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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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • Re-Envisioning the Public Research University

    Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

    Edited by Andrew Furco, Robert H. Bruininks, Robert J. Jones, Kateryna Kent ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This volume explores the numerous and competing demands that face America’s public research universities and considers how institutions and their leaders can best navigate this challenge to ensure longevity, relevance, and success on the local, national, and global stage.Today’s public research universities have the unique challenge of responding to new societal pressures and policies, while ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • The 'Girl Question' in Education (RLE Edu F)

    Vocational Education for Young Women in the Progressive Era

    by Jane Bernard-Powers ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States. Home economics, trade training and commercial education – the three key areas of vocational training available to young women during the progressive era – are the focus of this work. Beginning with a study of the "woman question", or what women were supposed to be, the book traces ... Read more

    R872,34

  • Children of Addiction

    Edited by Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Barry M. Lester, Barry Zuckerman ...
    Children of Addiction reports important original research on the biological and psychological effects of addiction in children. The contributions are uniformly well written and reflect the larger social implications of the research undertaken. The book will be useful for a broad array of courses on alcoholism and/or drugs and behaviour in a variety of graduate level courses in education, medicine, ... Read more

    R697,82

  • Teacher Education for Diversity

    Conversations from the Global South

    Edited by Elizabeth Walton, Ruksana Osman ...
    Foregrounding the diversity that characterises various educational settings, this book discusses how histories and geographies of oppression, exclusion and marginalisation have impacted on teacher education. Contributors draw on first-hand experiences of living and working in countries including Brazil, China, South Africa, New Zealand and Malawi.Positioned in a geographical and metaphorical ... Read more

    R997,00

  • Risk, Education and Culture

    Edited by Andrew Hope, Paul Oliver ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    In recent years education has become increasingly perceived as an area of risk. A number of highly publicised incidents have heightened awareness of the potential dangers to be found in teaching intuitions. Although there is now a substantial conceptual literature on risk and the meaning of the risk society, such ideas have not to date been rigorously applied to the educational sector.The authors ... Read more

    R623,03

  • Race, Culture, and Education

    The Selected Works of James A. Banks

    by James A. Banks ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    Considered the father of multicultural education in the US and known throughout the world as one of the field’s most important founder, theorist and researcher, James A. Banks has collected here twenty-one of his most important and best works from across the span of his career. Drawing out the major themes that have shaped the field of multicultural education as well as outlining the development ... Read more

    R1 545,49

  • Graduate Students Becoming Qualitative Researchers

    An Ethnographic Study

    by Char Ullman, Kate Mangelsdorf, Jair Muñoz ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
    Through conducting an ethnographic study about doctoral students from traditionally underrepresented groups who are learning to conduct ethnographic research, this volume offers unique insight into the challenges and experiences through which these students develop their skills and identities as qualitative researchers.Foregrounding the stories and perspectives of students from minority ... Read more

    R1 046,86

  • Transnational Students and Mobility

    Lived Experiences of Migration

    by Hannah Soong ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    As globalisation deepens, student mobility and migration has not only impacted economy and institutions, it has also infused human desires, imaginaries, experiences and subjectivities. In Transnational Students and Mobility, Hannah Soong portrays the vexed nexus of education and migration as a site of multiple tensions and existence and examines how the notion of imagined mobility through ... Read more

    R1 171,52

  • Personal Narratives of Black Educational Leaders

    Pathways to Academic Success

    by Robert T. Palmer, Mykia O. Cadet, Kofi LeNiles, Joycelyn L. Hughes ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Challenging misconceptions related to Black academic achievement, this volume provides original perspectives on the policies, initiatives, and factors that facilitate the success of students of color as they progress along the educational pipeline. Grounded in an anti-deficit framework, this book offers personal narratives of Black educational leaders and professionals who discuss aspects of their ... Read more

    R1 121,66

  • Ethical Visions of Education

    Philosophies in Practice

    Edited by David T. Hansen ...
    Putting good ideas into practice is one of the greatest challenges facing any educator. Eminent thinkers—John Dewey, Jane Addams, and others—dedicated their lives to producing ways of thinking about education and human welfare that have influenced many persons’ lives. At the same time, these renowned thinkers were also trying to solve problems that every classroom teacher faces, namely, how to ... Read more

    R437,68

  • New Foundations for Knowledge in Educational Administration, Policy, and Politics

    Science and Sensationalism

    Edited by Douglas E. Mitchell ...
    This book probes the intellectual foundations of scholarly inquiry into educational administration, policy, and politics. The question of whether, and if so how, social science theories and methods contribute to an understanding of these issues is hotly debated today. Is there really a scientific basis for evaluating and/or improving educational administration, politics and policy? The ... Read more

    R1 196,45

  • The Dialogical Kindergarten

    by Molly Efrat ...
    The research presented in the book examined the social-communication patterns of children learning in kindergarten according to the Multi-Dialogical Approach (MDA). It aimed to examine to what extent this approach contributes to the development of these important skills. ... Read more

    R95,14 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Justice and Transformative Learning

    Culture and Identity in the United States and South Africa

    Edited by Saundra M. Tomlinson-Clarke, Darren L. Clarke ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
    The similarities between the United States and South Africa with respect to race, power, oppression and economic inequities are striking, and a better understanding of these parallels can provide educational gains for students and educators in both countries. Through shared experiences and perspectives, this volume presents scholarly work from U.S. and South African scholars that advance ... Read more

    R947,14

  • Sexual Identities in English Language Education

    Classroom Conversations

    by Cynthia D. Nelson ...
    What pedagogic challenges and opportunities arise as gay, lesbian, and queer themes and perspectives become an increasingly visible part of English language classes within a variety of language learning contexts and levels? What sorts of teaching practices are needed in order to productively explore the sociosexual aspects of language, identity, culture, and communication? How can English language ... Read more

    R1 445,76

  • Asian Children at Home and at School

    An Ethnographic Study

    by Ghazala Bhatti ...
    This book is an ethnographic study of a comprehensive school in the south of England. It explores the views of teachers, Asian parents and their children concerning education and schooling. Young people between the ages of 13 and 18 were studied at home and at school and their experiences form the main focus of the study.The experiences of fifty Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian families - mostly ... Read more

    R598,10