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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Advancements in technology in modern societies have resulted in an abundance of new educational tools and aids. Analyzing the effects of different mobile educational applications can provide insight into how technology can promote or discourage purposeful learning among students and educators alike....
by Tracy Packiam Alloway, Ross G Alloway
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
It is hard to conceive of a classroom activity that does not involve working memory – our ability to work with information. In fact, it would be impossible for students to learn without working memory. From following instructions to reading a sentence, from sounding out an unfamiliar word to calculating...
Blended Learning in Practice
A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A guide to both theory and practice of blended learning offering rigorous research, case studies, and methods for the assessment of educational effectiveness.
Blended learning combines traditional in-person learning with technology-enabled education. Its pedagogical aim is to merge the scale,...
Activity Theory in Practice
Promoting Learning Across Boundaries and Agencies
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This ground-breaking book brings together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. This is an important moment for such a contribution because expertise is in transition - moving toward collaboration in inter-organizational...
Learning Outdoors
Improving the Quality of Young Children's Play Outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
It is now officially acknowledged that outdoor play is extremely important for young children's development and that a few old bikes and a climbing frame just will not do. This book shows how to develop an outdoor learning environment properly for young children and how adult supporters should behave in this space.This book offers examples of good
Breakthrough (RLE Edu M)
Autobiographical Accounts of the Education of Some Socially Disadvantaged Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Social mobility, educational priority areas and equality of opportunity are topics discussed as much today as when this book was first published over 30 years ago. This book is written by people of varying ages and professions who have broken through from poor social beginnings, deprived backgrounds...
Key Perspectives on Dyslexia
An essential text for educators
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This indispensable book critically sets out the skills and knowledge required by a specialist educator for students who present with dyslexia. The British Dyslexia Association Professional Criteria (BDA, 2012) provides an anchor throughout for this book’s content. Chapters are explicitly mapped...
Children in Difficulty
A guide to understanding and helping
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Written by two leading experts in the field, this welcome third edition of Children in Difficulty: A guide to understanding and helping discusses some of the most common, yet incapacitating, difficulties that are frequently encountered by young children and adolescents.
This includes such topics...
Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome
Integrating Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2004
This book offers a comprehensive overview of clinical, research and personal perspectives on Asperger Syndrome, including contributions from parents and experts in the fields of psychology, social work, psychiatry, genetics, sexology and vocational counselling.
It includes first-hand accounts...
Classroom Tales
Using Storytelling to Build Emotional, Social and Academic Skills across the Primary Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
Stories and storytelling help children to develop emotional literacy, make sense of their world and appreciate different points of view. Fox Eades shows how storytelling is a crucial element of children's education that can enrich the school curriculum and encourage social and thinking skills.
The...
Tales of Priut Almus
Participant Observation in a Russian Children’S Shelter
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Thirteen-year-old Serogia was thrown out of his house by his drunken mother after his father died. Eleven-year-old Anya doesnt have many friends and is always sad; when she looks in the mirror she sees an ugly girl. Her ten-year-old sister Sashinka is shy, tough and fun loving. Their only living relative...
The Hardest Questions Aren't on the Test
Lessons from an Innovative Urban School
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The Boston Arts Academy comprises an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse student body, yet 94 percent of its graduates are accepted to college. Compare this with the average urban district rate of 50 percent. How do they do it? This remarkable success, writes Principal Linda Nathan, is in large...
On the Side of the Child
Summerhill Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A. S. Neill’s radical approach to child rearing is as controversial today as it was in 1960. Neill’s “code of freedom” emphasized the principles of freedom, love, and positive discipline in the care and education of children. These ideals continue to evoke admiration by many who...
Australian Indigenous Studies
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
This book provides a guide to research and teaching in an Australian Indigenous Studies that is oriented toward the diverse, contemporary world. Central to this perspective is a sensibility to the intercultural complexity of that world – particularly its Indigenous component – and an awareness...