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  • New books on Action Research
    Posted May 21, 2009 by Rachel Wadham

    Collaborative action research : developing professional learning communities / edited by Stephen P. Gordon ; foreword by Emily F. Calhoun
    Call Number: LB 1028.24 .C655 2008

    Practical action research : a collection of articles / Richard A. Schmuck, editor
    Call Number: LB 1028.24 .P73 2009

  • New Titles on Gender and Education
    Posted March 3, 2009 by Rachel Wadham

    Policy discourses, gender, and education : constructing women’s status / Elizabeth J. Allan
    ISBN: 9780415381680 (hardback : alk. paper)
    Call Number: LC 212 .A45 2008

    Gender and education : an encyclopedia / edited by Barbara J. Bank ; Sara Delamont and Catherine Marshall, associate editors
    ISBN: 9780313333439 (set : alk. paper)
    Call Number: Social Science Reference LC 213 .G425 2007

  • New Books on Professional Learning Communities
    Posted December 5, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    Communities of practice : creating learning environments for educators / edited by Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth, and Isabelle Bourdon
    Call Number: LB 1707 .C66 2008 vol.1

    Teachers in professional communities : improving teaching and learning / Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller, editors
    Call Number: LB 1025.3 .T43 2008

  • The Social Aspects of Learning: New Book Titles
    Posted November 3, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    Understanding the social outcomes of learning
    ISBN: 9789264033108
    Call Number: LC 191.8 .O35 U53 2007

    Contemporary perspectives on socialization and social development in early childhood education / edited by Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek
    ISBN: 9781593116347 (hardcover)
    Call Number: LC 192.4 .C66 2007

  • New Books About Women In Education
    Posted July 21, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    Women teaching women learning : historical perspectives / Elizabeth M. Smyth and Paula Bourne, editors
    Call Number: LC 1481 .W656 2006

    Women’s education in the United States, 1780-1840 / Margaret A. Nash
    Call Number: LC 1752 .N37 2005

  • Asian American Students: New Book Titles
    Posted June 6, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    Asian American education : acculturation, literacy development, and learning / edited by Clara C. Park … [et al.]
    ISBN: 9781593117221 (pbk.)
    Call Number: LC 2632 .A843 2007

    Teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean heritage language students : curriculum needs, materials, and assessment / edited by Kimmi [i.e. Kimi] Kondo-Brown, James Dean Brown
    ISBN: 9780805858778 (c : alk. paper)
    Call Number: LC [...]

  • New Professional Titles Now In the Library
    Posted May 12, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

     
    Professional learning communities : divergence, depth and dilemmas / Louise Stoll and Karen Seashore Louis
    ISBN: 9780335220311 (hbk.)
    Call Number: LB 1775 .S695x 2007

    The challenge of teaching controversial issues / edited by Hilary Claire and Cathie Holden
    ISBN: 9781858564159
    Call Number: LB 1584 .C53x 2007

  • Two New Technology Books
    Posted March 21, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    Interested in learning about new technologies to use in the classroom?  Check out these two new books:
     
     Podcasting for teachers : using a new technology to revolutionize teaching and learning / by Kathleen P. King and Mark Gura
    ISBN: 9781593116583 (pbk.)
    Call Number: LB 1044.87 .K57 2007

    Making the most of the Web in your classroom : a teacher’s [...]

  • New Book on School Reform
    Posted March 5, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    Breaking the cycle of failed school reform : what five failed reforms tell us / John M. Tharp
    Contents:
    A chronology of past school reforms — Profiling the failures of school reforms — Autopsy data from past reforms — Initiatives that may break the cycle of failed reforms.
    Check it out at Call Number LA 217.2 .T476 2008

  • New Book On Practitioner Research
    Posted January 31, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    An ethical approach to practitioner research : dealing with issues and dilemmas in action research / edited by Anne Campbell and Susan Groundwater-Smith. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.  
    Call Number: LB 1028.24 .E84x 2007
    Contents: Introduction — Managing research ethics : a head-on collision? — Everything’s ethics : practitioner inquiry and university culture — [...]