Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952837005Author Peter GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Alliance for Self-Directed EducationPublisher Alliance for Self-Directed...

Amid the flames of the culture wars, politicians have taken up arms over controls on literary culture, spurred on in part by universities 'triggering' canonical texts. Jonathan Swift's 'Battle of the Books' has flared up again. But is 'triggering' utter...

Have you ever been stunned by a low grade, when you were expecting an A or B? Are you struggling to make the jump from a second to a first? Doing Essays and Assignments gives you an insider's view on what tutors and professors really want when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979466151Author Michael S BerlinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Curtis Brown StudiosPublisher Curtis Brown StudiosWeight(grams)...

Famed for his singular prose style as much as for his controversial aestheticist principles, Walter Pater (1839-1894) was one of the great essayists in a century of great essayistic writing. His first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance - one...

Laugh and cry reading these 101 stories about the heart and soul of teaching in these inspirational Teacher Tales!You won't be able to put down these stories about new and experienced teachers, tough kids and sweet kids, funny and embarrassing moments,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101971390Author Roger AngellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 295g

If you're unsure where to start with essay writing, Plan Your Essay gives you the nuts and bolts you need to answer your question effectively and get great marks. Get the most from your reading before you writeBuild a convincing argument to make your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952837067Author Peter GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Alliance for Self-Directed EducationPublisher Alliance for Self-Directed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692152690Author Sean Michael MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Hybrid Pedagogy Inc.Publisher Hybrid Pedagogy Inc.Weight(grams) 449g

Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition - the Great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950186051Author Dennis Patrick SlatteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Mandorla BooksPublisher Mandorla BooksWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Education as if people and planet mattered In Transformative Learning, Satish Kumar reflects on the legacy of Schumacher College, a beacon of innovation that fosters an ecological-based, holistic model of higher education built around the college's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982136192Author Shannon ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 20mm

In Pedagogy of Freedom Paulo Freire travels ever more deeply into the territory where learning and activism are the essence of human life. This profound book shows why an engaged way of learning and teaching is central to the creation of the individual,...

This book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live.This book displays the...

This practical and user-friendly handbook supports students through each stage of the Extended Essay process. Written by two experienced Extended Essay supervisors and coordinators, the handbook shows students how to excel in and enjoy this vital element...

A comprehensive handbook for Extended Essay coordinators and supervisors. Whether you are taking on one of these roles for the first time, looking to enhance your practice or getting to know the latest guide (for first assessment in 2027), the handbook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881469660Author Chinekwu ObidoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Mercer University PressPublisher Mercer University PressWeight(grams)...

Hundreds were turned away from these lectures given on the day of the installation of Dr. Claude Bissell as President of the University of Toronto. Professor Frye spoke on "Humanities in a New World"; Professor Kluckhohn on "The Scientific Study of...

How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature-how Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814102275Author Timothy OleksiakFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)Publisher National Council of...

Adolescents Rewrite their Worlds: Using Literature to Illustrate Writing Forms offers alternative ways teachers can engage young adolescents with the writing process using literature. The contributors discuss the values of writing in twenty-first-century...

This collection includes a kaleidoscope of voices and perspectives from prisoners, former prisoners, scholars, and activists to examine the extraordinarily invisible and closed system of incarceration that characterizes the massive U.S. prison industry...

Grounded in craft, this book was composed on three premises: That the study and modeling of great poems is integral to understanding poetry and learning to write poems, that scaffolded learning builds a writer's and a reader's confidence and knowledge...

Formed in 1964, the year of independence, the University of Malawi promised more than the distant University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland-founded 1952-ever could. A decade and a half later, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, by then Life President of the...

All In: Community Engaged Scholarship for Social Change is the first volume of the book series URBAN Matters. The URBAN Matters Book Series is one of the three prongs of the not-for profit organization URBAN Matters, which also includes a blog and...

Throughout his twenty-one-year tenure as president of Columbia University, Lee C. Bollinger was an outspoken national leader on many of the major issues confronting higher education and society more broadly. One of the country's preeminent First...

Womanish Black Girls is a collection of essays written by varied black women who fill spaces within the academy, public schools, civic organizations, and religious institutions. These writings are critically reflective and illuminate autobiographical...

This collection includes a kaleidoscope of voices and perspectives from prisoners, former prisoners, scholars, and activists to examine the extraordinarily invisible and closed system of incarceration that characterizes the massive U.S. prison industry...

Citing this report and other similar studies, experienced university administrator, Dr. Mel Scarlett criticises the deficits of the current undergraduate educational system and suggests improvements that would ensure that college students get the...

Adolescents Rewrite their Worlds: Using Literature to Illustrate Writing Forms offers alternative ways teachers can engage young adolescents with the writing process using literature. The contributors discuss the values of writing in twenty-first-century...

A Guide to Organizational Strategies for Thinking and Writing offers teachers and students ten patterns for arranging ideas that will expand their repertoire of organizational skills. Each pattern is illustrated by passages that model the strategy, and...

A Sixty-Year Ride through the World of Education depicts the author's educational pursuits from elementary school to provost. Learning is followed by teaching and writing and, soon, academic administration. Interspersed among these thirty-three short...

John Dewey's best-known and still-popular classic, Democracy and Educa tion, is presented here as a new edition in Volume 9 of the Middle Works. Sidney Hook, who wrote the introduction to this volume, describes Democracy and Education: "It illuminates...

This book's title, I Used to Think . . . And Now I Think . . ., is borrowed from an exercise often used at the end of teacher professional development sessions, in which participants write down how what they've learned has changed their thinking. The...

Spanning an extraordinary 30-year career, this book collects seminal essays by critical theorist Carlos Alberto Torres. Torres is among the foremost scholars devoted to interpreting the work of Paulo Freire and has done much over the years to raise the...

Writing against the Curriculum responds to the growing popularity of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs in universities and colleges across the United States. Many of these schools employ both an...

How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature-how Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472088799Author Mark A. ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...