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Freedom to Fail: How do I foster risk-taking and innovation in my classroom?
ISBN: 9781416620389 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Freedom to Fail, veteran educator Andrew K. Miller explains the many benefits of intentionally designing opportunities for students to "fail forward" in the classroom. He provides a raft of strategies for ensuring that students experience small, constructive failures as a means to greater achievement, and offers practical suggestions for ensuring that constructive failure doesn't detrimentally affect students' summative assessments. He also describes how teachers, too, can benefit from failure. Establishing a culture that embraces the freedom to fail helps students to adopt a growth...
In Freedom to Fail, veteran educator Andrew K. Miller explains the many benefits of intentionally designing opportunities for students to "fail forwar...
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Creating Instructional Capacity: A Framework for Creating Academic Press
ISBN: 9781483374567 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, together with Creating Productive Cultures in Schools, cover the two foundational anchors that ground effective school leadership, and provide the full encyclopedia of leadership for school improvement.
This book, together with Creating Productive Cultures in Schools, cover the two foundational anchors that ground effective school leadership, and prov...
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151,78 |
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Big Questions in Creativity 2015: A Collection of First Works, Volume 3
ISBN: 9780984979547 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Because it demands reimagining, reconsideration, and redefinition, change is an essential part of creativity. And in Big Questions in Creativity 2015, the field's newest thinkers tackle some of its most intriguing questions in the service of promoting change in individuals, organizations, and our sociocultural institutions. As professional facilitators, artists, educators, and change leaders, these authors work to engender creativity in others. The questions they ask-and the answers they find-are key to understanding what creativity is now, and what it may well be in the future.
Because it demands reimagining, reconsideration, and redefinition, change is an essential part of creativity. And in Big Questions in Creativity 2015,...
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"it's Being Done": Academic Success in Unexpected Schools
ISBN: 9781891792403 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This straightforward and inspiring book takes readers into schools where educators believe and prove that all children, even those considered hard-to-teach, can learn to high standards.
Their teachers and principals refuse to write them off and instead show how thoughtful instruction, high expectations, stubborn commitment, and careful consideration of each child s needs can result in remarkable improvements in student achievement." This straightforward and inspiring book takes readers into schools where educators believe and prove that all children, even those considered hard-to-...
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Comparative Analysis on Universal Primary Education Policy and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9789463000239 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Achieving Universal Primary Education (UPE) has received considerable attention since the early 1950s. The concept of universal education is, however, not well defined and is used to mean many different things to different people. This book contains a five-year research work conducted by a group of African and Japanese researchers who have developed an equal partnership and network to review the expansion of primary education, some policies prompting the free primary education intervention, and the challenges of implementation based on the case study of two districts in four countries,...
Achieving Universal Primary Education (UPE) has received considerable attention since the early 1950s. The concept of universal education is, however,...
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Comparative Analysis on Universal Primary Education Policy and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9789463000246 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Achieving Universal Primary Education (UPE) has received considerable attention since the early 1950s. The concept of universal education is, however, not well defined and is used to mean many different things to different people. This book contains a five-year research work conducted by a group of African and Japanese researchers who have developed an equal partnership and network to review the expansion of primary education, some policies prompting the free primary education intervention, and the challenges of implementation based on the case study of two districts in four countries,...
Achieving Universal Primary Education (UPE) has received considerable attention since the early 1950s. The concept of universal education is, however,...
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Policy, Geophilosophy and Education
ISBN: 9789463001403 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education policy is premised on its instrumentalist approach. This instrumentalism is based on narrow assumptions concerning people (the subject), decision-making (power), problem-solving (science and methodology), and knowledge (epistemology). Policy, Geophilosophy, Education reconceptualises the object, and hence, the objectives, of education policy. Specifically, the book illustrates how education policy positions and constitutes objects and subjects through emergent policy arrangements that simultaneously influence how policy is sensed, embodied, and enacted. The book examines the...
Education policy is premised on its instrumentalist approach. This instrumentalism is based on narrow assumptions concerning people (the subject), dec...
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186,97 |
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Policy, Geophilosophy and Education
ISBN: 9789463001410 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education policy is premised on its instrumentalist approach. This instrumentalism is based on narrow assumptions concerning people (the subject), decision-making (power), problem-solving (science and methodology), and knowledge (epistemology). Policy, Geophilosophy, Education reconceptualises the object, and hence, the objectives, of education policy. Specifically, the book illustrates how education policy positions and constitutes objects and subjects through emergent policy arrangements that simultaneously influence how policy is sensed, embodied, and enacted. The book examines the...
Education policy is premised on its instrumentalist approach. This instrumentalism is based on narrow assumptions concerning people (the subject), dec...
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441,93 |
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Proof, Policy, and Practice: Understanding the Role of Evidence in Improving Education
ISBN: 9781579227500 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we -fix- our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?
These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy makers, practitioners, and educational researchers. While they strive to improve society, there are frequently gulfs of mutual incomprehension among them. Academics, longing for more influence, may wrongly fault irrationality, ideology, or ignorance for the failure of research to inform policy and practice more powerfully. Policy makers and practitioners may doubt that academics can deliver ideas that will reliably yield desirable... How can we -fix- our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?
These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy m... |
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Proof, Policy, and Practice: Understanding the Role of Evidence in Improving Education
ISBN: 9781579227517 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we -fix- our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?
These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy makers, practitioners, and educational researchers. While they strive to improve society, there are frequently gulfs of mutual incomprehension among them. Academics, longing for more influence, may wrongly fault irrationality, ideology, or ignorance for the failure of research to inform policy and practice more powerfully. Policy makers and practitioners may doubt that academics can deliver ideas that will reliably yield desirable... How can we -fix- our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?
These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy m... |
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156,68 |
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Education for Upward Mobility
ISBN: 9781475819755 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks answers to a fundamental question, perhaps one of the most important questions in America today: How can we help children born into poverty transcend their disadvantages and enter the middle class as adults? And in particular, what role can our schools play? There s little doubt that education and opportunity are tightly joined in the twenty-first-century economy. Almost every week brings a new study demonstrating that highly skilled workers are being rewarded with stronger pay and excellent working conditions, while Americans with few skills are struggling mightily. Expanding...
This book seeks answers to a fundamental question, perhaps one of the most important questions in America today: How can we help children born into po...
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Education for Upward Mobility
ISBN: 9781475819762 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks answers to a fundamental question, perhaps one of the most important questions in America today: How can we help children born into poverty transcend their disadvantages and enter the middle class as adults? And in particular, what role can our schools play? There's little doubt that education and opportunity are tightly joined in the twenty-first-century economy. Almost every week brings a new study demonstrating that highly skilled workers are being rewarded with stronger pay and excellent working conditions, while Americans with few skills are struggling mightily. Expanding...
This book seeks answers to a fundamental question, perhaps one of the most important questions in America today: How can we help children born into po...
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146,94 |
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Handbook of Research on Advancing Critical Thinking in Higher Education
ISBN: 9781466684119 / Angielski / Twarda / 594 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book explores the effective methods and tools being used to integrate the development of critical thinking skills in both undergraduate and graduate studies"--
"This book explores the effective methods and tools being used to integrate the development of critical thinking skills in both undergraduate and grad...
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Restore the Respect: How to Mediate School Conflicts and Keep Students Learning
ISBN: 9781598579420 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unresolved conflicts in schools build barriers to learning, including low motivation, lack of focus, and disruptive behaviors that remove students from the classroom. When teacher-student conflicts occur, the negative effects can be long-lasting without a safe and structured way to repair the relationship. This reader-friendly guidebook has a concrete, evidence-based solution: an easy and effective 50-minute mediation technique for teachers and students in Grades K-12. School psychologist Ondine Gross guides you through the whole process of starting a teacher-student mediation... Unresolved conflicts in schools build barriers to learning, including low motivation, lack of focus, and disruptive behaviors that remove students ... |
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Higher Education Reform: Looking Back - Looking Forward
ISBN: 9783631662755 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The central focus of this book is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After decades of far-reaching reform, higher education around the world has profoundly changed and now has to face the challenges of the present. This volume takes a close look at these changes, the drivers of change, their effects and possible future scenarios. In their contributions the authors discuss a variety of basic concepts: learning and teaching in higher education; financing and quality assurance; governance change; massification vs. equity...
The central focus of this book is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After de...
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Transformative Teacher Research
ISBN: 9789463002219 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this book is to bring teacher research to the centre of attention in educational research. Knowledge generated by researching teachers and teacher researchers - often in collaboration with university researchers - identifying new and innovative research methodologies and theories, feeds directly back into theorising practice and the practice of theory that is necessary to improve student learning. This edited volume is unique in that it details diverse teacher research practices and partnerships across a diversity of cultural settings (from Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, Cyprus,...
The aim of this book is to bring teacher research to the centre of attention in educational research. Knowledge generated by researching teachers and ...
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Transformative Teacher Research
ISBN: 9789463002226 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this book is to bring teacher research to the centre of attention in educational research. Knowledge generated by researching teachers and teacher researchers - often in collaboration with university researchers - identifying new and innovative research methodologies and theories, feeds directly back into theorising practice and the practice of theory that is necessary to improve student learning. This edited volume is unique in that it details diverse teacher research practices and partnerships across a diversity of cultural settings (from Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, Cyprus,...
The aim of this book is to bring teacher research to the centre of attention in educational research. Knowledge generated by researching teachers and ...
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Education and Society in Comparative Context
ISBN: 9789463003711 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What was the interrelationship between education and society during the twentieth century in the United States and India? What is the essence of the historical development of educational policies and social systems in these two countries? What philosophical views and developmental courses underlie their outdoor-oriented education? What are their aims of outdoor-oriented education? What procedures are connected with their outdoor-oriented education? These questions are examined in this unique volume. This book is divided into three parts. The first part creates a context for the comparison of...
What was the interrelationship between education and society during the twentieth century in the United States and India? What is the essence of the h...
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Education and Society in Comparative Context
ISBN: 9789463003728 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What was the interrelationship between education and society during the twentieth century in the United States and India? What is the essence of the historical development of educational policies and social systems in these two countries? What philosophical views and developmental courses underlie their outdoor-oriented education? What are their aims of outdoor-oriented education? What procedures are connected with their outdoor-oriented education? These questions are examined in this unique volume. This book is divided into three parts. The first part creates a context for the comparison of...
What was the interrelationship between education and society during the twentieth century in the United States and India? What is the essence of the h...
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441,93 |
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The Handbook of Lunchtime Supervision
ISBN: 9781138137387 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for the first edition: 'How well the author understands her subject... There are good clear case studies, training activities, clear explanations. Properly used and applied, her advice could have a more calming effect on a school than the most elaborate disciplinary policy.' - The Times Educational Supplement Everything you need to know about supervising primary pupils during the lunchtime break is covered in this handbook. This new edition of A Handbook of Lunchtime Supervision has been fully updated to incorporate... Praise for the first edition: 'How well the author understands her subject... There are good clear case studies, training... |
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710,17 |