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Higher Expectations

Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century?

de Derek Bok ...

How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of societyIn recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and increase their contributions to society. In this landmark book, Derek Bok explores how colleges can reap ... Leer más

$33.11 USD

How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of societyIn recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and increase their contributions to society. In this landmark book, Derek Bok explores how colleges can reap
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Thinking in Sustainability

Bright Life Series, #1

de A M M Maruf Hossain ...

Series Libro 1 - Bright Life Series
Here is a 31-word pitch about this book:Reshape how you think about sustainability! Groundbreaking intellectual framework for genuine transformation. In everyday life, in education, in research. Actionable, research-based design. Preview 30 pages at CIKI. For every thinking mind.You may now wish to read a fuller description regarding this book:Transform How You Think About Our World's Most ... Leer más

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Here is a 31-word pitch about this book:Reshape how you think about sustainability! Groundbreaking intellectual framework for genuine transformation. In everyday life, in education, in research. Actionable, research-based design. Preview 30 pages at CIKI. For every thinking mind.You may now wish to read a fuller description regarding this book:Transform How You Think About Our World's Most
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Teaching Mathematical Reasoning in Secondary School Classrooms

de Lorraine Lauf, Karin Brodie, Stephen Modau, Kurt Coetzee, Romulus O'Brien, Nico Molefe ...

Series series Education (R0)
For too many students, mathematics consists of facts in a vacuum, to be memorized because the instructor says so, and to be forgotten when the course of study is completed. In this all-too-common scenario, young learners often miss the chance to develop skills—specifically, reasoning skills—that can serve them for a lifetime. The elegant pages of Teaching Mathematical Reasoning in Secondary School ... Leer más

$44.54 USD

For too many students, mathematics consists of facts in a vacuum, to be memorized because the instructor says so, and to be forgotten when the course of study is completed. In this all-too-common scenario, young learners often miss the chance to develop skills—specifically, reasoning skills—that can serve them for a lifetime. The elegant pages of Teaching Mathematical Reasoning in Secondary School
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Debates in Physical Education

Edición de Susan Capel, Richard Blair ...

Series series Debates in Subject Teaching
This new and updated second edition of Debates in Physical Education explores issues physical education teachers encounter in their daily lives. By engaging with both established and contemporary debates, this volume challenges readers to think about and reflect on the relative validity of positions presented in order to develop their own reasoned and personal view in relation to the topics ... Leer más

$38.69 USD

This new and updated second edition of Debates in Physical Education explores issues physical education teachers encounter in their daily lives. By engaging with both established and contemporary debates, this volume challenges readers to think about and reflect on the relative validity of positions presented in order to develop their own reasoned and personal view in relation to the topics
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Vernaculars in the Classroom

Paradoxes, Pedagogy, Possibilities

de Shondel Nero, Dohra Ahmad ...

Series series Routledge Research in Education
This book draws on applied linguistics and literary studies to offer concrete means of engaging with vernacular language and literature in secondary and college classrooms. The authors embrace a language-as-resource orientation, countering the popular narrative of vernaculars as problems in schools. The book is divided into two parts, with the first half of the book providing linguistic and ... Leer más

$54.89 USD

This book draws on applied linguistics and literary studies to offer concrete means of engaging with vernacular language and literature in secondary and college classrooms. The authors embrace a language-as-resource orientation, countering the popular narrative of vernaculars as problems in schools. The book is divided into two parts, with the first half of the book providing linguistic and
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Many Voices

Bilingualism, Culture and Education

de Jane Miller ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Attitudes to bilingualism have always been contradictory. The possession of more than one language has been thought to be an advantage, even a necessity, while simultaneously being regarded as an inconvenience, sometimes a disastrous one. Yet more than half the world’s population is bilingual. Britain is also now a multilingual society. It is therefore important to understand the phenomenon of ... Leer más

$70.19 USD

Attitudes to bilingualism have always been contradictory. The possession of more than one language has been thought to be an advantage, even a necessity, while simultaneously being regarded as an inconvenience, sometimes a disastrous one. Yet more than half the world’s population is bilingual. Britain is also now a multilingual society. It is therefore important to understand the phenomenon of
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Sonic Studies in Educational Foundations

Echoes, Reverberations, Silences, Noise

Edición de Walter S. Gershon, Peter M. Appelbaum ...

Series series Routledge Research in Education
Originally published as a special issue of Educational Studies, this volume demonstrates the ways in which sound considerations can significantly contribute to educational foundations.Regardless of their origin or interpretation, sounds are theoretically and practically foundational to educational experiences. As the means through which knowledges are passed from one person to another, sounds ... Leer más

$54.89 USD

Originally published as a special issue of Educational Studies, this volume demonstrates the ways in which sound considerations can significantly contribute to educational foundations.Regardless of their origin or interpretation, sounds are theoretically and practically foundational to educational experiences. As the means through which knowledges are passed from one person to another, sounds
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RAD Musical Theatre Awards Syllabus

de RAD Royal Academy of Dance ...

The official syllabus handbook for the Royal Academy of Dance's Musical Theatre Awards, covering group and ensemble examinations from Pre-Junior through to the Platinum Award.Built around the realities of rehearsal and performance today, this syllabus guides teachers and students through the skills required for genuine ensemble work: teamwork, spatial awareness, characterisation and a shared sense ... Leer más

$12.14 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The official syllabus handbook for the Royal Academy of Dance's Musical Theatre Awards, covering group and ensemble examinations from Pre-Junior through to the Platinum Award.Built around the realities of rehearsal and performance today, this syllabus guides teachers and students through the skills required for genuine ensemble work: teamwork, spatial awareness, characterisation and a shared sense
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Poetry in Pedagogy

Intersections Across and Between the Disciplines

Edición de Dean A. F. Gui, Jason S. Polley ...

The essays compiled in Poetry in Pedagogy: Intersections Across and Between the Disciplines offer praxes of poetry that cultivate a community around students, language, and writing, while presenting opportunities to engage with new texts, new textual forms, and new forms of text-mediated learning. The volume considers, combines, and complements multiform poetry within and beyond existing Teaching ... Leer más

$54.89 USD

The essays compiled in Poetry in Pedagogy: Intersections Across and Between the Disciplines offer praxes of poetry that cultivate a community around students, language, and writing, while presenting opportunities to engage with new texts, new textual forms, and new forms of text-mediated learning. The volume considers, combines, and complements multiform poetry within and beyond existing Teaching
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Performed Culture in Action to Teach Chinese as a Foreign Language

Integrating PCA into Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment

Edición de Jianfen Wang, Junqing (Jessie) Jia ...

Series series Routledge Research in Language Education
This volume explores best practices in implementing the Performed Culture Approach (PCA) in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL).Offering a range of chapters that demonstrate how PCA has been successfully applied to curriculum, instructional design, and assessment in CFL programs and classrooms at various levels, this text shows how PCA’s culture-focused paradigm differs fundamentally from ... Leer más

$54.89 USD

This volume explores best practices in implementing the Performed Culture Approach (PCA) in teaching Chinese as a foreign language (CFL).Offering a range of chapters that demonstrate how PCA has been successfully applied to curriculum, instructional design, and assessment in CFL programs and classrooms at various levels, this text shows how PCA’s culture-focused paradigm differs fundamentally from
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Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies

Theory and Practice

Edición de Susan Larson ...

Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since the 1950s to address the many cultures of the ... Leer más

$54.89 USD

This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since the 1950s to address the many cultures of the
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Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms

Edición de Barbara Comber, Anne Simpson ...

Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms brings together accounts of educators who have sought to make a difference in the lives of their students through literacy education--from university classrooms in the United States, England, and South Africa, to policy and curriculum development in Singapore and Australia. Each chapter represents the results of extended research on classroom practice ... Leer más

$62.99 USD

Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms brings together accounts of educators who have sought to make a difference in the lives of their students through literacy education--from university classrooms in the United States, England, and South Africa, to policy and curriculum development in Singapore and Australia. Each chapter represents the results of extended research on classroom practice
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Teaching Sexuality and Religion in Higher Education

Embodied Learning, Trauma Sensitive Pedagogy, and Perspective Transformation

Edición de Darryl W. Stephens, Kate Ott ...

Series series Routledge Research in Religion and Education
This volume combines insights from secular sexuality education, trauma studies, and embodiment to explore effective strategies for teaching sexuality and religion in colleges, universities, and seminaries.Contributors to this volume address a variety of sexuality-related issues including reproductive rights, military prostitution, gender, fidelity, queerness, sexual trauma, and veiling from the ... Leer más

$54.89 USD

This volume combines insights from secular sexuality education, trauma studies, and embodiment to explore effective strategies for teaching sexuality and religion in colleges, universities, and seminaries.Contributors to this volume address a variety of sexuality-related issues including reproductive rights, military prostitution, gender, fidelity, queerness, sexual trauma, and veiling from the
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Curriculum, Plans, and Processes in Instructional Design

International Perspectives

Edición de Norbert M. Seel, Sanne Dijkstra ...

Curriculum, Plans, and Processes in Instructional Design: International Perspectives presents perspectives on the relationship between curriculum research and instructional design, as well as new developments in the use of information and communication technology. In their introductory chapter, the editors provide an overview of the volume and introduce the discussions found in three sections:*The ... Leer más

$78.29 USD

Curriculum, Plans, and Processes in Instructional Design: International Perspectives presents perspectives on the relationship between curriculum research and instructional design, as well as new developments in the use of information and communication technology. In their introductory chapter, the editors provide an overview of the volume and introduce the discussions found in three sections:*The
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Critical Democratic Education and LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum

Opportunities and Constraints

de Steven Camicia ...

This book illustrates the relationship between politics and the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues are taught in schools. This book examines relationships between society, schools, and LGBTQ inclusion in order to understand perennial issues related to critical democratic education, and how schools are responding to generational shifts in ideology. By ... Leer más

$27.89 USD

This book illustrates the relationship between politics and the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues are taught in schools. This book examines relationships between society, schools, and LGBTQ inclusion in order to understand perennial issues related to critical democratic education, and how schools are responding to generational shifts in ideology. By
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The Literacy Game

The Story of The National Literacy Strategy

de John Stannard, Laura Huxford ...

Containing invaluable insights from the original director of the National Literary Strategy (NLS) and its director of training, this book provides the only systematic exploration of the reform programme.A vital introduction and critical appraisal for pracititioners and students, The Literacy Game examines the origins, evolution and impact of the NLS, and provides a fully comprehensive contribution ... Leer más

$50.39 USD

Containing invaluable insights from the original director of the National Literary Strategy (NLS) and its director of training, this book provides the only systematic exploration of the reform programme.A vital introduction and critical appraisal for pracititioners and students, The Literacy Game examines the origins, evolution and impact of the NLS, and provides a fully comprehensive contribution
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Global Learning and Sustainable Development

Edición de Helen Gadsby, Andrea Bullivant ...

Series series Teaching contemporary themes in secondary education
Global learning and sustainable development encompass some of the key ideas and challenges facing the world today: challenges such as climate change, globalization and interdependence. Schools increasingly recognize the role of education in addressing these issues with young people, but exploring global issues across the curriculum requires a considerable amount of time and planning across ... Leer más

$52.19 USD

Global learning and sustainable development encompass some of the key ideas and challenges facing the world today: challenges such as climate change, globalization and interdependence. Schools increasingly recognize the role of education in addressing these issues with young people, but exploring global issues across the curriculum requires a considerable amount of time and planning across
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Wonder, By Design

A Framework for Pedagogical Innovation

de Andrea Tejedor, Katherine Larsen ...

Every educator knows what great teaching can look like. The challenge has never been a lack of research, innovative ideas, or a commitment to students. The real challenge is translating those ideas into meaningful, sustainable action that improves learning every single day. Moving from inspiration to implementation requires more than good intentions. It requires a thoughtful process, a clear ... Leer más

$7.19 USD

Every educator knows what great teaching can look like. The challenge has never been a lack of research, innovative ideas, or a commitment to students. The real challenge is translating those ideas into meaningful, sustainable action that improves learning every single day. Moving from inspiration to implementation requires more than good intentions. It requires a thoughtful process, a clear
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The Future of Liberal Education

Edición de Timothy Burns, Peter Lawler ...

Liberal Education, once the whole of American Higher Education, has been displaced by technical training and career-oriented majors. But it has also suffered from the decline in genuine liberal learning found in humanities disciplines, owing to specialization, politicization, and the adoption of new literary and psychological theories. The social sciences, too, have arguably abandoned the kind of ... Leer más

$54.89 USD

Liberal Education, once the whole of American Higher Education, has been displaced by technical training and career-oriented majors. But it has also suffered from the decline in genuine liberal learning found in humanities disciplines, owing to specialization, politicization, and the adoption of new literary and psychological theories. The social sciences, too, have arguably abandoned the kind of
... Leer más
Qualitative Research

Challenging the Orthodoxies in Standard Academic Discourse(s)

Edición de Sandra G. Kouritzin, Nathalie A.C. Piquemal, Renee Norman ...

Series series Inquiry and Pedagogy Across Diverse Contexts Series
"I commend and celebrate the editors and authors for a remarkable book that engages the reader’s imagination, heart, mind, spirit, and body. Out of creative and courageous commitments to challenging orthodoxies by living and writing research that is personal, political, and poetic, these scholars invite the kind of vigorous dialogue that will continue to promote creative possibilities for inquiry ... Leer más

$66.59 USD

"I commend and celebrate the editors and authors for a remarkable book that engages the reader’s imagination, heart, mind, spirit, and body. Out of creative and courageous commitments to challenging orthodoxies by living and writing research that is personal, political, and poetic, these scholars invite the kind of vigorous dialogue that will continue to promote creative possibilities for inquiry
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Curriculum of Global Migration and Transnationalism

Edición de Elena Toukan, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Sardar Anwaruddin ...

Curriculum of Global Migration and Transnationalism seeks to address the question: "What is the curriculum of global/transnational migration?". The authors in this collection explore the multifaceted implications of movement for curriculum, teaching and learning, teacher education, cultural practice, as well as educational research and policy.In this book, the authors consider the following, among ... Leer más

$54.89 USD

Curriculum of Global Migration and Transnationalism seeks to address the question: "What is the curriculum of global/transnational migration?". The authors in this collection explore the multifaceted implications of movement for curriculum, teaching and learning, teacher education, cultural practice, as well as educational research and policy.In this book, the authors consider the following, among
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New Understandings of Teacher's Work

Emotions and Educational Change

Edición de Christopher Day, John Chi-Kin Lee ...

Series series Education (R0)
Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance. In this book, scholars from around the world explore the connections between teaching, teacher education, teacher emotions, educational change and school leadership. (For this ... Leer más

$80.18 USD

Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance. In this book, scholars from around the world explore the connections between teaching, teacher education, teacher emotions, educational change and school leadership. (For this
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International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing

Edición de Ron Toomey, Neville Clement, Terence Lovat ...

Series series Education (R0)
Informed by the most up-to-date research from around the world, as well as examples of good practice, this handbook analyzes values education in the context of a range of school-based measures associated with student wellbeing. These include social, emotional, moral and spiritual growth – elements that seem to be present where intellectual advancement and academic achievement are being maximized. ... Leer más

$258.38 USD

Informed by the most up-to-date research from around the world, as well as examples of good practice, this handbook analyzes values education in the context of a range of school-based measures associated with student wellbeing. These include social, emotional, moral and spiritual growth – elements that seem to be present where intellectual advancement and academic achievement are being maximized.
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Reinventing Curriculum

A Complex Perspective on Literacy and Writing

de Linda Laidlaw ...

In this book, Linda Laidlaw explores the questions: What happens when children begin to write? Why is it that the teaching and practice of writing seems at times to be difficult in schools? How might teachers work differently to create more inviting spaces for developing literacy? The premise is that written texts and literacy processes are developed within a complex "weave" of particular contexts ... Leer más

$52.19 USD

In this book, Linda Laidlaw explores the questions: What happens when children begin to write? Why is it that the teaching and practice of writing seems at times to be difficult in schools? How might teachers work differently to create more inviting spaces for developing literacy? The premise is that written texts and literacy processes are developed within a complex "weave" of particular contexts
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