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Medical Education for the Future - Identity, Power and Location (Hardcover, 2011): Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne Medical Education for the Future - Identity, Power and Location (Hardcover, 2011)
Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne
R5,828 Discovery Miles 58 280 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The purpose of medical education is to benefit patients by improving the work of doctors. Patient centeredness is a centuries old concept in medicine, but there is still a long way to go before medical education can truly be said to be patient centered. Ensuring the centrality of the patient is a particular challenge during medical education, when students are still forming an identity as trainee doctors, and conservative attitudes towards medicine and education are common amongst medical teachers, making it hard to bring about improvements. How can teachers, policy makers, researchers and doctors bring about lasting change that will restore the patient to the heart of medical education? The authors, experienced medical educators, explore the role of the patient in medical education in terms of identity, power and location. Using innovative political, philosophical, cultural and literary critical frameworks that have previously never been applied so consistently to the field, the authors provide a fundamental reconceptualisation of medical teaching and learning, with an emphasis upon learning at the bedside and in the clinic. They offer a wealth of practical and conceptual insights into the three-way relationship between patients, students and teachers, setting out a radical and exciting approach to a medical education for the future.

"The authors provide us with a masterful reconceptualization of medical education that challenges traditional notions about teaching and learning. The book critiques current practices and offers new approaches to medical education based upon sociocultural research and theory. This thought provoking narrative advances the case for reform and is a must read for anyone involved in medical education." -

David M. Irby, PhD, Vice Dean for Education, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; and co-author of Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency

"This book is a truly visionary contribution to the Flexner centenary. It is compulsory reading for the medical educationalist with a serious concern for the future - and for the welfare of patients and learners in the here and now."

Professor Tim Dornan, University of Manchester Medical School and Maastricht University Graduate School of Health Professions Education.

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Building Learning Experiences in a Changing World (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.): Piet Van Den Bossche, Wim H. Gijselaers, Richard G.... Building Learning Experiences in a Changing World (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
Piet Van Den Bossche, Wim H. Gijselaers, Richard G. Milter
R2,681 Discovery Miles 26 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Advances in Business Education & Training" is a Book Series to foster advancement in the field of Business Education and Training. It serves as an international forum for scholarly and state-of-the-art research and development into all aspects of Business Education and Training.

This new volume deals with several aspects of the challenge to design learning in and for a changing world. The first part concerns program development. How to build curricula that are future-proof? Principles to innovate our curricula are identified. It answers the question how we can incorporate the need for change in our thinking about curriculum-development and identify the necessary elements to incorporate in our curricula. The second part focuses on the increasing diversity of students and employees within our schools and organizations, in terms of culture, language, and perception of ability, gifts, and talents. This offers a range of opportunities, but at the same time can possibly jeopardize some processes that are taken for granted. Chapters in this part analyze the processes that play a crucial role in dealing with this diversity and identify educational practices that can help to harvest the potential that lies within this diversity. The third part of this book digs further into the possibilities that are opened up by the implementation of ICT-support in our learning environments. E-learning provides tools to adapt these environments to the needs of an increasingly diverse student-population. In the last part we focus specifically on the workplace and how learning can be designed in such a way that employees are equipped for a shifting workplace. On the one hand it is looked how training can affect performance in the workplace. Does learning transfer to the work environment? On the other hand it is questioned how one can design affordances to trigger learning in the workplace.

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Curriculum Work and Social Justice Leadership in a Post-Reconceptualist Era - Attaining Critical Consciousness and Learning to... Curriculum Work and Social Justice Leadership in a Post-Reconceptualist Era - Attaining Critical Consciousness and Learning to Become (Hardcover)
Allan Michel Jales Coutinho
R4,493 Discovery Miles 44 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book urgently confronts systems of privilege and oppression within education, and combines concepts including bifocality, currere, and conscientizacao to highlight the role of dialogical and autobiographical reflection in dismantling neoliberal and colonial logics at the level of theory, policy, and practice. The author purposefully connects methods and concepts from curriculum, social studies and the arts, and offers insights into identity formation, social position, and social transformation. As such, Jales Coutinho presents an opportunity for curricularists to evaluate the connections between their lives and their work within and across mutually-constitutive discursive and material contexts, and critically analyze their agency, their relational encounters, and their position as changemakers within unjust social realities. Focusing on the intersection of curriculum theory with educational policy and leadership, the text calls for a mutual "becoming conscious" to illustrate how this can affect a paradigmatic shift toward social justice education, lived curriculum, and emancipatory pedagogy. With the potential to expand and set the tone for a long-standing curriculum conversation for curriculum theorists, educational leaders and policymakers concerning the contours and dimensions of our work in schools, research institutions, and policy circles, it crucially asks: what does it mean to engage in the complicated conversation of curriculum work in a post-reconceptualist era?

Better Feedback, Improved Lessons - A How-To Guide for Principals, Teacher Educators, and Mentors (Hardcover): Jacqueline G Van... Better Feedback, Improved Lessons - A How-To Guide for Principals, Teacher Educators, and Mentors (Hardcover)
Jacqueline G Van Schooneveld
R1,428 Discovery Miles 14 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Good teaching does not just happen during classroom instruction. The instructional design practices teachers participate in outside of instruction can have impact on potential learning opportunities that take place during class time. Lesson planning is one of those practices that can improve a teacher's instruction; however, it needs to be supported. Although there are a plethora of lesson plan models to assist teachers, there are no concrete strategies to help principals, teacher educators and mentors give constructive feedback on lesson plans that can impact teachers' content, pedagogy or classroom management. This book addresses it, and provides specific strategies that supervisors can use. The goal is to use lesson plans as an educative tool.

Black Boys are Lit - Engaging PreK-3 Gifted and Talented Black Boys Using Multicultural Literature and Ford's Bloom-Banks... Black Boys are Lit - Engaging PreK-3 Gifted and Talented Black Boys Using Multicultural Literature and Ford's Bloom-Banks Matrix (Hardcover)
Brian L. Wright, Donna Y. Ford, James L Moore III
R2,463 Discovery Miles 24 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book of matrices with Black boys as the main character is designed to help gifted and talented education teachers leverage Black boys' identities to inform and shape how they plan and deliver curriculum and instruction and manage the multicultural, democratic, and culturally responsive classroom. Ford and colleagues (2005) spoke to the notion of and need for 'self-reflective instruction.' We argue that all teachers must want to and learn how to legitimize the "everyday" experiences that are learned and cultivated in the homes and communities of Black boys, and how these experiences shape their self-identities and contribute to agency (Wright, Counsell, & Tate 2015). We, therefore, advocate for the rethinking of literacies by repositioning White-centered texts that often reflect and represent power and privilege toward centering the brilliance of Black identities of Black children in general, Black boys in particular. Black boys (of all ages) want to and need to physically see positive images of themselves in books reflected at them. This representation, we argue, has the potential to become an example of a compelling counter-narrative to the history of the "all-White world" (Larrick, 1965) of children's books that only presented Black characters as "objects of ridicule and generally inferior beings" (Sims Bishop 2012, p. 6). When Black boys see themselves portrayed visually, textually, and realistically in children's books, vital messages of recognition, value, affirmation, and validation are conveyed. Recognition of the sociocultural contexts in which they live is celebrated. Books for and about Black boys must be rigorous, authentic, multicultural, and developmentally appropriate to allow them to synthesize what they have read, heard, and seen during literacy instruction in authentic and meaningful ways. Multicultural books must introduce children to information about the values of justice, fairness, and equity. Developmentally appropriate books should vary with and adapt to the age, experience, and interests of gifted and talented Black boys to allow them the opportunity to demonstrate critical thinking, textual analysis skills and convey conceptual knowledge. These stories must expose Black boys to culturally relevant counter stories -- stories that counteract the dominant discourse that has primarily depicted Black boys as "at risk" versus placed at risk; "without hope" versus hopeful; or "out of control and dangerous" (Tatum, 2005, p. 28) versus developing self-control like all other children (Wright et al., 2018).

Dialogical Engagement with the Mythopoetics of Currere - Extending the Work of Mary Aswell Doll across Theory, Literature, and... Dialogical Engagement with the Mythopoetics of Currere - Extending the Work of Mary Aswell Doll across Theory, Literature, and Autobiography (Hardcover)
Brian Casemore
R1,661 Discovery Miles 16 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume showcases a series of chapters that elaborate on Mary Aswell Doll's contributions to the field of curriculum theory through her examination of currere as a mythopoetics. By bringing Doll's Jungian, autobiographical, and literary perspectives into conversation with emergent forms of subjective inquiry-including aesthetic concepts, ecological questions, and spiritual themes-the volume foregrounds the originality and significance of Doll's book The Mythopoetics of Currere in particular, while simultaneously extending it and demonstrating its applications in various scholarly conversations. Leading scholars in the field of curriculum studies such as William F. Pinar and Molly Quinn demonstrate how they use Doll's ideas as pedagogy, as theoretical framing for their work, and as the basis of their own study and self-exploration. A response essay from Doll herself concludes the text, bringing further thought and insight to the mythopoetic dimensions of currere. This text will benefit scholars, academics, and students in the fields of curriculum studies, curriculum theory, and the foundations of education more broadly. Teachers and teacher educators interested in the conceptualization of curriculum in humanities education will also benefit from this volume.

Employability via Higher Education: Sustainability as Scholarship (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Alice Diver Employability via Higher Education: Sustainability as Scholarship (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Alice Diver
R4,115 Discovery Miles 41 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book discusses the topic of graduate employability from the premise that in this era of 'massification,' economic austerity, and political uncertainties, higher education (HE) no longer guarantees a clear 'work place advantage.' Divided into three sections, the book offers theoretical and philosophical discourses on the 'HE quandary,' whilst taking into account - and critiquing - political, temporal, and national contexts. It culminates in an investigation into specific discipline areas. It offers insights into the way that institutions, decision-makers, academics, and professional support staff can work together towards ensuring that our graduates are able to cope with the varied demands and challenges of modern job markets. It harnesses arguments and reflections on the breadth and depth of the functions of HE, such as social transformation, promoting principles of social justice, and providing opportunities. It grounds these in a triadic model for enhancing student engagement and holistic learning, namely, the emotional, cognitive, and behavioural aspects. As an anthology, it is forward-gazing in terms of the sustainability debate, whilst still offering evidence-based, research-grounded, practical suggestions to readers looking for tips and tools of the trade.

The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years - Quantification, Visualization, and Making... The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years - Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of People (Paperback)
Daniel Pettersson, Kai-Jung Hsiao, Thomas Popkewitz
R1,302 Discovery Miles 13 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years. Crossing the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely examines how the desires of science to actualize a better society were converted to the search for remaking social life that paradoxically embodied cultural differences and social divisions. The book examines how cybernetics and systems theories traveled and were assembled to turn schools into social experiments and laboratories for change. Explored are the new comparative technologies of quantification and the visualization of educational data used in the methods of mass observation. The sciences not only about the present but also the potentialities of societies and people in the psychologies of childhood; concerns for individual development, growth, and creativity; teacher education; and the quantification and assessments of educational systems. The book also explores how the categories and classifications of the sciences formed at intersections with the humanities, the arts, and political practices. This informative volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of curriculum studies, the history of the social sciences, the history of education, and cultural studies, and to educators and school leaders concerned with education policy.

Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia - Interrogating the Current State of Critical Curriculum Theory (Paperback): Joao M... Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia - Interrogating the Current State of Critical Curriculum Theory (Paperback)
Joao M Paraskeva
R1,301 Discovery Miles 13 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As a follow-up to Towards a Just Curriculum Theory and Curriculum Epistemicide , this volume illuminates the challenges and contradictions which have prevented critical curriculum theory from establishing itself as an alternative to dominant Western Eurocentric epistemologies. Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia re-visits the work of leading progressive theorists and draws on a complex range of epistemological perspectives from the Middle East, Africa, Southern Europe, and Latin America. Paraskeva illustrates how counter-dominant narratives have been suppressed by neoliberal dynamics through an exploration of key issues including: itinerant curriculum theory, globalization and internationalization, as well as utopianism. Foregrounding critical curriculum theory as a vector of de-colonization and de-centralization, the text puts forth Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ITC) as an alternative form of anti-colonial, theoretical engagement. This work forms an important addition to the literature surrounding critical curriculum theory. It will be of interest to post-graduate scholars, researchers and academics in the fields of curriculum studies, curriculum theory, and critical educational research.

Students' Experiences of Teaching and Learning Reforms in Vietnamese Higher Education (Paperback): Tran Le Huu Nghia, Ly... Students' Experiences of Teaching and Learning Reforms in Vietnamese Higher Education (Paperback)
Tran Le Huu Nghia, Ly Thi Tran
R1,305 Discovery Miles 13 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Located within the global changing contexts of higher education in the 21st century, this book examines the reform of the teaching and learning practices in Vietnamese universities under the Higher Education Reform Agenda and the influence of internationalization on the higher education sector. Specifically, it analyses the motives, current implementation, effectiveness, and challenges of these reforms, especially from student perspectives. Analyzing approximately 4300 survey responses and interviews with students, the book covers a range of key issues related to teaching and learning in higher education which have attracted attention in recent years, including: The learning environment Student support and first-year transition Student-centred teaching The use of credit-based curricula The use of information and communication technology At-home internationalization of higher education Assessment and feedback Work placements Informal learning via extra curricular activities Students' perception of the values of university education.

Stereotypes and Language Learning Motivation - A Study of L2 Learners of Asian Languages (Paperback): Larisa Nikitina Stereotypes and Language Learning Motivation - A Study of L2 Learners of Asian Languages (Paperback)
Larisa Nikitina
R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores stereotypes that learners of six Asian languages- Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Myanmar, Thai and Vietnamese-hold about the target language country, its cultures and people. Some of the findings, such as the language learners' mental images of Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, are presented here for the first time. Recognizing that stereotypes, and attitudes embedded in them, have an impact on people's actions and behavioural intentions, this book examines whether and how the country stereotypes held by the students influenced their motivation to learn the target language. Besides providing worthwhile insights into the content and structure of the country stereotypes and their relationship with language learning motivation, this book offers methodological and theoretical advancements. Drawing on intellectual heritage of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) the book highlights how the concepts of word meaning (znachenie slova) and word sense (smysl) could be fruitfully employed in studies on stereotypes that people learning a foreign language hold about a target language country. This book will appeal to all readers interested in stereotypes that people have about foreign countries and also to educators and researchers who study language learning motivation.

Tracing Ted Tetsuo Aoki's Intellectual Formation - Historical, Societal and Phenomenological Influences (Paperback):... Tracing Ted Tetsuo Aoki's Intellectual Formation - Historical, Societal and Phenomenological Influences (Paperback)
Patricia Baergen
R1,284 Discovery Miles 12 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through careful examination of Ted Aoki's life and work within its historical, societal and intellectual context, this text advances a new appreciation of the national distinctiveness of Canadian curriculum studies. The book draws unique comparison between Aoki's writings and Heidegger's concept of "being-in-the-world." In exploring Aoki's narratives on momentous life events, the author attends to the interwoven, dynamic and poetic essence of the scholar's intellectual formation and identifies a critically reflective style of theorizing. By contextualizing Aoki's narrations on his momentous life events, the text engages with Aoki's critical reflective and unique style of theorizing and foregrounds the prominent influence of Heidegger's phenomenology and writings on Aoki's thinking. A major contribution to understanding Aoki's curriculum scholarship, this book is an important resource for researchers and post-graduate students working across curriculum studies discourse.

Knowledge, Content, Curriculum and Didaktik - Beyond Social Realism (Paperback): Zongyi Deng Knowledge, Content, Curriculum and Didaktik - Beyond Social Realism (Paperback)
Zongyi Deng
R1,281 Discovery Miles 12 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing to bear a wealth of literature from curriculum theory, Didaktik, philosophy of education and teacher education, this book broadens and enriches the conversation initiated by Michael Young and his colleagues on 'bringing knowledge back in' (Young, 2007). Knowledge, Content, Curriculum and Didaktik is distinctive in providing a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the role of knowledge, and in particular curriculum content, in relation to curriculum policy, curriculum planning and classroom teaching. It makes a case for linking knowledge and content to the development of human powers or capabilities needed for the 21st century and unpacks the challenges for curriculum policy, curriculum planning and classroom teaching. The book discusses, among other issues: Educational aims and theories of knowledge School subjects and academic disciplines: differences and relationships School subjects and theories of content Understanding the content for teaching The book will be relevant for scholars, researchers, policy makers and curriculum developers who seek a more sophisticated, more balanced and philosophically better grounded understanding of the role of knowledge and content in education and curriculum.

Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum in Secondary Schools - A Reader (Paperback, New): Steven Hutchinson, Bob Moon, Ann... Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum in Secondary Schools - A Reader (Paperback, New)
Steven Hutchinson, Bob Moon, Ann Shelton Mayes
R1,367 Discovery Miles 13 670 Ships in 9 - 17 working days


The articles which make up this reader provide both overview and analysis of the central issues in secondary education. Focused closely upon what it means to teach and learn in the modern secondary classroom, this book provides invaluable insight into the development of secondary education today. It is an ideal introduction to the task of teachers in secondary schools. Issues covered in the book include:
the new agenda around teaching and learning
effective pedagogy
the teacher-student relationship
teaching, learning and the digital age
grouping by ability
managing the curriculum change
assessment
equal opportunities and educational change
This is the lead book in a series which bring together collections of articles by highly experienced educators which introduce, explore and illuminate the issues surrounding teaching in secondary schools. They are invaluable resources for those training to become teachers, newly qualified teachers and more experienced practioners, particularly those mentoring NQTs.

Geography Education's Potential and the Capability Approach - GeoCapabilities and Schools (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019):... Geography Education's Potential and the Capability Approach - GeoCapabilities and Schools (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Richard Bustin
R2,371 Discovery Miles 23 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the pivotal role that geography as a school subject plays in helping every young person achieve their educational potential. Expressed as 'GeoCapabilities', this concept draws on the the capabilities approach developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum applied to curriculum thinking in schools. While traditional subjects have often been deemed irrelevant and outdated in an overcrowded secondary school curriculum, subjects like geography have often been lost or combined with others to fulfil a broad skills agenda. More recent talk of a 'knowledge led' curriculum can often lead to the recitation of facts at the expense of developing deeper understanding. This book argues the concept of powerful geographical knowledge, based on the work of Michael Young and David Lambert, invests the subject of geography with its educational potential: this forms the basis of GeoCapabilities. GeoCapabilities focuses on both what is being taught and why, and as such provides a framework of curriculum thinking which will be of interest and value to geography teachers, school leaders with curriculum development responsibilities and all those interested in the capability approach and the moral imperative of education.

Tune Up Your Teaching and Turn on Student Learning - Move from Common to Transformed Teaching and Learning in Your Classroom... Tune Up Your Teaching and Turn on Student Learning - Move from Common to Transformed Teaching and Learning in Your Classroom (Hardcover)
Joann Jurchan, Dr Chuck Downing
R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Teachers want their students to think, learn, and understand. Some teachers are more successful than others in achieving those goals. * What do teachers who achieve those goals do differently than those who don't? * What can new teachers do to help support students progress toward those goals without "giving the answers" to early in the learning process? * What can experienced teachers do to improve their percent of their students who are successful in achieving of those goals? Without realizing it in many cases, most teachers provide options for students that allow their students to complete required tasks with minimal effort on their part. The problem is how to avoid the "TMI" trap. In "Tune Up Your Teaching and Turn On Your Students", Dr. Chuck Downing and Dr. JoAnn Jurchan, two veteran educators with over 75 years of combined experience at multiple student levels, provide a clear and detailed description of how to help teachers change their methods and raise the level of both thinking and learning in their classrooms. Neither a "cookbook" nor a "one size fits all" solution, "Tune Up Your Teaching and Turn On Your Students" instead describes a research-based process that can be personally tailored by any teacher to her or his situation. Regardless of the tenure of your teaching experience, you will find both guidance and pearls that will help and motivate you to transform your teaching. Written in a conversational style, Dr. Jurchan and Dr. Downing, using concrete examples in all core areas of how to transform common activities into hotbeds of thinking. To clarify critical points, the authors include "He Said She Said" dialogues between one another, providing insight into their thought process. This is a map of the change process "with GPS coordinates included."

Constructing a Future Development Model for China's Basic Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Dina Pei, Dongming Bao Constructing a Future Development Model for China's Basic Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Dina Pei, Dongming Bao
R2,702 Discovery Miles 27 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Focusing on the future development of basic education in China, and on overcoming related issues, this book identifies key breakthroughs, priorities and important fields of basic education reform. In addition, it introduces the "Three Power Model" - decision-making, principals' leadership, and learning power - to help address the challenges of future development. Unlike much of the research on basic education reform, the book draws on a forward-thinking, realistic and comprehensive project: bringing together 15 universities and research institutes, 16 provincial administration departments, and 100 selected primary and secondary schools, it has also been strongly endorsed by the nation's leaders. After five years of practice and innovation, it has made significant breakthroughs in many provinces. Sharing unique insights into the project and its outcomes, the book offers an invaluable asset for education researchers, primary and secondary school teachers, and anyone interested in the evolution of basic education in China.

Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature - Worldly Teaching (Hardcover): Masood Ashraf Raja, Hillary Stringer, Zach VandeZande Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature - Worldly Teaching (Hardcover)
Masood Ashraf Raja, Hillary Stringer, Zach VandeZande
R1,413 Discovery Miles 14 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature enables a better pedagogical praxis by offering both wide-ranging theoretical explorations and results grounded in experience. Part One of the book focuses on various aspects of critical pedagogy and its importance for teaching world literature by offering ten carefully selected chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the fields of critical pedagogy, world literature, and postcolonial studies. Part Two of the book offers six brief, praxis-driven essays by instructors who have taught world literature courses at the university level. This comprehensive theoretical and praxis-driven engagement shows how teaching world literature can be accomplished with the goal of changing and transforming the world.

Primary Huh: Curriculum conversations with subject leaders in primary schools (Paperback): John Tomsett, Mary Myatt Primary Huh: Curriculum conversations with subject leaders in primary schools (Paperback)
John Tomsett, Mary Myatt
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There's plenty to do when planning the curriculum in primary schools. If it feels daunting, then one of the most helpful things is to talk to other people about how they have developed the curriculum for their particular subject or key stage. This is what John Tomsett and Mary Myatt have done. After the secondary 'Huh: Curriculum conversations between subject and senior leaders' was published, they were flooded with requests to produce a primary version. They enlisted the help of renowned primary specialists, Rachel Higginson, Lekha Sharma and Emma Turner to have conversations with primary teachers and key stage co-ordinators who are doing great curriculum development work. Each chapter provides insights into the importance of individual subjects and the unique contribution each makes to pupils' cognitive and personal development. The subject chapters discuss the steps colleagues take to ensure that there is a coherent thread across the year groups, as the discrete subjects deliver, collectively, the primary curriculum. These conversations show how the craft of creating a rich, challenging curriculum for every subject is not a quick fix. This is a nuanced piece of work, and there are many ways of approaching it. Each chapter also contains links to subject associations and helpful resources. Primary Huh has been written for subject leaders and key stage co-ordinators; it has also been written for senior leaders, as they prepare to have supportive conversations with their colleagues who are responsible for curriculum development. Primary Huh is offered as a prompt rather than the last word. Informed debate is, as they say, the fuel of curriculum development. And why have John and Mary called it 'Huh'? Well, John discovered that Huh is the Egyptian god of endlessness, creativity, fertility and regeneration, and they thought that was a pretty good metaphor for their work on the curriculum!

Food Education and Food Technology in School Curricula - International Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Marion Rutland,... Food Education and Food Technology in School Curricula - International Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Marion Rutland, Angela Turner
R4,281 Discovery Miles 42 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book draws together the perceptions and experiences from a range of international professionals with specific reference to food education. It presents a variety of teaching, learning and curriculum design approaches relating to food across primary, secondary and vocational school education, undergraduate initial teacher education programs, and in-service professional development support contexts. Contributions from authors of a variety of background and countries offer insight into some of the diverse issues in food education internationally, lessons to be learned from successes and failures, including action points for the future. The book will be both scholarly and useful to teachers in primary and secondary schools.

Contemporary ELT Strategies in Engineering Pedagogy - Theory and Practice (Hardcover): S Mekala, Geetha R Contemporary ELT Strategies in Engineering Pedagogy - Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
S Mekala, Geetha R
R4,510 Discovery Miles 45 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores innovative pedagogical practices and teaching and learning strategies in the engineering curriculum for empowered learning. It highlights the urgency for developing specific skill sets among students that meet the current market recruitment needs. The authors present a detailed framework for fostering a higher level of competence in students especially in their communication skills, their knowledge of media and technology tools, and their leadership skills. The book offers examples of new and effective teaching strategies including cognitive, metacognitive, and socio-affective strategies which align well with the existing and evolving technical curriculum. The book will be of interest to teachers, students, and researchers of education, engineering, and higher education. It will also be useful for English language teachers, educators, and curriculum developers.

The Origins of the Common Core - How the Free Market Became Public Education Policy (Hardcover): Thomas J. Fiala The Origins of the Common Core - How the Free Market Became Public Education Policy (Hardcover)
Thomas J. Fiala; D. Owens
R2,497 Discovery Miles 24 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically reform education based on free market principles.

Ruraling Education Research - Connections Between Rurality and the Disciplines of Educational Research (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Ruraling Education Research - Connections Between Rurality and the Disciplines of Educational Research (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Philip Roberts, Melyssa Fuqua
R3,675 Discovery Miles 36 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume brings together a collection of chapters from leading scholars in rural education with the purpose of linking knowledge from the rural education field to the wider discipline of education studies. Through addressing significant issues in the rural education field, the book gives insights from rural education that have general relevance for the wider disciplines of education, and provides up-to-date scholarship in research in rural contexts. This book aims to be a definitive and comprehensive edition of contemporary rural education scholarship that works as a guide for those new to researching in and for rural contexts, as well as actively expand the other sub-fields of education from a rural perspective. It examines the connection between rurality and the other domains of educational research, exploring what a rural perspective might bring to the broader fields of educational research, and how it might evolve them. In its unique approach, this book brings the concept of 'rural' to the disciplines of education; chapters regarding the ethics of research in the rural context speaks to a gap in rural education, and provide tools for engaging marginalised communities more generally in educational research.

School-University-Community Collaboration for Civic Education and Engagement in the Democratic Project (Hardcover): R. Martin... School-University-Community Collaboration for Civic Education and Engagement in the Democratic Project (Hardcover)
R. Martin Reardon, Jack Leonard
R2,791 Discovery Miles 27 910 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools (2011) lamented the "lack of high-quality civic education in America's schools [that] leaves millions of citizens without the wherewithal to make sense of our system of government" (p. 4). Preus et al. (2016) cited literature to support their observation of "a decline in high-quality civic education and a low rate of civic engagement of young people" (p. 67). Shapiro and Brown (2018) asserted that "civic knowledge and public engagement is at an all-time low" (p. 1). Writing as a college senior, Flaherty (2020) urged educators to "bravely interpret . . . national, local, and even school-level incidents as chances for enhanced civic education and to discuss them with students in both formal and casual settings" (p. 6). In this eighth volume in the Current Perspectives on School/University/Community Research series, we feature the work of brave educators who are engaged in school-university-community collaborative educational endeavors. Authors focus on a wide range of projects oriented to civic education writ large-some that have been completed and some that are still in progress-but all authors evince the passion for civic education that underpins engagement in the democratic project.

The Multi-age Learning Community in Action - Creating a Caring School Environment for All Children (Hardcover): Barbara Cozza The Multi-age Learning Community in Action - Creating a Caring School Environment for All Children (Hardcover)
Barbara Cozza
R2,861 Discovery Miles 28 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As schools struggle to teach all students, the multi-age teaching and learning framework has emerged as one of today's most effective ways to structure schools. Multi-age Learning Community (MAC) Program is a professional development program in action. It presents a framework that can transform schools from a graded system to a multi-age learning environment. This multi-age school targets students' individual and personal needs and allows students to excel and succeed. The school reform climate today focuses on schools of choice and building effective school environments. This multi-age program creates a unique school niche that is marketable to families. Parents have the option of sending their children to schools that concentrate on achievement that best meets the needs of the learner without disrupting the mandates of the curricula. This book is intended to assist educators at all levels of all school organizations, as well as give policymakers, educators and parents the information on an effective school program. This book gives information on how to transform schools into multi-age classrooms. This book is divided into four parts that explain both the theory and the practice of effective strategies for the multi-age school program: Organizational Practice, Building Culture, Learning Processes, and Assessment and Systemic Improvement. There are specific basic principles and practices that are integrated into a quality and effective framework discussed in the chapters of this book. Each chapter begins with a vignette based on my experiences in multiage schools and concludes with an educator's reflection to recap the concepts in the chapter. Each chapter also integrates snapshots that are short real-to-life passages that bring to life concepts discussed in the chapter. Although this book discusses multi-age schools, these ideas may be applied to all school environments. To accommodate all school programs, at the end of each chapter, a section titled Application for All Schools is a framework that discusses just how to apply chapter concepts in any school or classroom program. It is recommended that the reader review the book one time in sequence and then reread each chapter as needed, to give meaning to the reader's purpose.

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