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Education and Psychology in Interaction
Working With Uncertainty in Interconnected Fields
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This book takes an in-depth look at how education and psychology relate to each other, and at the current state of this relationship. Through comprehensive analysis of the ideological, historical, social and professional contexts of this interaction, the author develops the theme that, despite basic differences in aims, the fields are interconnected.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Using "cultures of curriculum" as a lens, this clear, compelling text reveals and critically examines the belief systems and classroom practices of curricular orientations in contemporary American society. It is designed to foster awareness, examination, and deliberation about the curricula...
by Philip W. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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...
Helping Kids Live Mindfully
A Grab Bag of Classroom Activities for Middle School Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Helping Kids Live Mindfully: A Grab Bag of Classroom Activities for Middle School Students helps students enhance their lives by using Mindfulness on a daily basis in school and at home. It gives them the tools to cope with anger, frustration, and stress, while helping them learn how to talk and listen...
Learning to Teach
A Critical Approach to Field Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
This text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves, their assigned classroom cultures, and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities, observations, and exercises...
Equity and Excellence in Education
Towards Maximal Learning Opportunities for All Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Throughout the world, equity and excellence in education is a major issue of concern. International comparative studies such as those carried out by OECD (PISA) have launched a worldwide debate on the effectiveness of educational systems (macro level), schools (meso level) and teachers (micro level)...
Next Steps in Teaching
A Guide to Starting your Career in the Secondary School
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
This guide charts the NQT's next steps in teaching from finishing a teacher training programme, through to the probationary year, and then into the comparatively settled routine of the second and third years of teaching. Suitable for all new teachers in secondary schools, this book aims to:
help...
Seducing Souls
Education and the Experience of Human Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
The simple premise of this book is that the purpose of education is to serve the well-being of students. Well-being might seem to be an obvious aim for education, but it has been given insufficient attention and often is poorly understood. Karl D. Hostetler asks: What does it mean for a human being...
Breaking the Cycle
How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not...
Student Relevance Matters
Why Do I Have to Know This Stuff?
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Classrooms are systems, schools are systems, and schooling in the United States is a big system. Changing any of those systems requires an awareness of how they work; what they produce; and where to apply time, energy, and resources. Current systems couldbe much better in meeting students' current...
Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching
The Legacy of Gloria Jean Merriex
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching: The Legacy of Gloria Jean Merriex focuses on the theory and practices of a highly successful mathematics teacher of African American children in a high-poverty school. The book aims to contribute to the limited literature base in this area in...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The Routledge International Companion to Educational Psychology brings together expert practitioners, researchers, and teachers from five continents to produce a unique and global guide to the core topics in the field. Each chapter includes coverage of the key thinkers, topic areas, events, and ideas...
by Jean Philippe Faure
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Educare con la Comunicazione Non Violenta
L’educazione convenzionale è da sempre prigioniera del binomio punizione-ricompensa. L’autore propone di uscire da questo schema seguendo i principi della Comunicazione Non Violenta elaborati da Marshall Rosenberg.
Le motivazioni dei bambini...
Come trovare il proprio fine nella vita
Finalmente il metodo che tutti stavamo aspettando e che funziona davvero
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 2, 2017
**In questo libro finalmente capirai il tuo fine nella vita, finalmente potrai rispondere alla domanda che tutti ci chiediamo "che cosa voglio fare nella mia vita" o da piccoli " che cosa voglio fare da grande "
Socrate diceva "conosci te stesso"** bene in questo...