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The Pedagogy of Confidence: Inspiring High Intellectual Performance in Urban Schools
ISBN: 9780807752241 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her new book, prominent professional developer Yvette Jackson focuses on students' strengths, rather than their weaknesses, to reinvigorate educators to inspire learning and high intellectual performance. Through the lens of educational psychology and historical reforms, Jackson responds to the faltering motivation and confidence of educators in terms of its effects on closing the achievement gap. The author seeks to rekindle the belief in the vast capacity of underachieving urban students, and offers strategies to help educators inspire intellectual performance. Jackson proposes that a...
In her new book, prominent professional developer Yvette Jackson focuses on students' strengths, rather than their weaknesses, to reinvigorate educato...
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Tourism and Intercultural Exchange: Why Tourism Matters
ISBN: 9781845410186 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book asks the question; why is it that tourism matters? It looks at how it is we do tourism and learn to be tourists when we are on holiday. Tourism is a dynamic way of being that may facilitate or hinder intercultural exchange. The ways in which we do tourism and the places in which we are tourists raise practical, material and emotional questions about tourist life. This book draws on both empirical work and a range of theoretical frameworks, arguing that tourism matters precisely because of the lessons it can teach us about living everyday life with others. This book asks the question; why is it that tourism matters? It looks at how it is we do tourism and learn to be tourists when we are on holiday. T... |
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Talk and Social Organisation
ISBN: 9780905028743 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains a collection of original studies in conversation analysis (C.A.) arranged and presented both to introduce the discipline to the newcomer and to reveal some of the expanding range of discoveries which conversation analysts are making in the course of their distinctive enquiries into the order and organisation of natural language. Though sociological in its orientation. C.A. and the papers here represented are of direct methodological and substantive interest to linguists, philosophers, discourse and speech analysts and social anthropologists. Indeed the strict adherence to...
This volume contains a collection of original studies in conversation analysis (C.A.) arranged and presented both to introduce the discipline to the n...
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Reading Practices, Postcolonial Literature, and Cultural Mediation in the Classroom
ISBN: 9789460917035 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Johnston and Mangat consider ways in which particular postcolonial and multicultural literary texts are able to provide a space of cultural mediation for readers from various backgrounds. The studies described in the five chapters of the book explore the spaces of convergence of identity, culture and literature with students and teachers in high school contexts and undergraduates in university settings. In each study, readers are responding to texts that are culturally distant from their own literary and experiential histories. An objective of each study was to consider the...
In this book, Johnston and Mangat consider ways in which particular postcolonial and multicultural literary texts are able to provide a space of cultu...
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Reading Practices, Postcolonial Literature, and Cultural Mediation in the Classroom
ISBN: 9789460917042 / Angielski / Twarda / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Johnston and Mangat consider ways in which particular postcolonial and multicultural literary texts are able to provide a space of cultural mediation for readers from various backgrounds. The studies described in the five chapters of the book explore the spaces of convergence of identity, culture and literature with students and teachers in high school contexts and undergraduates in university settings. In each study, readers are responding to texts that are culturally distant from their own literary and experiential histories. An objective of each study was to consider the...
In this book, Johnston and Mangat consider ways in which particular postcolonial and multicultural literary texts are able to provide a space of cultu...
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441,93 |
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Chilling Admissions: The Affirmative Action Crisis and the Search for Alternatives
ISBN: 9781891792007 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume represent the work of the leading scholars of affirmative action in higher education, and place the current crisis on campus in its larger context of historical discrimination and the legal battle for educational equity.
After a generation of efforts to reverse the historic exclusion of minorities from their campuses, U.S. colleges and universities are facing a frontal attack on the programs, policies, and commitments born of these efforts. Chilling Admissions documents and examines their struggle to foresee the consequences of abandoning... The essays in this volume represent the work of the leading scholars of affirmative action in higher education, and place the current crisis on campus...
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Creating Solidarity Across Diverse Communities: International Perspectives in Education
ISBN: 9780807753378 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this important book, experts from around the globe come together to examine what solidarity in multicultural societies might mean and how it might be built. Educators will recognise relationships between issues discussed in the book and their own places of work, helping them to better understand issues of diversity and take steps toward building solidarity in their own schools and communities.
In this important book, experts from around the globe come together to examine what solidarity in multicultural societies might mean and how it might ...
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Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice (Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education, 1)
ISBN: 9781853595363 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is now widely recognised that learning a language should not just involve linguistic competence but also intercultural competence. It is also clear that intercultural competence can be developed through related subjects such as geography, history, mother tongue teaching. This book takes this as a given and provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a wide range of classrooms in several countries and for beginners to advanced learners.
It is now widely recognised that learning a language should not just involve linguistic competence but also intercultural competence. It is also clear...
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The Best of Corwin: Equity
ISBN: 9781452217468 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection showcases key chapters from critically acclaimedCorwin publications written by stellar authors. Key topics include culturalproficiency, analyzing data, and closing the achievement gap.
This collection showcases key chapters from critically acclaimedCorwin publications written by stellar authors. Key topics include culturalproficiency...
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Teaching Matters Most: A School Leader's Guide to Improving Classroom Instruction
ISBN: 9781452205106 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A laser-beam focus on improving instruction to improve learning Saying "teaching matters most" is easy, and seems obvious. Making it the top priority for school leaders and staff is not so easy-in fact, it's messy. If we want
A laser-beam focus on improving instruction to improve learning Saying "teaching matters most" is easy, and seems obviou... |
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Stand Tall Teacher′s Manual, Grades 4-6: Lessons That Teach Respect and Prevent Bullying
ISBN: 9781452205298 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This video-based educational program accompanies the DVD and shows teachers of students in Grades 4-6 how to create a powerfully positive learning environment in which all students feel respected.
This video-based educational program accompanies the DVD and shows teachers of students in Grades 4-6 how to create a powerfully positive learning env...
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Cultural Reciprocity in Special Education: Building Family-Professional Relationships
ISBN: 9781598572315 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To succeed in increasingly diverse classrooms, tomorrow's special educators need explicit training on working effectively with all families. Prepare the next generation of teachers with this accessible text, developed by two highly respected experts on cultural and linguistic diversity and inclusive education. Ideal for use as a supplementary textbook in a wide range of courses related to special education, this book gives educators a practical framework for cultural reciprocity a process that helps professionals and families examine their own values, respect each other's... To succeed in increasingly diverse classrooms, tomorrow's special educators need explicit training on working effectively with all families. Prepar... |
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No More Us and Them: Classroom Lessons and Activities to Promote Peer Respect
ISBN: 9781610488136 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is imperative that teachers build community in their classrooms and across their academic teams and grades in order to make school a safe and supportive place for adolescents. Teachers must help their students acknowledge that they belong to a group together, that they are part of a "we" or "us," and that any differences--divergent talents, backgrounds, experiences, cultures, and skills--only make "us" stronger and better. No More "Us" and "Them" delineates what steps educators can take to create an atmosphere where adolescent students feel accepted, included, and valuable to themselves...
It is imperative that teachers build community in their classrooms and across their academic teams and grades in order to make school a safe and suppo...
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Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World
ISBN: 9780807758342 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prominent educators and researchers propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining cultural practices rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how schools can support Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world.
Prominent educators and researchers propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining cultural practices rather than eradicating them. Chapters p...
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Youth Work and Islam : A Leap of Faith for Young People
ISBN: 9789460916342 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Youth Work and Islam provides an eclectic focus, reflecting it duel inspirations of its title. It considers how youth work can be informed by Islam but at the same time looks at how practice can be pertinent to young Muslims, their community and relationship with wider society.
In this book Sadek Hamid and Brian Belton bring together a range of thinkers and practitioners who exemplify and analyse this situation. This not only produces much more than a straightforward view of informed practice, it also presents a broad and humane understanding of the character and possibilities of youth... Youth Work and Islam provides an eclectic focus, reflecting it duel inspirations of its title. It considers how youth work can be informed by Islam b...
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Youth Work and Islam : A Leap of Faith for Young People
ISBN: 9789460916359 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Youth Work and Islam provides an eclectic focus, reflecting it duel inspirations of its title. It considers how youth work can be informed by Islam but at the same time looks at how practice can be pertinent to young Muslims, their community and relationship with wider society.
In this book Sadek Hamid and Brian Belton bring together a range of thinkers and practitioners who exemplify and analyse this situation. This not only produces much more than a straightforward view of informed practice, it also presents a broad and humane understanding of the character and possibilities of youth... Youth Work and Islam provides an eclectic focus, reflecting it duel inspirations of its title. It considers how youth work can be informed by Islam b...
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First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds
ISBN: 9780774805179 / Angielski / Miękka / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal experts examine aspects of education for First Nations adults and children in Canada, discussing the philosophical basis of First Nations education and assessing strengths and weaknesses in teacher training and the classroom. Topics include redefining science education
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal experts examine aspects of education for First Nations adults and children in Canada, discussing the philosophical basis...
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Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice
ISBN: 9781853595370 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is now widely recognised that learning a language should not just involve linguistic competence but also intercultural competence. It is also clear that intercultural competence can be developed through related subjects such as geography, history, mother tongue teaching. This book takes this as a given and provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a wide range of classrooms in several countries and for beginners to advanced learners.
It is now widely recognised that learning a language should not just involve linguistic competence but also intercultural competence. It is also clear...
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515,29 |
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Show Me the Evidence!: Proven and Promising Programs for America′s Schools
ISBN: 9780803967106 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed to help educators, policy makers and researchers evaluate the effectiveness of various programmes and policies intended to improve student achievement, this book presents reviews of programmes for primary and secondary schools that are widely available and have some evidence of effectiveness.
Designed to help educators, policy makers and researchers evaluate the effectiveness of various programmes and policies intended to improve student ac...
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210,56 |
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From the Courtroom to the Classroom: The Shifting Landscape of School Desegregation
ISBN: 9781934742204 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Courtroom to the Classroom examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States.
As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening of the political forces that support busing to achieve racial integration. The book fills a growing need for a full-scale assessment of this recent history and its effect on schools, children, and communities." From the Courtroom to the Classroom examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States.
As the ed... |
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