the best of what social studies education could and should be. Grounded in a politics of social justice, this book should be used in all elementary social studies methods courses and schools in order to develop the kinds of teachers the world needs today. -- Wayne Au, Professor, University of Washington Bothell, Editor, Rethinking Schools
Teaching for Joy and Justice
Title | Teaching for Joy and Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Christensen |
Publisher | Rethinking Schools |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0942961439 |
Presents a collection of essays and practical advice, including lesson plans and activities, to promote writing in all aspects of the curriculum.
Transforming Education
Title | Transforming Education PDF eBook |
Author | Miranda Jefferson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2021-04-22 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1350130095 |
Working away from trends in government policy, this book takes a future-oriented re-imagining of schools with a focus on four innate human capacities: collaboration, critical reflection, communication and creativity. Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson draw together examples of practice from around the world to provide a reimagining of education. They show how our schools can be sustainably transformed to be places of support, challenge and joy in learning, responsive to students' needs and the needs in our workplaces and wider society. Readers are empowered to use knowledge and experience to create the reality they would like to see in their school, building engaged, innovative and active learning, pedagogy curriculum and leadership. Key ideas are summarised at the end of each chapter along with an extensive referencing and bibliography, and a supporting glossary.
Re-imagining Academic Staff Development
Title | Re-imagining Academic Staff Development PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Quinn |
Publisher | AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2012-11-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1920338764 |
Re-imagining Academic Staff Development: Spaces for Disruption, a book with a strong commitment to social transformation, is a welcome addition to the field of academic development studies. South Africa may have unique social challenges, but in highlighting higher education?s central role in responding to them, this book reminds academic developers everywhere of the intrinsic politicalness of our work. In a series of theoretically diverse chapters, all written by members of the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning at Rhodes University, we are provoked to reconsider the meaning of our practice and why we do it. An enlivening read! ? Barbara Grant, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Re-imagining Curriculum
Title | Re-imagining Curriculum PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Quinn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Curriculum change |
ISBN |
The book argues that academics, academic developers and academic leaders need to undertake curriculum work in their institutions that has the potential to disrupt common sense notions about curriculum and create spaces for engagement with scholarly concepts and theories, to re-imagine curricula for the changing times. Now, more than ever in the history of higher education, curriculum practices and processes need to be shared; the findings of research undertaken on curriculum need to be disseminated to inform curriculum work. We hope the book will enable readers to look beyond their contextual difficulties and constraints, to find spaces where they can dream, and begin to implement, innovative and creative solutions to what may seem like intractable challenges or difficulties.
Re-imagining Education for Democracy
Title | Re-imagining Education for Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Stewart Riddle |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Democracy |
ISBN | 9780367197124 |
This edited collection takes up the unfinished project of resisting the de-democratisation of education and growing levels of social and educational inequality. Contributions to this book provide a range of approaches to educational theory, policy and practice that offer critically democratic alternatives.