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Strategies described in this book teach how to serve as a listener, teacher, leader facilitator, and initiator in engaging others within professional settings to do meaningful work that benefits students.

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Strategies described in this book teach how to serve as a listener, teacher, leader facilitator, and initiator in engaging others within professional settings to do meaningful work that benefits students.

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Strategies described in the chapters support leaders in helping others learn to engage by providing handout, overheads, instructions and other prompts to use in workshop settings.

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Contributes to a radical formulation of pedagogy through its revitalization of language, utopianism, and revolutionary message. Harvard Educational Review

Constitutes the voice of a great teacher who has managed to replace the melancholic and despairing discourse of the post-modern Left with possibility and human compassion.

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Professor Talbott describes the effort in France to democratize the educational system, particularly in the secondary schools, and to reform the traditional educational structure laid down by the Jesuits in the seventeenth century. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make

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This book follows the documentary record of faculty unionization at these New England universities to explore how and why unionization came about.

As the book reveals, faculty unionization can be much more than the simple result of local controversies.

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In this study of nonformal education in Latin America, the author argues that rather than providing new training for the labour force and improving the lot of the poor, the education policies in Latin America play an integral role in the governments's attempts to legitimize the capitalist state.

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The Poor Relation examines the place of the social sciences - from economics and psychology to history, law and philosophy - in the teaching and research conducted by Australian universities. It also relates the arrangements made to support them and explains why they are so persistently treated as the poor relation of science and technology.

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The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy explores diverse perspectives on the liberating power of Black feminist and womanist pedagogical practices. The contributors boldly tell groundbreaking stories of their teaching experiences and their evolving relationships to Black feminist and womanist theory and criticism.

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This book responds to calls for change in teacher education. Sponsored by the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) the book includes program descriptions, theoretical frameworks, and research studies.

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This book responds to calls for change in teacher education. Sponsored by the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) the book includes program descriptions, theoretical frameworks, and research studies.

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Project-based learning is a teaching approach that motivates and inspires students to learn and helps them to become self-directed learners over time. Students learn not only the content surrounding their projects, but also important life skills such as problem-solving, creati...

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Project-based learning is a teaching approach that motivates and inspires students to learn and helps them to become self-directed learners over time. Students learn not only the content surrounding their projects, but also important life skills such as problem-solving, creati...

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Teaching and learning cannot happen without questions. Inquiry is the offspring of curiosity and creativity. Questions are incredibly powerful tools that open the world up. In the age of Google, the way we teach needs to change and students need to be reconnected with their ea...

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Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic in the last ten years as well as looking anew at some of the original research reviewed.

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The Power to Learn presents how to execute the development of personalized instruction in a school setting in order to help all students succeed. This edition differs from previous ones with added topics that include ideas for leadership, staffing, and non-punitive approaches ...

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A veteran college dean gives parents of college students all the practical guidance they'll need to navigate the labyrinth of bureaucracies and policies in order to support their student's academic career and extracurricular life.

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Addresses substantial information gaps in the field of special education. This handbook focuses on the ways that special education policies and practices are formulated and enacted.

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This book is a one-stop resource for parents and families facing decisions about how to provide their children the best educational experiences before kindergarten. Children who have positive early childhood experiences develop cognitive and socio-emotional abilities that lead...

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Over the past fifteen years, a college education has become increasingly valuable in the labor market. As a result, the stakes have been raised in the debate over college admissions and student financial aid.

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Every nation in the world wants to know where its school system fits into the global education hierarchy. This book discusses how PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) meets this need and why its influence extends beyond education and into the corridors of government, social, economic, and media power.