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  • Protecting Children

    A Handbook for Teachers and School Managers

    by Ben Whitney ...
    Protecting children from abuse has never been more central to our welfare system than it is now. Schools, and the people who work there, are vital to the government's vision for child protection. New laws, guidance and standards all set out what educational establishments must provide in order to meet their legal obligations.This book brings all these sources together to provide detailed and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Guide to School Attendance

    by Ben Whitney ...
    Improving school attendance remains a contentious topic and is a high priority for the DCFS, local authorities and schools. Thousands of sessions are missed every day; a waste of money, resources and, most of all, of opportunity. A school’s practice is now subject to scrutiny as never before, with targets and standard procedures required. A Guide to School Attendance provides a detailed practical ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • How to be a "HIP" College Campus

    Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education

    by Satu Rogers, Jeffery W. Galle ...
    Through the voices of dozens of seasoned college faculty and junior and senior students, this book shares insights and practical examples on how a college campus can be “HIP”—utilizing high-impact educational practices widely and effectively. The book’s strength is numerous hands-on examples about HIPs’ implementation in and out of the classroom.HIPs have been proven to improve student learning, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Multiple Competencies and Self-Regulated Learning

    Implications for Multicultural Education

    by Chi-yue Chiu, Farideh Salili, Ying-yi Hong ...
    Series series Research in Multicultural Education and International Perspectives
    Although cultural diversity in classrooms is hardly a new phenomenon, its influences on teaching and learning are increasingly discussed. Cultural diversity could lead to better learning and democracy outcomes. However, it also poses challenges for educators and schools. For example, research has revealed marked cultural differences in motivation, learning attitudes, thinking styles and school ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • The Great Disconnect in Early Childhood Education

    What We Know vs. What We Do

    by Michael Gramling ...
    Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practice—the success of children they teach depends on it. This book analyzes how ineffective practices are driven by unexamined public policies and why educators need to challenge their thinking in order to make a difference in children's lives. A very complex story about public policy and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Mindful Teacher

    by Dennis Shirley, Elizabeth A. MacDonald ...
    Series series the series on school reform
    This new and expanded edition of the bestselling The Mindful Teacher provides educators everywhere with practical ideas for improving teaching and learning. Dennis Shirley and Elizabeth MacDonald have created “Mindful Teacher” seminars that enable teachers to focus their craft so that students can learn with dignity and purpose. This updated second edition includes completely new sections on the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Literacy

    Reading the Word and the World

    by Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo ...
    Freire and Macedo analyse the connection between literacy and politics according to whether it produces existing social relations, or introduces a new set of cultural practices that promote democratic and emancipatory change. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

    Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access

    by Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, Greg Noble, Scott Poynting ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Educational Thought and Influence of Matthew Arnold

    by W.F. Connell ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Drawing on the great wealth of knowledge and experience of education practitioners and theorists, these volumes explore the very important relationship between education and society. These book became standard texts for actual and intending teachers. Drawing upon comparative material from Israel France, and Germany, titles in The Sociology of Education set of the Internation Library of Sociology ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Expanding Curriculum Theory

    Dis/positions and Lines of Flight

    Edited by William M. Reynolds, Julie A. Webber ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    Expanding Curriculum Theory, Second Edition carries through the major focus of the original volume—to reflect on the influence of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "lines of flight" and its application to curriculum theorizing. What is different is that the lines of flight have since shifted and produced expanded understandings of this concept for curriculum theory and for education in general. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling

    Edited by Teresa L. McCarty ...
    Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling brings critical ethnographic perspectives to bear on language, literacy, and power in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and how schooling becomes a key site of struggle over whose knowledge, discourses, and literacy practices "count." Part I examines tensions between ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Combating Educational Disadvantage

    Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Children

    Edited by Dr Theo Cox, Theo Cox ...
    The New Labour Government puts Education, Education, Education at the heart of its agenda but is it doing enough to combat educational disadvantage?Combating Educational Disadvantage sets the discussion of educational disadvantage within the socio-political context of the 1980s and 1990s, with its market philosophy in education and brings together the contributions of leading writers and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD