No Country for the Young: Education from New Labour to the Coalition
ISBN: 9781872767284 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Coalition governments programme for education is a fundamental challenge to the idea of social justice. It has provoked widespread opposition. A wave of student militancy has swept through the universities. Local campaigns against academies and free schools have mobilised parents and teachers.
This is the emerging and contested terrain which this book explores. It situates it in a longer timespan_-the New Labour period as well as that of the Cameron government. The book brings together leading critics of neoliberal education policy. Nico Hirtt outlines the European Unions policy for the... The Coalition governments programme for education is a fundamental challenge to the idea of social justice. It has provoked widespread opposition. A w...
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110,92 zł |
Technical and Vocational Education and Training: An Investment-Based Approach
ISBN: 9781441187482 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vocational education is central to the plans of policy makers around the world; it underpins the development of the poorest economies, and the continued competitiveness of the richest. Technical and Vocational Education and Training debates the key issues: * How far can the same principles be applied to vocational learning in universities, colleges, schools and the workplace?* Do the needs of learners and the needs of the economy always coincide? Should teachers focus on the delivery of skills or the development of cultures?* What will determine whether what is learnt corresponds to what is...
Vocational education is central to the plans of policy makers around the world; it underpins the development of the poorest economies, and the continu...
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194,40 zł |
The Research Universities & Their Patrons
ISBN: 9780520046641 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's research universities--some fifty leading intellectual centers--have assumed a unique set of responsibilities. In addition to educating undergraduates, they house most of the nation's basic research and train virtually all new scientists and scholars. The health of these institutions is critical to the nation's intellectual life as well as to its economic well-being, military posture, and foreign policy. Robert Rosenzweig, reporting on a project sponsored by the Association of American Universities, examines the core functions of the research universities and explores how they might...
America's research universities--some fifty leading intellectual centers--have assumed a unique set of responsibilities. In addition to educating unde...
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296,00 zł |
A Cord of Three Strands: A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools
ISBN: 9781934742549 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can low-income, non-English-speaking parents become advocates, leaders, and role models in their children's schools? A Cord of Three Strands offers a close study of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, a grassroots organization on the northwest side of Chicago, whose work on parent engagement has drawn national attention.
The author identifies three elements--induction, integration, and investment--that together capture the dynamic and developmental nature of successful parent engagement. Writing with both optimism and urgency, author Soo Hong offers... How can low-income, non-English-speaking parents become advocates, leaders, and role models in their children's schools? A Cord of Three Strands
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177,48 zł |
Institutional Failures: Duke Lacrosse, Universities, the News Media, and the Legal System
ISBN: 9780754678731 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors of this new collection argue that the many features of the now-infamous Duke University men's lacrosse controversy are best understood in the context of the three major socio-legal institutions in which the drama played out. The legal system, Duke University, and the news media all struggled to respond to and handle the case, tinged as the events were with race, sex, violence, class, privilege, and notions and perceptions about sports. The problems, missteps, mistakes, and injustice in the case resulted from each institution's failure to operate properly, from the incentives built...
The authors of this new collection argue that the many features of the now-infamous Duke University men's lacrosse controversy are best understood in ...
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741,99 zł |
My Notre Dame: Memories and Reflections of Sixty Years
ISBN: 9780268014025 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,31 zł |
Educational Policies and Inequalities in Europe
ISBN: 9780230302037 / Angielski / Twarda / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes policies in eight European countries that aim to intervene in the reproduction of social and educational inequalities. In order to understand why some policies succeed and others fail, it is necessary to look at education systems through cross-national comparison.
This book analyzes policies in eight European countries that aim to intervene in the reproduction of social and educational inequalities. In order to ...
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390,87 zł |
Be a CHANGEMASTER: 12 Coaching Strategies for Leading Professional and Personal Change
ISBN: 9781412997454 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book will provide leaders and individuals with practical, doable coaching strategies they can apply today to create successful change.
The book will provide leaders and individuals with practical, doable coaching strategies they can apply today to create successful change.
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163,70 zł |
Transnational Distance Learning and Building New Markets for Universities
ISBN: 9781466602069 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When online learning began more than two decades ago, many universities envisioned the creation of international student markets, but this has only recently become a reality. The emergence of a global economy, advances in technology, increased market competition, reduced funding, and the growing desire for degrees from internationally recognized universities have created opportunities that promote transnational degrees. Transnational Distance Learning and Building New Markets for Universities presents the opportunities, methods, issues, and risks involved in extending university education...
When online learning began more than two decades ago, many universities envisioned the creation of international student markets, but this has only re...
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A University of Tradition: The Spirit of Purdue
ISBN: 9781557536303 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A University of Tradition is a fascinating compilation of history, customs, pictures, and facts about Purdue University from its founding in 1869 to the present day. Covering all aspects of Purdue, from the origin of the nickname of its students and alumni'Boilermakers'to a chronological list of all buildings ever constructed on the campus of West Lafayette, Indiana, this book presents the ultimate insider"s guide to one of the world"s great universities. It contains a wealth of facts about student, academic, sporting, and campus traditions, as well as biographical information on all the...
A University of Tradition is a fascinating compilation of history, customs, pictures, and facts about Purdue University from its founding in 1869 to t...
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129,24 zł |
Motivating the Middle: Fighting Apathy in College Student Organizations
ISBN: 9781604946901 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you lead a student organization and you're frustrated that you and a few others do all the work, you need to motivate a specific set of overlooked members. It's the concept that will set student leaders free. Stop focusing on those who check out or cause problems, and start focusing on those "middle third members" who hate drama, care for your organization, and prefer to play a supporting role. Directing your efforts toward the middle -- and understanding what they can contribute -- may solve your most pressing leadership challenges. "Motivating the Middle" offers a simple,... If you lead a student organization and you're frustrated that you and a few others do all the work, you need to motivate a specific set of overlook... |
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A Basic Plan for the Development of Haiti
ISBN: 9781619046658 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,87 zł |
A Cord of Three Strands : A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools
ISBN: 9781934742822 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can low-income, non-English-speaking parents become advocates, leaders, and role models in their children s schools? A Cord of Three Strands offers a close study of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, a grassroots organization on the northwest side of Chicago, whose work on parent engagement has drawn national attention.
The author identifies three elements induction, integration, and investment that together capture the dynamic and developmental nature of successful parent engagement. Writing with both optimism and urgency, author Soo Hong offers... How can low-income, non-English-speaking parents become advocates, leaders, and role models in their children s schools? A Cord of Three Strands
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269,05 zł |
Advances in School Effectiveness Research and Practice
ISBN: 9780080423920 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. Advances in School Effectiveness Research and Practice presents a worldwide state-of-the-art summary of the rapidly growing field of school effectiveness research by an internationally renowned group of authors.Current knowledge in the field is reviewed to present an integrated and coherent, internationally valid perspective on school effectiveness and instructional effectiveness.The book creatively outlines some new directions in which the field should move if it is to fulfil its promise. These include the development of international studies and the generating and testing of...
Hardbound. Advances in School Effectiveness Research and Practice presents a worldwide state-of-the-art summary of the rapidly growing field of school...
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225,11 zł |
The Great American Education-Industrial Complex: Ideology, Technology, and Profit
ISBN: 9780415524148 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives.
This title examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their ...
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250,69 zł |
Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics
ISBN: 9781441154699 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pierre Bourdieu is regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers of the twentieth century. His output included extensive studies of education, culture, art and language. He went beyond being a sociologist to being regarded in the same 'public intellectual' role as Sartre, de Beauvoir and Foucault.Issues surrounding language permeate Bourdieu's entire oeuvre. Although he did undertake empirical studies on language in a range of contexts, very little of this was published. This book redresses this balance; it sets out what Bourdieu has to say about language and why, and exemplifies... Pierre Bourdieu is regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers of the twentieth century. His output included extensive studies of education... |
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Inside the College Gates: How Class and Culture Matter in Higher Education
ISBN: 9780739148990 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To date, scholars in higher education have examined the ways in which students' experiences in the classroom and the human capital they attain impact social class inequalities. In this book, Jenny Stuber argues that the experiential core of college life-the social and extra-curricular worlds of higher education-operates as a setting in which social class inequalities manifest and get reproduced. As college students form friendships and get involved in activities like Greek life, study abroad, and student government, they acquire the social and cultural resources that give them access to...
To date, scholars in higher education have examined the ways in which students' experiences in the classroom and the human capital they attain impact ...
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226,23 zł |
Passport to Success: Strategic Planning at the Personal and Professional Levels
ISBN: 9781610485258 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tim L. Adsit's Passport to Success is the resource that will help educators and administrators successfully move from one destination to the next, in both professional and personal worlds. Use this helpful guide to clarify personal, career, and financial goals. Adist provides key strategies that will help determine appropriate career progressions and alternatives. With an individual mission statement and strategic plan, you will be able to establish long-term objectives that will make it easier to navigate your life's trajectory.
Tim L. Adsit's Passport to Success is the resource that will help educators and administrators successfully move from one destination to the next, in ...
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134,66 zł |
Organisational Design: What Your University Forgot to Teach You
ISBN: 9781477148884 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,01 zł |
Organisational Design: What Your University Forgot to Teach You
ISBN: 9781477148891 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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254,04 zł |