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  • Compact Cities Compact Cities
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    Compact Cities

    This new book examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city approaches in the context of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
    $332.98

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  • Understanding White Privilege Understanding White Privilege
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    Understanding White Privilege

    Knowingly and unknowingly we all grapple with race every day. Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race, power, and privilege in both organizations and private life. It offers an unflinching look at how ignorance can...
    $96.82

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  • Outside in the Teaching Machine Outside in the Teaching Machine
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    Outside in the Teaching Machine

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak's most engaging essays on works of literature...
    $44.39

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  • Revolutionizing Education Revolutionizing Education
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    Revolutionizing Education

    Many scholars have turned to the groundbreaking critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address both the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people...
    $110.48

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  • Teaching African American Literature Teaching African American Literature
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    Teaching African American Literature

    This book is written by teachers interested in bringing African American literature into the classroom. Documented here is the learning process that these educators experienced themselves as they read and discussed the stories & pedagogical.
    $122.89

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  • Counternarratives Counternarratives
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    Counternarratives

    To understand contemporary times, we must appreciate the extent to which our lives are affected by the cultural and political struggle between "official" narratives and the counternarratives which emerge as oppositional responses. Counternarratives...
    $99.31

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  • Social Class and Education Social Class and Education
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    Social Class and Education

    Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives is the first empirically grounded volume to explore the intersections of class, social structure, opportunity, and education on a truly global scale. Fifteen essays from contributors representing the US,...
    $130.36

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  • Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter
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    Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter

    This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts. Critical Perspectives on...
    $117.92

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  • E-tivities E-tivities
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    E-tivities

    The world of learning and teaching is at a watershed; confronted by challenges to previous educational models. One learning future lies in impactful, purposeful, active online activities, or 'e-tivities', that keep learners engaged, motivated, and...
    $104.28

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  • Literacy, Power, and the Schooled Body Literacy, Power, and the Schooled Body
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    Literacy, Power, and the Schooled Body

    What effects do space and time have on classroom management, discipline, and regulation? How do teachers' practices create schooled and literate students? To explore these questions, this book looks at early childhood classrooms, charting the shifts and...
    $86.89

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  • Refocusing School Leadership Refocusing School Leadership
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    Refocusing School Leadership

    Refocusing School Leadership departs from the more traditional conceptualization of leadership, looking behind the daily routines of human resource leaders to highlight the assumptions and values and beliefs they bring to their work as well as the values...
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  • Drama Lessons Drama Lessons
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    Drama Lessons

    Drama Lessons: Ages 7-11 offers an exciting and varied range of tried and tested lessons tailor-made for busy teachers. Drama Lessons: Ages 7-11 emerges from the continuing positive responses to Drama Lessons for Five to Eleven Year Olds (2001).In this...
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  • Early Childhood Matters Early Childhood Matters
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    Early Childhood Matters

    Early Childhood Matters documents the rapid development of early years education and care from the late 1990s into the new millennium. It chronicles the unique contribution of the EPPE research to our understanding of the importance of pre-school.The...
    $110.48

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  • Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum
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    Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum

    Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in the subject but also covers the latest trends and...
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  • Leading School-based Networks Leading School-based Networks
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    Leading School-based Networks

    The persistent challenge of achieving excellence and equity within education systems has renewed interest in generating context-specific solutions through localised school networks. But how can successful school networks be developed? Based around...
    $204.90

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  • Teaching Tough Kids Teaching Tough Kids
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    Teaching Tough Kids

    How can you really make a difference for your students?Teaching Tough Kids delivers a refreshing collection of realistic ideas to sustain the organisational and behavioural transformations of all students, particularly those who 'do it tough'; who learn...
    $96.82

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  • Connecting Leadership and Learning Connecting Leadership and Learning
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    Connecting Leadership and Learning

    Leading schools is becoming almost daily a more complex and demanding job. Connecting Leadership and Learning reassesses the purpose of schools, the nature of learning and the qualities of leadership that make schools authentic places of learning...
    $397.61

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  • Knowledge Production Knowledge Production
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    Knowledge Production

    This collection from a highly impressive international group of educational researchers explores epistemological, methodological, and ethical-political issues in the production of knowledge about educational phenomena in contemporary society. The book is...
    $127.87

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  • Using Social Theory in Educational Research Using Social Theory in Educational Research
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    Using Social Theory in Educational Research

    Using Social Theory in Educational Research is organised to help practising educators and novice researchers who have little familiarity with social theory to: be introduced to major schools of social theory, their basic concepts, and their general...
    $144.00

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  • Transferring your Teaching Skills into the Wider World Transferring your Teaching Skills into the Wider World
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    Transferring your Teaching Skills into the Wider World

    Are you seeking to use your subject knowledge and teaching skills beyond the classroom?Many teachers don't recognise the vast range of skills, expertise and experience they possess. Transferring your Teaching Skills into the Wider World will help you...
    $21.92

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  • The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning
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    The Concepts and Practices of Lifelong Learning

    This textbook gives a wide-ranging, research-informed introduction to issues in lifelong learning across a variety of educational settings and practices. Its very accessible approach is multi-disciplinary drawing on sociology and psychology in particular...
    $96.82

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  • Grassroots Literacy Grassroots Literacy
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    Grassroots Literacy

    What effect has globalization had on our understanding of literacy? Grassroots Literacy seeks to address the relationship between globalization and the widening gap between 'grassroots' literacies, or writings from ordinary people and local communities,...
    $139.05

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  • Cyber-Bullying Cyber-Bullying
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    Cyber-Bullying

    This book looks in depth at the emerging issue of cyber-bullying. In this increasingly digital world cyber-bullying has emerged as an electronic form of bullying that is difficult to monitor or supervise because it often occurs outside the physical...
    $117.92

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  • Learning in Science Learning in Science
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    Learning in Science

    Learning in Science brings together accounts of the five influential and groundbreaking Learning in Science Projects, undertaken by the author over a period of twenty years. Offering comprehensive coverage of the findings and implications of the...
    $384.20

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  • The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning
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    The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning

    Presenting a snapshot of contemporary international research into the pedagogy of lifelong learning and teaching, this book focuses on a wide range of issues related to lifelong learning, including higher education, community-based learning and literacy...
    $461.04

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  • Rhetoric and Educational Discourse Rhetoric and Educational Discourse
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    Rhetoric and Educational Discourse

    Educational policy is often dismissed as simply rhetoric and a collection of half truths. However, this is to underestimate the power of rhetoric and the ways in which rhetorical strategies are integral to persuasive acts. Through a series of...
    $384.20

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  • The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession
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    The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession

    The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental questions regarding the purpose...
    $384.20

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  • Indonesian Education Indonesian Education
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    Indonesian Education

    Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Authority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that classroom teachers' behavior and locates their actions within the broader cultures of education and...
    $372.01

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  • Educating the Right Way Educating the Right Way
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    Educating the Right Way

    In this book Apple explores the 'conservative restoration' - the rightward turn of a broad-based coalition that is making successful inroads in determining American and international educational policy. It takes a pragmatic look at what critical...
    $110.48

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  • Disturbing Pleasures Disturbing Pleasures
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    Disturbing Pleasures

    In Disturbing Pleasures Henry Giroux demonstrates how his well-known theories of education, critical pedagogy and popular culture can be put to use in the classroom and in other cultural settings. Adding an entirely new dimension to his thinking about...
    $96.82

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  • The Insider's Guide for New Teachers The Insider's Guide for New Teachers
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    The Insider's Guide for New Teachers

    This accessible, engaging guide contains all the advice you need to get you through your teacher training and the first year of the job. Written by Sara Bubb, new teacher 'agony aunt' for the Times Educational Supplement, it's peppered with illuminating...
    $53.81

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  • Video in Social Science Research Video in Social Science Research
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    Video in Social Science Research

    In this digital age the use of video in social science research has become commonplace. As sophistication has increased along with usability, as spiralling staff costs push out direct observation, the researchers training today are grasping video as a...
    $130.36

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  • Transforming Children's Spaces Transforming Children's Spaces
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    Transforming Children's Spaces

    How can young children play an active role in developing the design of learning environments? What methods can be used to bring together children's and practitioners' views about their environment? What insights can young children offer into good...
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  • Using Educational Research to Inform Practice Using Educational Research to Inform Practice
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    Using Educational Research to Inform Practice

    This book gives practical guidance on how educational research can inform professional practice. Written in a clear and accessible style, it details the way in which evidence based knowledge can be used to develop teaching and learning, bringing together...
    $53.28

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  • School Leadership - Heads on the Block? School Leadership - Heads on the Block?
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    School Leadership - Heads on the Block?

    Most teachers become heads for idealistic reasons, wanting to make a difference to the lives of children and young people. Yet serving heads suggest the job is getting harder, talking openly about stress and leaving the job. Many teachers now see...
    $332.98

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  • Inclusion and Diversity Inclusion and Diversity
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    Inclusion and Diversity

    How should you prepare for the first day of class? How can you encourage all students to participate in discussions? How do you ensure disabled students can take part in field work? Increasingly, universities are drawing from a less traditional group of...
    $409.81

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  • Performance Pay for Teachers Performance Pay for Teachers
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    Performance Pay for Teachers

    The first widespread incentive pay scheme was initiated in UK schools in 2000. This book is the result of monitoring the whole process from its inception. The authors visited schools, observed lessons, and solicited the views and experiences of a...
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  • Teaching in Transnational Higher Education Teaching in Transnational Higher Education
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    Teaching in Transnational Higher Education

    Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of higher education around the globe.  This book comes at a pivotal moment where many universities are offering their...
    $144.00

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  • Getting Science Getting Science
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    Getting Science

    Science is rightly a fundamental part of primary school education, but that doesn't make it easy to teach - especially for teachers without a science background. This straight talking book from an experienced science writer and communicator looks at how...
    $86.89

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  • Globalizing the Research Imagination Globalizing the Research Imagination
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    Globalizing the Research Imagination

    In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by researchers. They are encouraged to develop 'defiant' global imaginations and communities with the capacities to think,...
    $96.82

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  • Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse
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    Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse

    Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'. Rarely, however, is thought given to how these messages are interpreted and whether they are in fact inherently healthy. Education, Disordered...
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  • Rethinking Schooling Rethinking Schooling
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    Rethinking Schooling

    Taking a collection of seminal articles from the Journal of Curriculum Studies, this book offers readers a vantage point for thinking about the worlds of schools and curricula, focusing in particular on the concept of seeing schools, curricula and...
    $384.20

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  • Virtual Learning Environments Virtual Learning Environments
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    Virtual Learning Environments

    Virtual learning environments are widely spread in higher education, yet they are often under utilised by the institutions that employ them. This book addresses the need to move beyond thinking about the VLE simply in terms of the particular package that...
    $122.89

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  • Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education
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    Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education

    A lot hangs on the summative grades that students are given. A good degree opens doors which otherwise might remain closed. Yet, as higher education is now a mass rather than an elite system, what is expected of its graduates is different from the...
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  • Stories, Pictures and Reality Stories, Pictures and Reality
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    Stories, Pictures and Reality

    Stories, Pictures and Reality follows two children as they work out the reality status of stories and pictures, with a daily parent-observer record from the birth of the first child until the second is eight, a span of eleven years in all. Together these...
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