Continuum imprint: 595 books
by Kate Spohrer
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
This practical guide gives essential advice on: understanding emotional and behavioural problems; building good communication skills; managing behaviour in the classroom and developing an effective learning environment. Throughout each chapter there are exercises or questions to facilitate embedding...
Overschooled but Undereducated
How the Crisis in Education is Jeopardizing Our Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Based on the premise that education has to be about much more than intellectual development, this book calls for the transformation of the education system.
Discourse of Twitter and Social Media
How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Social media such as microblogging services and social networking sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse,looking at online evaluative language, Internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation...
by Professor Stewart Goetz
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
In Freedom, Teleology, and Evil Stewart Goetz defends the existence of libertarian freedom of the will. He argues that choices are essentially uncaused events with teleological explanations in the form of reasons or purposes. Because choices are uncaused events with teleological explanations,...
Guattari's Diagrammatic Thought
Writing Between Lacan and Deleuze
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Félix Guattari was a French political militant, practicing psychoanalyst and international public intellectual. He is best known for his work with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the two-volume Capitalism and Schizophrenia, one of the most influential works of post-structuralism. From the mid-1950s...
Critical Theory and Film
Rethinking Ideology Through Film Noir
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Critical Theory and Film brings together critical theory and film to enhance the critical potential of both.
The book focuses on the Frankfurt School, most notably the works of Adorno and Horkheimer, as well as associated thinkers.
It seeks to demonstrate that cinema can help critical theory...
Multilingualism, Citizenship, and Identity
Voices of Youth and Symbolic Investments in an Urban, Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Through an innovative and interdisciplinary approach that combines critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multi-modality, reflexivity, and discourse analysis, this groundbreaking book reveals the multiple (and sometimes simultaneous) ways in which individuals engage and invest in representations of...
by Mr Anthony Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2007
Lesson planning and preparation is one of the most important aspects of teaching. It is also one of the hardest aspects to learn. Student teachers, for example, often find it difficult to gauge how to pitch or pace a lesson. This book provides solutions. It not only provides easily understood practical...
The Origins and Foundations of Music Education
Cross-Cultural Historical Studies of Music in Compulsory Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
This landmark collection explores the origins and foundations of music education across five continents and considers:
• the inclusion of music as part of the compulsory school curriculum in the context of the historical and political landscape
• the aims, objectives and content of the music curriculum
•...
Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital
Learning to Belong
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This volume critically explores themes of belonging, learning and community, drawing on a range of research studies conducted with adult learners in formal and informal contexts and employing interdisciplinary theory from education, feminist theory, cultural studies and human geography. Dominant but...
by Chris Wyatt
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Since the publication of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971) - followed up by Political Liberalism (1993) and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement (2001) - discussions on social justice and redistributive liberalism have taken center stage in contemporary political theory. This book adds to an enormous...
by Professor Greg Myers
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Blogs and Wikis have not been with us for long, but have made a huge impact on society. Wikipedia is the best known exemplar of the wiki, a collaborative site that leads to a single text claimed by no-one; blogs, or web-logs, have exploded into the mainstream through novelisations, film adaptations...
Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty
Tradition, Image and Practice in the Ottoman Imperial Household, 1400-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Is it possible to identify the 'essence' of Ottoman kingship? And if so, what were the core motivating principles that governed the dynasty over its 600 year lifespan and how continuous and consistent were they? Following the death of the dynasty's eponymous founder Osman in 1324, 35 successors held...
by Brin Best
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Containing everything a new or improving geography teacher could wish to know, this book provides step-by-step guidance on creating outstanding learning opportunities that prepare students for life, as well as for success in their examinations.
Award-winning author and former head of geography...