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Art Teaching: Elementary through Middle School
By George Szekely
This comprehensive, up-to-date art methods text and handbook for student teaching presents fundamental theories, principles, creative approaches, and resources for art teaching in elementary through middle school. Taking the reader to the heart of the classroom, it portrays real situations, actual...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-99058-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education
By Diana E. Hess, Paula McAvoy
Most people agree that schools should prepare young people for democratic life. Yet in the United States there has never been agreement on what types of skills, dispositions, and knowledge ought to be taught, nor even agreement on how they should be taught. Grounded in thick empirical description...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-88099-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Teaching for Diversity, Democracy, and Sustainability: An Eco-Justice Approach
By Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, John Lupinacci
Designed for introductory social foundations or multicultural education courses, this text offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-87251-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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What is Curriculum Theory?, 2nd Edition
By William F Pinar
This primer for teachers (prospective and practicing) presents curriculum theory as the interdisciplinary study of educational experience. It asks readers to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, to construct their own understandings of what it means to teach,...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-80411-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Ecopedagogy: Educating for Sustainability in Schools and Society
By Richard Kahn
With ever-mounting and unprecedented ecological crises such as global warming, biodiversity extinction, the pollution by synthetic chemicals and other toxins, schools can no longer afford anything less than a thoroughgoing commitment to teaching for sustainability. Ecopedagogy can contribute to...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-80378-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School… Humanities: History, Geography, Religious Studies and Citizenship
By Richard Harris, Simon Harrison
This book brings together ongoing debates about personalised learning, creativity and ICT in education, with a cross-curricular focus, and establishes a principled framework for cross-curricular teaching and learning in humanities subjects. It explores the distinctiveness of each individual subject...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-56189-1 | Paperback (Routledge)