Education: Curriculum Studies

By George Veletsianos

ChatBots, TeacherBots, and Pedagogical Agents: Systems and Programs That Teach illuminates the opportunities and challenges of instructional machines and proposes ways to design bots that enhance learning and teaching. These technologies have been used for numerous purposes—from answering student…

Paperback – 2018-10-15 
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Edited by Molly Quinn

The essays in this volume bring together leading-edge scholars to illuminate the work of William E. Doll, Jr., as a key curriculum thinker of global impact, and introduce his work and influence to new generations of scholars, teachers, and students of education. Drawing on their individual contexts…

Hardback – 2018-10-15 
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Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

By Luci Pangrazio

This book explores the influence of the coded architectures of digital platforms, together with the social factors in which digital practices are embedded, to map out the complex ways that young people experience the digital context. Focusing on the notion of critical digital literacies, it tackles…

Paperback – 2018-10-10 
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Edited by John P. Miller, Kelli Nigh, Marni Binder, Bruce Novak, Sam Crowell

The first comprehensive overview of holistic education’s history, conceptions, practices, and research, this Handbook provides an up-to-date picture of the field as it currently exists around the globe. Specifically, it examines the field’s theoretical and historical foundations; offers examples of…

Paperback – 2018-10-01 
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By Adam Brown

Concise and engaging, this text provides English language teachers with what they need to successfully teach the spelling of English—both classroom exercises and techniques and also some background history and theory about the English spelling system in no more detail than is necessary. It uniquely…

Paperback – 2018-10-01 
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ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

Edited by Chris Dede, John Richards, Bror V.H. Saxberg

Learning Engineering for Online Education is a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of learning engineering, a form of educational optimization driven by analytics, design-based research, and fast-paced, large-scale experimentation. Chapters written by instructional design and distance…

Hardback – 2018-10-01 
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Edited by Benjamin Bolden, Theodore Michael Christou, Christopher DeLuca, Marcea Ingersoll, Holly Ogden, Judith Wearing

Offering an accessible entry into curriculum theory, this volume defines and contextualizes key terms for students new to the field. Leading scholars in curriculum provide short anchor texts that introduce, define, and situate dominant curriculum theory constructs. Each of these anchor texts is…

Hardback – 2018-10-01 
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Edited by John Evans

In Britain the physical education curriculum has been experiencing a period of unrest. For many teachers the practices of decades have become problematic features of their curriculum and teaching. This book, first published in 1986, explores the experiences of teachers and pupils in programmes of…

Paperback – 2018-09-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education

Edited by Andy Pearce, Arthur Chapman

The year 2016 marked the 25th anniversary of statutory teaching and learning about the Holocaust in English state-maintained schools, which was introduced with the first English National Curriculum in 1991. 2016 also saw the publication of the largest empirical research study on Holocaust education…

Hardback – 2018-09-29 
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By Brian Butterworth

Dyscalculia isn’t just being poor at maths; it is caused by differences in the structure and patterns in the brain. Professor Butterworth uniquely and radically links the most current neuroscience to pedagogical practice, explaining how science can be used for the identification of dyscalculia, and…

Paperback – 2018-09-15 
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By Kristen Sosulski

Data Visualization Made Simple is a practical guide to the fundamentals, strategies, and real-world cases for data visualization, an essential skill required in today’s information-rich world. With foundations rooted in statistics, psychology, and computer science, data visualization offers…

Paperback – 2018-09-07 
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Edited by Elizabeth Garber, Lisa Hochtritt, Manisha Sharma

Makers, Crafters, Educators brings the do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos of maker and crafter movements into educational environments, and examines the politics of cultural change that undergird them. Addressing making and crafting in relationship to community and schooling practices, culture and place,…

Hardback – 2018-09-06 
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