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The School I'd Like: Revisited
Children’s and Young People’s Reflections on an Education for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
‘Wonderfully illuminated by children's essays, stories, poems, pictures and plans, this ground-breaking book offers a unique snapshot of the perceptions of today's school pupils’. -French bookstore Lavoisier www.lavoisier.fr
In 2001, The Guardian launched a ground-breaking competition called...
by Anna Lidstone, Caroline Rueckert
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
The Study Abroad Handbook is a detailed guide for students who want to study in another country. With information on the practical, financial and emotional aspects of the study abroad experience, the book also includes tips and anecdotes from a diversity of international students.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
As a social justice endeavor, one of the goals of inclusive education is to bolster the education of all students by promoting equal opportunities for all, and investing sufficient support, curriculum and pedagogy that cultivates high selfconcepts, emphasizes students’ strengths rather than weaknesses,...
by Robin Cox
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
Channel your passion for mentoring into action with The Spirit of Mentoring series. Each book is packed with practical suggestions and fun, easy-to-prepare activities for teachers and others who are keen to: motivate youth to believe in themselves and reach their potential; sow the seeds of mentoring...
by Sakaria Amutenya
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book firstly highlights the importance of the Grade 12 level. It shares the story about why the majority of Grade 12 learners at schools A and B in the rural area of the Oshikoto region of Namibia repeatedly failed to pass Grade 12 successfully, and could not secure admissions to institutions...
Contested Sites in Education
The Quest for the Public Intellectual, Identity and Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Emerging from the contested site of a new university campus, educators reflect upon the transformative process of reconceptualising and rebuilding a faculty of education in the twenty-first century. Contested Sites in Education seeks to improve an understanding of and conversations about the nature,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
(Sponsored by SIGResearch on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education) This research anthology is the fifth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group Research on...
Exceptionality in East Asia
Explorations in the Actiotope Model of Giftedness
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The continual successes of students from East-Asia are confirmed in a variety of international tests of academic achievement and yet, despite this attainment, many scholars have realised that a substantial proportion of these students are also underachieving.
Using the actiotope model of...
Changing the Course of Failure
How Schools and Parents Can Help Low-Achieving Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
The basic purpose of this book is to help policy makers at all levels of government understand that (1) widespread adolescent underachievement is not susceptible to solution by educational interventions no matter how much money is allocated to public education; and (2) there are unidentified educational...
The Social Change Model
Facilitating Leadership Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
A comprehensive guide to using the Social Change Model in all types of curricular and co-curricular settings
This book is designed to provide leadership educators with a wealth of classroom and workshop activities, discussion and reflection questions, assignment suggestions, and additional...
Transforming Youth Serving Organizations to Support Healthy Youth Development
New Directions for Youth Development, Number 139
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This volume tells the story of major organizational change efforts at one municipal youth-serving organization to better support healthy youth development system wide. Presenting the viewpoints of young people, frontline staff, supervisors, managers, and the director, it reviews how the organization...
Parents and Textbooks
Answers that Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Parents wondered exactly what was transpiring in classrooms. Although they asked their children, they did not have complete confidence in their responses. When they quizzed teachers, school administrators, school board members, and politicians, they realized that they sometimes had conflicting interests....
Inequality, Power and School Success
Case Studies on Racial Disparity and Opportunity in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.S. and international contexts. Through a collection of case studies it links universal issues relating to inequality in education, such as Asian, Latino, and African...
Educated for Change?
Muslim Refugee Women in the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Educated for Change?: Muslim Women in the West inserts Muslim women’s voice and action into the bifurcated, and otherwise male dominated, relations between the West and the Islamic East. A multilayered, multisite, educational ethnography, Buck and Silver’s study takes a novel approach to its feminist...