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Coming of Age in Times of Crisis: Youth, Schooling, and Patriarchy in a Venezuelan Town
ISBN: 9780312293574 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an ethnographic study of secondary school youth growing up in a rural town in the Venezuelan Andes in the 1990s. Janise Hurtig draws on her experiences as a school ethnographer, English teacher, and student advisor, to provide an engaging, intimate, and critical exploration of the ways Santa Lucian students learned about, made sense of, and worked with the conflicting dreams and disillusions, promises and expectations of formal education and negligent patriarchy, to create individual adult identities. Through the concepts of "coming of age" and "crisis,"...
Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an ethnographic study of secondary school youth growing up in a rural town in the Venezuelan Andes in the 1990s. J...
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193,19 zł |
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Inside Schools: Ethnography in Schools
ISBN: 9780415059183 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethnography has much to offer teachers, especially at a time of growing interest in the teacher-researcher and in action and collaborative research. This text examines ethnography and its applications to teaching.
Ethnography has much to offer teachers, especially at a time of growing interest in the teacher-researcher and in action and collaborative research. T...
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169,47 zł |
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Organizing for School Change
ISBN: 9780415362269 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Improving education is a key priority for governments around the world. While many suggestions on how best to achieve this are currently under debate, years of academic research have already revealed more about how to encourage change than is sometimes assumed. This volume brings together for the first time some of the most significant work of Karen Seashore Louis, one of the foremost thinkers and researchers in the field. Organizing for School Change presents a unique variety of research-based results from studies conducted over the past twenty-five years. What emerges is... Improving education is a key priority for governments around the world. While many suggestions on how best to achieve this are currently under deba... |
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693,51 zł |
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Women, Clubs and Associations in Britain
ISBN: 9780415368667 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women have been consistently excluded from all manner of clubs and associations over the years, whether as the direct result of an anti-woman policy or indirectly through prohibitive entry requirements, social constraints, or conflict of interests and tastes. Retaliation from women has taken two directions: some women have set up their own exclusive clubs that reflect their own interests and aims, while others have taken on the men and striven to break down resistance to their joining 'men's' clubs on an equal footing. This book traces the development of the current situation,... Women have been consistently excluded from all manner of clubs and associations over the years, whether as the direct result of an anti-woman polic... |
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899,00 zł |
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Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach for America
ISBN: 9780415945905 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the inside story of the more than 8,000 recent college graduates who have joined Teach for America and committed two years of service to teaching in the nation's most troubled public schools. These inexperienced teachers come to class armed with little more than their idealism and the conviction that every student, regardless of race or background, deserves an excellent education. They take the toughest jobs at the toughest schools in the toughest districts, and they face the raw realities of America's public education system: dilapidated schools, too few books, and overcrowded...
This is the inside story of the more than 8,000 recent college graduates who have joined Teach for America and committed two years of service to teach...
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616,46 zł |
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The Firefighting Buff's Guide to New York City: The Five Borough, Five Alarm Reference to the Second Homes of New York's Bravest
ISBN: 9780595246021 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,06 zł |
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An Education System Worthy of Malaysia
ISBN: 9780595265909 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Malaysia s highly centralized and tightly controlled system of education fails in educating and integrating the young. It is also ill suited for a plural society.
Malaysia s highly centralized and tightly controlled system of education fails in educating and integrating the young. It is also ill suited for a plu...
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81,90 zł |
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Who Controls Teachers' Work?: Power and Accountability in America's Schools
ISBN: 9780674019904 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schools are places of learning but they are also workplaces, and teachers are employees. As such, are teachers more akin to professionals or to factory workers in the amount of control they have over their work? And what difference does it make? Drawing on large national surveys as well as wide-ranging interviews with high school teachers and administrators, Richard Ingersoll reveals the shortcomings in the two opposing viewpoints that dominate thought on this subject: that schools are too decentralized and lack adequate control and accountability; and that schools are too... Schools are places of learning but they are also workplaces, and teachers are employees. As such, are teachers more akin to professionals or to fac... |
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161,95 zł |
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Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy
ISBN: 9780674021099 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happens to federal and state policies as they move from legislative chambers to individual districts, schools, and, ultimately, classrooms? Although policy implementation is generally seen as an administrative problem, James Spillane reminds us that it is also a psychological problem. After intensively studying several school districts' responses to new statewide science and math teaching policies in the early 1990s, Spillane argues that administrators and teachers are inclined to assimilate new policies into current practices. As new programs are communicated through... What happens to federal and state policies as they move from legislative chambers to individual districts, schools, and, ultimately, classrooms? Al... |
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161,95 zł |
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Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses
ISBN: 9780674025387 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ford Motor Company would not have survived the competition had it not been for an emphasis on results. We must view education the same way," the U.S. Secretary of Education declared in 2003. But is he right? In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring clichE that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education. In this straight-talking book, one of the most distinguished scholars in education charts the Gilded Age beginnings of... "Ford Motor Company would not have survived the competition had it not been for an emphasis on results. We must view education the same way," the U... |
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147,14 zł |
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The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions
ISBN: 9780691050195 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the book that has forever changed the debate on affirmative action in America. The Shape of the River is the most far-reaching and comprehensive study of its kind. It brings a wealth of empirical evidence to bear on how race-sensitive admissions policies actually work and clearly defines the effects they have had on over 45,000 students of different races. Its conclusions mark a turning point in national discussions of affirmative action--anything less than factual evidence will no longer suffice in any serious debate of this vital question. Glenn Loury's new foreword... This is the book that has forever changed the debate on affirmative action in America. The Shape of the River is the most far-reaching and c... |
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173,04 zł |
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College of Charleston
ISBN: 9780738506364 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,60 zł |
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Middle Tennessee State University
ISBN: 9780738513614 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Middle Tennessee State University was founded in 1911 as a two-year training school for teachers and has since evolved through myriad changes--in name, in size, in administration, and in academic and athletic resources. Change has also swept through the campus with the ebb and tide of the American climate during some of the twentieth century's most turbulent eras, including World Wars I and II, the New Deal period, and the Civil Rights Movement. What has remained steadfast through the years at this revered Tennessee institution is a commitment to excellence, and a faculty, staff, and student...
Middle Tennessee State University was founded in 1911 as a two-year training school for teachers and has since evolved through myriad changes--in name...
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102,60 zł |
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University of Pennsylvania
ISBN: 9780738535227 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the time photography was invented in the 1830s, the University of Pennsylvania, America's first university, was nearly a century old. University of Pennsylvania, a unique photographic collection, focuses on the school's history at its present campus in West Philadelphia beginning shortly after the end of the Civil War and provides images of more than a century of student life inside and outside the classroom. In every category, from campus landmarks to the student body to the traditions that bind the community together, these photographs demonstrate the close connections between Penn's...
By the time photography was invented in the 1830s, the University of Pennsylvania, America's first university, was nearly a century old. University of...
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102,60 zł |
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International Education in Practice: Dimensions for National & International Schools
ISBN: 9780749438357 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by three leading figures in the field, this book offers an absolutely authoritative interpretation of international education today. Under the umbrella of groups such as the International Baccalaureate Organization, academic research, increasing student numbers and interest from national school systems, international schools are rapidly developing in terms of curriculum, standards and influence. This book brings together present thinking on all aspects of international education, its management and the best practices.
Truly international in scope, this is a book that anyone... Edited by three leading figures in the field, this book offers an absolutely authoritative interpretation of international education today. Under the ...
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308,18 zł |
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Coming to Critical Engagement: An Autoethnographic Exploration
ISBN: 9780761834717 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. What had been viewed previously as service to, extension of, and outreach from is now engagement with as faculty members, students, and staff collaborate with partners in community affairs. This book describes how members of a faculty learning community have come to understand engagement as both intellectual endeavor and scholarly practice at the interface between academy and citizenry.
Engagement is the label increasingly embraced by higher education to describe activities associated with serving the public interest. What had been vi...
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397,09 zł |
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Coming Even Cleaner about Organizational Change
ISBN: 9780810847392 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An expanded, updated version of 1997's Coming Clean About Organizational Change, this version contains 50 percent new references and 40 percent new content including chapters on organizational culture, resilience, new conceptual frameworks on organizational change, and zones of individual performance. Readers will learn how to work within the reality of an imposed change and be true to the values of the change initiatives held as an educational leader. Topics include: New Ways to Think About Organizational Change, Leadership, and Resilience, A Leader's Guide to Understanding Organizational...
An expanded, updated version of 1997's Coming Clean About Organizational Change, this version contains 50 percent new references and 40 percent new co...
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216,30 zł |
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Directory of Japan Specialists and Japanese Studies Institutions in the United States and Canada: Japanese Studies in the United States
ISBN: 9780824831455 / Angielski / Twarda / 3 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This directory in three volumes updates the second edition of the Directory of Japan Specialists and Japanese Studies Institutions in the United States and Canada, which was published in 1995 as a joint project of The Japan Foundation and the Association for Asian Studies. Like its predecessors, it has two aims: first, to make Japan specialists, Japanese studies programs, and their collective expertise more visible and accessible to those outside the field; and, second, to help those involved in Japanese studies stay in touch with one another. It includes 1,480 Japan specialists, 266 full... This directory in three volumes updates the second edition of the Directory of Japan Specialists and Japanese Studies Institutions in the United St... |
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416,38 zł |
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Developing a Questionnaire
ISBN: 9780826496317 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing a Questionnaire: 2nd Edition is a comprehensive guide to the successful design and implementation of questionnaires as a research method. It covers: This second edition contains new chapters on the use of questionnaires in surveys, face-to-face questionnaires and telephone interviews. Developing a Questionnaire: 2nd Edition is a comprehensive guide to the successful design and implementation of questionnaires as a research method... |
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143,79 zł |
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Organizing Parent Groups: A Structured Approach to Parent Involvement
ISBN: 9780893342395 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Parent involvement is a crucial aspect in any child s education and for too long this essential part of a program has been neglected. This book is written as a practical guidebook for coordinators of parent involvement programs. Whether you are trying to start a brand new program or to revitalize an old one, the methods for success are presented in this timely work. "
Parent involvement is a crucial aspect in any child s education and for too long this essential part of a program has been neglected. This book is... |
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102,77 zł |