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  • Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google? Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google?
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    Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google?

    Why do I need a teacher when I've got Google? is just one of the challenging, controversial and thought-provoking questions Ian Gilbert poses in this urgent and invigorating book.Questioning the unquestionable, this fully updated new edition will make...
    $362.21

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  • Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Play Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Play
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    Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Play

    This groundbreaking text explores the various ways in which young people experience sport, physical activity and play as part of their everyday lives, and the interventions and outcomes that shape and define those experiences. It covers a range of...
    $413.95

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  • Policy and Education Policy and Education
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    Policy and Education

    Written specifically for education studies students, this accessible text offers a clear introduction to education policy. It aims to help the reader understand what is meant by educational policy, how policy can be made and the main discourses that have...
    $375.76

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  • High-Leverage Leadership High-Leverage Leadership
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    High-Leverage Leadership

    Globalisation of world trade, international media, technological innovation and social change are creating opportunities and challenges that today's pupils will inherit and build on. A pupil's academic, technical and social capacity will define their...
    $375.76

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  • Networks of Mind Networks of Mind
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    Networks of Mind

    This ground breaking book is unique in bringing together two perspectives on learning - sociocultural theory and neuroscience. Drawing on both perspectives, it foregrounds important developments in our understanding of what learning is, where and how...
    $129.16

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  • Transforming Education through the Arts Transforming Education through the Arts
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    Transforming Education through the Arts

    This timely book takes up the challenge of maintaining programs in the arts in the face of unrelenting pressure from two directions; the increasing focus on literacy and numeracy in schools, teamed with the cut-backs in public funding that often affect...
    $413.95

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  • Does Religious Education Have a Future? Does Religious Education Have a Future?
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    Does Religious Education Have a Future?

    The place of religion in the modern world has changed significantly over the past two decades. This has been partially reflected in the academic study of religion, but little, if at all, in religious education. In addition, the place of RE in schools has...
    $349.89

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  • Researching Student Learning in Higher Education Researching Student Learning in Higher Education
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    Researching Student Learning in Higher Education

    Many contemporary concerns in higher education focus on the student experience of learning.With a larger and much more diverse intake than ever before, linked with a declining unit of resource, questions are being asked afresh around the purposes of...
    $395.89

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  • Handbook of Cultural Developmental Science Handbook of Cultural Developmental Science
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    Handbook of Cultural Developmental Science

    Researchers and theoreticians commonly acknowledge the profound impact of culture on all aspects of development. However, many in the field are often unaware of the latest cultural literatures or how development proceeds in places other than their home...
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  • Educational Transitions Educational Transitions
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    Educational Transitions

    This volume explores transitions at all stages of educational progression, across a variety of countries and schools. It helps readers understand how the social and emotional processes that individuals undergo during transitions enable or hinder...
    $145.46

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  • Making Sense (Routledge Revivals) Making Sense (Routledge Revivals)
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    Making Sense (Routledge Revivals)

    The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1978, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in...
    $140.45

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  • Developing Equitable Education Systems Developing Equitable Education Systems
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    Developing Equitable Education Systems

    Despite consistent improvements in the school systems of over recent years, there are still too many children who miss out. It is not only children from disadvantaged backgrounds attending hard-pressed urban schools that the system is failing - even...
    $413.95

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  • Meeting the Child in Steiner Kindergartens Meeting the Child in Steiner Kindergartens
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    Meeting the Child in Steiner Kindergartens

    What can early years practitioners learn from Steiner kindergartens?What is distinctive about Steiner kindergarten teachers' ways of getting to know children?As demands for accountability in Early Years settings continue to grow, external pressure to...
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  • Learning Futures Learning Futures
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    Learning Futures

    In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision...
    $97.80

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  • Towards Fairer University Assessment Towards Fairer University Assessment
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    Towards Fairer University Assessment

    This book goes beyond the superficial consideration of university assessment as a 'necessary requirement ' by unravelling the underlying issues that really count - what is considered fair assessment and what is not.
    $336.34

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  • Basil Bernstein Basil Bernstein
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    Basil Bernstein

    Basil Bernstein: The Thinker and the Field provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Basil Bernstein, demonstrating his distinctive contribution to social theory by locating it within the historical context of the development of the sociology...
    $401.63

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  • Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community
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    Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community

    As the third millennium progresses, we are faced with increasing pressures relating to climate change and the sustainability of life on Earth. Concerned citizens are realizing that the responsibility to respond is both local and global. There is an...
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  • Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure
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    Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure

    "A marvellous book of great practical value" - James CarterThe lack of interest in reading for pleasure amongst large numbers of primary age pupils, put off by 'mechanical' worksheet-driven approaches, is a cause for major concern amongst education...
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  • Introducing Bruner Introducing Bruner
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    Introducing Bruner

    Sandra Smidt takes the reader on a journey through the key concepts of Jerome Bruner, a significant figure in the field of early education whose work has spanned almost a century. His wide-ranging and innovative principles of early learning and teaching...
    $87.77

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  • Being an Academic Being an Academic
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    Being an Academic

    The role of academics in universities worldwide has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. In this book Fanghannel explores concepts of what it means to be an 'academic' in the 21st century.
    $97.80

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  • Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work
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    Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work

    Lifelong Learning in Paid and Unpaid Work provides a new paradigm for understanding work and learning, documenting the active contribution of workers to their development and their adaptation to paid and unpaid work.
    $401.63

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  • Domestic Violence and Children Domestic Violence and Children
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    Domestic Violence and Children

    What can schools and social care workers do to help children affected by domestic violence?Large numbers of children are affected by domestic violence. The problem crosses every social class and culture. It causes distress and anxiety in children and...
    $354.35

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  • The Sociology of Assessment The Sociology of Assessment
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    The Sociology of Assessment

    In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical...
    $99.31

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  • The University and its Boundaries The University and its Boundaries
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    The University and its Boundaries

    Grounded in key sociological theory on the concepts of boundaries, power and control, this text addresses the question of whether the university is thriving or merely surviving. Using a sociological lens to consider how institutions must engage in...
    $48.20

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  • International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning
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    International Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Taking an international perspective, the authors examine the theoretical and practical aspects of lifelong learning. A number of issues and key areas of debate are addressed in different national and international contexts and case studies are provided...
    $70.75

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  • Multimodal Approaches to Research and Pedagogy Multimodal Approaches to Research and Pedagogy
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    Multimodal Approaches to Research and Pedagogy

    This book brings together social semiotics, cultural studies, multiliteracies, and other approaches in order to theorize very different learning environments, giving visibility to the modal effect in a range of disciplines. It highlights the ideological...
    $112.96

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  • Universities, Ethics and Professions Universities, Ethics and Professions
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    Universities, Ethics and Professions

    Every business and organization today needs to impress stakeholders with its ethics policy. Universities, Ethics and Professions examines how this emphasis on ethics by the professional world is impacting universities, institutions that have long been...
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  • Language and Citizenship in Japan Language and Citizenship in Japan
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    Language and Citizenship in Japan

    The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: 'Japanese citizenship' means 'Japanese ethnicity,' which in turn means 'Japanese as one's first language.' Historically, most non-Japanese...
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  • Space, Place and Scale in the Study of Education Space, Place and Scale in the Study of Education
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    Space, Place and Scale in the Study of Education

    The term 'space' is inherently geographical. Educational provision and activity takes place within spaces ranging from a room at home or in a school to a campus to an administrative area which could be a state within a country, a whole country or a group...
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  • Education, Mobilities and Migration Education, Mobilities and Migration
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    Education, Mobilities and Migration

    Within the context of increased global migration and mobility, education occupies a central role which is being transformed by new human movements and cultural diversity, flows, and networks. Studies under the umbrella terms of migration, mobility, and...
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  • Group Care for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos Group Care for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos
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    Group Care for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

    This volume extends the knowledge base supporting research-informed child care for infants and toddlers, while simultaneously highlighting areas of study ripe for future research. The authors demonstrate from a systems perspective, that the experiences...
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  • Education in a Federal UK Education in a Federal UK
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    Education in a Federal UK

    Britain's two recent referenda - on Brexit (2016) and on Scottish independence (2014) - have raised in the public mind fundamental questions about the future of the UK. It seems that for the first time, the public, the media and the political elite have...
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  • External Higher Education Quality Assurance in China External Higher Education Quality Assurance in China
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    External Higher Education Quality Assurance in China

    Since the end of the 1990s, the Chinese higher education system has seen a dramatic expansion of enrolment. China currently has the largest higher education system in the world, however, the rapid growth resulted in concerns being raised about the...
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  • Poverty Discourses in Teacher Education Poverty Discourses in Teacher Education
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    Poverty Discourses in Teacher Education

    As economies across the world continue to struggle, there is growing evidence that the vulnerable in society, especially children, are paying the greatest cost in terms of reduced opportunities for access to equitable life chances, the most vital of...
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  • Social Mobility and the Legal Profession Social Mobility and the Legal Profession
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    Social Mobility and the Legal Profession

    This book will be crucial reading for students across a variety of disciplines. A broadly socio-legal text, using a mixed-methods design combining grounded theory with an in-depth case study, this research explores a rarely-seen facet of the legal...
    $110.48

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  • The Value and Limits of Academic Speech The Value and Limits of Academic Speech
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    The Value and Limits of Academic Speech

    Free speech has been a historically volatile issue in higher education. In recent years, however, there has been a surge of progressive censorship on campus. This wave of censorship has been characterized by the explosive growth of such policies as...
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  • Teachers' Perceptions, Experience and Learning Teachers' Perceptions, Experience and Learning
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    Teachers' Perceptions, Experience and Learning

    Teachers' Perceptions, Experience and Learning offers insightful views on the understanding of the role of teachers and the impact of their thinking and practice. The articles presented in this book illustrate the influence of teachers on student...
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  • Curriculum as Contestation Curriculum as Contestation
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    Curriculum as Contestation

    In 2015 a social movement swept across the South African higher education sector fuelled by the anger of the 'born free' generation, the students born into post-apartheid South Africa. The movement found solidarity in other parts of the globe where the...
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