Educational: Citizenship and social education
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Creative Expression Activities for Teens:
Book SynopsisCoping with life's stresses is difficult for everybody, but can be especially challenging for teenagers, who often feel isolated and misunderstood. Creative expression through art, craft, and writing is a natural and effective way of helping young people to explore and communicate personal identity.This book is bursting with art and journal activities, creative challenges, and miniature projects for bedrooms and other personal spaces, all of which help teenagers to understand and express who they are and what is important to them. These fun ideas can be tailored to suit the individual, and require minimal equipment and even less artistic know-how, so can be enjoyed by all. The book concludes with a useful section for counselors and other professionals who work with young people, which explains how these activities can be incorporated into treatment goals.This imaginative and insightful book is a useful resource for all therapists, social workers, and counselors who wish to encourage self-expression in teenagers.Trade ReviewThe book is readable and provides simple, well applicable and enforceable assignments. -- Tijdschrift voor vakterapie (google translate)Table of ContentsIntroduction. Creative Hunting and Gathering. Part I. Art Projects and Creative Challenges. Part II. Journaling. Part III: Miniature Projects for Personal Spaces. Key Treatment Areas. Suggested Activities. Goals.
£22.22
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Child Welfare Policy and Practice: Issues and
Book SynopsisChild Welfare Policy and Practice - Issues and Lessons Emerging from Current Research explores the implications of recent research for all those concerned with child welfare and social work. It addresses the present concerns as expressed by Government bodies and central Government enquiries regarding the services and policies relating to children in need of care and attention.The book deals with social care issues that are common within the UK as well as covering specific aspects of Scottish and Irish child welfare. The current areas of concern covered by the contributors include:the development of children's service plansoperationalisation of recent child care legislationmanagement of the transition of young people with disabilities from childhood to adulthooduse of live video links with child witnesses.The book also discusses the results of a long term, follow-up study of twenty years duration of failure-to-thrive children.In conclusion the book puts forward recommendations for influencing future policy and practice in child care. It is essential reading for social work students, social work policy-makers, day care and social workers, teachers, doctors, lawyers and psychologists.Trade ReviewThis is a timely moment for the publication of such a volume; not only has significant political change taken place across the UK, but many of the research studies being reported have taken place subsequent to the implementation of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995... The value of a comparative perspective is perhaps particularly evident in the chapters describing recent initiatives in policy and practice, including the implementation of children's services plans and looked after children assessment and action records. -- Community CareA central aim of the book is to demonstrate the importance of research evidence in informing practice and policy in respect of children in need. To a very large degree it achieves this aim. Overall this book should be helpful to busy professionals as it provides useful summaries of research. -- YoungMinds MagazineTable of Contents1. Issues Emerging from Child Care Research: Post-implementation of the Children Act (1989) Dorota Iwaniec, Queens University of Belfast and Malcolm Hill, University of Glasgow. 2. The Legal and Policy Context for Children's Services in Scotland and Northern Ireland, Angus Skinner, Social Work Services Inspectorate, Scotland and Kevin McCoy, Social Services Inspectorate, Belfast. 3. Communication, Co-operation or Collaboration? The Involvement of Voluntary Organisations in the First Scottish Children's Services Plans, Kay Tisdall, University of Edinburgh, Bernadette Monaghan, SACRO, Edinburgh and Malcolm Hill, University of Glasgow. 4. Operationalising the Definition of Children in Need from UK Child Care Legislation, Patrick McCrystal, The Queen's University of Belfast. 5. Needs-based Planning for Family and Child Care Services in Northern Ireland: Problems and Possibilities, Andrew Percy, The Queen's University of Belfast. 6. Understanding and Developing Family Support in Northern Ireland: The Challenge to Policy, Practice and Research, Kathryn Higgins, The Queen's University of Belfast. 7. Making Progress? The Transition to Adulthood for Disabled Young People in Northern Ireland, Marina Monteith, The Queen's University of Belfast. 8. The Looking After Children Records System: An Evaluation of the Scottish Pilot, Suzanne Wheelaghan and Malcolm Hill, University of Glasgow. 9. Educating Accommodated Children, Moira Borland, University of Glasgow. 10. Confusion and Perceptions: Social Work Conceptions Regarding Black Children in Scotland, Satnam Singh, Vijay Patel and Patricia Falconer, Barnardo's Scotland. 11. From Childhood to Adulthood: The Outcomes of a Twenty-Year Follow-up of Children who Failed to Thrive, Dorota Iwaniec, The Queen's University of Belfast. 12. Visual Signal in Child-Child and Adult-Child Communication: Implications for the Use of the Live Link with Child Witnesses, Gywneth Doherty-Sneddon, University of Stirling, Sandra McAuley and Ozlem Carrera. 13. Law, Policy, Practice and Research in Child and Family Social Work, Malcolm Hill, University of Glasgow and Dorota Iwaniec, The Queen's University of Belfast. The Contributors. References. Subject Index. Author Index.
£26.59
Rivers Oram Press Socialist History Journal: Rev
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£9.67
John Catt Educational Ltd Interdisciplinary Thinking for Schools: Ethical
Book SynopsisInterdisciplinary Thinking for Schools: Ethical Dilemmas MYP 1, 2 & 3 is not your average textbook resource. Innovative ethical design projects illustrated with spectacular artwork will connect students to exciting and purposeful learning. Rich primary research includes interviews with the following visionaries: Alberto Alessi, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Dr. Jane Goodall, Jared Della Valle and the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. The interdisciplinary units have been written with a focus on creativity, critical thinking and exploration of embedded ethical dilemmas. Our strategies support the growth of an innovative and student-centered curriculum to generate real world, sustainable solutions to problems in keeping with the IB MYP philosophy.
£21.00
Waldorf Publications Trailing Clouds of Glory: Essays on Human
Book SynopsisSexuality is an important but challenging issue for schools to address. Adolescents need to know about reproduction and the power of procreation, but mainstream teaching can offer a very raw view of sexuality and gender.This book, a wonderful antidote to the mainstream, brings together insights from several experienced Waldorf teachers, who share their approaches to the subject. Full of wisdom and perception, these contributions add up to an invaluable resources for teachers facing similar challenges.The book also includes a full survey of child development in this area, giving useful background information which will underpin the curriculum.Suitable for Classes 7 to 12.
£22.50
Vegan Publishers Veducated!: An Educator's Guide for
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£12.34
The University of Chicago Press The Sex Education Debates
Book SynopsisSince the 1980s, intense political and cultural battles have been waged between believers in abstinence until marriage and advocates for comprehensive sex education. Drawing on ethnographic research in five states, the author reveals important differences and surprising commonalities shared by purported antagonists in the sex education wars.Trade Review"The Sex Education Debates is a comprehensive analysis of US sex education debates, policies, and classroom practice. With incisive readings of the field data, Nancy Kendall offers a rigorous engagement with issues of structural and other social inequalities. Her analysis makes a significant contribution." (Jessica Fields, San Francisco State University)"
£30.00
SPCK Publishing SEAL Assemblies for Primary Schools
Book SynopsisThe Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) programme is a UK government initiative designed to help children and young people develop social and emotional intelligence. This book is a collection of 42 SEAL-themed assemblies, a resource for primary school teachers and clergy who wish to implement the SEAL curriculum.
£11.39
SPCK Publishing Primary School Assemblies for Religious Festivals
Book SynopsisThis new addition to the SPCK Assemblies series is a collection of assemblies that will help teachers to celebrate with all their children throughout the school year, no matter which faith they belong to. The book features assemblies dedicated to the festivals of nine major world religions.
£13.29
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Media Teaching
Book SynopsisAims to provide a fresh contemporary approach to media education. Fleming's text sets out to chart a detailed map of contemporary media studies and also shows how a busy teacher can move around this map. The text is supported by a range of examples, from the classroom, media and other texts.Trade Review"Here is a scholarly, closely argued affirmation of the place of media studies in the curriculum. This enthusiastic advocacy of subject and style makes it a work that perfectly meets the moment." Times Educational Supplement "Media Teaching provides a fresh contemporary approach to media education which will be welcomed by all students and teachers of media." "It should become an indispensable resource for teachers of media studies and those engaged in media education across the curriculum." "Media Teaching will be essential reading for all teachers of media studies, film studies, communication studies and for those undertaking elements of media education across a range of curriculum contexts. MetroTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Talking Media: Language Games and Learning Outcomes. 2. Thinking Media: Public Communication and Modes of Experience. 3. Broadcast Media: The Organization of Audio-Visual Aids. 4. Broadcasting and Popular Culture. 5. Print Media: The Organization of the Instantaneous. 6. Popular Culture and the Boundaries of Sociability. Appendix I. Appendix II. Index.
£38.90
John Wiley & Sons Inc Diversity and Citizenship Education
Book SynopsisThe increasing ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, and language diversity in nations throughout the world is forcing educators and policymakers to rethink existing notions of citizenship and nationality. To experience cultural democracy and freedom, a nation must be unified around a set of democratic values such as justice and equality that balance unity and diversity and protect the rights of diverse groups. Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives brings together in one comprehensive volume a group of international experts on the topic of diversity and citizenship education. These experts discuss and identify the shared issues and possibilities that exist when educating for national unity and cultural diversity. Diversity and Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives presents compelling case studies and examples of successful programs and practices from twelve nations, discusses problems that arise when societies are highly stratified along race, cultuTrade Review"…provides a solid basis for discussing these issues with faculty and administrators." (NACADA, 03/11/08) “Just such an excellent resource . . .this book is valuable in its attention to curriculum and to a lesser extent, pedagogy . . ." (The National Teaching and Learning Forum) This volume is essential reading for all scholars and students of the academic field of citizenship education. (London Review of Education, Vol. 6, March 2008) This superbly edited volume provides an extremely coherent treatment of diversity and citizenship in the 21st century, perhaps largely owing to the fact that it grew out of a small, focused conferences of heralding thinkings on this topic from 12 countries. (Intercultural Education)Table of ContentsForeword (Will Kymlicka). Preface (James A. Banks). Contributors and Conference Participants. Reviewers. PART ONE: Crosscutting Issues and Concepts. Introduction: Democratic Citizenship Education in Multicultural Societies (James A. Banks). 1. Migration, Citizenship, and Education (Stephen Castles). 2. Higher Learning: Educational Availability and Flexible Citizenship in Global Space (Aihwa Ong). 3. Unity and Diversity in Democratic Multicultural Education: Creative and Destructive Tensions (Amy Gutmann). PART TWO: The United States and Canada. 4. Culture Versus Citizenship: The Challenge of Racialized Citizenship in the United States (Gloria Ladson-Billings). 5. Citizenship and Multicultural Education in Canada: From Assimilation to Social Cohesion (Reva Joshee). PART THREE: South Africa and Brazil. 6. Citizenship Education and Political Literacy in South Africa (Kogila A. Moodley and Heribert Adam). 7. Citizenship and Education in Brazil: The Contribution of Indian Peoples and Blacks in the Struggle for Citizenship and Recognition (Petronilha Beatriz Gonçalves e Silva). PART FOUR: England, Germany, and Russia). 8. Diversity and Citizenship Education in England (Peter Figueroa). 9. Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship Education in Germany (Sigrid Luchtenberg). 10. Citizenship Education and Ethnic Issues in Russia (Isak D. Froumin). PART FIVE: Japan, India, and China. 11. Expanding the Borders of the Nation: Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship Education in Japan (Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu). 12. Crisis of Citizenship Education in the Indian Republic: Contestation Between Cultural Monists and Pluralists (T. K. Oommen). 13. Ethnic Diversity and Citizenship Education in the People’s Republic of China (Wan Minggang). PART SIX: Israel and Palestine. 14. Diversity and Citizenship Education in Israel (Moshe Tatar). 15. Educating for Citizenship in the New Palestine (Fouad Moughrabi). PART SEVEN: Curriculum for Diversity, Democracy, and Citizenship Education. 16. Diversity, Globalization, and Democratic Education: Curriculum Possibilities (Walter C. Parker). Diversity, Democracy, Globalization, and Citizenship: A Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.
£29.44
Chelsea House Publishers Fidel Castro Major World Leaders
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£26.96
Mumbai
Book SynopsisThe most globalized city in India, Mumbai is a world center for financial, manufacturing, and service industries. This work provides a comprehensive overview of this urban magnet - from its establishment as a rich port for the Portuguese in 1534 to its 21st-century role as an information technology powerhouse.
£24.26
The Forensic Aspects of Poisons Inside Forensic
Book SynopsisAims to introduce students to basic principles of forensic toxicology and the role of poisons in forensic science. This book emphasises on the common drugs and poisons that are encountered by a practicing forensic toxicologist and the approach to determining their medicolegal role in establishing the cause of death and disease.
£24.26
Henry Kissinger Modern Peacemakers Ending the
Book SynopsisAs national security advisor and secretary of state under President Richard Nixon, and secretary of state for Gerald Ford, Kissinger played a pivotal role in American foreign policy. This work provides coverage of the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest diplomats with selected writings, related sidebars, and balanced commentary.
£25.46
Whitecollar Crime
Book SynopsisThe term 'white-collar crime' refers to crimes committed by people in respectable social and professional positions, who commit a crime in the course of doing their job or by using the advantage of their position. This book explains the common types of crime committed, ranging from simple fraud to embezzling to insider trading.
£29.71
Chelsea House Publishers Unsolved Crimes
Book SynopsisExamines unresolved crimes by reviewing what police and experts in forensic science did (or failed to do) while trying to resolve each crime. This book covers cases such as Jack the Ripper, unidentified serial killer; the murder of Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia); and, the assassination of John F Kennedy, officially solved but often disputed.
£29.71
Chelsea House Publishers The African Union
Book SynopsisBased in Ethiopia, the Africa Union, established in July 2002, is the successor to the Organization of African Unity, created in 1963. The AU aims include promoting democracy, human rights, and sustainable economic development across Africa, especially by increasing foreign investment through the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).Table of Contentssidebars.; chronology.; footnotes.; bibliography.; further reading.; web sites.; index.
£29.71
John Wiley & Sons Teaching Democracy Unity and Diversity in Public
Book SynopsisHere, Walter Parker offers a contribution to the debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favour a cultural literacy approach. Parker demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes a fundamental respect for diversity.Trade Review“At a moment in time when our connection to the nation seems superficial and jingoistic, Walter Parker offers us a vehicle to reach our ideal of deliberative, committed civic participation for every citizen. This book explores the hard work of citizen-making in a diverse and complex society where individual and group interests often are in conflict. Parker makes us realize that in a democracy ‘public’ is not a dirty word and schooling should not be punishment.” ― Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison“This book deals in an engaging and thought-provoking way with both social realities and democratic possibilities―exactly what I try to do in my classroom.”―Wendy Ewbank, teacher, Seattle Girls’ School
£24.69
John Wiley & Sons Teaching Social Studies that Matters
Book SynopsisIn this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and teaching methods in order for effective instruction to occur.
£19.94
Elizabethan England Volume 3
Book SynopsisAn eight-volume set examining the development of costume and fashion and the social history that gave rise to it. It depicts the changing styles, processes, and trends - from the first people to wear clothes in the last Ice Age to the courtly fashion of medieval Europe to the globalization of Western style - that led us to the clothing of today.
£29.71
The 18th Century Volume 5 History of Fashion
Book SynopsisAn eight-volume set examining the development of costume and fashion and the social history that gave rise to it. It depicts the changing styles, processes, and trends - from the first people to wear clothes in the last Ice Age to the courtly fashion of medieval Europe to the globalization of Western style - that led us to the clothing of today.
£29.71
The 19th Century Volume 7 History of Fashion Costume
Book SynopsisAn eight-volume set examining the development of costume and fashion and the social history that gave rise to it. It depicts the changing styles, processes, and trends - from the first people to wear clothes in the last Ice Age to the courtly fashion of medieval Europe to the globalization of Western style - that led us to the clothing of today.
£29.71
Facts On File Inc The 1930s
Book SynopsisExamines the role of fashion as it made its way through the Great Depression, exploring the social and cultural aspects of history through a softer lens. Cheaper fabrics that imitated luxury items such as nylon and artificial silks became popular, along with clothing that featured a more muted palette and longer, more flowing lines.
£29.71
The 1940s
Book SynopsisTraces the mobilization of clothing trends as they marched across the war-ravaged world. This volume offers a reflection on the role fashion has played throughout the period of 1940s. It serves as a useful reference for those students or general readers who are interested in how history and culture has affected fashion through the years.
£29.71
Communication Skills
Book SynopsisKnowing how to communicate clearly and effectively in the workplace is one of the keys to career success. This work focuses on the importance of speaking, writing, listening, and conversational skills for thriving in the workplace. It also features useful facts and statistics to help readers with their communication skills.Trade ReviewThe advice is sound and the interactive style will appeal to teens...solid and engaging... - School Library Journal
£23.36
University of Hawai'i Press Kamehameha
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£13.46
Tilbury House,U.S. Talking Walls Discover Your World
Book SynopsisIf walls could talk, what would they say? Perhaps they would tell us who built them and why. Maybe they could even tell us about people's lives today or about how our ancestors lived thousands of years ago.Trade Review" If You Build It… Introduce readers to different cultures by exploring the stories of walls around the world and how they can separate communities or hold them together. " -- Learning Magazine"Links to social studies abound. A great read-aloud and a unique source of hard-to-find material." -- School Library Journal"An unusually attractive book that wisely allows readers to draw their own conclusions." -- Kirkus Reviews"Knight has found a powerful theme for introducing children to the world and its diverse cultures." -- Booklist starred review
£9.67
Brookes Publishing Co Merrell's Strong Kids™ - Grades 6-8: A Social and
Book SynopsisTeach social-emotional competence - the foundation of school and social success - with the NEW editions of the Strong Kids™ - Grades 6 - 8 curriculum! Strong Kids is the fun and easy way to help your students develop the social-emotional skills they need to manage their challenges and succeed in school and life. Developed by a team of educational and mental health experts, this evidence-based, age-appropriate curriculum is Low cost and low tech Proven to help increase students' knowledge of social and emotional concepts and decrease their emotional and behavioral problems Easy to implement with no mental health training required Brief enough to use with any program Through engaging, thought-provoking classroom activities, students learn about emotions and the social-emotional skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: managing anger, reducing stress, solving interpersonal problems, and much more. This scientifically-based curriculum runs for 12 weeks, and lessons are easy to fit into your existing schedule (especially with the new options for breaking them into smaller chunks). Partially scripted lessons, handouts, and worksheets are included - all photocopiable and available as downloads - so teachers have everything they need to implement the program with little added cost or preparation.
£38.66
Brookes Publishing Co Merrell's Strong Start™ - Grades K-2: A Social
Book SynopsisTeach social-emotional competence to children Grads K - 2 with the NEW edition of the Strong Start - Grades K - 2 curriculum! Part of the Strong Kids™ series, Strong Start is the fun, easy way to help children develop the social-emotional skills they need to build a strong foundation for school success. Developed by a team of educational and mental health experts, this evidence-based, age-appropriate curriculum is Low cost and low tech Proven to help increase children's knowledge of healthy behavior Easy to implement with no training required Brief enough to use with any program Through engaging classroom activities, children learn about emotions and the social-emotional skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: managing anger, reducing stress, solving interpersonal problems, and more. This scientifically based curriculum runs for 10 weeks, and lessons are easy to fit into your existing schedule. Partially scripted lessons, handouts, and worksheets are included - all photocopiable and available as downloads - so you have everything you need to implement the program with little added cost or preparation.
£36.51
Kent State University Press Keeping Reflection Fresh: A Practical Guide for Clinical Educators
Book SynopsisCurriculum committees at health professional schools are determined that faculty engage students in reflection. Reflective practice invites students to inquire into their own thoughts, biases, assumptions, feelings, and behaviors and to reconnect with their own sense of purpose and commitment to their work. In Keeping Reflection Fresh, practitioners, educators, and students in medical humanities, bioethics, nursing, emergency medicine, geriatrics, psychiatry, family medicine, surgery, medical education, and other fields join artists, musicians, poets, and writers to present an illuminating and innovative collection of provocative essays. The contributors—including Louise Aronson, Jay Baruch, Alan Bleakley, Rita Charon, Jack Coulehan, Sayantani DasGupta, Therese Jones, and Delese Wear, among many others—offer insights, guidance, and strategies designed to inspire new concepts, connections, and conversations, enrich practices, and stimulate scholarly inquiry.Keeping Reflection Fresh demonstrates the care and commitment of internationally recognized educators who are working toward reimagining health education and re-inspiring health care. It will be welcomed by a broad readership of educators, students, practitioners, and lifelong learners across the healing professions, social sciences, humanities, and artistic disciplines.
£36.71
Information Age Publishing Social Justice Leadership for a Global World
Book SynopsisThe global economic meltdown has highlighted the interconnectedness of nations. This book seeks to provide an overview of topics, issues, and best practices related to defining social justice leadership given our increasingly global world. Refugees and immigrants from around the globe now inhabit schools and institutions of higher education across the nation and US students, teachers, and leaders are traversing international boarders both physically and virtually through international collaboration, technology, and exchange programs. Although there have been increased efforts and scholarship in support of diversity and multicultural awareness, these efforts have largely focused on the US. We acknowledge that many leadership theories are “domestic” in that they typically incorporate US perspectives or a single-culture description of effective leadership. This book provides a deeper understanding of diverse and multicultural perspectives as they relate to a world that is becoming increasingly interconnected economically, socially, and culturally. Particular attention is paid to providing specific strategies for social justice leaders working in PK-12 and/or higher education, and leadership preparation programs to promote effective leadership that reflects multicultural understanding of the diversity both within and outside the US. Within the context of leadership practice, internationalization offers new insights and ideas about leadership aims, processes, and competencies as a means for addressing equity concerns throughout PK-20 education.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Creating Socially Responsible Citizens: Cases
Book SynopsisThis book originates from a collaborative research initiative to examine how various societies in the Asia-Pacific Region construct moral and civic education, and to what extent these systems achieve the democratic objective of creating socially responsible citizens. In many western societies there is at least a rhetorical tendency to separate the moral and civic dimensions of citizenship education, and in some cases to exclude the moral dimension from the discourse of preparing citizens.However, as cross-societal dialogues and research about citizenship education have increased in the past two decades, scholars have identified differences in the emphasis put on the moral dimension of citizenship education across the Asia-Pacific region. In many predominantly Confucian, Islamic and Buddhist societies, for example, the emphasis on the moral dimension of citizenship education is explicit, and in some cases, central. While awareness of a divide, or perhaps more appropriately a continuum in the role of moral versus civic education in democratic societies has been recognized for some time, to our knowledge this book marks the first effort of this scope to address the issue of the moral/civic divide in citizenship education. Thus, through a cross-cultural dialogue across societies in the Asia-Pacific Region, this book addresses the issue of whether elements of both civic and moral education can be effectively joined to create a “socially responsible” citizen.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Creating Socially Responsible Citizens: Cases
Book SynopsisThis book originates from a collaborative research initiative to examine how various societies in the Asia-Pacific Region construct moral and civic education, and to what extent these systems achieve the democratic objective of creating socially responsible citizens. In many western societies there is at least a rhetorical tendency to separate the moral and civic dimensions of citizenship education, and in some cases to exclude the moral dimension from the discourse of preparing citizens.However, as cross-societal dialogues and research about citizenship education have increased in the past two decades, scholars have identified differences in the emphasis put on the moral dimension of citizenship education across the Asia-Pacific region. In many predominantly Confucian, Islamic and Buddhist societies, for example, the emphasis on the moral dimension of citizenship education is explicit, and in some cases, central. While awareness of a divide, or perhaps more appropriately a continuum in the role of moral versus civic education in democratic societies has been recognized for some time, to our knowledge this book marks the first effort of this scope to address the issue of the moral/civic divide in citizenship education. Thus, through a cross-cultural dialogue across societies in the Asia-Pacific Region, this book addresses the issue of whether elements of both civic and moral education can be effectively joined to create a “socially responsible” citizen.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Learning from the Boys: Looking Inside the
Book SynopsisThe "Boy Crisis" is cited often in educational and news reports due to the consistent reading achievement gap for boys and the statistics paint a dismal picture of boys in school. Politicians and researchers often focus on boys' low scores on reading achievement tests and compare these scores to the girls' scores with little consideration for the actual reading lives of boys. As a result, adolescent boys' vernacular reading is most often misunderstood. This book documents my journey as a mother of three boys and teacher of adolescents, as I attempt to articulate both the in-school and out-of-school experiences of boys. The book describes my attempts at creating a more complete picture of the reading lives and experiences of adolescent boys by describing three boys and their reading experiences in their natural contexts. It provides a rich description, revealing disconnects between school literacy practices and boys' vernacular literacy practices. In this book, parents, administrators, and teachers will find discover the complexity of boys as readers, challenging educators to pursue effective practice and curricular decisions which go beyond the quick fixes for "the boy problem" so often seen in response to low test scores. This book provides parents, administrators, and teachers with an in-depth description of three boy readers. What emerges is a description of the complexity of boys as readers, challenging educators to pursue effective practice and curricular decisions which go beyond the quick fixes for "the boy problem" so often seen in response to low test scores. Teachers interested in mentoring boy readers will find this book helpful. This book can also be used with pre-service and in-service teachers, in undergraduate and graduate courses, and in professional development.
£39.99
Information Age Publishing Learning from the Boys: Looking Inside the
Book SynopsisThe "Boy Crisis" is cited often in educational and news reports due to the consistent reading achievement gap for boys and the statistics paint a dismal picture of boys in school. Politicians and researchers often focus on boys' low scores on reading achievement tests and compare these scores to the girls' scores with little consideration for the actual reading lives of boys. As a result, adolescent boys' vernacular reading is most often misunderstood. This book documents my journey as a mother of three boys and teacher of adolescents, as I attempt to articulate both the in-school and out-of-school experiences of boys. The book describes my attempts at creating a more complete picture of the reading lives and experiences of adolescent boys by describing three boys and their reading experiences in their natural contexts. It provides a rich description, revealing disconnects between school literacy practices and boys' vernacular literacy practices. In this book, parents, administrators, and teachers will find discover the complexity of boys as readers, challenging educators to pursue effective practice and curricular decisions which go beyond the quick fixes for "the boy problem" so often seen in response to low test scores. This book provides parents, administrators, and teachers with an in-depth description of three boy readers. What emerges is a description of the complexity of boys as readers, challenging educators to pursue effective practice and curricular decisions which go beyond the quick fixes for "the boy problem" so often seen in response to low test scores. Teachers interested in mentoring boy readers will find this book helpful. This book can also be used with pre-service and in-service teachers, in undergraduate and graduate courses, and in professional development.
£73.99
Information Age Publishing Educational Leadership: Building Bridges Among
Book SynopsisEducational Leadership: Building Bridges Among Ideas, Schools, and Nations breaks new ground by connecting many ideas to educational leadership that have traditionally been discussed as part of leaders' contexts by connecting them and showing how international issues can unite scholars and educators in action. The book draws on the authors' extensive experiences in U.S. public schools, research in the field of educational leadership, and programmatic practices to prepare school leaders to commit themselves to social justice. The book provides a forum for this important work in the ongoing conversation about equity and excellence in education, and the role(s) leadership can assume in building bridges among ideas, people, and educational organizations. Chapters center on creating spaces for vigorous dialogue. Authors call upon scholars and practitioners to reconsider their intent to empower those who live on the margins. The dynamic approaches discussed throughout the book urge school leaders, teachers, school community members, and those who prepare administrators to look within and build bridges between themselves and those they serve.
£87.79
Information Age Publishing New Directions in Social Education Research: The
Book SynopsisThrough rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a complex global system (Friedman, 2005). With the rise of new technology, local populations, businesses and states are better equipped to participate and act in a thriving international environment. Rising instability in the Middle East is immediately reported to oil and gas brokers in the U.S. Within seconds cable channels, iPods, social networking sites, and cell phones are relaying how protests in Egypt and Libya give hope to citizens around the world yearning for freedom. As events like 9/11 and the 2008 Financial Crisis have demonstrated, there is no retreating from the interconnectedness of the global system. As societies strive to empower citizens with the skills, understandings and dispositions needed to operate in an interconnected global age, teachers are being encouraged to help students use technologies to develop new knowledge and foster cross cultural understandings.As pressures mount for society to equip today’s youth with both the global and digital understandings necessary to confront the challenges of the 21st century, a more thorough analysis must be undertaken to examine the role of technology on student learning (Peters, 2009). This work will highlight the complex, contested, and contingent ways new technologies are being used by today’s youth in a digital and global age. This text will present audiences with in-demand research that investigates the ways in which student use of technology mediates and complicates their learning about the world, its people, and global issues.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing New Directions in Social Education Research: The
Book SynopsisThrough rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a complex global system (Friedman, 2005). With the rise of new technology, local populations, businesses and states are better equipped to participate and act in a thriving international environment. Rising instability in the Middle East is immediately reported to oil and gas brokers in the U.S. Within seconds cable channels, iPods, social networking sites, and cell phones are relaying how protests in Egypt and Libya give hope to citizens around the world yearning for freedom. As events like 9/11 and the 2008 Financial Crisis have demonstrated, there is no retreating from the interconnectedness of the global system. As societies strive to empower citizens with the skills, understandings and dispositions needed to operate in an interconnected global age, teachers are being encouraged to help students use technologies to develop new knowledge and foster cross cultural understandings.As pressures mount for society to equip today’s youth with both the global and digital understandings necessary to confront the challenges of the 21st century, a more thorough analysis must be undertaken to examine the role of technology on student learning (Peters, 2009). This work will highlight the complex, contested, and contingent ways new technologies are being used by today’s youth in a digital and global age. This text will present audiences with in-demand research that investigates the ways in which student use of technology mediates and complicates their learning about the world, its people, and global issues.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing Integrative Strategies for the K-12 Social
Book SynopsisWhile the concept of integration or an interdisciplinary curriculum has been around for decades, the purposeful practice of integration is a relatively new educational endeavour. Though classroom teachers often say they “integrate,” there generally seems to be a lack of understanding of what this thing called integration is (theory) and what it is supposed to look like in the classroom (practice).Arguably, no other discipline has felt the pressure to integrate more than social studies. Marginalised by federal initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and suffering from a general crisis of credibility, social studies has been pushed further and further to the proverbial back burner of educational importance. Yet regardless of perspective or position, social studies remains ripe for integration.The crux of this book is to provide educators insights and strategies into how to integrate social studies with other discipline areas. Calling upon national experts in their respective fields, each chapter chronicles the broad relationship between individual content areas and social studies. Multiple examples of integrative opportunities are included. At the end of each chapter is a series of grade-specific integrative lesson plans ready for implementation. This book was purposefully designed as a how-to, hands-on, ready-reference guide for educators at all stages and all levels of teaching.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Integrative Strategies for the K-12 Social
Book SynopsisWhile the concept of integration or an interdisciplinary curriculum has been around for decades, the purposeful practice of integration is a relatively new educational endeavour. Though classroom teachers often say they “integrate,” there generally seems to be a lack of understanding of what this thing called integration is (theory) and what it is supposed to look like in the classroom (practice).Arguably, no other discipline has felt the pressure to integrate more than social studies. Marginalised by federal initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and suffering from a general crisis of credibility, social studies has been pushed further and further to the proverbial back burner of educational importance. Yet regardless of perspective or position, social studies remains ripe for integration.The crux of this book is to provide educators insights and strategies into how to integrate social studies with other discipline areas. Calling upon national experts in their respective fields, each chapter chronicles the broad relationship between individual content areas and social studies. Multiple examples of integrative opportunities are included. At the end of each chapter is a series of grade-specific integrative lesson plans ready for implementation. This book was purposefully designed as a how-to, hands-on, ready-reference guide for educators at all stages and all levels of teaching.
£82.80
Information Age Publishing The Status of Social Studies: Views from the
Book SynopsisA team of researchers from 35 states across the country developed a survey designed to create a snapshot of social studies teaching and learning in the United States. With over 12,000 responses, it is the largest survey of social studies teachers in over three decades. We asked teachers about their curricular goals, their methods of instruction, their use of technology, and the way they address the needs of English language learners and students with disabilities. We gathered demographic data too, along with inquiries about the teachers' training, their professional development experiences, and even whether they serve as coaches. The enormous data set from this project was analysed by multiple research teams, each with its own chapter. This volume would be a valuable resource for any professor, doctoral student, or Master’s student examining the field of social studies education. It is hard to imagine a research study, topical article, or professional development session concerning social studies that would not quote findings from this book about the current status of social studies. With chapters on such key issues as the teaching of history, how teachers address religion, social studies teachers’ use of technology, and how teachers adapt their instruction for students with disabilities or for English language learners, the book’s content will immediately be relevant and useful.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing The Status of Social Studies: Views from the
Book SynopsisA team of researchers from 35 states across the country developed a survey designed to create a snapshot of social studies teaching and learning in the United States. With over 12,000 responses, it is the largest survey of social studies teachers in over three decades. We asked teachers about their curricular goals, their methods of instruction, their use of technology, and the way they address the needs of English language learners and students with disabilities. We gathered demographic data too, along with inquiries about the teachers' training, their professional development experiences, and even whether they serve as coaches. The enormous data set from this project was analysed by multiple research teams, each with its own chapter. This volume would be a valuable resource for any professor, doctoral student, or Master’s student examining the field of social studies education. It is hard to imagine a research study, topical article, or professional development session concerning social studies that would not quote findings from this book about the current status of social studies. With chapters on such key issues as the teaching of history, how teachers address religion, social studies teachers’ use of technology, and how teachers adapt their instruction for students with disabilities or for English language learners, the book’s content will immediately be relevant and useful.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Digital Social Studies
Book SynopsisThe world is ever changing and the way students experience social studies should reflect the environment in which they live and learn. Digital Social Studies explores research, effective teaching strategies, and technologies for social studies practice in the digital age.The digital age of education is more prominent than ever and it is an appropriate time to examine the blending of the digital age and the field of social studies. What is digital social studies? Why do we need it and what is its purpose? What will social studies look like in the future? The contributing authors of this volume seek to explain, through an array of ideas and visions, what digital social studies can/should look like, while providing research and rationales for why digital social studies is needed and important.This volume includes twenty-two scholarly chapters discussing relevant topics of importance to digital social studies. The twenty-two chapters are divided into two sections. This stellar collection of writings includes contributions from leading scholars like Cheryl Mason Bolick, Michael Berson, Elizabeth Washington, Linda Bennett, and many more.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Digital Social Studies
Book SynopsisThe world is ever changing and the way students experience social studies should reflect the environment in which they live and learn. Digital Social Studies explores research, effective teaching strategies, and technologies for social studies practice in the digital age.The digital age of education is more prominent than ever and it is an appropriate time to examine the blending of the digital age and the field of social studies. What is digital social studies? Why do we need it and what is its purpose? What will social studies look like in the future? The contributing authors of this volume seek to explain, through an array of ideas and visions, what digital social studies can/should look like, while providing research and rationales for why digital social studies is needed and important.This volume includes twenty-two scholarly chapters discussing relevant topics of importance to digital social studies. The twenty-two chapters are divided into two sections. This stellar collection of writings includes contributions from leading scholars like Cheryl Mason Bolick, Michael Berson, Elizabeth Washington, Linda Bennett, and many more.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and
Book SynopsisEducating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Critical Annotated Bibliography, Volume 3 is the third volume in a series that addresses an eclectic host of issues germane to teaching and learning about social issues at the secondary level of schooling, ranging over roughly a one hundred year period (between 1915 and 2013). Volume 3 specifically addresses how an examination of social issues can be incorporated into the extant curriculum. Experts in various areas each contribute a chapter in the book. Each chapter is comprised of a critical essay and an annotated bibliography of key works germane to the specific focus of the chapter.
£49.95
Information Age Publishing Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and
Book SynopsisEducating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Critical Annotated Bibliography, Volume 3 is the third volume in a series that addresses an eclectic host of issues germane to teaching and learning about social issues at the secondary level of schooling, ranging over roughly a one hundred year period (between 1915 and 2013). Volume 3 specifically addresses how an examination of social issues can be incorporated into the extant curriculum. Experts in various areas each contribute a chapter in the book. Each chapter is comprised of a critical essay and an annotated bibliography of key works germane to the specific focus of the chapter.
£87.40
Information Age Publishing Educational Leadership for Ethics and Social
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to examine and learn lessons from the way leadership for social justice is conceptualized in several disciplines and to consider how these lessons might improve the preparation and practice of school leaders. In particular, we examine philosophy, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, public policy, and psychology. Our contention is that the field of educational leadership might consider taking a step backward in order to take several forward. That is, educational leadership researchers might re-examine social justice, both in terms of social and individual dynamics and as disciplinary-specific, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary phenomenon. By adopting this approach, we can connect and extend long-established lines of conceptual and empirical inquiry and thereby gain insights that may otherwise be overlooked or assumed. This holds great promise for generating, refining, and testing theories of social justice in educational leadership and will help strengthen already vibrant lines of inquiry. That is, rather than citing a single, or a few, works out of their disciplinary context it might be more fruitful to situate educational leadership for social justice research in their respective traditions. This could be carried out by extending extant lines of inquiry in educational leadership research and then incorporating lessons gleaned from this work into innovative practice. For example, why not more clearly establish lines of educational leadership and justice research into the Philosophy of Social Justice, Economics of Social Justice, Political Studies of Social Justice, Sociology of Social Justice, Anthropology of Social Justice, and the Public Policy of Social Justice as focused and discrete areas of inquiry?Once this new orientation toward the knowledge base of social justice and educational leadership is laid, we might then seek to explore some of the natural connections between traditions before ultimately investigating justice in educational leadership through a free association of ideas as the worlds of practice and research co-construct a “new” language they can use to discuss educational leadership. Such an endeavor may demand reconceptualization of both the processes and products of collaborative research and the communication of findings, but it will demand a breaking-down of methodological and epistemological biases and a more meaningful level and type of engagement between primary and applied knowledge bases.
£44.96
