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  • Teacher Agency

    An Ecological Approach

    by Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta, Dr Sarah Robinson ...
    This second edition of Teacher Agency brings new perspectives on teachers as agents of change and development within their professional ecosystems. Centred around an ecological theory of agency, it critically surveys the work that has emerged in this field in the decade since its first edition and how international trends in curriculum policy and teacher development have shaped that landscape.As ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Routines of Substitution

    John von Neumann’s Work on Software Development, 1945–1948

    by Mark Priestley ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This work is a historical and philosophical study of the programming work carried out by John von Neumann in the period 1945-8. At the heart of the book is an examination of a manuscript featuring the earliest known surviving example of von Neumann’s coding, a routine written in 1945 to ‘mesh’ two sequences of data and intended to be part of a larger program implementing the algorithm now known as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Science of Operations

    Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming

    by Mark Priestley ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Today, computers fulfil a dazzling array of roles, a flexibility resulting from the great range of programs that can be run on them.A Science of Operations examines the history of what we now call programming, defined not simply as computer programming, but more broadly as the definition of the steps involved in computations and other information-processing activities. This unique perspective ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Teacher Agency

    An Ecological Approach

    by Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta, Dr Sarah Robinson ...
    Recent worldwide education policy has reinvented teachers as agents of change and professional developers of the school curriculum. Academic literature has analyzed changes in how teacher professionalism is conceived in policy and in practice but Teacher Agency provides a fresh perspective on this issue, drawing upon an ecological theory of agency. Using this model for understanding agency, Mark ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • ENIAC in Action

    Making and Remaking the Modern Computer

    by Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, Crispin Rope ...
    Series series History of Computing
    The history of the first programmable electronic computer, from its conception, construction, and use to its afterlife as a part of computing folklore.Conceived in 1943, completed in 1945, and decommissioned in 1955, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer. But ENIAC was more than just a milestone on the road to the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Reinventing the Curriculum

    New Trends in Curriculum Policy and Practice

    Edited by Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta ...
    Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence offers an example of a different approach to national curriculum development. It combines what are claimed to be the best features of top-down and bottom-up approaches to curriculum development, and provides an indication of the broad qualities that school education should promote rather than a detailed description of curriculum content. Advocates of the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Curriculum Making in Europe

    Policy and Practice Within and Across Diverse Contexts

    Edited by Mark Priestley, Daniel Alvunger, Stavroula Philippou, Tiina Soini ...
    Responding to profound social, political and technological changes, recent global trends in education have included the emergence of new forms of curriculum policy. Addressing a gap in the literature, this book investigates the ways in which curriculum policy is influenced, formulated, and enacted in a number of countries-cases in Europe.This important collection uses the concept of 'curriculum ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Audiobook

    Into the Woods

    by David Mark, David Mark ...
    Narrated by Nathaniel Priestley ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    If you go into the woods, you're in for a dark surprise.Thirty years ago, three girls followed a stranger into the woods. Only two returned. The surviving pair have never been able to remember what happened or what the fate of the third girl was. Local rumours talk of hippies and drugs and mystic rituals, but no one has learned the truth.This story is just what Rowan Blake needs. He's in debt, his ... Read more

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    Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not ... Read more

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  • Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

    The Reflective Professional

    by Greg Light, Roy Cox, Susanna C. Calkins ...
    ′This book provides teachers in higher education with what they need - a compelling framework for improving student learning. It combines a comprehensive synthesis of the latest research on learning and teaching with practical strategies for implementing it in their classrooms′ - Professor Ken Bain, Author of What the Best College Teachers Do, Vice Provost for Instruction, Montclair State ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum

    by Colin Marsh ...
    Series series Teachers' Library
    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 issues affecting the field. Written in Marsh's clear and accessible style, the book details the strengths, weaknesses and controversies around ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Logician and the Engineer

    How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age

    by Paul J. Nahin ...
    Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to our kitchen gadgets and home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such incredible technological achievements a century later? In The Logician and the Engineer, best-selling popular math writer Paul ... Read more

    $15.89 USD