Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks: L: Education

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"Key features of this two-volume encyclopedia about the education of African Americans include: highlighting individuals, organizations and publications with significant impact; discussions of curriculum, theories, and alternative models of education; addresssing the topics of gender and sexual orientation, religion, and the media."

"This encyclopedia is tightly focused on the unique history of polemics, and the various forms bilingual education has taken in U.S. schools. The work may be viewed as a single-source history of bilingual education in the last half of the 20th century but its roots in earlier periods in U.S. history are also summarized."

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"This multiple volume publication provides comprehensive knowledge and literature on the topic of distance learning programs"

'Key Concepts in Education' offers definitions, explanations of how the concepts are applied within the field of education, and evaluations of the concepts.

"ECCSP provides an easily accessible A-to-Z reference in one concise volume across these six key cross-cultural competency areas: Legal & Ethical Issues -- School Culture, Educational Policy, & Institutional Advocacy -- Psychoeducational Assessment & Related Issues -- Academic, Therapeutic, & Consultative Intervention -- Working with Interpreters -- Research."

"Over 50 international experts have combined their research and practical experience into 35 all-inclusive chapters, redefining the way teaching and learning is dispensed. This authoritative handbook details the needs of teachers, researchers, and scholars through state-of-the-art perspectives, exposing them to new ideas and interesting developments."

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Birth to Three -- Brain Studies & Neuroscience -- Child Minding & Home Care -- Developmentally Appropriate Practice -- Early Intervention Studies -- Early Literacy Development -- Family Literacy -- Foundation Stage -- Gender -- High Scope Preschool Curriculum -- Heuristic Play with Objects -- Inclusive Education -- Index for Inclusion -- Information & Communication Technology -- Key Person -- Media & Popular Culture -- Montessori Method -- Parental Involvement -- Play -- Quality -- Reggio Emilia Approach -- Schemas -- Special Educational Needs -- Steiner-Waldorf Kindergarten -- Sure Start -- Te Whariki -- Treasure Baskets -- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

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Provides the methodology chapters from the Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts, second edition

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"The Handbook of Educational Evaluation brings together the experience of top evaluation leaders around the world to present and discuss the core methods and applications of educational evaluation, particularly as they relate to subsequent policy- and decision-making in all educational contexts. The volume is shaped by core guiding questions that seek to understand issues such as change in educational evaluation, evidence-based research, the relationship between evaluation and audit cultures, stakeholders in educational evaluation, accountability and assessment, and, ultimately, what the obligations and responsibilities of educational evaluators are in any given setting or context."

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