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Emile
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.95Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society. Emile deals specifically with education, and outlines a system which would allow for human goodness. He uses the fictional story of Emile and his tutor to outline his ideas. The book was banned and publicly burned on its publication,... more...
Democracy and Education
The Floating Press 1916; US$ 7.95John Dewey's Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education seeks to both critique and further the educational philosophies espoused by both Rousseau and Plato. Dewey found that Rousseau's ideas overemphasized the individual, whereas Plato's did the same with the society that the individual lived in. Dewey felt... more...
How to Use Your Mind
The Floating Press 1921; US$ 6.99Educational leaders are seeing with increasing clearness the necessity of teaching students not only the subject-matter of study but also methods of study. Teachers are beginning to see that students waste a vast amount of time and form many harmful habits because they do not know how to use their minds. The recognition of this condition is taking... more...
Storytelling
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00This e-book provides a critical discussion of storytelling. Storytelling has often been portrayed as inherently critical - as if the stories of organizational participants are intrinsically authentic and authenticity is innately ethically superior. But is this so? more...
Technology Around the World
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00The growth of the Web and the increasing reliance on the Internet for interactive applications and information discovery has changed the technological culture map. That does not mean that everything has become identical. Languages that use different scripts, for example, create different problems in display and in searching. Unicode can solve many... more...
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects
The Floating Press 1911; US$ 6.99Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist, and sociological theorist of the Victorian era. The four essays on education which Herbert Spencer published in a single volume in 1861 were all written and separately published between 1854 and 1859. Their tone was aggressive and their proposals revolutionary;... more...
How to Tell Stories to Children
The Floating Press 1918; US$ 6.99The great difference between telling and reading is that the teller is free; the reader is bound. The book in hand, or the wording of it in mind, binds the reader. The story-teller is bound by nothing; he stands or sits, free to watch his audience, free to follow or lead every changing mood, free to use body, eyes, voice, as aids in expression. Even... more...
PISA Data Analysis Manual SAS
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2009; US$ 39.00The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) surveys collected data on students performance in reading, mathematics and science, as well as contextual information on students background, home characteristics and school factors which could influence performance. This publication includes detailed information on how... more...
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook
Springer 2009; US$ 129.99The Educational Media and Technology Yearbook is dedicated to theoretical, empirical and practical approaches to educational media development. All chapters are invited and selected based on a variety of strategies to determine current trends and issues in the field. The 2009 edition will highlight innovative Trends and Issues in Learning Design and... more...
Using Styles for More Effective Learning in Multicultural and E-Learning Environments
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00This e-book contains selected papers from the thirteenth annual European Learning Styles Information Network (ELSIN) conference held in Ghent, Belgium in June 2008. One of the key aims of ELSIN is to promote understanding of individual learning and cognitive differences through the dissemination of international multidisciplinary research about learning... more...









