International handbook of middle level education theory, research, and policy / edited by David C. Virtue.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Virtue, David C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle school education.

Middle school students--Psychology.

Middle school students.

Middle school teachers--Training of.

Middle school teachers.

Middle school teachers--In-service training.

Physical Description:

xv, 404 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"A 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. It is comprehensive in its treatment of middle level research and international in scope"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Capturing a moment in middle level education theory, research, and policy / David C. Virtue

Hope is work : a critical vision for middle grades education / Susan Y. Leonard and P. Gayle Andrews

The International Baccalaureate middle years programme (MYP) in US middle level schools / Robin Dever

Democratic living and learning as a signature pedagogy for middle level teacher preparation / Karynne L.M. Kleine, Joanne L. Previts, and Nancy B. Mizelle

A framework for classroom caring that challenges the Eurocratic norm in middle level schools and classrooms / Toni M. Williams and Susi Long

Exemplary middle level education in three Pacific contexts : Hawai'i, American Samoa and the Republic of the Marshall Islands / Paul D. Deering, Deborah K. Zuercher, Kezia M. Curry, and Sabrina Suluai-Mahuka

Understanding young adolescents through the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and educational pedagogy / Erika Daniels

Using a cognitive apprenticeship approach to prepare middle grades students for the cognitive demands of the 21st century / Victoria Cardullo

The effects of contemporary technology on young adolescents' socioemotional behaviors and learning / Priya M. Poehner and Dave F. Brown

Engaging and supporting boys through the middle years : a perspective from Australia / Craig M. McFarlane

The need to teach responsive dispositions in middle level teacher preparation / Holly Thornton

Supporting young adolescent motivation in school through an adolescent-centered community of care / Sarah M. Kiefer and Cheryl R. Ellerbrock

Classroom behavior management in middle level education : a self-regulatory approach to empower teachers and adolescent learners / Karen L. Peel

It's a human right! Young adolescents need to play in the middle grades / Bea Bailey

Creativity and non-traditional approaches for middle-level music education / Robert L. Lyda, Jane M. Kuehne, and Shane E. Colquhoun

Continuing professional development and middle years teachers : what the literature tells us / Katherine Main and Donna Pendergast

Less doing, more being : a conceptual framework for cultural responsiveness in middle grades education / Kimberly J. Stormer, Cory T. Brown, and Pamela Correll

Starting with the students : an assets-based model to teaching middle grades mathematics / Torrey Kulow and Micki M. Caskey

Place-based education in middle level education : bringing in and contributing to the local context / Matthew J. Irvin, Jennifer Harrist, Dodie Limberg, George Roy, and Gina Kunz

Making the shift : consciously preparing clinically-minded middle grades teacher educators / Melissa Baker, Katherine F. Thompson, Ashley S. Nylin, and Janna Dresden

Middle grades ethnographies in theory and practice / Boni Wozolek and Walter S. Gershon

Reforming middle years' education in Australia : challenges, implications, and opportunities / Rebecca Seward-Linger

Engaging middle years' learners : an Australian perspective, 1990-2018 / Rachel Flenley, Julie McLeod, and Russell Cross

Humanities-forward developments in Norwegian middle grades English education / Jessica Allen Hanssen and Maja Henriette Jensvoll

Middle level social studies education in Turkey : a window to citizenship education / Zafer İbrahimoğlu

Measuring what matters : rethinking middle grades accountability systems in the era of the Every Student Succeeds Act / Steven L. Turner

Hidden in the middle : the state of homelessness in middle level education / Matthew J. Moulton

Looking back to move forward : an historical analysis of educating the young adolescent in the United States / Shawn A. Faulkner, Chris M. Cook, and Penny B. Howell

Maturation of scholarship in middle level education / David C. Virtue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815358619

081535861X

9780815358626

0815358628

OCLC:

1111638770