Is your outdoor area working? Do you want to make changes but are not sure where to start? Creating a Space to Grow guides you through the process of changing and developing the outdoor environment of your early years setting to maximise the learning potential that these areas can offer. Packed full of strategies and ideas for enhancing outdoor areas, this new edition has been updated with references to the revised Early Years Foundation Stage and features many new colour photographs to illustr...
The Museum Educator's Manual (American Association for State & Local History)
by Anna Johnson, Kimberly A. Huber, Nancy Cutler, Melissa Bingmann, and Tim Grove
The role of education in museums has increasingly become a major professional concern. Engaging, informative, and even entertaining programs can make an enormous difference in a museum's popularity, bringing in visitors of all ages, from the local community and beyond. The proliferation of recent publications on museum education and the promotion of workshops and training seminars for museum staff have reinforced the need for creativity, excellence, and accountability in museum educational progr...
Papers, Experiences, Perspectives System Analysis and Design in Industrial Engineering
by Alan B. Prisker
This volume tells the story of Alan Pritsker's life as an engineer, academic and entrepreneur while providing an introduction to the central role of systems analysis and design in industrial engineering. The book, a collection of 36 papers, is organized topically, but each paper has an introduction explaining how it grew out of Pritsker's personal experience. Papers cover the role of the industrial engineer, the industrial engineering process, modeling, simulation languages, decision theory, con...
Education Abroad (Contemporary Perspectives on Learning Environments)
Education abroad is an essential part of the university student experience. Initiatives such as IIE's Generation Study Abroad encourage more U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study abroad. According to the Open Doors 2019 Report by the Institute for International Education (IIE), 341,751 students participated in post-secondary education abroad programs during the 2017/2018 academic year. This figure represents an increase of 2.7% of U.S. students studying abroad from the previous year....
Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women (Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education)
by Taeko Takayanagi
Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women highlights the importance and role of informal education in the emancipation and development of Maasai village women in Kenya. At present, knowledge and research on the impact of informal learning and literacy on community development is limited, and there is a gap between policy level discussions and women’s lived experiences. Using a postcolonial feminist framework, this book sets out to examine linkages between informal learning and literacy,...
Technology for SEND in Primary Schools
by Helen Caldwell and Steve Cullingford-Agnew
With so many new education technologies being developed and made available to schools, how do teachers ensure they select resources that enhance inclusive teaching in the classroom? How can you make sure new technologies are integrated into every day teaching? This new text supports trainee and beginning teachers to harness the power of technology to make their classrooms truly inclusive. It helps you make informed selections of new technology and resources and make them work for everyone i...
Learning Gardens and Sustainability Education
by Dilafruz Williams and Professor Jonathan Brown
Learning, Teaching, and Community: Contributions of Situated and Participatory Approaches to Educational Innovation
Circle A - WORD Large Print Educational Word Search for Adults And Kids! (Educational Word Search, #1)
by Omolove Jay
The role of therapy in schools is a topic that has been significantly under-researched and often overlooked. Considering the number of students in full-time education with serious emotional and behavioural difficulties, the skills and tricks used by therapists can be usefully passed on to teachers in the classroom. This book traces a substantial four-year project that applied the principles of therapeutic education in one school setting and exposed how current educational contexts actually contr...
