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Beyond Tourism
A Practical Guide to Meaningful Educational Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
If young people are to be adequately prepared for a complex and interdependent global society, educational experiences must consider the broader world in which teachers and their students live. Teachers can be central to the process of intercultural development, and must encourage and model an intercultural...
by Richard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
You have something special inside you. Something you know. Something you do. Something you can teach. You feel like you should be doing more. We all have this something special inside of us and, if we use it right, we can change our habits, our outcomes and our world.
You will gain valuable...
Rethinking Freire
Globalization and the Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.
One source of the activist-authors'...
7 days modern english grammar
english grammar and composition, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Welcome to the course of modern English grammar. I am here to inform you that it will be all my pleasure to make you learn English properly. Here I had written an e-book for you. It is not much expensive. If u want to learn something special you have to spend some money anywhere in internet. But at...
Theories of Early Childhood Education
Developmental, Behaviorist, and Critical
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Theories of Early Childhood Education provides a comprehensive introduction to the various theoretical perspectives influential in early childhood education, from developmental psychology to critical studies, Piaget to Freire. Expert chapter authors examine assumptions underpinning the use of theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating how language is closely linked with crucial social, political, and economic forces, particularly...
Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity
The Selected Works of William F. Pinar
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
In this volume, Pinar enacts his theory of curriculum, detailing the relations among knowledge, history, and alterity. The introduction is Pinar’s intellectual life history, naming the contributions he has made to understanding educational experience. Study is the center of educational experience,...
The Data Collection Toolkit
Everything You Need to Organize, Manage, and Monitor Classroom Data
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Collecting data on behavior, academic skills, and IEP goals is an essential step in showing student progress-but it can also be a complicated, time-consuming process. Take the worry and stress out of data collection with this ultra-practical resource, packed with the tools you need to organize, manage,...
by Richard Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
The study skills in this booklet should enable students to: -1) Plan a written assignment2) Understand the different types of assignment3) Select a pertinent title4) Take into account the reader’s needs and wishes5) Pick out the differences between essay and report writing6) Avoid plagiarism7) Organize his/her work effectively
The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education
Passionate Lives in Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Pinar positions himself against three pressing problems of the profession:
the crime of collectivism that identity politics commits,
the devaluation of academic knowledge by the programmatic preoccupations of teacher education, and
the effacement of educational experience by standardized...
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Academic Development
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
How can Academic Developers provide evidence of the effectiveness and ‘added value’ of their work to the key stakeholders within their institutions?
Written for Academic Developers, academic administrators and others responsible for promoting organizational change, Evaluating the Effectiveness...
by Daniel Wentland
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
The truth is often hard to face, but if educators and politicians continue to avoid the realities associated with the educational process, then enormous amounts of time and energy will continue to be spent chasing a variety of educational illusions. Daniel Wentland meshes economics, psychology, philosophy,...
Happiness, Hope, and Despair
Rethinking the Role of Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. Happiness, Hope, and Despair argues, however, that education has an important role to play in deepening our understanding of suffering and despair as well as happiness...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Scientific literacy is part of national science education curricula worldwide. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars offer new ways to look at the key ideas and practices associated with promoting scientific literacy in schools and higher education. The goal is to open up...