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Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in Education: Volume 67
Book SynopsisThis edited volume includes ten chapters, each of which provides a unique perspective on specific topics in the field of education. Chapter One constitutes a literature review on how crucial occupational factors affect the way teachers tend to approach and respond to their daily school duties. Chapter Two aims to gain an understanding of special education teachers' instructional perspectives and their instructional practices when providing comprehension instruction for students with autism spectrum disorder. Chapter Three highlights the evolution of the Portuguese scientific system over recent decades. Chapter Four focuses on the use of music as an educational modality to help children with language and learning problems. Chapter Five presents a technological ecosystem for classroom management that offers electronically mediated classroom support with engaging activities and learning strategies. Chapter Six describes an intervention program that was developed to raise awareness of cyberbullying and help children acquire effective coping strategies. Chapter Seven examines how using e-learning technology with graphical music representations can lead to increased confidence levels in students who have no prior music training. Chapter Eight analyses student behaviours collected from three different learning management systems used in distance learning. Chapter Nine describes various types of nursing curricula with a special focus on the role of conceptual frameworks in shaping curricula. Finally, Chapter Ten provides an overview of the historical development of pedagogical approaches in nursing education.Table of ContentsPreface; How do Teachers Approach their School Duties? The Role of Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, Burnout and Economic Crisis; Making It Work: Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder; Portuguese Scientific System Growth and Public Funding of Higher Education between 1995 and 2020; Can Music Help to Correct Childrens Language and Learning Problems?; Understanding the Correlation between Teacher and Student Behavior in the Classroom and Its Consequent Academic Performance; Intervention Program Addressing Cyberbullying Among School-Age Children: A Single-Group Design; The Impact of E-Learning Technology on Students Self-Perceived Confidence in Music Composition; Observations on Student Behaviors in a University Distance Learning Using LMS; Conceptual Frameworks in Undergraduate Nursing Curricula; Transforming Nursing Education: Behaviourism to Humanism and Evidence-Based Practice; Index.
£177.59
Matador (Orca) Philosophy of Education Introductory Readings
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£24.30
Nova Science Publishers Inc Teaching & Learning in Lithuania Since 'Rebirth':
Book SynopsisThis book is about the educational challenges facing teachers in Lithuania in the early years of the 1990''s and the process of rebirth following the withdrawal of the Soviets. It uses the Fullan model to analyse the initiation of change and the problems that are faced by all those working in a post communist country. The essential focus is upon the scholars of Lithuania, their pupils and their teachers. This focus is illustrated by case studies and conversations with school directors. The contributors present this work as a record of the complexity of educational reform; of change in the functioning of the school community; and of challenge in the relation of teaching to learning. It is crucial to an understanding of educational problems of a changing society and in the challenges faced by a ''country in transition''.
£79.04
Nova Science Publishers Inc Issues in European Education
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£72.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Construction of Identity & School Policy in
Book SynopsisSection headings: Introduction; Post-communist Ukraine as a political and socio-cultural reality; Identities, construction and the ''birth of the school'' -- methodological premises and issues of the research; School in the process of identity construction -- school socialisation in the USSR; school in the process of identity construction in a post-communist Ukraine; the issues of identity through the eyes of Ukrainian schoolchildren (the case study in schools); Conclusion.
£83.29
Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in Education, Volume 1
Book SynopsisEducation is an issue most others -- everyone agrees that something must be done but no one agrees on what it is or how to accomplish it. This series examines the options available and the progress made in various programs at the heart of the reforms currently underway as well as future programs.
£67.14
Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in Education, Volume 2
Book SynopsisEducation is an issue most bothersome -- everyone agrees that something must be done but no one agrees on what it is or how to accomplish it. This series examines the options available and the progress made in various programs at the heart of the reforms currently underway as well as future programs.
£67.14
Paul Dry Books, Inc Rittenhouse Writers: Reflections on a Fiction
Book SynopsisJames Rahn has led the Rittenhouse Writers'' Group since he founded it in 1988, making it one of America''s longest-running independent fiction workshops. Hundreds of writers and would-be writers have sought out the group for its remarkable level of instruction and collaboration. Rittenhouse Writers is Rahn''s memoir of the workshop and how his own evolution as both a teacher and a writer -- and as a son, husband, and (somewhat reluctant) father -- has been intertwined with the establishment and growth of the RWG. In addition, Rahn includes ten short stories written by current and former members of the workshop. Rahn graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MFA at Columbia. He then began to imagine a future that included more than just writing, one that would also tap his aspiration to offer other writers support and motivation, tough but gentle -- his self-described "Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove" approach. After all, as he says more than once, "Writing is hard. Over the years, James Rahn has witnessed every imaginable writing-group scenario, from awkward flirtations to suicide scares, catty critiques, near fistfights, and of course the satisfaction of watching someone''s writing soar. With insight gained through years of observation and participation, and a discerning eye for amusing detail, he takes us along for the journey. Rahn''s struggle to perfect his role as instructor runs throughout the narrative, as does his effort to balance that role with the friendships he forms in the group, and to keep up with his own writing while still giving the group the attention it needs to flourish. Through his eyes, we catch the spark of the workshop''s spirit and get to meet various spirits who have invigorated Rittenhouse Writers'' Group. Rahn cuts back and forth, reflecting, not only on the workshop, but also on his days as a high school dropout in Atlantic City, dead-end jobs and hopeless moves, the difficulty of his mother''s decline and death, and his own unexpected plunge into parenthood -- when, at age 51, he and his wife took on the responsibility of raising her two young nieces. His memoir serves, in a way, as an introduction to the short stories that follow; and the stories -- as surprising and varied as the writers Rahn describes working with -- stand as a fitting coda to Rahn''s tale and offer another window onto his life''s work.
£18.89
Nova Science Publishers Inc From Proficiency to Authenticity: A Holistic
Book SynopsisFrom Proficiency to Authenticity - A Holistic School Development & Assessment Plan
£56.94
Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in Education, Volume 6
Book SynopsisProgress in Education, Volume 6
£67.14
Nova Science Publishers Inc Teachers & Teaching: Current Issues
Book SynopsisTeachers are blamed for many of society''s ills. They are accused of not successfully transforming our home products into brilliant, socially upward success stories. They fail to cultivate manners in our crude offspring and they are guilty of being unable to get our children to focus on their studies. This book focuses on current issues in the teaching field.
£59.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Sir Michael Sadler 1861-1943: England's
Book SynopsisThe writer''s main purpose in this book is to arouse interest on the reader''s part in an extraordinary personality. Michael Sadler was a Comparative Educator of the first order because his pioneering studies of educational systems went beyond what met the eye alone in national educational organisations. He wanted to know the impalpable forces that lay behind educational institutions in order to be fair to and discriminating in criticising or praising them. His countless works reflect this quest. This book sheds light on an important figure in education.
£31.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in Education, Volume 9
Book SynopsisThis series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. This series attempts to shed light on successes wherever they may occur in the hope that many wheels need not be reinvented again and again.
£67.14
Nova Science Publishers Inc Transforming Education: The Albanian Experience
Book SynopsisEducation in Albania faces multiple challenges. For long isolated from the west Soviet education practices served as a model for this particularly isolated socialist state. Current reforms are hampered by shortages of materials, textbooks, adequate specialists and well trained teachers. Working conditions in the schools are far from satisfactory and school drop-out rates are on the rise. This book aims to serve students, teachers, specialists in education and organisations that are involved in any kind of educational change to obtain an insight not only into the present situation, but also to enable them to envisage the path that Albanian education has gone through on the long and difficult road towards democracy. Readers will find basic information concerning the Albanian education system and data is provided on a range of matters such as the structure of education, management, financing, teaching methods and text books, teacher qualifications and the relations between schools and the community. The author concludes with a review of the long term strategy necessary for the development of the Albanian education at the beginning of the new millennium.
£67.14
Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in Education, Volume 10
Book SynopsisProgress in Education, Volume 10
£67.14
Nova Science Publishers Inc Writing
Book SynopsisWhen studying aims and programs for elementary schools historically, we find that knowledge and skills have been among the dominating factors in the elementary school curriculum throughout the last century. The terms knowledge and skills usually are defined as basic skills which children are supposed to learn at school. In the USA, the basic skills also have been called the three R''s, synonymous with arithmetic, reading, and writing. Because competence in the basic skills is a prerequisite for knowledge acquisition of other school subjects, e.g. science, history, etc, it is important that the learning and instruction of the basic skills are adapted to students'' needs and readiness. As the three R''s are fundamental and significant skills for children''s learning and progress in other subject matters, systematic learning and training in the these basic skills are afforded much space and time in the children''s curriculum during the first years of schooling. Although several common traits can be found among the three R''s, this book concentrates on giving an outline on research in children''s learning and performance of writing, and to some extent of reading.
£49.29
Nova Science Publishers Inc African Perspectives in American Higher
Book SynopsisAfrican Perspectives in American Higher Education - Invisible Voices
£53.59
Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in Education, Volume 11
Book SynopsisThis series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. This series attempts to shed light on successes wherever they may occur in the hope that many wheels need not be reinvented again and again.
£67.14
Nova Science Publishers Inc End of Desegregation?
Book SynopsisAfter over half a century of court-directed efforts to redress the historical educational chasm between blacks and whites in the United States, both the past achievements and the future direction of school desegregation are uncertain. Too often, the early gains made in racially desegregating America''s schools seem to have been halted, and in many cases reversed. Urban school decay is once again on the rise, with predictable consequences. For the very poorest minority students, who have limited educational options apart from dangerous, deteriorating neighbourhood schools, drop-out rates are high, standardised test scores are abysmally low, and violence is an everyday fact of life. The gulf between the unskilled, marginalised students being warehoused in these predominantly poor, minority schools on the one hand, and the increasingly high tech society they cannot compete in on the other, is growing. This ground-breaking book presents the viewpoints and research of some of the most prominent scholars in the field of school desegregation. It covers virtually the entire spectrum of thinking and scholarship on school desegregation and its promise, success, necessity, pitfalls and failures.
£52.69
Nova Science Publishers Inc Federal Student Loans
Book SynopsisTitle IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) authorises the major federal student aid programs, including the student loan programs, which are the largest source of aid for students. In FY2000, the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) programs and the Federal Direct Student Loan (DL) program supported an estimated $33.1 billion in new loan volume. Several types of loans are available: Federal need-based subsidised Stafford loans (under which the government pays the interest while the borrower is in school, a grace period of deferment); unsubsidised Stafford loans; Federal PLUS loans (for parents of undergraduate students); and Federal Consolidation loans. Overall, student loan volume has been increased in recent years, from $24 billion in FY1994 to $33 billion in FY2000. The number of loans being made has increased over the same period going from 6,483,000 to 8,618,000. The average amount that individual students are borrowing in any given year has not increased as dramatically. This new book examines important issues related to this cornerstone of American higher education.
£86.69
Nova Science Publishers Inc Representative Sadleriana: Sir Michael Sadler
Book SynopsisThis book is long overdue, especially in the fields of education, in general, and comparative education, in particular, anywhere in the world, where educational issues are reflected on, researched or written about. Unlike many current books on education having narrow perspectives, Sir Michael Sadler''s approach to his contributions on educational issues and questions is eminently wide-angled. It also does justice to his dictum that as education is as broad as life, to call oneself an educational expert is to equate oneself with being an ''Expert on Life''! Sadler''s thoughts and analyses are bafflingly of relevance for us today as educational policymakers or educational administrators, educators, politicians and statesmen. Besides the book''s being a mine of thought-provoking information for academics, it is also an indispensable source of information for graduates, post-graduates, workers in national and international bodies (UNESCO) dealing with educational planning and assistance. This unprecedented publication underlines Sadler''s unique educational scholarship both in content and style, expressed through an inimitable and felicitous English usage.
£92.79
Nova Science Publishers Inc College Costs, Prices & Saving Plans
Book SynopsisBased on available data, college tuition and fees have been rising more rapidly than household income over the past 2 decades. The divergence is particularly pronounced for low-income household and become less pronounced as household income increases. Some research has identified specific factors related to increases in college price. For example, price increases at public 4-year institutions are strongly related to decreases in state appropriations. Given the current budget crisis that is affecting states nationwide, double-digit increases in tuition and fees are slated in some states for the 2003-2004 academic year.
£37.39
Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in Education, Volume 13
Book SynopsisThis series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. This series attempts to shed light on successes wherever they may occur in the hope that many wheels need not be reinvented again and again.
£69.74
Nova Science Publishers Inc Model of Teacher Professional Development: The
Book SynopsisTeacher professional development is usually directed and governed by three agents: politics, pedagogy and innovation. For example, the responsibility for teacher professional development has shifted over the decades as politicians, policy makers and political activists decide on the nature and location of review and determine who should have and hold the authority to accredit and evaluate. Research on pedagogy now advocates pedagogical practice that moves away from concentrating on core content/skills/teaching strategies, to promoting the development of reflective, proficient thinkers and communicators, who are self-directed and well informed responsible citizens. Likewise, although innovation in education is constant, the introduction of various technologies for school use has seen the innovation challenge in science education step up a gear. The book begins by considering existing literature and ideas on teacher professional development. Chapter 2 briefly outlines some of the issues in science education that are of relevance to primary school science. The literature in the area of Teacher Professional Development and issues of relevance to primary science were used to inform the PIPS model of teacher professional development. The rationale for the model can be found in Chapter 3. Subsequent chapters focus on the methodology employed by the project including details of the evaluation, as the data collected was instrumental in determining influential facets of the project. The following chapters explore the notion of readiness, risk, reflection, recognition, resource and relevance. These were deemed to be key elements that contributed to the success of the project in terms of promoting professional development and in terms of seeing tangible change in classroom practice. There is a short chapter which outlines some of the other project findings and the book concludes with a chapter on the need and challenge for dynamic teacher professional development programmes that work in partnership with teachers rather than deliver things for teachers.
£999.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Teachers' Stories, Teachers Lives
Book SynopsisIn this book we demonstrate a mode of teacher education that is practical in a non-technical sense and relies on Dewey''s notion of curriculum as the reconstruction of experience. We present a curriculum that emerged through collaborative self-reflection and seeks to reconstruct personal histories of schooling. As four former preservice teachers and their instructor, we engaged in jointly constructed autobiographical inquiry in order to generate data on our own past and on our current histories of teaching and learning. We wanted to illuminate parts of our lives in schools that until now belonged to our ''normal'' and taken-for-granted past. We did this in order to enjoy certain degrees of awareness and choice as to which of our living stories to reinforce and which to "let run out" in our classrooms today.
£139.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Impact of Globalization on Education
Book SynopsisThe notion of globalisation and its relation to education is widely being discussed among politicians, philosophers, scholars, educators and students throughout the world. Some fully reject and refuse to accept this phenomenon, others try to understand and accept this notion, still others completely accept the idea of globalisation and associate with it all progressive changes in the new century''s socio-cultural and educational space. Moreover, for a considerable part of the planet''s residents the very spirit of the terms "globalism" and "globalisation" still remains an unknown, enigmatic, almost supernatural entity. The contemporary globalising epoch is characterised by pervasive events making a considerable affect on human development, human consciousness and on various aspects of education and child development. These events include: (1) the unprecedented emergence and dissemination of information and knowledge; (2) the digitisation of information and virtualisation of objective reality; (3) the spreading of the English language as an essential global tool for education and international communication; (4) the dissemination of the ideas of global and multicultural education; (5) the rise of the European Union; (6) the market orientation of Russian and the former entities of the former Socialist block;(7) the spreading of the cultural and educational canons of the Anglo-American or Atlantic civilisation upon other cultures and civilisations; and (9) unparalleled demographic growth, especially in Eastern and Southern cultures.
£129.74
Nova Science Publishers Inc No Child Left Behind Act: Text, Interpretation &
Book SynopsisBook & CD. On 8 January 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, legislation to extend and revise the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), was signed into law as P.L. 107-110 (H.R. 1). This legislation extensively amends and re-authorises many of the programs of federal aid to elementary and secondary education. Major features of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 include the following: (a) states will be required to implement standards-based assessments in reading and mathematics for pupils in each of grades 3-8 by the 2005-2006 school year, and at three grade levels in science by the 2007-2008 school year; (b) grants to states for assessment development are authorised; (c) all states will be required to participate in National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in 4th and 8th grade reading and mathematics every second year; (d) states must develop adequate yearly progress (AYP) standards, incorporating a goal of all pupils reaching a proficient or advanced level of achievement within 12 years, and apply them to each public school, local education agency (LEA), and the state overall; (e) a sequence of consequences, including public school choice and supplemental services options, would apply to schools and LEAs that fail to meet AYP standards for 2 or more consecutive years; (f) ESEA Title I allocation formulas are modified to increase targeting on high poverty states and LEAs and to move Puerto Rico gradually toward parity with the states; (g) within 3 years, all paraprofessionals paid with Title I funds must have completed at least 2 years of higher education or met a "rigorous standard of quality"; (h) several new programs aimed at improving reading instruction are authorised; (i) teacher programs are consolidated into a state grant authorising a wide range of activities such as teacher recruitment, professional development, and hiring; (j) states and LEAs participating in Title I have various requirements to ensure that teachers meet the bill''s definition of "highly qualified" by the end of the 2005-2006 school year; (k) almost all states and LEAs are authorised to transfer a portion of the funds they receive under several programs, and selected states and LEAs may consolidate funds under certain programs through performance agreements; (l) federal support of public school choice is expanded; (m) several previous programs are consolidated into a state grant supporting integration of technology into K-12 education; (n) the Bilingual and Emergency Immigrant Education Acts are consolidated into a single formula grant, with existing limits on the share of grants for specific instructional approaches eliminated; and (o) the 21st Century Community Learning Center program is converted into a formula grant with increased focus on after-school activities. This book and accompanying CD-ROM present the full text of the Act and important interpretations of it.
£40.79
Nova Science Publishers Inc Teacher Change & Development
Book SynopsisIf the future of any society can be pinpointed, it is with the teachers who help form the citizens of tomorrow. Sometimes their impact is equal to the parents and sometimes surpasses it by not a small measure. But how must teachers change to be sure that they move with the times and do not lose that role in society? This book delves into this issue.
£46.39
Nova Science Publishers Inc Current Discourse on Education in Developing
Book SynopsisComparative studies receive relatively little attention in U.S. education. Comparative work done by people who are either international scholars or have spent extensive (and intensive) periods of time in international contexts rarely shows up on course syllabi or reading lists in most U.S. education courses. However, this volume is comprised of scholars at various phases of their careers -- early, mid, and late -- who have deep investments in issues of international and global education. U.S. students do not know very much about the countries of Africa because these countries cannot be understood outside of the history and foreign policies that implicate the United States. The same thing might be said of Latin America, the Caribbean, and increasingly Asia. The only way that broader and more complex perspectives of the post-colonial world can emerge are in the presence of post-colonial voices. Globalisation, for better or worse, is a part of our post-modern, postcolonial condition. Unless we do systematic study of the way global forces impact material realities and our symbol systems we cannot make sense of our world and our place in it. The responsibility for the study of the global, transnational, transcultural, and/or comparative does not reside merely on those we see as "other". However, their perspectives cannot be marginalised in the discourse. This collection contains a superb mixture of voices and perspectives from around the world. But, it also contains a wonderful homage to two scholars, B Robert Tabachnick and Robert Koehl whose work represent the leading edge of comparative education.
£122.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Trends In Learning Research
Book SynopsisLearning as used here, refers to concerted activity that increases the capacity and willingness of individuals, groups, organisations and communities to acquire and productively apply new knowledge and skills, to grow and mature and to adapt successfully to changes and challenges. Such learning empowers individuals and organisations to make wise choices, solve problems and break new ground. In particular, it is sustainable, it is a lifelong, renewable process for people and for the institutions that serves people. Learning certainly includes academic studies and occupational training through high school and beyond but also encompasses the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of children in the earliest years of their lives. This book presents new research in this explosive field.
£110.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc Frontiers in Education Research
Book SynopsisThis book spans the globe presenting leading research in economics. It is perhaps a sign of the times that economic weapons such as sanctions seem to be as powerful as or more so than tanks. International applications and examples of economic progress are invaluable in a troubled world with economic booms bursting like so many penny balloons. Globalisation, outstanding and jobless recoveries present economic issues of concern to millions.
£173.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc New Developments in Education Research
Book SynopsisThis series spans the globe presenting leading research in economics. It is perhaps a sign of the times that economic weapons such as sanctions seem to be as powerful as or more so than tanks. International applications and examples of economic progress are invaluable in a troubled world with economic booms bursting like so many penny balloons. Globalisation, outstanding and jobless recoveries present economic issues of concern to millions.
£176.24
Nova Science Publishers Inc 21st Century Community College
Book SynopsisThe Community College Labor Market Responsiveness (CCLMR) Initiative was created to develop and disseminate information and tools enabling community colleges to keep pace with the needs of a diverse student body and a dynamic labour market. This report draws upon profiles (Appendix B) and statistical evidence (Appendix C) to describe the factors that affect labour-market responsiveness. First, it examines the effects of the external environment, the characteristics of local residents and the nature of the local economy. Second, it examines the effects of the external organisational structure, the state and local community workforce, education, and economic development infrastructure. Third, it examines colleges'' external governance structures, which affect their mission, resource base, and flexibility. Finally, it examines the effects of factors under the college''s control, presidential leadership, internal organisation, strategic planning to design and fund programs, use of data, and programmatic base. Each stage in the progression has strong, if not decisive, effects on the successive stage, and ultimately on each college''s potential to be market-responsive, and the nature of the obstacles that need to be overcome to realise its potential. The progression is emphasised to make it clear that more should be expected of colleges located in environments that are favourable to development of labour-market responsive programs than where external conditions are unfavourable, not that colleges in favourable environments should complacently compare themselves to colleges in less favourable environments. This emphasis also helps clarify what colleges can do regardless of their external environment to overcome obstacles to become more responsive and reach their own unique potential.
£122.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc New Teaching & Teacher Issues
Book SynopsisTeaching is a profession which is so enormous and so packed with significance that the issues related to it have a consistently high ranking with members of society in virtually every public opinion poll. These issues include multicultural education, teacher training and accreditation, burn-out, teaching under conditions particular to a world-wide certain country, student behaviour and preparation, computers in the classroom, parental influence on the teaching process, the changing curriculum and its meaning for teaching, budgetary problems, and a multitude of similar issues. This book presents issues current to the field from educators and researchers from around the globe.
£99.74
Nova Science Publishers Inc Perspectives on Teaching & Teacher Issues
Book SynopsisTeaching is a profession which is so enormous and so packed with significance that the issues related to it have a consistently high ranking with members of society in virtually every public opinion poll. These issues include multicultural education, teacher training and accreditation, burnout, teaching under conditions particular to a world-wide certain country, student behaviour and preparation, computers in the classroom, parental influence on the teaching process, the changing curriculum and its meaning for teaching, budgetary problems, and a multitude of similar issues. This book presents current issues and information in this field from educators and researchers around the globe.
£999.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in Education: Volume 15
Book SynopsisThis series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. This series attempts to shed light on successes wherever they may occur in the hope that many wheels need not be reinvented again and again.
£149.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Technology & Teaching
Book SynopsisThis book aims to describe the application of technology for addressing a range of education issues across a range of ages and educational settings. Each chapter reviews how a particular technology or approach to the use of technology has been applied for one or more teaching and learning purposes. The use of technology is considered across a range of educational settings, including school-based and adult/vocational learning. There are also chapters on the use of technology in educational programs for individuals with special educational needs.
£129.74
Nova Science Publishers Inc Asset of Cultural Pluralism: An Account of
Book SynopsisTimes of transition can be viewed as times of crisis -- epistemologically, morally and socially. They also can come to be seen as fortuitous junctures where the impossibility of preserving old patterns gives rise to a leap into new, productive configurations. In the teaching and learning situations presented here, it is assumed that such a leap is possible among members of a pluralist society. Diversity must work as an asset rather than a liability for minority as well as mainstream candidates. The curriculum needs to be inquiry-based and should be engaging emotionally and imaginatively, as well as intellectually.
£122.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Psychology of Decision Making in Education,
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Children's Lifeworlds: Locating Indigenous Voices
Book SynopsisThis is the latest volume in a series of publications which aims to alert readers to current and recent challenges facing teachers, parents and educators in general. ''Emerging goals'' link each volume and this particular focus draws upon the expertise and research of distinguished contributors from around the world. The perspectives of children growing up in Multi-cultural societies; in Western Cultures; in Asian Cultures and elsewhere are brought together in a fascinating collection, illustrating and interpreting the variations exhibited in children''s views of place, environment, society and the future.
£73.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Secondary Education: Issues & Challenges
Book SynopsisSecondary education is the final stage of compulsory education, preceded by primary education and followed by higher education. It is characterised by transition from the typically compulsory, comprehensive primary education for minors to the optional, selective tertiary, ''post-secondary'', or ''higher'' education (e.g., university, vocational school) for adults. Depending on the system, schools for this period or a part of it may be called secondary schools, high schools, gymnasiums, lyceums, middle schools, colleges, vocational schools and preparatory schools, and the exact meaning of any of these varies between the systems. The exact boundary between primary and secondary education varies from country to country and even within them, but is generally around the fifth to the tenth year of education. Secondary education occurs mainly during the teenage years. In the United States and Canada primary and secondary education together are sometimes referred to as K-12 education. The purpose of secondary education can be to give common knowledge, to prepare for either higher education or vocational education, or to train directly for a profession. This new book presents the latest research in the field.
£99.74
Nova Science Publishers Inc Progress in Education: Volume 16
Book SynopsisThis series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. This series attempts to shed light on successes wherever they may occur in the hope that many wheels need not be reinvented again and again.
£149.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Decline of Learning in America
Book SynopsisThis book offers a complete and coherent analysis of the interrelated problems of student achievement at every level, the supply of scientific and technical manpower, its contribution to the nation''s economic future, and the diverse policies directed at improving school achievement and the quality of labor supply.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc New Modes of Reasoning in the Age of
Book SynopsisConcerning the on-going political debate about the direction of strategic decisions in economic developments and world systems theory, this book addresses a closely linked question how, on this basis, institutions develop which are to a large extent responsible for the reasoning of the world. Although the complex relationship cannot be grasped, the following will look at some important issues around the question of how academic institutions are shaped by the processes of a main characteristic of this development. This main characteristic is seen here as the further process of commodification which in our context rules completely the area of education.
£73.49
Nova Science Publishers Inc Education in China
Book SynopsisThe field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. This volume deals with education in China.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Early Childhood Education: Issues & Developments
Book Synopsis"This book focuses on early childhood education which spans the human life from birth to age 8. Infants and toddlers experience life more holistically than any other age group. Social, emotional, cognitive, language, and physical lessons are not learned separately by very young children. Adults who are most helpful to young children interact in ways that understand that the child is learning from the whole experience, not just that part of the experience to which the adult gives attention. Although early childhood education does not have to occur in the absence of the parent or primary caregiver, this term is sometimes used to denote education by someone other than these the parent or primary caregiver. Both research in the field and early childhood educators view the parents as an integral part of the early childhood education process. Early childhood education takes many forms depending on the theoretical and educational beliefs of the educator or parent. Other terms that is often used interchangeably with "early childhood education" are "early childhood learning", "early care" and "early education". Much of the first two years of life are spent in the creation of a child''s first "sense of self" or the building of a first identity. Because this is a crucial part of children''s makeup-how they first see themselves, how they think they should function, how they expect others to function in relation to them, early care must ensure that in addition to carefully selected and trained caregivers, links with family, home culture, and home language are a central part of program policy. If care becomes a substitute for, rather than a support of, family, children may develop a less-than-positive sense of who they are and where they come from because of their child care experience.
£999.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Educational Evaluation: 21st Century Issues &
Book SynopsisThere are two common purposes in educational evaluation which are, at times, in conflict with one another. Educational institutions usually require evaluation data to demonstrate effectiveness to funders and other stakeholders, and to provide a measure of performance for marketing purposes. Educational evaluation is also a professional activity that individual educators need to undertake if they intend to continuously review and enhance the learning they are endeavouring to facilitate. This book presents new research on issues of vital importance to this field.
£86.99
Nova Science Publishers Inc Education Research Trends
Book SynopsisThis book presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. This book attempts to shed light on successes wherever they may occur in the hope that many wheels need not be reinvented again and again.
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