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  • Working-Class Minority Students' Routes to Higher Education

    by Roberta Espinoza ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    While stories of working-class and minority students overcoming obstacles to attend and graduate from college tend to emphasize the individualistic and meritocratic aspect, this book - based in extensive empirical study of American high school classrooms, and in theories of social and cultural capital - examines the social relations that often underpin such successes, highlighting the significant ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Ourselves

    by Charlotte Mason ...
    Ourselves, the fourth volume of Charlotte Mason's Classic Homeschooling Series, is a character curriculum book written directly to children. Book I, Self-Knowledge, is for elementary school students; Book II, Self-Direction, is for older students. Self-Knowledge discusses our human desires and appetites; the "helpers" in our minds, such as intellect, sense of beauty, imagination, and reason; the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Practicing Core Reflection

    Activities and Lessons for Teaching and Learning from Within

    by Frits G. Evelein, Fred A. J. Korthagen ...
    Practicing Core Reflection features 78 concrete educational activities and exercises based on research. These can be used individually and in groups to support 'teaching and learning from within.’ Core Reflection is an approach focused on people's personal strengths and on using practical strategies to overcome obstacles to the enactment of these strengths. This approach has been used in many ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Teacher Strategies (RLE Edu L)

    Explorations in the Sociology of the School

    Edited by Peter Woods ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book takes as its focus the key interactionist concept of ‘strategy’, a concept fundamental to many current concerns in the sociology of the school, including the understanding of the links between society and the individual, a more accurate description of certain areas of school life and implications for the practice of teaching. ‘Strategy’ bears on all these issues. It concerns both goals, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Education

    by Louis Mazzullo ...
    Our current educational initiatives, NCLB and "Race to the Top", are competitive models that reward victory and punish defeat. In order to win the "Race to the Top" we have to hope or plan that our fellow students and teachers as well as our neighboring states and schools, will fail. "Race to the Top" therefore insures that we will be a nation of losers and that we will be pitted against our ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Teaching for Success

    Developing Your Teacher Identity in Today's Classroom

    by Brad Olsen ...
    Teaching For Success is a comprehensive guide for navigating the process of becoming an effective teacher in the wake of contemporary and systemic challenges. Focusing on the core concept of teacher identity in clear, invigorating prose, the book illuminates how teachers can arrange, adjust, and assemble their own personal and professional teaching influences in conjunction with educational ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Education Research in the Public Interest

    Social Justice, Action, and Policy

    by Gloria Ladson-Billings, William F. Tate ...
    Acclaimed African American scholar and teacher educator Gloria Ladson-Billings examines the field of teacher education through the accomplishments and contributions of well-known African American teacher educators—Lisa Delpit, Carl Grant, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Geneva Gay, Cherry McGee Banks, William Tate, and Joyce King. Using in-depth interviews and storytelling, Ladson-Billings depicts ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Art of Interactive Teaching

    Listening, Responding, Questioning

    by Selma Wassermann ...
    In this book, Selma Wassermann, international expert on classroom interactions, sets the stage for the relevance of the interactive teaching method, provides data and classroom examples that support its effectiveness at all student learning levels and in different subject areas, and offers detailed and specific help for teachers who are considering embarking on this approach to teaching. Coverage ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • On Higher Education

    Five Lectures

    Edited by D.F. Dadson ...
    Series series Heritage
    During the session of 1964-65, the Ontario College of Education sponsored this series of lectures on Higher Education. The first two lectures in the volume, by Robin Harris, Principal of Innis College, and Professor of Higher Education are entitled "The Establishment of a Provincial University in Ontario" and "The Evolution of a Provincial System of Higher Education in Ontario." They provide a ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Help! My College Students Can’t Read

    Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas

    by Amelia Leighton Gamel ...
    Help! My College Students Can’t Read: Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas is designed as a resource guide for content area instructors who have no specific training in the field of literacy but want to help the struggling readers in their classrooms. This book provides simple, step-by-step ideas for introducing and embedding reading strategies within all content areas without ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Retaining Effective Teachers

    A Guide for Hiring, Induction, and Support

    by Mary C. Clement ...
    Retaining Effective Teachers provides all administrators with step-by-step strategies for hiring and keeping the best teachers. Teachers who serve on search committees and as teacher leaders will value the book as a guide for inducting and mentoring their new colleagues.The author has summarized the most useful research on hiring, induction, mentoring, and teacher support. The many appendices can ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • My Heart I Give to Children

    by Vasyl Sukhomlynsky ...
    Vasily Sukhomlinsky's My Heart I Give to Children is an educational classic that has sold millions of copies in 30 languages. It describes Sukhomlinsky's ground-breaking work with thirty-one students in rural Ukraine, during an experimental preschool year and the subsequent four years of their primary schooling.Sukhomlinsky wrote over thirty books, all based on his personal experience as a teacher ... Read more

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