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Literacy in Traditional Societies
ISBN: 9780521290050 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The importance of writing as a means of communication in a society formerly without it, or where writing has been confined to particular groups, is enormous. It objectifies speech, provides language with a material correlative, and in this material form speech can be transmitted over space and preserved over time. In this book the contributors discuss cultures at different levels of sophistication and literacy and examine the importance of writing on the development of these societies. All the articles except the first were specially written for this book and the extensive introduction unites...
The importance of writing as a means of communication in a society formerly without it, or where writing has been confined to particular groups, is en...
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334,75 |
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Education and Public Policy in Australia
ISBN: 9780521439633 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The gap between the demands placed an education and the resources allocated to it by government has increased dramatically in recent years. The education system in schools, TAFE colleges and universities is expected to absorb youth unemployment and play a key role in the modernisation of the economy, yet education spending as proportion of GDP has declined. The notion of education being important for its own sake and a key to equality in society seems to have been set aside, and economics now dominates debate on education policy. According to economic rationalists, education is a part of the...
The gap between the demands placed an education and the resources allocated to it by government has increased dramatically in recent years. The educat...
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150,14 |
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Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low Achieving Students
ISBN: 9780521560764 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bolstering the academic success of low achieving students and providing a more egalitarian classroom setting are two constant challenges to our schools. This book describes the process of "untracking," an educational reform effort that has prepared students from low income, linguistic and ethnic minority backgrounds for college. Untracking offers all students the same academically-demanding curriculum while varying the amount of institutional support they receive. This book is a highly readable account of a successful school reform effort. It provides systematic research results concerning...
Bolstering the academic success of low achieving students and providing a more egalitarian classroom setting are two constant challenges to our school...
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303,26 |
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Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low Achieving Students
ISBN: 9780521568265 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bolstering the academic success of low achieving students and providing a more egalitarian classroom setting are two constant challenges to our schools. This book describes the process of "untracking," an educational reform effort that has prepared students from low income, linguistic and ethnic minority backgrounds for college. Untracking offers all students the same academically-demanding curriculum while varying the amount of institutional support they receive. This book is a highly readable account of a successful school reform effort. It provides systematic research results concerning...
Bolstering the academic success of low achieving students and providing a more egalitarian classroom setting are two constant challenges to our school...
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145,50 |
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Educating Australia: Government, Economy and Citizen Since 1960
ISBN: 9780521598309 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first comprehensive history of the Australian education systems, programs and policies in the period since 1960. The book draws on economic and sociological data, key texts and political events, anecdotes and a review of other analyses to build a picture of the role of education programs in the modernization of Australian life. It examines the implications of change for the labor market and the economy, in social policies and in cultural life. An important focus of the book is the discussion of the extension of citizenship through education.
This is the first comprehensive history of the Australian education systems, programs and policies in the period since 1960. The book draws on economi...
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168,70 |
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Violence in American Schools: A New Perspective
ISBN: 9780521644181 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Experts from a range of disciplines use a variety of perspectives, notably those of public health, criminology, ecology, and developmental psychology, to review the latest research on the causes of youth violence. The authors examine the nation's schools and communities and school-based interventions that have prevented or reduced violence. They describe and evaluate strategies for the prevention and treatment of violence that go beyond punishment and incarceration. Violence in American Schools offers a new strategy for the problem of youth violence, arguing that the most effective...
Experts from a range of disciplines use a variety of perspectives, notably those of public health, criminology, ecology, and developmental psychology,...
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154,78 |
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Democratic Schools for Our Democracy
ISBN: 9780595193035 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,47 |
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Changing the Interface of Education with Revolutionary Learning Technologies: An Effective Guide for Infusing Technology Enabled Education For Univers
ISBN: 9780595299324 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pedagogy for technology enabled education over last few decades have been influenced by behaviorist, cognitive, and constructivist theories. These theories are debated vigorously by the educational scientists. While the debate is extremely important for the paradigm shift, the need for a framework for instructional designers seeking meaningful incorporation of technology is necessary. With the infusion of new technological methods to deliver education on-line there is an acute need for reinvention of the pedagogical framework. The new design framework to provide a flexible approach for...
The pedagogy for technology enabled education over last few decades have been influenced by behaviorist, cognitive, and constructivist theories. These...
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57,61 |
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Edutopia: A Manifesto for the Reform of Public Education
ISBN: 9780595300167 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For some time now, we have been inundated with a steady stream of books and articles detailing the problems plaguing public education. "Edutopia" goes beyond the criticisms to offer a comprehensive list of proposed reforms addressing the problems.
The general thrust of these proposals is to de-regulate education, removing elements of compulsion, and giving students and parents the freedom to make meaningful choices with regard to the nature of their educational experiences. The reforms proposed in "Edutopia" go well beyond quick fixes and fresh coats of paint, to offer parents and... For some time now, we have been inundated with a steady stream of books and articles detailing the problems plaguing public education. "Edutopia" goes...
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53,76 |
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101 Tips for School District Leadership: The Essential Guidebook
ISBN: 9780595312061 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "101 Tips for School District Leadership" contains essential tips to enhance success of school district leadership. The writing respects the busy schedule of a superintendent and the need for material that can be read and put in use quickly. A superintendent could start applying the advice given almost immediately without having to finish the book first. The 101 tips is a direct and practical approach in covering positive techniques for success.
Most central office leaders had to learn on the job or borrow from books written for the business/management sector. These 101 tips are too... "101 Tips for School District Leadership" contains essential tips to enhance success of school district leadership. The writing respects the busy sche...
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53,76 |
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Legal Issues In School Health Services: A Resource for School Administrators, School Attorneys, School Nurses
ISBN: 9780595358137 / Angielski / Miękka / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Legal Issues in School Health Services offers a legal resource never before available for education and health professionals, and their legal advisors. All professionals involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of school health services will find this an exceptional tool. This book addresses the spirit and letter of the laws, the related standards, the conflict between them, and how they affect the delivery of school health services in regular and special education. Special attention is given to pertinent issues for school administrators, school attorneys, and school...
Legal Issues in School Health Services offers a legal resource never before available for education and health professionals, and their legal a...
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200,19 |
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Affirmed: Teachers as Citizens: A Case Study
ISBN: 9780595366774 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I should have heeded my husband's apprehension and our friends' advice, but I wanted that house. Because Ron and I were public school teachers and supported public education, we ignored our friends' warnings and enrolled our daughters in Marion's school system. A year later I transferred to the Marion system from Florence where I had developed two educational programs: the itinerant learning disabilities program and a self-contained middle school class for emotionally disturbed juvenile delinquents. In Marion, I was assigned to two schools as a learning disabilities clinician. Within weeks...
"I should have heeded my husband's apprehension and our friends' advice, but I wanted that house. Because Ron and I were public school teachers and su...
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80,73 |
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Escape from Gangsta Island: A School's Progressive Decline.
ISBN: 9780595376735 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is it surprising to learn that there is a school in the United States where the principal gives away semiautomatic rifles to retiring school personnel? Or where the person in charge is so devoid of common sense that she allows combustible engines to run in enclosed areas in the presence of students? In this astonishing true story, author Bernard Chapin reveals what happened when a once proud school was placed into the hands of a principal with a personality disorder. The administrators of the district, rather than acknowledge their mistake in hiring the principal, work indefatigably to cover...
Is it surprising to learn that there is a school in the United States where the principal gives away semiautomatic rifles to retiring school personnel...
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100,00 |
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The Modern School Superintendent: An Overview of the Role and Responsibilities in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780595408740 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An impossible job? That's what many have called the superintendency. With its growing and completing demands, it is a profession that can baffle even the most knowledgeable and well prepared. Public education resources have become more limited. There are new national and state testing requirements. Social issues are pulled into the schools and want more control over their operation. Add in politics and bureaucracy, and the end result is quite an unmanageable scenario. Unfortunately, more superintendents seem to be leaving the profession. Whether it is because of the demands... An impossible job? That's what many have called the superintendency. With its growing and completing demands, it is a profession that can baffle ev... |
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76,88 |
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Reclamation: Saving our schools starts from within
ISBN: 9780595445301 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,76 |
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Spousework: Partners Supporting Academic Leaders
ISBN: 9780595456093 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,05 |
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Edutopia: A Manifesto for the Reform of Public Education
ISBN: 9780595661145 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For some time now, we have been inundated with a steady stream of books and articles detailing the problems plaguing public education. "Edutopia" goes beyond the criticisms to offer a comprehensive list of proposed reforms addressing the problems.
The general thrust of these proposals is to de-regulate education, removing elements of compulsion, and giving students and parents the freedom to make meaningful choices with regard to the nature of their educational experiences. The reforms proposed in "Edutopia" go well beyond quick fixes and fresh coats of paint, to offer parents and... For some time now, we have been inundated with a steady stream of books and articles detailing the problems plaguing public education. "Edutopia" goes...
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92,30 |
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Affirmed: Teachers as Citizens: A Case Study
ISBN: 9780595674053 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I should have heeded my husband's apprehension and our friends' advice, but I wanted that house. Because Ron and I were public school teachers and supported public education, we ignored our friends' warnings and enrolled our daughters in Marion's school system. A year later I transferred to the Marion system from Florence where I had developed two educational programs: the itinerant learning disabilities program and a self-contained middle school class for emotionally disturbed juvenile delinquents. In Marion, I was assigned to two schools as a learning disabilities clinician. Within weeks...
"I should have heeded my husband's apprehension and our friends' advice, but I wanted that house. Because Ron and I were public school teachers and su...
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119,27 |
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Changing the Interface of Education with Revolutionary Learning Technologies: An Effective Guide for Infusing Technology Enabled Education For Univers
ISBN: 9780595751730 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pedagogy for technology enabled education over last few decades have been influenced by behaviorist, cognitive, and constructivist theories. These theories are debated vigorously by the educational scientists. While the debate is extremely important for the paradigm shift, the need for a framework for instructional designers seeking meaningful incorporation of technology is necessary. With the infusion of new technological methods to deliver education on-line there is an acute need for reinvention of the pedagogical framework. The new design framework to provide a flexible approach for...
The pedagogy for technology enabled education over last few decades have been influenced by behaviorist, cognitive, and constructivist theories. These...
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96,15 |
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The Modern School Superintendent: An Overview of the Role and Responsibilities in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780595853922 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An impossible job? That's what many have called the superintendency. With its growing and completing demands, it is a profession that can baffle even the most knowledgeable and well prepared. Public education resources have become more limited. There are new national and state testing requirements. Social issues are pulled into the schools and want more control over their operation. Add in politics and bureaucracy, and the end result is quite an unmanageable scenario. Unfortunately, more superintendents seem to be leaving the profession. Whether it is because of the demands... An impossible job? That's what many have called the superintendency. With its growing and completing demands, it is a profession that can baffle ev... |
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115,42 |