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Advocates have positioned service-learning as a real-world, real-time opportunity for students to encounter academic knowledge in a meaningful and relevant manner. Service-learning in higher education settings offers a powerful alternative to traditional models of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-07-14
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'An ideal resource to use when a child or children in a class are experiencing loss and grief. This area of work makes a vital contribution to bringing one of the most essential learning tasks of life into schools, helping children to recognise the universality of loss...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-06-14
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The themes 'trust', 'risk ' and 'uncertainty' seem especially pertinent in the context of the post-9/11 world. This book brings together a range of new research with a focus on the 'risk society' debate and on the themes of 'trust', 'uncertainty' and 'ambivalence'....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-06-07
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'This book is a joy to read. It is full of good sense and, what teachers always hope to find, lots of good, practical ideas...This is a valuable resource and every staffroom should have a copy' - Gifted and Talented Update
'Smith's research interests in inclusive and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-06-07
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`A highly recommendable and powerful work...I have found this book to be both a revelatory mirror on past events and an inviting window to future prospects. I am certain that it will be of equal or greater value to all those involved and interested in the tangled...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-06-03
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Education plays a very important role in breaking the cycle of poverty and increasing opportunity. Various forms of social movements play an important role in providing educational opportunities to communities and social groups that might otherwise be excluded, filling...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-06-01
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'Improving the quality of learning and teaching is the most important thing that school leaders do. This book contains much that will help the reader in that enterprise. It reflects the fact that much of what we know about effective, high-quality schools is already 'out...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-05-19
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`For any teacher or school wanting to set up a buddy scheme, or to explore the possibility of doing so, this book contains some useful suggestions, ideas and guidelines. Even if a school did not wish to adopt the buddy system itself, the book contains useful material...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-05-19
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Revolution and Pedagogy explores the tensions between and within the processes of revolutionary pedagogical change and continuity. Contributors examine conventional topics such as school policies and curricula, as well as more non-traditional pedagogies such as public...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-05-13
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This book will look at the implications of educational practices in communities that are differentiated by issues of language, culture, and technology. Trifonas argues that a 'community' is at once a gathering of like-minded individuals in solidarity of purpose and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-05-05
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Urban Education in the United States examines the development of schools in the large cities of the USA. John Rury, a well-known historian of education, introduces and highlights the most significant and classic essays dealing with urban schooling in this collection....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-04-30
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The American State Normal School is the first comprehensive history of the state normal schools in the United States. Although nearly two-hundred state colleges and regional universities throughout the U.S. began as 'normal' schools, the institutions themselves have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-04-30
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'AT LAST, A BOOK ABOUT THIS MOST VEXED PART OF THE CURRICULUM WHICH IS OBJECTIVE, HONEST AND RESEARCH-BASED. These two well-established authors have done what even supposedly neutral writers of official reports have been unable to do and this is because they emerge as...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-04-19
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'I found this book to be very useful and would recommend it to all infant teachers, especially those working with children with special needs... It gave me plenty of new ideas, and would be especially helpful to newly trained teachers' - REACH
Many young children need...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-04-18
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'From page one the appeal of the book is evident in the jargon free, user friendly text. I would not hesitate to recommend it to other students whatever stage of their doctorate they have reached.' - Educate Journal Whether you undertaking a taught doctorate, or a...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-04-18
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'This is a most worthwhile book which contributes significantly to the general body of knowledge on managing pupils with special education needs. I found it interesting and informative. Schools cannot but benefit from the book's scope, and from insights into the many...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-04-18
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'This book, informed by exceptionally wide inquiry into current history teaching practices in the English-speaking world, is a real achievement. The authors convey current context and challenges with great insight, and they move through possibilities in sequencing,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-04-18
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'Readers at all levels of experience will be able to reflect on how to develop creative and constructive paths leading to a partnership of professionals, and to make teams work in a way that really benefits the learning of children in their care' - Min Wilkie, School...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-03-30
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'The worksheets...save valuable time for busy professionals. Overall, this package provides good value at £17.99' - British Journal of Special Education
'Teachers comfortable with developmental group-work, and able to adapt material and tailor it to pupils' responses,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-03-30
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'Douglas Newton's Teaching Design and Technology gives encouragement to creativity in younger pupils. Aimed at ages 3-11, it contains a variety of suggestions for activities providing more than just a collection of ideas, there are many suggestions that might help...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-03-02
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