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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Learning to be in the World with Others

    Difficult Knowledge and Social Studies Education

    by H. James Garrett ...
    Series Book 506 - Counterpoints
    In this book, H. James Garrett inquires into the processes of learning about the social world, populated as it often is with bewildering instances of loss, violence, and upheaval. In such learning, interactions invite and enliven our passionate responses, or prompt us to avoid them. Interpreting and working with these often emotional reactions is critical to social studies education and developing ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

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    True Stories of Britain's Biggest Street Battles

    by Garry Bushell ...
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  • Billy Hill: Godfather of London - The Unparalleled Saga of Britain's Most Powerful Post-War Crime Boss

    by Wensley Clarkson ...
    There will never be another Billy Hill - Reggie Kray. Bill had a great brain. There's no two ways about it - Frankie Fraser. I made Billy Hill. Then he got over the top of me. I should have shot Billy Hill. I really should. I'd have got ten years for it but it would have made me happy and I'd be out now - laughing - Jack Spot. I have no doubt that during his career Hill had some very senior ... Read more

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  • Technology is a tool to be used, not an outcome

    by Christopher Waterworth ...
    Do we buy technology in schools without questioning why?How many times have you been amazed by a piece of technology? If you're like me, then quite often! I love technology, I love the way it has changed the way I work, how it has inspired me and how it has enabled me to publish things I never thought possible 10 years ago.Now, let's look at the children in my class, the digital natives. The ... Read more

    $6.52 CAD

  • Education to Better Their World

    Unleashing the Power of 21st-Century Kids

    by Marc Prensky ...
    “Marc Prensky—one of the smartest people working in educational reform today—offers us a lucid, inspiring, optimistic, doable, and crucial blueprint for how we can build a future with the schools children desperately need in our modern, high-risk, highly complex, fast-changing, and imperiled world.”—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • No Ordinary Stalking

    a look at organized stalking and electronic harassment

    by June Ti ...
    Organized stalking is carried out by an enthusiastic and structured group that has cruel intentions: stalk, harass, injure, financially ruin, and mentally crumple human prey until incapacitation occurs. What sets this crime apart is that innocents are picked off the street. There is no getting away from the stalkers and no getting away from the unusual technology that is used to take over someone ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Rethinking School Bullying

    Dominance, Identity and School Culture

    by Ronald B. Jacobson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book takes a new angle on a much-studied phenomenon, focusing on the role of domination and identity construction, understanding and self-knowledge, moral transformation and the social community, systems of training and hierarchy used by schooling, and the role they play in bullying. Exploring typical narratives of value within schooling (i.e., who counts and who doesn’t?), the volume shows ... Read more

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  • Cordite & Testosterone - Why Men Should Not Be Running the World

    by Cecilia Tanner ...
    We see the bloodshed, the hatred, the greed, the ruthless brutality in the world, and then we look to see who is making or letting this madness happen. We find that male excesses, not male needs – certainly not women's and children's needs – drive the world. ... Read more

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  • Globalizing Minds

    Rhetoric and Realities in International Schools

    Edited by Daphne P. Hobson, Iveta Silova ...
    Globalization has a profound effect on the mission and goals of education worldwide. One of its most visible manifestations is the worldwide endorsement of the idea of 'education for global citizenship,' which has been enthusiastically supported by national governments, politicians, and policy-makers across different nations. Increasingly, the educational institutions feel under pressure to ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Schools or Markets?

    Commercialism, Privatization, and School-business Partnerships

    Edited by Deron R. Boyles ...
    This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools. Critical essays examine the central theme of commercialism via a unique multiplicity of real-world examples. Topics include:*privatization of school food services;*oil company ads that act as educational policy statements;*a parent's view of his child's experiences in a school that ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Wonder-Full Education

    The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum

    Edited by Kieran Egan, Annabella I. Cant, Gillian Judson ...
    For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how to revive wonder in adults (teachers and curriculum makers) and how to keep it alive in children. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Sociology of Schools

    by Karen Chapman ...
    Series series Society Now
    The sociology of education is concerned not just with the abstract theory but with the day-to-day experiences of pupils and teachers. In this up-to-date account of the main developments in the subject, Karen Chapman shows how education offers a rich and varied field for sociologists, one easily accessible for study. She begins by setting the subject in its historical post-War context. She then ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD