Turning the question of "what works" in education on its head, Difference, Diversity, and Distinctiveness in Education and Learning, a volume of Review of Research in Education, digs into recent salient research that examines learning contexts within critical literacy, scientific literacy, and teacher education.
Highlighting the importance of leveraging current research to explore ways in which education institutions (both K–12 and higher education) can structure positive learning environments for diverse students, this volume addresses elements in research that explore how diverse students learn in different and distinctive environments.
Research topics include:
- Connection between social justice and subject-matter instruction
- Science education through growing pressure of the "No Child Left Behind Act"
- General trends and shifts that have taken place in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LBGT) youth in education research
- Research and perspectives related to Asian Americans in education
- Issues of inclusion and exclusion within the context of sub-Saharan Africa
- Schooling experience for students of color in the United States
- Exploration of the term "social justice" and its controversies in recent education policy circles
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Digs into salient research that examines learning contexts within critical literacy, scientific literacy, and teacher education. This title highlights the importance of leveraging research to explore ways in which education institutions can structure positive learning environments for diverse students.
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Developing Socially Just Subject-Matter Instruction: A Review of the Literature on Disciplinary Literacy Teaching - Author: Elizabeth Birr Moje; Consulting Editor: Donna Alvermann
Resisting Unlearning: Understanding Science Education’s Response to the United States’s National Accountability Movement - Authors: Sherry A. Southerland, Leigh K. Smith, Scott P. Sowell, and Julie M. Kittleson; Consulting Editor: Ronald Anderson
Queering Foundations: Queer and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Educational Research - Author: Cris Mayo; Consulting Editor: Catherine A. Lugg
Contesting the Model Minority and Perpetual Foreigner Stereotypes: A Critical Review of Literature on Asian Americans in Education - Authors: Jennifer C. Ng, Sharon S. Lee, and Yoon K. Pak; Consulting Editor: Kevin Kumashiro
Policies on Free Primary and Secondary Education in East Africa: Retrospect and Prospect - Authors: Moses Oketch and Caine Rolleston; Consulting Editor: Julia Preece
Equality and Justice For All? Examining Race in Education Scholarship - Authors: Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Angelina E. Castagno, and Emma Maughan; Consulting Editor: Michele S. Moses
A Selected History of Social Justice in Education - Authors: Joy Ann Williamson, Lori Rhodes, and Michael Dunson; Consulting Editor: James D. Anderson
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781412957953
Publisert
2007-03-15
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
236
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