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Life Politics : Conversations about Culture and Education
ISBN: 9789460915383 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book on life politics comprises a collection of interviews and commentaries. The notion of life politics covers a number of different meanings within the book. Most importantly is the way that the genre of interviews helps cover a range of cultural contexts and intellectual milieu. Part of the life politics represented in this book is built around the belief that if we are to act as public intellectuals in the field of education and culture in the current globalised setting we need to travel. This book shows how public intellectual work gets interrogated and implemented in different...
This book on life politics comprises a collection of interviews and commentaries. The notion of life politics covers a number of different meanings wi...
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186,97 |
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Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools
ISBN: 9780807752661 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From grade school to graduate school, from the poorest public institutions to the most affluent private ones, our educational system is failing students. In his provocative new book, cognitive scientist and bestselling author Roger Schank argues that class size, lack of parental involvement, and other commonly-cited factors have nothing to do with why students are not learning. The culprit is a system of subject-based instruction and the solution is cognitive-based learning. This groundbreaking book defines what it would mean to teach thinking. The time is now for schools to start teaching...
From grade school to graduate school, from the poorest public institutions to the most affluent private ones, our educational system is failing studen...
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Paulo Freire in the 21st Century: Education, Dialogue, and Transformation
ISBN: 9781594516818 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book explores the implications of Freirean theory for educational practice and shows how Freire can be helpful in bridging different genres and traditions. It addresses a number of themes, questions, and issues that have received relatively little attention to date, including Freire's conception of the critical intellectual, Freire and the problem of defining literacy, and the possibility of a Freirean response to debates over political correctness. Roberts also puts Freire's ideas into conversation with writers seldom considered by other Freirean scholars: Israel Scheffler, Fyodor...
The book explores the implications of Freirean theory for educational practice and shows how Freire can be helpful in bridging different genres and tr...
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International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning with GIS in Secondary Schools
ISBN: 9789400721197 / Angielski / Twarda / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This, the first publication to collate a broad international perspective on the pedagogical value of GIS technology in classrooms, offers an unprecedented range of expert views on the subject. Geographic Information Systems (GISs) are now ubiquitous and relatively inexpensive. They have revolutionized the way people explore and understand the world around them. The capability they confer allows us to capture, manage, analyze, and display geographic data in ways that were undreamt of a generation ago. GIS has enabled users to make decisions and solve problems as diverse as designing bus... This, the first publication to collate a broad international perspective on the pedagogical value of GIS technology in classrooms, offers an unprec... |
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Shaping the Story
ISBN: 9789460913860 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Current career counselling needs a shift away from the practice of modern counselling approaches, and narrative therapy is likely to be particularly appropriate, since it is part of the culture and way of life of the majority of our clients. For the very first time, current approaches have been brought together in one publication. Eminent scholars, including Larry Cochran, Mark Savickas, and Norm Amundson, Paul Hartung and John Winslade, contributed to the publication. Personal narratives of some exceptionally eminent people, including Robert Sternberg are also included. The publication is...
Current career counselling needs a shift away from the practice of modern counselling approaches, and narrative therapy is likely to be particularly a...
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Shaping the Story : A Guide to Facilitating Narrative Career Counselling
ISBN: 9789460913877 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Current career counselling needs a shift away from the practice of modern counselling approaches, and narrative therapy is likely to be particularly appropriate, since it is part of the culture and way of life of the majority of our clients. For the very first time, current approaches have been brought together in one publication. Eminent scholars, including Larry Cochran, Mark Savickas, and Norm Amundson, Paul Hartung and John Winslade, contributed to the publication. Personal narratives of some exceptionally eminent people, including Robert Sternberg are also included. The publication is...
Current career counselling needs a shift away from the practice of modern counselling approaches, and narrative therapy is likely to be particularly a...
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441,93 |
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Life Politics : Conversations about Culture and Education
ISBN: 9789460915390 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book on life politics comprises a collection of interviews and commentaries. The notion of life politics covers a number of different meanings within the book. Most importantly is the way that the genre of interviews helps cover a range of cultural contexts and intellectual milieu. Part of the life politics represented in this book is built around the belief that if we are to act as public intellectuals in the field of education and culture in the current globalised setting we need to travel. This book shows how public intellectual work gets interrogated and implemented in different...
This book on life politics comprises a collection of interviews and commentaries. The notion of life politics covers a number of different meanings wi...
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441,93 |
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How We Learn and How We Should Be Taught
ISBN: 9780956875501 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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135,72 |
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Mindfulness and Learning: Celebrating the Affective Dimension of Education
ISBN: 9789400719101 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences. According to this model, only a circumscribed range of basic cognitive skills and competences are the business of education, whose main role is to provide employability credentials for people competing for jobs in the global economy. The result is a one-dimensional, economistic and bleakly utilitarian conception of the educational task. In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences. ... |
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Imitating, Reasoning, Discussing: Student Conceptions of Learning Around the World
ISBN: 9781611225167 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines conceptions of learning, that is, systematic sets of beliefs concerning learning that people develop.
Examines conceptions of learning, that is, systematic sets of beliefs concerning learning that people develop.
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273,19 |
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Narrative Development in Adolescence: Creating the Storied Self
ISBN: 9781461415169 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Monisha Pasupathi and Kate C. McLean Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going? Narrative Identity in Adolescence How can we help youth move from childhood to adulthood in the most effective and positive way possible? This is a question that parents, educators, researchers, and policy makers engage with every day. In this book, we explore the potential power of the stories that youth construct as one route for such movement. Our emphasis is on how those stories serve to build a sense of identity for youth and how the kinds of stories youth tell are informed by their broader contexts - from...
Monisha Pasupathi and Kate C. McLean Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going? Narrative Identity in Adolescence How can we help youth move from child...
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483,04 |
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The Claims of Parenting: Reasons, Responsibility and Society
ISBN: 9789400722507 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the practical experience of parenthood, counterbalancing the overly empirical and largely psychological focus of much parenting literature. Offers first-person accounts, and explores the ethical and epistemological aspects of the experience.
This book examines the practical experience of parenthood, counterbalancing the overly empirical and largely psychological focus of much parenting lit...
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402,53 |
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Learning from Errors at School and at Work
ISBN: 9783866494152 / Angielski / Miękka / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning by erring Is it possible to learn from your mistakes? While there is evidence to the positive, there is also evidence suggesting that whether mistakes may teach you anything depends on genetic disposition as well as supervisors handling those mistakes. Apparently, it is of utter importance to see how things cannot work, what things are not like, and what you do not know. Through this negative knowledge, learning through errors may be achieved. In this book, the authors look at errors and their potentials for the learning process, as well as the sort of environment that does make a...
Learning by erring Is it possible to learn from your mistakes? While there is evidence to the positive, there is also evidence suggesting that whethe...
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Effects of Parental Education & the Cognitive Style of Child Education
ISBN: 9781617617478 / Angielski / Miękka / 97 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ways we think about the world, about ourselves and our personal relations are largely determined by our cognitive schemes, cognitive styles. This book examines the parental influence on cognitive styles and through it, to the way of thinking and personal relations of mentally healthy individuals.
The ways we think about the world, about ourselves and our personal relations are largely determined by our cognitive schemes, cognitive styles. This ...
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Empowerment Starts Here: Seven Principles to Empowering Urban Youth
ISBN: 9781610485814 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empowerment Starts Here covers an experimental approach to social change within urban communities by way of seven distinct principles for student empowerment. Turning classroom methods into a school model, Preparatory School for Global Leadership was the first to experience student empowerment at a school-wide level. This book provides insight on how educators can increase the efficacy and achievement of urban youth. Angela Dye shares instructional methodologies and stories to help the reader develop an intimate understanding of the empowerment principles in action. Through these principles...
Empowerment Starts Here covers an experimental approach to social change within urban communities by way of seven distinct principles for student empo...
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Empowerment Starts Here: Seven Principles to Empowering Urban Youth
ISBN: 9781610485821 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empowerment Starts Here covers an experimental approach to social change within urban communities by way of seven distinct principles for student empowerment. Turning classroom methods into a school model, Preparatory School for Global Leadership was the first to experience student empowerment at a school-wide level. This book provides insight on how educators can increase the efficacy and achievement of urban youth. Angela Dye shares instructional methodologies and stories to help the reader develop an intimate understanding of the empowerment principles in action. Through these principles...
Empowerment Starts Here covers an experimental approach to social change within urban communities by way of seven distinct principles for student empo...
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195,91 |
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The Psychology of Education
ISBN: 9780983444435 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professor Velma Melancon presents the sequence of a child's development. She uses observation tools and the child skill checklist to help the teacher, caregiver, and parents to assess where the child stands in various development sequences so that they can plan activities which enhance the child's educational growth. This is a must-read book for parents, teachers, and caregivers. They will gain a clear understanding of the developmental sequence, such as emotional, social, physical, and cognitive, and how these components help them to recognize the child's strength and help in the development...
Professor Velma Melancon presents the sequence of a child's development. She uses observation tools and the child skill checklist to help the teacher,...
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Childhood Bullying: A Deadly Serious Matter
ISBN: 9780980845808 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Childhood Bullying: A Deadly Serious Matter' offers new perspectives on peer abuse and demands a serious review of current interpretations and interventions in bullying. The text addresses the now frequent suicide attempts related to severe bullying and examines school, family and community responses to this tragic result of undetected or ignored peer abuse. Bullying is seen as abuse, never as conflict and this approach places intervention within the framework of other forms of abuse. New perspectives include the indentification of bullying as a form of child abuse, the role of resilience...
'Childhood Bullying: A Deadly Serious Matter' offers new perspectives on peer abuse and demands a serious review of current interpretations and interv...
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105,00 |
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Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments
ISBN: 9780415894210 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments provides students, faculty, and instructional designers with a clear, concise introduction to the major pedagogical and psychological theories and their implications for the design of new learning environments for schools, universities, or corporations. Leading experts describe the most important contemporary theories that form the foundation of the conception and design of student-centered learning environments and new applications of educational technologies. This book is well suited as a textbook for courses in instructional design,...
Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments provides students, faculty, and instructional designers with a clear, concise introduction to the maj...
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759,15 |
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Research on E-Learning and Ict in Education
ISBN: 9781461410829 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to serve as a multidisciplinary forum covering technical, pedagogical, organizational, instructional, as well as policy aspects of ICT in Education and e-Learning. Special emphasis is given to applied research relevant to educational practice guided by the educational realities in schools, colleges, universities and informal learning organizations. In a more generic scope, the volume aims to encompass current trends and issues determining ICT integration in practice, including learning and teaching, curriculum and instructional design, learning media and environments, teacher...
This book aims to serve as a multidisciplinary forum covering technical, pedagogical, organizational, instructional, as well as policy aspects of ICT ...
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603,81 |