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This study, addressing the definition, role and characteristics of play, falls within the research of education, psychology, anthropology, sociology, leisure studies and primatology. The book uses conceptual and data-based analyses to explore the role of play in evolution and behaviour.

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This study, addressing the definition, role and characteristics of play, falls within the research of education, psychology, anthropology, sociology, leisure studies and primatology. The book uses conceptual and data-based analyses to explore the role of play in evolution and behaviour.

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

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Among the topics addressed are cooperative learning and achievement, treating status problems in the cooperative classroom, cooperative learning models, teachers' verbal behavior in cooperative and whole-class instruction, and the effects of cooperative learning on ethnic relations.

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Principals and district administrators will learn ways to develop, sustain, monitor, and lead schools and districts striving for growth mindset learning environments.

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By the 1960s, high schools had become mass institutions saddled with the expectation of universal education for America's youth. The consolidation of a dropout stereotype focused on the presumed dependency and delinquency of dropouts, with the resulting programs focusing on guidance and vocational training.

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Critical Thinking for Better Learning shifts the focus from teaching to learning and from presenting information to creating challenges that teach students how to think in your discipline. The shift derives from three new insights from cognitive science: that we think by analo...

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Critical Thinking for Better Learning shifts the focus from teaching to learning and from presenting information to creating challenges that teach students how to think in your discipline. The shift derives from three new insights from cognitive science: that we think by analo...

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Dancing to Learn: Cognition, Emotion, and Movement explores the rationale for dance as a medium of learning to help engage educators and scientists to explore the underpinnings of dance, and dancers as well as members of the general public who are curious about new ways of comprehending dance.

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In this resource for educators, Harold F. Burks offers a comprehensive guide to the evaluation techniques and intervention strategies that have worked with many school children experiencing problems. Thus, Diagnosis and Remediation Practices for Troubled School Children attemp...

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Brings together a collection of experts writing on emotional intelligence, across areas including education, parenting, employment and neuroscience, sharing ideas on the importance of this topic and its application to increase performance in everyday life.

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This book examines narcissistic, self-absorbed attitudes and behaviors of individuals and the effects of these attitudes and behaviors on the American school system, discussing multiple strategies to combat narcissism in schools.

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This book provides insight on how educators can increase the efficacy and achievement of urban youth. Angela Dye shares instructional methodologies and stories to help the reader develop an intimate understanding of the empowerment principles in action. Through these principle...

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This new practical handbook is not only meant to help manage negative behavior problems but assists the educator in discovering ways to encourage positive behaviors among young people.

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Addresses the dilemmas teachers face every day throughout the various aspects of education. This book outlines standards of professionalism and presents information helpful for the challenges teachers face. It guides the teachers towards developing ethical habits and a professional demeanor.

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Psychologists and human biologists have been engaged in an often heated debate as to whether 'heredity' or 'environment' should be viewed as the determining factor in the creation of the human personality. For teachers and educationists, the discussion has tended to focus on how the human mind functions and intellectual powers develop.

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A study into how eugenics and concepts of intelligence have influenced education systems in both the UK and US.

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