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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation

    Edited by Matthew Lynch ...
    Series Book 461 - Counterpoints
    Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation provides scholars and laymen with an assortment of theoretical and practical perspectives for questioning contemporary practices and forging new methods of education reform and innovation. This volume is the leading collection of contemporary essays by the major thinkers in the field of education reform and innovation. Carefully attentive to both theory ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Pushing the Limits

    How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow

    by Kelly Gallagher-Mackay, Nancy Steinhauer ...
    How do we prepare children for a future we can't even imagine?Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and there is a hunger for a deeper understanding of what we should be doing to prepare children now for the challenges of the future. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Classroom Management

    A Guide for Urban School Teachers

    by Sean B. Yisrael ...
    Many teachers who work in urban schools find classroom management to be very problematic. Their university course work, and training, didn’t prepare them for the heavy demands of being an urban school teacher. Urban educators need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage adverse behaviors, and still deliver a quality education to all students.Classroom Management: ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • A Focus on Hope

    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

    by Frances K. Trotman, Erik E. Morales ...
    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Foundations of Primary Teaching

    by Denis Hayes ...
    Now in its fifth edition, Foundations of Primary Teaching will be an essential resource for any trainee or practicing primary teacher. Written in a friendly and accessible manner, this book has been updated in line with the new curriculum and provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of teaching within the primary school. It blends theory and practice to foster and develop effective ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Circulating Communities

    The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing

    Edited by Paula Mathieu, Steven J. Parks, Tiffany Rousculp ...
    Series series Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
    Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing, edited by Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks, and Tiffany Rousculp, represents the first attempt to gather the myriad of community and college publishing projects, providing not only history and analysis but extended samples of the community writing produced. Rather than feature only the voices of academic scholars, this ... Read more

    $104.49 USD

  • Winnebagos on Wednesdays

    How Visionary Leadership Can Transform Higher Education

    by Scott Cowen ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Why a strong mission and inspired leadership are vital to the success of America’s colleges and universitiesIn 1998, soon after assuming the presidency of Tulane University, Scott Cowen was confronted with a setback. Despite an undefeated football season and putting the best financial deal on the table, Cowen was unable to retain the school's football coach. The coach wanted something the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Conflicts in Culture

    Strategies to Understand and Resolve the Issues

    by Sandra Harris, Steve Jenkins ...
    The changing demographics of students and educators in schools today suggest that much of what we do as educational leaders revolves around the complex issues related to our various cultural understandings. In this book the authors discuss the relationship between culture and conflict and provide a continuum to better understand the basis for much cultural conflict. Authors emphasize a systematic ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Having an Impact on Learning

    The Public Relations Professional and the Principal

    by Kelly Wachel, Matt Wachel ...
    A public relations director and a principal have mostly the same goals in helping students achieve at high levels. While each might go about impacting student learning in different ways, they both work to make education better. In Having an Impact on Learning, the husband and wife team of Matt and Kelly Wachel, help show how both the principal and the public relations director can propel education ... Read more

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  • Strategien der Lehrerbildung / Strategies for Teacher Training

    Zur Steigerung von Lehrkompetenzen und Unterrichtsqualitaet / Concepts for Improving Skills and Quality of Teaching

    Edited by Gerd-Bodo von Carlsburg ...
    Series Book 31 - New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansaetze in den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften
    Der Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beiträgen der XX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung, die vom Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen, der Litauischen Universität für Bildungswissenschaften in Vilnius (LEU) und der Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg – University of Education gemeinsam veranstaltet wurde. Das Hauptthema der ... Read more

    $127.79 USD

  • Spatialisation of Higher Education: Poland and Slovenia

    by Mojca Kompara, Tomasz Stępień ...
    Series Book 6 - Studies on Culture, Technology and Education
    The book focuses on European Integration in the Field of Higher Education and Research, as well as the Implementation of the Bologna Process in Slovenia. The common policy of higher education and research belongs to the most important fields in the process of European integration and to the constitutive elements of the European Union. The authors analyse the process constituting the framework of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Next Steps in Teaching

    A Guide to Starting your Career in the Secondary School

    by Michael Hammond ...
    This guide charts the NQT's next steps in teaching from finishing a teacher training programme, through to the probationary year, and then into the comparatively settled routine of the second and third years of teaching. Suitable for all new teachers in secondary schools, this book aims to:help with navigating the pitfalls of teachingdescribe some of the possible challenges and difficulties faced ... Read more

    $36.99 USD