Integrating Nature-Based Learning in the Elementary Classroom
The first comprehensive and practical all-in-one curriculum resource to integrate social-emotional learning, citizenship, children's cognitive development, and science education standards into nature-based learning for future and current PK-5 teachers.
Integrating Nature-Based Learning in the Elementary Classroom
The first comprehensive and practical all-in-one curriculum resource to integrate social-emotional learning, citizenship, children's cognitive development, and science education standards into nature-based learning for future and current PK-5 teachers.
As long as there has been formal curriculum, there has been disappointing curriculum. In an increasingly authoritarian world, problematic curricula are on the march, leaving teachers in a bind. Faced with these problematic curricula, some teachers will submit and do as they are told. Other teachers will oppose the problematic curricula, and, in ......
This collection focuses on the post-independence educational development in Zimbabwe. It shows how the ZANU PF regime has presided over the demise of education, and covers a wide range of topics such as violence against teachers, poor salaries, student activism, minority languages, and curriculum innovations. The overarching argument of the volume ......
Curriculum conversation with alternative provision leaders
For one reason or another, mainstream education does not suit every young person. Many young people are educated in alternative provision, which is defined by the Department for Education as educational provision 'for pupils who, because of exclusion, illness or other reasons, would not otherwise receive suitable education'. As of 2023, over ......
The University as an Instrument of Cultural Transformation
Humanities have the potential to transform human culture--and an obligation to preserve it. In The Public Humanities Turn, Philip Lewis argues that universities are uniquely equipped to act as catalysts for cultural change in the face of the climate crisis. In closely linked essays that explore the evolution of the academic humanities in the era ......
Motivation, Growth and the New Social Studies Classroom
Discussions and Democracy: Motivation, Growth, and the New Social Studies Classroom is written in a vernacular that will springboard and support teachers' understandings of implementing discussion-based approaches in their classrooms. Moreover, Discussions and Democracy drills down more deeply into student motivation and engagement. This is ......
Motivation, Growth and the New Social Studies Classroom
Discussions and Democracy: Motivation, Growth, and the New Social Studies Classroom is written in a vernacular that will springboard and support teachers' understandings of implementing discussion-based approaches in their classrooms. Moreover, Discussions and Democracy drills down more deeply into student motivation and engagement. This is ......
Stories of Pandemic Teaching and Transformative Change
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world causing physical, emotional, economic, and social upheaval in every part of the globe. It also catalyzed a renewed interrogation, by music education faculty in higher education, of philosophies and practices that had long gone unexamined. Music Education on the Verge: Stories of Pandemic ......
