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The Runaway Species
How human creativity remakes the world
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
**“The authors look at art and science together to examine how innovations—from Picasso’s initially offensive paintings to Steve Jobs’s startling iPhone—build on what already exists and rely on three brain operations: bending, breaking and blending. This manifesto . . . shows how both disciplines...
The End of Education
Redefining the Value of School
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In this comprehensive response to the education crisis, the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity returns to the subject that established his reputation as one of our most insightful social critics. Postman presents useful models with which schools can restore a sense of purpose, tolerance, and a respect for learning.
Talento, motivación e inteligencia (pack)
Las claves para una educación eficaz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 12, 2013
**Ebook que incluye: La educación del talento, Los secretos de la motivación y La inteligencia ejecutiva.
Educar el talento**, motivar y desarrollar la inteligencia ejecutiva son tres pilares fundamentales en el desarrollo del niño. Es fundamental que en su trayecto hacia la vida adulta...
Tooning In
Essays on Popular Culture and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
A collection of eloquent essays, Tooning In critically examines and interprets the concept of 'popular culture.' Many interesting works have addressed this subject, but few have provided a critical perspective regarding the possibilities of popular culture as a tool for teaching and learning. White...
Teaching and Learning from Within
A Core Reflection Approach to Quality and Inspiration in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Teaching and Learning from Within brings together theory, research, and practice on core reflection, an approach that focuses on people’s strengths as the springboard for personal growth and serves every human being involved in education–including students, teachers, school principals, and university...
by Roy Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Are you someone who “thinks things over?” Do you have conversations with yourself, silently in your head? If so, you are a practitioner of reflexivity. There is evidence that most people are reflexive and that there are (at least) four different kinds of reflexivity. This book uses a character...
Reading and the Reader
The Literary Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...
by Kym Kostos
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
As a parent you wonder how you will pick the best school for your child to attend? You have three choices as a parent; public, private or home schooling. Even if you are paying tuition for a school, the deciding factors are always important. In Volume 1, I will go over the three types of...
Digital citizenship education
Volume 1: Overview and new perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Supporting children and young people to participate safely, effectively, critically and responsibly in a world filled with social media and digital technologies is a priority for educators the world over. Most young people in Europe today were born and have grown up in the digital era. Education authorities...
The Handbook of the Evolving Research of Transformative Learning
Based on the Learning Activities Survey (10th Anniversary Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Associate Editor: Seamus King This handbook is a much expanded version of the original Learning Activities Survey published by Dr. Kathleen P. King of Fordham University in 1998. Based on her ground breaking research in this field where she used a mixed methodology research approach to study transformative...
by Kafi Kumasi
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
A series of questions about libraries posed by youth and answered by future librarians at Wayne State University; practicing librarians; and library science professors. Edited by Kafi D. Kamasi, Ph.D., with a foreword by Carl A. Harvey, II, President of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).
by Christopher Waterworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Do we buy technology in schools without questioning why? How many times have you been amazed by a piece of technology? If you're like me, then quite often! I love technology, I love the way it has changed the way I work, how it has inspired me and how it has enabled me to publish things I never...
Seven Times Smarter
50 Activities, Games, and Projects to Develop the Seven Intelligences of Your Ch ild
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What Is Smart?
There's evidence of so much more than "reading, writing, and 'rithmetic" in every child -- at least seven distinct intelligences, according to the theory of multiple intelligences, developed by Harvard's Dr. Howard Gardner. In Seven Times Smarter, veteran educator Laurel Schmidt...
Small Schools, Education, and the Importance of Community
Pathways to Improvement and a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Small Schools, Education, and the Importance of Community focuses on three successful approaches for using the school as a catalyst for community development and revitalization, particularly in rural areas. The strategies also work well in suburban and urban areas. The three approaches described include:...