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  • Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems

    Between the National and the Global

    Edited by Daniel Tröhler, Thomas Lenz ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    As contemporary education becomes increasingly tied to global economic power, national school systems attempting to influence one another inevitably confront significant tensions caused by differences in heritage, politics, and formal structures. Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of the reform movements that seek to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • What's the Point of School?

    Rediscovering the Heart of Education

    by Guy Claxton ...
    Why the education system is failing our kids and how we can start the revolution that will save our schoolsWith their emphasis on regurgitated knowledge and stressful exams, today’s schools actually do more harm than good. Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, Claxton proves that education’s key responsibility should be to create enthusiastic learners ... Read more

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  • Does God Belong in Public Schools?

    by Kent Greenawalt ...
    Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching about the origins of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Critical Examination of STEM

    Issues and Challenges

    by Chet Bowers ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This critical examination of STEM discourses highlights the imperative to think about educational reforms within the diverse cultural contexts of ongoing environmental and technologically driven changes. Chet Bowers illuminates how the dominant myths of Western science promote false promises of what science can achieve. Examples demonstrate how the various science disciplines and their shared ... Read more

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  • The child's day

    by Woods Hutchinson ...
    GOOD MORNING I. Waking Up II. A Good Start III. Bathing and BrushingBREAKFASTGOING TO SCHOOL I. Getting Ready II. An Early Romp III. Fresh Air - Why We Need It IV. Fresh Air - How We Breathe ItIN SCHOOL I. Bringing the Fresh Air In II. Hearing and Listening III. Seeing and Reading IV. A Drink of Water V. Little Cooks VI. Tasting and Smelling VII. Talking and Reciting VIII. Thinking and Answering ... Read more

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  • Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Film

    Reel Education

    Edited by Daniel P. Liston, Ian Renga ...
    Films 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 engaging, this book fills a gap for scholarly and informed public commentary on the portrayal of education in film, offering a wide range of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Pedagogic Rights and Democratic Education

    Bernsteinian explorations of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment

    Edited by Philippe Vitale, Beryl Exley ...
    The basis of Bernstein’s sociology of education lays in is his theorisation of the different approaches to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and the implications for pedagogic rights and social justice. This edited collection presents 15 empirical case studies and theoretical accounts from 22 international scholars who focus on the experiences of students and teachers in contexts marked by ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Adaptive Implementation

    Navigating the School Improvement Landscape

    by Ryoko Yamaguchi ...
    After decades spent pondering basic questions about adopting or implementing ‘best practices’ in education, educators have assembled a canon of evidence-based strategies and programs that should consistently produce good outcomes. So why is the work of educating students still such challenging work for so many? The best, most skilled educators adapt programs every day to meet the changing needs of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Educating for Intelligent Belief or Unbelief

    by Nel Noddings ...
    Series series John Dewey Lecture Series
    One of the most enduring and controversial issues in American education concerns the place of individual beliefs and moral standards in the classroom. Noddings argues that public schools should address the fundamental questions that teenagers inevitably rasie about the nature, value and meaning of life (and death), and to do so across the curriculum without limiting such existential and ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum

    by Sheila Riddell ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among fourteen-year-old pupils making their first choices about what subjects to pursue at exam level. It reveals a two way process. Pupils’ decisions on what subject to take are influenced by how they perceive themselves in gender terms, and the curriculum once ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Prosperous Teaching Prosperous Learning

    Inspirational Thoughts for an Educational Paradigm Shift

    by Andrew S. Palumbo ...
    Prosperous Teaching Prosperous Learning is the beginning of an educational shift. This shift is about educators actively embarking on a journey that allows them to discover their power in fostering genuine individuality in the children that we teach. Now is the time to embrace this paradigm shift that will be the inspiration of teaching for all of our children for years to come. It is time for us ... Read more

    $3.99 USD