Educational Policy and the Politics of Change
ISBN: 9780415118712 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see its potential for human emancipation.
This book is a successor to the best-selling Understanding Schooling (1988). It provides a readable account of how educational policies are developed by the state in response to broader social, cultural, economic and political changes which are... Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educa...
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Quality Teaching: A Sample of Cases
ISBN: 9780415119870 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study aims to break through the sterile debate between theory and practice by focusing on teachers as enquirers endeavouring to solve pedagogical problems. By detailed analysis of numerous classroom case studies, Stones shows that true quality teaching is achieved only by sensitivity to the interplay between the processes by which children acquire knowledge, the structure of knowledge within the subject being taught and the context in which the teaching is being done.
This study aims to break through the sterile debate between theory and practice by focusing on teachers as enquirers endeavouring to solve pedagogical...
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Using It Effectively in Teaching and Learning: Studies in Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Education
ISBN: 9780415121323 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Computers are not often associated with passion or culture, yet the use of information technology still has a surprisingly emotional effect on many people, including teachers and learners. This emotion may be anything from excitement and enthusiasm to anger or a sense of threat. Often, this strongly emotional response can prevent us from learning how to use IT effectively as a tool for learning. This study explores how IT can make a real difference to the quality of learning. Its approach takes account of some of the cultural, sociological and psychological factors, which influence how IT is...
Computers are not often associated with passion or culture, yet the use of information technology still has a surprisingly emotional effect on many pe...
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103,69 zł |
In Search of the Virtual Class: Education in an Information Society
ISBN: 9780415124836 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Shirley zips into her skin-tight school uniform, which on the outside looks something like a ski suit. The lining of the suit in fact contains cabling that makes the suit a communication system and there are pressure pads where the suit touches skin that give a sense of touch. Next, she sits astride something that is a bit like a motorbike, except that it has no wheels and is attached firmly to the floor. Her feet fit on to something similar to a brake and accelerator and her gloved hands hold onto handlebars. She shouts, "I'm off to school, Dad." Her father, who is taking time out from...
'Shirley zips into her skin-tight school uniform, which on the outside looks something like a ski suit. The lining of the suit in fact contains ca...
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Making Good Schools: Linking School Effectiveness and Improvement
ISBN: 9780415130233 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The disciplines of school effectiveness research and school improvement practice and research have been apart for too long. This book is the first major attempt, by leading writers and practitioners in these fields, to bring the areas together in a coherent way.
Existing knowledge about the characteristics of good' schools is outlined, together with the knowledge base about how to make schools good schools'. The book also makes an entirely original contribution to re-thinking practice in school improvement that can revolutionise our thinking in the late 1990s, and which can be of use... The disciplines of school effectiveness research and school improvement practice and research have been apart for too long. This book is the first maj...
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596,51 zł |
Making Good Schools: Linking School Effectiveness and Improvement
ISBN: 9780415130240 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The disciplines of school effectiveness research and school improvement practice and research have been apart for too long. This book is the first major attempt, by leading writers and practitioners in these fields, to bring the areas together in a coherent way.
Existing knowledge about the characteristics of good' schools is outlined, together with the knowledge base about how to make schools good schools'. The book also makes an entirely original contribution to re-thinking practice in school improvement that can revolutionise our thinking in the late 1990s, and which can be of use... The disciplines of school effectiveness research and school improvement practice and research have been apart for too long. This book is the first maj...
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165,93 zł |
Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools
ISBN: 9780415133395 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores the restructuring movement, with particular emphasis on how decentralization of power has affected the quality of education. It provides a broad and international picture of educational reform.
This text explores the restructuring movement, with particular emphasis on how decentralization of power has affected the quality of education. It pro...
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Diversity and Change: Education Policy and Selection
ISBN: 9780415137201 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is not only the UK education system which has recently undergone a process of change, although it has certainly been one of the most dramatically affected. Free market conceptions have played their part in these changes, particularly throughout the European Union. This collection therefore focuses on the economic and social contexts for education both in the UK and internationally, and how these have had an impact on the education systems of different countries.
The authors write from a wide range of standpoints, some supportive and some critical of the new paradigms, but all focus on... It is not only the UK education system which has recently undergone a process of change, although it has certainly been one of the most dramatically a...
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The Ethical School: Consequences, Consistency and Caring
ISBN: 9780415141857 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conflicts often arise between regulations, making it difficult for school management teams and teachers to resolve situation with appropriate dignity and respect to all concerned. This book discusses actual case studies to help teachers to reflect on their own ethics, guiding them to make more reasonable decisions in their schools, and thereby gradually transforming schools into more cohesive and caring communities. A model of consequences, consistency and caring, each aspect based on traditional ethical theories provides a scientific base, a rational base and a responsive base for ethical...
Conflicts often arise between regulations, making it difficult for school management teams and teachers to resolve situation with appropriate dignity ...
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Learning to Lead in Higher Education
ISBN: 9780415151993 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Higher education is going through great change. There are more students, much less public money, and steadily greater pressures from employers and students for universities to be more accountable. At the same time, lecturers face job insecurity and confront bigger workloads, while universities are forced to become more efficient and business-like. The future success of our universities depends on academics' capacity to respond energetically to change. To help academics face new and uncertain demands, this book argues that a different approach is needed for their management and leadership. It...
Higher education is going through great change. There are more students, much less public money, and steadily greater pressures from employers and stu...
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778,05 zł |
Learning to Lead in Higher Education
ISBN: 9780415152006 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The future success of our universities depends on academics' capacity to respond energetically to change. To help academics face new and uncertain demands, we need an entirely different approach to their management and leadership. This book shows academic leaders how to increase resource productivity and enhance teaching quality. It also demonstrates how leaders can help their staff through momentous change without compromising professional standards.
Drawing on ideas from the world of business leadership as well as research into what makes academics committed and productive, Learning... The future success of our universities depends on academics' capacity to respond energetically to change. To help academics face new and uncertain dem...
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243,74 zł |
Promoting Mental, Emotional and Social Health: A Whole School Approach
ISBN: 9780415168755 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schools are now seen as being one of the key agents which can help redress society's most fundamental problems, create more cohesive communities and promote citizenship and a sense of social conscience in the young. Promoting Mental, Emotional and Social Health: A Whole School Approach provides a clear and practical overview of ways in which mainstream schools can promote the health of all those who work and learn in them.
Supported by the latest new evidence from the UK and Europe as well as findings from the USA, it outlines and examines: * evidence that social and... Schools are now seen as being one of the key agents which can help redress society's most fundamental problems, create more cohesive communities and p...
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Promoting Mental, Emotional and Social Health: A Whole School Approach
ISBN: 9780415168762 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schools are now seen as being one of the key agents which can help redress society's most fundamental problems, create more cohesive communities and promote citizenship and a sense of social conscience in the young. Promoting Mental, Emotional and Social Health: A Whole School Approach provides a clear and practical overview of ways in which mainstream schools can promote the health of all those who work and learn in them.
Supported by the latest new evidence from the UK and Europe as well as findings from the USA, it outlines and examines: * evidence that social and... Schools are now seen as being one of the key agents which can help redress society's most fundamental problems, create more cohesive communities and p...
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Managing Staff in Early Years Settings
ISBN: 9780415171533 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws on a wide range of management theory and shows its relevance and relationship to early years settings.
This book draws on a wide range of management theory and shows its relevance and relationship to early years settings.
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Education, Exclusion and Citizenship
ISBN: 9780415174978 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education, Exclusion and Citizenship provides a hard-hitting account of the realities of exclusion, examining the behaviour which typically results in exclusion, and asks questions about a society which communally neglects those most in need.
Permanent exclusions from schools continue to rise. As schools compete with neighbouring schools for 'good' pupils, managers and heads are choosing to exclude disruptive pupils who might affect school image. The book looks at the experience of excluded children, the law regulating exclusion, the obligations of the LEAs, and focuses on... Education, Exclusion and Citizenship provides a hard-hitting account of the realities of exclusion, examining the behaviour which typically r...
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The Governance of Schooling: Comparative Studies of Devolved Management
ISBN: 9780415195379 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent reforms in the governance of schooling have affected roles, relationships and decision-making within schools and between them and the wider community. Using empirical and theoretical approaches this book describes, analyses and compares the effects of devolved management on secondary schools in a number of countries. It casts a critical light upon policy assumptions and aims, challenging assumptions about the way policy works in practice.
Through a comparative international perspective, which looks at countries including the UK and the US, the conflicting options for school... Recent reforms in the governance of schooling have affected roles, relationships and decision-making within schools and between them and the wider com...
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The Governance of Schooling : Comparative Studies of Devolved Management
ISBN: 9780415195386 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text looks at the effects of devolved management on secondary schools in several countries and how recent reforms have affected roles, relationships and decision-making both within the school and with the wider community.
This text looks at the effects of devolved management on secondary schools in several countries and how recent reforms have affected roles, relationsh...
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Poorly Performing Staff in Schools and How to Manage Them: Capability, Competence and Motivation
ISBN: 9780415198172 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will help headteachers, managers and governors diagnose and tackle poor performance where it has arisen and help them to prevent poor performance in the future.
The book investigates a whole range of solutions and issues and includes detailed case-studies on: * remedial action * disciplinary action * legal and moral issues * employment law * dismissals and appeals. This book will help headteachers, managers and governors diagnose and tackle poor performance where it has arisen and help them to prevent poor perfor...
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67,38 zł |
Managing Complex Educational Change: Large Scale Reorganisation of Schools
ISBN: 9780415200967 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational change?
This book investigates initiatives to reorganise school systems, involving highly emotive closures and mergers. It reveals how reorganisation was a complex change to manage because it was large-scale, componential, systematic, differentially impacting and context dependent. These characteristics affected management tasks, generating ambiguity in the change process that limited managers' capacity to control it. The authors offer four... Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational cha...
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907,73 zł |
Managing Complex Educational Change: Large Scale Reorganisation of Schools
ISBN: 9780415200974 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational change?
This book investigates initiatives to reorganise school systems, involving highly emotive closures and mergers. It reveals how reorganisation was a complex change to manage because it was large-scale, componential, systematic, differentially impacting and context dependent. These characteristics affected management tasks, generating ambiguity in the change process that limited managers' capacity to control it. The authors offer four... Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational cha...
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254,11 zł |