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Practice Problems for Creative Problem Solving: Grades 3-8
ISBN: 9781882664641 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book features 50 brief situations that present interesting opportunities and open-ended challenges to engage students in Creative Problem Solving. These brief, practical, everyday situations provide motivating starting points for practicing CPS with groups of many sizes and ages. Grades 3-10
"This book features 50 brief situations that present interesting opportunities and open-ended challenges to engage students in Creative Problem Solvin...
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Twenty-first Century Schools : Knowledge, Networks and New Economies
ISBN: 9789077874165 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SCHOOLS
Knowledge, Networks and New Economies by Gerard Macdonald, Centre for Research in Innovation Management, University of Brighton, UK and David Hursh, Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester, USA Contemporary school systems are not working well. Educational solutions abound, but the problems remain. This is because our school systems are not primarily concerned with education. Their driving forces are political and economic. Any systemic solution to schoolings current difficulties will start with politics; not, in any... TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SCHOOLS
Knowledge, Networks and New Economies by Gerard Macdonald, Centre for Research in Innovation Management, Uni... |
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Trying to Teach in a Season of Great Untruth
ISBN: 9789077874622 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays by Canadian scholar David Geoffrey Smith address contemporary issues in teaching, curriculum and pedagogy through tensions arising from the processes of globalization and empire. Of particular significance are the prejudices of Homo Oeconomicus or Economic Man (sic) that reduce the most profound of human relations, like those between the young and their elders, to an evermore constraining grammar of profit and loss. The predations of empire in turn divide the world into a site of war between friends and enemies, winners and losers. The times are dangerous, and educators need to...
These essays by Canadian scholar David Geoffrey Smith address contemporary issues in teaching, curriculum and pedagogy through tensions arising from t...
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Multiple Citizenship as a Challenge to European Nation-States
ISBN: 9789077874868 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conventional thinking maintains that people can belong to only one society and can be loyal to only one nation-state. In a world with rising rates of trans-national migration, however, the possibility of participation, belonging, and loyalty to more than one state is ever more evident. This has led to a rethinking of the notion of nation-based citizenship and increased tolerance toward holding citizenship in more than one country. In practice, over half of the worlds nation-states currently recognize some form of dual citizenship or dual nationality. This book focuses on clarifying and...
Conventional thinking maintains that people can belong to only one society and can be loyal to only one nation-state. In a world with rising rates of ...
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Democratic Practices as Learning Opportunities
ISBN: 9789087901295 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education and learning for democracy take place in a wide variety of contexts worldwide. Traditionally, children are prepared to become responsible citizens in families and schools. In non-formal settings and in their lived experience, adults engage in democratic practices. Some people are active members of political parties or trade unions; others take responsibilities in associations of civil society. Still others engage in participatory practices in labor organizations.
New practices and understandings of learning for democracy are often attempts to deal with transformations taking place... Education and learning for democracy take place in a wide variety of contexts worldwide. Traditionally, children are prepared to become responsible ci...
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Ethics in the Classroom: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781578867684 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The case studies in this book pinpoint and describe an array of ethically complex issues that teacher P-12 teachers deal with on a daily basis in their classrooms. Ethics in the Classroom presents these issues through the concepts of historicallly validated approaches to ethical decision-making.
The case studies in this book pinpoint and describe an array of ethically complex issues that teacher P-12 teachers deal with on a daily basis in thei...
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The Impact of Culture on Organizational Decision Making: Theory and Practice in Higher Education
ISBN: 9781579222871 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colleges and universities are currently undergoing the most significant challenges they have faced since World War II. Rising costs, increased competition from for-profit providers, the impact of technology, and the changing desires and needs of consumers have combined to create a dynamic tension for those who work in, and study, postsecondary education. What worked yesterday is unlikely to work tomorrow. The status quo or bromides such as -stay the course- are insufficient responses in a market that demands creativity and innovation if an organization does not simply wish to survive, but...
Colleges and universities are currently undergoing the most significant challenges they have faced since World War II. Rising costs, increased competi...
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Education for Innovation : Implications for India, China and America
ISBN: 9789087900731 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Education for Innovation: Implications for India, China and America, distinguished thought leaders explore cutting-edge questions such as: Can inventiveness and ingenuity be taught and nurtured in schools and colleges? What are the most effective educational strategies to promote these abilities? How are vibrant economies driven by innovation? What is the relationship between education for innovation and national competitiveness or economic development?
Focusing on the Worlds three most populous countries and largest economies, this book provides a forum for international experts to... In Education for Innovation: Implications for India, China and America, distinguished thought leaders explore cutting-edge questions such as: Can inve...
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Ethical Dilemmas in Education: Standing Up for Honesty and Integrity
ISBN: 9781578867820 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethical Dilemmas in Education addresses the dilemmas teachers face every day throughout all aspects of education in a comprehensive manner. The book outlines standards of professionalism and presents information teachers can use for the challenges teachers face. With the policies of today's educational system, teachers need to stand up for honesty and integrity, providing role models for students in their future careers. This book guides teachers towards developing ethical habits and a professional demeanor.
Ethical Dilemmas in Education addresses the dilemmas teachers face every day throughout all aspects of education in a comprehensive manner. The book o...
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Ethical Dilemmas in Education: Standing Up for Honesty and Integrity
ISBN: 9781578867837 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethical Dilemmas in Education addresses the dilemmas teachers face every day throughout all aspects of education in a comprehensive manner. The book outlines standards of professionalism and presents information teachers can use for the challenges teachers face. With the policies of today's educational system, teachers need to stand up for honesty and integrity, providing role models for students in their future careers. This book guides teachers towards developing ethical habits and a professional demeanor.
Ethical Dilemmas in Education addresses the dilemmas teachers face every day throughout all aspects of education in a comprehensive manner. The book o...
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Global Governance and Public Accountability
ISBN: 9781405126786 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together prominent scholars from the fields of politics and international relations in order to explore questions of crucial importance to the creation of an effective, accountable and legitimate system of global governance.
This volume brings together prominent scholars from the fields of politics and international relations in order to explore questions of crucial import...
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From Experience to Relationships: Reconstructing Ourselves in Education and Healthcare (PB)
ISBN: 9781593118945 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The six writers in this book explore the contribution and the transferability of narrative inquiry from curriculum studies to daily life in education and in healthcare. They examine the interconnectivity of reconstructed experience with the construction of disciplinary identity and knowledge. Thinking narratively, they write auto/biographically about relationships between teachers, students, nurses, colleagues, and/or people in their care. As narrative inquirers, they are curious how research moves forward professional situations in education and healthcare. The narrative plotlines of...
The six writers in this book explore the contribution and the transferability of narrative inquiry from curriculum studies to daily life in education ...
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Fifty-Five Teaching Dilemmas : Ten Powerful Solutions to Almost Any Classroom Challenge
ISBN: 9781551381916 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To teach with excellence demands more than strategies and techniques. The most successful teachers draw on their personal power--their confidence, compassion, and empathy, and their professional power--their ability to lead, instruct, and inspire their students to do their best. With practice, most teachers can develop the skills they need to conquer almost any classroom challenge. This book offers specific, practical ideas to help teachers:
To teach with excellence demands more than strategies and techniques. The most successful teachers draw on their personal power--their confidence, com...
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From Systems Thinking to Systematic Action: 48 Key Questions to Guide the Journey
ISBN: 9781578868193 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Systems thinking is a powerful tool that helps school system leaders guide and sustain school improvement. Use this practical guide to implement systems thinking in your school system today The first section of this book is a concise description of systems thinking. The second section examines 48 key questions to guide leaders as they transform their school systems, including: - Do the board, superintendent and employees accept that 94% to 97% of the school system's problems are caused by the system? - Have your school system's staff members agreed upon the elements of powerful instruction?...
Systems thinking is a powerful tool that helps school system leaders guide and sustain school improvement. Use this practical guide to implement syste...
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From Systems Thinking to Systematic Action: 48 Key Questions to Guide the Journey
ISBN: 9781578868209 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Systems thinking is a powerful tool that helps school system leaders guide and sustain school improvement. Use this practical guide to implement systems thinking in your school system today The first section of this book is a concise description of systems thinking. The second section examines 48 key questions to guide leaders as they transform their school systems, including: Do the board, superintendent and employees accept that 94% to 97% of the school systemOs problems are caused by the system? Have your school system's staff members agreed upon the elements of powerful instruction? Do...
Systems thinking is a powerful tool that helps school system leaders guide and sustain school improvement. Use this practical guide to implement syste...
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Why School Communication Matters: Strategies From PR Professionals
ISBN: 9781578868322 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Need to re-energize your faculty? Looking at announcing poor test scores to the community? Facing an angry parent contingent? Why School Communication Matters offers tips and strategies for handling these and other difficult situations. This book is an easy-to-use reference for the communication dilemmas that today's superintendents and principals face by looking at real life challenges, reframing issues in ways that suggest new and effective solutions. New generations of parents expect better and faster connections with schools. Podcasts, instant messaging, chat rooms and blogs have left...
Need to re-energize your faculty? Looking at announcing poor test scores to the community? Facing an angry parent contingent? Why School Communication...
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Why School Communication Matters: Strategies From PR Professionals
ISBN: 9781578868339 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Need to re-energize your faculty? Looking at announcing poor test scores to the community? Facing an angry parent contingent? Why School Communication Matters offers tips and strategies for handling these and other difficult situations. This book is an easy-to-use reference for the communication dilemmas that today's superintendents and principals face by looking at real life challenges, reframing issues in ways that suggest new and effective solutions. New generations of parents expect better and faster connections with schools. Podcasts, instant messaging, chat rooms and blogs have left...
Need to re-energize your faculty? Looking at announcing poor test scores to the community? Facing an angry parent contingent? Why School Communication...
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Using and Applying Mathematics at Key Stage 1: A Guide to Teaching Problem Solving and Thinking Skills
ISBN: 9781853469619 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All pupils - able children included - need to be taught strategies to enable their thinking skills to progress. They also need help with developing different approaches to problem solving. A sustained piece of work that requires perseverance, logical strategies, and refinement of method and extension of the original task is not the same as a straightforward quick-fix type problem. Both types of problem solving need to be taught. This book presents a series of activities that can be used with whole classes to provide a curriculum for the teaching of problem solving and the development of... All pupils - able children included - need to be taught strategies to enable their thinking skills to progress. They also need help with developing... |
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Data Science in Higher Education: A Step-by-Step Introduction to Machine Learning for Institutional Researchers
ISBN: 9781515206460 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 1,000 copies sold
Be the change your institution needs. What are leaders in research saying about Data Science in Higher Education? "Where has this book been all these years? This is THE starting point for researchers looking for a leg up in today's college environment. Two parts discussion, one part methodology, and one part witty humor. I love it " "Buy this book for your analysts. They and your college will thank you." "This is the only book on data science specific for higher education research that covers both... Over 1,000 copies sold
Be the change your institution needs. What are leaders in research saying about Data Science in Higher Ed... |
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A Practical Guide to Problem-Based Learning Online
ISBN: 9780415437882 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Giving an overview of the state of problem based learning online, this book examines why we're moving from face-to-face to online provision, considers existing forms of provision, outlines common mistakes and strategies to avoid future problems, and shows how to effectively facilitate learning. It also includes resources for games and activities.
Giving an overview of the state of problem based learning online, this book examines why we're moving from face-to-face to online provision, considers...
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