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  • A People's History of Classics

    Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

    by Edith Hall, Henry Stead ...
    A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century.This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the ... Read more

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  • Creative Schools

    The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

    by Lou Aronica, Sir Ken Robinson PhD ...
    A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by Ken Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element.Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization’s history. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human ... Read more

    $74.39 HKD

  • Visible Learning for Teachers

    Maximizing Impact on Learning

    by John Hattie ...
    In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning.Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new ... Read more

    $407.13 HKD

  • Transitioning from a Theological College to a Christian University

    A Multi-Case Study in the East African Context

    by Semeon Mulatu ...
    Series series ICETE Series
    The decision for ministerial training institutions to become broader educational institutions that offer courses outside the traditional areas of theology is certainly not unique to a specific geographical context. While there are many examples of notable institutions making this transition in North America and Europe, very little reflection has been carried out in the global south. In this book, ... Read more

    $102.49 HKD

  • 7 days modern english grammar

    english grammar and composition, #1

    by Aparaj Rudra Paul ...
    Series Book 1 - english grammar and composition
    Welcome to the course of modern English grammar. I am here to inform you that it will be all my pleasure to make you learn English properly. Here I had written an e-book for you. It is not much expensive. If u want to learn something special you have to spend some money anywhere in internet. But at this point I can tell you that I am offering it at a very low price that you will never find in the ... Read more

    $62.99 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thinking Through Project-Based Learning

    Guiding Deeper Inquiry

    by Jane I. Krauss, Suzanne K. Boss ...
    Whether you are new to project-based learning or ready to strengthen your existing classroom projects, you'll find a full suite of strategies and tools in this essential book. ... Read more

    $261.59 HKD

  • Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

    by Benjamin A. Elman ...
    During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service ... Read more

    $401.79 HKD

  • Development, Social Change and Environmental Sustainability

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Sociology and Educational Transformation (ICCSET 2020), Malang, Indonesia, 23 September 2020

    Edited by Sumarmi, Abdul Kodir, Ken Miichi, Nanda Meiji, Joan Purwasih, Edo Andriesse, Dorina Ilies ...
    Nowadays, the concept of SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is starting to replace the concept of MDGs (Millennium Developmental Goals). It is a global goal adopted by all United Nations member states. It emphasizes the idea that the development of every country can only be achieved by balancing other factors such as social, economic, and environmental sustainability. It is already clear how ... Read more

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  • Adolescence: How to Survive It

    Insights for Parents, Teachers and Young Adults

    by Herb Etkin, Mr Tony Little ...
    An indispensable book for parents, teenagers and anyone concerned with issues in adolescence, from former headteacher Tony Little and child psychiatrist Herb Etkin.There is a crisis emerging in the lives of 21st century young people, their parents, teachers and peers. The complex experiences of adolescents with permanent access to technology, growing psychological pressures, increasing competition ... Read more

    $112.39 HKD

  • 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

    $140.69 HKD

  • The Abolition of Man

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as love and faith, courage and honor, in contemporary society. This modern classic also probes the role of education in man's moral and spiritual development. ... Read more

    $9.88 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs

    by Donald S. Kachur, Judith A. Stout, Claudia L. Edwards ...
    Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process. Drawing from their study of 40 schools in the United States and Canada, the authors show how administrators and teacher leaders moved teachers from resisting to embracing the practice. Readers will learn how ... Read more

    $205.49 HKD

  • Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning

    A Guide to Theory and Practice

    by Patricia Cranton ...
    The third edition of Patricia Cranton’s Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning brings a wealth of new insight from the tremendous growth in the field during the decade since the previous edition. As in the previous editions, the book helps adult educators understand what transformative learning is, distinguish it from other forms of learning, and foster it in their practice. The first ... Read more

    $391.46 HKD

  • The Absorbent Mind (Rediscovered Books)

    With linked Table of Contents

    by Maria Montessori ...
    The Absorbent Mind was Maria Montessori's most in-depth work on her educational theory, based on decades of scientific observation of children. Her view on children and their absorbent minds was a landmark departure from the educational model at the time. This book helped start a revolution in education. Since this book first appeared there have been both cognitive and neurological studies that ... Read more

    $39.08 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leaving Academia

    A Practical Guide

    by Christopher L. Caterine ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    An indispensable guide for grad students and academics who want to find fulfilling careers outside higher educationAn estimated ninety-three percent of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences won’t get a tenure-track job, yet many still assume that a tenured professorship is the only successful outcome for a PhD. With the academic job market in such crisis, Leaving Academia helps ... Read more

    $151.99 HKD

  • The Self, Civic Virtue, and Public Life

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Nancy E. Snow ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    This volume showcases new and interesting ways in which the possession of civic virtues can contribute to people’s abilities to engage in public life in meaningful ways.What is the role of civic virtues in public life? How does possessing civic virtues affect persons and their capacities for participation in the public order? The chapters in this volume combine philosophical and empirically ... Read more

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  • Augmented Education in the Global Age

    Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work

    Edited by Daniel Araya, Peter Marber ...
    Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work is an edited collection that explores the social impact of Artificial Intelligence over the coming decades, specifically how this emerging technology will transform and disrupt our contemporary institutions. Chapters in this book discuss the history of technological revolutions and consider the ... Read more

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  • The Absorbent Mind

    by Maria Montessori ...
    Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world. In 1947 she returned to India and gave courses in Adyar and Ahmedabad. These courses led to the book The Absorbent Mind, in which Montessori described ... Read more

    $7.75 HKD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Pedagogical Design for Human Flourishing

    Transforming Schools with the McCallister Model

    by Cynthia McCallister ...
    In A Pedagogical Design for Human Flourishing: Transforming Schools with the McCallister Model, Cynthia McCallister presents a revolutionary paradigm for education that is practical, conceptually convincing, and grounded in contemporary behavioral science theory. Beginning with the assertion that equality of educational opportunity depends on access to experiences that are sufficiently appropriate ... Read more

    $477.60 HKD

  • Knowledge, Power and Young Sexualities

    A Transnational Feminist Engagement

    by Tamara Shefer, Jeff Hearn ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
    This book troubles the ways young people have been constructed as ‘trouble’ through critical readings of the effects and impacts, politically and ideologically, globally and locally, of scholarship and practice directed at South African young people’s sexualities over the last three decades of addressing HIV, GBV and other sexual and gender justice challenges.Located primarily in South Africa, the ... Read more

    $493.26 HKD

  • On Higher Education

    Five Lectures

    Edited by D.F. Dadson ...
    Series series Heritage
    During the session of 1964-65, the Ontario College of Education sponsored this series of lectures on Higher Education. The first two lectures in the volume, by Robin Harris, Principal of Innis College, and Professor of Higher Education are entitled "The Establishment of a Provincial University in Ontario" and "The Evolution of a Provincial System of Higher Education in Ontario." They provide a ... Read more

    $174.59 HKD

  • Social Justice and Educational Measurement

    John Rawls, the history of testing, and the future of education

    by Zachary Stein ...
    Series series New Directions in the Philosophy of Education
    Social Justice and Educational Measurement addresses foundational concerns at the interface of standardized testing and social justice in American schools. Following John Rawls’s philosophical methods, Stein builds and justifies an ethical framework for guiding practices involving educational measurement. This framework demonstrates that educational measurement can both inhibit and ensure just ... Read more

    $493.26 HKD

  • The Likable, Effective, and Productive Educator

    Being the Best You Can Be as an Educator

    by Brett J. Novick ...
    As the role of an educator becomes more and more complex and the expectations continue to be heaped upon them, stress increases exponentially. Educators now have the pressure to be role models in their thoughts and actions, and yet are not sure how to be one. This book will discuss how to be productive and effective in a role that requires ever more balance and self-discipline now than ever. ... Read more

    $165.89 HKD

  • Queering Families, Schooling Publics

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    by Stacy Holman Jones, Anne Harris, Sandra Faulkner, Eloise Brook ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
    At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility, same-sex families, and sexualities education, there is surprisingly little writing on what it means to queer notions of family and kinship networks in global context. Building on the recent wave of scholarship on queerness in families and how families intersect with schools, ... Read more

    $477.60 HKD