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  • Preventing Violence in Schools

    A Challenge To American Democracy

    School violence is a burning issue these days. This book provides an in-depth analysis of violence prevention programs and an assessment of their effectiveness, using data from observations, individual interviews, and focus groups, as well as published data from the schools. It is distinguished by its focus on the cultural and structural context of school violence and violence prevention efforts. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Teaching Young Children

    Contexts for Learning

    Using play as the method against which all others are compared, this book presents the strengths and weaknesses of different models of teaching, examines various methods of guiding young children's behavior, and shows how to create and maintain a positive learning environment. Finally, it discusses how to work as a team member in ECE settings. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Art & Fear

    Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

    The book appeals equally to beginning and advanced artists. It is widely used as a required or recommended text in art classes. It has garnered over one hundred reviews and a nearly perfect five-star rating on the Amazon.com website. Over 250,000 copies have been sold. It has also been published in French and Korean language editions. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Bridging Cultures Between Home and School

    A Guide for Teachers

    Bridging Cultures Between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers is intended to stimulate broad thinking about how to meet the challenges of education in a pluralistic society. It is a powerful resource for in-service and preservice multicultural education and professional development. The Guide presents a framework for understanding differences and conflicts that arise in situations where school ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Teacher Education and the Cultural Imagination

    Autobiography, Conversation, and Narrative

    Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book. It is a rich account of the author's investigation of teacher book club discussions of ethnic literature, specifically ethnic autobiography--as a genre from which teachers might learn about culture, literacy, and education in their own and others' lives, and as a form of conversation and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Schools of Recognition

    Identity Politics and Classroom Practices

    Schools are places where various cultures and identities must be recognized, yet there has been little research into what it means to recognize another person, identity, or culture. Drawing on the writings of Charles Taylor, Martin Buber, Judith Butler, and Jessica Benjamin, Schools of Recognition provides a rich picture of how recognition is negotiated in education. Using political theory, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Valdosta State University

    Series series Campus History
    In January of 1913, South Georgia State Normal College opened in Valdosta, Georgia, with three students who paid $10 a year for tuition and $12 per month for food and board. Colonel W.S. West donated land for the campus to the state, the Georgia Senate allocated $25,000 to the school, the city of Valdosta raised $50,000, and Richard Holmes Powell was chosen as the school's first president. From ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Training Across Multiple Locations

    Developing a System That Works

    Provides practical solutions to the business problem of distributing training to multiple locations Introduces a new and practical way to use assessment to create a sustainable training and development function Shows how those involved with training and development can make bottom line contributions to the company Provides a model for calculating return on investment (ROI) for technology based ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment

    A Practical Handbook A Volume in the EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Series

    The Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment is a practical guide for educational and psychological professionals using norm-referenced tests in the ability, achievement, and behavioral assessment of children. Written by key individuals involved in the construction and evolution of the most widely used tests, this book provides critical information on the nature and scope of commonly used tests, ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

  • Managing the Curriculum

    Edited by David Middlewood, Neil Burton ...
    Series series Centre for Educational Leadership and Management
    `Each chapter in the book is firmly rooted in research and is well referenced as one would expect of such a book. It will be of particular use to people with an academic interest in this aspect of school management but will also be thought-provoking for those who are involved in the development of the curriculum within their institution′ - escalateThis book explores many of the new aspects of the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • La Violence dans les écoles

    Pourquoi certains jeunes deviennent-ils violents, et d’autres pas ? Quels sont ceux qui sont exposés ? Et à quoi ? Qu’est-ce qui les fait exploser ? Que peuvent faire les parents pour aider leurs enfants ? Comment, et quand, s’inculque le respect de soi et de l’autre ? Qu’est-ce qui amène un jeune à accepter la frustration et à intégrer la loi ? Que doit faire l’école face aux risques de violence ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Education Between State, Markets, and Civil Society

    Comparative Perspectives

    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    *How should education be organized in pluralistic and multicultural societies?*What are the roles in education of civil society, markets, governments, and the family?*How can the idea of the civil society help to reorient education policy discussions that are sometimes stuck in either-or juxtapositions of "market versus government" or "individualism versus communitarianism?"*What are some of the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America

    Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a leading proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it has been ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Goodness

    Education and the Spiritual Quest

    Reclaiming Goodness: Education and the Spiritual Quest begins with the premise that sound models for achieving both spiritual fulfillment and the "good life" are lacking in contemporary culture. Arguing that contemporary education is responsible for having abandoned spirituality and the cultivation of goodness in people, Hanan A. Alexander advances a definition of spirituality which acknowledges ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Way in the Wilderness

    I first learned of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1959 in the first grade of Catholic elementary school. The excitement was unrivaled among the nuns who were our teachers. I remember being shown an article in a magazine brought to the classroom, calling this the most important discovery of the 20th century. That day in 1959 was the first and, very oddly, the last time I heard the scrolls ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Humorvolles Lernen - mehr als ein Witz?

    Eine Studie über eine pädagogische Rarität

    by Frank Becker ...
    Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2000 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Wissenschaft, Theorie, Anthropologie, Note: 1,7, Universität zu Köln (Seminar für Sozialpädagogik der Heilpädagogischen Fakultät Köln), 49 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Lieber Leser, liebe Leserin, Sie müssen jetzt ganz stark sein. Bei dem Thema 'Humorvolles Lernen - mehr als ein Witz ?' erwarten Sie sicher ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Barrows Popularity Factor

    The Barrows Popularity Factor explains how businesses of all kinds can now measure the effectiveness of their advertising with an easy-to-use mathematical formula called The Barrows Popularity Factor.The formula actually lets you quantify the relationship between your advertising and sales. Advertisers can use it to test and compare advertising copy and media, better, faster and less expensively ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Global Constructions of Multicultural Education

    Theories and Realities

    Edited by Carl A. Grant, Joy L. Lei ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This book tells us how various global regions are dealing with three major concerns within the field of multicultural education:*the conceptualization and realization of "difference" and "diversity";*the inclusion and exclusion of social groups within a definition of multicultural education; and*the effects of power on relations between and among groups identified under the multicultural education ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Educating Young Adolescent Girls

    This text for preservice and in-service teacher education courses shows how schools can educate girls and promote their positive self-esteem at the same time. Its purpose is to help teachers facilitate the development of gender-equitable schools and classrooms. Taking a feminist developmental approach, the text draws on an interdisciplinary knowledge base, synthesizing research from psychology, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Globalization and Women in Academia

    North/west-south/east

    by Carmen Luke ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    In this cross-cultural exploration of the comparative experiences of Asian and Western women in higher education management, leading feminist theorist Carmen Luke constructs a provocative framework that situates her own standpoint and experiences alongside those of Asian women she studied over a three-year period. She conveys some of the complexity of global sweeps and trends in education and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Fourth Dimension

    Sacred Geometry, Alchemy & Mathematics (CW 324a)

    Translated by Catherine E. Creeger ...
    6 lectures, Berlin, March 24-June 7, 1905;2 lectures, Nov. 7, 1905 & Oct. 22, 1908;Questions & Answers, 1904-1922 (CW 324)The point, line, plane and solid objects represent the first three dimensions, but a kind of reversal of space is involved in the ascent to a fourth dimension. Steiner leads us to the brink of this new perspective--as nearly as it can be done with words, diagrams, analogies, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms

    Edited by Barbara Comber, Anne Simpson ...
    Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms brings together accounts of educators who have sought to make a difference in the lives of their students through literacy education--from university classrooms in the United States, England, and South Africa, to policy and curriculum development in Singapore and Australia. Each chapter represents the results of extended research on classroom practice ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Development of Autism

    Perspectives From Theory and Research

    Dedicated to the memory and work of Lisa Capps, this volume is a forum for scholars and practitioners interested in the typical and atypical development of persons with autism. Each chapter is focused on theoretical considerations and the empirical evidence regarding a specific aspect of functioning, but common themes of development are considered throughout. Within this framework, the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Role of Fluency in Reading Competence, Assessment, and instruction

    Fluency at the intersection of Accuracy and Speed: A Special Issue of scientific Studies of Reading

    First published in 2001. This is a special issue Volume 5, Number 3, from 2001 of Scientific Studies of Reading that looks at the DNA of reading fluency in scientific inquiry accounts. The contributors offer a selection of essays seeks to establish that that fluent reading is plainly developmental and represents an outcome of well-specified sub lexical and lexical processes and skills developed ... Read more

    $49.99 USD