Download or read book Implications for Teacher Education cross ethnic and Cross racial Dynamics of Instructions written by Gwendolyn M. Duhon and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adolescent Education written by Joseph L. DeVitis and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education.
Download or read book Critical Thinking in Young Children written by Elizabeth Jane Davis and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to an introduction and review of the literature (including the theories of Richard Paul and Henry Giroux), the work includes an analysis of transcripts of conversations with young children about their thinking."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Knowledge Base for Teacher Education and Development Teacher study and teaching competence written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Knowledge Base for Teacher Education and Development Programme and process of teacher education written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study Abroad and Education Majors written by Mary Lynn Allen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Teacher s Perceptions and Pedagogical Practices on the Educational Experieces of Immigrant Students from the Commonwealth Caribbean written by Wendy P. Hope and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers educators who are increasingly faced with diverse, multi-cultural inclusive opportunity to find a place to start the process of revisionary pedagogical practices that validate and affirm the experiences of their students. During the 1960's the United States immigration laws were changed from one based on a quota system to a method that allowed for persons from virtually every country in the world to enter the United States as immigrants. One of the by-products of such a change in the laws was the increased numbers of persons entering the United States from the Caribbean. Within this category a significant number of persons originated from the British Commonwealth Islands of Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados, among others. Upon entrance into American schools, these newly arrived immigrants have been often treated in the same manner as African American students. There have been few accommodations made for culture or language differences despite the linguistic distance existing between the language they speak and that used in American schools, as well as the cultural differences between the culture of home and school. American.This mishandling and incorrect assessment of immigrants from the British Commonwealth Islands is most likely due to false assumptions made about the language they speak. Since English is the official language of these islands, the population of persons originating from them is assumed to consist of English speakers. Such assumptions do not reflect an understanding regarding the linguistic situation of the British West Indies. In these nations English is most likely reserved for official domains in government and education while a patois is most likely the language of home, church and friends. The linguistic situation is further complicated by the many varieties of dialect that exist. These language varieties range from those that are not mutually intelligible by English speakers to other varieties with a linguistic distance closer to the English spoken in countries where English is the native language for a significant segment of the population. students is a by-product of the degree and quality of the education thatthey have received in their homeland. However, many have not attended school on a regular basis or have attended schools that are not well equipped or staffed, resulting in their not acquiring the necessary skills to do academic work in English as required in American schools. It is this population of students in a school located in Brooklyn New York that the study of teachers' beliefs, perceptions and pedagogical practices and their impact on the educational experiences of newly arrived immigrant students from the Commonwealth Caribbean focuses upon. This is an insightful and thought provoking examination of middle school students in the Buxton Intermediate School. The purpose of this study as stated by the author is to examine teachers' practices in working with immigrant students from the Commonwealth Caribbean in New York City public schools. Nonetheless, the study goes beyond its goal. informative, but also necessary for every educator who is teaching in a community with a significant population of immigrants from the British West Indies, or is teaching in a linguistically diverse environment. To reach its goal, Dr. Wendy Hope studied a class of newly arrived students from Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados as well as other Caribbean islands. It was part of a transitional program. This was a self-contained class taught for most of the day by one teacher who was also a Caribbean native, Ms. Jackson. Nonetheless, students also went to other classes such as mathematics, gym, music, and careers taught by other teachers. By examining the teaching practices of these educators who work with Caribbean students within this transitional program issues of race, power, pedagogy, hegemony, cultural conflict, language and more emerged to reveal that oftentimes well intended and hard working teachers employ approaches that are counterproductive to their goals, namely, the education of their students. two frameworks, one drawn from Henry Giroux's (1993) theory ofBorder Crossings and a second, Jim Cummins' (1993) theoretical framework for intervention: Empowering Minority Students, were employed. Both paradigms, although distinctively different, consider issues of power between students and teachers, schools and the minority community and institutional structures impacting negatively on students. Furthermore, pedagogical issues stemming from a dominant/subordinate relationship that include use of the minority students' language(s) and culture are addressed. study is beyond the purview of this introduction, a few of the questions addressed include what is the role of the students' language and culture in the classroom; is the culture and language of the students used as a vehicle to teach or is it viewed as an obstacle in the learning process; to what extent is the culture of these students included in the curriculum; how much do teachers know about the culture of these students; are parents of these students encouraged by teachers to be active participants in their children's education; how do teachers see their role in relation to the transitional program where these students are housed for a significant portion of their daily schedules; do teachers feel that different approaches should be used to teach these students. observing of teachers, it was concluded that little deviation from conventional teaching approaches was employed to teach these students despite teachers' acknowledgement that these students were part of a transitional program and their level of English competency was substandard. Furthermore, it was found that parental involvement was something that teachers considered to fall under the responsibility of school officials rather than their responsibility. In addition, most teachers had little knowledge regarding how students were assessed and placed in the transitional program. Furthermore, most teachers admitted to working alone without much collaboration with any other of the teachers including the main teacher Ms. Jackson, the teacher in the self contained class who had these students for a significant segment of the day. These findings, a few of the many resultsyielded by this study, stemmed from teachers who felt that they were good teachers with the best interest of their students in mind. While examining the results yielded by this study, a major concern regarding multicultural education emerged. need to respond to racial, linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity has been the advocacy of most schools of education. In addition, in reviewing the mission statements of five schools of education within the City University of New York, issues of social justice, acknowledgment and respect for what students bring with them to the classroom, the need for collaboration among teachers and respect for the language and culture of students are a few of the many goals professed by these documents. Nonetheless, there exists a disparity between what schools of education are advocating and what is occurring in the classroom. Thus, other questions emerge regarding why such a divide exists between what is being taught and the actual practice of teaching. Could it be that the efforts to address the needs of a diverse population is one that is not really dealt by all but just a few teacher trainers who truly believe in such an approach? While these issues are beyond the purview of this study, the fact that they have surfaced lends testimony to the fact that we as educators must look at what we are doing.
Download or read book Boletin Internacional de Bibliografia Sobre Educacion written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Integrating Drama with Primary and Junior Education written by Agnes D. Walkinshaw and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sense of mystery surrounds the subject of drama within primary and junior education, compounded by the assumption that the individual modalities of the experts in the field are exclusive rather than inclusive. This has fostered obscurity and confusion as to what constitutes drama, and indeed how drama should be taught. The direct consequence of such misconception and erroneous supposition is the beggared implication of drama. However, in an era of primary and junior education when the Arts generally, and drama specifically, are being given a dutiful nod at best, it is of critical importance that a solution to this problematic predicament be established. This work offers such knowledge by deconstructing the methodologies and philosophies of Winifred Ward, Peter Slade, Brian Way, Dorothy Heathcote and David Hornbrook within the neutral framework of Aristotle's dictates for drama. These pioneers from the field of drama within education exemplify individual, unique and exclusive styles. Traditionally they would have been considered as incompatible. However, an unbiased examination and analysis of their work exposes mutual concerns, common threads, as well as polemic opinions. A defin
Download or read book A Knowledge Base for Teacher Education and Development written by Man Tak Chan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of High stakes Testing on the Academic Futures of Non mainstream Students written by Gail Singleton Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the impact of testing on the academic futures of students.
Download or read book Pupil Teachers and Their Professional Training in Pupil teacher Centres in England and Wales 1870 1914 written by Wendy Robinson and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Era in Educational Leadership one Principal Two Schools written by Ruth Rees and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principals are in short supply in Ontario, Canada, and across North America. This work aims to help teachers understand why schools have been twinned (one principal leading two or even three schools) in Ontario and elsewhere, as well as the benefits associated with twinning.
Download or read book Educators Leading the Challenge to Alleviate School Violence written by Rose M. Duhon-Sells and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book attempts to improve the understanding that major challenges confront the proponents of excellence in our schools and that vestige of school violence, lack of understanding of cultural differences and diversity and the special need for unity are necessary to overcome in teaching techniques for educators, parents, students.
Download or read book Sartre s Philosophy and the Challenge of Education written by Ḥayim Gordon and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study draws on a wide range of Sartre's writings, early and late, both philosophical and literary, to creat a Sartre-inspired philosophy of education. It highlights the need to give priority to questioning rather than to passivity, excellence rather than success, the avoidance of a kind of objectivity that precludes making moral judgements and condemning evil.
Download or read book A Philosophical Guide for Decision Making by Educators written by Robert D. Heslep and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a critical discussion of several current positions in educational philosophy, the book focuses on communication, reason, and voluntary action as sources of principles that are integral to philosophy and education. The work applies its foundational principles in two ways. It shows how they compare with the educational views of Social Constructivism and of Critical Theory. It also devotes a chapter-length discussion to several curricular topics likely to be facing educators in the future: higher-order-thinking skills, multicultural education, and higher technology.
