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Reasoning by Mathematical Induction in Children's Arithmetic
ISBN: 9780080441283 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contents: Introduction: Mathematical induction. - Reasoning by mathematical induction: Piaget's critique. - Research on the development of children's reasoning. - Reasoning, reasons and responses. - Children's reasoning by mathematical induction. - Educational implications in a constructivist model of education. - Commentary by Damon Berridge.
Contents: Introduction: Mathematical induction. - Reasoning by mathematical induction: Piaget's critique. - Research on the development of children's ...
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1199,47 zł |
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Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember
ISBN: 9780156031899 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, taking lives and livelihoods and displacing thousands. Because the hurricane struck at the beginning of the school year, the city s children were among those most affected. Michael Tisserand, former editor of the alternative cultural newspaper Gambit Weekly, evacuated with his family to New Iberia, Louisiana. Then, rather than waiting to find out when or if schools in New Orleans would reopen, Tisserand and other parents persuaded one of his children s teachers, Paul Reynaud, to start a school among the sugarcane fields.
So was born the Sugarcane... Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, taking lives and livelihoods and displacing thousands. Because the hurricane struck at the beginning of the ...
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65,33 zł |
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State, Society, and the Elementary School in Imperial Germany
ISBN: 9780195056112 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The much admired school system of 19th-century Germany served as a model for the educational systems of many other countries, including Britain and the United States. In this illuminating study of German primary schools, Lamberti examines an educational tradition that was the object of wide emulation, but which was often misinterpreted by its admirers. Lamberti also explores the political significance of German educational policies in the Kulturkampf, in the suppression of Polish nationalism in the eastern provinces, and more generally in the struggle between the competing strands of...
The much admired school system of 19th-century Germany served as a model for the educational systems of many other countries, including Britain and th...
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1284,76 zł |
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Beginning to Spell : A Study of First-Grade Children
ISBN: 9780195062199 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking study on the psycholinguistics of spelling presents the author's original empirical research on spelling and supplies the theoretical framework necessary to understand how children's ability to write is related to their ability to speak a language. The author explores areas in a field dominated by work traditionally concerned with the psychodynamics of reading skills and, in so doing, highlights the importance of learning to spell for both psycholinguists and educators, since as they begin to spell, children attempt to represent the phonological, or sound form, of words....
This groundbreaking study on the psycholinguistics of spelling presents the author's original empirical research on spelling and supplies the theoreti...
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1219,20 zł |
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Strong Arts, Strong Schools : The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling
ISBN: 9780195148336 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this elegantly written, passionately argued book, Fowler presents a convincing case for teaching the arts to all children. He argues that, far from a luxury, the arts are a vitally important part of our society and our schools. Highlighting the crucial effect of the arts on learning, this volume shows how the arts can enliven and extend the entire school curriculum by integrating different subjects in innovative interdisciplinary ways. These eighteen compelling essays are a clarion call to action for any teacher, parent, policy maker, or citizen concerned about the fate of the arts in...
In this elegantly written, passionately argued book, Fowler presents a convincing case for teaching the arts to all children. He argues that, far from...
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255,06 zł |
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Reclaiming Early Childhood Literacies: Narratives of Hope, Power, and Vision
ISBN: 9781138944374 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, this volume refocuses attention on work with young children that places them at the center of their literacy worlds. Drawing on robust and growing knowledge which is often marginalized because of political and legislative forces, it explores young children s literacies as inclusive, redefined, and broadened encompassing technologies, the arts, multiple modalities, and teaching and learning for democracy, cultural sustainability and social justice. Highlighted themes include children s rights to... At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, this volume refocuses attention on work with young... |
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717,11 zł |
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Constructed Responses for Learning
ISBN: 9781138931046 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching students to write constructed responses does not have to become a test-prep chore. An intentional routine of constructed responses provides powerful opportunities to teach strategic thinking through writing that also deepens students' knowledge about core subjects. In this clear guide from education consultant Warren Combs, you'll learn how and why to teach students to write these short essays, no matter what subject or grade level you teach. Special features:
Teaching students to write constructed responses does not have to become a test-prep chore. An intentional routine of constructed responses provide... |
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148,88 zł |
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Introduction to Critical Reflection and Action for Teacher Researchers
ISBN: 9781138911055 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introduction to Critical Reflection and Action for Teacher Researchers provides crucial direction for educators looking to improve their teaching and maximise learning. While many students can grasp the basic elements of researching their practice and can write about practitioner research, some need guidance and assistance to reflect meaningfully on their teaching practice so as to articulate their educational values. This book provides this guidance. By exploring how to engage in an authentic, practical and personalised framework, the book encourages critical reflection and action on... Introduction to Critical Reflection and Action for Teacher Researchers provides crucial direction for educators looking to improve their teaching a... |
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181,98 zł |
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Teaching as Story Telling : An Alternative Approach to Teaching and Curriculum in the Elementary School
ISBN: 9780226190327 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I am very impressed by the practicality of Egan's] introduction of the use of story-forms in curriculum for young children. His model is fascinating, and its various possibilities in a range of fields makes it worth a good look by many kinds of teachers."--Maxine Greene, Teachers College, Columbia
"I am very impressed by the practicality of Egan's] introduction of the use of story-forms in curriculum for young children. His model is fascinating...
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87,10 zł |
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Group Counseling for Elementary and Middle School Children
ISBN: 9780275946517 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on theory and therapeutic factors and applications, this work will provide group leaders and counselors working with children with a conceptual basis and specific strategies for use in therapy, counseling, and therapeutic groups. It proposes that groups be formed around themes of condition (such as loss), rather than themes of circumstance (such as divorce). Forming the group, leader characteristics, and the expression of feelings and emotions are emphasized by the author. This work will be of interest to all mental health professionals working with children--school counselors,... Focusing on theory and therapeutic factors and applications, this work will provide group leaders and counselors working with children with a conce... |
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570,13 zł |
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Hope or Despair? : Learning in Pakistan's Primary Schools
ISBN: 9780275953485 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hope or Despair?" asks what promotes and what holds back student learning in Pakistan's government-sponsored primary schools. Using a national sample of schools, students, teachers, and supervisors, it shows how learning is affected by student background, teachers and teaching, school supervision, facilities, and innovation. It is the first book to use achievement tests based on the national curriculum to show influences on learning in the primary schools of an entire developing country. The study also explores why some students complete primary school and others do not. The overall... "Hope or Despair?" asks what promotes and what holds back student learning in Pakistan's government-sponsored primary schools. Using a national sam... |
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570,13 zł |
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Teaching Young Children Social Studies
ISBN: 9780275982287 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By linking theory to practice with an emphasis on national and state standards, Head Start Performance Standards, No Child Left Behind, and IDEA, the authors coherently combine principles of child development and social studies content to create a solid program for preschool through grade three. The authors maintain the overriding idea throughout the Teaching Young Children series--that strategies derived from knowledge of child development are used to teach content knowledge. It is this concern that makes this volume an excellent resource for teachers and parents. In addition to specific... By linking theory to practice with an emphasis on national and state standards, Head Start Performance Standards, No Child Left Behind, and IDEA, t... |
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366,89 zł |
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Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood
ISBN: 9780312141370 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1960, Summerhill became an instant bestseller and a classic volume of education for an entire generation. Now, this thoroughly expanded and revised version of the original Summerhill reinstates the revolutionary "free school" traditions begun by Summerhill's founder A.S. Neill. As American education lags behind the rest of the world, this new edition is more timely than ever. The children of today face struggles far greater than any previous generation and we, as parents and teachers, must teach them now to make choices for themselves and to... Originally published in 1960, Summerhill became an instant bestseller and a classic volume of education for an entire generation. Now, this ... |
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88,94 zł |
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Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years
ISBN: 9780325000428 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The current crisis in geography education has spawned several new books on mapmaking, many of which advocate either recitation and drill or a conceptual top-down model that ignores children's interests. Mapmaking with Children presents an inspired alternative. Maintaining that there is no substitute for hands-on experience, David Sobel places the initial emphasis on local projects--projects that begin in students' own backyards and communities, projects that provide a sense of place. As Sobel explains, "In the beginning, children's maps represent their experiences of beauty,... The current crisis in geography education has spawned several new books on mapmaking, many of which advocate either recitation and drill or a conce... |
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208,98 zł |
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Sentence Composing for Elementary School: A Worktext to Build Better Sentences
ISBN: 9780325002231 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Don Killgallon's signature sentence composing approach to writing is rapidly becoming a part of every effective teacher's repertoire, in middle schools, high schools, and colleges across the country. Thousands of teachers have achieved astonishing results - with students readily writing sentences remarkably similar to those of professional writers. What's more they've discovered that this approach is easy to teach and easy to learn.
Now, Don and Jenny Killgallon make these techniques available to elementary teachers with the first-ever worktext in which children learn to write sentences... Don Killgallon's signature sentence composing approach to writing is rapidly becoming a part of every effective teacher's repertoire, in middle school...
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167,18 zł |
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The Art of Teaching Art to Children: In School and at Home
ISBN: 9780374527709 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education. In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Nancy Beal shows how to release children's marvelous gifts of expression. Beal believes that children must first of all be comfortable with their materials. She focuses on six basic media: collage, drawing, painting, clay, printmaking, and construction. She gives practical consideration to all facets of a teacher's responsibility: how each material should be introduced; what supplies are best; how a classroom may be set up to support children's... An inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education. In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Na... |
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93,66 zł |
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Among Schoolchildren
ISBN: 9780380710898 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House -- spent nine months in Mrs. Zajac's fifth-grade classroom in the depressed "Flats" of Holyoke, Massachusetts. For an entire year he lived among twenty schoolchildren and their indomitable, compassionate teacher -- sharings their joys, their catastrophes, and their small but essential triumphs. As a result, he has written a revealing, remarkably poignant account of education in America . . . and his most memorable, emotionally charged, and... Tracy Kidder -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and the extraordinary national bestseller House --... |
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84,25 zł |
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Primary Teachers Talking : A Study of Teaching As Work
ISBN: 9780415011150 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An extraordinarily vivid account, based on primary teachers' own words, of what it means to feel like a teacher.
An extraordinarily vivid account, based on primary teachers' own words, of what it means to feel like a teacher.
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399,35 zł |
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Group Work in the Primary Classroom
ISBN: 9780415036313 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Group work is generally accepted as part of the educational ideology of today's primary classrooms. It can, however, mean almost anything from group seating as a technique of classroom management to fully collaborative learning. The authors start from the position that getting children to work together is time-consuming and not easy and that teachers need some assurance that it is worthwhile. Drawing on the work of Vygotsky they look at the importance of collaboration in the development of higher mental functions and also discuss the social and emotional advantages that children can derive...
Group work is generally accepted as part of the educational ideology of today's primary classrooms. It can, however, mean almost anything from group s...
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193,01 zł |
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Literacy and Language in the Primary Years
ISBN: 9780415042116 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Primary school children must now demonstrate confident and convincing skills in speaking, listening, writing and reading. How are their teachers to achieve this? In this book, David Wray and Jane Medwell provide a set of strategies for the teacher to understand literacy development, to promote these essential skills in collaboration with their pupils and to create a classroom environment in which talk and literacy are central.
Primary school children must now demonstrate confident and convincing skills in speaking, listening, writing and reading. How are their teachers to ac...
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333,78 zł |