Winner of the AESA 2017 Critics' Choice Book Award Mathematics Education offers both undergraduates and starting-graduate students in education an introduction to the connections that exist between mathematics and a critical orientation to education. This primer shows how concepts like race, class, gender, and language have real effects in the mathematics classroom, and prepares current and …
Focused on the big ideas of education psychology, this text gives readers a practical understanding of the core concepts in educational psychology and of the research-based strategies needed to facilitate student learning and development. While generally shorter than competing educational psychology textbooks, Essentials of Educational Psychology still provides a comprehensive overview of th…
Designed to focus on central concerns in teaching social studies in a standards-based environment, this brief text enables teachers to successfully implement a social studies curriculum with concepts, strategies, and values relevant to elementary and middle grades. The ninth edition clearly presents, in a friendly tone, the essential content and methods for successful social studies teachin…