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by Paulo Freire
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Pedagogy of the Heart represents some of the last writings by Paulo Freire. In this work, perhaps more so than any other, Freire presents a coherent set of principles for education and politics. For those who have read Freire's other works the book includes new discussions of familiar subjects including...
Pedagogy in Process
The Letters to Guinea-Bissau
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Pedagogy in Process presents a first-hand account of the most comprehensive attempt yet to put into practice Paulo Freire's theory of education within a real societal setting.
When Guinea Bissau on the West African coast declared independence in 1973 the rate of illiteracy in its adult population...
Rethinking Children's Rights
Attitudes in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and...
Men Teaching Children 3-11
Dismantling Gender Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Men Teaching Children 3-11 provides a comprehensive exploration of work experiences of men who teach young children. The authors draw on their own research as well as international studies to provide realistic strategies to help to remove barriers in order to develop a more gender-balanced teacher...
Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing
Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The creative writing workshop has existed since the early part of the 20th century, but does it adequately serve the students who come to it today? While the workshop is often thought of as a form of student-centered pedagogy, it turns out that workshop conversations serve to marginalize a range of...
Writing Children's Fiction
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Full of both inspirational and practical advice, Writing Children's Fiction: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing for some of the most difficult and demanding readers of all: children and young people.
Part 1 explores the nature, history and challenges of children's...
Online Teaching and Learning
Sociocultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Online Teaching and Learning shows how learning through the internet depends on complex human interactions for success.
The text uses sociocultural theory as its foundational stance to empirically examine the dynamics of these interactions. It seeks to understand meaning making in all of its...
Education and International Development
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
'Honorable Mention' 2016 PROSE Award - Education Practice
Education is fundamental to every aspect of development and there is widespread support across the world for policies that affirm that all children, regardless of their circumstances, have a right to quality schooling. Yet despite concerted...
Teaching in Further Education
An Outline of Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Jonathan Tummons has sensitively updated Curzon's long-established Teaching in Further Education, ensuring that not only does this new edition provide the academically rigorous approach of previous editions but it also offers an up to date guide to current practice and research. Topics covered include:
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by James Morwood, Richard Ashdowne
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
A completely new guide to writing Latin from scratch, this user-friendly book includes key features such as:
broad coverage - all the major grammatical constructions of the Latin language are covered, reinforcing what students have learnt from reading Latin;
thorough accessible explanations - no previous...
Bergson
Thinking Beyond the Human Condition
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
A thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers. Ansell-Pearson contends that there is a Bergsonian revolution, an upheaval in philosophy comparable in significance to those that we are more familiar with, from Kant to...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Education and Gender draws on international research from the USA, the UK, India, Mexico, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, to provide a comprehensive global overview of the relationship between gender and education. Rooting constructions of gender and sexuality in specific geographical contexts,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a “posthuman condition”; the combination of new developments-such as the...
Thinking in Film
The Politics of Video Art Installation According to Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as artistic practice and as affect. Through fifteen years...