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Home Education

by Charlotte Mason ...

Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature and handling natural objects and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, ... Read more

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Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature and handling natural objects and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention,
... Read more
EFT: EFT Tapping Scripts & Solutions To An Abundant YOU: 10 Simple DIY Experiences To Prove That Your Mind Creates Your Life!

by Janet Evans ...

Tapping is one of the fastest and easiest ways to address both the emotional and physical problems that tend to hamper our lives. Using the energy meridians of the body, practitioners tap on specific points while focusing on particular negative emotions or physical sensations. The tapping helps calm the nervous system to restore the balance of energy in the body, and in turn rewire the brain to ... Read more

$5.83 AUD

Tapping is one of the fastest and easiest ways to address both the emotional and physical problems that tend to hamper our lives. Using the energy meridians of the body, practitioners tap on specific points while focusing on particular negative emotions or physical sensations. The tapping helps calm the nervous system to restore the balance of energy in the body, and in turn rewire the brain to
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Leaving to Learn

How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates

by Elliot Washor, Charles Mojkowski ...

In this provocative book, authors Washor and Mojkowski observe that beneath the worrisome levels of dropouts from our nations high school lurks a more insidious problem: student disengagement from school and from deep and productive learning. To keep students in school and engaged as productive learners through to graduation, schools must provide experiences in which all students do some of their ... Read more

$12.82 AUD

In this provocative book, authors Washor and Mojkowski observe that beneath the worrisome levels of dropouts from our nations high school lurks a more insidious problem: student disengagement from school and from deep and productive learning. To keep students in school and engaged as productive learners through to graduation, schools must provide experiences in which all students do some of their
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Critical Condition

Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity

by Patrick Finn ...

Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a “critical thinker.”The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates’ death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical “attack” on a perceived opponent. From the Roman ... Read more

$22.36 AUD

Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a “critical thinker.”The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates’ death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical “attack” on a perceived opponent. From the Roman
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Hacking Questions

11 Answers That Create a Culture of Inquiry in Your Classroom

by Connie Hamilton ...

Series Book 23 - Hack Learning Series
“Look out, Socrates! Here comes Connie Hamilton, the newest innovator of questionology! — Marcia Gutiérrez, High School EducatorA fresh perspective on the art of questioningQuestions are the driving force of learning in classrooms. Hacking Questions digs into framing, delivering, and maximizing questions in the classroom to keep students engaged in learning.Known in education circles as the ... Read more

$10.78 AUD

“Look out, Socrates! Here comes Connie Hamilton, the newest innovator of questionology! — Marcia Gutiérrez, High School EducatorA fresh perspective on the art of questioningQuestions are the driving force of learning in classrooms. Hacking Questions digs into framing, delivering, and maximizing questions in the classroom to keep students engaged in learning.Known in education circles as the
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Slow Looking

The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation

by Shari Tishman ...

Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational benefits, slow looking contends that patient, immersive attention to content can produce active ... Read more

$72.69 AUD

Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational benefits, slow looking contends that patient, immersive attention to content can produce active
... Read more
Tech Like a PIRATE

Using Classroom Technology to Create an Experience and Make Learning Memorable

by Matt Miller ...

Tech Like a PIRATE helps provide the tools, ideas, and inspiration for educators to use technology as a treasure map to amazing learning. With a customizable set of principles for ensuring that technology is an asset, and not a barrier, Matt Miller’s guidance will help all teachers—from the tech-savvy to the tech-terrified—create impactful, transformative learning using low- or no-cost equipment. ... Read more

$14.05 AUD

Tech Like a PIRATE helps provide the tools, ideas, and inspiration for educators to use technology as a treasure map to amazing learning. With a customizable set of principles for ensuring that technology is an asset, and not a barrier, Matt Miller’s guidance will help all teachers—from the tech-savvy to the tech-terrified—create impactful, transformative learning using low- or no-cost equipment.
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Make Learning Magical

Transform Your Teaching and Create Unforgettable Experiences in Your Classroom

by Tisha Richmond ...

In Make Learning MAGICAL, educator Tisha Richmond pulls back the curtain to reveal strategies you can use to transform your classroom. Laughter, fun, and gamified experiences can make school a place where students are inspired, empowered, and immersed in learning—and it doesn’t require illusions or smoke and mirrors. The actionable techniques Tisha shares will equip you to put your students center ... Read more

$14.05 AUD

In Make Learning MAGICAL, educator Tisha Richmond pulls back the curtain to reveal strategies you can use to transform your classroom. Laughter, fun, and gamified experiences can make school a place where students are inspired, empowered, and immersed in learning—and it doesn’t require illusions or smoke and mirrors. The actionable techniques Tisha shares will equip you to put your students center
... Read more
Relentless

Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm

by Hamish Brewer ...

Disrupt the norm. That is the challenge Hamish Brewer (aka the Tattooed Skateboarding Principal) calls educators, students, families, and communities to accept. In Relentless, he authentically shares the life experiences that drive him to work relentlessly to empower people living in the toughest areas to envision and create a better future for themselves. Regardless of your role with kids, you ... Read more

$14.05 AUD

Disrupt the norm. That is the challenge Hamish Brewer (aka the Tattooed Skateboarding Principal) calls educators, students, families, and communities to accept. In Relentless, he authentically shares the life experiences that drive him to work relentlessly to empower people living in the toughest areas to envision and create a better future for themselves. Regardless of your role with kids, you
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The Teacher & The Admin

Making Schools Better For Kids

by Kris Felicello, Gary Armida ...

Today’s kids are simply amazing. They are succeeding despite a myriad of challenges faced every day. Schools are racing to not only meet their needs, but to evolve to give kids what they truly deserve: a more meaningful education. The only way the education system can transform is to work together. Teachers and Administrators must work in a partnership to make lasting changes to a system that has ... Read more

$11.77 AUD

Today’s kids are simply amazing. They are succeeding despite a myriad of challenges faced every day. Schools are racing to not only meet their needs, but to evolve to give kids what they truly deserve: a more meaningful education. The only way the education system can transform is to work together. Teachers and Administrators must work in a partnership to make lasting changes to a system that has
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Whole Brain Learning Theory in Education

by Joyce Diane Schulz ...

The purpose of this Master Thesis at Argosy University in December 2010 was to identify dominant learning modalities, as understood by the nine Multiple intelligences of Dr. Howard Gardner (Garner, 1993), the intelligences of right/left-brain dominance processing fields leading to whole brain theory in education. It can be called the Balanced Whole Learner, Whole Mind/Open mind learning methods. ... Read more

$10.58 AUD

The purpose of this Master Thesis at Argosy University in December 2010 was to identify dominant learning modalities, as understood by the nine Multiple intelligences of Dr. Howard Gardner (Garner, 1993), the intelligences of right/left-brain dominance processing fields leading to whole brain theory in education. It can be called the Balanced Whole Learner, Whole Mind/Open mind learning methods.
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Transformational Teaching

The Key To Authentic School Improvement

by Spencer Barnard ...

Spencer Barnard, the father of five self-actualizing children, is a lifelong educator with experience as a classroom teacher, principal, district level administrator, educational publisher and college administrator. In this latter position he guided the development of an innovative master's degree program designed to advance the professional skills of K-12 teachers in the use of discovery-type ... Read more

$8.60 AUD

Spencer Barnard, the father of five self-actualizing children, is a lifelong educator with experience as a classroom teacher, principal, district level administrator, educational publisher and college administrator. In this latter position he guided the development of an innovative master's degree program designed to advance the professional skills of K-12 teachers in the use of discovery-type
... Read more
You, Too, Can Make Electricity! Experiments for 6th Graders - Science Book for Elementary School | Children's Science Education books

by Baby Professor ...

Should you be playing with electricity? If you follow these experiments to the T, then yes you should. Experiments allow you to create and observe science first-hand. They are rewarding experiences, if done right and under the supervision of adults. How many of these experiments can you do? Find out soon! ... Read more

$5.83 AUD

Should you be playing with electricity? If you follow these experiments to the T, then yes you should. Experiments allow you to create and observe science first-hand. They are rewarding experiences, if done right and under the supervision of adults. How many of these experiments can you do? Find out soon!
... Read more
Get It Better - in Italiano Con Stile

by Federico Pieracci ...

Nel primo numero di Get It Better vengono proposte tre storie brevi, scritte in lingua italiana e tradotte in inglese e spagnolo, attraverso le quali ti puoi addentrare nel mio mondo fantastico, pieno di spunti, suggerimenti e suggestioni per una lettura originale e insolita, a volte anche educativa, che ti servirà per conoscere meglio lo stile della lingua italiana. in questo numero puoi trovare: ... Read more

$1.99 AUD

Nel primo numero di Get It Better vengono proposte tre storie brevi, scritte in lingua italiana e tradotte in inglese e spagnolo, attraverso le quali ti puoi addentrare nel mio mondo fantastico, pieno di spunti, suggerimenti e suggestioni per una lettura originale e insolita, a volte anche educativa, che ti servirà per conoscere meglio lo stile della lingua italiana. in questo numero puoi trovare:
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Storia d'amore tra un ferro da stiro e uno pneumatico

Metodo per la padronanza didattica con storytelling e Intelligenza Artificiale

by Alberto Pian ...

Series series Your Storytelling is Born
180 pagine, oltre 230K battute, 23 attività organizzate, 15 schede, 12 casi di studio analizzati, 4 moduli step by step, il metodo in 6 passaggi, numerose griglie e riquadri, 44 immagini.Questo libro insegna il metodo per la padronanza didattica con storytelling e Intelligenza artificiale ideato da Alberto Pian. Lo scopo del metodo è di aiutare i docenti e i formatori a insegnare e apprendere con ... Read more

$3.49 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

180 pagine, oltre 230K battute, 23 attività organizzate, 15 schede, 12 casi di studio analizzati, 4 moduli step by step, il metodo in 6 passaggi, numerose griglie e riquadri, 44 immagini.Questo libro insegna il metodo per la padronanza didattica con storytelling e Intelligenza artificiale ideato da Alberto Pian. Lo scopo del metodo è di aiutare i docenti e i formatori a insegnare e apprendere con
... Read more
Chancen bedarfsgerechter Weiterbildung aelterer Mitarbeiter

Eine empirische Studie zur Situation in einer laendlichen Region Bayerns

by Kathrin Winkler ...

Ältere Mitarbeiter prägen zukünftig das Bild der Arbeitswelt. Vor dem Hintergrund des demographischen Wandels mit seinen Herausforderungen an die Arbeitswelt befasst sich die Arbeit mit der beruflichen Situation und Integration älterer Beschäftigter in einer ländlichen Region Bayerns am Beispiel der beruflichen Weiterbildung. Auf der Basis quantitativer und qualitativer Daten zeigt dieses Buch, ... Read more

$149.08 AUD

Ältere Mitarbeiter prägen zukünftig das Bild der Arbeitswelt. Vor dem Hintergrund des demographischen Wandels mit seinen Herausforderungen an die Arbeitswelt befasst sich die Arbeit mit der beruflichen Situation und Integration älterer Beschäftigter in einer ländlichen Region Bayerns am Beispiel der beruflichen Weiterbildung. Auf der Basis quantitativer und qualitativer Daten zeigt dieses Buch,
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Literarisches Verstehen

Grundlagen und didaktische Perspektiven

by Johannes Odendahl ...

Series Book 39 - Beitraege zur Literatur- und Mediendidaktik
Was ist Verstehen? Wodurch ist speziell literarisches Lesen gekennzeichnet? Gibt es eine literarische Rezeptionskompetenz, die gezielt im Unterricht vermittelt und auch gemessen werden kann?Mit Rückgriff auf neueste Positionen einer Embodied Cognition sowie auf Jakobsons literarische Semiotik wird in diesem Buch eine Modellskizze des (poetischen) Verstehens entworfen, die Momente des Affekts, der ... Read more

$90.38 AUD

Was ist Verstehen? Wodurch ist speziell literarisches Lesen gekennzeichnet? Gibt es eine literarische Rezeptionskompetenz, die gezielt im Unterricht vermittelt und auch gemessen werden kann?Mit Rückgriff auf neueste Positionen einer Embodied Cognition sowie auf Jakobsons literarische Semiotik wird in diesem Buch eine Modellskizze des (poetischen) Verstehens entworfen, die Momente des Affekts, der
... Read more
Thinking and the Sense of Life

A Comparative Study of Young People in Germany and Japan- Educational Consequences

by Gerhard Schaefer, Ryoei Yoshioka ...

Do cognitive/metacognitive abilities favour recognition of sense in life or not? Based on a sample of more than one thousand secondary schools students in Japan and Germany, the correlation between intelligence and perception of sense in life has been empirically examined. The study draws the conclusion that there is no clear correlation between cognition and sense. Finding sense in life seems to ... Read more

$48.50 AUD

Do cognitive/metacognitive abilities favour recognition of sense in life or not? Based on a sample of more than one thousand secondary schools students in Japan and Germany, the correlation between intelligence and perception of sense in life has been empirically examined. The study draws the conclusion that there is no clear correlation between cognition and sense. Finding sense in life seems to
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Australian Indigenous Studies

Research and Practice

by Terry Moore, Carol Pybus, Mitchell Rolls, David Moltow ...

This book provides a guide to research and teaching in an Australian Indigenous Studies that is oriented toward the diverse, contemporary world. Central to this perspective is a sensibility to the intercultural complexity of that world – particularly its Indigenous component – and an awareness of the interactional capabilities that the Indigenous (and others) need to successfully negotiate it. ... Read more

$80.38 AUD

This book provides a guide to research and teaching in an Australian Indigenous Studies that is oriented toward the diverse, contemporary world. Central to this perspective is a sensibility to the intercultural complexity of that world – particularly its Indigenous component – and an awareness of the interactional capabilities that the Indigenous (and others) need to successfully negotiate it.
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A DOMINIE IN DOUBT

by A.S. Neill ...

One day when re-reading A Dominie's Log, its author decided that a book is out of date five minutes after it is written. In other words, he was in doubt—terrible and perplexing doubt. Do I really understand children? he asked himself. Are my ideas upon education right or wrong ? He decided that he had not sufficiently studied the psychology of children and that, in consequence, he had been guilty ... Read more

$4.63 AUD

One day when re-reading A Dominie's Log, its author decided that a book is out of date five minutes after it is written. In other words, he was in doubt—terrible and perplexing doubt. Do I really understand children? he asked himself. Are my ideas upon education right or wrong ? He decided that he had not sufficiently studied the psychology of children and that, in consequence, he had been guilty
... Read more
Working in the Reggio Way

A Beginner's Guide for American Teachers

by Julianne Wurm ...

Practical ways to bring the practices of Reggio Emilia to your classroom. ... Read more

$30.38 AUD

Practical ways to bring the practices of Reggio Emilia to your classroom.
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The Unschooler's Educational Dictionary

A Lighthearted Introduction to the World of Education and Curriculum-Free Alternatives (Active Learning)

by Jonas Koblin ...

Harness the Power of Active LearningA deep dive into the complex world of education that will forever change how you think about your child’s school, from the creator of the popular educational YouTube channel, Sprouts.“A fantastic guide for one of the most important decisions we can make: choosing the right school for a child.” — Barbara Oakley, PhD, author of A Mind for Numbers.Revolutionize ... Read more

$18.31 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

Harness the Power of Active LearningA deep dive into the complex world of education that will forever change how you think about your child’s school, from the creator of the popular educational YouTube channel, Sprouts.“A fantastic guide for one of the most important decisions we can make: choosing the right school for a child.” — Barbara Oakley, PhD, author of A Mind for Numbers.Revolutionize
... Read more
The Arts and Play as Educational Media in the Digital Age

by Robert Albrecht, Carmine Tabone ...

Series Book 5 - Understanding Media Ecology
The digital revolution we are now entering as educators is an unchartered sea pregnant with wondrous possibilities but laden with a minefield of unforeseen consequences. A pedagogy that overlooks or downplays the disruptive and often dangerous influence of digital media on childhood development is necessarily a very shortsighted one.More than just highlighting our misgivings about digital media, ... Read more

$54.14 AUD

The digital revolution we are now entering as educators is an unchartered sea pregnant with wondrous possibilities but laden with a minefield of unforeseen consequences. A pedagogy that overlooks or downplays the disruptive and often dangerous influence of digital media on childhood development is necessarily a very shortsighted one.More than just highlighting our misgivings about digital media,
... Read more
Ausbildung zum Beruf

Internationaler Vergleich der berufsfoermigen Ausbildungskonzepte fuer benachteiligte Jugendliche

by Matthias Becker, Matthias Becker, Lars Balzer, Marlise Kammermann, Georg Spöttl ...

Series Book 15 - Berufliche Bildung in Forschung, Schule und Arbeitswelt / Vocational Education and Training: Research and Practice
Eine Ausbildung zum Beruf ist meist die Grundvoraussetzung für eine erfolgreiche Berufsbiografie. Für Jugendliche werden jedoch auch oft Ausbildungsangebote geschaffen, die sich zwar an Berufskriterien orientieren, jedoch nicht immer zu gesellschaftlich anerkannten Berufsabschlüssen führen. Unter anderem werden zeitlich verkürzte Formen der Berufsausbildung entwickelt, um bestimmten Zielgruppen ... Read more

$68.10 AUD

Eine Ausbildung zum Beruf ist meist die Grundvoraussetzung für eine erfolgreiche Berufsbiografie. Für Jugendliche werden jedoch auch oft Ausbildungsangebote geschaffen, die sich zwar an Berufskriterien orientieren, jedoch nicht immer zu gesellschaftlich anerkannten Berufsabschlüssen führen. Unter anderem werden zeitlich verkürzte Formen der Berufsausbildung entwickelt, um bestimmten Zielgruppen
... Read more

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