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This book chronicles the life of an inclusive educator through eight different stages of his career, from classroom teacher to college professor. Analysis of this rich narrative reveals complexities of how both the field of educations knowledge base and existing educational systems impact lives of children, teachers, and researchers.

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This edited collection of critical practitioner-based ethnographies explores how adults teach and learn across diverse formal and informal educational spaces. Contested Spaces of Teaching and Learning illustrates the myriad ways in which the process of adults teaching and learning is profoundly social, transformational, and linked to social change.

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This book presents an overview of the context and work conditions of contingent faculty in higher education. It addresses questions related to the ways in which faculty theorize about contingent academic labor, and under what conditions they are able to unite, organize, and constitute an opposition to management.

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New qualifications for those teaching and training in the FE sector became effective in September 2007. This book aims to introduce the notion that there is an opportunity for every teacher to develop their role through their workloads, for example, workloads are a vehicle for professional development.

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Suitable for teachers in the lifelong learning sector, this book introduces the idea that every teacher can develop their role through their workloads. It offers guidelines for promoting constructive practice, which is using the outcomes of reflection in the workplace to achieve role development.

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Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in Americ...

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Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in Americ...

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A reference guide to geography education. Entries, arranged alphabetically, cover: government legislation and reports; famous geography educators; resources; research findings; movements, trends, debates and issues; organizations; and key concepts.

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This book brings together many aspects of concepts and theories of leadership. It is an amalgam of ideas from the social sciences and the humanities woven together in the idea of leadership as an accoutrement, that is, a deliberate woven garment comprising science, art, experience, and craft knowledge.

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Through a historical studyof two very different pairs of European countries, Glenn illuminatesthe debate surroundingeducational freedom and a State-controlled model.

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Profiles two countries which give most support to parental choice (The Netherlands and Belgium) and two others which maintain a strong State role in controlling education (Germany and Austria). This title is suitable for policy specialists concerned with models of school autonomy versus government control.

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Controls and Choices: The Educational Marketplace and the Failure of School Desegregation provides a detailed examination of the nature of the educational marketplace, supported by historical evidence, to argue that school desegregation failed because it involved monopolistic efforts at redistributing opportunities.

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Controls and Choices: The Educational Marketplace and the Failure of School Desegregation provides a detailed examination of the nature of the educational marketplace, supported by historical evidence, to argue that school desegregation failed because it involved monopolistic efforts at redistributing opportunities.

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This book analyzes the history of book banning in K-12 classrooms and school libraries in the United States from the 1950s to the present. The author argues for the inclusion of controversial books in order to teach children to discover and debate values that are inconsistent with their own, rather than eliminating exposure to sensitive subjects.

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Learning to respond with respect and understanding to others is the primary objective of this book.

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Find a job that fits you perfectly: don't settle for anything less. You could make money as a City Trader or make a difference as a Carbon Trader. You could be a Museum Curator or a Spa Reviewer or if you want to make an impact, how about becoming a Demolition Expert There's a Cool Career to suit everyone, so get your thinking cap on.

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Cool Things to Do If a Bully's Bugging You: 50 Classroom Activities to Help Elementary Students aims to help students facing bullying and other problems while they're actually experiencing them. The activities feature a multidisciplinary approach that encourages speaking, list...

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Cool Things to Do If a Bully's Bugging You: 50 Classroom Activities to Help Elementary Students aims to help students facing bullying and other problems while they're actually experiencing them. The activities feature a multidisciplinary approach that encourages speaking, list...

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Based on the premise that many minds are better than one, this revised edition of Farmer's book helps you understand, develop, and implement co-operative learning activities with middle and high school students.