International Handbook of Middle Level Education Theory, Research, and Policy (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Virtue, David C.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The International Handbook of Middle Level Education Theory, Research, and Policy is a landmark resource for researchers, graduate students, policy makers, and practitioners who work in middle level education and associated fields of study. The volume provides an overview of the current state of middle level education theory, research, and policy; offers analysis and critique of the extant literature in the field; and maps new directions for research and theory development in middle level education. The handbook meets a pressing need in the field for a resource that is comprehensive in its treatment of middle level research and international in scope.

Chapter authors provide rationales for middle level education research and definitions of the field; discuss philosophical approaches and underpinnings for middle level education research; describe and critique frameworks for quality in middle level education; review research about young adolescent learners, middle level school programming, and educator preparation; and analyze public policies affecting middle level education at national, regional, and local levels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351122108
• Artikelnr.: 57603590

Autorenporträt

David C. Virtue is Professor and Department Head of the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Auburn University. His areas of scholarly interest include social studies instruction, comparative and international education, and middle level teacher education and certification policy.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I: Introduction to the Volume 1. Capturing a Moment in Middle Level
Education Theory, Research, and Policy SECTION II: Visions and Frameworks
for Quality and Equity in Middle Level Education 2. Hope is Work: A
Critical Vision for Middle Grades Education 3. The International
Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (MYP) in U.S. Middle Level Schools 4.
Democratic Living and Learning as a Signature Pedagogy for Middle Level
Teacher Preparation 5. A Framework for Classroom Caring that Challenges the
Eurocratic Norm in Middle Level Schools and Classrooms 6. Exemplary Middle
Level Education in Three Pacific Contexts: Hawai'i, American Samoa and the
Republic of the Marshall Islands SECTION III: Characteristics of Learners
in Middle Level Education Communities 7. Understanding Young Adolescents
Through the Intersection of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology, and
Educational Pedagogy 8. Using a Cognitive Apprenticeship Approach to
Prepare Middle Grades Students for the Cognitive Demands of the 21st
Century 9. The Effects of Contemporary Technology on Young Adolescents'
Socioemotional Behaviors and Learning 10. Engaging and Supporting Boys
through the Middle Years: A Perspective from Australia 11. The Need to
Teach Responsive Dispositions in Middle Level Teacher Preparation SECTION
IV: Characteristics of Middle Level Education Learning Environments 12.
Supporting Young Adolescent Motivation in School through an
Adolescent-centered Community of Care 13. Classroom Behavior Management in
Middle Level Education: A Self-regulatory Approach to Empower Teachers and
Adolescent Learners 14. It's a Human Right! Young Adolescents Need to Play
in the Middle Grades 15. Creativity and Non-Traditional Approaches for
Middle-Level Music Education 16. Continuing Professional Development and
Middle Years Teachers: What the Literature Tells Us SECTION V:
Microcontexts of Middle Level Education Praxis 17. Less Doing, More Being:
A Conceptual Framework for Culturally Responsiveness in Middle Grades
Education 18. Starting with the Students: An Assets-based Model to Teaching
Middle Grades Mathematics 19. Place-based Education in Middle Level
Education: Bringing in and Contributing to the Local Context 20. Making the
Shift: Consciously Preparing Clinically-Minded Middle Grades Teacher
Educators 21. Middle Grades Ethnographies in Theory and Practice SECTION
VI: Macrocontexts of Middle Level Education Policy and Praxis 22. Reforming
Middle Years' Education in Australia: Challenges, Implications and
Opportunities 23. Engaging Middle Years' Learners: An Australian
Perspective, 1990-2018 24. Humanities-Forward Developments in Norwegian
Middle Grades English Education 25. Middle Level Social Studies Education
in Turkey: A Window to Citizenship Education 26. Measuring What Matters:
Rethinking Middle Grades Accountability Systems in the Era of the Every
Student Succeeds Act 27. Hidden in the Middle: The State of Homelessness in
Middle Level Education SECTION VII: Future Directions 28. Looking Back to
Move Forward: An Historical Analysis of Educating the Young Adolescent in
the United States 29. Maturation of Scholarship in Middle Level Education