Education

A facilitator has been traditionally defined as someone who helps a group of people understand their objectives, and assists them in planning to achieve them, without taking a position in the discussion.

Both an introduction to sensory ethnography and a bold display of the sophisticated use of the sensory for contemporary ethnography, Global South Ethnographies: Minding the Senses reflects both indigenous and non-mainstream takes on the sensory and the sensual in ethnographic practice.

The middle school years are a maze of academic duties, human growth and self-development, discovering self identity, and increasing social interaction with other people.

Does the thought of exams and tests make you feel panicky?

This is the first book to present a practical, problem-solving approach and hands-on tools and techniques for assessing English language learners and culturally diverse students in K-12 settings.

The Sharp Edge of Educational Change conveys the realities of reform as they affect educators' practice.

Teaching assistants are an integral part of classroom life, yet pioneering research by the authors has shown schools are not making the most of this valued resource.

Der Göttinger Soziologe Konrad Thomas, dessen scripta minora hier in Auswahl vorliegen, hat für die neuen Problemlagen wie ‚Rivalität und Konkurrenz’, ‚Ethnien und Staaten’ oder ‚Anthropologie und Soziologie’ wichtige Theoreme entwickelt und Interpretationen geliefert.

What if our previous teachings and beliefs regarding processing stimuli, reading emotions and understanding human behaviour is all untrue?

If you want to help your students use social media to get ahead in their job search, look no further than this book.

Teaching Recent Global History explores innovative ways to teach world history, beginning with the early 20th century.

In the face of increasing social demand and cutbacks in state budgetary support, universities in African countries are now turning towards a multicampus system strategy.

In Unconscious Bias in Schools, two seasoned educators describe the phenomenon of unconscious racial bias and how it negatively affects the work of educators and students in schools.

Video Games in Psychotherapy provides the reader with a practical session-by-session framework for using video games, interactive media, and gaming metaphors to help make the process of psychotherapy more engaging for today's youth.

Concept Mapping in Mathematics: Research into Practice is the first comprehensive book on concept mapping in mathematics.

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Originally published in 1996, Art for All is aimed at the non-specialist teacher of art, and offers a practical approach for working with pupils with wide-ranging learning needs.

The Developing Core Literacy Proficiencies program is an integrated set of English Language Arts/Literacy units spanning grades 6-12 that provide student-centered instruction on a set of literacy proficiencies at the heart of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

This book deals with the Discursive Interview, a qualitative interview method originally developed for the recording and reconstruction of social patterns of interpretation.

Did you ever notice how many teachers start out their careers so positive only to end them in misery?

In the decades after 1944 the four nations of Britain shared a common educational programme.

Youth Resistance for Educational Justice shows how resistance, especially among minoritized groups, is an increasingly crucial dynamic of social and educational transformation.

Meet Max - a boy with Tourette syndrome (TS).

Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning: Using the Outdoors as an Instructional Tool K-8' shows how the school groundsregardless of whether your school is in an urban, suburban, or rural settingcan become an enriching extension of the classroom.

Cet ouvrage propose un regard panoramique sur différentes composantes propres à l'utilisation des technologies de l'information de la communication pour médiatiser les opérations de présentation des tâches, de récolte des données, de stockage, de correction et de notation en vue de l'évaluation des apprentissages.

This simple guide provides valuable insights for transforming an out-of-date public, school, or academic library into a thriving, user-centric learning commons.

The Business Side of Learning Design and Technologies provides actionable tools and techniques for recognizing the impact of learning design/technology decisions at the project, business unit, and organizational levels.

This edited volume illuminates how intimate relations with place can transform early childhood pedagogy by presenting a diverse range of situated place stories.

This book contributes to the understanding of regional and global perspectives on the development and challenges the higher education sector in sub-Saharan Africa faces in the era of globalization.

The explosion of blogs, social networking sites, wikis, video sharing sites, and other powerful digital communications platforms may be the biggest game-changer to impact business since mechanized manufacturing.

This highly regarded practitioner guide provides state-of-the-art tools for supporting the academic and behavioral success of PreK-12 students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Drawing from doctoral level research on how best to teach business education to college students, Discourses on Business Education at the College Level illustrates new and proven ideas for engaging students.

Ebtisam Ramadan stellt in ihrer Forschungsarbeit die Komplexität der religionspädagogischen Verhältnisse im Elementarbereich vor dem Hintergrund der demokratischen pluralen deutschen Migrationsgesellschaft fest.

2010 Notable Education Book, American School Board Journal';Why is it,' writes noted assessment expert W.

The purpose of this series is to bring together the main currents in today's higher education and examine such crucial issues as the changing nature of education in the U.

During the first decade of the 21st century the Catholic Church in the developed world has faced a decline in its moral authority, increasing accusations of irrelevance to a secular age, and a steep and steady decline in commitment among successive generations from the 1960s on.

An easy-to-read and highly informative book on an extremely important subject.

Build a relationship with your customers and close the sale more surely.

This book is intended for everyone in higher education - whether in the classroom, student affairs, administration, admissions, health services or faculty development - who is, or expects to be teaching, advising, or serving student veterans.

In this analysis of Japan's policy-making, David Williams places his argument within the debates about Japanese political economy in the United States and Britain, debates previously polarised between `market' and `ministry' views.

Every school district needs a system of sound superintendent performance evaluation.

This important book offers a meta-theoretical account of educational theories and how they work.

Co-published with This groundbreaking book examines a concept that has gone unexamined for too long: The concept of "e;job fit"e; in the student affairs profession.