Rakuten Kobo

Teaching Across the Early Years 3-7

Curriculum Coherence and Continuity

Edited by Hilary Cooper, Chris Sixsmith ...

This practical and accessible book explores ways of developing continuity and coherence in children's learning from three to seven years old. It is based around three case studies in which tutors on Initial Teacher Training courses worked with early years practitioners in three different pre-school settings, each linked to a primary school. The book describes how they successfully managed to plan ... Read more

$69.99 USD

This practical and accessible book explores ways of developing continuity and coherence in children's learning from three to seven years old. It is based around three case studies in which tutors on Initial Teacher Training courses worked with early years practitioners in three different pre-school settings, each linked to a primary school. The book describes how they successfully managed to plan
... Read more
Critical Perspectives of the Language Gap

Edited by Eric J. Johnson ...

This volume is an orchestrated critique of the notion that individuals from lower socioeconomic status communities have inferior language skills as compared to middle- and upper-class groups. The idea of this so-called “language gap” stems in large part from Hart and Risley’s (1995) publication Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children. Hart and Risley proposed ... Read more

$60.99 USD

This volume is an orchestrated critique of the notion that individuals from lower socioeconomic status communities have inferior language skills as compared to middle- and upper-class groups. The idea of this so-called “language gap” stems in large part from Hart and Risley’s (1995) publication Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children. Hart and Risley proposed
... Read more
100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: History

by Ms Clare Horrie, Rachel Hillman ...

Series series 100 Ideas for Teachers
No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners ... Read more

$17.99 USD

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won't fail to inspire and engage all learners
... Read more
Books as Partners

Diverse Literature in the Early Childhood Classroom

by Lesley Colabucci, Mary Napoli ...

How can diverse literature be woven throughout the early childhood curriculum? What kind of learning opportunities do high quality diverse books offer young children? Diverse books in the early childhood classroom can facilitate dialogue and understanding about differences, diversity, and respect. Books as Partners incorporates research from literacy, early childhood education, and multicultural ... Read more

$28.19 USD

How can diverse literature be woven throughout the early childhood curriculum? What kind of learning opportunities do high quality diverse books offer young children? Diverse books in the early childhood classroom can facilitate dialogue and understanding about differences, diversity, and respect. Books as Partners incorporates research from literacy, early childhood education, and multicultural
... Read more
Teaching the Media

International Perspectives

Edited by Andrew Hart ...

Series series Routledge Communication Series
In TEACHING THE MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Andrew Hart initiates a challenging dialogue about approaches to Media teaching in the major English-speaking nations of the world, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa. By animating actual lessons and the considered views of classroom practitioners, TEACHING THE MEDIA encourages readers to develop ... Read more

$42.99 USD

In TEACHING THE MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Andrew Hart initiates a challenging dialogue about approaches to Media teaching in the major English-speaking nations of the world, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa. By animating actual lessons and the considered views of classroom practitioners, TEACHING THE MEDIA encourages readers to develop
... Read more
Language Literacy and Science

Enhancing Engagement and Achievement in Science

by Azra Moeed, Brendan Cooney ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book presents the findings of two case studies in the 'Making Connections' two-year project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education. It shows how science literacy was improved in a state coeducational school with Pacific Island students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. This book details ideas and strategies relevant to schools where English literacy has an impact on the science ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This book presents the findings of two case studies in the 'Making Connections' two-year project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education. It shows how science literacy was improved in a state coeducational school with Pacific Island students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. This book details ideas and strategies relevant to schools where English literacy has an impact on the science
... Read more
Human Rights Education Globally

Edited by Joseph Zajda ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book presents a comprehensive overview of selected research concerning global and comparative trends in dominant discourses on human rights education. Using diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to historical-comparative research, the book examines major human rights education reforms and policy issues in a global culture with a focus on the ambivalent and problematic relationship ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book presents a comprehensive overview of selected research concerning global and comparative trends in dominant discourses on human rights education. Using diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to historical-comparative research, the book examines major human rights education reforms and policy issues in a global culture with a focus on the ambivalent and problematic relationship
... Read more
The Art of Awareness

How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching

by Deb Curtis, Margie Carter ...

With new chapters and updates from early childhood leaders Deb Curtis and Margie Carter invite early childhood educators to learn the art and skill of observation.The art of observing children is more than merely the act of watching them—it is also using what you see and hear to craft new opportunities in your classroom. This resource provides a wealth of inspiration and practice. It will help ... Read more

$32.39 USD

With new chapters and updates from early childhood leaders Deb Curtis and Margie Carter invite early childhood educators to learn the art and skill of observation.The art of observing children is more than merely the act of watching them—it is also using what you see and hear to craft new opportunities in your classroom. This resource provides a wealth of inspiration and practice. It will help
... Read more
Dialogues in Middle Level Education Research Volume 1

Insights from the AMLE New Directions 2020 Roundtable Discussions

Edited by David C. Virtue ...

Series series AMLE Innovations in Middle Level Education Research
Mirroring the roundtable discussions conducted at the 2020 Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference, this volume highlights the dialogic knowledge-building process critical to advancing middle level teaching and research.Launching the new AMLE Innovations in Middle Level Education Research series, this collection captures the synergetic dialogue that occurs during professional ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Mirroring the roundtable discussions conducted at the 2020 Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) conference, this volume highlights the dialogic knowledge-building process critical to advancing middle level teaching and research.Launching the new AMLE Innovations in Middle Level Education Research series, this collection captures the synergetic dialogue that occurs during professional
... Read more
Philosophy for Children in Confucian Societies

In Theory and Practice

Edited by Chi-Ming Lam ...

Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
This book contributes to the theory and practice of Philosophy for Children (P4C), with a special emphasis on theoretical and practical issues confronting researchers and practitioners working in contexts that are strongly influenced by Confucian values and norms. It includes writings by prominent P4C scholars from four Confucian societies, viz., Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. These ... Read more

$60.99 USD

This book contributes to the theory and practice of Philosophy for Children (P4C), with a special emphasis on theoretical and practical issues confronting researchers and practitioners working in contexts that are strongly influenced by Confucian values and norms. It includes writings by prominent P4C scholars from four Confucian societies, viz., Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. These
... Read more
Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine

by Suzanne Kurtz, Juliet Draper, Jonathan Silverman ...

This book and its companion, Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second Edition, provide a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. Fully updated and revised, and greatly expanded, this new edition examines how to construct a skills curricular at all levels of medical education and across specialties, documents the individuals skills that form the core content of ... Read more

$68.99 USD

This book and its companion, Skills for Communicating with Patients, Second Edition, provide a comprehensive approach to improving communication in medicine. Fully updated and revised, and greatly expanded, this new edition examines how to construct a skills curricular at all levels of medical education and across specialties, documents the individuals skills that form the core content of
... Read more
Quale bellezza?

Idee per un'educazione estetica

by AA. VV. ...

L'esperienza estetica è la matrice di ogni comprensione del mondo. Sin dalla primissima infanzia l'educazione contribuisce a liberare e raffinare la nostra peculiare sensibilità immaginativa e riflessiva o, al contrario, a disciplinarla secondo modalità precostituite. Questo volume - rivolto a studenti, professionisti e ricercatori del campo - vuole contribuire all'esplorazione di questo nesso ... Read more

$22.99 USD

L'esperienza estetica è la matrice di ogni comprensione del mondo. Sin dalla primissima infanzia l'educazione contribuisce a liberare e raffinare la nostra peculiare sensibilità immaginativa e riflessiva o, al contrario, a disciplinarla secondo modalità precostituite. Questo volume - rivolto a studenti, professionisti e ricercatori del campo - vuole contribuire all'esplorazione di questo nesso
... Read more
Employability via Higher Education: Sustainability as Scholarship

Edited by Alice Diver ...

This book discusses the topic of graduate employability from the premise that in this era of ‘massification,’ economic austerity, and political uncertainties, higher education (HE) no longer guarantees a clear ‘work place advantage.’ Divided into three sections, the book offers theoretical and philosophical discourses on the ‘HE quandary,’ whilst taking into account – and critiquing - political, ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book discusses the topic of graduate employability from the premise that in this era of ‘massification,’ economic austerity, and political uncertainties, higher education (HE) no longer guarantees a clear ‘work place advantage.’ Divided into three sections, the book offers theoretical and philosophical discourses on the ‘HE quandary,’ whilst taking into account – and critiquing - political,
... Read more
Stereotypes and Language Learning Motivation

A Study of L2 Learners of Asian Languages

by Larisa Nikitina ...

This book explores stereotypes that learners of six Asian languages— Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Myanmar, Thai and Vietnamese—hold about the target language country, its cultures and people.Some of the findings, such as the language learners’ mental images of Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, are presented here for the first time. Recognizing that stereotypes, and attitudes embedded in them, have an ... Read more

$30.99 USD

This book explores stereotypes that learners of six Asian languages— Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Myanmar, Thai and Vietnamese—hold about the target language country, its cultures and people.Some of the findings, such as the language learners’ mental images of Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, are presented here for the first time. Recognizing that stereotypes, and attitudes embedded in them, have an
... Read more
Food Education and Food Technology in School Curricula

International Perspectives

Edited by Marion Rutland, Angela Turner ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book draws together the perceptions and experiences from a range of international professionals with specific reference to food education. It presents a variety of teaching, learning and curriculum design approaches relating to food across primary, secondary and vocational school education, undergraduate initial teacher education programs, and in-service professional development support ... Read more

$152.09 USD

This book draws together the perceptions and experiences from a range of international professionals with specific reference to food education. It presents a variety of teaching, learning and curriculum design approaches relating to food across primary, secondary and vocational school education, undergraduate initial teacher education programs, and in-service professional development support
... Read more
Medicina Legal

350 questões comentadas para concursos

by Luciana de Paula Lima Gazzola ...

A Medicina Legal é um dos ramos do conhecimento médico de maior proeminência e desenvolvimento na atualidade e vem sendo abordada nos concursos policiais com profundidade e peculiaridades próprias à multidisciplinaridade que caracteriza a disciplina. Dado que o estudo da Medicina Legal voltado para concursos engloba conceitos médicos, jurídicos, sociológicos, biológicos e de política criminal, faz ... Read more

Was $10.99 USD Now $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A Medicina Legal é um dos ramos do conhecimento médico de maior proeminência e desenvolvimento na atualidade e vem sendo abordada nos concursos policiais com profundidade e peculiaridades próprias à multidisciplinaridade que caracteriza a disciplina. Dado que o estudo da Medicina Legal voltado para concursos engloba conceitos médicos, jurídicos, sociológicos, biológicos e de política criminal, faz
... Read more
A Guide to Curriculum Mapping

Planning, Implementing, and Sustaining the Process

by Janet A. Hale ...

"With imagination and serious reflection, the author has generated a detailed resource with exercises, worksheets, staff development activities, and sample maps to assist any staff developer or curriculum designer. This book particularly connects to those who are at the beginning levels of their mapping journey."—From the Foreword by Heidi Hayes JacobsA step-by-step guide to successful curriculum ... Read more

$40.49 USD

"With imagination and serious reflection, the author has generated a detailed resource with exercises, worksheets, staff development activities, and sample maps to assist any staff developer or curriculum designer. This book particularly connects to those who are at the beginning levels of their mapping journey."—From the Foreword by Heidi Hayes JacobsA step-by-step guide to successful curriculum
... Read more
Problematizing Public Pedagogy

Edited by Jake Burdick, Jennifer A. Sandlin, Michael P. O'Malley ...

The term ‘public pedagogy’ is given a variety of definitions and meanings by those who employ it. It is often used without adequately explicating its meaning, its context, or its location within differing and contested articulations of the construct. Problematizing Public Pedagogy brings together renowned and emerging scholars in the field of education to provide a theoretical, methodological, ... Read more

$73.99 USD

The term ‘public pedagogy’ is given a variety of definitions and meanings by those who employ it. It is often used without adequately explicating its meaning, its context, or its location within differing and contested articulations of the construct. Problematizing Public Pedagogy brings together renowned and emerging scholars in the field of education to provide a theoretical, methodological,
... Read more
Human Rights Education

Theory, Research, Praxis

by Nancy Flowers ...

Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity and freedom of all peoples. Since the founding of the United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, human rights ... Read more

$58.49 USD

Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity and freedom of all peoples. Since the founding of the United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, human rights
... Read more
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue Vol 7 Issues 1 & 2

Edited by Barbara Slater Stern ...

Series series Curriculum & Teaching Dialogue
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC). An important historical event in the development of organizations dealing with the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum was the founding of the AATC on October 1, 1993. The members of the AATC believed that the time was long overdue to recognize teaching and curriculum as a basic ... Read more

$44.29 USD

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC). An important historical event in the development of organizations dealing with the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum was the founding of the AATC on October 1, 1993. The members of the AATC believed that the time was long overdue to recognize teaching and curriculum as a basic
... Read more
Derubati consapevolmente - the italian diaspora

by Fabrizio Jennings ...

“Diaspora” : “In generale, dispersione, specialmente di popoli che, costretti ad abbandonare le loro sedi di origine, si disseminano in varie parti del mondo”.Un ragazzo come tanti, laureato e in cerca di un futuro,decide di partire alla volta di Londra, in cerca di qualcosa che il suo Paese non gli ha saputo dare. Ma emigrare è davvero la scelta giusta? É davvero facile trovare lavoro e ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

“Diaspora” : “In generale, dispersione, specialmente di popoli che, costretti ad abbandonare le loro sedi di origine, si disseminano in varie parti del mondo”.Un ragazzo come tanti, laureato e in cerca di un futuro,decide di partire alla volta di Londra, in cerca di qualcosa che il suo Paese non gli ha saputo dare. Ma emigrare è davvero la scelta giusta? É davvero facile trovare lavoro e
... Read more
Teachers’ Ethical Self-Encounters with Counter-Stories in the Classroom

From Implicated to Concerned Subjects

by Teresa Strong-Wilson ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Offering unique theoretical perspectives, autobiographical insights and narrative accounts from elementary and secondary educators, this monograph illustrates the need for teachers to engage critically with counter-stories as they teach to issues including colonization, war, and genocide.Juxtaposing Pinar’s concept of ethical self-encounters with theories of subjective reconstruction, ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Offering unique theoretical perspectives, autobiographical insights and narrative accounts from elementary and secondary educators, this monograph illustrates the need for teachers to engage critically with counter-stories as they teach to issues including colonization, war, and genocide.Juxtaposing Pinar’s concept of ethical self-encounters with theories of subjective reconstruction,
... Read more
Teaching with Clarity

How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More

by Tony Frontier ...

Feeling overwhelmed—constantly, on a daily basis—has unfortunately become the status quo among educators. But it doesn't have to be.Schools need to stop adding more programs, strategies, activities, resources, projects, assessments, and meetings. Though they are often implemented with the best intentions, these things ultimately end up as clutter—that which inhibits our ability to help students ... Read more

$27.89 USD

Feeling overwhelmed—constantly, on a daily basis—has unfortunately become the status quo among educators. But it doesn't have to be.Schools need to stop adding more programs, strategies, activities, resources, projects, assessments, and meetings. Though they are often implemented with the best intentions, these things ultimately end up as clutter—that which inhibits our ability to help students
... Read more
Engaging with Vocation on Campus

Supporting Students’ Vocational Discernment through Curricular and Co-Curricular Approaches

Edited by Karen Lovett, Stephen Wilhoit ...

Series series Routledge Research in Religion and Education
Bringing together narratives and theory-based analyses of practice, this volume illustrates collaborative curricular and co-curricular approaches to promoting vocational discernment amongst students in a Catholic university setting.Drawing on cultural, religious, and secular understandings of vocation, Engaging with Vocation on Campus illustrates how contemporary issues around vocation, work, and ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Bringing together narratives and theory-based analyses of practice, this volume illustrates collaborative curricular and co-curricular approaches to promoting vocational discernment amongst students in a Catholic university setting.Drawing on cultural, religious, and secular understandings of vocation, Engaging with Vocation on Campus illustrates how contemporary issues around vocation, work, and
... Read more

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Curricula eBooks

Show: