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  • Thinking and Rethinking the University Thinking and Rethinking the University
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    Thinking and Rethinking the University

    In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars compile career-long selections of what they judge to be among their finest pieces so the world has access to them in a single manageable volume. Readers are able to follow the themes...
    $131.00

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  • Developing Play for the Under 3s Developing Play for the Under 3s
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    Developing Play for the Under 3s

    The Treasure Basket and Heuristic play encourage extraordinary capacities of concentration, intellectual brilliance and manipulative mastery in babies and young children. The approach is astoundingly simple: offering natural and household objects to...
    $385.00

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  • A Critical Introduction to Law A Critical Introduction to Law
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    A Critical Introduction to Law

    Challenging the usual introductions to the study of law, A Critical Introduction to Law argues that law is inherently political and reflects the interests of the few even while presenting itself as neutral. This fully revised and updated fourth edition...
    $449.00

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  • Intercultural Competence in Higher Education Intercultural Competence in Higher Education
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    Intercultural Competence in Higher Education

    Intercultural competence has become an essential element in international as well as domestic education. This text provides the latest thinking and research within the context of internationalization, presents practical case studies on how to integrate...
    $373.00

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  • Alternative Approaches to Education Alternative Approaches to Education
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    Alternative Approaches to Education

    Alternative Approaches to Education provides parents and teachers with information and guidance on different education options in the UK and further afield. This new and expanded edition, including additional chapters and up-to-date contact details,...
    $351.00

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  • Wellbeing, Education and Contemporary Schooling Wellbeing, Education and Contemporary Schooling
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    Wellbeing, Education and Contemporary Schooling

    Wellbeing, Education and Contemporary Schooling examines the role of wellbeing in schools and argues that it should be integral to core policy objectives in health and education. The whole school focus chosen is conducive to the review of wellbeing in...
    $373.00

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  • Debates in Geography Education Debates in Geography Education
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    Debates in Geography Education

    Debates in Geography Education encourages early career teachers, experienced teachers and teacher educators to engage with and reflect on key issues, concepts and debates. It aims to enable readers to reach their own informed judgements with deeper...
    $410.00

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  • Engaging in Community Music Engaging in Community Music
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    Engaging in Community Music

    Engaging in Community Music: An Introduction focuses on the processes involved in designing, initiating, executing, and evaluating community music practices. Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, in community music programs and...
    $424.00

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  • Perspectives on Legal Education Perspectives on Legal Education
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    Perspectives on Legal Education

    This edited collection offers a critical overview of the major debates in legal education in the history of the Upjohn Lectures, an annual event that draws together legal educators and professionals in the United Kingdom to consider the major debates and...
    $79.00

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  • Combating Social Exclusion in University Adult Education Combating Social Exclusion in University Adult Education
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    Combating Social Exclusion in University Adult Education

    Published in 1999, this work suggests that widening participation is not just about changing learner expectations; it is also about changing institutional expectations and practices. "Higher" learning, for example, should include a broader, more...
    $90.00

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  • Scientific Influences on Early Childhood Education Scientific Influences on Early Childhood Education
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    Scientific Influences on Early Childhood Education

    Scientific Influences on Early Childhood Education offers a new framework for examining the diverse scientific perspectives that shape early childhood education.As the field takes on an increasing role in addressing children's educational,...
    $373.00

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  • Purposeful Planning for Learning Purposeful Planning for Learning
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    Purposeful Planning for Learning

    Purposeful Planning for Learning puts the passion and depth back into how teachers plan for learning in the primary classroom. Offering a unique perspective on what constitutes purposeful planning for learning, this book encourages a mindset where...
    $66.00

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  • Philosophy and the Study of Education Philosophy and the Study of Education
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    Philosophy and the Study of Education

    This book develops students' ability to philosophise and learn about philosophy and education at a micro and macro level. It challenges students to use philosophy as a tool and as a set of theories within education, and to develop solutions to problems...
    $373.00

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  • Faces of Discrimination in Higher Education in India Faces of Discrimination in Higher Education in India
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    Faces of Discrimination in Higher Education in India

    This book illuminates the experiences of a set of students and faculty who are members of the Dalit caste - commonly known as the 'untouchables' - who are relatively 'successful' in that they attend or are academics at a prestigious university.
    $128.00

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  • The Work and Lives of Teachers in China The Work and Lives of Teachers in China
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    The Work and Lives of Teachers in China

    This book locates teachers’ work and lives in China in a critical analysis of the political, socio-cultural, ideological and educational reform contexts, and demonstrates how teachers retain their commitment for learning and development.
    $85.00

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  • Life and Learning of Korean Artists and Craftsmen Life and Learning of Korean Artists and Craftsmen
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    Life and Learning of Korean Artists and Craftsmen

    Using life history to overcome the dichotomy between individual and society, this book studies the life and learning of famous Korean artists and craftsmen, proposing a new conceptual tool to navigate lifelong learning from a postmodern...
    $128.00

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  • A Dialogic Teaching Companion A Dialogic Teaching Companion
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    A Dialogic Teaching Companion

    Building on Robin Alexander's landmark Towards Dialogic Teaching, this book shows how and why the dialogic approach has a positive impact on student engagement and learning. It sets out the evidence, examines the underpinning ideas and issues, and offers...
    $76.00

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  • Future of the Humanities Future of the Humanities
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    Future of the Humanities

    This book locates the humanities in six general fields of study: religion and philosophy, art and music, and literature and history. It offers suggestions for interdisciplinary work around topics such as punishment, and death and dying.
    $373.00

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  • The Academic Man The Academic Man
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    The Academic Man

    When it was originally published, The Academic Man was the first full-scale social science-based study on the American academic profession
    $410.00

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  • The Distinctive College The Distinctive College
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    The Distinctive College

    The factors contributing to the greatness of a first-rank liberal arts college are difficult to analyze. Hidden from view in the mysteries of tradition and institutional aura, the insistent questions remain: How has it been done? Can it still be done? In...
    $410.00

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  • When Power Corrupts When Power Corrupts
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    When Power Corrupts

    William Schofield presents a classic analysis of mental illness, of professional psychotherapists and their training, and of the elements of psychotherapy. He asserts the need for more rigorous selection of candidates for therapy and for a properly...
    $54.00

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  • Teaching History from Primary Evidence (1993) Teaching History from Primary Evidence (1993)
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    Teaching History from Primary Evidence (1993)

    Originally published in 1993, this volume will be of particular interest to primary school teachers who may never have taught history as a discreet subject before and who are worried by their negative memories of school history and lack confidence as to...
    $63.00

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  • The Equal Classroom The Equal Classroom
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    The Equal Classroom

    How much thinking have you done about gender? What does it feel like to be gay, trans or non-binary at school?How unbiased, safe and inclusive are our teachers, our schools and our systems, and what can we do about it?The time is ripe for a re-think, and...
    $60.00

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  • Simplicity Rules Simplicity Rules
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    Simplicity Rules

    Teaching: the best job in the world. But it is also, increasingly, considered one of the toughest professions. Practices have arisen and become widespread which overcomplicate and increase teacher workload, while having only a marginal impact on pupil...
    $333.00

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  • Disability, Avoidance and the Academy Disability, Avoidance and the Academy
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    Disability, Avoidance and the Academy

    Disability is a widespread phenomenon, indeed a potentially universal one as life expectancies rise, yet it is often dismissed as a niche market. This collection explores how academic avoidance of disability studies is indicative of social prejudice and...
    $123.00

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  • Handbook of Strategies and Strategic Processing Handbook of Strategies and Strategic Processing
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    Handbook of Strategies and Strategic Processing

    Handbook of Strategies and Strategic Processing provides a state-of-the-art synthesis of conceptual, measurement, and analytical issues regarding learning strategies and strategic processing. Contributions by educational psychology experts present the...
    $270.00

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  • The Brave Educator The Brave Educator
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    The Brave Educator

    The Brave Educator equips you with accessible and refreshingly useful tools for real conversations about race that prepare students for the world beyond the school walls. More than a toolkit, this book is a personal conversation exploring the journey...
    $70.00

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  • Ethnographies of Science Education Ethnographies of Science Education
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    Ethnographies of Science Education

    Researchers who conduct ethnography in science education tend to have a deep commitment for transforming science to improve the lives of people in underserved communities. This edited volume explores how contemporary ethnographers in science education...
    $128.00

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  • Towards a History of Adult Education in America
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    Towards a History of Adult Education in America

    Originally published in 1988 this book examines the work of the first generation adult education theorists and the traditions that their work helped establish. They debated the issues, aims and content of adult education programmes and began to explore...
    $95.00

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  • Why Adults Learn Why Adults Learn
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    Why Adults Learn

    Originally published in 1992 this book looks at the phenomenon of adult education by exploring the nature of the motivation that moves people to return to school or to seek involvement inorganized learning activities. The book challenges the...
    $87.00

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  • Teaching Academic L2 Writing Teaching Academic L2 Writing
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    Teaching Academic L2 Writing

    The new edition of this comprehensive text fills an important role in teacher professional preparation by focusing on how to teach the grammar and vocabulary that are essential for all L2 writing teachers and student-writers. Before L2 writers can begin...
    $333.00

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  • Theory and Practice in the Study of Adult Education Theory and Practice in the Study of Adult Education
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    Theory and Practice in the Study of Adult Education

    Originally published in 1989, this book presents a variety of perspectives on the definition of knowledge and of adult education, by leading authors and practitioners in the study of adult education in the UK and USA. This collection of different and...
    $87.00

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  • Adult Education Adult Education
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    Adult Education

    Originally published in 1987 and now with an updated preface, this book distils and reflects upon major issues confronting adult educators worldwide. Theories, practices and systems of adult education unify the contradictions between different traditions...
    $87.00

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  • Combatting Poverty Through Adult Education Combatting Poverty Through Adult Education
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    Combatting Poverty Through Adult Education

    Originally published in 1985 this book addresses important questions about the nature and meaning of development as these concern adult education in the developing world. It contributes to the development debate as well as discussiong what part adult...
    $85.00

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  • Post-Education Society Post-Education Society
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    Post-Education Society

    Originally published in 1985, this book argues that to make sense any attempt to improve the situation must take account of what we now know about adult growth and development, accepting as an operational imperative that it is as problematic and...
    $87.00

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  • Designing Displays for Older Adults, Second Edition Designing Displays for Older Adults, Second Edition
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    Designing Displays for Older Adults, Second Edition

    This book focuses on the design of displays and user interfaces for the older user. Aging is related to complex mental, physical, and social changes. While conventional wisdom says getting older leads to a decline, the reality is that some capabilities...
    $188.00

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  • Learning Networks in Adult Education Learning Networks in Adult Education
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    Learning Networks in Adult Education

    Originally published in 1979, this book reports on a 3 year action research programme (The New Communities Project) which aimed in increase working-class participation in adult education. Basing their argument on the work of the Project, the authors...
    $95.00

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  • Just The Basics Please! Book 2 Just The Basics Please! Book 2
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    Just The Basics Please! Book 2

    Are you ready for a serious, intimate relationship? Whether you are still in high school, fresh out of high school, or in college, this book was written for you. Just The Basics Please! Book 2: Marriage and Sex, is a guide for everyone who wants to...
    $15.00

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  • Guitar Theory Handbook Guitar Theory Handbook
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    Guitar Theory Handbook

    As I read through this book, it started as an "I knew that, I knew that..." experience. But as the pages turned, even the most knowledgeable musician would start to say, "well I knew that too, but I wasn't aware of where that came from" or "now I've...
    $28.00

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    Neo-Humanism

    A progressive society is verily the composite of those beings who are engaged in the noble task of creating a conducive environment for human progress. This is what Part 1 is all about: what constitutes human progress, how one is to proceed in this...
    $63.00

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  • Essence of America - The I's in US Essence of America - The I's in US
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    Essence of America - The I's in US

    How did the USA become a superpower? What are the basics or essence of what makes America work? It is ideas of freedom, independent spirits and ingenious inventions.
    $39.00

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  • The Algebra Miracle The Algebra Miracle
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    The Algebra Miracle

    A miracle is defined as a highly improbable or extraordinary accomplishment. The story of the Algebra program at JEB Stuart High School in Fairfax, Virginia, qualifies for such a designation. Over a period of fifteen years, a series of ambitious, no-cost...
    $23.00

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  • Para el Portafolio del Docente Para el Portafolio del Docente
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    Para el Portafolio del Docente

    Reflexiones sobre algunos temas que eficientan el quehacer docente y dignifican la carrera magisterial en beneficio personal y de la juventud estudiosa.
    $20.00

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