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  • Educating Older People
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    Educating Older People

    M. F. Cleugh

    Originally published in 1962, the purpose of this book was to examine the working of the educative process when it is concerned with older people; not with children, prisoners, willing or unwilling,...
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  • Starting School (Routledge Revivals)
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    Starting School (Routledge Revivals)

    Brian Jackson

    First published in 1979, this book considers the culture of a multi-racial community through the eyes of six children about to start school. Each child is from a different background but all live in...
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  • Where State Education Fails
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    Where State Education Fails

    Lucie Simpson

    Despite being published in the early part of the twentieth century many of the issues this volume discusses are still being debated in education today. The author maintains that state education is...
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  • Radical Heroes
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    Radical Heroes

    Diana Coben

    First Published in 1998. This book examines the ideas of two of the most controversial radical heroes of adult education, Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire, gauging their significance for the...
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  • Language Policies in Education
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    Language Policies in Education

    James W. Tollefson

    How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in education serve the...
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  • Reflective Teaching
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    Reflective Teaching

    Kenneth M. Zeichner

    This popular text provides a clear, succinct explanation of how reflection is integral to teachers’ understandings of themselves, their practice, and their context, and elaborates how various...
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  • Reflective Teaching
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    Reflective Teaching

    Kenneth M. Zeichner

    This popular text provides a clear, succinct explanation of how reflection is integral to teachers’ understandings of themselves, their practice, and their context, and elaborates how various...
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  • Individual Development and the Curriculum
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    Individual Development and the Curriculum

    Kieran Egan

    This book describes four ‘layers’ or stages of education – Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effectively learn, and how they can be helped towards...
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  • Little Ed Book
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    Little Ed Book

    Guy Claxton

    Writing principally for teachers-in-training and for new teachers, Guy Claxton offers a fresh approach to what is often a stuffy and polemical area. New teachers today are being bombarded from all...
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  • Pedagogy of Multiliteracies
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    Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

    Heather Lotherington

    A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2012!Based on case studies from public schools in Toronto, Canada, this book chronicles an inspiring five-year journey to develop thinking about and teaching...
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  • Democracy, Education and Research
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    Democracy, Education and Research

    John Schostak

    Considering how practices and processes of research and education can create fundamental, radical social change, Democracy, Education and Research assesses the meaning of ‘public impact‘ by...
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  • Teaching with Emotional Intelligence
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    Teaching with Emotional Intelligence

    Alan Mortiboys

    The way teachers shape and handle their own feelings and those of their learners is central to the success of learning. Now in its second edition, Teaching with Emotional Intelligence shows how to...
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  • Universities and Students
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    Universities and Students

    G.R. Evans

    Legal actions by students against universities are growing in number, and the issues such actions raise are becoming a major concern for both teaching and administrative staff. This handbook is...
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  • Rethinking Teacher Education
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    Rethinking Teacher Education

    Anne Edwards

    Rethinking Teacher Education is a thorough and critical analysis of the ambivalences and uncertainties that face those in teacher education. The authors draw on their different experiences of teacher...
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  • Teaching as Protest
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    Teaching as Protest

    Robert S. Harvey

    Teaching as Protest explores how K-12 teachers can expand the boundaries of their profession with anti-oppressive, community-building pedagogies. Now more than ever, students are looking to their...
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  • International Handbook of Survey Methodology
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    International Handbook of Survey Methodology

    Edith D. de Leeuw

    Taking into account both traditional and emerging modes, this comprehensive new Handbook covers all major methodological and statistical issues in designing and analyzing surveys. With contributions...
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  • Privilege and Diversity in the Academy
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    Privilege and Diversity in the Academy

    Frances A. Maher

    Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through detailed institutional ethnographies of three very...
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  • Science Fiction
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    Science Fiction

    Patrick Parrinder

    First Published in 2002. This volume is about Science Fiction, its criticisms and teaching and covers the rise of science-fiction as a study and genre, looking at the work of H.G Wells, and the...
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  • Growth and Development Through Group Work
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    Growth and Development Through Group Work

    Claudia Carson

    Examine group work's roots and fundamental beliefs to get a glimpse of the future For more than 80 years, social group work has survived difficult timesa testament to the persistence of its...
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  • Harmonizing Global Education
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    Harmonizing Global Education

    Jon Baggaley

    Distance education (DE) offers ways to reach the many people around the world who lack access to education and training by other means. International DE methods, however, are fragmented, and distance...
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  • Dependence and Interdependence in Education
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    Dependence and Interdependence in Education

    Keith Watson

    This volume provides an international perspective on educational dependency in considering both theories and actual developments throughout the world. Some less developed countries, in expanding...
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  • Crossing Customs
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    Crossing Customs

    Andrew Garrod

    In this collection of essays, 13 foreign exchange students write their compelling stories detailing their experiences studying at Dartmouth College. They not only convey their own joys and sorrows,...
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  • Experiencing Ethnomusicology
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    Experiencing Ethnomusicology

    Simone Kr�ger

    Simone Krüger provides an innovative account of the transmission of ethnomusicology in European universities, and explores the ways in which students experience and make sense of their musical and...
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  • Creating High Performance Classroom Groups
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    Creating High Performance Classroom Groups

    Nina Brown

    Creating High Performance Classroom Groups offers specific strategies for classroom teachers to use in designing and implementing classroom groups and cooperative learning for a wide range of classes...
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  • Professional Task in Welfare Practice
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    Professional Task in Welfare Practice

    Peter Nokes

    First Published in 1998. This is Volume VIII of an eighteen volume library of Sociology on Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work and includes a study on the professional task in welfare practice...
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  • Women, Education, and Agency, 1600-2000
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    Women, Education, and Agency, 1600-2000

    Jean Spence

    This collection of essays brings together an international roster of contributors to provide historical insight into women’s agency and activism in education throughout from the seventeenth to the...
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  • Transforming Residential Interventions
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    Transforming Residential Interventions

    Beth Caldwell

    Transforming Residential Interventions: Practical Strategies and Future Directions captures the emerging changes, exciting innovations, and creative policies and practices informing ground-breaking...
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  • Youth Learning On Their Own Terms
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    Youth Learning On Their Own Terms

    Leif Gustavson

    Youth Learning On Their Own Terms convincingly shows how developing a respect and understanding of the youth-initiated creative practices that occur outside schools can offer educators the...
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  • Official Knowledge
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    Official Knowledge

    Michael W. Apple

    This third edition of Official Knowledge, a classic text from one of education’s most distinguished scholars, challenges readers to critically examine how certain knowledge comes to be “official,”...
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  • Teaching Recent Global History
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    Teaching Recent Global History

    Diana B. Turk

    Teaching Recent Global History explores innovative ways to teach world history, beginning with the early 20th century. The authors’ unique approach unites historians, social studies teachers, and...
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  • Universities and Global Diversity
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    Universities and Global Diversity

    Beverly Lindsay

    This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive...
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  • Pedagogy of Special Needs Education
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    Pedagogy of Special Needs Education

    Chizuko Fujita

    The Pedagogy of Special Needs Education: Phenomenology of Sameness and Difference outlines how to understand the inner and behavioral lives of children with intellectual disability through the...
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  • Engineering Education for Sustainable Development
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    Engineering Education for Sustainable Development

    Mikateko Mathebula

    This book demonstrates how the theoretical concepts of the capabilities approach can be applied in the context of engineering education, and how this could be used to add nuance to our understanding...
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  • Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools
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    Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools

    Kelly-Ann Allen

    The Handbook of Positive Psychology in Schools offers the most current and comprehensive insights into how positive psychology principles provide a framework for young people to become active agents...
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  • Rethinking Teacher Education
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    Rethinking Teacher Education

    Anne Edwards

    Rethinking Teacher Education is a thorough and critical analysis of the ambivalences and uncertainties that face those in teacher education. The authors draw on their different experiences of teacher...
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  • Assessment
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    Assessment

    Peter Schwartz

    The fourth volume in this series deals with one of the ubiquitous higher and further education subjects. With a practice-based approach, the text avoids being overly academic and instead uses a case...
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  • Revealing the Invisible
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    Revealing the Invisible

    Sherry Marx

    This book examines and confronts the passive and often unconscious racism of white teacher education students, offering a critical tool in the effort to make education more equitable. Sherry Marx...
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  • Technology, Literacy, Learning
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    Technology, Literacy, Learning

    Carey Jewitt

    With the recent explosion of technology into the world of education across the globe, this book sets out a framework for rethinking the three key areas of schooling that are most affected by...
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  • Education & Society in Modern Germany
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    Education & Society in Modern Germany

    R. H. and Thomas R. Hinton Samuel

    First published in 1998. This is Volume VII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. Written in 1948, this book gives a concise and critical assessment of education in modern Germany...
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  • Down Stream
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    Down Stream

    R. R. Dale

    First Published in 1998. This work had its origin in the concern of one of the authors about those children who entered a certain grammar school in a high position on the entrance list and who...
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  • Women & Schooling
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    Women & Schooling

    Rosemary Deem

    This book begins with an analysis of the gradual extension of educational opportunities for women since the nineteenth century, with special attention given to the period since 1944. There is careful...
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  • Telling Stories to Change the World
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    Telling Stories to Change the World

    Rickie Solinger

    Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice...
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