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The Sudoku Effect: Universities in the Vicious Circle of Bureaucracy

de Stefan Kühl ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book shows that the introduction of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) of credit points as a new accounting unit at universities has led to increased bureaucracy and the schoolmaster-style regimentation of Bachelor’s and Master’s courses. It explains how, due to the pressure of having to plan every single working hour of studying in advance, a ‘Sudoku Effect’ is created by the ... Leer más

$49.49 USD

This book shows that the introduction of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) of credit points as a new accounting unit at universities has led to increased bureaucracy and the schoolmaster-style regimentation of Bachelor’s and Master’s courses. It explains how, due to the pressure of having to plan every single working hour of studying in advance, a ‘Sudoku Effect’ is created by the
... Leer más
Learning About Fall with Children's Literature

de Margaret A. Bryant, Marjorie Keiper, Anne Petit ...

Taking a thematic approach to learning that employs seeing, hearing, reading, and writing, these books outline three four-week, cross-curricular units that develop the competencies children need to become fluent, independent readers and writers. While each unit focuses primarily on language—phonic skills, structural analysis, punctuation, capitalization, poetry, and comprehension—they also include ... Leer más

$9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Taking a thematic approach to learning that employs seeing, hearing, reading, and writing, these books outline three four-week, cross-curricular units that develop the competencies children need to become fluent, independent readers and writers. While each unit focuses primarily on language—phonic skills, structural analysis, punctuation, capitalization, poetry, and comprehension—they also include
... Leer más
Teaching Language Teachers

Scaffolding Professional Learning

de Gabriel Diaz Maggioli ...

Teaching Language Teachers: Scaffolding Professional Learning provides an updated view of as well as a reader-friendly introduction to the field of Teaching Teachers, with special reference to language teaching. By taking a decidedly Sociocultural perspective, the book addresses the main role of the Teacher of Teachers (ToT) as that of scaffolding the professional learning of aspiring teachers. ... Leer más

$49.39 USD

Teaching Language Teachers: Scaffolding Professional Learning provides an updated view of as well as a reader-friendly introduction to the field of Teaching Teachers, with special reference to language teaching. By taking a decidedly Sociocultural perspective, the book addresses the main role of the Teacher of Teachers (ToT) as that of scaffolding the professional learning of aspiring teachers.
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Coordinating Design and Technology Across the Primary School

de Alan Cross ...

Series series Subject Leaders' Handbooks
Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for co- ordinating a subject area within their primary school. Each volume in the series conforms to a concise style, while providing a wealth of tips, case studies and photocopiable material that teachers can use immediately.; There are special volumes dedicated to dealing with OFSTED, creating whole school policy and the demands of ... Leer más

$57.99 USD

Specifically designed for busy teachers who have responsibility for co- ordinating a subject area within their primary school. Each volume in the series conforms to a concise style, while providing a wealth of tips, case studies and photocopiable material that teachers can use immediately.; There are special volumes dedicated to dealing with OFSTED, creating whole school policy and the demands of
... Leer más
Sustainability Education

Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education

de Paula Jones, David Selby, Stephen Sterling ...

How do we equip learners with the values, knowledge, skills, and motivation to help achieve economic, social and ecological well-being? How can universities make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future? Amid rising expectations on HE from professional associations, funders, policy makers, and undergraduates, and increasing interest amongst academics and senior management, a growing ... Leer más

$76.99 USD

How do we equip learners with the values, knowledge, skills, and motivation to help achieve economic, social and ecological well-being? How can universities make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future? Amid rising expectations on HE from professional associations, funders, policy makers, and undergraduates, and increasing interest amongst academics and senior management, a growing
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Rehumanizing the Language Curriculum

Edición de Megan M. Echevarría ...

This volume brings together work by renowned scholars in the field of foreign/second/heritage languages and literatures who employ a variety of scholarly tools to examine opportunities associated with literature as a force for rehumanizing and invigorating target language (TL) education in the 21st century. Offering viable avenues for reconciling historic differences between language pedagogues ... Leer más

$80.99 USD

This volume brings together work by renowned scholars in the field of foreign/second/heritage languages and literatures who employ a variety of scholarly tools to examine opportunities associated with literature as a force for rehumanizing and invigorating target language (TL) education in the 21st century. Offering viable avenues for reconciling historic differences between language pedagogues
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Mathematics Lesson Study Around the World

Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Edición de Marisa Quaresma, Carl Winsløw, Stéphane Clivaz, João Pedro da Ponte, Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, Akihiko Takahashi ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book introduces the specifics of mathematics lesson study with regard to regional/national particularities, discussing the methodological and theoretical tools that can be used to pursue research on lesson study (its forms, contents, effects etc.) from an international perspective. Lesson study and learning study (LS) are becoming increasingly important in teacher education, mostly in ... Leer más

$107.09 USD

This book introduces the specifics of mathematics lesson study with regard to regional/national particularities, discussing the methodological and theoretical tools that can be used to pursue research on lesson study (its forms, contents, effects etc.) from an international perspective. Lesson study and learning study (LS) are becoming increasingly important in teacher education, mostly in
... Leer más
East-Asian Primary Science Curricula

An Overview Using Revised Bloom's Taxonomy

de Yew-Jin Lee, Mijung Kim, Qingna Jin, Hye-Gyoung Yoon, Kenji Matsubara ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book describes a comparative study of the primary science learning objectives (from the cognitive domain) in the curriculum of six high-achieving East Asian states — mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Singapore. Specifically, the authors use one of the most widely accepted and useful tools in curriculum research — revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. This is the first time that such ... Leer más

$49.49 USD

This book describes a comparative study of the primary science learning objectives (from the cognitive domain) in the curriculum of six high-achieving East Asian states — mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Singapore. Specifically, the authors use one of the most widely accepted and useful tools in curriculum research — revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. This is the first time that such
... Leer más
Instructional Innovation+

Cultivating Teaching Teams Through Action Research

de Jorge Valenzuela ...

Empower teaching teams with data-driven instructional innovationWith teacher shortages, high staff turnover, and an influx of new and underprepared teachers, highly capable data-informed teaching teams are needed now more than ever.Instructional Innovation+ provides educators with a systematic action research approach to achieve instructional innovation and guide teaching teams to success through ... Leer más

$31.49 USD

Empower teaching teams with data-driven instructional innovationWith teacher shortages, high staff turnover, and an influx of new and underprepared teachers, highly capable data-informed teaching teams are needed now more than ever.Instructional Innovation+ provides educators with a systematic action research approach to achieve instructional innovation and guide teaching teams to success through
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A Pedagogy for Planetary Convivência

A Freirean Perspective to Think Pedagogy Otherwise

de Débora B. A. Junker ...

A Pedagogy for a Planetary Convivencia presents a comprehensive approach to education that aims to promote emotional resilience, empathy, and ethical consciousness. The ultimate objective is to inspire us to imagine a more equitable world, where indigenous people are respected and valued, where cultural diversity is celebrated, and where relationships between humans and the natural world are based ... Leer más

$19.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

A Pedagogy for a Planetary Convivencia presents a comprehensive approach to education that aims to promote emotional resilience, empathy, and ethical consciousness. The ultimate objective is to inspire us to imagine a more equitable world, where indigenous people are respected and valued, where cultural diversity is celebrated, and where relationships between humans and the natural world are based
... Leer más
How to Build a Meaningful Mental Health Curriculum

A Practical Guide for Schools

de Amy Sayer ...

This book provides a comprehensive guide to designing and delivering a safe, confident and inclusive mental health curriculum for primary and secondary schools.It offers support strategies for staff, ensuring they feel equipped to teach sensitive and sometimes challenging topics, explores how to support social and emotional learning across the curriculum, and discusses how to work with parents and ... Leer más

$28.79 USD

This book provides a comprehensive guide to designing and delivering a safe, confident and inclusive mental health curriculum for primary and secondary schools.It offers support strategies for staff, ensuring they feel equipped to teach sensitive and sometimes challenging topics, explores how to support social and emotional learning across the curriculum, and discusses how to work with parents and
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Picture This! Leveraging Award-Winning Picture Books as Primary Sources in Secondary Social Studies

Edición de Kristine Gritter, Dixie D. Massey, Julie Antilla-Garza ...

Picture This! Leveraging Award-Winning Picture Books as Primary Sources in Secondary Social Studies shows how teachers can use picture books to teach secondary school students about social studies topics in American society.Using Caldecott Award-winning books as primary sources, each chapter interprets 1–4 picture books to offer insights into how the U.S. has grappled with social and political ... Leer más

$42.99 USD

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Picture This! Leveraging Award-Winning Picture Books as Primary Sources in Secondary Social Studies shows how teachers can use picture books to teach secondary school students about social studies topics in American society.Using Caldecott Award-winning books as primary sources, each chapter interprets 1–4 picture books to offer insights into how the U.S. has grappled with social and political
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Creative Approaches to Improving Participation

Giving learners a say

Edición de Helen Manchester ...

Series series Creative Teaching/Creative Schools
Introducing creativity to the classroom is a concern for teachers, governments and future employers around the world, and there has been a drive to make experiences at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic for all young people, ensuring they leave education able to contribute to the global creative economy.Creative Approaches to Improving Participation examines ways in which ... Leer más

$45.99 USD

Introducing creativity to the classroom is a concern for teachers, governments and future employers around the world, and there has been a drive to make experiences at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic for all young people, ensuring they leave education able to contribute to the global creative economy.Creative Approaches to Improving Participation examines ways in which
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Trends in Teaching Experimentation in the Life Sciences

Putting Research into Practice to Drive Institutional Change

Edición de Nancy J. Pelaez, Stephanie M. Gardner, Trevor R. Anderson ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book is a guide for educators on how to develop and evaluate evidence-based strategies for teaching biological experimentation to thereby improve existing and develop new curricula. It unveils the flawed assumptions made at the classroom, department, and institutional level about what students are learning and what help they might need to develop competence in biological experimentation ... Leer más

$116.09 USD

This book is a guide for educators on how to develop and evaluate evidence-based strategies for teaching biological experimentation to thereby improve existing and develop new curricula. It unveils the flawed assumptions made at the classroom, department, and institutional level about what students are learning and what help they might need to develop competence in biological experimentation
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International Handbook of Skill, Education, Learning, and Research Development in Tourism and Hospitality

Edición de Anukrati Sharma ...

Series series Reference Module Education
This handbook provides new dimensions and directions to design tourism education curriculums and transform students' learning. It delves into issues such as job opportunities, business opportunities, required skill sets, and the role of critical and creative thinking in tourism education, and focuses on a shift in mindset from R&D (research and development) to L&D (learning and development), to ... Leer más

$404.99 USD

This handbook provides new dimensions and directions to design tourism education curriculums and transform students' learning. It delves into issues such as job opportunities, business opportunities, required skill sets, and the role of critical and creative thinking in tourism education, and focuses on a shift in mindset from R&D (research and development) to L&D (learning and development), to
... Leer más
Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp

Philosophy for Children’s Educational Revolution

de Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book explores the contribution to education contained in the theoretical work and teaching practice of Matthew Lipman (1923-2010) and Ann Margaret Sharp (1942-2010). Their long-lasting cooperation gave rise to the well-known “Philosophy for Children” (P4C) curriculum, which is nowadays globally widespread. P4C basically relies on the following innovations: firstly, the unprecedented ... Leer más

$53.99 USD

This book explores the contribution to education contained in the theoretical work and teaching practice of Matthew Lipman (1923-2010) and Ann Margaret Sharp (1942-2010). Their long-lasting cooperation gave rise to the well-known “Philosophy for Children” (P4C) curriculum, which is nowadays globally widespread. P4C basically relies on the following innovations: firstly, the unprecedented
... Leer más
Bildungsurlaub – Vom gesellschaftspolitischen Anliegen zum Instrument beruflicher Qualifizierung?

Eine Analyse der Bildungsurlaubsdiskurse in der Weiterbildung

de Claudia Pohlmann ...

Series Libro 73 - Studien zur Paedagogik, Andragogik und Gerontagogik / Studies in Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Gerontagogy
In einer diskursanalytisch angelegten Studie erforscht die Autorin Bildungsurlaubsdiskurse in der Weiterbildung. Mittels Interviews und Programmanalysen untersucht sie, inwieweit sich eine Akzentverschiebung vom gesellschaftspolitischen Anliegen zum Instrument beruflicher Qualifizierung im Bildungsurlaub vollzogen hat. Die Befunde zu den Bildungskonzeptionen, Planungsstrategien und ... Leer más

$55.19 USD

In einer diskursanalytisch angelegten Studie erforscht die Autorin Bildungsurlaubsdiskurse in der Weiterbildung. Mittels Interviews und Programmanalysen untersucht sie, inwieweit sich eine Akzentverschiebung vom gesellschaftspolitischen Anliegen zum Instrument beruflicher Qualifizierung im Bildungsurlaub vollzogen hat. Die Befunde zu den Bildungskonzeptionen, Planungsstrategien und
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Literacy Beyond the Classroom

Ten real-world projects proven to raise attainment in primary English

de Dominic Traynor, Cath Bufton-Green ...

Improves English progress at Key Stage 2 by 3.75 times the UK national averageDominic Traynor, the founder of LitFilmFest, and experienced educator Cath Bufton-Greenoffer a practical method for primary teachers to radically improve English attainment in their classroom.This innovative approach links global challenges including politics, social change, the environment, health and advertising to the ... Leer más

$23.09 USD

Improves English progress at Key Stage 2 by 3.75 times the UK national averageDominic Traynor, the founder of LitFilmFest, and experienced educator Cath Bufton-Greenoffer a practical method for primary teachers to radically improve English attainment in their classroom.This innovative approach links global challenges including politics, social change, the environment, health and advertising to the
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Public Education in the Digital Age

Neoliberalism, EdTech, and the Future of Our Schools

de Morgan Anderson ...

Educational technology is now ubiquitous in schooling, both in P-12 and at universities. Despite the imposition of technology in most aspects of teaching and learning, little attention has been given to the implications educational technology has for healthy student development, humane pedagogy, teacher labor, academic freedom, and the aims of social justice. Rather than merely a set of neutral ... Leer más

$54.99 USD

Educational technology is now ubiquitous in schooling, both in P-12 and at universities. Despite the imposition of technology in most aspects of teaching and learning, little attention has been given to the implications educational technology has for healthy student development, humane pedagogy, teacher labor, academic freedom, and the aims of social justice. Rather than merely a set of neutral
... Leer más
The Afrocentric School [a blueprint]

de NAH DOVE ...

Who are we? is a central question asked throughout the African Diaspora. This handbook offers answers to that burning question based on ancient African principles that relate to the critical role of teaching our children and are drawn from Nah Dove's UNICEF-sponsored work in Ghana. Grounded in the love of African humanity-women, men, girls, and boys-this handbook counters anti-African and anti ... Leer más

$49.49 USD

Who are we? is a central question asked throughout the African Diaspora. This handbook offers answers to that burning question based on ancient African principles that relate to the critical role of teaching our children and are drawn from Nah Dove's UNICEF-sponsored work in Ghana. Grounded in the love of African humanity-women, men, girls, and boys-this handbook counters anti-African and anti
... Leer más
Modern Education in Africa Vol. 2

Curriculum Development of Ethiopia

de Woube Kassaye ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book, the second of two volumes, focuses on the conceptualization of Indigenous Knowledge and Curriculum, Ethiopian/African Philosophy and the possibilities of Indigenization/Africanization of African Education. Its main purpose is to overview African Education and its curriculum development with particular emphasis on Indigenization and Knowledge Production in Ethiopia and come up with ... Leer más

$152.09 USD

This book, the second of two volumes, focuses on the conceptualization of Indigenous Knowledge and Curriculum, Ethiopian/African Philosophy and the possibilities of Indigenization/Africanization of African Education. Its main purpose is to overview African Education and its curriculum development with particular emphasis on Indigenization and Knowledge Production in Ethiopia and come up with
... Leer más
Leading Groups Online: a Down-and-Dirty Guide to Leading Online Courses, Meetings, Trainings, and Events During the Coronavirus Pandemic

de Daniel Hunter ...

The coronavirus pandemic has created new challenges for facilitators and educators. Across the globe, people are being asked to lead groups online: teachers, trainers, professors, event managers, organizers, activists.Jeanne Rewa and Daniel Hunter swiftly wrote this booklet for this moment. Using their combined two decades of online facilitation, Jeanne and Daniel walk you through the basics of ... Leer más

$2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

The coronavirus pandemic has created new challenges for facilitators and educators. Across the globe, people are being asked to lead groups online: teachers, trainers, professors, event managers, organizers, activists.Jeanne Rewa and Daniel Hunter swiftly wrote this booklet for this moment. Using their combined two decades of online facilitation, Jeanne and Daniel walk you through the basics of
... Leer más
Cases on Academic Program Redesign for Greater Racial and Social Justice

Edición de Ebony Cain-Sanschagrin, Robert A. Filback, Jenifer Crawford ...

Faculty and students confront persistent racial, economic, and social inequities in higher education locally, nationally, and globally. To counter these inequities, there has been a recent focus on universities providing an inclusive curriculum that serves the needs of students from a wide range of backgrounds. Inclusive and equitable courses and instruction are crucial in today’s world as calls ... Leer más

$184.49 USD

Faculty and students confront persistent racial, economic, and social inequities in higher education locally, nationally, and globally. To counter these inequities, there has been a recent focus on universities providing an inclusive curriculum that serves the needs of students from a wide range of backgrounds. Inclusive and equitable courses and instruction are crucial in today’s world as calls
... Leer más
Getting at the Core of the Common Core with Social Studies

Edición de Thomas N. Turner, William Cole, Jeremiah C. Clabough ...

Series series Teaching and Learning Social Studies
For social studies teachers reeling from the buffeting of top-down educational reforms, this volume offers answers to questions about dealing with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Each chapter presents and reviews pertinent standards that relate to the social studies. Each chapter also deals with significant topics in the social studies from various social sciences to processes such as ... Leer más

$50.09 USD

For social studies teachers reeling from the buffeting of top-down educational reforms, this volume offers answers to questions about dealing with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Each chapter presents and reviews pertinent standards that relate to the social studies. Each chapter also deals with significant topics in the social studies from various social sciences to processes such as
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