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A leader in twentieth-century education, Henry Chauncey (1905–2002) introduced large-scale assessment into the lives of individual Americans. This first full-length educational biography examines Chauncey’s education at Groton School, Ohio State University, and Harvard...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-30
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School dropout remains a persistent and critical issue in many school systems, so much so that it is sometimes referred to as a crisis. Populations across the globe have come to depend on success at school for establishing careers and gaining access to post-school...
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Springer
Parution :
2010-11-29
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Do you want to better understand the statistics you hear everyday - and recognise if you're being misled? Here is a straightforward introduction to the principles of this vital field of mathematics. Assuming minimal knowledge and using examples from a wide variety of...
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Teach Yourself
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2010-11-26
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Help Your Child to Read: Teach Yourself shows you how to develop your child's skills and foster a love of books from an early age. From discovering the benefits of singing and rhyming together to learning letters and later helping them at school, it gives you all the...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2010-11-26
ePub
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Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have been increasingly diagnosed in recent years and carries with it far reaching social and financial implications. With this in mind, educators, physicians, and parents are searching for the best practices and most effective...
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Springer
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2010-11-25
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This book identifies how church cultural components are created, developed, and used to educate and empower adherents, and whether and how these tools are associated with the historic Black Church. The book is particularly interested in how large Black congregations –...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Bei der Lektüre von Theorie der Unbildung. Die Irrtümer der Wissensgesellschaft des österreichischen Philosophen Konrad Paul Liessmann, drängt sich die Frage auf, welche Form der Bildung gegenwärtig noch möglich und sinnvoll ist. Eine Antwort darauf geben...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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This is a collection of essays on the arts, new media, popular culture, and technologies as they influence practices of curriculum development and teaching. The authors – artists, educators, scholars, and researchers with both scholarly and practical expertise – share...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-23
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This book explores the relationship between critical pedagogies and an ethic of care. The critical pedagogies of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and scholars/activists in the field of feminist pedagogy are shown to reflect an ethic of care. In clarifying this relationship,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Eduard Spranger, führender Theoretiker der geisteswissenschaftlichen Pädagogik, hat – vom Kaiserreich bis in die Bundesrepublik – die Erziehungswissenschaft in Deutschland entscheidend mitgeprägt. Diese Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, inwieweit es einen inneren...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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In diesem Buch wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern rhythmisch-tänzerische Bewegung aus pädagogisch-anthropologischer und bildungstheoretischer Sicht verstärkt in den Schulunterricht einzubinden ist. Nach einer historischen Analyse der Rhythmus- und Tanzbewegung des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Die Konvention der Vereinten Nationen zum Schutz der Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen stellt ein modernes, umfassendes Instrument zum Schutze von Menschen mit Behinderungen dar, das viele neuartige Problemlagen und deren Lösung enthält. Der Autor analysiert in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Entsprechende Motivation der Beteiligten beschleunigt Prozesse. Dies gilt in besonderem Maße für die aktuelle Bildungsreform. Mit der Planung, Entwicklung und Struktur von Studiengängen beschäftigten Kommissionen, Dekanaten und Hochschulleitungen wird hier eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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This book contributes to the setting out of a new, better informed and complex basis for discussions about the relationships between the State, the civil society and the citizen in distinct European countries and regions. It will be useful to researchers in the field of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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For over a century, teachers, parents, and school leaders have lamented a loss of ‘discipline’ in classrooms. Caught between guidance approaches on the one hand and a call for zero tolerance on the other, current debates rarely venture beyond the terrain of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Ecological education is becoming a major area of interest worldwide, and schools are increasingly being called upon to address global and local ecological concerns. Unfortunately, most teachers have limited or no training in the knowledge and skills required to support...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-23
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What competences are needed in future by people working within adult and lifelong learning?What pathways of professionalisation are available to them in Europe and Asia?What are the actual effects of teacher training?What are the specific responsibilities of adult and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Public Universities and thePublic Sphere argues that two crises facing America - a crisis of public discourse and a crisis of public higher education - are closely connected. Part of the solution, Smith argues in this timely work, to both crises lies in understanding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-22
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Deans of men in American colleges and universities were created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to help manage a growing student population. The early deans often had a personality that allowed them to engage easily with students. Over time, many...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-22
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Offers readers a rich understanding of the experience of students who are first in their family to attend college. This book is a theoretically informed study of the lived experience of FG students and draws on their voices to demonstrate how their insights interface...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-22
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