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Curriculum Policy : A Reader
ISBN: 9780080408187 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paperback. Throughout the last decade there has been an unprecedented amount of activity in curriculum policy, and recent years have seen the acceleration of that activity following the Education Reform Act of 1988. This reader is a selection of work which addresses some of the more complex ideas and debates surrounding curriculum policy. The book is divided into three parts, the first section describes the background to recent curriculum policy, the second section looks at a variety of ways of constructing the curriculum, all of which have an impact on policy, while the third section offers...
Paperback. Throughout the last decade there has been an unprecedented amount of activity in curriculum policy, and recent years have seen the accelera...
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301,17 zł |
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Strong Arts, Strong Schools : The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling
ISBN: 9780195100891 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when Americans are increasingly concerned with finding jobs and economic stability, supporting families, and surviving in the global economy, many consider the arts to be a luxury, a frivolous distraction which entices students away from real learning. In Strong Arts, Strong Schools, Charles Fowler argues that, far from a luxury, the arts are a vitally important part of our society and our schools.
Speaking directly to educators, policy makers, and parents alike, Fowler presents a compelling defense of the arts and their importance in our lives. The arts illuminate "life in all... At a time when Americans are increasingly concerned with finding jobs and economic stability, supporting families, and surviving in the global economy...
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350,24 zł |
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Moving from What to What If?: Teaching Critical Thinking with Authentic Inquiry and Assessments
ISBN: 9781138998612 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across the content areas, rather than rely solely on rote memorization and standardized testing to measure academic success. Author John Barell shares vignettes from effective middle and high school teachers around the country, analyzes what works and what doesn't when encouraging students to dig deeper, and offers practical strategies that you can try in your own classroom. Topics include:
This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across t... |
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128,19 zł |
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Moving from What to What If?: Teaching Critical Thinking with Authentic Inquiry and Assessments
ISBN: 9781138998605 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across the content areas, rather than rely solely on rote memorization and standardized testing to measure academic success. Author John Barell shares vignettes from effective middle and high school teachers around the country, analyzes what works and what doesn t when encouraging students to dig deeper, and offers practical strategies that you can try in your own classroom. Topics include:
This practical book outlines how you can challenge students to grapple with complex problems and engage more meaningfully with information across t... |
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418,14 zł |
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Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom
ISBN: 9781138945265 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom presents a systems-based approach to examining creativity in education that aims to make participating in invention and innovation accessible to all students. Moving beyond the gifted-versus-ungifted debate present in many of today s classrooms, the book s inclusive framework situates creativity as a participatory and socially distributed process. The core principle of the book is that "individuals "are not creative, "ideas" are creative, and that there are multiple ways for a variety of individuals to...
Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom presents a systems-based approach to examining creativity in educati...
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183,95 zł |
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Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom
ISBN: 9781138945241 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom presents a systems-based approach to examining creativity in education that aims to make participating in invention and innovation accessible to all students. Moving beyond the gifted-versus-ungifted debate present in many of today s classrooms, the book s inclusive framework situates creativity as a participatory and socially distributed process. The core principle of the book is that "individuals "are not creative, "ideas" are creative, and that there are multiple ways for a variety of individuals to...
Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom presents a systems-based approach to examining creativity in educati...
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697,00 zł |
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The International Handbook of Consultation in Educational Settings
ISBN: 9781138013483 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consultation has long been a topic of key importance in U.S. School Psychology and has recently gained more attention in Educational Psychology worldwide. This handbook coheres leading research on the topic from all over the world, providing researchers and students, a foundationally global perspective on consulation in educational settings. In twenty-three chapters from leading experts, on the theory and practice of consultation. The increasing diversity of the U.S. population has brought to the foreground the need to emphasize and promote multicultural competence in training,... Consultation has long been a topic of key importance in U.S. School Psychology and has recently gained more attention in Educational Psychology wor... |
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613,37 zł |
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The International Handbook of Consultation in Educational Settings
ISBN: 9781138013476 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consultation has long been a topic of key importance in U.S. School Psychology and has recently gained more attention in Educational Psychology worldwide. This handbook coheres leading research on the topic from all over the world, providing researchers and students, a foundationally global perspective on consulation in educational settings. In twenty-three chapters from leading experts, on the theory and practice of consultation. The increasing diversity of the U.S. population has brought to the foreground the need to emphasize and promote multicultural competence in training,... Consultation has long been a topic of key importance in U.S. School Psychology and has recently gained more attention in Educational Psychology wor... |
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1338,25 zł |
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Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9780226021232 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Applebee's central point, the need to teach 'knowledge in context, ' is absolutely crucial for the hopes of any reformed curriculum. His experience and knowledge give his voice an authority that makes many of the current proposals on both the left and right seem shallow by comparison."--Gerald Graff, University of Chicago "Applebee's central point, the need to teach 'knowledge in context, ' is absolutely crucial for the hopes of any reformed curriculum. His experienc... |
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73,95 zł |
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Teachers Matter : The Trouble with Leaving Political Education to the Coaches
ISBN: 9780275969073 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Caliendo examines the results of a comprehensive study of how students learn about American Government. The working premise is that while many political attitudes formed during adolescent socialization are open to change throughout one's life, latent attitudes that are not salient and, thus, are not challenged with new information provided by media or other communications are more likely to persist into adulthood. He focuses on diffuse support for the United States Supreme Court and argues that how students are taught about the Court in high school is likely to have a particularly lasting... Caliendo examines the results of a comprehensive study of how students learn about American Government. The working premise is that while many poli... |
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582,77 zł |
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Environmental Education in the 21st Century : Theory, Practice, Progress and Promise
ISBN: 9780415131964 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental education is a field characterised by a paradox. Few would doubt the urgency and importance of learning to live in sustainable ways, but environmental education holds nowhere near the priority position in formal schooling around the world that this would suggest. This text sets out to find out why this is so. It is divided into six parts:
Part 1 is a concise history of the development of environmental education from an international perspective; Part 2 is an overview of the 'global agenda', or subject knowledge of environmental education; Part 3 introduces... Environmental education is a field characterised by a paradox. Few would doubt the urgency and importance of learning to live in sustainable ways, but...
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1059,45 zł |
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Inside the Music Business
ISBN: 9780415136600 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An explanation of types of jobs, and organizations within the rock and pop music business by the former publicist of the Beatles and music journalist and broadcaster. The jobs are related to each other so that a full picture of the music industry is developed on both the creative and administrative side - useful for those following music related courses who wish to work in the industry or perform in it. Ways into the industry are indicated with a full directory listing of useful contact names and addresses.
An explanation of types of jobs, and organizations within the rock and pop music business by the former publicist of the Beatles and music journalist ...
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183,95 zł |
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A Curriculum for the Pre-School Child
ISBN: 9780415139762 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1986, this book has been enormously influential in the training and professional development of early years workers. This new edition has been fully revised to take account of changes in the National Curriculum, the publication of the government's 'desirable outcomes' statement for the under-fives, and the introduction of NVQ's in child care and education. The new edition also includes sections on:
* the effects of developmental psychology on the early years curriculum * working with two-year-olds on self-awareness and social skills * developing communication,... First published in 1986, this book has been enormously influential in the training and professional development of early years workers. This new editi...
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217,41 zł |
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The Primary Curriculum : Learning from International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415158329 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is concerned with the relationships and tensions in education between children's needs and societies' demands, questions which primary teachers everywhere face on a daily basis, such as:
* how does society's view of children and childhood affect teaching and learning? * how do the dictates of the education system, including a national curriculum, shape teaching practice? * how do the conventions of classroom practice fit with teachers' own beliefs and values? The first part of the book offers a basic framework for thinking about primary curricula from the... This book is concerned with the relationships and tensions in education between children's needs and societies' demands, questions which primary teach...
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273,17 zł |
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On the Subject of Drama
ISBN: 9780415168823 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although much has been written on how the drama elements of the English curriculum might be taught in schools, there is less guidance available for teachers who regard drama not as an adjunct of English but as an arts subject in its own right.
In this volume, David Hornbrook and a team of experienced drama specialists show how the subject of drama may be defined and taught. Drawing on literature, visual art, music and dance as well as the rich and varied traditions of drama itself, they map out an eclectic subject curriculum for students of all ages. Opening up the field in new and... Although much has been written on how the drama elements of the English curriculum might be taught in schools, there is less guidance available for te...
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892,16 zł |
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On the Subject of Drama
ISBN: 9780415168830 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although much has been written on how the drama elements of the English curriculum might be taught in schools, there is less guidance available for teachers who regard drama not as an adjunct of English but as an arts subject in its own right.
In this volume, David Hornbrook and a team of experienced drama specialists show how the subject of drama may be defined and taught. Drawing on literature, visual art, music and dance as well as the rich and varied traditions of drama itself, they map out an eclectic subject curriculum for students of all ages. Opening up the field in new and... Although much has been written on how the drama elements of the English curriculum might be taught in schools, there is less guidance available for te...
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239,72 zł |
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Education and Dramatic Art
ISBN: 9780415168847 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To this day, Education and Dramatic Art remains the only fully worked critique of drama education in schools. Provocative and iconoclastic, this new edition brings the argument up-to-date and locates the author's proposals for a curriculum based on the making, performing and appraisal of dramas securely in the evolving culture of schools.
The first section of the book traces the origins and fortunes of drama in schools in the context of changing political times and argues that by neglecting the customs and practices of the theatre, drama-in-education has often kept from the... To this day, Education and Dramatic Art remains the only fully worked critique of drama education in schools. Provocative and iconoclastic, t...
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892,16 zł |
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Education and Dramatic Art
ISBN: 9780415168854 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To this day, Education and Dramatic Art remains the only fully worked critique of drama education in schools. Provocative and iconoclastic, this new edition brings the argument up-to-date and locates the author's proposals for a curriculum based on the making, performing and appraisal of dramas securely in the evolving culture of schools.
The first section of the book traces the origins and fortunes of drama in schools in the context of changing political times and argues that by neglecting the customs and practices of the theatre, drama-in-education has often kept from the... To this day, Education and Dramatic Art remains the only fully worked critique of drama education in schools. Provocative and iconoclastic, t...
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317,78 zł |
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Thinking Through the Curriculum
ISBN: 9780415172028 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tackles the contentious issue of whether and how thinking should be taught in schools. It explores how best to help children become effective thinkers and learners. The book also examines whether there is one set of underlying cognitive skills and strategies which can be applied across all the curriculum subjects and beyond. Its main thrust, however, is a detailed examination of approaches to developing cognitive skills which are specific to the National Curriculum.
The book provides chapters from both generalists and subject specialists to illustrate how teachers in different... This book tackles the contentious issue of whether and how thinking should be taught in schools. It explores how best to help children become effectiv...
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217,41 zł |
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Social Literacy, Citizenship Education and the National Curriculum
ISBN: 9780415227940 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely book looks at social literacy within the revised National Curriculum which places an obligation on schools and teachers to promote social cohesion, community involvement and a sense of social responsibility among young people.
Social Literacy, Citizenship Education and the National Curriculum is an introduction to the social purposes and aims contained in the revised National Curriculum. It provides the theory behind the movement for social literacy as well as providing information for teachers, lecturers and policy makers on putting the government's ideas into... This timely book looks at social literacy within the revised National Curriculum which places an obligation on schools and teachers to promote social ...
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697,00 zł |