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  • Promoting Children's Rights in European Schools

    Intercultural Dialogue and Facilitative Pedagogy

    Promoting Children's Rights in European Schools explores how facilitators, teachers and educators can adopt and use a dialogic methodology to solicit children's active participation in classroom communication. The book draws on a research project, funded by the European Commission (Erasmus +, Key-action 3, innovative education), coordinated by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, ... Read more

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  • Facilitating Children's Agency in the Interaction

    Challenges for the Education System

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book analyzes children's agency as interactional achievement in formal and informal contexts of education and illuminates how agency can be encouraged and supported in these educational contexts. Taking a sociological approach, the author deals with children as social agents rather than learners and considers structures of interaction which encourage and support agency, rather than teaching. ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Global Childhoods in International Perspective: Universality, Diversity and Inequalities

    Series series SAGE Studies in International Sociology
    Global Childhoods in International Perspective gathers a wide spectrum of contributors from Europe, the U.S., South Asia, South Africa and Latin America, who, attuned with present dilemmas in the area of childhood studies, discuss some key theoretical and empirical aspects of child scholarship, such as identity, child wellbeing, child mobility and migration, intergenerational relationships and ... Read more

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  • Niklas Luhmann

    Education as a Social System

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides an insight into the ideas of one of the world’s greatest sociologists: Niklas Luhmann. It explains, in clear and concise language, the basic concepts of Social Systems Theory and their application to the specific case of the Education System, which was considered by Luhmann as a primary subsystem of modern society. It illustrates the complex and sophisticated thinking that ... Read more

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  • Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation

    Children and Young People in Their Social Contexts

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood. Childhood studies have recently underlined an alternate way to look at children, starting from the consideration that children are competent social actors and can actively participate in social life. However, there has been ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Theorising Childhood

    Citizenship, Rights and Participation

    Edited by Claudio Baraldi, Tom Cockburn ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood. The contributors explore a range of themes including: tensions between pragmatism and grand theory; revisiting agency/structure debates in the light of children; the challenging of binary thought prevalent in studies around ... Read more

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  • Exploring the Narratives and Agency of Children with Migrant Backgrounds within Schools

    Researching Hybrid Integration

    Edited by Claudio Baraldi ...
    Series series Migration and Education
    This edited volume presents the results of a European research project – ‘CHILD-UP’ (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation), which analyses the hybrid integration of children with migration backgrounds into schools across Europe.Using qualitative data and theoretical foundations obtained through interviews and focus groups, the book ... Read more

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    Series Book 120 - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP).• Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP• Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars• Explores the ... Read more

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  • Discourse in Action

    Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis

    From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of Mediated Discourse Analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals take with texts - and the consequences of those actions.Discourse in Action:brings together leading ... Read more

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  • The Constructivist Credo

    The Constructivist Credo is a set of foundational principles for those wishing to conduct social science research within the constructivist paradigm. They were distilled by Yvonna Lincoln and Egon Guba from their many writings on this topic and are provided in the form of 150 propositional statements. After Guba’s death in 2008, the Credo was completed by Lincoln and is presented here. In addition ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Reflective Practice

    Voices from the Field

    Edited by Roger Barnard, Jonathon Ryan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    The aim of the book is to explain a range of options for implementing the reflective practice cycle in educational settings in various international contexts. It presents a series of empirical case studies illustrating many different ways of implementing the reflective practice cycle, and how they can be researched by practitioners and academics. Increasing attention is given by teachers and ... Read more

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  • International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT

    Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

    Edited by Anne Burns, Joseph Siegel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a range of perspectives and insights from around the world on the teaching and learning of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It brings together contributors from across six continents, who analyse a wide range of teaching and learning contexts, including primary, secondary, tertiary, private, and adult ESL/EFL classes. In doing so, they provide locally relevant accounts ... Read more

    $143.09 USD