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What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media
ISBN: 9781118022245 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Facebook, Twitter, Google...today's tech-savvy students are always plugged in. However, all too often their teachers and administrators aren't experienced in the use of these familiar digital tools. If schools are to prepare students for the future, administrators and educators must harness the power of digital technologies and social media.
With contributions from authorities on the topic of educational technology, What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media is a compendium of the most useful tools for any education setting. Throughout... Facebook, Twitter, Google...today's tech-savvy students are always plugged in. However, all too often their teachers and administrators aren't experie...
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Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds: Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools
ISBN: 9781137312044 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used both in and out of the classroom to teach initiative and problem-solving, encourage creativity, promote literacy, and develop reasoning skills.
Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several comme...
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How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice
ISBN: 9781441136343 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice draws together leaders in drama education and applied theatre from across the globe, including authors from Europe, North America and Australasia. It explores how learning can be activated when drama pedagogies and philosophies are applied across diverse contexts and for varied purposes. The areas explored include: - history How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice draws together leaders in drama education and applied theatre from across t... |
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The False Promise of Global Learning: Why Education Needs Boundaries
ISBN: 9781441155917 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the language of global learning, education is being reformed by corporations, political activists, and policy makers. Academic subject-based knowledge has been cast as elitist and outdated for a rapidly-changing world. The curriculum has been colonized in the name of teaching skills and attitudes for the global market and global citizenship. Can young people effectively contribute to society without an education in academic knowledge? Alex Standish argues that we can only educate children about the world if we are clear about the boundaries that provide education with its... Through the language of global learning, education is being reformed by corporations, political activists, and policy makers. Academic subject-base... |
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School Improvement Through Drama
ISBN: 9781855394568 / Angielski / Spiralna / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patrice Baldwin gives an overview of the way drama links to learning, teaching and the curriculum. It will help those who need to connect with the rationale for drama in and across the curriculum and who need to plan for it and explain it to others in terms of its necessity and impact. The book offers guidance that will facilitate schools' work on self-evaluation, preparing for Ofsted, drawing up school development plans and drama policies. With exemplar lessons for each of the year groups across KS1-KS3, this is a highly practical book that has something to offer all who work in or... Patrice Baldwin gives an overview of the way drama links to learning, teaching and the curriculum. It will help those who need to connect with the ... |
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Painting is a Class Act, Years 5-6 : A Skills-based Approach to Painting
ISBN: 9781905780310 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Painting is a Class Act, Years 5-6 provides a structured approach to the development of painting skills at Key Stage 1 (KS1). Using a skill-based approach to painting will raise standards in art, boost children's self-esteem and confidence, which in turn will help promote high standards in other curriculum areas.
Painting is a Class Act, Years 5-6 provides a structured approach to the development of painting skills at Key Stage 1 (KS1). Using a skill-based appr...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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