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The Profession and Practice of Adult Education
Wiley 2007; US$ 42.00The Profession and Practice of Adult Education is a timely book and an excellent introduction to the field. Drawing from an extensive volume of literature, it provides comprehensive coverage and a clear guide. Graduate students will benefit from it and practitioners will be kept abreast of changes that are occurring. —Peter Jarvis, professor... more...
The Nature of Learning Disabilities
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 82.95The category of learning disabilities continues to be among the most contentious in special education. Much of the debate and dissent emanates from a lack of understanding about its basic nature. The failure to evolve a comprehensive and unified perspective about the nature of learning disabilities has resulted in the concept being lost. The loss is... more...
Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Mathematics
Wiley 2008; US$ 87.95Written by a teacher with many years' experience of teaching mathematics to primary school dyslexic and dyspraxic children with a wide range of abilities, this book is designed to be a practical teaching guide. It offers detailed guidance and specific teaching suggestions to all specialist teachers, support teachers, classroom teachers and parents... more...
The Confessing Society
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Today, people are constantly encouraged to verbalise and disclose their "true" inner self to others, whether on TV shows, in newspapers, in family life or together with friends. Such encouragement to disclose the self has proliferated through discourses on lifelong learning through which each citizen is encouraged to become a constant learner. The... more...
Improving Disabled Students' Learning
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 48.95How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support? This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current generation of students is the first to move through... more...
Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00Discuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up—in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. Not merely institutions of learning, schools have increasingly become a sign of a neighborhood’s vitality, and city planners have ever more explicitly promoted “good... more...
Beyond Rhetoric
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 70.00Adults with busy lifestyles, whatever their education level or employment situation, may well ask why they should resume learning. The reality is that the changing requirements of knowledge-based societies, skill shortages and the increasing importance of civil participation and social cohesion drive the need to continually update adults' skills and... more...
Co-financing Lifelong Learning
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 39.00Lifelong learning is not yet a reality for all. Economic and financial factors continue to limit opportunities in ways that are neither efficient nor equitable. Part of the problem is that our societies still have the habit of viewing learning as something for the young, something that is state supported. more...
ICT and Learning
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2006; US$ 33.00Across both the industrialised and the developing worlds, educators have high hopes for information and communications technology (ICT). ICT has been seen as a potentially powerful tool for raising educational performance and increasing access to learning by the disadvantaged. Can it live up to these hopes? And does it have particular relevance to... more...
Ageing and Careers
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00This e-book introduces a collection of papers about ageing and careers that contributes to the literature on two career-related topics, i.e. long-term career development and early retirement more...









