Culture, Identity, and Islamic Schooling: A Philosophical Approach
ISBN: 9781403979940 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In light of the growing phenomenon of Islamic schools in the United States and Europe, this compelling study outlines whether these schools share similar traits with other religious schools, while posing new challenges to education policy. Merry elaborates an ideal type of islamic philosophy of education in order to examine the specific challenges that Islamic schools face, comparing the different educational realities facing Muslim Populations in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States.
In light of the growing phenomenon of Islamic schools in the United States and Europe, this compelling study outlines whether these schools share simi...
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194,97 zł |
Education, Equality and Social Cohesion: A Comparative Analysis
ISBN: 9781403987976 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new 'distributional theory' of the effects of educational inequality on social solidarity. Based on extensive analysis of data on inequality and social attitudes for over 25 developed countries.
The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new 'distributional the...
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389,98 zł |
Asian Students' Classroom Communication Patterns in U.S. Universities: An Emic Perspective
ISBN: 9781567506204 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in the numbers of Asian students in North American institutions of higher learning. While their academic success has been widely recognized, concerns about their silence in classrooms have also been expressed by educators. Following an overview of Asian students in North American higher education, this book presents a focused ethnographic study of twenty Asian graduate students enrolled in a major US university, exploring and describing Asian student's oral classroom participation modes across multiple factors. Four major classroom... The past decade has witnessed a steady increase in the numbers of Asian students in North American institutions of higher learning. While their aca... |
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577,47 zł |
The Charter Schools Decade
ISBN: 9781578860388 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lockwood examines problems and obstacles that charter schools need to overcome in order to succeed, and she gives a glimpse of what the next decade holds for charter schools.
Lockwood examines problems and obstacles that charter schools need to overcome in order to succeed, and she gives a glimpse of what the next decade ho...
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218,69 zł |
Myths and Misconceptions about Teaching: What Really Happens in the Classroom
ISBN: 9781578863457 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, author Vicki Snider describes six teaching myths that prevent reform in education. These myths affect all students, but especially hurt low-performing students-those with disabilities or risk factors. Based on her perspective as a longtime classroom teacher and teacher educator, Dr. Snider examines the beliefs that guide teaching practices. She uses current research on teaching reading to illustrate the faulty premises that underlie the myths and how they ultimately affect children and adolescents. Together, these myths expose an approach to teaching that is highly contextual and...
Here, author Vicki Snider describes six teaching myths that prevent reform in education. These myths affect all students, but especially hurt low-perf...
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384,05 zł |
Myths and Misconceptions about Teaching: What Really Happens in the Classroom
ISBN: 9781578863464 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, author Vicki Snider describes six teaching myths that prevent reform in education. These myths affect all students, but especially hurt low-performing students-those with disabilities or risk factors. Based on her perspective as a longtime classroom teacher and teacher educator, Dr. Snider examines the beliefs that guide teaching practices. She uses current research on teaching reading to illustrate the faulty premises that underlie the myths and how they ultimately affect children and adolescents. Together, these myths expose an approach to teaching that is highly contextual and...
Here, author Vicki Snider describes six teaching myths that prevent reform in education. These myths affect all students, but especially hurt low-perf...
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234,70 zł |
Funding Strategies for Institutional Advancement of Private Universities in the United States: Applications for African/Congolese Universities
ISBN: 9781581121735 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examined the institutional advancement programs of successful American private/Catholic universities, two private universities in the United Sates, and two institutions in the Congo. Funding strategies constitute the backbone of advancement programs for successful American private universities/colleges. This study also investigated the funding mechanisms that successful private universities in the United States utilized to obtain philanthropic dollars. Further, the research assessed the roles of the successful private university presidents and trustees, and determined how public...
This study examined the institutional advancement programs of successful American private/Catholic universities, two private universities in the Unite...
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148,22 zł |
The Japanese Education System
ISBN: 9781581127997 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,22 zł |
Barriers to Inclusion: Special Education in the United States and Germany
ISBN: 9781594512087 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barriers to Inclusion offers a comparative and historical account of the rise of special education over the twentieth century in the United States and Germany. This institutional analysis demonstrates how categorical boundaries, professional groups, social movements, and education and social policies shaped the schooling of children and youth with disabilities. It traces the evolution of special education classification, explores growing special education organizations, and examines students' learning opportunities and educational attainments. Highlighting cross-national differences...
Barriers to Inclusion offers a comparative and historical account of the rise of special education over the twentieth century in the United S...
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734,76 zł |
Aalborg PBL model: Progress, Diversity & Challenges
ISBN: 9788773077009 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Aalborg PBL Model - Progress, Diversity and Challenges, thirty teachers and researchers share their reflections on the practice of the problem-based and project-organized teaching model (PBL), which has been applied in the faculties of Engineering and Science, Humanities, and Social Science at Aalborg University since 1974. Since its initial implementation, the PBL mode has developed in several important ways. Most notably, the PBL model has developed considerably in relation to the specific nature of the given academic disciplines and become an integrated component of these...
In The Aalborg PBL Model - Progress, Diversity and Challenges, thirty teachers and researchers share their reflections on the practice of the problem-...
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208,03 zł |
Autonomy in Education
ISBN: 9789041113115 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The push towards greater autonomy is one of the three main trends in every modern educational policy, alongside quality assurance and quality evaluation techniques and the need to devote attention to special andndash; and often disadvantaged andndash; target groups. It is, however, difficult to derive a unified concept of autonomy' from the comparative indicators which are published on a regular basis and it has emerged that there are significant differences depending on the specific area and the administrative organisation of education in the country in question. During the discussions of...
The push towards greater autonomy is one of the three main trends in every modern educational policy, alongside quality assurance and quality evaluati...
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585,00 zł |
New Teacher Education for the Future: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9789629490584 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In facing up to the numerous challenges to education in a new era of information technology and globalization, this book of 19 chapters will facilitate the quest for new teacher education for the future. The target audiences are teacher educators, educators, graduate students, researchers, policy makers and those interested in educational reform and teacher education for the new century. The chapters, grouped into three sections - New Perspectives in Teacher Education and Development', Reform and Development of Teacher Education', and Innovation and Reflection on Teacher Education Practice' -...
In facing up to the numerous challenges to education in a new era of information technology and globalization, this book of 19 chapters will facilitat...
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585,00 zł |
Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Development: Towards a New Knowledge Base
ISBN: 9789629490591 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims at making contributions to the ongoing policy debates in education reform and the creation of a new knowledge base that can serve all endeavours at different levels for teaching effectiveness and teacher development in different parts of the world. The target audiences are teacher educators, educators, graduate students, researchers, policy makers and those interested to reform education and teacher education for the new century. This edited volume includes 19 chapters grouped into three sections: Research and Analysis of Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Development; The...
This book aims at making contributions to the ongoing policy debates in education reform and the creation of a new knowledge base that can serve all e...
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194,97 zł |
Subject Teaching and Teacher Education in the New Century
ISBN: 9789629490607 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 544-page book has 22 chapters prepared by experienced and renowned scholars and researchers from different parts of the world. Grouped into three sections- "Information Technology, Science and Mathematics," "Social Sciences and General Studies," and "Languages" - the chapters represent an important collection of international endeavours committed to facilitate the much needed paradigm shift in subject curriculum and pedagogy and reinforce the quest for a new knowledge base that can support the search for new conceptions, models, perspectives, innovations, and practices for teaching...
This 544-page book has 22 chapters prepared by experienced and renowned scholars and researchers from different parts of the world. Grouped into three...
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194,97 zł |
New Teacher Education for the Future: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9789629490690 / Angielski / Twarda / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In facing up to the numerous challenges to education in the modern era of information technology and globalization, this book of 19 chapters facilitates the quest for teacher education. It is aimed at teacher educators, educators, graduate students, researchers, policy makers and those interested in educational reform and teacher education.
In facing up to the numerous challenges to education in the modern era of information technology and globalization, this book of 19 chapters facilitat...
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585,00 zł |
Decentralisation and Privatisation in Education: The Role of the State
ISBN: 9781402033575 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Decentralisation and Privatisation in Education explores the ambivalent and problematic relationship between the State, privatisation, and decentralisation in education globally. Using a number of diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to globalisation, the authors, by focusing on privatisation, marketisation and decentralisation, will attempt to examine critically both the reasons and outcomes of education reforms, policy change and transformation and provide a more informed critique on the Western-driven models of accountability, quality and school effectiveness. We want to...
Decentralisation and Privatisation in Education explores the ambivalent and problematic relationship between the State, privatisation, and decentralis...
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389,98 zł |
Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States
ISBN: 9780774813266 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States uses a dialogical approach to examine responses to increasing cultural and racial diversity in both countries. It compares and contrasts foundational myths and highlights the sociopolitical contexts that affect the conditions of citizenship, access to education, and inclusion of diverse cultural knowledge and languages in educational systems. This will interest readers in the areas of multiculturalism, education, public policy, and ethnic studies, and will be valuable to policy developers and activists in the... Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States uses a dialogical approach to examine responses to increasing cultural and ... |
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172,28 zł |
Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Triumphs, Troubles, and Taboos
ISBN: 9780230602731 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historically Black colleges and universities play a vital role in the education of African Americans in the United States. For nearly 150 years, these institutions have trained the leadership of the Black community, graduating the nation s African American teachers, doctors, lawyers, and scientists. Despite the wealth of new research on Black colleges, there are topics that remain untouched and accomplishments that go unnoticed by the scholarly community. The chapters in this edited volume focus on topics that deserve further attention and that will push students, scholars, policymakers, and...
Historically Black colleges and universities play a vital role in the education of African Americans in the United States. For nearly 150 years, these...
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194,97 zł |
International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education: Improving Knowledge and Practice
ISBN: 9780415403627 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been an explosion of interest in teaching excellence in higher education. Once labelled the 'poor relation' of the research/teaching divide, teaching is now firmly on the policy agenda; pressure on institutions to improve the quality of teaching has never been greater and significant funding seeks to promote teaching excellence in higher education institutions. This book constitutes the first serious scrutiny of how and why it should be achieved. International perspectives from educational researchers, award winning teachers, practitioners and educational developers... There has been an explosion of interest in teaching excellence in higher education. Once labelled the 'poor relation' of the research/teaching divi... |
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The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies: Schools for the Knowledge Society
ISBN: 9780415412001 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differences in language, dress and ethnic characteristics. Learning is regulated and rationed, teaching is a process or one-way transmission of knowledge, students need to be docile and conformist, assessment needs to sift and sort the bright from the not-so-bright, and rewards will be given to those who successfully negotiate this regime. But are these the kinds of places that can meet the needs of the 'net generation'? The Changing Role of... Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differe... |
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734,76 zł |