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  • A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum

    by William E. Doll Jr. ...
    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

    by Theano Moussouri ...
    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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  • Student Agency in the Classroom

    Honoring Student Voice in the Curriculum

    by Margaret Vaughn ...
    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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  • 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

    by Charlotte Mason ...
    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

    by Karl Heinrich Gottfried Witte ...
    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

  • 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

  • SOLO Taxonomy: A Guide for Schools Bk 1

    A common language

    by Pam Hook, Julie Mills ...
    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

    by Amanda Datnow, Vicki Park ...
    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

  • 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

    S$ 1.38 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines

    by Jamie Merisotis ...
    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

  • 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

    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

    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

  • 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

    S$ 85.00 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 31.05 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 87.78 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 27.13 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 85.00 SGD