Continuum imprint: 595 books
The Behaviour Guru
Behaviour Management Solutions for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Teaching isn't all about teaching; new teachers quickly realise that they need to be lion tamers too. Controlling a class isn't something that comes naturally to everyone - but it can be learned.
This no-nonsense guide tells teachers what the teacher training didn't, and offers instant strategies...
Teacher
Mastering the Art and Craft of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Most teacher manuals talk about what teachers need to do. That's useful enough, especially for new teachers. But no list, however long, can anticipate every circumstance, and in teaching unusual circumstances are an integral part of everyday life. But how do experienced teachers know what to do?
Successful...
Language, Knowledge and Pedagogy
Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
This book explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theories: systemic functional linguistics, and Bernstein-inspired sociology. Bernstein's sociology of knowledge makes a distinction between horizontal and vertical discourses as ways in which...
Changing Churches
A practical guide to the faculty system
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This book de-mystifies the whole process of carrying out works to churches.
It explains what consents are needed; how they can be applied for; and on what basis applications are decided. The author explores many of the detailed issues that may arise in practice – whether the proposal is to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
One of the most significant cultural documents of the Weimar Republic and Nazi era, Walter Benjamin's unfinished Arcades Project has had a remarkable impact on present-day cultural theory, urban studies, cultural studies and literary interpretation. Originally designed as a panoramic study chronicling...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
What is the relationship between education and those seeking asylum or refuge? What is the impact of education being marginalized during conflict situations? Drawing on international research in numerous countries, including Thailand, North Korea, Lebenon, Africa, the USA and the UK, the contributors...
Quine's Naturalism
Language, Theory and the Knowing Subject
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
W. V. Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the recent resurgence of the view that empirical science is our best avenue to knowledge. His views, however, have not been well understood. Critics charge that Quine's naturalized epistemology...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Existentialism and poststructuralism have provided the two main theoretical approaches to Samuel Beckett's work. These influential philosophical movements, however, owe a great debt to the phenomenological tradition.
This volume, with contributions by major international scholars, examines...
The If Machine
Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2010
Each session in this practical book offers an imaginary situation, followed by a series of questions to encourage children to challenge key philosophical ideas such as values and ethics, gender and identity, and existence and beauty. All the enquiries have been tried and tested, and a handy star system...
The Great Famine
Ireland's Agony 1845-1852
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846...
Manga
An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Once upon a time, one had to read Japanese in order to enjoy manga. Today manga has become a global phenomenon, attracting audiences in North America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. The style has become so popular, in fact, that in the US and UK publishers are appropriating the manga style in a variety...
The Image in Mind
Theism, Naturalism, and the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence of consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. The authors begin by offering an account of modern scientific practice which gives a central place to the visual imagination...
by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The horror film is meant to end in hope: Regan McNeil can be exorcized. A hydrophobic Roy Scheider can blow up a shark. Buffy can and will slay vampires. Heroic human qualities like love, bravery, resourcefulness, and intelligence will eventually defeat the monster. But, after the 9/11, American horror...
Language in the Media
Representations, Identities, Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
This book examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like. The chapters examine issues of identity, gender, youth, citizenship, politics and...