Author: Michael Fullan
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Keywords: fourth, change, educational, meaning, new
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0807747653
ISBN-13: 9780807747650

When Michael Fullan published the first edition of this seminal work in 1982, he revolutionized the theory and practice of education reform. Now, a quarter of a century later, his new fourth edition promises to be equally influential for radical reform in the 21st century. Capturing the dilemmas and leading ideas for successful large-scale systemic reform, Fullan bases his text on practical and fundamental work with education systems in several countries. The New Meaning of Educational Change is your definitive compendium to all aspects of the management of educational change-a powerful resour

Author: Renee Hobbs
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Keywords: school, literacy, media, series, language, english, reading
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0807747386
ISBN-13: 9780807747384

This pioneering book, by one of the founders of the media literacy field, provides the first empirical evidence of the impact of media literacy on the academic achievement of adolescents. It chronicles the practice of high school teachers who prepared their students to critically analyze all aspects of contemporary media culture. To do so, they developed an innovative curriculum that incorporates popular media, television, journalism, film, and new media into the required English curriculum. This book examines the processes they used to design and implement the new curriculum as well as the sp

Author: Irving Seidman
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Keywords: education, social, sciences, researchers, guide, qualitative, research, interviewing
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 2006-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0807746665
ISBN-13: 9780807746660

The third edition of this bestselling resource provides clear, step-by-step guidance for new and experienced interviewers to help them develop, shape, and reflect on interviewing as a qualitative research process. While proposing a phenomenological approach to in-depth interviewing, the author also includes principles and methods that can be adapted to a range of interviewing approaches. Using concrete examples of interviewing techniques to illustrate the issues under discussion, this classic text helps readers to understand the complexities of interviewing and its connections to broader issue

Authors:Dawson R. Hancock, Robert Algozzine,
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Keywords: guide, beginning, researchers, practical, research, case, study, doing
Number of Pages: 106
Published: 2006-06-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0807747076
ISBN-13: 9780807747070

This practical handbook guides beginning researchers through the stages of planning and implementing case studies. Starting with how to establish a rationale for conducting a systematic case study and identify literature that informs the research effort, this indispensable resource shows students how to determine an appropriate research design and conduct informative interviews, observations, and document analyses. It also describes methods for deriving meaning from data and communicating the results. Finally, the authors delineate the ways to verify the results attained. Students and advisors

Author: Linda Symcox
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Keywords: american, classrooms, standards, national, struggle, history
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-04
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0807742325
ISBN-13: 9780807742327

In the 1990s the debate over what history - and more importantly whose history - should be taught in American schools resonated through the halls of Congress, the national press, and the nation’s schools. Politicians such as Lynne Cheney, Newt Gingrich, and Senator Slade Gorton, and pundits such as Rush Limbaugh, John Leo, and Charles Krauthammer fiercely denounced the findings of the National Standards for History which, subsequently, became a major battleground in the nation’s ongoing struggle to define its historical identity. To help us understand what happened, Linda Symcox tr

Author: Karen Hammerness
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Keywords: practice, series, school, reform, classroom, ideals, teachers, eyes, professional, seeing
Number of Pages: 105
Published: 2006-01-13
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0807746835
ISBN-13: 9780807746837

What sources of inspiration help sustain teachers’ commitments, motivations, and care for their work? How do teachers use their ideals to inform their practice and their learning? The author proposes that many teachers have images of ideal classroom practice which she calls "teachers’ vision." In this book, Karen Hammerness uses vision to shed light on the complex relationship between teachers’ ideals and the realities of school life. Through the compelling stories of four teachers, she reveals how teacher educators can help new teachers articulate, develop, and sustain their visions

Author: Jean Anyon
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Keywords: educational, reform, urban, economy, schooling, political, ghetto
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0807736627
ISBN-13: 9780807736623

In this personal account, Jean Anyon provides evidence that the economic and political devastation of America’s inner cities has robbed schools and teachers of the capacity to successfully implement current strategies of educational reform. She argues that without fundamental change in government and business policies and the redirection of major resources back into the schools and the communities they serve, urban schools are consigned to failure, and no effort at raising standards, improving teaching, or boosting achievement can occur. Based on her participation in an intensive four-ye