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  • A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum

    Doll draws relationships among the ideas advanced in chaos theory, Piagetian epistemology, cognitive theory, and the work of Dewey and Whitehead. In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction, ... Read more

    S$ 33.13 SGD

  • Observations on the Education of China (Works by Zhu Yongxin on Education Series)

    by Zhu Yongxin ...
    China’s top education thought leader provides a thorough examination of the state of China’s education system—what’s working, what’s not, and what’s to be doneObservations on the Education of China is a guide to the current status of education and educational thought in China, based on the author's visits to nearly 100 schools in more than 20 provinces throughout the country.Zhu contends that due ... Read more

    S$ 119.67 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 1.73 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Museums, Identity and Family Practices

    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Museums, Identity and Family Practices locates museum participation and meaning making in the realm of everyday family practices, which are central to understanding the role museums play in family social life.Drawing on a substantial amount of data from a wide range of sources, Moussouri discusses the importance of understanding how family practices are enacted across settings and how the arena of ... Read more

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  • The Absorbent Mind

    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

    S$ 1.38 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Academia

    How Universities Die

    by Peter Fleming ...
    'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - GuardianThere is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While academia was once thought of as the best job in the world - one that fosters autonomy, craft, intrinsic job satisfaction and vocational zeal - you would be ... Read more

    S$ 13.29 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Student Agency in the Classroom

    Honoring Student Voice in the Curriculum

    While student agency is considered an important aspect of classroom learning, opportunities to support and promote agency can be easily missed. This book addresses the inner dimensions of student agency to show what it is, why it is needed, and how it can be translated into instructional practices. In Part I, Locating Student Agency, Vaughn offers a model of agency that can become a core remedy ... Read more

    S$ 39.67 SGD

  • The University Revolution

    Outline of a Processual Theory of Modern Higher Education

    by Eric Lybeck ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351017558, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.Few institutions in modern society are as significant as universities, yet our historical and sociological understanding of the role of higher education has not been substantially updated for ... Read more

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  • Wounded by School

    Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture

    by Kirsten Olson ...
    While reformers and policymakers focus on achievement gaps, testing, and accountability, millions of students mentally and emotionally disengage from learning and many gifted teachers leave the field. Ironically, today’s schooling is damaging the single most essential component to education—the joy of learningHow do we recognize the “wounds” caused by outdated schooling policies? How do we heal ... Read more

    S$ 40.10 SGD

  • 7 days modern english grammar

    english grammar and composition, #1

    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

    S$ 10.22 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Capital

    The Tragedy of the Education Commons

    by Guy Standing ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    'One of the clearest and most important studies to be published on education, worldwide, in many decades' Danny DorlingDoes the education system make better people? Why are so many – teachers and students alike – stressed and dissatisfied? Do we need to revive real education?Ideally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • Jumpstart! Assemblies

    Ideas and Activities For Assemblies in Primary Schools

    by John Foster ...
    Series series Jumpstart
    This book contains a wealth of ideas for teachers to deliver engaging and informative assemblies in primary schools. The book gives a structure for any assembly that can be easily followed with minimum preparation and provides plenty of opportunities for children to learn interactively and reflect on the theme introduced.With all the essential information on over 40 topics and complementary ... Read more

    S$ 39.01 SGD

  • Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language

    Edited by Zia Tajeddin, Minoo Alemi ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Teaching English as an International Language Series
    Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Languageaims to bring to light L2 pragmatics instruction and assessment in relation to English as an International Language (EIL). The chapters in this book deal with a range of pedagogically related topics, including the historical interface between L2 pragmatics and EIL, reconceptualization of pragmatic competence in EIL, intercultural dimension ... Read more

    S$ 90.57 SGD

  • The Original Home Schooling Series

    Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, ... Read more

    S$ 4.17 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Education of Karl Witte: Or the Training of the Child

    The Education of Karl Witte: Or, The Training of the Child is one of the most remarkable and influential works ever written on early childhood education — the true story of how a father's faith, patience, and methodical guidance transformed his son into one of the youngest Ph.D. recipients in history. First published in 1819 by Karl Heinrich Gottfried Witte, this candid account describes the ... Read more

    S$ 3.98 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines

    A public policy leader addresses how artificial intelligence is transforming the future of labor—and what we can do to protect the role of workers.As computer technology advances with dizzying speed, human workers face an ever-increasing threat of obsolescence. In Human Work In the Age of Smart Machines, Jamie Merisotis argues that we can—and must—rise to this challenge by preparing to work ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • SOLO Taxonomy: A Guide for Schools Bk 1

    A common language

    Series series SOLO Taxonomy: A Guide for Schools
    Translate “learning how to learn” from a pedagogical principle into everyday classroom practice with this series. SOLO Taxonomy offers a clear, simple and robust way of identifying the level of cognitive complexity of learning intentions and outcomes, and consequently makes feedback and “feed forward” more effective in the learning process; ensuring learning outcomes are visible to teachers, ... Read more

    S$ 8.99 SGD

  • Professional Collaboration with Purpose

    Teacher Learning Towards Equitable and Excellent Schools

    Series series Routledge Leading Change Series
    Building on both cutting-edge research and professional learning practice, Amanda Datnow and Vicki Park explore how professional collaboration can support deeper learning for students and teachers alike. While many schools and systems support teacher collaboration, they often fall short of their intended goals of improving teaching and learning. This book provides concrete guidance for creating ... Read more

    S$ 55.73 SGD

  • Chinese-Heritage Students in North American Schools

    Understanding Hearts and Minds Beyond Test Scores

    Edited by Wen Ma, Guofang Li ...
    This comprehensive look at Chinese-heritage students’ academic, sociocultural, and emotional development in the public schools examines pertinent educational theories; complex (even inconvenient) realities; learning practices in and outside of schools; and social, cultural, and linguistic complications in their academic lives across diverse settings, homes, and communities.Chinese-heritage ... Read more

    S$ 111.48 SGD

  • Religious Education and Religious Understanding

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religious Education

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Education
    This book, first published in 1978, introduces readers to the topic of the philosophy of religious education in a way which demands little philosophical expertise on their part. It puts forward a particular theory of religious education in such a way that most of the major questions are faced and sufficient answers given to enable readers to examine the theory critically, and so further the ... Read more

    S$ 69.67 SGD

  • Middle-class School Choice in Urban Spaces

    The economics of public schooling and globalized education reform

    by Emma Rowe ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    Middle-class School Choice in Urban Spaces examines government-funded public schools from a range of perspectives and scholarship in order to examine the historical, political and economic conditions of public schooling within a globalized, post-welfare context. In this book, Rowe argues that post-welfare policy conditions are detrimental to government-funded public schools, as they engender ... Read more

    S$ 64.09 SGD

  • Christian Privilege in U.S. Education

    Legacies and Current Issues

    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    Using critical curriculum theory as its lens, this book explores the relationship between religion—specifically, Christianity and the Judeo-Christian ethos underlying it—and secular public education in the United States. Despite various 20th-century court decisions separating religion and education, the authors challenge that religion is in fact absent from public education, suggesting instead ... Read more

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • The Concept of Care in Curriculum Studies

    Juxtaposing Currere and Hakbeolism

    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    The question at the heart of the book is what might an education with self-care and care-for-others look like? Juxtaposing self-understanding through the method of currere and the historical character of hakbeolism (a concept indigenous to Korea referring to a kind of social status people achieve based on a shared academic background), this book articulates how subjective reconstruction of self in ... Read more

    S$ 93.36 SGD

  • Working-Class Masculinities in Australian Higher Education

    Policies, Pathways and Progress

    by Garth Stahl ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
    This book takes a critical view of masculinities through an investigation of first-in-family males transitioning to higher education. Drawing on six in-depth longitudinal case studies, the focus is on how young men from working-class backgrounds engage with complex social inequalities, as well as the various capitals they draw upon to ensure their success. Through the longitudinal approach, the ... Read more

    S$ 85.00 SGD