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From Brain to Mind
Using Neuroscience to Guide Change in Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
"From Brain to Mind challenges educators to see what children learn from the perspective of neuroscience, and to see what this perspective provides educators.... The metacognition Zull advocates should lead the reader to work through the chapters and come up with ideas about or approaches to education....
Unlock the Genius Within
Neurobiological Trauma, Teaching, and Transformative Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Here, Daniel S. Janik, MD, PhD, argues replacing education and teaching with non-traumatic, curiosity-based, discovery-driven, and mentor-assisted transformational learning. Unlock the Genius Within is an easy read that explains—in conversational manner—the newest ideas on neurobiological and...
Christian Faith in English Church Schools
Research Conversations with Classroom Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Church schools are booming, becoming increasingly popular with parents across the world. However, research shows that teachers face considerable challenges as they try to offer a distinctively Christian education within a church school context. This book is the account of a qualitative research project...
by Anthony T. Kronman
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy.
In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest...
Model Lessons, Teaching Strategies, and High-Quality Texts
Supporting Common Core State Standards for Reading Grades 6 – 8
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This comprehensive manual that covers informational and literary texts will empower teachers to guide their students as they analyze challenging texts. Each lesson leads students to focus on the “why” and “how” of what an author is saying rather than just the “what.”
In addition...
Understanding the Steiner Waldorf Approach
Early Years Education in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This fully revised edition of Understanding the Steiner Waldorf Approach is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Steiner Waldorf early childhood approach. It enables the reader to analyse the essential elements of the Steiner Waldorf...
by Vito Piazza
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Questa è una storia vera. È la storia dell’ultima scuola «speciale» italiana per alunni con disabilità: la «Treves-De Sanctis», nella periferia milanese, di cui l’autore è stato per anni direttore. Sembra venire da un passato lontanissimo, superato, seppellito dalle nuove bandiere dell’integrazione,...
Die Flüchtlinge sind da!
Wie zugewanderte Kinder und Jugendliche unsere Schulen verändern - und verbessern
Language: German
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Dieses E-Book enthält komplexe Grafiken und Tabellen, welche nur auf E-Readern gut lesbar sind, auf denen sich Bilder vergrössern lassen.
Rund ein Drittel aller Geflüchteten, die derzeit nach Europa kommen, sind minderjährig. Die Kinder und Jugendlichen sind häufig allein unterwegs und...
Bildung auf Augenhöhe
Streitschrift für eine Erneuerung des Gymnasiums
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Die Rede von der 'Bulimie-Pädagogik' spiegelt Erfahrungen ganzer Schülergenerationen wider: Stoff auswendig lernen um ihn bei der Prüfung wieder herauszuwürgen. So betreiben Gymnasien ihr Geschäft bis heute. Aber Bildung ist etwas anderes und geht auch anders. Christoph Schmitt zeigt auf, warum sich diese Unkultur so hartnäckig hält und welche Lösungen es dafür gibt.
by William H. Jeynes
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Are public charter schools more effective than traditional public schools? This book provides quantitative evidence to answer this question and considers a better way to undertake a policy of school choice.
• Supplies a unique evaluation of the school choice issue that is based, in part,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Rethinking Gendered Regulations and Resistances in Education highlights key debates on the theme of ‘regulation and resistance’, focusing on some of the most pressing contemporary issues in the field of gender and education today. It underlines the need for educational research to attend to historical...
Schooling for Social Change
The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Schooling for Social Change offers fresh perspectives on the emerging field of human rights education in India. 60 years after independence, the Indian schooling system remains unequal. Building on over a year of fieldwork, including interviews and focus groups with policymakers, educators, parents...
Understanding Gay and Lesbian Youth
Lessons for Straight School Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
Understanding Gay and Lesbian Youth assists the classroom teacher, school counselor, and administrator in relating to gay and lesbian youth and creating accepting and supportive learning climates. David Campos begins with a discussion of the current state of affairs regarding gay and lesbian youth...
The Winning Team
A Victory Guide for Total Team Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
The Winning Team is a comprehensive victory guide designed to help teams and team-based organizations succeed in winning. In this book, the reader will discover: fundamentals for constructing a winning team the correlation between a teams performance and its win-potential the traits of winning teams...