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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997431070Author George P WaldheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint George WaldheimPublisher George WaldheimWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692972427Author Mike PfaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Scribes UnlimitedPublisher Scribes UnlimitedWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578853239Author Laura MarsalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Andamio Press, LLCPublisher Andamio Press, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473365967Author Auke Jacominus SchadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Nemonik-Thinking.OrgPublisher Nemonik-Thinking.OrgWeight(grams) 127g

As democracy faces increasing struggles around the globe, there has never been a more important time to talk about civic education and the core democratic purposes of schooling. What Kind of Citizen? asks readers to imagine the society they would like to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820461458Author Marc PruynFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 360g

This monograph reflects this fact from an interdisciplinary point of view (among the authors are special pedagogues, social pedagogues, doctors, psychologists, philosophers, pedagogues, legislation specialists) and from an international perspective (the...

Growing educational ambitions, today raised to a historically unprecedented level and shared by parents, the state and educational professionals, seem to not always result in happier children. With more parents apparently becoming more uncertain about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035806355Author Terry O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 408g

The authors draw from their work with teachers and students to address issues of social justice through the regular curriculum and everyday school life. This book illustrates an approach that integrates social justice education with contemporary research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934000069Author Ester J. de JongFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Caslon, Inc.Publisher Caslon, Inc.Weight(grams) 5400gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 177mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839980725Author Richard StrinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 140g

Make social emotional learning fun and engaging with 24 ready-to-use lessons about phenomenal plants and astonishing animals. Storytelling is a learning device used by humans for centuries, and for good reason: storytelling is one of the best ways to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590794524Author Peter SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Select Books IncPublisher Select Books IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

This book describes how to change the way in which educators conduct business in the classroom. Our current educational systems lack ways to reach today's learners in relevant, meaningful ways. The five approaches in this book inspire and motivate...

Vocational education in America is a large and diverse enterprise. Spanning both secondary and post-secondary education, the curriculum offers programs in a wide range of subjects including agricultural science, accounting, word processing, retailing,...

All across the United States, corporations, politicians, economists, educators - and now, most remarkably, Ivanka Trump - cry out for new "education for the twenty-first century economy." Meanwhile, millions of Americans face increasing...

We’re In This Together: Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education is a timely book that explores the use by public schools of private education companies to meet the needs of some of the nation’s most challenged and challenging...

Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context, while also critiquing the state’s role in supporting...

Strength Basing, Empowering and Regenerating Indigenous Knowledge Education demonstrates how to bring Indigenous Knowledges to the forefront of education practice and provides educators with the tools to enact culturally responsive curricula and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820440002Author Abdul Karim BanguraFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 250g

In this updated edition, two distinguished early childhood educators tackle the crucial topic of what White children need and gain from anti-bias and multicultural education. The authors propose seven learning themes to help young White children resist...

Having spent decades teaching and researching the humanities, Wm. Theodore de Bary is well positioned to speak on its merits and reform. Believing a classical liberal education is more necessary than ever, he outlines in these essays a plan to update...

More than half of 9th graders in the United States will never complete a college degree. High schools must do more than prepare some students for college: They must prepare all American youth for productive lives as well as continued learning beyond high...

First published in 1993, Education for the Twenty-First Century grew out of a common and deep-seated concern about the way young people think of their own future, and about some of the relatively simplistic education reforms advocated, often by people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974128Author George TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 445Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 778g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974111Author George TurnbullFormat HardbackPage Count 442Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 885g

Having spent decades teaching and researching the humanities, Wm. Theodore de Bary is well positioned to speak on its merits and reform. Believing a classical liberal education is more necessary than ever, he outlines in these essays a plan to update...

R. M. Hare, one of the most widely discussed of today's moral philosophers, here presents his most important essays on religion and education, in which he brings together the theoretical and the practical. The book opens with an exposition of his ideas...

By analysing the proposals for teacher education drawn up by UNESCO, the World Bank and OECD, this book shows that even though each of these organizations has different views about education, their proposals are based on a similar set of assumptions...

Literacy, differentiated instruction, student engagement and academic achievement continue to be hot topics for educators, parents, legislators, and government officials. Now I Get It! Differentiate, Engage, and Read for Deeper Meaning is a practical,...

'Multiculturalism in the Age of the Mosaic: Essays in Honor of Rudolph G Wilson' is a festschrift that takes scholarship in multiculturalism one step beyond stereotypical discourses and procedural dimensions. With a conglomerate of scholars from fields...

There is considerable interest in diversity within education as our communities become increasingly globalised and the evidence mounts that diversity is in fact the norm within most educational contexts. This book aims to highlight some of the issues...

Teaching on a Tightrope offers those seeking to play the teacher's role a way of thinking about the major components of teaching. These components or dimensions are described in terms of pairings that interact and overlap with each other, e.g., teaching...

The focus of this book is not whether schooling prepares youth for future work. Instead, the focus of this book is on how schooling for work has become a global phenomenon and a concerted project of nations. The importance of this phenomenon for...

Youth Transition in a Globalized Marketplace (YTGM) is based on the experiences of youth in a number of countries. The authors of this study are internationally recognised as leaders in the field of youth research. It deals with the increasingly complex...

This book focuses on the development of Taiwan's long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. The National Scholarship Program can be seen as Taiwan's governmental pursuit of strategic modernization for national...

This is a book about ourselves, and our world, but it is also a book about, and for education. Education is undergoing constant scrutiny – as it should. But what makes, or made, an education successful is too often left behind in the shadows when we...

This book looks at how a group of educators, social activists, and scholars tried to reduce intergroup tensions and create schools where people of all groups could learn from and with each other.Book InformationISBN 9780807745076Author Cherry A.McGee...

The proposed book moves away from a special education course, reflecting a broad consideration of social justice and inclusion that encompasses a variety of concerns about the lived experience of domination, oppression and injustice, and seeks to...