Reddit mentions: The best education research books

Thanks for this!

This is admittedly copied and pasted from a very similar offer. I'm posting between classes, so little time and there seems to be a time limit. I'm teaching summer classes at the moment. I'm working in rural Korea as an English teacher, which has very different requirements from working as a UK teacher, as you may gather from my wish.

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While I'm tempted to repeat my request for a game which I'd really love and would keep me entertained for hours, as the prequel did or ask for decent candy/a food package since some things are hard to get here, I'll request something more worthwhile to my future, as I get the feeling that it's this subreddit is more about.

I could use any of these books. I want to do teacher training for primary (elementary) school in the future and these would help me succeed. Used is fine. Some of them aren't too expensive, but the main problem is delivery. The books are from England (and for the English educational system). I live in South Korea.

If delivery is too expensive/not possible, but you choose me, you could have them delivered to my family in England and I could ask for them to be sent to me by my family for Christmas.

In order of usefulness:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Teach-Primary-School-Series/dp/0415487900/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1375655846&sr=8-5&keywords=teacher+training

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Professional-Skills-Initial-Teacher-Training/dp/0749470216/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1375655846&sr=8-2&keywords=teacher+training

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Teacher-Training-Handbook-McGrath/dp/1408255170/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1375655948&sr=8-17&keywords=teacher+training

http://www.amazon.co.uk/KS2-Maths-Study-Book-The/dp/1847621848/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375655742&sr=8-1&keywords=key+stage+2+maths

Thanks for reading.

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While I doubt I've won (I'm guessing the people who got follow up replies or comments stand a higher chance) I'm finished teaching, so I can add a bit more.

The books I've requested are to help me study for, get into and to eventually get through a postgraduate in Education. I work abroad in a country where the currency doesn't translate to much when I bring it back home, so money can be tight as I have to save most of it for the course costs and other related costs to eventually do it. Most of the books are ones to learn about teaching skills - something I know about somewhat because I teach now, but some are more specific to Primary schools in England and the course. I've also included a mathematics study book, since I'd like to brush up on some of the later concepts. It's been about ten years since I took a mathematics course and I've done some study online, but it seems more helpful to have a book which covers everything on the test.

There's a great book on this topic - http://www.amazon.com/The-Trouble-Schools-David-Labaree/dp/030011978X The Trouble with Ed Schools.

TFA's admission criteria is pretty smart - they argue that it's easier to teach educational pedagogy than subject content (I strongly agree), so teacher candidates should be admitted based upon their content strength.

Further along these lines, I'm against undergraduate Education degrees - I don't think someone can start as an effective 5-12th grade social studies teacher unless they already have an undergraduate degree in History. You should really only start training "to become a teacher" after you've already mastered the content that you'll be teaching.

Well, it's a little more complicated than that, but yeah I do use OneNote to aggregate and refine my work. The work for this whitepaper was started with papers I had saved in the past, but most of references used were reviewed and collected as a deliberate research process.

That's what I use OneNote for. This is a pretty cool book that might give you some ideas if you're looking for a process:

https://www.amazon.com/Literature-Review-Six-Steps-Success/dp/1506336248/

Seven Myths About Education by Daisy Christodoulou is solid and a good starting point.

Here is a cheap guide to evaluate reading programs or create your own, since you guys are homeschooling. Stay on the reading thing. Dyslexia realz.

Thatis not why, after all Amazon offers both books on its site and that company is doing just dandy.

"UFO Contact from Planet Iarga" Is one Ive been wanting to get my hands on for a while. (http://www.amazon.com/Ufo-Contact-Planet-Iarga-Stefen-Denaerde/dp/0960855815)

this book

Could this be it: https://www.amazon.com/Student-Successes-Thinking-Maps%C2%AE-School-Based/dp/1412990890

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