ilość książek w kategorii: 1788
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Fracturing Opportunity: Mexican Migrant Students & College-Going Literacy
ISBN: 9781433105531 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fracturing Opportunity demonstrates a simple yet profound idea that educational opportunity is learned. And if it is learned, then it can be taught and taught more equitably. This book brings sociocultural theories of learning and development to bear on the persistent problems of inequality in college access, and presents an innovative framework for understanding and addressing the historic inequities that plague educational opportunity. Through ethnographic documentation of Mexican migrants educational experiences, the book moves beyond traditional inquiry on aspiration, academic...
Fracturing Opportunity demonstrates a simple yet profound idea that educational opportunity is learned. And if it is learned, then it can be ta...
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698,32 |
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The Many Faces of Special Education: Their Unique Talents in Working with Students with Special Needs and in Life
ISBN: 9781607091004 / Angielski / Twarda / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book celebrates the many talents of special educators and how those talents are utilized throughout all facets of life.
This book celebrates the many talents of special educators and how those talents are utilized throughout all facets of life.
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497,53 |
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Story of Noah
ISBN: 9781492149637 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join Noah and his friends in the educational perspectives on daily behaviors and safety.
Join Noah and his friends in the educational perspectives on daily behaviors and safety.
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36,63 |
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Beyond the School Gates: Can Full Service and Extended Schools Overcome Disadvantage?
ISBN: 9780415548663 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, for the first time ever, critically examines the role of full service and extended schools. The authors draw on their extensive international evaluations of this radical new phenomenon to ask:
This book, for the first time ever, critically examines the role of full service and extended schools. The authors draw on their extensive internat... |
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731,67 |
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A Buffet of Sensory Interventions: Solutions for Middle
ISBN: 9781934575833 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a smorgasbord of sensory-based interventions for use by educators, occupational therapists and parents. This practical and well-researched tool is unique by focusing on middle and high school students, whose sensory needs are often overlooked. In suggesting interventions for this age group, the author emphasizes the importance of fostering independence, self-advocacy and self-regulation as a way to for teens with autism spectrum disorders to take ownership of their sensory needs as they transition into adulthood. Using simple terminology and lots of illustrations, the book...
This book offers a smorgasbord of sensory-based interventions for use by educators, occupational therapists and parents. This practical and well-resea...
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76,25 |
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Converging Worlds: Play, Literacy, and Culture in Early Childhood
ISBN: 9783906769486 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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465,47 |
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Private Learning, Public Needs: The Neoliberal Assault on Democratic Education
ISBN: 9780820462004 / Angielski / Miękka / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Private Learning, Public Needs looks at the devastating effects neoliberal globalization continues to have on education, schooling, and literacy development in the United States. As a global phenomenon, neoliberalism s power lies in its ability to transcend national, regional, and local borders, and to -manufacture- a discourse of needs, thus affecting how education, schooling, and literacy are theorized and practiced. From the effects of whole school reform and the ideological investment of positivism, to the economic reduction of schooling and literacy development, this book...
Private Learning, Public Needs looks at the devastating effects neoliberal globalization continues to have on education, schooling, and literac...
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185,83 |
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Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions
ISBN: 9781554586349 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and community practice and policy. They cover the range and intersections of marginalization: poverty, Aboriginal cultures, immigrants and newcomers, gay/lesbian youth, rural-urban divides, mental health, and so forth. Presenting challenges faced by marginalized youth alongside initiatives for mitigating their impact, the contributors critique existing systems and...
Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by...
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165,85 |
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Teaching the Unteachable Student: 50 Successful Strategies to Help Build Character Amongst Challenging High School Youth
ISBN: 9781462067497 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever had to deal with challenging students? The kind of students who repeatedly skip class, rarely hand in work, and always have plenty of attitude when you attempt to correct their behaviour. Do you at times feel like pulling your hair out and simply giving up? Well don't throw in the towel just yet. "Teaching the Unteachable Student" will provide you with strategies to help you overcome challenging behaviours in the classroom. This book goes beyond traditional classroom management techniques; it is a book dedicated to reshaping your students' character. Ultimately, for... Have you ever had to deal with challenging students? The kind of students who repeatedly skip class, rarely hand in work, and always have plenty... |
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60,96 |
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The State, Civil Society and the Citizen: Exploring Relationships in the Field of Adult Education in Europe
ISBN: 9783631585931 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contributes to the setting out of a new, better informed and complex basis for discussions about the relationships between the State, the civil society and the citizen in distinct European countries and regions. It will be useful to researchers in the field of adult education, as well as social scientists interested in topics related to civil society, such as NGOs, social economists, and practitioners concerned with the trends that are forcing adult education to recontextualise its aims and practices.
This book contributes to the setting out of a new, better informed and complex basis for discussions about the relationships between the State, the ci...
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379,29 |
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May I Be Excused, My Brain Is Full: Olivia's Asperger's Story
ISBN: 9781460208458 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Imagine knowing you are different and not knowing why. . . this is Olivia's story. Diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at age 10, Olivia bravely invites us into her thoughts and mind as she copes with life as an "aspie." Her story, colourfully told, illustrates her own coping strategies to manage her differences in a way that relates to younger kids. Olivia hopes to help other children understand that Asperger's Syndrome does not define a person, but rather explains a very special part of themselves.
Imagine knowing you are different and not knowing why. . . this is Olivia's story. Diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at age 10, Olivia bravely invite...
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64,93 |
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Say what you mean, mean what you say
ISBN: 9789082009101 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dealing with children who have serious behavioural problems is always difficult, and the range of possible educational measures is limited. It always seems to come down to two choices: being too strict or too lenient. You no longer know what to do. You, the child and other adults are stuck in a frustrating and fruitless pattern of communication. The result is anger, powerlessness and disappointment. This is a manual that parents, teachers and childcare workers can use "on the shop floor." The emphasis is not on explaining what is happening, but on how to deal with what is happening. You learn...
Dealing with children who have serious behavioural problems is always difficult, and the range of possible educational measures is limited. It always ...
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124,29 |
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The Hidden Curriculum of Getting and Keeping a Job: Navigating the Social Landscape of Employment: A Guide for Individuals with Autism Spectrum and Ot
ISBN: 9781937473020 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adults on the spectrum often have difficulty getting and keeping a job that is unrelated to their job skills. This practical and easy-to-use book provides necessary yet often untaught information on a variety of topics related to getting a job, finding a mentor, networking, using agencies, interviewing, talking with supervisors, dealing with on-the-job-frustrations, understanding the social rules at work and many other topics. Authored by two individuals on the spectrum who have extensive experience in helping others become employed, Judy Endow and Malcolm Mayfield, as well as Brenda Smith...
Adults on the spectrum often have difficulty getting and keeping a job that is unrelated to their job skills. This practical and easy-to-use book prov...
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72,43 |
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Late Talkers: Language Development, Interventions, and Outcomes
ISBN: 9781598572537 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does the research tell us about late talkers, and what are the key implications for clinical practice? Discover the latest findings in this important volume, a comprehensive survey of 30+ years of research about young children with delayed expressive language. More than 25 top researchers explore the causes and characteristics of late language emergence, long-term outcomes for late talkers, effective intervention approaches, and future directions for new research studies. An essential addition to the literature on language development
What does the research tell us about late talkers, and what are the key implications for clinical practice? Discover the latest findings in this i... |
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224,37 |
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Media Education Goes to School; Young People Make Meaning of Media and Urban Education
ISBN: 9781433107603 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Media Education Goes to School examines the struggles involved in integrating media education across the curriculum at a small urban school. Based on quasi-ethnographic research specifically semi-formal individual and group interviews with twenty-one participants and participant-observation the text focuses on how students understand and make meaning of media education in their schools, and what they know about urban education and urban school reform. The book argues against the neoliberal ethos that continuously harms urban youth and the rhetoric of new school reform that replicates,...
Media Education Goes to School examines the struggles involved in integrating media education across the curriculum at a small urban school. Ba...
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205,92 |
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Re-Engaging Disconnected Youth: Transformative Learning Through Restorative and Social Justice Education
ISBN: 9781433110047 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As many young adults continue to disengage with learning each day, teachers and administrators struggle to find programming that re-engages secondary students with their schooling and communities. This book profiles one program that succeeds in doing so, and should serve as a model for others. In a Midwestern alternative school, three teachers built a curriculum around hands-on learning, restorative justice Talking Circles, and multicultural education, in the hopes that it would re-engage and inspire youth. Drawing on adult transformative learning theory, this book is an in-depth, qualitative...
As many young adults continue to disengage with learning each day, teachers and administrators struggle to find programming that re-engages secondary ...
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185,83 |
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Black Students' Perceptions: The Complexity of Persistence to Graduation at an American University
ISBN: 9780820455396 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at the socialization process and persistence to graduation from the perspectives of black students at American universities today. The students perceptions discussed include what it meant to them to have a pre-college experience, the importance of expectations, the pain caused by racism, and how they were able to find -safe spaces- in what many considered a -hostile environment-. Black Students Perceptions documents and addresses what it means to be a black person getting an education in a predominantly white university."
This book looks at the socialization process and persistence to graduation from the perspectives of black students at American universities today. The...
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112,88 |
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Transnational Perspectives on Culture, Policy, and Education: Redirecting Cultural Studies in Neoliberal Times
ISBN: 9780820497310 / Angielski / Miękka / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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205,92 |
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School Matters: Why African American Students Need Multiple Forms of Capital
ISBN: 9781433100390 / Angielski / Twarda / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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538,68 |
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Community and Difference: Teaching, Pluralism, and Social Justice
ISBN: 9780820468440 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community and Difference: Teaching, Pluralism, and Social Justice contains seven very different chapters. In each chapter, educators describe how their experiences with oppression came to inform their commitment to teaching for social justice. Relying on principles taken from heuristic inquiry to show what people know and what experience has spun, this book provides evidence of the promise of narrative storytelling as a means of teaching for social justice. The voices of the storytellers are honest and compelling, inviting readers to listen, to know others as they know themselves, and...
Community and Difference: Teaching, Pluralism, and Social Justice contains seven very different chapters. In each chapter, educators describe h...
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185,83 |