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Maschi in difficoltà
Perché il digitale crea sempre più problemi alla nuova generazione e come aiutarla
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Di fronte all’incalzare della tecnologia e dei fatturati a nove zeri del mondo virtuale, dei videogame, del sesso virtuale, come possono le istituzioni aiutare i giovani a non cadere preda di certe trappole destinate a bloccare e a ostacolare il normale sviluppo emotivo, personale e sociale dell’individuo? Un testo pieno di racconti e aneddoti, ma anche di suggerimenti concreti.
Teaching the Taboo
Courage and Imagination in the Classroom, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Rick and William Ayers renew their challenge to teachers to teach initiative, to teach imagination, to “teach the taboo” in the new edition of this bestseller. Drawing from a lifetime of deep commitment to students, teaching, and social justice, the authors update their powerful critique of schooling...
Wendell Berry and Higher Education
Cultivating Virtues of Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's cultural obsession with restless mobility for decades,...
Teaching Hope
Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
“There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel deserving of a place on the planet. . . . What could be more soul-satisfying? These are the most influential professionals most of us will ever meet. The effects of their work...
by Glenn Fieber
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Seeing Inside the Theories of Behavior and Learning looks at some of the major theories that have shaped our understanding of both how we behave and how we learn. The book has been informed by my 42 years as both a classroom teacher and a teacher of teachers, and by my wide interest in how the mind...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent...
Babies in the Rain
Promoting Play, Exploration, and Discovery with Infants and Toddlers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
There are many ways parents and caregivers can help children thrive in their earliest years of life. Babies in the Rain explains the theories behind the best practices for infant and toddler care as well as preferred methods for doing so. In a personable, humorous voice, Jeff A. Johnson shares his...
Unterwegs zur Unterrichtsexpertise
Handlungsfelder und Kompetenzen - Das Modell der PH Zürich | Didaktische Hausapotheke, Band 3
Language: German
Release Date: August 20, 2015
In einem mehrjährigen Prozess haben die Sek-II-Ausbildungsteams der PH Zürich zehn wesentliche Handlungsfelder von Lehrpersonen in der Berufsbildung beschrieben und zu jedem Feld eine Liste von Kompetenzen zusammengestellt, über die eine fähige Lehrperson verfügen sollte. Bezugs- und Ausgangspunkt...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The first seven articles of the book provide an overview of how Estonian educational scientists, collaborating with colleagues from Finland and Sweden on one of the articles, have empirically studied the quality of learning environment, teachers’ professionalism and their perceptions of their own...
Moving Teacher Education into Urban Schools and Communities
Prioritizing Community Strengths
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!
When teacher education is located on a university campus, set apart from urban schools and communities, it is easy to overlook the realities and challenges communities face as they struggle toward social, economic,...
Learning to Lead, Second Edition
Effective Leadership Skills for Teachers of Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This second edition includes updated stories, examples, research, and theories to reflect cultural and professional changes 2. Contains two new chapters: "School-Age Care: Leadership Connections with Schools and Communities" and "Nurturing Leadership in Children" 3. Combines leadership...
The Social Foundations Reader
Critical Essays on Teaching, Learning and Leading in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations course. Instead, most provide a...
Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era
Teaching and Learning in an Age of Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This landmark text was one of the first to introduce and analyze contemporary concepts of curriculum that emerged from the Reconceptualization of curriculum studies in the 1970s and 1980s. This new edition brings readers up to date on the major research themes (postmodernism,ecological, hermeneutics,...
Rethinking the Way We Teach Science
The Interplay of Content, Pedagogy, and the Nature of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Offering a fresh take on inquiry, this book draws on current research and theory in science education, literacy, and educational psychology, as well as the history and philosophy of science, to make its case for transforming the way science is taught.
Re-thinking the Way We Teach Science addresses...