(Hardback)

Presents an analysis of how competence is measured in professional and vocational education, highlighting the fundamental flaws of the system and providing suggestions as to how they might be rectified. This book argues that strategies for vocational and professional education adopted by the UK are founded upon a number of fundamental errors.

(Hardback)

Based on a five-year study, this work uses excerpts from interviews to examine ten adolescents' reasoning or "groundedness" for choices they make about their future, and offers suggestions for improving guidance services.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

A guide to using Vygotsky's theories to support children and schools in special needs education. It pursues issues raised by a post-Vygotskian approach and which make important contributions to the development of the fields of policy and practice.

(Hardback)

Robbins (German, Central Missouri State U.) begins by introducing L. S. Vygotsky's (1896-1934) cultural-historical theory, which differs from sociocultural theory in the US, and draws on his Russian background and such thinkers as Spinoza and Marx. Then she moves across the disciplines that he contr

(Paperback)

Previously published as Miracle mindset.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

People come from all walks of life. This is a story about how everyone is different in their own way.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

An examination of the American public education system. A critique of both the teaching and the lack of accountability and quality control, Finn asks the reader to take control and reform the system by demanding that results be regulated through national standards, testing and curriculum.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This book utilizes a web-based learning model as the basis for professional development and technology training. Professional development is provided in the context of instructional activities that incorporate computers and web-based instructional resources to create authentic and challenging classroom instruction.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

This book highlights the processes by which the poor in Africa have been disenfranchised and marginalized through schools' ascriptive mechanisms, and explains why African economic development is very slow.

(Paperback)

"A modern guide for students on how to choose a major, create a four-year plan, make the most of your college experience, land an internship, and successfully secure your first job"--

(Paperback)

In answer to the perennial question "What else should I read", these innovative resources go beyond linear listings of suggestions to help students find books through a variety of directions, including subject, author, and genre.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

There is universal interest in the 'good school'. Parents want to find one, teachers seek to teach in one and children deserve to attend one. This book assumes that success is possible in every school and proivdes ideas on school improvement.

(Paperback)

What makes me DIFFERENT is what makes me, ME, is a children's book that will help your child identify shapes, colors and patterns as well as focus on diversity and acceptance.

(Paperback)

The result of a research project, this work, an attempt to report on what has actually been happening in our schools, answers such questions as: what difference have education reforms made to pupils' experience in schools and how has recent education policy impacted on children today

(Hardback)

This book's purpose is to describe the various things banned in schools, the reasons behind attempts to ban such things, the types of people who approve of censoring those things and the types who do not, the outcome of representative cases of censorship, and suggestions for school personnel about how to cope with bans.

(Paperback)

This book's purpose is to describe the various things banned in schools, the reasons behind attempts to ban such things, the types of people who approve of censoring those things and the types who do not, the outcome of representative cases of censorship, and suggestions for school personnel about how to cope with bans.