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Suffer the Little Children: National and International Dimensions of Child Poverty and Public Policy
ISBN: 9780762308316 / Angielski / Twarda / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the burden of poverty that children and young adults disproportionately share throughout the world. Contributions from international researchers examine some of the profound precursor issues that serve to inhibit the chances of children and young adults to education and social mobility in an international context. Issues such as housing and homelessness, family income, maternal and child health, child care, hunger, adolescent pregnancy, violence by and against children, the impact of war and famine, various forms of social deviance and early childhood education are...
This volume examines the burden of poverty that children and young adults disproportionately share throughout the world. Contributions from internatio...
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Inequality Across Societies: Families, Schools and Persisting Stratification
ISBN: 9780762310616 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has schooling failed to deliver on its promise of reducing economic and social disparities? This volume addresses this and other questions, taking the reader into a variety of nations and cultural settings. It illuminates how schools can reduce or reinforce the layered stratification of society, even in nations with non-western traditions.
Why has schooling failed to deliver on its promise of reducing economic and social disparities? This volume addresses this and other questions, taking...
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884,64 |
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Identity, Agency and Social Institutions in Educational Ethnography
ISBN: 9780762311446 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The prime focus on the social processes of schooling within educational ethnography has tended to marginalise or eschew the importance of other 'informal' educational sites. Other social institutions, such as family, community, media and popular culture, work and prisons are salient arenas in which behaviours and lives are regulated. They all interrelate and are all implicated in the generation, management and development of social identities and the social and cultural reproduction of structures and relations. Individuals, though, are not merely shaped by these social institutions, their...
The prime focus on the social processes of schooling within educational ethnography has tended to marginalise or eschew the importance of other 'infor...
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773,42 |
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Education for All: Global Promises, National Challenges
ISBN: 9780762314416 / Angielski / Twarda / 549 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the World Conference on Education for All (EFA) in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990, the push for modern mass schooling has become a primary focus of national education policymakers and researchers around the world. The EFA declaration that grew out of this conference served as a culmination of a century-long movement to transform existing national educational systems into the most comprehensive mass system of schooling ever devised. Comparative education researchers have been studying both the promises and the challenges surrounding EFA for decades, but in comparative education research...
Since the World Conference on Education for All (EFA) in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990, the push for modern mass schooling has become a primary focus of n...
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783,52 |
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Kitty Cat and the Paint: Individual Student Edition Blue (Levels 9-11)
ISBN: 9780763572914 / Angielski / Miękka / 16 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,17 |
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Supreme Court for Dummies
ISBN: 9780764508868 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gives you the scoop on how the Court reaches its decisions
Get involved and track a case through the system This fun and easy guide demystifies the federal court system by describing what kinds of cases the justices hear, outlining how cases reach the Supreme Court, clarifying legal terms, and explaining how the Court arrives at its decisions. You'll discover how to get inside the Court yourself and investigate both the key issues and the players involved. The Dummies Way * Explanations in plain English * -Get in, get out- information *... Gives you the scoop on how the Court reaches its decisions
Get involved and track a case through the system This fun and eas... |
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72,63 |
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Knowing in Organizations: A Practice-Based Approach : A Practice-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780765609113 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work explores the relationship among knowing, learning, and practice in the development of organizational knowledge. It explores the implications for intervention growing out of the notion that organizational knowledge cannot be conceived as a mental process residing in members' heads.
This work explores the relationship among knowing, learning, and practice in the development of organizational knowledge. It explores the implications...
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242,84 |
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A Treatise on Political Economy
ISBN: 9780765806536 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) has been described as a revolutionary, an author of scholarly books and popular tracts, a social philosopher, a successful entrepreneur-a remarkable Renaissance man. He is best known as author of the law of markets, known as Say's Law, and as the first to coin the term "entrepreneur." Say's concern with the average interested citizen and his zeal for economic education for the masses is most apparent in his classic work, A Treatise on Political Economy.
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) has been described as a revolutionary, an author of scholarly books and popular tracts, a social philosopher, a successf...
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233,13 |
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Outside the Lines: Issues in Interdisciplinary Research
ISBN: 9780773514386 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors to this collection address the ways in which interdisciplinarity is defined, positioned, and handled by researchers, universities, and critics, and examine such topics as "myths" of interdisciplinarity, postmodern critiques of interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and research grant allocation, women's studies, Canadian studies, environmental studies, and "emerging" disciplines. The collection combines a theoretical examination of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity as forms of knowledge production and organization with practical information about the basic difficulties and...
Contributors to this collection address the ways in which interdisciplinarity is defined, positioned, and handled by researchers, universities, and cr...
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485,78 |
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Racism, Sexism, and the University
ISBN: 9780773515154 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1995 the McEwen report was released charging faculty members of the department of political science at the University of British Columbia with pervasive sexism and racism. The president of UBC responded to the controversial report by suspending admissions to the graduate program in political science, sparking a fiery dispute among students and faculty members over the fairness of the decision. The UBC affair became front-page news throughout Canada and was discussed in news media and on university campuses throughout the Western world.
In 1995 the McEwen report was released charging faculty members of the department of political science at the University of British Columbia with perv...
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140,83 |
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Integrating School and Workplace Learning in Canada: Principles and Practices of Alternation Education and Training
ISBN: 9780773524545 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of alternation refers to the combination of classroom-based cognitive learning and workplace-based experiential learning and can be found in a variety of settings, including apprenticeship programs, career preparation and co-operative education, and work-experience schemes for high school students. After presenting three papers that c
The concept of alternation refers to the combination of classroom-based cognitive learning and workplace-based experiential learning and can be found ...
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140,83 |
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Canada's Francophone Minority Communities : Constitutional Renewal and the Winning of School Governance
ISBN: 9780773526303 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth account of the struggle to obtain language education rights.
An in-depth account of the struggle to obtain language education rights.
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155,45 |
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A Meeting of the People: School Boards and Protestant Communities in Quebec, 1801-1998: Volume 15
ISBN: 9780773527423 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MacLeod (Protestant education research, McGill U.) and Poutanen (history, Concordia U.) trace the fortunes of the Quebec Protestant school system from its beginning to when the provincial government abolished confessional school boards. The records they searched are kept in various obscure places across Quebec, often in environments not conducive t
MacLeod (Protestant education research, McGill U.) and Poutanen (history, Concordia U.) trace the fortunes of the Quebec Protestant school system from...
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140,83 |
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Building Health Promotion Capacity: Action for Learning, Learning from Action
ISBN: 9780774811514 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building Health Promotion Capacity explores the professional practice of health promotion, and the means through which individuals and organizations become more effective in supporting and undertaking such practice. The concepts of ?capacity? and ?capacity-building? are used to structure this exploration. Simply put, capacity refers to those qualities or characteristics that enable people to do something. The book is based on the experiences of the Building Health Promotion Capacity Project (1998?2003), a continuing education and applied research initiative affiliated... Building Health Promotion Capacity explores the professional practice of health promotion, and the means through which individuals and organ... |
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145,69 |
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Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937
ISBN: 9780774813471 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State is an innovative account of educational and social transformations in politically tumultuous early twentieth-century China. It focuses on the unique nature of Chinese teachers' schools, which bridged Chinese and Western ideals, and the critical role that these schools played in the changes sweeping Chinese society. It also documents their role in the empowerment of women and the production of grassroots forces leading to the Communist Revolution. Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State... Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State is an innovative account of educational and social transformations in political... |
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Teaching Translation from Spanish to English: Worlds Beyond Words
ISBN: 9780776603995 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, she demonstrates how teachers can guide their students by showing them how insights from communication theory, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semiotics can illuminate the translation process. Using Spanish to English translation as her example, she presents the basic principles of translation through 29 teaching units, which are prefaced by objectives, tasks, and commentaries for the teacher, and through...
While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions ...
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91,99 |
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Christian Librarianship: Essays on the Integration of Faith and Profession
ISBN: 9780786413294 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many Christian librarians find it difficult to integrate their religion and their profession. This text helps in this integration. It provides a foundation for further discussion of library issues from a Christian perspective and provides insight into Christian librarians. Both Christian-sponsored institutions and individual librarians of a Christian denomination will benefit. This compilation of 16 essays is divided into two main parts, the first on theory and the second on practice. The first part covers topics such as A Brief Introduction to Christianity and Its Worldview, The Impact of...
Many Christian librarians find it difficult to integrate their religion and their profession. This text helps in this integration. It provides a found...
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272,11 |
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Reading and the Reference Librarian: The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits
ISBN: 9780786416523 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merely expected to find it. Technological competency rather than knowledge has become the order of the day. In many respects, reference service has become a matter of typing search terms into a library's online catalog or a web search engine and providing the patron with the results of the search. Calling for a re-intellectualization of reference librarianship, this book suggests another approach to providing quality reference service - reading. The authors surveyed both academic reference...
Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merely expected to find it. Technological competenc...
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272,11 |
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The Library as Place in California
ISBN: 9780786431946 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the educational space of UC Berkeley to a one-room library in Silverado Canyon, this tour of 32 California libraries explores the sense of space and unique atmosphere a structure can provide.
From the educational space of UC Berkeley to a one-room library in Silverado Canyon, this tour of 32 California libraries explores the sense of space ...
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272,11 |
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Liberal Arts Colleges and Liberal Arts Education: New Evidence on Impacts: ASHE Higher Education Report
ISBN: 9780787981235 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The long-term impact of liberal arts education Liberal Arts Colleges and Liberal Arts Education: New Evidence on Impacts: ASHE Higher Education Report summarizes the impact of a liberal arts education on college students' intellectual and personal growth. Based on data from a study covering 6,500 students at 40 institutions, these findings reveal the elements of a liberal arts education that best serve students in the long term. As higher education faces increasing pressure to condense and narrow focus, this book provides a cogent argument for keeping the liberal arts... The long-term impact of liberal arts education Liberal Arts Colleges and Liberal Arts Education: New Evidence on Impacts: ASHE Hig... |
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