Wartime Schooling and Education Policy in the Second World War: Catholic Education, Memory and the Government in Occupied Belgium
ISBN: 9781137520104 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with the development of private secondary schooling during the Second World War in Belgium. It focuses on how the German occupier used education to gain acceptance of the regime, and discusses the attitudes of Belgian education authorities, schools, teachers and pupils towards the German occupation. Suggesting that the occupation forced Belgian education authorities, such as the Roman Catholic Church, to take certain positions, the book explores the wartime experiences and memories of pupils and teachers. It explains that the German Culture Department was relatively weak in...
This book deals with the development of private secondary schooling during the Second World War in Belgium. It focuses on how the German occupier used...
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194,97 zł |
The Troika of Adult Learners, Lifelong Learning, and Mathematics: Learning from Research, Current Paradoxes, Tensions and Promotional Strategies
ISBN: 9783319328072 / Angielski / Miękka / 41 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a synopsis of six emerging themes in adult mathematics/numeracy and a critical discussion of recent developments in terms of policies, provisions, and the emerging challenges, paradoxes and tensions. It also offers an extensive review of the literature adult mathematics education. Why do adults want to learn mathematics? Did they enjoy mathematics at school so much that they want to continue? NO Most of these adults have to learn mathematics because it is part of a formal qualification they need, because their job demands the ability to apply mathematics, or because... This book presents a synopsis of six emerging themes in adult mathematics/numeracy and a critical discussion of recent developments in terms of pol... |
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36,42 zł |
Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
ISBN: 9781620972366 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers," challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small. Through delicately crafted portraits of these memorable children--Zora, Lucas, Sean, and Marcus--Troublemakers allows us to see school through the...
In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers," challenging the ...
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111,17 zł |
Technology, Theory, and Practice in Interdisciplinary Stem Programs: Connecting Stem and Non-Stem Approaches
ISBN: 9781137567383 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights models for promoting interdisciplinary thinking and an appreciation for interdisciplinary understanding among students in STEM-related fields.
This book highlights models for promoting interdisciplinary thinking and an appreciation for interdisciplinary understanding among students in STEM-re...
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194,97 zł |
Common Sense Education: From Common Core to Essa and Beyond
ISBN: 9781475825114 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has again changed education for public schools and communities. Common Core is now optional and the role of Secretary of Education has been limited by no longer incentivizing states, as done under Common Core. This book analyzes the new direction today s schools must pursue for student learning and their success beyond high school."
The 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has again changed education for public schools and communities. Common Core is now optional ...
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160,97 zł |
Common Sense Education: From Common Core to Essa and Beyond
ISBN: 9781475825107 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has again changed education for public schools and communities. Common Core is now optional and the role of Secretary of Education has been limited by no longer incentivizing states, as done under Common Core. This book analyzes the new direction today s schools must pursue for student learning and their success beyond high school."
The 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has again changed education for public schools and communities. Common Core is now optional ...
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321,93 zł |
Transforming Schools Through Systems Change
ISBN: 9781475822328 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone wants to transform schools. The question is: How? This book, the second in the Powerless to Powerful series, provides answers. Comprehensively describing systems that support teachers and students in a holistic and humanistic way, Transforming Schools Through Systems Change offers a road map for those in struggling schools who want to see real change resulting in improved student achievement. Building on a conceptual framework that combines academic press, social support, and relational trust, the authors describe how to create and implement systems at the district, school-wide,...
Everyone wants to transform schools. The question is: How? This book, the second in the Powerless to Powerful series, provides answers. Comprehensivel...
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107,26 zł |
Transforming Schools Through Systems Change
ISBN: 9781475822311 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyone wants to transform schools. The question is: How? This book, the second in the Powerless to Powerful series, provides answers. Comprehensively describing systems that support teachers and students in a holistic and humanistic way, Transforming Schools Through Systems Change offers a road map for those in struggling schools who want to see real change resulting in improved student achievement. Building on a conceptual framework that combines academic press, social support, and relational trust, the authors describe how to create and implement systems at the district, school-wide,...
Everyone wants to transform schools. The question is: How? This book, the second in the Powerless to Powerful series, provides answers. Comprehensivel...
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219,99 zł |
Romances with Schools: A Life of Education
ISBN: 9781475804249 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Romances with Schools, John Goodlad steps out from behind the public persona of distinguished scholar and advocate for public schooling to offer a moving personal account of a life devoted to educating the young. He deftly interweaves fascinating personal details with reflections on many of the larger issues in education that he has explored throughout his career.
In Romances with Schools, John Goodlad steps out from behind the public persona of distinguished scholar and advocate for public schooling to offer a ...
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107,26 zł |
Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education
ISBN: 9781137535986 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover of the higher education system which began in the 1980s has conventionally been understood as universities being transformed into businesses which sell education and research in a competitive market. This engaging and provocative book argues that this is not actually the case. Drawing on lived experience, Watts asserts that the reality is actually a consequence of contradictory government policy and new public management whose exponents talk and...
This book provides a rigorous examination into the realities of the current university system in Britain, America and Australia. The radical makeover ...
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467,99 zł |
Funding the Rise of Mass Schooling: The Social, Economic and Cultural History of School Finance in Sweden, 1840 - 1900
ISBN: 9783319404592 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents expert analysis on how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was funded during the nineteenth century. Based on rich source materials from rural Swedish school districts, and drawing up evidence from schooling in countries including France, Germany, England and the U.S., Westberg examines the moral considerations that guided economic practices and sheds new light on how the advent of schooling did not only rest upon monies, but also on grains, firewood and cow fodder. Exploring school districts' motives and economic culture, this book shows how schooling was neither... This book presents expert analysis on how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was funded during the nineteenth century. Based on rich source mate... |
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194,97 zł |
Unterrichtsentwicklungen Im Fach Mathematik: Leistungsbegleitung in Der Klasse, Einstellungen Und Kooperation Von Lehrkräften
ISBN: 9783658139391 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Klaudia Singer vergleicht in ihrer Untersuchung theoretische Modelle fur eine qualitative Weiterentwicklung des Mathematikunterrichts mit der "taglich gelebten Praxis." Sie diskutiert aktuelle Entwicklungen und zeigt mogliche nicht intendierte Prozesse sowie vielversprechende positive Ansatzmoglichkeiten auf. Den Ausgangspunkt fur die Uberlegungen und Analysen bildet die Einfuhrung einer standardisierten, kompetenzorientierten Reifeprufung in Osterreich. Klaudia Singer vergleicht in ihrer Untersuchung theoretische Modelle fur eine qualitative Weiterentwicklung des Mathematikunterrichts mit der "tagl... |
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145,75 zł |
Graduate Employability in Context: Theory, Research and Debate
ISBN: 9781137571670 / Angielski / Twarda / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the highly significant and contested area of graduate employability and employment which is paid so much attention by those in the media and policy-makers. This is driven largely by concerns over the wider economic impact and value of graduates as increasing numbers complete their studies in higher education. At a time when graduates are seen as key to economic success, the critical question remains as to how their employability plays out in a changing labour market. This book brings together innovative approaches and research to present an extensive survey of the field.... This book explores the highly significant and contested area of graduate employability and employment which is paid so much attention by those in t... |
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585,00 zł |
Building a Better Teacher: Understanding Value-Added Models in the Law of Teacher Evaluation
ISBN: 9781475807295 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mark Paige takes an in-depth look at the interaction of Value Added Models (VAMs) and the law of teacher evaluation. It notes that the hasty adoption of VAMs in evaluation and employment law actually complicates efforts to improve teacher quality, especially at the local level. In brief, VAMs' costs vastly outweigh their benefits. The book advocates for a complete removal of VAMs in high-stakes decisions. It sets forth numerous recommendations for administrators and policymakers to enable them to effectively deal with the complications created by VAMs.
Mark Paige takes an in-depth look at the interaction of Value Added Models (VAMs) and the law of teacher evaluation. It notes that the hasty adoption ...
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321,93 zł |
Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education
ISBN: 9781349444151 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some of the most prominent sociologists working in education today have collaborated to address a wide range of empirical and theoretical issues. Adopting an international perspective, this book foregrounds cutting-edge research that highlights both the diversity and complexity of understanding education in society.
Some of the most prominent sociologists working in education today have collaborated to address a wide range of empirical and theoretical issues. Adop...
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194,97 zł |
Philanthropy and Education: Strategies for Impact
ISBN: 9781349459674 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philanthropic foundations play an increasingly important role in attempts to enhance the performance of school systems. Based on case studies from Germany, Switzerland and the US, this book develops an innovative model of effective education philanthropy for successfully tackling problems in the complex field of education.
Philanthropic foundations play an increasingly important role in attempts to enhance the performance of school systems. Based on case studies from Ger...
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194,97 zł |
The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education
ISBN: 9781349338498 / Angielski / Miękka / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality over the last thirty years in eighteen different national contexts.
This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship bet...
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389,98 zł |
Higher Education in Ireland: Practices, Policies and Possibilities
ISBN: 9781349450336 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection provides the first in-depth, interdisciplinary and over-arching review of higher education in Ireland, situating higher education within the socio-cultural, political and historical context of the country over the past 40 years and the development of European and national policies.
This collection provides the first in-depth, interdisciplinary and over-arching review of higher education in Ireland, situating higher education with...
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194,97 zł |
The Politics of Financing Education in China
ISBN: 9781349435975 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders prove reluctant to equalize education when doing so means sacrificing their future promotion.
Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders pro...
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194,97 zł |
Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum: International Studies in Social Realism
ISBN: 9781349491797 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributors argue that the purpose of education is to provide all students with access to powerful knowledge so that they acquire the means to move beyond their experiences and enhance their lives.
This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributor...
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389,98 zł |