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Professional Development Schools: Researching Lessons from the Field
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Breault, Rick; Breault, Donna Adair – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Professional Development Schools: Researching Lessons from the Field" provides a comprehensive analysis of PDS research that can aid PDS stakeholders in designing and sustaining meaningful research in their partnerships. Breault and Breault used an extensive qualitative meta-synthesis to examine the research over the past 20 years. Their…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Action Research, Figurative Language, Educational Research
Supporting Theory Building in Integrated Services Research
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Robinson, Mark; Atkinson, Mary; Downing, Dick – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2008
This literature review was commissioned by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to draw together current and recent studies of integrated working, in order to build an overview of the theories and models of such working. The review is important for current work on evaluating the early impact of integrated children's services and…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Search Strategies, Literature Reviews, Models
Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons
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Quinn, Therese M., Ed.; Ploof, John, Ed.; Hochtritt, Lisa J., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Art and Social Justice Education" offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons. Essays and a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Art History, Critical Theory, Elementary Secondary Education
Aspects of Planning for Public Services in Rural Areas.
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Rogers, David L., Ed.; Whiting, Larry R., Ed. – 1976
The result of a rural development conference, this publication emphasizes the theory of rural public service planning and is addressed to middle and/or top level planners and public administrators and/or researchers concerned with the delivery of public services. The objectives of this 12-paper collection are: to review existing methods and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
Young Children's Behaviour: Practical Approaches for Caregivers and Teachers.
Porter, Louise – 1999
Noting that adults caring for young children often find themselves responding to children's misbehavior in ways contradictory to their overall goals of children's autonomy and self-management, this book provides practical child-centered suggestions for responding to young children's disruptive behavior and suggests behavior management techniques…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Abuse, Child Behavior
The Rise and Fall of Adult Education Institutions and Social Movements: Proceedings of the International Conference on the History of Adult Education (7th, Dundee, Scotland, July 12-16, 1998). Studies in Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Gerontagogy.
Cooke, Anthony, Ed.; MacSween, Ann, Ed. – 2000
This book, which focuses on the relationship between adult education institutions and social movements, contains 31 papers originally presented at a 1998 conference on the history of adult education. Following an Introduction (Cooke), the papers are: Mobilisation, Popular Participation and Sustainable Development: Themes in the Recent History of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Community Cooperation, Context Effect