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  • On Critical Pedagogy

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    Alongside Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux is widely considered to be the founding father of critical pedagogy. This classic work represents his best writing on critical pedagogy spanning the past 40 years. The 2nd edition includes four new chapters covering the rise of fascist culture in America and across the globe and the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Trump and post-truth.This ... Read more

    22,99 €

  • Emile

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    A Landmark Work on Education, Human Nature, Freedom, and Moral DevelopmentFirst published in 1762, Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, complete title Emile, or On Education, is one of the most influential works in the history of educational philosophy. Written partly as a philosophical treatise and partly as a fictional account of a young boy’s development, the book explores how education might allow ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Coddling of the American Mind

    How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    by Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff ...
    'Excellent, their advice is sound... liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial TimesThe New York Times BestsellerWhat doesn't kill you makes you weakerAlways trust your feelingsLife is a battle between good people and evil peopleThese three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being, as well as ancient wi... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • La tras-formazione creativa del docente maestro

    Dalla filosofia agostiniana al cuore del Metodo Rondine

    by Benedetta Sonaglia ...
    Il libro vuole riflettere sulla figura professionale del docente, riportandolo a una dimensione umana, più umana, che unisca l'insegnamento alla formazione. Destinato a quei docenti e studenti per i quali, operando insieme «gomito a gomito», la scuola può essere rivoluzionata con gentilezza, l'intento programmatico di «far lavorare il proprio amore» segna l'andamento del saggio, che dal cuore ... Read more

    16,99 €

  • Literacy

    Writing, Reading and Social Organisation

    by John Oxenham ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Literacy
    Originally published in 1980. The skills of reading and writing have been proclaimed as universal human rights. This book explores why this should be so. In particular, it examines whether or not the possession of reading or writing skills has, or has not, influenced the values and organisation of society. Viewing literacy as a technology, the author maintains that like all technologies, it is ... Read more

    45,18 €

  • Primary Teachers at Work

    by S. R. St. J. Neill, R. J. Campbell ...
    Series series The Teaching as Work Project
    The first part of this book charts and analyses the working days of 326 primary school teachers. It shows how they spent their working lives, the nature of the curriculum they taught, and analyses their work into five main categories: Teaching, Preparation, Administration, Professional Development and Other Activities. The second part comments on the findings by relating them to issues of school ... Read more

    216,16 €

  • L'autoeducazione

    Nelle scuole elementari

    by Maria Montessori ...
    La scuola deve diventare il luogo dove il bambino può vivere nella sua libertà.Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1916, L’autoeducazione traccia la visione complessiva della scuola di Maria Montessori, dal ciclo delle elementari all’università, nella prospettiva della formazione «permanente» dell’uomo. Nella prima parte si delinea la figura dell’insegnante, mentre la seconda illustra i test alla ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • Critical Geographies of Education

    Space, Place, and Curriculum Inquiry

    by Robert J. Helfenbein ...
    WINNER 2023 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book AwardCritical Geographies of Education: Space, Place, and Curriculum Inquiry is an attempt to take space seriously in thinking about school, schooling, and the place of education in larger society. In recent years spatial terms have emerged and proliferated in academic circles, finding application in several disciplines extending ... Read more

    50,06 €

  • Learning Gain in Higher Education

    Edited by Christina Hughes, Malcolm Tight ...
    Series Book 14 - International Perspectives on Higher Education Research
    As students are bearing an increasing proportion of the costs of their participation in higher education, increasing attention has been paid nationally and internationally to the issue of what higher education does for its students. What do students gain from engaging in higher education, and how might this be accurately measured?This volume explores the latest thinking, research and practice on ... Read more

    82,56 €

  • El secreto de la mente humana

    by Mario Aveiga ...
    Se ha escrito mucho sobre el concepto de la mente y el desarrollo de la fuerza mental para lograr un mayor éxito. Todos conocemos mucha literatura sobre la ley de la atracción, el dominio de la mente y el desarrollo de buenos hábitos para toda la vida. Sin embargo, desarrollar estas prácticas de manera consistente a lo largo del tiempo es bastante difícil. Es especialmente difícil cuando nos ... Read more

    1,99 €

  • Embedding Social Justice in Teacher Education and Development in Africa

    Edited by Carmel McNaught, Sarah Gravett ...
    Series series Perspectives on Education in Africa
    This book explores the plethora of social-justice issues facing teacher education and development in Africa. Using both theoretical and empirical perspectives, it considers the need for teacher education to be transformational and address conventional pedagogy as well as the rights and duties of all citizens.The edited volume focuses on a wide range of relevant aspects, such as decolonisation, ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • Reforming Education and Challenging Inequalities in Southern Contexts

    Research and Policy in International Development

    Edited by Pauline Rose, Madeleine Arnot, Roger Jeffery, Nidhi Singal ...
    Series series Education, Poverty and International Development
    This book offers in-depth analyses of how education interacts with social inequality in Southern contexts. Drawing on a range of disciplinary frameworks, it presents new analyses of existing knowledge and new empirical data which define the challenges and possibilities of successful educational reform. It is a tribute to the work of the late Christopher Colclough, who, as a leading figure in ... Read more

    47,63 €

  • INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS

    NAVIGATING LEADERSHIP CULTURE AND CONTEXT

    by Ann McPhee with Pam Mundy ...
    This book is a "drop-in" helpful guide for those new to leadership or moving to a different or more senior leadership role. This is a "for your eyes only" guide, providing ideas for managing the challenges of leadership and hopefully helping to avoid some of the pitfalls. It's a concise and no-nonsense go-to source of support with real-life examples to help guide the reader toward possible ... Read more

    8,68 €

  • Making Language Visible in Social Studies

    A Guide to Disciplinary Literacy in the Social Studies Classroom

    by Sharon Besser, Ruslana Westerlund ...
    Series series Making Disciplinary Language Visible
    As the first book in the Making Disciplinary Language Visible series, this practical toolkit helps teachers promote disciplinary literacy development for Multilingual learners and their peers in the 5–12 social studies classroom. Using systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and the SFL-informed genre pedagogy, the Teaching and Learning Cycle for Disciplinary Genres, the book shows teachers how to ... Read more

    31,74 €

  • Itinerant Curriculum Theory

    Decolonial Praxes, Theories, and Histories

    This edited volume provides a compendium of recent work on critical curricularpedagogical praxes via itinerant curriculum theory (ICT). Overall, this volume advances ICT as a transnational-local way of doing critical curricular-pedagogical praxes, up-from-below, within bioregions. For those interested in doing critical pedagogy from an historicized, transnational, yet local perspective, this book ... Read more

    42,18 €

  • Language, Ability and Educational Achievement

    by Christopher Winch ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Education
    This title, first published in 1990, engages in the current debates about the teaching of literacy and the reform of education. Based on his dissatisfaction with prevalent theories of educational achievement and his experience of teaching in elementary schools, Winch argues that the dichotomy of biological inheritance and environmental influence is inadequate to describe the diverse phenomena of ... Read more

    35,41 €

  • Kant's Philosophy

    A Study for Educators

    by James Scott Johnston ...
    James Scott Johnston's incisive study draws on a holistic reading of Kant: one that views him as developing and testing a complete system (theoretical, practical, historical and anthropological) with education as a vital component. As such, the book begins with an extensive overview of Kant's chief theoretical work (the Critique of Pure Reason), and from that overview distils crucial discussions ... Read more

    37,62 €

  • Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula

    Edited by Robert Grover, Katherine O'Flaherty ...
    Series series Honors Education in Transition
    Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across ... Read more

    25,32 €

  • Lost Youth in the Global City

    Class, Culture, and the Urban Imaginary

    by Jo-Anne Dillabough, Jacqueline Kennelly ...
    Series series Critical Youth Studies
    What does it mean to be young, to be economically disadvantaged, and to be subject to constant surveillance both from the formal agencies of the state and from the informal challenge of competing youth groups? What is life like for young people living on the fringe of global cities in late modernity, no longer at the center of city life, but pushed instead to new and insecure margins of the urban ... Read more

    67,16 €

  • The Learning Adult

    Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis

    Edited by John Holford, Marcella Milana, Richard Waller, Sue Webb ...
    Peter Jarvis is a towering figure in adult and lifelong education and a leading and original theorist of learning. This book explores the breadth and significance of his work. Sixteen chapters by leading international scholars explain and engage critically with his theorisation of learning, and with his extensive writings on the sociology, politics, ethics and history of adult education, and on ... Read more

    53,73 €

  • Skills for Effective Learning in School

    Supporting Emotional Health and Wellbeing

    by Alison Waterhouse ...
    Series series Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit
    One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit, this practical resource focuses on the topic of ‘Skills for Learning’. The book offers research-driven, practical strategies, resources and lesson plans to support educators and health professionals. This is a resource book for practitioners looking to have a positive impact on the mental health and wellbeing of the children ... Read more

    51,28 €

  • The Social World of the Comprehensive School

    How Pupils Adapt

    by Glenn Turner ...
    A comprehensive school, like any community, is split into many groups and sub-divisions and contains many different ‘social worlds’ within its structure.First published in 1983, this work is based on a one-year project carried out by the author which involved observation of pupils in lessons and interviews and informal conversa ... Read more

    45,18 €

  • Nicho Marketing Para Ganhar Dineiro

    by Gildaci Silva Alves ...
    É muito fácil ficar animado com o marketing de nicho. Afinal, como você pode argumentar trabalhando apenas algumas horas por semana enquanto aproveita uma semana inteira (ou mesmo um mês inteiro) de renda? Tão incrível quanto à ideia de renda de marketing de nicho passivo on-line pode ser, alcançar essa realidade é outra coisa completamente diferente. Este livro dispensa todo o hype, exagero e ... Read more

    6,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Students in UK Further Education

    Examining Aspirations, Motivations and Choices

    by Rosemary A. Reynolds ...
    Chinese students in the UK have been increasing in number for many years, yet competition from other Western educators and increasing investment in China’s own education system has led to concern that UK institutions may soon see a decline in their market share. Dr. Reynolds addresses this issue in Chinese Students in UK Further Education by attempting to understand students’ experiences from ... Read more

    57,39 €