Educational Research: Discourses of Change and Changes of Discourse
ISBN: 9783319304557 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection addresses concepts and theories of change, contexts and functions of reform discourses, and fields of change in educational research. It examines a wide variety of issues such as girls' education in France, educational neuroscience, the professionalization in Child Protection, and mathematics discourses. It pays attention to the pervasiveness of crisis rhetoric in American Education Research, to the current university climate, and to perspectives for teacher education. The volume presents in-depth studies that integrate the perspective of history and philosophy of... This collection addresses concepts and theories of change, contexts and functions of reform discourses, and fields of change in educational researc... |
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Pädagogisches Können in Der Migrationsgesellschaft
ISBN: 9783658072957 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Padagogisches Handeln in der Migrationsgesellschaft findet in Moglichkeitsraumen statt, die strukturell, institutionell und diskursiv durch Spannungs- und Widerspruchsverhaltnisse gerahmt sind. In den Beitragen wird diskutiert, was unter diesen Bedingungen padagogisches Konnen kennzeichnen kann, welche Themen und Inhalte bedeutsam sind und wie diese in der Praxis padagogischer Professionalisierung wirksam werden (sollten). Befragt werden gewohnte Praxen, Institutionalisierungsformen padagogischen Handelns, sowie padagogische Selbstverstandnisse. Reflexivitat wird als methodisch-didaktische... Padagogisches Handeln in der Migrationsgesellschaft findet in Moglichkeitsraumen statt, die strukturell, institutionell und diskursiv durch Spannun... |
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250,45 zł |
Social Capital and Community Well-Being: The Serve Here Initiative
ISBN: 9783319332628 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive overview of how communities can leverage their social capital to improve overall quality of life for citizens. In addition, it offers detailed guidance on the design, implementation, and evaluation of social capital initiatives. It defines critical concepts of social capital, its decline in recent years, and the potential for rebuilding it through progressive social policy initiatives. Chapters present an innovative social policy template, Serve Here, for improving Americans collective quality of life, starting with young adults. Serve Here sets out a...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of how communities can leverage their social capital to improve overall quality of life for citizens. In a...
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382,84 zł |
Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film: Fatal Theory and Education
ISBN: 9781498501507 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film examines the problematic portrayal of youth in American cinema with Jean Baudrillard's radical social theory and philosophical system. Kline uses Baudrillard's corpus to analyze the troubling effects of the portrayal of youth in American teen films, namely, its contribution to discursive violence against young people which holds such a prominent place in many adult-controlled, modern institutions like schools. This kind of violence has multiple iterations, including the inability to imagine youth as meaningful political actors, the insistence on taking...
Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film examines the problematic portrayal of youth in American cinema with Jean Baudrillard's radical social theory and...
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395,33 zł |
Advancing Educational Outcomes in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
ISBN: 9780761867883 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to describe critical success factors impacting students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at historically Black colleges and universities. The information in this book is designed to enhance strategies and research to improve students' engagement experiences, graduation rates, and career development outcomes.
The purpose of this book is to describe critical success factors impacting students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathemat...
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412,76 zł |
Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education: Current Thinking
ISBN: 9783319296548 / Angielski / Miękka / 37 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the current thinking on five critical social and political areas in mathematics education. It focuses on material conditions in teaching and learning, and details features of social life and their influence on mathematics teaching, learning and achievement. Following an introduction, the first section addresses equitable access and participation in quality mathematics education. It explores this issue in different contexts and from different ideological perspectives. The second section traces the emergence and development of the notion of activism in mathematics... This book examines the current thinking on five critical social and political areas in mathematics education. It focuses on material conditions in ... |
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35,76 zł |
Sole Parent Students and Higher Education: Gender, Policy and Widening Participation
ISBN: 9781137598868 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how sole parents are constituted within university contexts, through social discourse and social policies. The gendered assumptions of female parental care-work are analysed as both constraining and enabling sole parent participation in higher education. Social welfare policies and the policies of university institutions are also considered as central to the experiences of sole parents who study at universities. This book explores the sense of belonging and engagement for sole parents in higher education with a view to challenging how universities engage with...
This book examines how sole parents are constituted within university contexts, through social discourse and social policies. The gendered assumptions...
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191,40 zł |
The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9781442223639 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 3rd edition of the award winning Adaptive Schools Sourcebook provides both a theoretical and practical guide for groups and teams to develop and focus their collaborative energies to improve teaching practices and enhance student-learning outcomes. In five sections: Becoming Adaptive, Collaboration Matters, Meetings are Teachers' Work, Resources for Inquiry, and Conflict, Change and Community, the authors draw on decades of personal experiences in schools and research from multiple disciplines to present powerful tools and useful templates for structuring the work of productive...
This 3rd edition of the award winning Adaptive Schools Sourcebook provides both a theoretical and practical guide for groups and teams to develop and ...
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358,43 zł |
Does Mathematical Study Develop Logical Thinking?: Testing the Theory of Formal Discipline
ISBN: 9781786340689 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries, educational policymakers have believed that studying mathematics is important, in part because it develops general thinking skills that are useful throughout life. This 'Theory of Formal Discipline' (TFD) has been used as justification of mathematics education globally. Despite this, few empirical studies have directly investigated the issue, and those which have showed mixed results.Does Mathematical Study Develop Logical Thinking? describes a rigorous investigation of the TFD. It reviews the theory's history and prior research on the topic, followed by reports on a series of...
For centuries, educational policymakers have believed that studying mathematics is important, in part because it develops general thinking skills that...
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425,64 zł |
Research, Boundaries, and Policy in Networked Learning
ISBN: 9783319311289 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents cutting-edge, peer reviewed research on networked learning organized by three themes: policy in networked learning, researching networked learning, and boundaries in networked learning. The "policy in networked learning" section explores networked learning in relation to policy networks, spaces of algorithmic governance and more.
This book presents cutting-edge, peer reviewed research on networked learning organized by three themes: policy in networked learning, researching net...
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382,84 zł |
Teacher Education: Innovation, Intervention and Impact
ISBN: 9789811007842 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, an inaugural publication from the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), Teacher Education: Innovation, Intervention and Impact is both a product of, and seeks to contribute to, the changing global and political times in teacher education research. This book marks an historically significant shift in the collective work and outreach of the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) as it endeavours to become an even more active contributor to a research-rich foundation for initial teacher education and to a research-informed teaching profession. The book... This book, an inaugural publication from the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), Teacher Education: Innovation, Intervention and Im... |
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382,84 zł |
Keep the Damned Women Out: The Struggle for Coeducation
ISBN: 9780691172996 / Angielski / Twarda / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance. As one alumnus put it in a letter to his alma mater, "Keep the damned women out." Focusing on the complexities of institutional decision making, this book tells the story of this momentous era in higher education--revealing how coeducation was achieved not by organized efforts of women... As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the U... |
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158,13 zł |
Improving Schools and Educational Systems: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9781138139343 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resulted in a wide-range of improvement programmes and initiatives which can provide both inspiration and advice to everyone involved in school improvement. This book draws together the most effective school improvement projects from around the world in one comprehensive text, including detailed comparative analysis of a wide variety of initiatives. Drawing on examples from the UK, the USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia this book gives... School improvement has become a dominant feature of educational reform in many countries. The pressure upon schools to improve performance has resu... |
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650,97 zł |
Every Child Matters: A Practical Guide for Teachers
ISBN: 9781138172043 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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575,86 zł |
Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well
ISBN: 9781138924406 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers from their own professional and instructional agency, and stultify children s passion for learning, new techniques are needed for understanding and transforming educational practices. Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well facilitates meaningful change in early years education by providing early childhood and elementary school teachers with methods to incorporate narrative into their instruction and inquiry. This book offers... As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers from their own professional and instructional ag... |
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676,01 zł |
Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well
ISBN: 9781138924413 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers from their own professional and instructional agency, and stultify children s passion for learning, new techniques are needed for understanding and transforming educational practices. Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well facilitates meaningful change in early years education by providing early childhood and elementary school teachers with methods to incorporate narrative into their instruction and inquiry. This book offers... As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers from their own professional and instructional ag... |
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185,23 zł |
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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191,40 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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35,76 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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107,63 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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191,40 zł |