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1. Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives

   Bridging the Everyday/Academic Divide, Third Edition

   Edited by Donna E. Alvermann, Kathleen A. Hinchman

   Like previous editions, the third edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives invites middle- and high-school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. Recognizing that digital media, social networking phenomena are now central in adolescents’...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
2. Principled Practices for Adolescent Literacy

   A Framework for Instruction and Policy

   By Elizabeth G. Sturtevant, Fenice B. Boyd, William G. Brozo, Kathleen A. Hinchman, David W. Moore, Donna E. Alvermann

   This book presents an evidence-based framework for understanding the literacy needs of adolescents. The premise is that educators and other critical stakeholders need to understand evidence-based principles in order to develop effective curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners....

   Published February 22nd 2006 by Routledge
3. Designing Learning Environments for Developing Understanding of Geometry and Space

   Edited by Richard Lehrer, Daniel Chazan

   Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

   This volume reflects an appreciation of the interactive roles of subject matter, teacher, student, and technologies in designing classrooms that promote understanding of geometry and space. Although these elements of geometry education are mutually constituted, the book is organized to highlight,...

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
4. Critical Pedagogies of Consumption

   Living and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse"

   Edited by Jennifer A. Sandlin, Peter McLaren

   Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education

   "Utopian in theme and implication, this book shows how the practices of critical, interpretive inquiry can help change the world in positive ways…. This is the promise, the hope, and the agenda that is offered."--Norman K. Denzin, From the Foreword "Its focus on learning, education and pedagogy...

   Published October 29th 2009 by Routledge
5. Automated Scoring of Complex Tasks in Computer-Based Testing

   Edited by David M. Williamson, Robert J. Mislevy, Isaac I. Bejar

   The use of computers and the Internet in the testing community has expanded the opportunity for innovative testing. Until now, there was no one source that reviewed the latest methods of automated scoring for complex assessments. This is the first volume to provide that coverage, along with...

   Published April 3rd 2006 by Routledge
6. Handbook of Reading Research, Volume IV

   Edited by Michael L. Kamil, P. David Pearson, Elizabeth Birr Moje, Peter Afflerbach

   The Handbook of Reading Research is the research Handbook for the field. Each volume has come to define the field for the period of time it covers. Volume IV follows in this tradition. The editors extensively reviewed the reading research literature since the publication of Volume III in 2000, as...

   Published October 18th 2010 by Routledge
7. Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy

   Identity, Agency, and Power

   Edited by Cynthia Lewis, Patricia E. Enciso, Elizabeth Birr Moje

   This landmark volume articulates and develops the argument that new directions in sociocultural theory are needed in order to address important issues of identity, agency, and power that are central to understanding literacy research and literacy learning as social and cultural practices. With an...

   Published March 27th 2007 by Routledge
8. Handbook of Research on the Education of School Leaders

   Edited by Michelle D. Young, Gary M. Crow, Joseph Murphy, Rodney T. Ogawa

   Sponsored by the University Council of Educational Administration, this comprehensive handbook is the definitive work on leadership education in the United States. An in-depth portrait of what constitutes research on leadership development, this handbook provides a plan for strengthening the...

   Published July 5th 2009 by Routledge
9. Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity

   2nd Edition

   By Carl A. Grant, Christine E. Sleeter

   Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity, a hands-on, reader-friendly multicultural education textbook, actively engages education students in critical reflection and self-examination as they prepare to teach in increasingly diverse classrooms. In this engaging text, Carl A. Grant...

   Published February 8th 2011 by Routledge
10. Critical Multiculturalism

    Theory and Praxis

    Edited by Stephen May, Christine E. Sleeter

    Critical multiculturalism has emerged over the last decade as a direct challenge to liberal or benevolent forms of multicultural education. By integrating and advancing various critical theoretical threads such as anti-racist education, critical race theory, and critical pedagogy, critical...

    Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
11. Keepers of the American Dream

    A Study of Staff Development and Multicultural Education

    By Christine Sleeter

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    This book reports an ethnographic study of thirty teachers from eighteen schools who participated in a staff development programme in multicultural education. The study examines how multicultural education was actually presented to teachers, and areas in which their classroom teaching and...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
12. Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology

    Third Edition

    Edited by J. Michael Spector, M. David Merrill, Jeroen van Merrienboer, Marcy P. Driscoll

    Series: AECT Series

    Sponsored by the Association of Educational Communication and Technology (AECT), the third edition of this groundbreaking Handbook continues the mission of its predecessors: to provide up-to-date summaries and syntheses of recent research pertinent to the educational uses of information and...

    Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge
13. Ten Steps to Complex Learning

    A Systematic Approach to Four-Component Instructional Design

    By Jeroen J.G. van Merriënboer, Paul A. Kirschner

    Ten Steps to Complex Learning presents in ten steps a path from a training problem to a training solution in a way that students, practitioners, (both instructional designers and teachers) and researchers can understand and use. Practitioners in the field of instructional design may use this book...

    Published April 11th 2007 by Routledge
14. International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change

    Edited by Stella Vosniadou

    Series: Educational Psychology Handbook

    The study of conceptual change traces its heritage to the notions of paradigm (networks of shared beliefs, concepts, practices) and paradigm shift made famous by Thomas Kuhn in his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn’s work was quickly linked to developmental psychology (how...

    Published June 15th 2008 by Routledge
15. Constructing Measures

    An Item Response Modeling Approach

    By Mark Wilson

    Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments, how to use such instruments, and how to apply these methods to develop new instruments or adapt old ones. The book is organized around the steps taken while constructing an instrument....

    Published October 13th 2004 by Routledge