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An innovative insight into the ways in which digital gaming technology can be used in drama teaching to make the student learning experience truly memorable.

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We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via our mass media. This is a collection of essays highlighting the links between contemporary society's over-reliance on both media and drugs.

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We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via our mass media. This book examines this parallel, promoting a critical awareness of the significant impact of drugs and media on individuals, society and our wider human culture.

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This book helps readers better understand their own relationships - as players, designers, consumers, and citizens - with digital role playing games.

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This book helps readers better understand their own relationships - as players, designers, consumers, and citizens - with digital role playing games.

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Originally published: c2010. (Continuum studies in history).

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Including material on early identification and intervention, this title offers non-specialist teachers material to reinforce the link between theory and practice. It features topics such as: reading, spelling, creative writing, study skills, differentiation, identification of dyslexia, the role of parents and policy and provision for dyslexia.

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Providing a fresh reevaluation of '70s in popular music, this book contextualizes the era in terms of both radio history and cultural analysis. It focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "formats", which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. It makes a case for the significance of early '70s formatting.

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Providing a fresh reevaluation of '70s in popular music, this book contextualizes the era in terms of both radio history and cultural analysis. It focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "formats", which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. It makes a case for the significance of early '70s formatting.

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Informed by a hermeneutic perspective, this title presents a survey of the Pre-Socratic thinkers, the contexts from which they emerged and their influence. It calls into question a longstanding mythology that the 'Pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all traditional forms of knowledge' (Badiou).

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The field of religion and ecology is an emerging and growing movement that is becoming relevant and influential in the world.

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Do Martin Heidegger's statements on the nature of thinking compel a re-examination of Dewey's view Does Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophy of experience advance beyond Dewey's experimental model This book examines John Dewey's philosophy of education, and asks how well it stands up in view of developments in Continental European philosophy.

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A guide to a key area of Education Studies BA courses offering an introduction to the emergence of modern and post-modern childhoods. It considers the social construction of childhood through the institutions of education. It is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students on education studies and related courses.

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Examines the relationship HIV / AIDS has with education in different international contexts, from Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the USA, UK, and the Caribbean. This title draws on the international research in numerous countries, including Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, the USA and the Caribbean.

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Examines the relationship HIV/AIDS has with education in different international contexts, from Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the USA, UK, and the Caribbean. This title draws on the international research in numerous countries, including Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, the USA and the Caribbean.

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Examines the educational experiences of minority groups in different international contexts, from the USA, Finland, Rwanda, India, South Africa, Hungary, China and the UK. This title contains a summary of the key points and issues within each chapter to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage active engagement.

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Examines the educational experiences of minority groups in different international contexts, from the USA, Finland, Rwanda, India, South Africa, Hungary, China and the UK. This title contains a summary of the key points and issues within each chapter to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage active engagement.

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What is the relationship between education and reconciliation initiatives Who encourages and enacts it and who discourages and detracts from it This book explores the role education has played in fostering or hindering reconciliation between groups divided by violent and/or social conflict.

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What is the relationship between education and reconciliation initiatives Who encourages and enacts it and who discourages and detracts from it This book explores the role education has played in fostering or hindering reconciliation between groups divided by violent and/or social conflict.

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Investigates the potential for creating a transnational value system in education, focusing on some key human rights issues at home and overseas. This book focuses on how education can bring about social change, connecting with theory at the level of cultural impact and policy implications.

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A timely consideration with an increased awareness of global issues and the role education can play in helping to resolve these concerns.

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Examine the educational situations of a range of human groups that are marginalized or excluded from mainstream provision and also considers the idea that 'humane' means 'appropriate'. This book offers an engaging discussion about the functions of education, drawing on a range of educational situations.

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A discussion about the functions of education, drawing on a range of educational situations. It challenges the various functions of education as widely and conventionally perceived, and promotes the notion of education as a humanitarian response as the prime function.

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A monograph that challenges misconceptions about the relevance of Hegel to educational thought. It illustrates how a philosophical notion of education lies at the heart of Hegelian philosophy and employs it to critique some of the stereotypes and misreadings from which Hegel often suffers.