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Education Today 2010
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2010; US$ 33.00What does the OECD have to say about the state of education today? What are the main OECD messages on early childhood education, teacher policies and tertiary education? What about student performance, educational spending and equity in education? OECD work on these important education topics and others have been brought together in a single accessible... more...
Philosophical & Sociological Foundations of Education
Himalaya Publishing House 2010; US$ 45.00Philosophy is to preceive the original source of certain ideas from which the practical matters of education are held to be derived by a series of logical inferences. Philosophy and education are like two faces of the same coin. Similarly, Social ideologies have their own impact on educational theories and practices. The aims and methods of education... more...
Lessons are for Learning
Continuum International Publishing 1997; US$ 140.00This book explores what effective teaching is and offers a range of practical suggestions and handy tips for new entrants. What the book covers:. Practical suggestions for lesson activities : provides practical suggestions which teachers can easily incorporate into their own lessons. A sensible approach to developing classroom practice : for individuals,... more...
Values Pedagogy and Student Achievement
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99Under the weight of a combination of forces, many of the older paradigms of learning are being questioned in our time. Among the updated research that elicits such critique is that which deals directly with effective pedagogy, clearly illustrating the enhanced effects on learning when it is dealt with as a holistic developmental enterprise rather than... more...
Students' Perspectives On Schooling
McGraw-Hill Education 2010; US$ 140.00This book explores how schools might be transformed for the better, by giving greater weight to the views of students and involving learners in decision-making processes more...
Philosophy of Education
Westview Press 2011; US$ 35.00The acclaimed, classic text on philosophy of education, providing an updated overview of the field in relation to teaching, learning, research, and policy more...
What Is Education?
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 25.00One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of “finding out just what education is.” Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey’s charge to heart and spent the next sixty years contemplating his words. The stimulating result of a lifetime... more...
Actionable Postcolonial Theory in Education
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00Andreotti illustrates how postcolonial theory is applied in the contexts of educational research/critique and in pioneering pedagogical projects. She offers an accessible and useful overview and comparison of theoretical debates related to critiques of Western/Northern hegemony. more...
Is Everybody Ready for Kindergarten?
Redleaf Press 2010; US$ 24.95With the right tools, a successful transition from preschool to kindergarten is possible. more...
Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 47.95The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth. It offers a powerful example of how philosophy of education can... more...









