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Educating Traumatized Children: Waldorf Education in Crisis Intervention
ISBN: 9781584201557 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 2006, specialists, doctors, psychologists, and therapists of Parzival-Zentrum Karlsruhe have taken part in emergency education crisis interventions, carried out by the organization Friends of Friends of Waldorf Education. They work with psychologically traumatized children and young people in war zones and disaster areas, including Lebanon, China, the Gaza Strip, Indonesia, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, and most recently in Japan following the tsunami there and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Bernd Ruf, who heads these operations, describes in his book in various ways the basics... Since 2006, specialists, doctors, psychologists, and therapists of Parzival-Zentrum Karlsruhe have taken part in emergency education crisis interventi...
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Civic Youth Work Primer
ISBN: 9781433118814 / Angielski / Miękka / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apparent political apathy among youth in the United States has led to a moral panic about the future of democracy. Many researchers question the facts, while others seek to engage and mobilize young people around public issues they care about in order to master the citizen role and to bring social change. Civic youth work has its modern roots in this work. Its guiding ethos is authentic, meaningful, just, inclusive, and consequential youth involvement in everyday civic life through a small-group process, with the goal of supporting citizenship for young people as a life-long practice.
... Apparent political apathy among youth in the United States has led to a moral panic about the future of democracy. Many researchers question the facts...
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125,79 |
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Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning
ISBN: 9780739188231 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning, by Susan B. Barnes, examines how social media can be used in education through two research grants and real-world applications. Barnes analyzes social media including Facebook, Courseware, and Second Life, while providing a theoretical foundation for examining social software. A new generation of students is surrounded by digital technologies, leading scholars and teachers to consider virtual worlds to engage students. By bringing together human-computer-interaction theories with social theory, Socializing the Classroom creates a...
Socializing the Classroom: Social Networks and Online Learning, by Susan B. Barnes, examines how social media can be used in education through two res...
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Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society
ISBN: 9781438447223 / Angielski / Miękka / 487 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continuum for transformation. Inspired by the long legacy of jazz innovators who have used meditation and related practices to bring the transcendent into their lives and work, Sarath sees a coming shift in consciousness, one essential to positive change. Both theoretical and practical, the book uses the...
Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers ne...
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140,63 |
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Education That Works: The Neuroscience of Building a More Effective Higher Education
ISBN: 9781940858210 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book addresses the issue of how college and university education can be made more impactful by incorporating a variety of experiential education activities and how this approach is natural given what we know today about how the brain works at multiple levels from modern brain scanners. The key point is that the brain operates on conscious and unconscious decision-making levels and that the latter is under appreciated in higher education but is well-suited to learning from direct experience in complement to the academic curriculum. Classic among these experiential activities is an...
The book addresses the issue of how college and university education can be made more impactful by incorporating a variety of experiential education a...
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94,84 |
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
ISBN: 9780674729018 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners. Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never... To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the di... |
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Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century; Perspectives and Examples from Practice
ISBN: 9781433118036 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what can be its value? How do we come to know what lies beyond our horizons? Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century opens the door for wondering about these and other questions pertaining to the nature and process of educational research. It offers an insightful and detailed account of Western and non-Western philosophical traditions and perspectives on reality, knowledge, and values that have been responsive to past and present developments of educational research in North America. These accounts form a paradigm...
What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what can be its value? How do we come to know what lies beyond our horizons? P...
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789,77 |
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The Pathologizing and Complicity of «Brown Boys»: Minoritized High School Students in Danger
ISBN: 9781433119330 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the abolishment of discriminatory policies that have historically marginalized many students from certain racial and ethnic groups, there are still groups in North America that continue to experience the lasting effects of this discrimination. One such group is South Asian boys. This book grounded in twelve months of critical ethnographic fieldwork at a secondary school in North America attempts to fulfill three objectives. First, it examines how educators and educational leaders pathologize the lived experiences of South Asian boys or -Brown boys-, and how they engage in deficit...
Despite the abolishment of discriminatory policies that have historically marginalized many students from certain racial and ethnic groups, there are ...
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212,28 |
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The Pathologizing and Complicity of «Brown Boys»: Minoritized High School Students in Danger
ISBN: 9781433119347 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the abolishment of discriminatory policies that have historically marginalized many students from certain racial and ethnic groups, there are still groups in North America that continue to experience the lasting effects of this discrimination. One such group is South Asian boys. This book grounded in twelve months of critical ethnographic fieldwork at a secondary school in North America attempts to fulfill three objectives. First, it examines how educators and educational leaders pathologize the lived experiences of South Asian boys or -Brown boys-, and how they engage in deficit...
Despite the abolishment of discriminatory policies that have historically marginalized many students from certain racial and ethnic groups, there are ...
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842,52 |
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Futurlogics: A System of Prospective Thinking
ISBN: 9781483908984 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FUTURLOGICS reduces the esoteric study of the future(s) to organic core principles for the futurist. Futuring from scratch. Complete handbook for the futurist. Contains ideas to awaken the mind to the future. FUTURLOGICS is a MOS or (M)ind (O)perating (S)ystem of prospective thinking. See www.futurlogics.com
FUTURLOGICS reduces the esoteric study of the future(s) to organic core principles for the futurist. Futuring from scratch. Complete handbook for the ...
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45,90 |
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Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom Focus on Content Based Language Teaching: Focus on Content Based Language Teaching
ISBN: 9780194000826 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching highlights important research and evidence-based instructional practices that can overcome these challenges. Extracts from classroom data provide real-life examples of teachers and students interacting with each other in different approaches to content-based language teaching, showing how theory relates to practice.
The book includes: Spotlight Studies, highlighting important research on learning and teaching Classroom Snapshots, featuring descriptions of teachers and students engaged in different approaches to learning and teaching Activities... Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching highlights important research and evidence-based instructional practices that can overcome these challenges. ...
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Mindful Learning: Reduce Stress and Improve Brain Performance for Effective Learning
ISBN: 9781921966392 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mindfulness is increasingly being used in educational environments as a proven way to help students: learn more effectively; develop personally; enhance their physical and emotional health; and, deal with study and exam-related demands. Written by two leading experts with many years of personal and clinical experience, 'Mindful Learning' provides practical insights and exercises on how to apply mindfulness in any educational setting. The result is a book that clearly sets out how you can: manage stress; improve performance; create better communication; develop more meaningful relationships;...
Mindfulness is increasingly being used in educational environments as a proven way to help students: learn more effectively; develop personally; enhan...
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50,28 |
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Crafting Critical Stories: Toward Pedagogies and Methodologies of Collaboration, Inclusion, and Voice
ISBN: 9781433121609 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical storytelling, a rich form of culturally relevant, critical pedagogy, has gained great urgency in a world of standardization. Crafting Critical Stories asks how social justice scholars and educators narrate, craft, and explore critical stories as a tool for culturally relevant, critical pedagogy. From the elementary to college classroom, this anthology explores how different genres of critical storytelling oral history, digital storytelling, testimonio, and critical family history have been used to examine structures of oppression and to illuminate counter-narratives...
Critical storytelling, a rich form of culturally relevant, critical pedagogy, has gained great urgency in a world of standardization. Crafting Crit...
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Crafting Critical Stories: Toward Pedagogies and Methodologies of Collaboration, Inclusion, and Voice
ISBN: 9781433121593 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical storytelling, a rich form of culturally relevant, critical pedagogy, has gained great urgency in a world of standardization. Crafting Critical Stories asks how social justice scholars and educators narrate, craft, and explore critical stories as a tool for culturally relevant, critical pedagogy. From the elementary to college classroom, this anthology explores how different genres of critical storytelling oral history, digital storytelling, testimonio, and critical family history have been used to examine structures of oppression and to illuminate counter-narratives...
Critical storytelling, a rich form of culturally relevant, critical pedagogy, has gained great urgency in a world of standardization. Crafting Crit...
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Outlines of a Modern Critical Educational Science in Germany: Discourses and Fields of Research
ISBN: 9783631549629 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is the main purpose of this book to give students and educationalists at university not only in Germany, but also in Anglo-American countries an overview about history, current theoretical debates as well as important fields of research of educational science in Germany. Therefore, the institutional conditions, considerable theoretic paradigms and approaches as well as main focuses of the German educational science will be outlined in the introduction. The contributions to the first main chapter of this book retrace the development of pedagogic thinking since the Age of Enlightenment in...
It is the main purpose of this book to give students and educationalists at university not only in Germany, but also in Anglo-American countries an ov...
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154,01 |
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Digital Technologies for School Collaboration
ISBN: 9781137375735 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Web-based school collaboration has attracted the sustained attention of educators, policy-makers, and governmental bodies around the world during the past decade. This book sheds new light on this topical but ever so complex issue. Drawing on a wealth of theoretical and empirical work, it presents the various models of available school twinning programs and explores the cultural, political, and economic factors that surround the recent enthusiasm regarding collaborative initiatives. Moreover, the book critically examines teachers' and students' experiences of web-based school collaboration....
Web-based school collaboration has attracted the sustained attention of educators, policy-makers, and governmental bodies around the world during the ...
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201,24 |
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Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment in Higher Education: A Guide for the Perplexed
ISBN: 9781433108358 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully in a diverse range of teacher education courses. Educators from disciplines as diverse as theater arts, early childhood, psychology, mathematics, and science education have adopted a model of self-assessment and self-evaluation that supports the individual ongoing assessment of learning throughout a course as well as the final synthesis of individual learning in the course. Self-assessment and self-evaluation are presented here as a means to...
This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully ...
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212,28 |
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Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment in Higher Education; A Guide for the Perplexed
ISBN: 9781433108341 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully in a diverse range of teacher education courses. Educators from disciplines as diverse as theater arts, early childhood, psychology, mathematics, and science education have adopted a model of self-assessment and self-evaluation that supports the individual ongoing assessment of learning throughout a course as well as the final synthesis of individual learning in the course. Self-assessment and self-evaluation are presented here as a means to...
This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully ...
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789,77 |
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Homeschooling: Why and How
ISBN: 9781495349812 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,68 |
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The Way of a Child: An Introduction to Steiner Education and the Basics of Child Development
ISBN: 9781855843875 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pressured by exams and premature academic demands, surrounded by screens and technology, children today face huge challenges. Childhood itself, it could be said, is facing a crisis. Are children in danger of losing their natural imaginative faculties, which are the source of all creative activity in later life? As a society, are we in danger of losing childhood altogether?
First published in 1940, Harwood's little book has become a classic introduction to the perennial themes of child development and growth, as well as the basic principles of Steiner/Waldorf education. Harwood... Pressured by exams and premature academic demands, surrounded by screens and technology, children today face huge challenges. Childhood itself, it cou...
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55,31 |