Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School
ISBN: 9780395877548 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third book in a trilogy concerned with educational change offers a comprehensive model for reform in America's secondary schools, and describes the ideal educational system of the future.
The third book in a trilogy concerned with educational change offers a comprehensive model for reform in America's secondary schools, and describes th...
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77,45 zł |
School Choice and Competition: Markets in the Public Interest?
ISBN: 9780415139779 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental choice and competitive pressures on schools. On the basis of research involving thousands of parents and eleven secondary schools monitored over several years, it sets out: * empirical findings on parents' preferences and experience of choice, how schools respond to competitive pressures, and local dynamics of quasi-markets * theoretical implications for understanding quasi-markets in education and the public interest * implications for educational policy, if schools are to be more responsive and inequalities lessened The book...
This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental choice and competitive pressures on schools. On the basis of research involving thousand...
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266,93 zł |
The Making of the Inclusive School
ISBN: 9780415155595 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inclusion means educating students of all abilities in mainstream schools, it has become an important topic - politicians now stress their commitments to inclusion as proof of their commitment to wider social justice. The inclusive mood, which is about including everyone in society's institutions, has created a growing demand for schools to find effective ways of including and teaching all children - even those who at one time would have been sent to special schools. The book combines a theoretical examination of inclusion and its rationale with the story of a group of schools in which...
Inclusion means educating students of all abilities in mainstream schools, it has become an important topic - politicians now stress their commitments...
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906,73 zł |
The Making of the Inclusive School
ISBN: 9780415155601 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inclusion is a buzzword of the 1990s. Politicians now stress their commitment to inclusion and social justice - not competition. For schools, inclusion means accepting and educating all children, irrespective of their difficulties.
The new inclusive mood is about including everyone in society's institutions. It has created a growing demand for schools to find effective ways of including and teaching all children - even those who at one time would have been sent to special schools. The book combines a theoretical examination of inclusion and its rationale with the story of a... Inclusion is a buzzword of the 1990s. Politicians now stress their commitment to inclusion and social justice - not competition. For schools,...
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216,55 zł |
Register of Educational Research in the United Kingdom: Vol 11 1995-1997
ISBN: 9780415173759 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lists the major research projects being undertaken in Britain during the latter months of 1994, the whole of 1995 and 1996 and the early months of 1997. Each entry provides names and addresses of the researcher, a detailed abstract, the source and amount of the grant (where applicable), the length of the project - or the fact of its continuance - and bibliographic details of published material about the research. Comprehensive author and subject indexes enable the reader to use the Register to its best advantage and to obtain accurate information with both speed and ease. The subject index is...
Lists the major research projects being undertaken in Britain during the latter months of 1994, the whole of 1995 and 1996 and the early months of 199...
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2014,95 zł |
Managing Discipline in Schools
ISBN: 9780415174916 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The management of discipline is an essential element in educational practice, and at a time when teachers and managers are anxious about reported increases in violence and other forms of anti-social behaviour there's a need for practical guidance and a review of current thinking. Based on the author's experience and research in a range of secondary and primary schools, this book presents accessible summaries of relevant legislation and guides the reader through management theories towards effective practice. The book: highlights the real problems and offers real solutions; includes...
The management of discipline is an essential element in educational practice, and at a time when teachers and managers are anxious about reported incr...
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110,78 zł |
Promoting Inclusive Practice
ISBN: 9780415180672 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Current policy demands that mainstream schools seek to include pupils with special educational needs. This book takes a close look at how exactly this aim can be achieved by examining the various parts of the educational process. The book discusses:
the practicalities of inclusive education the gap between inclusive policy and practice a re-configured role for special schools how the process of inclusion will develop beyond the classroom. Individuals who have learning difficulties are increasingly finding their place in non-specialist schools. This book considers the ways in... Current policy demands that mainstream schools seek to include pupils with special educational needs. This book takes a close look at how exactly this...
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201,44 zł |
Changing Vocational Education and Training : An International Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780415181426 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been the focus of change for some years. Many nations have developed VET systems with long-term strategies that benefit their economies, including co-ordinating economic, industrial and VET policies and achieving consensus among major stakeholders in the system. This text uses the findings of an international seminar held in 1996 to focus on how the principles of stakeholding, consensus, participation and democracy can be applied to policy formulation and implementation. Case studies, presented and discussed by experts from eight nations, provide...
Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been the focus of change for some years. Many nations have developed VET systems with long-term strategies...
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428,13 zł |
Changing Vocational Education and Training : An International Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780415181433 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been the focus of change for some years. Many nations have developed VET systems with long-term strategies that benefit their economies, including co-ordinating economic, industrial and VET policies and achieving consensus among major stakeholders in the system. This text uses the findings of an international seminar held in 1996 to focus on how the principles of stakeholding, consensus, participation and democracy can be applied to policy formulation and implementation. Case studies, presented and discussed by experts from eight nations, provide...
Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been the focus of change for some years. Many nations have developed VET systems with long-term strategies...
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161,14 zł |
Answering Back : Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools
ISBN: 9780415181907 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists.
This book challenges many sacred ideas about gender reform in schools and will surprise and unsettle teachers and researchers. It draws on a deep knowledge of gender issues in schools and of feminist theories, policies and practices. It is compelling and provocative reading at the leading edge. Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below,...
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705,23 zł |
Answering Back: Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools
ISBN: 9780415181914 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Try to apply feminist policies and ideas in staffrooms and what happens? What do girls, boys and teachers do when feminists try to change them and their schools? How do they feel? Are they in trouble or do they make trouble? This book exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists. This book challenges many ideas about gender reform in schools and should surprise and unsettle teachers and...
Try to apply feminist policies and ideas in staffrooms and what happens? What do girls, boys and teachers do when feminists try to change them and the...
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236,70 zł |
Re-Making Teaching: Ideology, Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780415186902 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which impact heavily on teachers and their work. Most of this reform has been achieved with little or no involvement of teachers themselves. This book sets out to survey the contemporary context of what is happening to the work of teaching, and focuses on Advanced Skills Teachers. It shows how teachers are 'speaking' the changes that are occuring to their work in protracted economically rationalist times.
Arguing against the discourses of economy as... Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which imp...
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216,55 zł |
Re-Making Teaching: Ideology, Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780415186919 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which impact heavily on teachers and their work. Most of this reform has been achieved with little or no involvement of teachers themselves. This book sets out to survey the contemporary context of what is happening to the work of teaching, and focuses on Advanced Skills Teachers. It shows how teachers are 'speaking' the changes that are occuring to their work in protracted economically rationalist times.
Arguing against the discourses of economy as... Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which imp...
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100,70 zł |
Gender, Policy and Educational Change : Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe
ISBN: 9780415194334 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection, written by researchers in the field, looks at how gender issues have affected educational policy in recent years. It explores how attempts to improve equal opportunities in education have fared and examines the tensions and contradictions in recent policies. The book is aimed at students on masters courses in education, and undergraduates on social policy and sociology courses.
This collection, written by researchers in the field, looks at how gender issues have affected educational policy in recent years. It explores how att...
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906,73 zł |
Gender, Policy and Educational Change: Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe
ISBN: 9780415194341 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender equality has been a major educational theme for the past two decades and has become interwoven with other policy themes, including those of marketisation and managerialism. Contributors to this strong collection are key researchers in their fields and seek to address the following questions:
* What patterns are discernible in the educational attainment of girls and boys over the past two decades? * To what extent are changes attributable to gender equality policies? * What form have gender equality policies taken in different parts of the UK? * What has been the impact of... Gender equality has been a major educational theme for the past two decades and has become interwoven with other policy themes, including those of mar...
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266,93 zł |
Positive Alternatives to Exclusion
ISBN: 9780415197588 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Positive Alternatives to School Exclusion looks at what schools can do to build more harmonious communities and engage students - particularly those at risk of exclusion - more productively in all areas of school life. It describes the Positive Alternatives to School Exclusion Project, a multi-phase, collaborative initiative based at the School of Education, University of Cambridge.
Drawing on the perspectives of staff and pupils, the authors provide detailed case studies of the approaches and strategies being adopted in a variety of settings (primary, secondary and FE) to foster... Positive Alternatives to School Exclusion looks at what schools can do to build more harmonious communities and engage students - particularl...
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216,55 zł |
Improving Schools and Governing Bodies : Making a Difference
ISBN: 9780415205108 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will provide school governors with a blueprint for working effectively and enthusiastically to bring about positive change in their schools, for the benefit of all those concerned.
This book will provide school governors with a blueprint for working effectively and enthusiastically to bring about positive change in their schools,...
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856,36 zł |
Improving Schools and Governing Bodies: Making a Difference
ISBN: 9780415205115 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides school governors with a blueprint for working effectively and enthusiastically to bring about positive change in their schools, for the benefit of all those concerned.
This book provides school governors with a blueprint for working effectively and enthusiastically to bring about positive change in their schools, for...
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266,93 zł |
Transforming Northicote School
ISBN: 9780415220927 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In February 1994 Northicote School, situated in a deprived area of Wolverhampton, was the first in the country to be named and shamed, OfSTED called the school 'appalling in almost every way'.
Then Geoff Hampton took over as head - five years later he was awarded a knighthood for transforming the fortunes of this failing school; and its pupils. This book pulls out the key points from the five year programme and shares successful strategies with other heads, governors and teachers. Full of clear advice and guidance fro new and experienced headteachers, containing sections on:... In February 1994 Northicote School, situated in a deprived area of Wolverhampton, was the first in the country to be named and shamed, OfSTED called t...
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236,70 zł |
School Improvement for Real
ISBN: 9780415230759 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a considerable amount of material on school improvement going back many years. This book, however, aims to bring together the different strands of improvement strategies, including action research, systematic problem solving, educational change, teacher effectiveness and staff development, to provide a comprehensive and innovative account. Topics discussed include: action research; systematic problem solving; educational change and school effectiveness; teacher efectiveness; and staff development.
There is a considerable amount of material on school improvement going back many years. This book, however, aims to bring together the different stran...
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856,36 zł |