Perestroika -- Economic and Political Reform -- Is What The World Associated with Mikhail Gorbachev when he led the USSR. There were, however, some political scientists in the West who saw Gorbachevism as a time of conservatism and not radical change.Dennis Soltys confirms these assertions in this study of educational policy and institutions in the former Soviet Union. Focusing on vocational and technical schooling, Soltys reveals very strong continuity from Khrushchev to Brezhnev to Gorbachev....
The author of A Gentle Madness recounts the lively stories behind a century of publishing at a leading university press For Yale University Press, which celebrates its hundredth birthday in 2008, the century has been an eventful one, punctuated with no few surprises. The Press has published more than 8,000 volumes through the years, scores of bestsellers and award-winners among them, and these books have come to fruition through the efforts of a host of colorful authors, editors, directors, boar...
Seymour Sarason, in the words of Carl Glickman, is 'one of America's seminal thinkers about public education'. For over four decades his has been a voice of much-needed skepticism about our plans for school reform, teacher training, and educational psychology. Now, for the first time, Sarason's essential writings on these and other issues are collected together, offering student and researcher alike with the range, depth, and originality of Sarason's contributions to American thinking on schooli...
Teaching the Arts: Early Childhood and Primary Education provides a comprehensive and exciting introduction to Arts education in Australia and New Zealand. By illustrating the fundamental links between theory and practice, this book equips students with the skills and knowledge to teach the Arts. The book covers each of the five Arts strands -dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts - in detail. Each chapter encourages readers to engage with the Arts and provides opportunities to develop...
Education is constantly in the news, with changes in teaching methods, manipulation of the school day, the introduction of more and different examinations, criticisms of teachers and pupil behaviour, talk of 'payment by results', lack of resources and calls for more investment in schools. Between 1871 and 1903, these same problems were faced by schools all over England. This book looks at the development of Alcester National Schools - boys, girls and infants being in different departments - and...
Evolving Issues in the Pacific (Marc Educational, #16)
Analysing Literary Works in Fernando de Rojas' Will. Volume I
by Govert Westerveld
Was Ist Mannhaftigkeit? Der Mannlichkeitsbegriff Ludwig Gurlitts Und Seine Bedeutung Heute
by Astrid Botticher
Building Blocks - A Cultural History of Codes, Compositions, and Dispositions (Culture & Theory)
by Jose Mu Alvis
Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning and working at kindergartens, schools, universities and companies. How did building blocks, which were primarily established as toys for children, come to be practical materials used in professional and educational settings?This study explores the historical implications of particular sets of building blocks in the interdisciplinary consolidation and transformation of techniques, materials, discourses and subjects. By mapping the gene...
150 Cuentos Heroicos - Quinto Volumen (Heroicos, #5)
by Pedro Daniel Corrado
Traditional, teacher-centered classrooms are not serving the needs of our students. Their futures will increasingly demand skill sets in the areas of communication, collaboration, and critical thinking; worksheets, videos, and lectures will not prepare them for the challenges they will face in an increasingly-global economy. Shake-Up Call: The Need to Transform K-12 Classroom Methodology calls on educators at every level to challenge the status quo and take risks on behalf of kids. Ron Nash ca...
Le Travail de Memoire Explique aux Enfants (6-8 ans)
by Elodie V Ferreira
The description for this book, The Chapel of Princeton University, will be forthcoming.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education (Oxford Handbooks)
This handbook offers a global view of the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, ideas about education, and educational experiences. Its 36 chapters consider changing scholarship in the field, examine nationally-oriented works by comparing themes and approaches, lend international perspective on a range of issues in education, and provide suggestions for further research and analysis. Like many other subfields of historical analysis, the history of education...
Learning to Teach in the Primary School
Education is in a constant state of change and development. Learning to Teach in the Primary School provides a pathway into Australian education for preservice primary teachers. This practical and engaging text includes strong links to the Australian Curriculum and frames teaching around understanding primary students, how they learn, and their contexts. The book includes numerous valuable teaching resources such as: * applied learning boxes, discussion questions, and research topics * specific...
