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Boys and Literacy: Exploring the Issues
ISBN: 9780415237611 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years the issue of boys and literacy, namely that they are worse at it compared to girls, has become a key area of interest to all those concerned with the education of our children. This book highlights the key factors causing this divide and discusses the implementation of new strategies to overcome it, which have been the result of extensive qualitative research made by the author. Trisha Maynard reports case study findings of a primary school whose staff wanted to explore and improve boys' attitudes towards and attainment in literacy, and in particular their difficulties with...
In recent years the issue of boys and literacy, namely that they are worse at it compared to girls, has become a key area of interest to all those con...
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218,11 |
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Philosophical Discussion in Moral Education: The Community of Ethical Inquiry
ISBN: 9780415241724 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years there has been an increase in the number of calls for moral education to receive greater public attention. In our pluralist society, however, it is difficult to find agreement on what exactly moral education requires. Philosophical Discussion in Moral Education develops a detailed philosophical defence of the claim that teachers should engage students in ethical discussions to promote moral competence and strengthen moral character. Paying particular attention to the teacher's role, this book highlights the justification for, and methods of, creating a classroom...
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of calls for moral education to receive greater public attention. In our pluralist society, h...
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702,94 |
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Graduate Citizens: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education
ISBN: 9780415257220 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the introduction of student loans and tuition fees, the situation of students and new graduates has changed considerably. Set in this context, Graduate Citizens is a thought-provoking, and insightful look at the current generation of students' attitudes towards citizenship and matters of social and moral responsibility.
Drawing on small-scale case studies of students in two universities, the authors explore students' changing sense of citizenship against the backdrop of recent changes in higher education. It addresses students' approaches to being in debt, the role of... Following the introduction of student loans and tuition fees, the situation of students and new graduates has changed considerably. Set in this contex...
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727,18 |
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Graduate Citizens: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education
ISBN: 9780415257237 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the introduction of student loans and tuition fees, the situation of students and new graduates has changed considerably. Set in this context, Graduate Citizens is a thought-provoking, and insightful look at the current generation of students' attitudes towards citizenship and matters of social and moral responsibility.
Drawing on small-scale case studies of students in two universities, the authors explore students' changing sense of citizenship against the backdrop of recent changes in higher education. It addresses students' approaches to being in debt, the role of... Following the introduction of student loans and tuition fees, the situation of students and new graduates has changed considerably. Set in this contex...
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106,61 |
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Making Sense of Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Theory of Education and Teaching
ISBN: 9780415274869 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Sense of Education provides a contemporary introduction to the key issues in educational philosophy and theory. Exploring major past and present conceptions of education, teaching and learning, this book makes philosophy of education relevant to the professional practice of teachers and student teachers, as well of interest to those studying education as an academic subject.
Making Sense of Education provides a contemporary introduction to the key issues in educational philosophy and theory. Exploring major pas... |
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872,61 |
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Lessons for the Future: The Missing Dimension in Education
ISBN: 9780415276726 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on research in futures studies, this book provides insights into ways of helping both students and teachers think more critically and creatively about their own future and that of wider society. It acknowledge s the crucial role of education in helping young people understand the nature of local and global change and the social and environmental impacts such change will have on their future. Setting out a clear educational rationale for promoting global and futures perspective in education, it provides examples of futures-orientated classroom activities. It also includes research into...
Drawing on research in futures studies, this book provides insights into ways of helping both students and teachers think more critically and creative...
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775,66 |
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Children and the Changing Family : Between Transformation and Negotiation
ISBN: 9780415277730 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make in response to these changes. Despite claims that society is becoming increasingly child-centred, this book argues that children still have little influence over the major changes in their lives....
This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around thr...
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872,61 |
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Children and the Changing Family: Between Transformation and Negotiation
ISBN: 9780415277747 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make in response to these changes. Despite claims that society is becoming increasingly child-centred, this book argues that children still have little influence over the major changes in their...
This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around thr...
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237,50 |
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Violence in Schools: The Response in Europe
ISBN: 9780415278225 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Violence in schools is a pervasive, highly emotive and, above all, global problem. Bullying and its negative social consequences are of perennial concern, while the media regularly highlights incidences of violent assault - and even murder - occurring within schools. This unique and fascinating text offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of how European nations are tackling this serious issue.
Violence in Schools: The Response in Europe, brings together contributions from all EU member states and two associated states. Each chapter begins by clearly outlining the nature of... Violence in schools is a pervasive, highly emotive and, above all, global problem. Bullying and its negative social consequences are of perennial conc...
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848,38 |
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Violence in Schools: The Response in Europe
ISBN: 9780415278232 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Violence in schools is a pervasive, highly emotive and, above all, global problem. Bullying and its negative social consequences are of perennial concern, while the media regularly highlights incidences of violent assault - and even murder - occurring within schools. This text brings together accounts of the school violence situation in each EU nation.
Violence in schools is a pervasive, highly emotive and, above all, global problem. Bullying and its negative social consequences are of perennial conc...
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242,34 |
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Against the Flow: Education, the Art and Postmodern Culture
ISBN: 9780415297912 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At once provocative and inspiring, Against the Flow is a work of polemic from an internationally respected writer and thinker on arts education. Peter Abbs argues that contemporary education ignores the aesthetic and ethical as a result of being in thrall to such forces as the market economy and managerial and functional dictates. He identifies the present education system as being inimical to creativity and authentic learning and instead, narrowly focused on the quantitative measuring of results. This absence of a creative and ethical dimension in education has implications for art...
At once provocative and inspiring, Against the Flow is a work of polemic from an internationally respected writer and thinker on arts educati...
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848,38 |
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Against the Flow : Education, the Art and Postmodern Culture
ISBN: 9780415297929 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Against The Flow' is a provocative and eloquent argument for the need to reconsider the role and nature of arts education so that education as a whole is liberated from a narrow focus shaped by the market economy, and for education to become an end in itself, rather than a means to an end.
'Against The Flow' is a provocative and eloquent argument for the need to reconsider the role and nature of arts education so that education as a whol...
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237,50 |
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Ethical Foundations for Educational Administration: Essays in Honour of Christopher Hodgkinson
ISBN: 9780415298711 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of essays opens up the philosophical foundations of ethical educational administration by reviewing Christopher Hodgkinson's writings and exploring the ethical theories of major philosophers, as they apply to administration and leadership. Ethical Foundations of Educational Administration is divided into two sections. The first comprises biographical essays and a critical evaluation of Professor Hodgkinson's work, focusing on his personal and intellectual contributions to a moral theory of educational administration and leadership. The second section looks at how his moral...
This volume of essays opens up the philosophical foundations of ethical educational administration by reviewing Christopher Hodgkinson's writings and ...
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775,66 |
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Education, Autonomy and Critical Thinking
ISBN: 9780415322379 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concepts of autonomy and of critical thinking are of key importance in many contemporary accounts of the aims of education. Education, Autonomy and Critical Thinking analyzes their relationship to each other and to education, explores their roles in mortality and politics, and examines the part critical thinking has to play in fulfilling the educational aim of preparing young people for autonomy. Assessing the significance of the concern with critical rationality as a key intellectual component for a worthwhile life involving autonomy, this book also examines important... The concepts of autonomy and of critical thinking are of key importance in many contemporary accounts of the aims of education. Education, Auto... |
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678,70 |
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On Education
ISBN: 9780415327893 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is education for? Should it produce workers or educate future citizens? Is there a place for faith schools - and should patriotism be taught? In this compelling and controversial book, Harry Brighouse takes on all these urgent questions and more. He argues that children share four fundamental interests: the ability to make their own judgements about what values to adopt; acquiring the skills that will enable them to become economically self-sufficient as adults; being exposed to a range of activities and experiences that will enable them to flourish in their personal lives;... What is education for? Should it produce workers or educate future citizens? Is there a place for faith schools - and should patriotism be taught? ... |
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702,94 |
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Higher Education and National Development : Universities and Societies in Transition
ISBN: 9780415331104 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Universities and societies around the world are involved in significant transition. Universities are now invited to expand their central aims and purposes in order to embrace a role in relation to the development of the societies in which they are located. This change of focus has major implications for curricula, modes of teaching and the student body. International contributors to this wideranging text discuss different aspects of the phenomenon of globalisation in relation to higher education, but also in relation to moves by nation states to devolve government to regional and... Universities and societies around the world are involved in significant transition. Universities are now invited to expand their central aims and p... |
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203,56 |
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Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners
ISBN: 9780415332415 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education in Popular Culture explores what makes schools, colleges, teachers and students an enduring focus for a wide range of contemporary media. What is it about the school experience that makes us wish to relive it again and again? The book provides an overview of education as it is represented in popular culture, together with a framework through which educators can interpret these representations in relation to their own professional values and development. The analyses are contextualised within contemporary, historical and ideological frameworks, and make connections... Education in Popular Culture explores what makes schools, colleges, teachers and students an enduring focus for a wide range of contempora... |
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727,18 |
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Reassessing Gender and Achievement: Questioning Contemporary Key Debates
ISBN: 9780415333245 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging current theories about gender and achievement, this book assesses the issues at stake and analyses the policy drives and changing perceptions of gender on which the 'gender and achievement' debates are based. This new topical book guides the reader through the different theories and approaches, drawing together and reviewing work on gender and educational performance. The authors also highlight the continuing problems experienced by girls in terms of achievement and classroom interaction. The subjects covered include:
Challenging current theories about gender and achievement, this book assesses the issues at stake and analyses the policy drives and changing perce... |
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872,61 |
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Reassessing Gender and Achievement: Questioning Contemporary Key Debates
ISBN: 9780415333252 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Challenging current theories about gender and achievement, this book assesses the issues at stake and analyses the policy drives and changing perceptions of gender on which the 'gender and achievement' debates are based. This new topical book guides the reader through the different theories and approaches, drawing together and reviewing work on gender and educational performance. The authors also highlight the continuing problems experienced by girls in terms of achievement and classroom interaction. The subjects covered include:
Challenging current theories about gender and achievement, this book assesses the issues at stake and analyses the policy drives and changing perce... |
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218,11 |
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Early Sociology of Education
ISBN: 9780415345279 / Angielski / Twarda / 2720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This facsimile set of eight important texts, selected by the editor, presents early contributions to the development of the sociology of education from the 1920s through to the 1950s--the period in which it emerged as an organized and specialized sub-field of sociology, mainly in the USA.
Comprehensive and fascinating, the extensive new introduction to this set places these works firmly in the context of current scholarship, while the nature of the facsimile provides a real sense of immediacy and authenticity for both students and scholars alike. This facsimile set of eight important texts, selected by the editor, presents early contributions to the development of the sociology of education fro...
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4363,07 |
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