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  • The Sociology of Education

    Introductory Analytical Perspectives

    by Donald Swift ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    First published in 1969, this book examines the educational process as a whole in relation to its society. The discussion is set within a specifically sociological frame of reference and looks at the school as an organisation as well as the social environment surrounding the school. It concludes by considering some of the basic issues concerning the functions of education for society.Written at a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Preserving the Public in Public Schools

    Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices

    by Phil Boyle, Del Burns ...
    What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them? Public schools have little to do with children. Schools are political and ideological institutions in which each generation battles among itself for supremacy in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Practicing Core Reflection

    Activities and Lessons for Teaching and Learning from Within

    by Frits G. Evelein, Fred A. J. Korthagen ...
    Practicing Core Reflection features 78 concrete educational activities and exercises based on research. These can be used individually and in groups to support 'teaching and learning from within.’ Core Reflection is an approach focused on people's personal strengths and on using practical strategies to overcome obstacles to the enactment of these strengths. This approach has been used in many ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Positively Smarter

    Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well-Being

    by Marcus Conyers, Donna Wilson ...
    Positively Smarter brings together seven principles for connecting the science of neuroplasticity to practical strategies for enhancing the synergy of happiness, achievement, and physical well-being. Moving beyond common myths, the text builds an evidence-based paradigm to empower readers to take practical steps to move forward.Brings together current research on cognitive psychology, education ... Read more

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  • Classroom Management Training Handbook

    Cued to Preventing Discipline Problems, K-12

    by Howard Seeman ...
    The Classroom Management Training Handbook is cued to the textbook Preventing Classroom Disruptive Behavior, Grades K-12, Fourth Edition. It uniquely provides private, confidential self-training for a troubled teacher, or it can be used by professors of education, teacher-trainers, or school administrators to train or repair the problems teachers have in their classrooms. This book includes ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

    Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access

    by Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, Greg Noble, Scott Poynting ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical ... Read more

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  • Wendell Berry and Higher Education

    Cultivating Virtues of Place

    by Jack R. Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    Why the university should focus on community: "An enlightening interpretation of Wendell Berry's philosophy for the pursuit of a holistic higher education." — Publishers WeeklyProminent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Yet Berry has been ... Read more

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  • Variability in assessor responses to undergraduate essays

    An issue for assessment quality in higher education

    by Sally Roisin O'Hagan ...
    Academic standards in higher education depend on the judgements of individual academics assessing student work; it is in these micro-level practices that the validity and fairness of assessment is constituted. However, the quality of assessments of open-ended tasks like the coursework essay is difficult to ascertain because of the complex and subjective nature of the judgements involved. In view ... Read more

    $113.99 USD

  • A Toolkit for College Professors

    by Robert E. Cipriano, Jeffrey L. Buller ...
    A Toolkit for College Professors is designed to give new and established faculty members the skills they need in order to do their jobs more effectively. Combining case studies, scenarios, practical advice, and problem-solving activities, this book offers college professors a valuable resource for excelling in the classroom, lab, studio, library, and beyond. From teaching effectively to promoting ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Family Life and School Achievement

    Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Fail

    by Reginald M. Clark ...
    Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide variation in academic achievement among children. He emphasizes instead the total family life, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Educating the Other

    Gender, Power and Schooling

    by Dr Carrie Paechter, Carrie Paechter ...
    Despite improvements in girls' relative academic success at the school leaving level, and despite suggestions in the press that boys are now the underachievers, girls remain second-class citizens in education and beyond. This book aims to show how and why girls' education remains subordinated to that of the boys', and to demonstrate how this analysis can be used as a basis for investigating the ... Read more

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  • Learning and Research in Virtual Worlds

    Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Aleks Krotoski ...
    Virtual worlds are places where humans interact, and as such they can be environments for research and learning. However, they are complex and mutable in ways that more controlled and traditional environments are not. Although computer-mediated, virtual worlds are multifaceted social systems like the offline world, and choosing to study virtual world phenomena demands as much consideration for the ... Read more

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