6,632円 Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young people’s diets, and a putative steep rise in obesity. Children and young people are increasingly being identified as a population at ‘risk’ in relation to these health conce...

4,092円 The failure of continuation schools to educate our most vulnerable adolescent populations is slowly removing them from our educational landscapes. Millions of struggling teens, lacking alternatives, are being set adrift without capacity or hope. Yet their failures frankly, are unnecessary. Resear...

11,440円 Geography matters to elite schools ー to how they function and flourish, to how they locate themselves and their Others. Like their privileged clientele they use geography as a resource to elevate themselves. They mark, and market, place. This collection, as a whole, reads elite schools through a...

11,772円 Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that positive peer influence is a potentially powerful source of social control. Quantitative methods tease out cause, effect, and spuriousness in the relationship between peer delinquency and personal delinquency, but these methods do...

8,622円 Many African American children make use of African American English (AAE) in their everyday lives, and face academic barriers when introduced to Standard American English (SAE) in the classroom. Research has shown that students who can adapt and use SAE for academic purposes demonstrate significa...

11,772円 Through analysis of case studies of young children (ages 3 to 8 years), situated in different geographic, cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic sites on six continents, this book examines the interplay of childhoods, schooling, and, literacies. Written language is situated within par...

11,440円 For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects China’s propensity to borrow selected educational policies from elsewhere, particularly North America and Europe. Chinese schola...

1,054円 La lectura d'aquest llibre ofereix quatre elements claus. Per una banda, dins de la línia de dossiers did@ctics, ens apropa als àmbits educatius més vinculats a l'acció social. Per altra combina clarament els coneixements teòrics amb la pràctica real i realista de les propostes que es poden dur a...

1,300円 Lehrer? Deren Zeit läuft ab. Gelernt wird heute eigenständig, beweglich, kreativ, weder Lehrern zuliebe noch nach Schablonen. So etwa klingt der Sirenengesang der "neuen Lernkultur". Wie sehr dieser Weg in die Irre führt, zeigt die Streitschrift des Philosophen Christoph Türcke. Mit der Rolle der...

5,176円 Have high schools killed the American Dream? Across America 857 unmotivated and unskilled students drop out of school each hour of every school day. Billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted. Solutions for this national disaster have eluded educators for decades. Until now. In Maximum Impact Educat...

9,616円 Teaching For Success is a comprehensive guide for navigating the process of becoming an effective teacher in the wake of contemporary and systemic challenges. Focusing on the core concept of teacher identity in clear, invigorating prose, the book illuminates how teachers can arrange, adjust, and ...

11,772円 In India, two critical aspects of public policy ー social justice and higher education ー have witnessed unprecedented expansion in recent years. While several programmes have been designed by the State to equalise access to higher education and implement formal inclusion, discrimination based on...