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Literacies Across Media
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 53.95The contemporary young reader learns from a very early age to read and interpret through a broad range of media. Literacies Across Media explores how a group of boys and girls, aged from ten to fourteen, make sense of narratives in a variety of formats, including print, electronic book, video, DVD, computer game and CD-ROM. This book records these... more...
System der Sittenlehre, Vorlesungen über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten und vermischte Aufsätze
De Gruyter 1962; US$ 133.00System Der Sittenlehre, Vorlesungen Ber Die Bestimmung Des Gelehrten Und Vermischte Aufs Tze. more...
Efficient Learning for the Poor
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 24.99Large-scale efforts have been made since the 1990s to ensure that all children of the world go to school. But mere enrollment is not sufficient, students must become fluent in reading and calculation by the end of grade 2. Fluency is needed to process large amounts of text quickly and use the information for decisions that may ultimately reduce poverty.... more...
Special Educational Needs and the Internet
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 51.95With Internet access for every school now a reality, teachers are beginning to explore the use of the Internet in the education of children with special needs. This book describes its benefits for children across the spectrum of special educational needs, from those with physical disabilities or sensory impairment to those with learning or social difficulties.... more...
Overschooled but Undereducated
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 27.95By misunderstanding teenagers’ instinctive need to do things for themselves, isn’t society in danger of creating a system of schooling that so goes against the natural grain of the adolescent brain, that formal education ends up trivializing the very young people it claims to be supporting? By failing to keep up with appropriate research... more...
New Perspectives in Special Education
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 63.95It is now widely believed in many Western countries that the segregation of students with special educational needs is problematic, and that wherever possible these students should be educated alongside their peers in regular education settings. There has been a general move towards integrating special and regular education into one system that caters... more...
Culture, Education, and Development in South Africa
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 161.00With the fall of apartheid in South Africa, expectations were high for the enfranchisement of the acutely underdeveloped majority in South Africa. But problems abound, and this educational study looks critically at the educational situation and puts forth a number of proposals that could produce better results in contemporary South Africa.||Abdi urges... more...
Decolonizing Philosophies of Education
Springer 2012; US$ 69.95Philosophy of education basically deals with learning issues that attempt to explain or answer what we describe as the major questions of its domains, i.e., what education is needed, why such education, and how would societies undertake and achieve such learning possibilities. In different temporal and spatial intersections of people's lives, the... more...
Issues in African Education
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 95.00This book is one of the first to bring together the sociological views and analyses of African academics on the nature and scope of issues in African education today. more...
Learning to Fail
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 35.95During a decade of relative prosperity from the mid-1990s onward, governments across the developed world failed to crack one major issue ? youth unemployment. Even when economic growth was strong, one young person in 10 in the United Kingdom was neither working nor learning. As the boom ended, the number of young people dropping out after leaving... more...









