Teaching and Learning in Japan
ISBN: 9780521495875 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this important work, major scholars on Japan draw on ethnographic and experimental studies of learning throughout the lifespan to explore the Japanese style of learning. The reader will get an inside view of Japanese teaching methods, where the emphasis is on the process of learning, rather than the end product. In Japan, applications across contexts--from religion to music, to mathematics, to guidance are very differently handled than in the West. Contributors analyze various models of learning within and without the Japanese school system. The examples considered here allow the reader to...
In this important work, major scholars on Japan draw on ethnographic and experimental studies of learning throughout the lifespan to explore the Japan...
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344,31 zł |
From School to Productive Work: Britain and Switzerland Compared
ISBN: 9780521599191 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Switzerland is universally respected for its highly successful economy. It has long enjoyed low unemployment and inflation, and an exceptionally satisfactory transition process for youngsters from school to work. This book provides a nuts-and-bolts comparison of how this successful transition is brought about. It explains the different emphases of Swiss secondary schooling by focusing on the way in which both academic and practical subjects are taught. The different ways in which career guidance and intervals of work experience are handled in the two countries are also considered.
Switzerland is universally respected for its highly successful economy. It has long enjoyed low unemployment and inflation, and an exceptionally satis...
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160,35 zł |
Teaching and Learning in Japan
ISBN: 9780521651158 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this important work, major scholars on Japan draw on ethnographic and experimental studies of learning throughout the lifespan to explore the Japanese style of learning. The reader will get an inside view of Japanese teaching methods, where the emphasis is on the process of learning, rather than the end product. In Japan, applications across contexts--from religion to music, to mathematics, to guidance are very differently handled than in the West. Contributors analyze various models of learning within and without the Japanese school system. The examples considered here allow the reader to...
In this important work, major scholars on Japan draw on ethnographic and experimental studies of learning throughout the lifespan to explore the Japan...
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224,96 zł |
Happiness and Education
ISBN: 9780521807630 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When parents are asked what they want for their children, they usually answer that they want their children to be happy. Why, then, is happiness rarely mentioned as a goal of education? This book explores what we might teach if we were to take happiness seriously as a goal of education. It asks, first, what it means to be happy and, second, how we can help children to understand it. It notes that we have to develop a capacity for unhappiness and a willingness to alleviate the suffering of others to be truly happy. Criticizing our current almost exclusive emphasis on economic well-being and...
When parents are asked what they want for their children, they usually answer that they want their children to be happy. Why, then, is happiness rarel...
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185,24 zł |
Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach
ISBN: 9780521851886 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can schools prepare students for real life? What should students learn in high school that is rarely addressed today? Critical Lessons recommends sharing highly controversial issues with high school students, including hot questions on war, gender, advertising, and religion."
How can schools prepare students for real life? What should students learn in high school that is rarely addressed today? Critical Lessons recommends ...
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155,42 zł |
Victory in Our Schools: We Can Give Our Children Excellent Public Education
ISBN: 9780553379747 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education is not just a matter for the politicians and professionals; it is a matter for all of us. For we are the public in public education. When we work together, we can do it...we can reach and teach these children. Meet John Stanford, the successfully unorthodox superintendent of Seattle public schools and former U.S. Army major general, whose gutsy, no-nonsense educational reforms and inspirational leadership have sparked a revolution in public education. Under his visionary guidance, test scores are improving, violence has declined to a ten-year low, student/teacher morale...
Education is not just a matter for the politicians and professionals; it is a matter for all of us. For we are the public in public education. When...
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65,52 zł |
My Graduation
ISBN: 9780595378098 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Conquering College: The Meaning of Success
ISBN: 9780595389865 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Making Most Summer School
ISBN: 9780631221524 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Summer schools serve multiple purposes for students, families, educators, and communities. The current demand for summer programs is driven by changes in American families and by calls for an educational system that is competitive globally and embodies higher academic standards. This monograph details a research synthesis that uses both meta-analytic and narrative procedures to integrate the results of 93 evaluations of summer schools. These and other findings are then examined for their implications for future research, public policy, and implementation of summer programs.
Summer schools serve multiple purposes for students, families, educators, and communities. The current demand for summer programs is driven by changes...
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Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong
ISBN: 9780671870737 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A hard-hitting and controversial book, WHY JOHNNY CAN'T TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG will not only open eyes but change minds. America today suffers from unprecedented rates of teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, suicide, and violence. Most of the programs intended to deal with these problems have failed because, according to William Kilpatrick, schools and parents have abandoned the moral teaching they once provided. In WHY JOHNNY CAN'T TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG, Kilpatrick shows how we can correct this problem by providing our youngsters with the stories, models, and inspirations they need in order to lead...
A hard-hitting and controversial book, WHY JOHNNY CAN'T TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG will not only open eyes but change minds. America today suffers from unp...
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104,61 zł |
Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society
ISBN: 9780674024205 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American republic will survive only if its citizens are educated--this was an article of faith of its founders. But seeking common civic ground in public schools has never been easy in a society where schoolchildren followed different religions, adhered to different cultural traditions, spoke many languages, and were identified as members of different "races." In this wise and enlightening book, filled with vivid characters and memorable incidents that make history but don't always make history books, David Tyack describes how each American generation grappled with the knotty... The American republic will survive only if its citizens are educated--this was an article of faith of its founders. But seeking common civic ground... |
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Teaching the New Basic Skills
ISBN: 9780684827391 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen years ago, a U.S. high school diploma was a ticket to the middle class. No longer. The skills required to earn a decent income have changed radically. The skills taught in most U.S. schools have not. Today the average 30-year-old person with a high school diploma earns $20,200, and the nation faces a future of growing inequality and division. Teaching the New Basic Skills shows how to avoid such a future. By telling stories of real people in real businesses and real schools, the book shows the skills students need to get decent jobs and how schools can change to teach those...
Fifteen years ago, a U.S. high school diploma was a ticket to the middle class. No longer. The skills required to earn a decent income have changed ra...
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192,19 zł |
Why Our Children Can't Read, and What We Can Do about it: A Scientific Revolution in Reading
ISBN: 9780684853567 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on 25 years of cutting-edge research, the author presents scientific support for a new method of teaching children how to read that provides a real solution to the national literacy crises.
Drawing on 25 years of cutting-edge research, the author presents scientific support for a new method of teaching children how to read that provides a...
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Teaching the Humanities
ISBN: 9780713001808 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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760,80 zł |
Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-2003
ISBN: 9780739109946 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bridging Minds Across the Pacific offers new insight into U.S. China relations by looking at the far-reaching dynamics of educational exchanges between these two countries in the last twenty-five years. Cheng Li and this volume's distinguished contributors focus on the important role played by U.S.-educated Chinese returnees in their home country's social science curriculum development, program-building, and research, and in public policy formation.
Bridging Minds Across the Pacific offers new insight into U.S. China relations by looking at the far-reaching dynamics of educational exchanges betwee...
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524,69 zł |
Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-2003
ISBN: 9780739109953 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bridging Minds Across the Pacific offers new insight into U.S.DChina relations by looking at the far-reaching dynamics of educational exchanges between these two countries in the last twenty-five years. Cheng Li and this volume's distinguished contributors focus on the important role played by U.S.-educated Chinese returnees in their home country's social science curriculum development, program-building, and research, and in public policy formation.
Bridging Minds Across the Pacific offers new insight into U.S.DChina relations by looking at the far-reaching dynamics of educational exchanges betwee...
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231,97 zł |
A Conflict of Paradigms: Social Epistemology and the Collapse of Literary Education
ISBN: 9780739117552 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this combined examination of the history, theories, and practices in the teaching of English, the author presents compelling insight and practical solutions to the crisis in English education and the conflict among critical theories, radical pedagogy, classroom practice, epistemics, the pressure to vocationalize the curriculum, and the corporatization of institutes of learning.
In this combined examination of the history, theories, and practices in the teaching of English, the author presents compelling insight and practical ...
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508,12 zł |
Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism: A Critical Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780742510401 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will address a number of urgent themes in education today that include multiculturalism, the politics of whiteness, the globalization of capital, neoliberalism, postmodernism, imperialism, and current debates in Marxist social theory. The above themes will be linked to critical educational praxis, particularly to teaching activities within urban schools. Finally, the book will develop the basis for a wider political project directed at resisting and transforming economic exploitation, cultural homogenization, political repression, and gender inequality.
This book will address a number of urgent themes in education today that include multiculturalism, the politics of whiteness, the globalization of cap...
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Affirmative Development: Cultivating Academic Ability
ISBN: 9780742516588 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Affirmative Development makes the case theoretically for deliberate intervention to develop academic ability for students not naturally disposed to develop such ability by the conditions under which they live. The book includes discussions of intellective competence and intellective character as products of the development of academic ability and reviews of the research evidence for the feasibility and morality of such action.
Affirmative Development makes the case theoretically for deliberate intervention to develop academic ability for students not naturally disposed to de...
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590,96 zł |
Affirmative Development: Cultivating Academic Ability
ISBN: 9780742516595 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Affirmative Development makes the case theoretically for deliberate intervention to develop academic ability for students not naturally disposed to develop such ability by the conditions under which they live. The book includes discussions of intellective competence and intellective character as products of the development of academic ability and reviews of the research evidence for the feasibility and morality of such action.
Affirmative Development makes the case theoretically for deliberate intervention to develop academic ability for students not naturally disposed to de...
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220,92 zł |