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Studying Service-Learning
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 40.95This volume represents a breakthrough discussion of the research issues surrounding innovative pedagogies. Using service-learning as its focus, it explores ways in which researchers and evaluators can study a teaching and learning approach that has multiple goals, including both academic and affective development. The chapter authors show how to study... more...
Nachhaltigkeit und Gerechtigkeit
Springer 2008; US$ 79.99Mit den Veränderungen des Klimas, dem Rückgang der Artenvielfalt und dem Schwinden der Vorräte fossiler Energieträger sieht sich die Menschheit vor hochkomplexe Herausforderungen gestellt. Für eine angemessene Reaktion ist nicht nur ein erhebliches Sachwissen erforderlich, sondern auch die Fähigkeit, dies mit Blick auf die Erfordernisse einer nachhaltigen... more...
A Practical Guide to Service Learning
Springer 2007; US$ 64.99Addresses school-based mental health professionals who, in partnership with teachers, strive to enhance the social, emotional, and academic competence of students. This work describes how service learning can enable school psychologists to expand their role beyond special populations to serve students within the academic mainstream. more...
Online Social Networking on Campus
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 46.95In the era of such online spaces as Facebook, Instant Messenger, Live Journal, Blogger, Web Shots, and campus blogs, college students are using these resources and other online sites as a social medium. Inevitably, this medium presents students with ethical decisions about social propriety, self disclosure and acceptable behaviour. Because online... more...
Emotional Literacy at the Heart of the School Ethos
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 46.00Ideal for teachers, psychologists and lecturers wishing to implement a practical, whole-school training program to help practitioners nurture children's emotional development. more...
Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 53.95The focus of this book is on the ways in which service learning and multicultural education can and should be integrated so that each may be strengthened and consequently have greater effect on educational and social conditions. It offers a significant attempt to forge a dialogue among practitioners of service learning and multicultural education.... more...
The Home?School Connection
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 49.95"In this unique contribution to the literature on parental involvement in culturally and linguistically diverse communities, Flora Rodríguez-Brown offers a critique of family literacy programs that lack a clear design for literacy activities relevant to community goals, offering an alternative model that is grounded within an abiding respect for... more...
Education and Community
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 130.00Notions of "community" are found in almost every educational context from primary schools to HE institutions. Given the polemic nature of promoting community in schools and society today, this fascinating book uses an interdisciplinary approach of political philosophy and sociology to develop theoretical principles for the promotion of communities,... more...
Improving Parental Involvement
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 130.00It is acknowledged that effective schools involve parents effectively. This study describes how schools can achieve this aim, and how to increase standards of achievement. It covers the field from nursery to secondary schools, and is aimed at teachers, governors, welfare workers, advisers and PTAs. more...
Involving Parents
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 50.00Dealing with parents is often harder than dealing with the pupils themselves. This can cause a lot of anxiety and distress amongst teachers. Stern offers practical advice on how to involve parents with school life. He demonstrates how this involvement leads to improved relations thereby alleviating not only the stress of dealing with parents but also... more...









