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  • School and Society

    by Walter Feinberg, Jonas F. Soltis ...
    Series series Thinking About Education Series
    This widely used text has been expanded to include the most important issues in contemporary schooling, including:New end-of-chapter sections for Further Reading.New references added to the useful Additional Resources section.School and Society, Fifth Edition uses realistic case studies, dialogues, and open-ended questions designed to stimulate thinking about problems related to school and society ... Read more

    R481,49

  • 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

    R31,61 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Coddling of the American Mind

    How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    by Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff ...
    'Excellent, their advice is sound... liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial TimesThe New York Times BestsellerWhat doesn't kill you makes you weakerAlways trust your feelingsLife is a battle between good people and evil peopleThese three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being, as well as ancient wi... ... Read more

    R202,62

  • Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education

    Nine Modern European Philosophers

    by Alexandre Guilherme, W. John Morgan ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education is an advanced introduction to nine key European social philosophers: Martin Buber, Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone Weil, Michael Oakeshott, and Jürgen Habermas. This detailed yet highly readable work positions the socio-political views of each philosopher within a European tradition of dialogical ... Read more

    R1 196,45

  • Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education during COVID-19

    International Perspectives and Experiences

    Edited by Krishna Bista, Roy Chan, Ryan Allen ...
    This timely volume documents the immediate, global impacts of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on teaching and learning in higher education. Focusing on student and faculty experiences of online and distance education, the text provides reflections on novel initiatives, unexpected challenges, and lessons learned.Responding to the urgent need to better understand online teaching and learning ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • The Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm

    Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning

    by David Pace ...
    Series series Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
    Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation? Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a radically new model for helping students respond to the challenges of college and provides a framework for understanding why students find academic ... Read more

    R155,12

  • 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

    R19,90 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation

    Student and Teacher Experiences in Schools

    by Tania Ferfolja, Jacqueline Ullman ...
    Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation provides an outstanding and insightful critique of the ways that contemporary education is impacted by a range of political, social and cultural influences that inform the approaches that schools take in relation to gender and sexuality diversity.By applying feminist poststructural and Foucauldian frameworks, the book examines the ongoing ... Read more

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  • The Practice of Teaching

    by Philip W. Jackson ...
    This collection of six original essays, written over a period of several years, brings together Philip Jackson’s reflections and insights on the practice of teaching. He emphasizes the “deceiving simplicity of teaching” and aims to uncover the complexity of the craft by addressing the uncertainties teachers face, the inherent difficulties of defining what is “teaching,” and the apparent duality of ... Read more

    R306,12

  • Das AVIVA-Modell (E-Book)

    Kompetenzorientiert unterrichten und prüfen | Mit einem Vorwort von John Hattie

    by Christoph Städeli, Markus Maurer, Claudio Caduff, Manfred Pfiffner ...
    AVIVA, das heißt ankommen und einstimmen, Vorwissen aktivieren, informieren, verarbeiten, auswerten. In dieser Ausgabe werden die wesentlichen Inhalte des viel beachteten Unterrichtsmodells kompakt dargestellt und um vier aktuelle Themen pädagogisch-didaktischen Handelns ergänzt: Klassenführung, problembasiertes Lernen, Blended Learning und Prüfen. Ein abschließendes Kapitel widmet sich dem ... Read more

    R619,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Burden of Conscience

    Educating Beyond the Veil of Silence

    by Henry A. Giroux ...
    In The Burden of Conscience, Giroux confronts the insidious rise of fascism infiltrating today's politics and education, alongside the suffocating silence that paralyzes our will to resist and speak truth to power. He decries the moral apathy in the face of the slaughter of children in Israel and the mass killing in Gaza, positioning this silence as part of a broader, ominous affliction of our age ... Read more

    R278,75

  • Richtig gut Schlafen – endlich wieder ausgeruht und voller Energie aufwachen

    by Cordula Ahrens, Dr. Grigori P. Grabovoi ...
    Ein derivatives Werk zur praktischen, effektiven Anwendung der Technologien von Prof. Dr. Grigori Grabovoi. Richtig gut schlafen - ausgeruht aufwachen und voller Energie in den Tag starten! Wie das mit Leichtigkeit und ohne viel Tamtam erreicht wird. Das ist der Inhalt dieses Themenheftes. Autorin Cordula Ahrens ist Expertin für die Anwendung der effektiven Lehre Prof. Dr. Grigori Grabovoi's und ... Read more

    R199,00

  • International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Academic English in Turbulent Times

    Edited by James Fenton, Julio Gimenez, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Percy, Mariangela Spinillo ...
    This volume shares proven strategies for Academic English teaching, research, and development in challenging circumstances. Through original first-hand experiences from around the world, the collection reveals how educators in higher education have responded to the specific needs and challenges of teaching second language learners in turbulent times, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Organised ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • Rabindranath Tagore’s Journey as an Educator

    Critical Perspectives on His Poetics and Praxis

    Edited by Mohammad A. Quayum ...
    This book looks at Rabindranath Tagore’s, experiments and journey as an educator and the influence of humanistic worldviews, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in his philosophy of education.It juxtaposes the educational systems and institutions set up by the British colonial administration with Tagore’s pedagogical vision and schools in Santiniketan, West Bengal—Brahmacharya Asram (1901), Visva ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • Boys, Early Literacy and Children’s Rights in a Postcolonial Context

    A Case Study from Malta

    by Charmaine Bonello ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Literacy Education
    This book explores boys’ underachievement in literacy in early years education in Malta, using the dual lens of children’s rights and postcolonial theory.The author confronts issues in literacy attainment, early literacy learning and transitions to formal schooling with a case study from Malta. The book includes the voices of young boys who experience formal education from the age of five and adds ... Read more

    R523,31

  • The Game Plan

    A Multi-Year Blueprint to Create a School Culture of Literacy and Data Analysis

    by Daron W. Kennett, Kim Suzanne Rathke, Kristin van Brunt ...
    The Game Plan is the first professional book that gives secondary administrators, literacy coaches, and other instructional leaders a step-by-step blueprint for implementing the Common Core Literacy Standards for History/Social Studies, Science, and the Technical Subjects and other college and career readiness standards. The book provides principals, district supervisors, instructional coaches, ... Read more

    R786,93

  • Integrating Mindfulness into Anti-Oppression Pedagogy

    Social Justice in Higher Education

    by Beth Berila ...
    Drawing from mindfulness education and social justice teaching, this book explores an effective Anti-Oppression pedagogy for university and college classrooms. Authentic classroom discussions about oppression and diversity can be difficult; a mindful approach allows students to explore their experiences with compassion and to engage in critical inquiry to confront their deeply held beliefs and ... Read more

    R747,69

  • 'Race', Class and Gender in Exclusion From School

    by Alex McGlaughlin, Debbie Weekes, Cecile Wright ...
    This book explores the impact of 'race', class and gender on the interaction of pupils and their teachers in the classroom setting. It seeks to examine the extent to which these variables can account for differential rates of school exclusion between pupils from different ethnic/racial groups, socio-economic classes and genders. ... Read more

    R1 296,17

  • Foundations of Modern School Practices

    A Sourcebook of Educational Wisdom

    by Corey Lock ...
    This is a book is of educational ideas, commentaries, and observations from the past. The passages recorded here come from educational writings that were produced between 1880 and 1935-a time period that began with spirited calls for school reform and ended with a new and different concept of what it meant to be educated. It was this new concept of education that laid the foundation for the modern ... Read more

    R474,94

  • The Creative Classroom

    Innovative Teaching for 21st-Century Learners

    by Keith Sawyer ...
    The Creative Classroom presents an original, compelling vision of schools where teaching and learning are centered on creativity. Drawing on the latest research as well as his studies of jazz and improvised theater, Sawyer describes curricula and classroom practices that will help educators get started with a new style of teaching, guided improvisation, where students are given freedom to explore ... Read more

    R466,89

  • The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum

    What Secondary English Teachers Can Do

    by Sandra Stotsky ...
    This book is addressed to teachers who know that the secondary literature curriculum in our public schools is in shambles. Unless experienced and well-read English teachers can develop coherent and increasingly demanding literature curricula in their schools, average high school students will remain at about the fifth or sixth grade reading level—where they now are to judge from several ... Read more

    R603,39

  • Arthur Schopenhauer's English Schooling

    by Patrick Bridgwater ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1988 Arthur Schopenhauer’s English Schooling examines the famous German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, and his image of England and the influences and experiences which formed that image, notably his visit to England in 1803. His philosophy, when he came to formulate it, showed the pervasive influence of his English reading, was riddled with allusions to his three months ... Read more

    R872,34

  • The Teacher's Journey

    by Brian Costello ...
    Follow the Teacher’s Journey with Brian as he weaves together the stories of seven incredible educators. Each step encourages educators at any level to reflect, grow, and connect. The Teacher’s Journey will ignite your mind and heart through its practical ideas and vulnerable storytelling. ... Read more

    R146,04

  • Community Literacies as Shared Resources for Transformation

    Edited by Joanne Larson, George H. Moses ...
    Series series Expanding Literacies in Education
    Through multiple narratives reflecting the complexity of participatory action research partnerships for social justice, this book sheds light on the dialogic spaces that intentionally support community literacies and rhetorical practices for inquiry and change. Applying literacy as social practice, Larson and Moses tell a story of a unique collaboration between community members and university ... Read more

    R1 246,31