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  • The Social Purposes of Education

    by K. G. Collier ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    This book, first published in 1959, was written to primarily address teachers and students of education, as well as those with a general interest in the changing practices of schools. Under the terms of the 1944 Education Act, which charged Local Authorities with contributing towards the ‘spiritual, moral, mental, and physical development of the community’. The author examines these ideas whilst ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Home Education

    by Charlotte Mason ...
    Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature, handling natural objects, and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Structuring Learning Environments in Teacher Education to Elicit Dispositions as Habits of Mind

    Strategies and Approaches Used and Lessons Learned

    by Erskine S. Dottin, Lynne D. Miller, George E. O'Brien ...
    This book focuses on faculty members in a learning community in the College of Education at Florida International University. It discusses their pedagogical efforts to structure learning environments consistent with the philosophical orientation in the college’s conceptual framework to call forth dispositions, or key habits of mind that are consistent with reflective intelligence. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Motives in Children's Development

    Cultural-Historical Approaches

    Edited by Mariane Hedegaard, Anne Edwards, Marilyn Fleer ...
    The contributors to this collection employ the analytic resources of cultural-historical theory to examine the relationship between childhood and children's development under different societal conditions. In particular they attend to relationships between development, emotions, motives and identities, and the social practices in which children and young people may be learners. These practices are ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education

    An Introduction and Recontextualization for Our Times

    by J. Garrison, S. Neubert, K. Reich ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    John Dewey is considered not only as one of the founders of pragmatism, but also as an educational classic whose approaches to education and learning still exercise great influence on current discourses and practices internationally. In this book, the authors first provide an introduction to Dewey's educational theories that is founded on a broad and comprehensive reading of his philosophy as a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Five Skills to Learning How to Learn

    From Confusion to AHA!

    by Guinevere Durham ...
    Those who work with children—teachers and home-schooling parents, continually search for print material and media resources that will “help me help my kids!” Five Skills to Learning How to Learn provides practical materials and easy to follow activities to help educators and parents nurture, guide, and facilitate learning with their children.This bookhas been written for the purpose of preparing ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Everyday Engagement

    Making Students and Parents Your Partners in Learning

    by Katy Ridnouer ...
    In this book, author and teacher Katy Ridnouer focuses on the potentially overwhelming, sometimes puzzling, often delicate work of engaging both students and parents in the pursuit of learning and achievement. Structured around the questions teachers ask themselves about engagement goals and challenges, Everyday Engagement offers specific strategies to try — in your classroom, with your students, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education

    Edited by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Lynn Mario T. M. de Souza ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This volume bridges the gap between contemporary theoretical debates and educational policies and practices. It applies postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis that attempts to engage with and go beyond essentialism, ethno- and euro-centrisms through a critical examination of contemporary case studies and conceptual issues. From a transdisciplinary and post-colonial perspective, this book ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Rethinking School Bullying

    Dominance, Identity and School Culture

    by Ronald B. Jacobson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book takes a new angle on a much-studied phenomenon, focusing on the role of domination and identity construction, understanding and self-knowledge, moral transformation and the social community, systems of training and hierarchy used by schooling, and the role they play in bullying. Exploring typical narratives of value within schooling (i.e., who counts and who doesn’t?), the volume shows ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Democratic Transformations

    Eight Conflicts in the Negotiation of American Identity

    by Kerry T. Burch ...
    What will it take for the American people to enact a more democratic version of themselves? How to better educate democratic minds and democratic hearts? In response to these crucial predicaments, this innovative book proposes that instead of ignoring or repressing the conflicted nature of American identity, these conflicts should be recognized as sites of pedagogical opportunity.Kerry Burch ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • History of Chinese Ancient Educational Thought (Works by Zhu Yongxin on Education Series)

    by Zhu Yongxin ...
    China enjoys a splendid ancient culture, which is inseparable from the role of cultural transmission played by the country’s system of education. As a nation that attaches great importance to education, China possesses an abundance of educational thought throughout its long history.In History of Chinese Ancient Educational Thought, Zhu Yongxin summarizes the origin and development of Chinese ... Read more

    $85.89 USD

  • Fundamental British Values in Education

    Radicalisation, National Identity and Britishness

    by Lynn Revell, Hazel Bryan ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    The notion of Britishness and national identity have rarely been examined with such intensity in education and society as they are today. Although the requirement to promote a sense of nationhood in schools is not a new one, the politicised nature of the values associated with Britishness and the security agenda in which schools now operate has intensified greatly in recent years.This timely book ... Read more

    $42.69 USD