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Advances in Motivation and Achievement
ISBN: 9780762301034 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series is designed to reflect current research and theory concerned with motivation and achievement in work, school and play. Each volume focuses on a particular issue or theme and the series has a special goal of bringing the best in social science to bear on socially significant problems. The focus of this volume is on emerging trends. The areas covered include self-efficacy research, social motivation, motivation and health and motivation in physical activity.
This series is designed to reflect current research and theory concerned with motivation and achievement in work, school and play. Each volume focuses...
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Reflections on the Concept of Intelligence
ISBN: 9780762301058 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study focuses on three issues which have been recurrent in the literature on intelligence during the last century: general intellectual capacity; the g factor; and how to influence the development of intelligence. The topics range from neuropsychology to intelligence, personality and information processing. Contributions by scholars from Canada, Europe and the United States are included, representing diverse view points in the field of research into the g factor and into the possibility of raising a person's level of intelligence. The first chapter provides an in-depth summary of...
This study focuses on three issues which have been recurrent in the literature on intelligence during the last century: general intellectual capacity;...
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975,63 |
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Advances in Learning and Behavioural Disabilities
ISBN: 9780762304127 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The focus of this book series is to identify and review classroom issues and outcomes associated with behavioral concerns of students with learning and behavioral disabilities.
Internationally prominent scholars address contemporary topics such as grade retention, bullying and harassment, response-to-intervention and universal systems in relation to how students with learning and behavioral disabilities are affected by them. Additionally, the scholars describe and discuss future directions for treatments such as social skills instruction, cognitive-behavioral prevention, social emotional... The focus of this book series is to identify and review classroom issues and outcomes associated with behavioral concerns of students with learning an...
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Conceptual Issues in Research on Intelligence
ISBN: 9780762304233 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. Intelligence is considered in its widest sense, representing diverse viewpoints and areas of specialization in this volume. Contributors represent an international network of intelligence and cognition researchers, coming from a wide range of countries including Germany, New Zealand, The Netherlands and the United States.This volume concentrates on a few points of special importance, that is, the changeability of intelligence and its relation to cognition. Most of the chapters in this work are original contributions to the field and were specially commissioned for this particular...
Hardbound. Intelligence is considered in its widest sense, representing diverse viewpoints and areas of specialization in this volume. Contributors re...
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Advances in Learning and Behavioural Disabilities
ISBN: 9780762304295 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 13 of "Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities" presents a variety of topics relevant to disorders of learning and behavior, from a diverse international group of researchers. In the first chapter, H. Lee Swanson presents a comprehensive discussion and analysis of working memory in readers with learning disabilities and its relation to deficits in executive processing. A chapter by Kathryn Fletcher, Marcia Schott, Lois-Lynn Deuel, and Beda Jean-Francios reviews comparative research on cognitive abilities of individuals with learning disabilities and mild mental retardation....
Volume 13 of "Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities" presents a variety of topics relevant to disorders of learning and behavior, from a di...
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Educational Interventions
ISBN: 9780762305612 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. Educational Interventions, volume 14 of Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities, addresses new developments in areas relevant to the education of individuals with learning and behavioral disabilities. A prominent feature of this volume is an extensive and comprehensive meta-analysis of 180 intervention studies involving students with learning disabilities, provided by H. Lee Swanson and Maureen Hoskyn. A chapter by Maria Chiara Passolunghi and Cesare Cornoldi describes difficulties in word problem solving with respect to working memory and cognitive ability. Kenneth Kavale...
Hardbound. Educational Interventions, volume 14 of Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities, addresses new developments in areas relevant to t...
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Global Trends in Educational Policy
ISBN: 9780762311750 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of International Perspectives on Education and Society highlights the valuable role that educational policy plays in the development of education and society around the world.
The role of policy in the development of education is crucial. Much rests on the decisions, support, and most of all resources that policymakers can either give or withhold in any given situation. The eleven chapters in this volume present persuasive arguments that the internationalization of educational policy has a wide and irreversible effect on schooling and society around... This volume of International Perspectives on Education and Society highlights the valuable role that educational policy plays in the development of ed...
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499,01 |
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Patriots or Traitors: A History of American Educated Chinese Students
ISBN: 9780765611864 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title sxplores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. The book sheds light on China's ambivelance towards the Western influence, and the use of educational and cultural exhanges as a political device.
This title sxplores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. ...
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701,49 |
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The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis: Case Studies and Analysis
ISBN: 9780765615411 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrating topics in urban development, real estate, higher education administration, urban design, and campus landscape architecture, this is the first book to explore the role of the university as developer. Accessible and clearly written, and including contributions from authorities in a wide range of related areas, it offers a rich array of case studies and analyses that clarify the important roles that universities play in the growth and development of cities. The cases describe a host of university practices, community responses, and policy initiatives surrounding university real...
Integrating topics in urban development, real estate, higher education administration, urban design, and campus landscape architecture, this is the fi...
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701,49 |
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Partnerships for Smart Growth: University-Community Collaboration for Better Public Places
ISBN: 9780765615596 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Linking the worlds of community development, higher education administration, and urban design, this accessible guidebook offers useful information on how universities and communities can best develop partnership projects. Its focus on smart growth projects further enhances its value for those interested in how urban, suburban, and rural growth can be accommodated while preserving open spaces and quality of life. "Partnerships for Smart Growth includes 13 case studies of university-community collaborations on smart growth initiatives. The chapters include geographically diverse locations and...
Linking the worlds of community development, higher education administration, and urban design, this accessible guidebook offers useful information on...
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701,49 |
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The Urban School : A Factory for Failure
ISBN: 9780765809384 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans worry continually about their schools with frequent discussions of the "crisis" in American education, of the "failures" of the public school systems, and of the inability of schools to meet the current challenges of contemporary life. Such concerns date back at least to the nineteenth century. A thread that weaves its way through the critiques of American elementary and secondary schools is that the educational system is not serving its children well, that more should be done to enhance achievement and higher performance. These critiques first began when the United States was... Americans worry continually about their schools with frequent discussions of the "crisis" in American education, of the "failures" of the public sc... |
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The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods : Liberal Studies in the Corporate Age
ISBN: 9780773521117 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David Solway's The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods is an eye-opening polemic against technology in the classroom and pedagogical theory as furthered by current administrative policy. He dissects the way computers have affected the learning process and students' ability to understand material presented to them in books.
David Solway's The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods is an eye-opening polemic against technology in the classroom and pedagogical theory as furthered b...
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130,58 |
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Popular Culture Studies Across the Curriculum: Essays for Educators
ISBN: 9780786420247 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Academic curricula are being strengthened and enriched through the enlightened realization that no discipline is complete unto itself. In the interdisciplinary studies that result, the one theme that remains universal is popular culture. Academia throughout the disciplines is rapidly coming to understand that it should be used in courses campus-wide and on all levels. All in the world of education benefit from the use of the cultures around them. This work emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary mingling and explores the ways in which instructors can utilize popular culture studies in order...
Academic curricula are being strengthened and enriched through the enlightened realization that no discipline is complete unto itself. In the interdis...
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272,11 |
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The Moral Life of Schools
ISBN: 9780787940669 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Rarely have I come across a book that so quickly provoked me to re-examine my own classroom behavior. There is no place to hide in this careful scrutiny of the teacher as crucial player in the daily morality tale that becomes the story of school life.-
-- Vivian Gussin Paley, teacher, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools This book takes the reader on an eye-opening journey through a variety of elementary and high school classrooms, highlighting the moral significance of all that transpires there. Drawing on the results of a two-and-a-half year study, the authors... -Rarely have I come across a book that so quickly provoked me to re-examine my own classroom behavior. There is no place to hide in this careful scrut...
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133,04 |
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The Art and Science of Portraiture
ISBN: 9780787962425 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -The writing is beautiful, the ideas persuasive, and the picture it paints of the process of careful observation is one that every writer should read. . . . A rich and wonderful book.-
--American Journal of Education A landmark contribution to the field of research methodology, this remarkable book illuminates the origins, purposes, and features of portraiture--placing it within the larger discourse on social science inquiry and mapping it onto the broader terrain of qualitative research. -The writing is beautiful, the ideas persuasive, and the picture it paints of the process of careful observation is one that every writer should read....
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132,41 |
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Building Character in Schools: Practical Ways to Bring Moral Instruction to Life
ISBN: 9780787962449 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young people in America today face a crisis of character. Traditional role models continue to disappoint the public, falling short of expectations and fostering cynicism rather than idealism. As a result, many young people struggle to distinguish right from wrong and seem indifferent to whether it matters. It clearly becomes the task of parents and schools to re-engage the hearts and minds of our children in forming their own characters. In Building Character in Schools, Kevin Ryan and Karen Bohlin draw from nearly fifty years of combined field experience to offer a practical guide to...
Young people in America today face a crisis of character. Traditional role models continue to disappoint the public, falling short of expectations and...
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102,63 |
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Religion in Public Schools
ISBN: 9780791074848 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Should children be permitted to express their faith in public schools?
Should children be permitted to express their faith in public schools?
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130,58 |
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Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle
ISBN: 9780791400371 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schools have been traditionally defined as institutions of instruction, but the authors of this volume challenge that position in order to generate a new set of cultural categories and constructs through which the nature and process of schooling can be more appropriately understood. Giroux and McLaren develop a theory of schooling that takes into account not only the more traditional relationship between teaching and learning, but also the import of wider cultural dynamics such as language, mass culture, popular culture, the state, theories of readership, ethnographic research, and...
Schools have been traditionally defined as institutions of instruction, but the authors of this volume challenge that position in order to generate a ...
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129,86 |
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Exiles and Communities: Teaching in the Patriarchal Wilderness
ISBN: 9780791402740 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a meditation on the profession of teaching from the perspective of a woman whose intellectual identity as teacher and writer is inseparable from her whole life as a woman. Pagano brings the methods and insights of feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism to bear on a reading of her own educational practice in order to reach a transformed understanding of the educational enterprise. She raises serious questions: How are we implicated in what we know? What actions are required by our knowledge? Responses to these questions are given with probing analyses of practice, ethics,...
This book is a meditation on the profession of teaching from the perspective of a woman whose intellectual identity as teacher and writer is inseparab...
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127,31 |
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Pedagogy of Praxis: A Dialectical Philosophy of Education
ISBN: 9780791429365 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a critical, Neo-Marxist philosophy of education.
Presents a critical, Neo-Marxist philosophy of education.
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129,86 |