Aims Objectives category: 994 books
Die Akademisierungsfalle
Warum nicht alle an die Uni müssen | Mit Berufsbiografien von Rahel Eckert-Stauber
Language: German
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa - das Gespenst der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit. Jeder vierte erwerbsfähige Jugendliche in der EU ist ohne Arbeit. In der Schweiz hingegen liegt die Jugendarbeitslosigkeit auf tiefen drei bis vier Prozent. Ein wichtiger Grund dafür liegt im dualen Berufsbildungssystem der...
Debating Single-Sex Education
Separate and Equal?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.
Few school reforms have engendered as much controversy as single sex public education.
This book examines the...
Swinging Pendulums
Cautionary Tales for Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Filled with more than twenty-five essays on familiar topics to those who care for and teach young children, Swinging Pendulums is sure to stir discussion, support policy revision, and help early childhood professionals find the middle ground on issues in early childhood education. These thought- and...
by Sant'Agostino
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Un testo fondamentale per comprendere il pensiero pedagogico ed educativo del nostro tempo. San’Agostino pone alcune domande centrali per la formazione dell’uomo alla conoscenza e al sapere: come si conosce? Come si accede al sapere? Quale rapporto esiste tra il docente e il discente? Quali sono...
Why I Teach
Inspirational True Stories from Teachers Who Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
A Celebration of the Power of Teaching
There is a moment for most teachers when the lure of working with kids surpasses all logic: You know, you just know, that you are meant to teach. But in the day-to-day crush of details and bus duty, politics and paperwork, or kids without their homework for the...
Tales out of School
A Challenge to Catholic Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Tales Out of School presents a memoir offering a critical examination of the culture that exists with with an analysis of the unconscious and theoretical dimensions of this psychological and sociological agenda. Author Linda Arbour reflects upon her experience as student, teacher, and administrator...
Romances with Schools
A Life of Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
John I. Goodlad has been an unflagging voice for humanistic ideals in education for more than six decades and has helped reframe the modern discourse on the role and function of schools. For Goodlad the goal of public education is to help children become free and full participants in a democratic...
Their Name Is Today
Reclaiming Childhood in a Hostile World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
There’s hope for childhood. Despite a perfect storm of hostile forces that are robbing children of a healthy childhood, courageous parents and teachers who know what’s best for children are turning the tide.
Johann Christoph Arnold, whose books on education, parenting, and relationships...
Rethinking the Human Person
Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Recent developments in the natural and social sciences have brought great benefits to humanity, both in terms of our material wellbeing and our intellectual and conceptual capacities. Yet, despite a broad ethical consensus and highly developed innate faculties of reason and conscience, there seems...
by C.J. Lanet
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
GUIDE TO PARENTS
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"Bullies Never Grow Up" is presented as a primary guide to determine if your child is a victim of bullying. Most children deny being bullied, and would only talk about bullying if the subject is discussed in an abstract manner. Read to your child - “Bullies...
Whatever It Takes
Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
What would it take?
That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question...
The Teacher (Illustrated)
Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This book is intended to detail, in a familiar and practical manner, a system of arrangements for the organization and management of a school, based on the employment, so far as is practicable, of Moral Influences, as a means of effecting the objects in view. Its design is, not to bring forward new...
L'arte di insegnare
Consigli pratici per gli insegnanti di oggi (Nuova edizione)
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 5, 2013
NUOVA EDIZIONE Un manuale ricco di suggerimenti, strategie e consigli pratici, che spiega con esempi reali e puntuali tutto ciò che un insegnante oggi deve sapere: • Come affrontare la classe: gli alunni vi vedono come vi vedete voi? • Come interpretare il linguaggio del corpo nel rapporto insegnante-alunno?...
No Child Left Behind
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
While few would quarrel with the goal of the No Child Left Behind legislation, the nation is badly divided over whether the law is having a positive effect on our schools. At the same time, it is also true that most Americans, including many professional educators, have only a limited understanding...