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  • School and Society

    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

    '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

    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

  • The Absorbent Mind

    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

    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

    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

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

    International Perspectives and Experiences

    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

  • A Model for Work-Based Learning

    Work-based learning, in which professional work experience is closely integrated with professional study, now forms an important part of many courses in tertiary institutions. A Model for Work-Based Learning offers a plan designed to enhance the professional experience through facilitated mentoring and reflective learning, and is based on an internship that has proven highly successful over the ... Read more

    Was R936,78 Now R833,28

  • Queering STEM Culture in US Higher Education

    Navigating Experiences of Exclusion in the Academy

    Series series Routledge Research in STEM Education
    Adopting an intersectional lens, this timely volume explores the lived experiences of members of the queer and trans community in post-secondary STEM culture in the US to provide critical insights into progressing socially just STEM education pathways.Offering contributions from students, faculty, practitioners, and administrators, the volume highlights prevailing issues of heteronormativity and ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • Pupil Experience

    Edited by John F Schostak, Tom Logan ...
    First published in 1984, this book focuses upon pupil perspectives of schooling from first school to school leaver, taking their thoughts and feelings as accurate assessments of their experience.The study presents what was at the time new thinking and research findings on a wide range of important topics to provide an insight in ... Read more

    R623,03

  • Understanding the Primary School

    A Sociological Analysis

    by David Hartley ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    In this study, first published in 1985, the author explores the construction of educational ideologies and assesses to what extent they are put into practice by the teachers. He examines the ‘politics’ of education within the school; the extent to which the head teacher, as the bureaucratic authority in the school, seeks to impose his or her own views and the degree to which teachers see ... Read more

    R972,07

  • Understanding Individual Experiences of COVID-19 to Inform Policy and Practice in Higher Education

    Helping Students, Staff, and Faculty to Thrive in Times of Crisis

    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    Utilizing findings from more than 200 interviews with students, staff, and faculty at a US university, this volume explores the immediate and real-life impacts of COVID-19 on individuals to inform higher education policy and practice in times of crisis.Documenting the profound impacts that COVID-19 had on university operations and teaching, this text foregrounds a range of participant perspectives ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • Dialogical Engagement with the Mythopoetics of Currere

    Extending the Work of Mary Aswell Doll across Theory, Literature, and Autobiography

    Edited by Brian Casemore ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    This volume showcases a series of chapters that elaborate on Mary Aswell Doll’s contributions to the field of curriculum theory through her examination of currere as a mythopoetics.By bringing Doll’s Jungian, autobiographical, and literary perspectives into conversation with emergent forms of subjective inquiry—including aesthetic concepts, ecological questions, and spiritual themes—the volume ... Read more

    R498,38

  • Good Education in a Fragile World

    The Value of a Collaborative and Contextualised Approach to Sustainability in Higher Education

    Edited by Alan Bainbridge, Nicola Kemp ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    This edited collection aims to provoke discussion around the most important question for contemporary higher education – what kind of education (in terms of purpose, pedagogy and policy) is needed to restore the health and wellbeing of the planet and ourselves now and for generations to come? The book contains contributions from colleagues at a single UK University, internationally recognised for ... Read more

    R1 146,59

  • Neoliberalism and Education

    Series series Education and Social Theory
    The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and at the same time transforms how we are made up as educational subjects. It rearticulates what it means to be educated. This collection brings together creative and unanticipated examples of the adoption and ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children

    A Science of Performance Model for Research

    How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust ‘science of performance’ model of school change based on a specified process of research and development in local contexts, this book:lays out the traditions of optimism and pessimism ... Read more

    R1 196,45

  • Economic and Social Rights Law

    Incorporation, Justiciability and Principles of Adjudication

    by Katie Boyle ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    This book develops principles of adjudication to facilitate accountability for violations of Economic and Social Rights.Economic and Social Rights engage with areas relating to social justice and their violation tends to impact on the most vulnerable members of society. Taking the UK as a case study, the book draws on international experience and comparative practice, including progressive reform ... Read more

    R997,00

  • Place- and Community-Based Education in Schools

    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Place- and community-based education – an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local – addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people’s attention beyond the classroom to the world as it actually is, and to engage them in the ... Read more

    R1 196,45

  • Learning to Learn in Higher Education

    by Jean Wright ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education
    Originally published in 1982, Learning to Learn in Higher Education analyses the factors that govern effective student learning and looks at the way that these can be improved by changing the way that courses are administered. It examines preparation for higher education and the effect of school systems on the individual student. In acknowledging the academic importance of motivation, maturity and ... Read more

    R872,34

  • No Child Left Behind and the Reduction of the Achievement Gap

    Sociological Perspectives on Federal Educational Policy

    This monumental collection presents the first-ever sociological analysis of the No Child Left Behind Act and its effects on children, teachers, parents, and schools. More importantly, these leading sociologists consider whether NLCB can or will accomplish its major goal: to eliminate the achievement gap by 2014. Based on theoretical and empirical research, the essays examine the history of federal ... Read more

    R1 246,31

  • Exploring Elite Schools and Inclusive Child-Centred Sex and Relationships Education

    Bourdieu and Heteronormative Power Structures

    by Matthew Round ...
    Series series Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education
    Contributing to the body of literature that applies Bourdieu to the study of educational institutions, this novel volume considers how elite schools could successfully incorporate inclusive equitable sex and relationship education (RSE) within the existing mechanisms of continuing professional development (CPD), to provide a programme based on the needs and discomfort of both students and teachers ... Read more

    R1 146,59

  • Draw Along With Tidy Tim

    Get to Know me: OCD

    Series series Get To Know Me
    The ‘Get to Know Me’ series is made up of resources aimed at children with additional needs. Developed by child psychologist Dr Louise Lightfoot and illustrated by Catherine Hicks, the series includes activities specific to anxiety, depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This book, Draw Along With Tidy Tim, is an activity-based picture book story, in which individual children are ... Read more

    R398,65