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Contrasting School Culture and Education

Mapping the Public–Private Binary

by V. Sucharita ...

This book presents a comparative ethnographic understanding of government and low-fee private schools in India within the context of ever-increasing privatization and commercialization of education and the growing presence of non-state actors.Drawing on rich empirical data, the book provides an ethnographic account of a government and a low-fee private school in Hyderabad, India, and explores life ... Read more

$83.81 CAD

This book presents a comparative ethnographic understanding of government and low-fee private schools in India within the context of ever-increasing privatization and commercialization of education and the growing presence of non-state actors.Drawing on rich empirical data, the book provides an ethnographic account of a government and a low-fee private school in Hyderabad, India, and explores life
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Self-Regulation and the Common Core

Application to ELA Standards

by Marie C. White, Maria K. DiBenedetto ...

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts created new challenges for teachers and pre-service instructors. Self-regulated learning, using one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to reach goals, can help students become independent, self-directed learners. This book provides educators the support they need to apply the principles of self-regulated learning in their teaching for ... Read more

$63.20 CAD

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts created new challenges for teachers and pre-service instructors. Self-regulated learning, using one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to reach goals, can help students become independent, self-directed learners. This book provides educators the support they need to apply the principles of self-regulated learning in their teaching for
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Curriculum and the Teacher

35 years of the Cambridge Journal of Education

Edited by Nigel Norris ...

Series series Education Heritage
Even though the curriculum can be tightly specified and controlled by strong accountability mechanisms, it is teachers who decisively shape the educational experiences of children and young people at school.Bringing together seminal papers from the Cambridge Journal of Education around the theme of curriculum and the teacher, this book explores the changing conceptions of curriculum and teaching ... Read more

$111.30 CAD

Even though the curriculum can be tightly specified and controlled by strong accountability mechanisms, it is teachers who decisively shape the educational experiences of children and young people at school.Bringing together seminal papers from the Cambridge Journal of Education around the theme of curriculum and the teacher, this book explores the changing conceptions of curriculum and teaching
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Sharing Our Intellectual Traces

Narrative Reflections from Administrators of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Programs

by Tracy Bridgeford, Karla Saari Kitalong, Bill Williamson ...

Series series Baywood's Technical Communications
Administrators of academic professional and technical communication (PTSC) programs have long relied upon lore--stories of what works--to understand and communicate about the work of program administration. Stories are interesting, telling, engaging, and necessary. But a discipline focused primarily on stories, especially the ephemeral stories narrated at conferences and deliberated at department ... Read more

$148.40 CAD

Administrators of academic professional and technical communication (PTSC) programs have long relied upon lore--stories of what works--to understand and communicate about the work of program administration. Stories are interesting, telling, engaging, and necessary. But a discipline focused primarily on stories, especially the ephemeral stories narrated at conferences and deliberated at department
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Dance, Professional Practice, and the Workplace

Challenges and Opportunities for Dance Professionals, Students, and Educators

Edited by Angela Pickard, Doug Risner ...

Series series Routledge Research in Education
Originally published as a special issue of Research in Dance Education, now with an added chapter, this text acknowledges and celebrates the increasingly diverse careers and employment networks in which dance professionals and dance educators are engaged.Addressing issues and developments relating to the workplace of dance, the text explores what it means to transcend the boundary between dance as ... Read more

$83.81 CAD

Originally published as a special issue of Research in Dance Education, now with an added chapter, this text acknowledges and celebrates the increasingly diverse careers and employment networks in which dance professionals and dance educators are engaged.Addressing issues and developments relating to the workplace of dance, the text explores what it means to transcend the boundary between dance as
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Educação infantil, currículos e linguagens

pesquisas, políticas e práticas

Edited by Elaine Luciana Sobral Dantas, Milena Paula Cabral de Oliveira, Denise Maria de Carvalho Lopes ...

Esta obra, intitulada Educação Infantil, Currículos e Linguagens: pesquisas, políticas e práticas, organizada pelo Grupo de Pesquisa e Extensão em Educação da Infância, Cultura, Currículo e Linguagem – EDUCLIN, reúne trabalhos de iniciação científica desenvolvidos entre os anos de 2017 e 2020 no âmbito do projeto de pesquisa Currículos da Educação Infantil: entre propostas e práticas pedagógicas e ... Read more

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Esta obra, intitulada Educação Infantil, Currículos e Linguagens: pesquisas, políticas e práticas, organizada pelo Grupo de Pesquisa e Extensão em Educação da Infância, Cultura, Currículo e Linguagem – EDUCLIN, reúne trabalhos de iniciação científica desenvolvidos entre os anos de 2017 e 2020 no âmbito do projeto de pesquisa Currículos da Educação Infantil: entre propostas e práticas pedagógicas e
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Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context

A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti

by Marky Jean-Pierre ...

Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
This book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students’ academic achievement. Jean-Pierre provides empirical evidence that a relationship exists between language practices and school underperformance.He takes Haiti as the focus of study, finding that students and ... Read more

$101.68 CAD

This book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students’ academic achievement. Jean-Pierre provides empirical evidence that a relationship exists between language practices and school underperformance.He takes Haiti as the focus of study, finding that students and
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Dialogical Engagement with the Mythopoetics of Currere

Extending the Work of Mary Aswell Doll across Theory, Literature, and Autobiography

Edited by Brian Casemore ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
This volume showcases a series of chapters that elaborate on Mary Aswell Doll’s contributions to the field of curriculum theory through her examination of currere as a mythopoetics.By bringing Doll’s Jungian, autobiographical, and literary perspectives into conversation with emergent forms of subjective inquiry—including aesthetic concepts, ecological questions, and spiritual themes—the volume ... Read more

$39.84 CAD

This volume showcases a series of chapters that elaborate on Mary Aswell Doll’s contributions to the field of curriculum theory through her examination of currere as a mythopoetics.By bringing Doll’s Jungian, autobiographical, and literary perspectives into conversation with emergent forms of subjective inquiry—including aesthetic concepts, ecological questions, and spiritual themes—the volume
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Curriculum, Environment, and the Work of C. A. Bowers

Ecological and Cultural Perspectives

Edited by David Flinders, John Lupinacci, Audrey Dentith, Jennifer Thom ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
This edited volume extends ecological approaches to curriculum theory by recognizing and building on the contributions of the late Chet A. Bowers to curriculum and ecological studies globally.Chapters provide in-depth explanation of Bowers’ central contributions to the field, including his identification of the linguistic roots of ecological degradation; the need for school curricula to support ... Read more

$79.69 CAD

This edited volume extends ecological approaches to curriculum theory by recognizing and building on the contributions of the late Chet A. Bowers to curriculum and ecological studies globally.Chapters provide in-depth explanation of Bowers’ central contributions to the field, including his identification of the linguistic roots of ecological degradation; the need for school curricula to support
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Modernising Education in Britain and China

Comparative Perspectives on Excellence and Social Inclusion

by Patricia Potts ...

In spite of the perceived differences between Eastern and Western culture and society, the education systems of Britain and China can be seen to share certain goals, priorities and challenges. Modernisation is very much a core objective for educators in both countries. Moreover, both education systems must confront the tension between promoting social inclusion and achieving competitive academic ... Read more

$101.68 CAD

In spite of the perceived differences between Eastern and Western culture and society, the education systems of Britain and China can be seen to share certain goals, priorities and challenges. Modernisation is very much a core objective for educators in both countries. Moreover, both education systems must confront the tension between promoting social inclusion and achieving competitive academic
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Praxis 5101 Answers & Explanations

What Do You Know?

by L. A. Scholarly-Prep ...

Series series What Do You Know?
Praxis 5101 Business - Answers and Explanations400 Practice Questions & AnswersPLUS No-peek Practice Exam with AnswersPrintable Score SheetTesting Schedule ... Read more

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Praxis 5101 Business - Answers and Explanations400 Practice Questions & AnswersPLUS No-peek Practice Exam with AnswersPrintable Score SheetTesting Schedule
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Shifting Focus

Strangers and Strangeness in Literature and Education

Edited by Peter Roberts ...

Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory
There is a long history of interest in ‘strangers’ and ‘strangeness’ in the West. Literature lends itself particularly well to an exploration of the strange in its richly varied forms, having often contained portraits of outsiders. These portraits depict people who are strange in their unusual appearance or demeanour, their out-of-the-ordinary actions or attitudes, their defiance of convention, ... Read more

$68.70 CAD

There is a long history of interest in ‘strangers’ and ‘strangeness’ in the West. Literature lends itself particularly well to an exploration of the strange in its richly varied forms, having often contained portraits of outsiders. These portraits depict people who are strange in their unusual appearance or demeanour, their out-of-the-ordinary actions or attitudes, their defiance of convention,
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Meta-Ethnographic Synthesis in Education

Challenges, Aims and Possibilities

Edited by Michalis Kakos, Bettina Fritzsche ...

Calls for “deparochialization of educational research” (Lingard 2006) have directed educational ethnography from the conventional research designs and from the study of single sites and local situations to the study of “the circulation of cultural meanings, objects and identities in diffuse time-spaces” (Marcus 1995: 96). In response to this call and following the already established tradition of ... Read more

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Calls for “deparochialization of educational research” (Lingard 2006) have directed educational ethnography from the conventional research designs and from the study of single sites and local situations to the study of “the circulation of cultural meanings, objects and identities in diffuse time-spaces” (Marcus 1995: 96). In response to this call and following the already established tradition of
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Playing Outside

Activities, ideas and inspiration for the early years

by Helen Bilton ...

Making outdoor teaching and learning work in practice is now a key priority for all early years practitioners.Playing Outside provides clear and detailed guidance on all aspects of outdoor play illustrated with over 100 colour photographs. This bestselling book has been fully updated throughout to incorporate the Early Years Foundation Stage and includes completely new photographs, case studies ... Read more

$68.70 CAD

Making outdoor teaching and learning work in practice is now a key priority for all early years practitioners.Playing Outside provides clear and detailed guidance on all aspects of outdoor play illustrated with over 100 colour photographs. This bestselling book has been fully updated throughout to incorporate the Early Years Foundation Stage and includes completely new photographs, case studies
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Modern Languages for All

by Hilary McColl ...

This text demonstrates the substantial benefits that foreign language work has to offer students with special educational needs, whether in a mainstream or special school setting. The author offers practical advice on lesson planning, course design and methodology. ... Read more

$72.82 CAD

This text demonstrates the substantial benefits that foreign language work has to offer students with special educational needs, whether in a mainstream or special school setting. The author offers practical advice on lesson planning, course design and methodology.
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Communication for All

A Cross Curricular Skill Involving Interaction Between "Speaker and Listener"

by Pam Aherne, Ann Thornber ...

Discusses the meaning of a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum for pupils with severe and complex learning difficulties and uses three case studies to illustrate this in practice. This working document has been produced by special school teachers from Manchester Education Committee. ... Read more

$79.69 CAD

Discusses the meaning of a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum for pupils with severe and complex learning difficulties and uses three case studies to illustrate this in practice. This working document has been produced by special school teachers from Manchester Education Committee.
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History and Social Studies

Edited by H. Bourdillon ...

First published in 1992. This volume includes reports, papers and discussion from a September 1990 educational research workshop on textbook analysis in history and social studies. Some 20 European countries are represented. ... Read more

$384.77 CAD

First published in 1992. This volume includes reports, papers and discussion from a September 1990 educational research workshop on textbook analysis in history and social studies. Some 20 European countries are represented.
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Guidance and the Changing Curriculum

by W. P. Gothard, E. Goodhew ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Curriculum
Originally published in 1987. This book examines the growth of pastoral care and the pastoral curriculum, and innovations in vocational education in schools. These two major developments are considered in relation to the guidance and counselling movement whose impact on education over the preceding twenty-five years was considerable. The concept of person-centred learning grew out of this movement ... Read more

$32.97 CAD

Originally published in 1987. This book examines the growth of pastoral care and the pastoral curriculum, and innovations in vocational education in schools. These two major developments are considered in relation to the guidance and counselling movement whose impact on education over the preceding twenty-five years was considerable. The concept of person-centred learning grew out of this movement
... Read more
How Science Works

Exploring effective pedagogy and practice

Edited by Rob Toplis ...

How Science Works provides student and practising teachers with a comprehensive introduction to one of the most dramatic changes to the secondary science curriculum. Underpinned by the latest research in the field, it explores the emergence and meaning of How Science Works and reviews major developments in pedagogy and practice.With chapters structured around three key themes - why How Science ... Read more

$76.94 CAD

How Science Works provides student and practising teachers with a comprehensive introduction to one of the most dramatic changes to the secondary science curriculum. Underpinned by the latest research in the field, it explores the emergence and meaning of How Science Works and reviews major developments in pedagogy and practice.With chapters structured around three key themes - why How Science
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Moving from the Primary Classroom

Edited by Maurice Galton, John Willcocks ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1983, Moving from the Primary Classroom is concerned with what happens to pupils when they change teachers in the primary school and when they move to the secondary or middle school. Although most children are well prepared for the organizational changes, they will face after transfer, the researchers found that major difficulties were encountered when pupils adjusted to the new ... Read more

$59.08 CAD

First published in 1983, Moving from the Primary Classroom is concerned with what happens to pupils when they change teachers in the primary school and when they move to the secondary or middle school. Although most children are well prepared for the organizational changes, they will face after transfer, the researchers found that major difficulties were encountered when pupils adjusted to the new
... Read more
Planning and Developing Open and Distance Learning

A Framework for Quality

by Reginald F. Melton ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Distance Education
This book is aimed at those who are considering, or just starting to plan open and distance learning courses. It offers practical advice on how to find your students, expand your audience and become cost-effective without compromising quality. The main areas covered are:basic principles and different approaches to ODLdifferent types of self-study materials, media, and student support from your ... Read more

$119.54 CAD

This book is aimed at those who are considering, or just starting to plan open and distance learning courses. It offers practical advice on how to find your students, expand your audience and become cost-effective without compromising quality. The main areas covered are:basic principles and different approaches to ODLdifferent types of self-study materials, media, and student support from your
... Read more
The Secondary PSHE Co-ordinator's Handbook

by Colin Noble, Graham Hofmann ...

This handbook provides the Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) co-ordinator in a school with everything that they need to deliver good practice in this subject. The book contains thorough guidance through policy and required practice and has a strongly practical bias. It shows through examples of good practice what can be achieved and how this can generally help to raise standards in ... Read more

$159.39 CAD

This handbook provides the Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) co-ordinator in a school with everything that they need to deliver good practice in this subject. The book contains thorough guidance through policy and required practice and has a strongly practical bias. It shows through examples of good practice what can be achieved and how this can generally help to raise standards in
... Read more
Conceptions of Culture

What Multicultural Educators Need to Know

by Thomas E. Wren ...

The concept of culture stands, clearly but unsteadily, at the heart of multicultural education. This book provides a systematic, in-depth understanding of the role that culture plays in the massive literature of multicultural education as multiple and antithetical definitions of culture exist. The book also shows multicultural educators how to discern the definition used in any particular book or ... Read more

$183.99 CAD

The concept of culture stands, clearly but unsteadily, at the heart of multicultural education. This book provides a systematic, in-depth understanding of the role that culture plays in the massive literature of multicultural education as multiple and antithetical definitions of culture exist. The book also shows multicultural educators how to discern the definition used in any particular book or
... Read more
Contemporary Debates in Education

An Historical Perspective

by Ron Brooks ...

Series series Effective Teacher, The
Did the Thatcher years and their aftermath constitute a revolution or a restoration in education. Do they represent a departure from, or a reinforcement of tradition? Contemporary Debates in Education is a thought-provoking volume which reviews the reforms of the eighties and early nineties, then follow this with an examination of the long-standing issues in education over the last century in ... Read more

$68.70 CAD

Did the Thatcher years and their aftermath constitute a revolution or a restoration in education. Do they represent a departure from, or a reinforcement of tradition? Contemporary Debates in Education is a thought-provoking volume which reviews the reforms of the eighties and early nineties, then follow this with an examination of the long-standing issues in education over the last century in
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