Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts
ISBN: 9780742530720 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are living in a time of resurgent global conflicts and imperialistic tensions--a time in which many children are being left behind by school systems that appear more concerned with developing accountability schemes and standardized models of testing than with defending the right of every child to have access to a good education. The efforts of countless teachers, activists, and families working and living in poor areas around the world are labeled as failures, entirely discredited on the basis of their expendability in relation to capital gains, or simply ignored. In response to these...
We are living in a time of resurgent global conflicts and imperialistic tensions--a time in which many children are being left behind by school system...
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Inside American Education
ISBN: 9780743254083 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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109,24 zł |
Achieving Quality Learning in Higher Education
ISBN: 9780749413255 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study argues that there is little hope of maintaining quality in higher and further education unless those in academia share common goals. It demonstrates how results can be achieved if the principles of high quality learning are applied along with total quality management-type strategies. The second half of the book contains case studies which offer commentary on the thesis of the text and examples of practice designed to encourage quality assurance.
This study argues that there is little hope of maintaining quality in higher and further education unless those in academia share common goals. It dem...
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315,36 zł |
Education for Values: Morals, Ethics and Citizenship in Contemporary Teaching
ISBN: 9780749439446 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Values in education - how they are taught, the ethics of teaching itself, plus their role in the education of educators - is an area of lively and passionate debate. This book provides an essential resource of ideas, issues and current practice for all those with an interest in this area of education.
Presenting a range of critical writing, this book deals with issues relating to education in values; approaches to teaching values; teacher education and values; research for education in values; and international comparative studies. Highly regarded when it was first published in hardback... Values in education - how they are taught, the ethics of teaching itself, plus their role in the education of educators - is an area of lively and pas...
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247,02 zł |
Building an Ethical School: A Practical Response to the Moral Crisis in Schools
ISBN: 9780750700856 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides many practical ways to integrate ethical learning within existing curricula and support structures of the school. The book also offers practical strategies for parental involvement and provides a step-by-step planning and implementation process.
Provides many practical ways to integrate ethical learning within existing curricula and support structures of the school. The book also offers practi...
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257,53 zł |
Outcomes, Learning and the Curriculum: Implications for Nvqs, Gnvqs and Other Qualifications
ISBN: 9780750702898 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an account of the curricular consequences of the outcomes approach to education (NVQs GNVQs etc). It contains contributions from leading experts in the field and, as such, is likely to become the core text in this area. An initial discussion of the main themes leads the reader into a discussion of key ideas and the theory behind the Outcomes approach covering, in addition, issues concerning standards and quality. Areas of the curriculum covered include assessment, modularization, flexible learning and work-based learning, higher level competences and the autonomous...
This book provides an account of the curricular consequences of the outcomes approach to education (NVQs GNVQs etc). It contains contributions from le...
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225,99 zł |
School To Work: Research On Programs In The United States
ISBN: 9780750704281 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth investigation into career-related programmes in American secondary schools and two-year (further education) colleges is given in this book. In addition to reviewing evidence on the effectiveness of vocational coursework, the authors analyse programmes involving students who study and work simultaneously, including co-operative education, youth apprenticeship and school-based enterprise. the preparation necessary not only for this transition but for changes encountered when jobs end abruptly, and issues covered include combining school-based and work-based learning and teaching and...
An in-depth investigation into career-related programmes in American secondary schools and two-year (further education) colleges is given in this book...
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262,78 zł |
School to Work: Research on Programs in the United States
ISBN: 9780750704298 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines career-related programmes in American secondary schools and two- year further education colleges. As well as reviewing evidence on the effectiveness of vocational coursework, this text analyses programmes involving students who study and work simultaneously, as in youth apprenticeships.
Examines career-related programmes in American secondary schools and two- year further education colleges. As well as reviewing evidence on the effect...
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131,37 zł |
Values in Education
ISBN: 9780750705097 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An investigation into how schools can influence the developing values of young people is given in this book. The authors first look, from the perspective of educationalists and policy makers, at values within contemporary education; in particular, moral, spiritual, democratic and environmental values together with arts and health education. Secondly, they focus on the values of pupils and schools, examining school aims and mission statements, the formal curriculum, school ethos and assessment of children's development.
An investigation into how schools can influence the developing values of young people is given in this book. The authors first look, from the perspect...
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946,23 zł |
Equity in the Classroom : Towards Effective Pedagogy for Girls and Boys
ISBN: 9780750705417 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concerned with pedagogy and the learning achievement of both girls and boys, this book examines international trends in subject performance throughout schooling and looks critically at a range of interventions in different
Concerned with pedagogy and the learning achievement of both girls and boys, this book examines international trends in subject performance throughout...
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278,55 zł |
Education for Leadership and Social Responsibility
ISBN: 9780750706087 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The editors of this text contend that there is a lack of leadership in existence for deciding global and national problems. Colleges and universities are generally expected to produce national, political, scientific and corporate leaders. Most institutions maintain that their graduates are leaders, yet few institutions explicitly address the isssue of leadership and social responsibility in a systematic and comprehensive way. Often academic approaches consist of unfocused courses of leadership, looking at leadership styles and managerial decision-making within a business context. Basing their...
The editors of this text contend that there is a lack of leadership in existence for deciding global and national problems. Colleges and universities ...
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168,17 zł |
No Quick Fixes: Perspectives on Schools in Difficulty
ISBN: 9780750706742 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The challenge of school improvement for failing schools is a complex and much debated issue. This text attempts to help those working in, or working with, failing schools and aims to contradict the notion that there are no quick fixes for schools in difficulty.
The challenge of school improvement for failing schools is a complex and much debated issue. This text attempts to help those working in, or working w...
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115,59 zł |
Developing Children's Behaviour in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Students
ISBN: 9780750708203 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors of this text suggest that teachers need to be able to cope with pupil behaviour before thay can even begin to deliver the National Curriculum. Often classes contain both statemented children (those officially recognize as having behavioural problems) and unstatemented but difficult children. Teachers have few strategies to deal with the kind of behaviour that these children present as little, if any, of their training is allotted to classroom and child management.
The authors of this text suggest that teachers need to be able to cope with pupil behaviour before thay can even begin to deliver the National Curricu...
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946,23 zł |
Reflecting on Literacy in Education
ISBN: 9780750708319 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literacy has become central to debates on policy and practice in education in the UK and other English speaking countries. This text introduces teachers to the ways in which literacy, and its place in education, is being re-thought in the late 1990s, from many different perspectives, including those of psychology, sociology, linguistics, politics and history. The book introduces ideas, and relates practical and policy concerns to an understanding of theoretical issues. Concise and accessible, it should connect aspects of the experience of professionals and students alike, and provide...
Literacy has become central to debates on policy and practice in education in the UK and other English speaking countries. This text introduces teache...
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257,53 zł |
Reflecting on Literacy in Education
ISBN: 9780750708326 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literacy has become central to debates on policy and practice in education in the UK and other English speaking countries. This text introduces teachers to the ways in which literacy, and its place in education, is being re-thought in the late 1990s, from many different perspectives, including those of psychology, sociology, linguistics, politics and history. The book introduces ideas, and relates practical and policy concerns to an understanding of theoretical issues. Concise and accessible, it should connect aspects of the experience of professionals and students alike, and provide...
Literacy has become central to debates on policy and practice in education in the UK and other English speaking countries. This text introduces teache...
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946,23 zł |
Reconceptualizing Teaching Practice : Developing Competence Through Self-Study
ISBN: 9780750708685 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1990s there has been increased interest in research on various aspects of teacher education, ranging from the preparation of teachers to continuing professional development. The increase of interest in how teachers become competent in very complex social settings is a result of a general recognition by researchers and policy makers alike that teachers are the key to any serious efforts at educational reform. This book addresses a variety of issues surrounding the field of inquiry into teaching practice that has become known as self-study, equivalent in many ways to the action...
During the 1990s there has been increased interest in research on various aspects of teacher education, ranging from the preparation of teachers to co...
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299,59 zł |
In Principle, in Practice: Museums as Learning Institutions
ISBN: 9780759109773 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice aims to promote effective programs and exhibitions, identify promising approaches for future research, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining connections between research and practice in the museum community.
The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these ...
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The Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Possibilities
ISBN: 9780761811640 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Liberal Arts in Higher Education launches an institutional effort to establish a shared definition and to clarify the contours of the liberal arts and liberal education by extending centuries-old dialogue to the coeducational, Christian campus of Azusa Pacific University.
The Liberal Arts in Higher Education launches an institutional effort to establish a shared definition and to clarify the contours of the liberal arts...
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380,16 zł |
Qge=a: Quality Generic Education is the Answer
ISBN: 9780761837718 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Win Straube, the founder and managing trustee of The Straube Foundation, presents a new form of educational system, Quality Generic Education or "QGE," for the purpose of obtaining the best education at the lowest possible cost, universally acceptable and interchangeable. The use of interactive educational materials makes it possible to bring the highest quality educational presentation from the world's best minds to more people. Thus, the classroom can come to anyone at any place where he or she can be in front of a television or computer, possibly accompanied by an educational...
Win Straube, the founder and managing trustee of The Straube Foundation, presents a new form of educational system, Quality Generic Education or "QGE,...
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404,68 zł |
An Integrated Approach to Character Education
ISBN: 9780761904380 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shows how to promote character growth and discernment of right from wrong amongst schoolchildren of all age groups."
Shows how to promote character growth and discernment of right from wrong amongst schoolchildren of all age groups."
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192,81 zł |