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  • Choreographic Practice in Online Pedagogy

    by Peter J. Cook ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines a creative approach to exploring choreographic practice artistically, theoretically, and pedagogically. It explores the interweaving of dance, dance teaching, dance onto-epistemologies, and choreography with a particular focus on creating dance with digital technologies. The idea of centring choreography in dance education fundamentally challenges typical conceptions of best ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon

    by Peter J Cook ...
    With the general reader in mind, Clean Energy, Climate and Carbon outlines the global challenge of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. It covers the changing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide through time and its causes, before considering the promise and the limitations of a wide range of energy technologies for decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. Despite the need to decrease carbon ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Explaining Creativity

    The Science of Human Innovation

    by R. Keith Sawyer ...
    In the last 50 years, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have increasingly turned to studying creativity, so we now know more about it than ever before. However, until about a decade ago, creativity researchers focused only on highly valued activities, such as creating masterpieces in art and making highly significant discoveries in science. In Explaining Creativity, R. Keith Sawyer ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Arts and the Creation of Mind

    by Elliot W. Eisner ...
    Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in this engrossing book. In it he describes how various forms of thinking are evoked, developed, and refined through the arts. These forms of thinking, Eisner argues, are more ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Hundred Languages of Children

    The Reggio Emilia Experience in Transformation

    Edited by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, George Forman ...
    Why does the city of Reggio Emilia in northern Italy feature one of the best public systems of early education in the world? This book documents the comprehensive and innovative approach that utilizes the "hundred languages of children" to support their well-being and foster their intellectual development.Educators in Reggio Emilia, Italy, use a distinctive innovative approach that supports ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • Practice as Research

    Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

    Edited by Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt ...
    Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia

    A selection of his writings and speeches, 1945-1993

    Edited by Paola Cagliari, Marina Castagnetti, Claudia Giudici, Carlina Rinaldi, Vea Vecchi, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in 20th century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful example ever of progressive, democratic and public education.Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Reading the Visual

    An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy

    by Frank Serafini ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    Today’s teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they encounter daily in and out of school. Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how to teach it.  This engaging book provides theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical frameworks for teaching a wide-range of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Art, Artists and Pedagogy

    Philosophy and the Arts in Education

    Edited by Christopher Naughton, Gert Biesta, David Cole ...
    This volume has been brought together to generate new ideas and provoke discussion about what constitutes arts education in the twenty-first century, both within the institution and beyond. Art, Artists and Pedagogy is intended for educators who teach the arts from early childhood to tertiary level, artists working in the community, or those studying arts in education from undergraduate to Masters ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Power of Explicit Teaching and Direct Instruction

    by Greg Ashman ...
    Series series Corwin Ltd
    Direct instruction and explicit teaching can offer you a shorter, straighter route to developing effective learning in your classroom.In this smart and accessible book, Greg Ashman explores how you can harness the potential of these often misunderstood and misapplied teaching methods to achieve positive learning outcomes for the students you teach.It investigates key foundational principles, ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Teaching Music Creatively

    by Pamela Burnard, Regina Murphy ...
    Series series Learning to Teach in the Primary School Series
    Fully updated in light of the latest research and practice in primary education, Teaching Music Creatively offers all teachers a comprehensive understanding of how to develop, deliver and enjoy a creative music curriculum. It is inspired by the belief that all those concerned with primary education have a deep interest in creativity and supports teachers in developing the confidence to teach and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Artist, Researcher, Teacher

    A Study of Professional Identity in Art and Education

    by Alan Thornton ...
    Artist, Researcher, Teacher explores the relationship of three professional identities that often intersect in the lives of art practitioners, educators, and students.Challenging conventional wisdom about specialization and professional identity, Alan Thornton shows that many individuals have complex, varied, and evolving relationships with visual art—relationships that do not fit into any single ... Read more

    $18.09 USD