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10 History Lesson Plans for KS1, 1
Andrews UK 2011; US$ 7.99These 10 History Lessons cover the programs of study for Key Stage 1 History as set out in the National Curriculum and are also based around the QCA topics Homes, Toys, Florence Nightingale, Fire of London and Guy Fawkes. Within each lesson are opportunities to develop chronological understanding, knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes... more...
100 Most Popular Nonfiction Authors
ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 155.00Very few issues are as important as education today and Dr. Coleman weds extant research with personal experiences to provide a contextual framework from which the reader can garner a more intense understanding of the issues. She covers such issues as parental involvement, academic achievement, teacher attitude, discipline, student motivation, and... more...
The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership
R&L Education 2012; US$ 19.99The 12 Laws of Urban School Leadership was written to give urban school principals strategies for successfully implementing change, and achieving systemic reforms. The book also gives aspiring and novice principals a window into the real issues that affect the prinicpalship, and the circumstances that can determine success or failure. Veteran... more...
1764-1804
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 238.00The first volume of letters written to Pestalozzi contains 713 letters written between 1764 and 1804 by illustrious correspondents such as Karl Viktor von Bonstetten, Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg, Hans Caspar Hirzel, Isaak Iselin, Johann Caspar Lavater, Anna Schulthess and 170 further writers, some of them unknown. The letters demonstrate Pestalozzi?s... more...
1805-1809
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 238.00The second volume of letters to Pestalozzi covers the years between 1805 and 1809 and contains almost 400 letters. In the Napoleonic era in Europe "education of the people" became an important issue on the national agenda, making Pestalozzi's method a matter of practical relevance. Furthermore, the letters reveal the counterarguments faced by Pestalozzi's... more...
1810-1813
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 224.00The third volume of letters to Pestalozzi covers the years 1810 to 1813 and contains over 600 letters. They show how Pestalozzi's methods awakened interest in the different countries of Europe (Prussia, Russia, Italy, England). They also give insight into the first large crises within the organization of the Institute and show how high the demand was... more...
1814-Juli 1817
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 210.00This new volume of letters to Pestalozzi covers the period between 1814 andJuly 1817. It thus encompasses the fall of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna, and the great European economic crisis of 1816?17. This crisis adversely affected Pestalozzi?s Institute, already suffering from a reduction in enrollment because of public feuding among its employees.... more...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 52.00Prepares students for the different environments they will encounter when teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. more...
Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that... more...
Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment
Edinburgh University Press 2008; US$ 299.99This book considers the politics of patronage appointments at the universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews. Emerson explores the ways in which 388 men secured posts in three Scottish universities between 1690 and 1806; from the purge following the Revolution of 1688 to the end of Henry Dundas's political career. Most professors were political... more...









