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  • 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

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    Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention

    by Robert Kelly ...
    Spark continual creative growth for both learners and educators. Creativity is a key ingredient for success in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, where skills such as collaboration, communication, and critical thinking are central. Most educators agree that encouraging creativity must become a central goal in the classroom, but they face an ongoing struggle to build and maintain an ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Good School

    How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve

    by Peg Tyre ...
    Award-winning education journalist Peg Tyre mines up-to-the-minute research to equip parents with the tools and knowledge necessary to get their children the best education possibleWe all know that the quality of education served up to our children in U.S. schools ranges from outstanding to shockingly inadequate. How can parents tell the difference? And how do they make sure their kids get what's ... Read more

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  • The Stupidity Epidemic

    Worrying About Students, Schools, and America’s Future

    by Joel Best ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Critics often warn that American schools are failing, and that our students are ill-prepared for the challenges the future holds, and may even be "the dumbest generation." We can think of these claims as warning about a Stupidity Epidemic. This essay begins by tracing the history of the idea of that American students, teachers, and schools are somehow getting worse; the record shows that critics ... Read more

    $52.99 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

  • Arms and the University

    Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students

    by Donald Alexander Downs, Ilia Murtazashvili ...
    Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing ideal of the 'citizen soldier'. Nowhere is this issue more predominant than at many major universities, which began turning their backs on the military during the chaotic years of the Vietnam War. Arms and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • What Keeps Teachers Going?

    by Sonia Nieto ...
    “This moving and important book has reminded me of why I have stayed in public school teaching for over 40 years. It is an inspiration to experienced educators, beginning teachers, and all of us who care about equity and the importance of every child’s life.”—Herbert Kohl, Director, Institute for Social Justice and Education, University of San FranciscoWhat helps great public school teachers ... Read more

    $27.99 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

    $42.99 USD

  • The Sociology of School Organization

    Contemporary Sociology of the School

    by Ronald King ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    First published in 1983, this volume assembles recent theory on school organization, drawing on a wide range of research, mainly on schools in contemporary Britain but with some illuminating historical and overseas comparisons. It examines elements of organization both within and outside the school, and shows how they vary with the age, sex, ethnicity and social class of pupils, as well as school ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Classroom Authority

    Theory, Research, and Practice

    Edited by Judith L. Pace, Annette Hemmings ...
    This book describes and analyzes authority relationships in classrooms through explorations of theory, prior research, and contemporary qualitative studies. The emphasis is on the social construction of authority and the crucial role authority plays in K-16 teachers' pedagogy and students' academic engagement and achievement.The introductory chapter grounds the reader in social theory on authority ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • College Success Guaranteed 2.0

    5 Rules for Parents

    by Malcolm Gauld ...
    Teaching for nearly 40 years, Malcolm Gauld has watched thousands of high school graduates head off to college. After a while, he began to notice some unmistakable patterns — good and bad — relating to students after they hit college. About a decade ago, he began giving an annual talk to high school seniors in hopes of sending them off to college on a positive note. This led to the book College ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • A Hermeneutics of Religious Education

    by Professor David Aldridge ...
    What does it mean to understand a religion?How should the concept of truth be addressed in the contemporary classroom?What is the proper subject matter of religious education and how does it relate to other subjects and the school curriculum as a whole?Despite the prevalence of literature on these subjects, these issues are far from resolved and consequently the place and nature of religious ... Read more

    $42.99 USD