- Table View
- List View
Study It Conversation Levels 1-8: The Complete Set (Study It)
by James Rice Jamie MatechukWinner 2015 Digital Book Award - Academic Category Awarded QED Certification for Quality, Excellence and Design The Study It Conversation series is an easy-to-use conversation-based English textbook for ESL students, language teachers and English language programs in schools or language schools. The Study It English as a Second Language Conversation series consists of 8 different levels and 8 different textbooks. It is an exciting new series for teachers interested in Mobile Learning, Project-Based Learning or Flipping the Classroom that includes built-in lesson plans. Study It Conversation - The Complete Set consists of all conversation textbooks combined into one easy-to-use book All audio and video exercises are included in the book. ESL Teachers can access our online community which offers teachers a chance to share ideas for improving the English class
Higher Education Policy Convergence and the Bologna Process: A Cross-National Study (Transformations of the State)
by Eva Maria VögtleWhat are the principal drivers of recent higher education reforms? This study investigates whether the soft governance mechanism of transnational communication has evoked cross-national policy harmonization. Results suggest that the Bologna Process has triggered substantial policy harmonization beyond general policy convergence.
Promoting Language and STEAM as Human Rights in Education
by Zehlia Babaci-WilhiteThis book argues that integrating artistic contributions – with an emphasis on culture and language – can make Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects more accessible, and therefore promote creativity and innovation in teaching and learning at all levels of education. It provides tools and strategies for managing interdisciplinary learning and teaching based on successful collaborations between researchers, practitioners and artists in the fields of the Arts and STEM subjects. Based on contributions by educators, scientists, scholars, linguists and artists from around the globe, the book highlights how we can demonstrate teamwork and collaboration for innovation and creativity in STEAM subjects in the classroom and beyond. <p><p> The book reflects the core of human rights education, using local languages and local knowledge through art as a tool for teaching human rights at school, and bringing to light questions on diversity, ecology, climate change, environmental issues, health and the future of human beings, as well as power relations between non-dominant (minorities) and dominant (the majority) groups in society.
Teaching Methodologies in Structural Geology and Tectonics (Springer Geology)
by Soumyajit MukherjeeThis edited book discusses various challenges in teaching structural geology and tectonics and how they have been overcome by eminent instructors, who employed effective and innovative means to do so. All of the chapters were written by prominent and active academics and geoscientists fully engaged in teaching Structural Geology and Tectonics. New instructors will find this book indispensible in framing their teaching strategy. Effective teaching of Structural Geology and Tectonics constitutes the backbone of geoscience education. Teaching takes place not only in classrooms, but also in labs and in the field. The content and teaching methodologies for these two fields have changed over time, shaped by the responsibilities that present-day geoscientists are expected to fulfill.
Beyond Solitude: A Cache of Alaska Tale
by Jo MasseyAfter 14 years living in Alaska, the author presents us with a cache of 15 intriguing stories from the solitude of America's northernmost state. The fictional characters that people this book each experience a very personal form of solitude and re-evaluate their situations and the challenge of isolation, both physical and emotional. Suspense, human interest, humor, adventure, romance, a touch of the mystical, and above all, the ability of the human spirit to survive and thrive is explored as they confront the solitude of their own psyches - heart, mind, and soul - and reach "beyond" the physical to, perhaps, the greatest solitude of all.
The Mouse, The Mole, and the Magnificient, Moss-Covered House
by Stirling C. Donna WashingtonWritten by Stirling C. and illustrated by Donna Washington, this beautifully illustrated backwards-and-forwards book tells the charming story of how Milly the Mouse and Morton the Mole each live their lives in separate homes within the same magnificent, moss-covered hill. Children can read Milly’s story going forward, and Morton’s story going backward, until the two new friends meet in the middle.
The Mole, The Mouse, and the Magnificient, Moss-Covered House
by Stirling C. Donna WashingtonWritten by Stirling C. and illustrated by Donna Washington, this beautifully illustrated backwards-and-forwards book tells the charming story of how Milly the Mouse and Morton the Mole each live their lives in separate homes within the same magnificent, moss-covered hill. Children can read Milly’s story going forward, and Morton’s story going backward, until the two new friends meet in the middle.
The University in the Age of Globalization: Rankings, Resources and Reforms
by Wojciech Bienkowski Josef C. Brada Gordon StanleyAn informed discussion of the global education market, analysing the rankings system, and the determinants which help universities to advance. The authors examine possible improvements in the promotion and commercialization of university research, and the role of universities in the social and economic development of transition economies.
University Leadership: Approaches, Formation and Challenges in Europe
by Michael O’MullaneUsing a platform of substantial theories and applications, this book explores approaches taken to university leadership, how leadership is formed, and challenges that leadership of universities experiences within the context of Europe.
Interdisciplinary Teaching About Earth and the Environment for a Sustainable Future (AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series)
by David C. Gosselin Anne E. Egger J. John TaberInterdisciplinary Teaching about the Earth and Environment for a Sustainable Future presents the outcomes of the InTeGrate project, a community effort funded by the National Science Foundation to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues. The InTeGrate community is built around the shared goal of supporting interdisciplinary learning about Earth across the undergraduate curriculum, focusing on the grand challenges facing society and the important role that the geosciences play in addressing these grand challenges. The chapters in this book explicitly illustrate the intimate relationship between geoscience and sustainability that is often opaque to students. The authors of these chapters are faculty members, administrators, program directors, and researchers from institutions across the country who have collectively envisioned, implemented, and evaluated effective change in their classrooms, programs, institutions, and beyond. This book provides guidance to anyone interested in implementing change—on scales ranging from a single course to an entire program—by infusing sustainability across the curriculum, broadening access to Earth and environmental sciences, and assessing the impacts of those changes.
Zorgen voor getraumatiseerde kinderen: Handboek Voor Deelnemers
by Leony Coppens Carina KregtenDit praktische boek helpt pleegouders en andere opvoeders om het gedrag van hun (pleeg)kind door een traumabril te bekijken. Dit vergroot de kans op een stabiele opvoeder-kindrelatie en verkleint de kans op een (nieuwe) uithuisplaatsing. Het boek hoort bij de training Zorgen voor getraumatiseerde kinderen. Onderzoek laat zien dat de training leidt tot meer kennis, grotere tevredenheid en minder stress bij opvoeders.Zorgen voor getraumatiseerde kinderen: een training voor opvoeders is gebaseerd op recente wetenschappelijke inzichten. Die zijn op een overzichtelijke en concrete manier verwerkt in powerpointdia’s, casusbeschrijvingen en oefeningen. De training bestaat uit acht modules en is oorspronkelijk ontwikkeld door de Amerikaanse organisatie National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). In Nederland is Zorgen voor getraumatiseerde kinderen als ‘goed onderbouwde interventie’ opgenomen in de databank van het Nederlands Jeugd Instituut.In deze herziene versie van het Werkboek voor deelnemers zijn de ervaringen verwerkt van professionals die de training sinds 2012 geven. Theoretische informatie wordt compacter beschreven en er is meer aandacht voor het toepassen van de theorie in de praktijk van alledag. Ook zijn verwijzingen naar bronnen waar opvoeders meer kunnen zien en lezen over de verschillende onderwerpen uit de training vernieuwd. Bij het boek hoort een website met extra digitaal materiaal. Zorgen voor getraumatiseerde kinderen is vertaald en bewerkt naar de Nederlandse situatie door Leony Coppens en Carina van Kregten, beide al jaren actief in de zorg voor en behandeling van chronisch getraumatiseerde kinderen als therapeut, supervisor, docent en auteur. Naast het Werkboek voor deelnemers is er een Handleiding voor trainers.
The Practical Stylist with Readings and Handbook (Eighth Edition)
by Sheridan BakerThe Practical Stylist provides organizational techniques to students create sound essays, while the expository modes such as description, narration, and exposition are presented as strategies for supporting a thesis. Numerous essay models are provided to illustrate the principles of organization and explore the dynamics of language. A research paper chapter discusses online sources and the computerized library, and a brief handbook section provides help with grammar issues.
Do you Really Want to Meet A Tiger
by Cari MeisterA child goes on an adventure to Russia as a junior researcher to study tigers in the wild, and learns about this endangered species.
STEM Play: Integrating Inquiry into Learning Centers
by Deirdre Englehart Debby Mitchell Junie Albers-Biddle Kelly Jennings-Towle Marnie ForestieriMost early childhood teachers are using learning centers in the classroom, but do not approach them in ways that fully support a variety of learning opportunities. This book approaches learning centers through the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) lens, and shares how themes can be integrated into centers to promote creativity and higher-level thinking. STEM Play provides varied activities for the most common centers: Art, blocks, dramatic play, literacy, math, science, music and movement. Full of beautiful, full-color photos that show the activities in real early childhood classrooms, teachers can easily use the book’s ideas immediately in their curriculum. STEM Play also includes a “How To” section for teachers who wish to expand on the STEM focus and use themed activities in their learning centers.
Global University Rankings: Challenges for European Higher Education
by Tero ErkkiläGlobal University Rankings explores the novel topic of global university rankings and their effects on higher education in Europe. The contributions in this volume outline different discourses on global university rankings and explore the related changes concerning European higher education policies, disciplinary traditions and higher education institutions. The first global university rankings were published less than a decade ago, but these policy instruments have become highly influential in shaping the approaches and institutional realities of higher education. The rankings have portrayed European academic institutions in a varying light. There is intense reflexivity over the figures, leading to ideational changes and institutional adaptation that take surprisingly similar forms in different European countries. The contributions in this book critically assess global university rankings as a policy discourse that would seem to be instrumental to higher education reform throughout Europe.
Bubbles, Rainbows and Worms: Science Experiments for Preschool Children
by Sam Ed Brown"Why did that happen?", "How does that work?", "What will happen if..?". Young children ask questions about the world around them all day long. They are filled with curiosity and the desire to learn. Bubbles, Rainbows, and Worms teaches children about the world using hands-on experiments with plants, the environment, air and water, and the senses. Back by popular demand and completely updated, this was the first book published by Gryphon House. - See more at: https://www.gryphonhouse.com/books/details/bubbles_rainbows_and_worms#sthash.W7HikzDt.dpuf
Preschool Art: Drawing
by MaryAnn F. KohlExplore and create with chalk, crayons, stencils, textures, and more! Encourage children to experience the joy of exploration and discovery with this view series by MaryAnn Kohl. Excerpted from the national best-seller Preschool Art, each book in the series emphasizes the process of are, not the product. Make art fun and accessible to children of all ages with these creative, easy-to-do activities! - See more at: https://www.gryphonhouse.com/books/details/preschool-art-drawing#sthash.6HK3Q5Pw.dpuf
"Neoliberalization" as Betrayal: State, Feminism, and a Women’s Education Program in India (Comparative Feminist Studies)
by Shubhra SharmaThis book is concerned with the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and the spatialization of the state, and analyses this through an ethnography lens of women's education programs in India.
Rethinking the Curriculum: The Epistle to the Romans as a Pedagogic Text
by Orlando Nang Kwok Ho<p>This book is an inter-disciplinary endeavour. Encompassing education and basic research, it discusses the modular-curriculum embodied in The Epistle from educational, historical, sociolinguistic, anthropological, phenomenological, and non-sectarian perspectives. It shows the cross-boundary philosophical reasoning and pedagogic dimensions of St. Paul as a great teacher and thinker from the Jewish-and-Christian faith. In doing so, this book refocuses academia’s attention on the inevitable antimonic nature inherent in humans’ efforts to create systemic knowledge. Knowledge about the inner aesthetic and volitional-interpretative self – the immanent psychic “I” – and other philosophical aspects of the realm of the transcendental should be rescued from the deepening trends of secularity. Being strong, powerful, productive, and performative should not be taken as the indisputable and exclusive aim of education. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) do not constitute a sufficient basis for building a better humanity. Education via public curriculums ought to serve both the belly and the mind. Deliberative curricular recalibrations, with rationales for grace, are thus needed for a better future for humanity.... <p>This book is relevant for anyone with a core fascination about truths, values, epistemologies, life, spirituality, and holistic human development. It can also be used as a textbook or a reference in a number of fields including counselling, psychology, translation, cultural studies, and theology.</p>
Academic Socialization of Young Black and Latino Children: Building on Family Strengths
by Susan Sonnenschein Brook E. SawyerThis book offers a strengths-based, family-focused approach to improving the educational performance and school experience of struggling Black and Latino students. The book discusses educational challenges faced by low-income families of color and the different strengths within Black and Latino family life that can affect these challenges. It focuses building on these strengths within the children’s home environments that can serve as a foundation for subsequent learning. The chapters describe a wide range of family practices and beliefs, including development of interventions to support families that promote early language and literacy, early mathematics, and social skills. The chapters also present quantitative and/or qualitative studies using a strengths-based approach to parents’ socialization of their children’s early academic skills.
Knowing with New Media: A Multimodal Approach for Learning
by Lena RedmanThis cutting edge book considers how advances in technologies and new media have transformed our perception of education, and focuses on the impact of the privatisation of digital tools as a mean of knowledge production. Arguing that education needs to adapt to the modern learner, the book’s unique approach is based on a disassociation with the deeply ingrained attitude with which people have traditionally viewed education – learning the existing symbolic systems of certain disciplines and then expressing themselves strictly within the operational modes of these systems. The ways of knowledge production – exploring, recording, representing, making meaning of and sharing human experiences – have been fundamentally transformed through the infusion of digital technologies into all aspects of human activity, allowing learners to engage with their immediate natural, social and cultural environments by capitalising on their individual abilities and interests. This book proposes a new approach to teaching and learning termed ‘cinematic bricolage’, which involves generating knowledge from heterogeneous resources in a ‘do-it-yourself’ manner while making meaning through multimodal representations. It shows how cinematic bricolage reconnects ways of knowing with ways of being, empowering the individual with a sense of personal identity and responsibility, helping to shape more aware social citizens.
Pedagogies for Diverse Contexts (Thinking About Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education)
by Alan Pence Janet HarvellDiversity can be a rich source of possibility and opportunity in early childhood education. Appreciating that learning and development are shaped by culture and context, history and values, the diversity of cases found in this volume provide a useful tension in considering one’s own practices, policies and beliefs. Pedagogies for Diverse Contexts draws on the knowledge and professional experiences of actors from a wide range of countries and cultures. For some, early childhood’s dominant narratives have been influential, while others push back against universalistic orientations and the power of a neoliberal hegemonic agenda. Written to provoke, to stimulate and to extend thinking, these chapters provide insights and examples relevant not only for front-line practice and programme development, but for education, assessment, research and policy development. The twelve chapters are divided into four key sections which reflect major influences on practice and pedagogy: Being alongside children Those who educate Embedding families and communities Working with systems Considering varied international practices, this key text will enhance understanding, support self-directed learning, and provoke thinking at both graduate and postgraduate levels, particularly in the field of early childhood education and care.
Education in Thailand: An Old Elephant In Search Of A New Mahout (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects #42)
by Gerald W. FryThis interdisciplinary book offers a critical analysis of Thai education and its evolution, providing diverse perspectives and theoretical frameworks. In the past five decades Thailand has seen impressive economic success and it is now a middle-income country that provides development assistance to poorer countries. However, educational and social development have lagged considerably behind itsglobally recognized economic success. This comprehensive book covers each level of education, such as higher and vocational/technical education, and such topics as internationalization, inequalities and disparities, alternative education, non-formal and informal education, multilingual education, educational policy and planning, and educational assessment. The 25 Thai and 8 international contributors to the volume include well-known academics and practitioners. Thai education involves numerous paradoxes, which are identified and explained. While Thailand has impressively expanded its educational system quantitatively with much massification, quality problems persist at all levels. As such, the final policy-oriented summary chapter suggests strategies to enable Thailand to escape “the middle income trap” and enhance the quality of its education to ensure its long-term developmental success.
English Studies in India: Contemporary And Evolving Paradigms
by Banibrata Mahanta Rajesh Babu SharmaThis volume is a collection of scholarly papers that explore the complex issues concerning English Studies in the present Indian context. The discussions in this volume range from historical perspectives to classroom-specific pedagogies, from sociological and political hierarchies to the dynamics of intellectual development in the English language environment. Interrogating both policy and practice pertaining to English Studies in the context of Indian society, culture, history, literature and governance, the chapters seek to formulate contemporary perspectives to these debates and envision alternative possibilities. Since the introduction of English to India more than 2 centuries ago, the language has transmuted the very fabric of Indian society, culture, history, literature and governance. The idea of India cannot be conceived in its entirety without taking into consideration the epistemological role that English has played in its formation. The present globalized world order has added dimensions to English Studies which are radically different from those of India’s colonial and postcolonial past. It is therefore imperative that the multitudinous shades and shadows of the discipline be re-examined with inputs drawn from the present context. This volume is for scholars and researchers of English literature and language studies, linguistics, and culture studies, and others interested in exploring new paradigms of engagement with the disciplinary formulation of English Studies in India.