What is an effective school and what is an effective teacher? This book answers questions like this through conversational dialogues between a principal, a pre-service teacher and experienced teache... more » more »
... Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the most significant contributors of modern times to the debate on education. Among those included are: * Pierre Bourdieu * Elliot Eisner * Hans J. Eysenck * Michel Focault * Henry Giroux * Jurgen Habermas * Susan Isaacs * A.S. Neill * Herbert Read * Simone Weill ...more »
This book gives practical guidance on doing an action research project as part of an award-bearing course. Packed with useful advice, it takes the practitioner-researcher through many stages of a project, from planning to writing. more »
Throughout the debate over how - and if - AIDS education should be taught to school age children, teachers who want to bring the subject of AIDS into their classroom have had few, if any, resources to guide them. Teaching AIDS responds to the need for AIDS education material with a practice-based, interactive ...more »
Model Number: BBR0345463587DLDA
Author: Brooks, Terry
In 1841, a St. Louis businessman had a dream: to open up the far reaches of the Yellowstone river and commerce with In 1977, the New York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller list--back then the exclusive province of self-help guides, cartoon collections, and any number of cat books--played host to its very ...more »
This book compares and contrasts special needs approaches with school effectiveness strategies and sets out theories about inclusive schooling that arise out of a detailed scrutiny of practice. more » more »
Product Info This book is a timely addition to the debate surrounding the integration of special needs children into ordinary schools, seen through the eyes of the children themselves. more »
Model Number: BBT203153936DLDA
Author: Edited by Colin Noble, Kirklees LEA, Huddersfield
Product Info This book offers clear and practical strategies to headteachers, classroom teachers and other professionals for ways to address the issue of boys' underachievement. more »
Model Number: BBR0345449452DLDA
Author: O'NEILL-GRACE, CATHE
Friends broaden our children's horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. In this wise and insightful ...more »
Model Number: BBALDVOIYFKIRFDLDA
Author: Sayers, Dorothy
Schools are failing to teach students how to think clearly, and how to go about learning something. Dorothy Sayers recommends a program, based loosely on the curriculum of the medieval uni... more » more »
Model Number: BBT203156161DLDA
Author: Marilyn Leask and John
Aimed at primary ICT teachers, this book gives ideas and activities to teachers based on tried and tested methods from innovative schools around the UK and abroad. It will extend the practical knowledge of students and teachers alike. more »
This book provides a practical guide to teaching and learning within the context of the changing FE environment. It suggests strategies for teaching and recording achievement and exploring ways in which students learn. It also has case studies. more »
