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The Teaching of Science: Education, Science and Society by F. R. Jevons
RRP: $220.50$190.81First published in 1969, The Teaching of Science primarily deals with science teaching in secondary schools and universities but its searching discussion of criteria concerns all who have to do with education. The concise but well-documented treatments... -
Education for Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective by Paul D. Spears
RRP: $58.78$46.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830828128Author Paul D. SpearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 392gDimensions(mm)... -
Closing the Gap in Education?: Improving Outcomes in Southern World Societies by Ilana Snyder
RRP: $50.38$40.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980651225Author Ilana SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 398g -
Environmental Education in Indonesia: Creating Responsible Citizens in the Global South? by Lyn Parker
RRP: $283.50$246.29Indonesia's wealth of natural resources is being exploited at breakneck speed, and environmental awareness and knowledge among the populace is limited. This book examines how young people learn about the environment to see how education can help to... -
Teaching with the Screen: Pedagogy, Agency, and Media Culture by Dan Leopard
RRP: $109.18$94.90First published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415640640Author Dan LeopardFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 295g -
Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Film: Reel Education by Daniel P. Liston
RRP: $69.28$61.24Films about education provide many of the most popular interpretations of what teaching and learning mean in schools. An analysis of this medium reveals much about the historical, cultural, political, and philosophical dimensions of education. Timely and... -
Pernicious Tolerance: How Teaching to Accept Differences Undermines Civil Society by Robert Weissberg
RRP: $92.38$80.72Recent decades have seen a consistent effort by the American educational establishment to instruct schoolchildren about the importance of "appreciating differences," all in the name of "tolerance," so as to quell burgeoning "hate... -
Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society by David B. Tyack
RRP: $50.30$40.19The American republic will survive only if its citizens are educated--this was an article of faith of its founders. But seeking common civic ground in public schools has never been easy in a society where schoolchildren followed different religions,... -
Education and Employment in the European Union: The Social Cost of Business by Dimitris N. Chorafas
RRP: $283.50$247.13Education, employment policy, and pensions are inextricably linked and critical to any sort of business or economic revival, let alone success, and all three are addressed in Education and Employment in the European Union. In the first part of this... -
What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?: The American Revolution in Education by Geoffrey Galt Harpham
RRP: $50.40$48.36Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a... -
Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspectives by James A Banks
RRP: $258.20$223.69As diversity continues to increase in the United States, ethnic, cultural, social-class, and linguistic gaps are widening between teachers and their students. The rapidly changing educational landscape presents unique challenges and opportunities for... -
Marian Apparitions, the Bible and the Modern World by Donal Foley
$96.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781820308Author Donal FoleyFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint GracewingPublisher Gracewing -
Conflict, Education and People's War in Nepal by Sanjeev Rai
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book presents an overview of the democracy movement and the history of education in Nepal. It shows how schools became the battleground for the state and the Maoists as well as captures emerging trends in the field, challenges for the state and... -
The Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm: Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning by David Pace
RRP: $130.20$112.48Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation? Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a... -
The Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies: A Festschrift in Honor of William F. Pinar by Mary Aswell Doll
RRP: $83.98$73.63In this volume scholars from around the world consider the influential work of William F. Pinar from a variety of "conversations" his ideas have generated. The major focus is on the What, Why, and How of the word... -
Equity and Excellence in Education: Towards Maximal Learning Opportunities for All Students by Kris van den Branden
RRP: $109.18$94.90Throughout the world, equity and excellence in education is a major issue of concern. International comparative studies such as those carried out by OECD (PISA) have launched a worldwide debate on the effectiveness of educational systems (macro level),... -
Becoming World Wise: A Guide to Global Learning by Richard Slimbach
RRP: $50.38$44.08As world travel is growing exponentially, "alternative" travel has grown apace: from ecotourism, gap years, short-term mission trips, cultural travel-study tours, and foreign language study, to college-level study abroad, "voluntourism", and... -
Student Agency in the Classroom: Honoring Student Voice in the Curriculum by Margaret Vaughn 9780807765685
$68.04While student agency is considered an important aspect of classroom learning, opportunities to support and promote agency can be easily missed. This book addresses the inner dimensions of student agency to show what it is, why it is needed, and how it... -
Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
RRP: $109.18$94.90This volume bridges the gap between contemporary theoretical debates and educational policies and practices. It applies postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis that attempts to engage with and go beyond essentialism, ethno- and euro-centrisms... -
Character Compass: How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success by Scott Seider
RRP: $69.20$63.23In Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet define character in three very different... -
Education for Sustainable Happiness and Well-Being by Catherine O'Brien
RRP: $102.88$89.59In this innovative and cogent presentation of her concept of sustainable happiness, Catherine O'Brien outlines how the leading recommendations for transforming education can be integrated within a vision of well-being for all. Solution-focused, the book... -
Building Equity: Policies and Practices to Empower All Learners by Dominique Smith
RRP: $54.50$41.16Imagine a school with a diverse student body where everyone feels safe and valued, and all-regardless of race, culture, home language, sexual orientation, gender identity, academic history, and individual challenges-have the opportunity to succeed with... -
Empathy in Education: Engagement, Values and Achievement by Bridget Cooper 9780567551740
$80.09Empathy in Education discusses the role of empathy in learning throughout all levels of education and its crucial relationship to motivation, values development and achievement, impacting from the micro to the macro levels of society. Using initial... -
Really Good Schools: Global Lessons for High-Caliber, Low-Cost Education by James Tooley
RRP: $62.90$42.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJames Tooley is vice-chancellor and president at the University of Buckingham and formerly was director of the E. G. West Centre and professor of education policy... -
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities Martha C. Nussbaum 9780691264394
RRP: $33.58$28.54A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today's foremost public intellectualsIn this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education... -
Decolonizing Education for Sustainable Futures Yvette Hutchinson 9781529226096
RRP: $58.78$49.96Bringing together the perspectives of researchers, policy makers, activists, educators and practitioners, this book critically interrogates the Western-centric assumptions underpinning education and development agendas and the colonial legacies of...