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The authors' goal is to explore how an alternative, politically viable public discourse on education can be constructed.

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Many contemporary secondary education standards call for teachers to reach across traditional disciplinary lines and create curricula and instructional techniques that are interdisciplinary in nature (as examples, for mathematics see Principles and Standards for School Mathematics;

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Higher education is in a time of crisis--diminishing funds, rising costs, lack of student preparation for college work, low morale among students and faculty, strained relations between faculty and administration, and confusion about curriculum and educational goals.

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Higher education is in a time of crisis--diminishing funds, rising costs, lack of student preparation for college work, low morale among students and faculty, strained relations between faculty and administration, and confusion about curriculum and educational goals.

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This book provides insights into the ways in which foundational knowledge of research and research processes can be applied in order to build rigorous research design.

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This book provides insights into the ways in which foundational knowledge of research and research processes can be applied in order to build rigorous research design.

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The teaching of ethics and moral values in the schools is an issue that is currently surrounded by public confusion and complaint about the failure of teachers and the teaching system.

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Offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. Rather than suggesting the 'mixing' of methods, this book provides an interrogation of the arguments and practices characteristic of both sides of the divide.

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Offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. This book provides a thorough interrogation of the arguments and practices characteristic of both sides of the divide, focusing on how well they address the common problems that all social research faces.

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International in its empirical and theoretical scope, this book contains a number of new ideas about teaching and addresses many of the recent changes that are occurring in teachers' work. It discusses both the need for change and the conditions of change in teaching.

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The purpose of this book is to provide teachers, principals, professors and students preparing for teaching the foundation - conceptual, theoretical, and methodological - they will need to be effective planners and evaluators of character education programmes and character educators.

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The purpose of this book is to provide teachers, principals, professors and students preparing for teaching the foundation - conceptual, theoretical, and methodological - they will need to be effective planners and evaluators of character education programmes and character educators.

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Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. This title examines the idea that compulsory education is a social good, and that adulthood and childhood should be considered as entirely separate realms.

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A study that critically examines the basis for the belief that compulsory education is a necessary social good. It also addresses whether adulthood should be conceived as an entirely separate realm from childhood.

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From aquariums to zoos, this unique international reference source for museums for children (including science centers, planetariums, botanical gardens, and art centers) provides 235 institutional profiles.

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