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This challenging, hard-hitting book is about making schooling
relevant to modern society. It starts from the premise that our
present education system is ill equipped to serve students and
society in the twenty-first century. In a series of positive yet
powerful and provocative chapters, the authors look at critical
issues shaping schools today, with a view to: * set out the
critical issues behind the headlines * show evidence from research
and examples of good practice * stimulate public debate and
rigorous thinking about how we educate children for life in the
twenty-first century * provide practical examples of learning for
the future * present a vision for school transformation. With
contributions from a range of leading commentators including Tim
Brighouse, Jonathan Poritt, Anita Roddick, Charles Handy and
Jonathan Sacks, this is a must-read for school leaders, teachers,
policy-makers, parents and all education professionals.
Revisiting Richard Hoggart's classic work The Uses of Literacy
(1957), this book applies Hoggart's framework to media literacy
today, examining media literacy's various uses, the tensions
between them and what this means for people, communities and the
contemporary configurations of social class. In The Uses of
Literacy (1957), Richard Hoggart wrote about how his working class
community, in the North of England, were at once using the new
'mass literacy' for self-improvement, education, social mobility
and civic engagement and, at the same time, the powerful were
seizing the opportunity also to use this expansion in literacy,
through the new popular culture, for commercial and political ends.
Working in the intersection between education, cultural studies and
literacies, the authors write about media literacy as a contested,
under-theorised field through Hoggart's 'line of sight' to provide
a perspective on media literacy and working class culture today.
This reimagining of a classic work, piercingly relevant to studies
of class in Britain in 2019, will be of key interest to scholars in
Media Studies, as well as interested readers in Communication
Studies, Literacy Studies, Cultural Studies, Politics and
Sociology.
Effective leadership is required more today than ever before. The
rapid rate of change and the speed of communication require leaders
at senior and middle management level to excel at strategic
leadership, yet there are few resources available to achieve this.
Seeking to address the issue, this toolkit is primarily designed
for HR professionals, trainers and learning professionals to enable
them to develop the leadership skills of senior and middle managers
or even junior employees with high potential. It is designed so
that coaches can use it with clients, or for individuals to work
through themselves.
First published in 1997, this volume special feature is its
combination of practical and psychological behavioural aspects of
leadership, presented in an easy readable style, which is designed
for practising managers and for business schools. It proposes a new
concept of 'the learning leader' and considers: How effective
leadership adds real value to organizations The Skills of foresight
and vision The impact of leadership on individuals and teams
Leadership competencies A blueprint for the Future - Continuous
Leadership Development The authors combine academic knowledge with
practical experience. Alan Hooper was a senior military officer
with the Royal Marines and is now Director of the Centre for
Leadership Studies at Exeter University, which runs the only
MA/Postgraduate Diploma in Europe. John Potter is a behavioural
scientist operating as an independent management consultant.
First published in 1997, this volume special feature is its
combination of practical and psychological behavioural aspects of
leadership, presented in an easy readable style, which is designed
for practising managers and for business schools. It proposes a new
concept of 'the learning leader' and considers: How effective
leadership adds real value to organizations The Skills of foresight
and vision The impact of leadership on individuals and teams
Leadership competencies A blueprint for the Future - Continuous
Leadership Development The authors combine academic knowledge with
practical experience. Alan Hooper was a senior military officer
with the Royal Marines and is now Director of the Centre for
Leadership Studies at Exeter University, which runs the only
MA/Postgraduate Diploma in Europe. John Potter is a behavioural
scientist operating as an independent management consultant.
Community Service Volunteers is known nationally for its
high-profile citizenship and community learning schemes, and also
provides a support and consultancy service for schools, education
authorities and government. This book is based on that experience
and is intended to carry CSV's approaches across the education
sector.;The book provides the support needed for schools and other
groups to develop citizenship and community learning links as an
active part of their curriculum. Point-by-point advice for school
leaders and managers is backed up by a range of national case
studies and experiences, covering peer learning, community service,
environmental work, intergenerational projects and initiatives to
develop communities and schools through the arts, sciences and
sports.
Community Service Volunteers is known nationally for its high
profile citizenship and community learning schemes, including the
Barclays New Futures project, National Tutoring scheme and the
Millennium Awards. In addition, CSV Education for Citizenship
provides a full support and consultancy service for assisting with
the development of citizenship and community links by schools,
education authorities, organisations and government. This book is
based directly on this experience, and will carry their successful
and tested approaches across the education sector. Providing the
support needed for schools and other groups to develop citizenship
and community learning links as an active part of their curriculum,
this book offers point-by-point advice for school leaders and
managers backed up by an unrivalled range of national case studies
and experiences. Using in-depth analysis, it covers: * peer
learning * community service * environmental work. Furthermore,
this book looks at intergenerational projects and initiatives to
develop communities and schools through the arts, sciences and
sports.
What do you need to know to teach computing in primary schools? How
do you teach it? This book offers practical guidance on how to
teach the computing curriculum in primary schools, coupled with the
subject knowledge needed to teach it. This Seventh Edition is a
guide to teaching the computing content of the new Primary National
Curriculum. It includes many more case studies and practical
examples to help you see what good practice in teaching computing
looks like. It also explores the use of ICT in the primary
classroom for teaching all curriculum subjects and for supporting
learning in every day teaching. New chapters have been added on
physical computing and coding and the importance of web literacy,
bringing the text up-to-date. Computing is both a subject and a
powerful teaching and learning tool throughout the school
curriculum and beyond into many areas of children's learning lives.
This book highlights the importance of supporting children to
become discerning and creative users of digital technologies as
opposed to passive consumers.
This challenging, hard-hitting book is about making schooling
relevant to modern society. It starts from the premise that our
present education system is ill equipped to serve students and
society in the twenty-first century. In a series of positive yet
powerful and provocative chapters, the authors look at critical
issues shaping schools today, with a view to:
* set out the critical issues behind the headlines
* show evidence from research and examples of good practice
* stimulate public debate and rigorous thinking about how we
educate children for life in the twenty-first century
* provide practical examples of learning for the future
* present a vision for school transformation.
With contributions from a range of leading commentators
including Tim Brighouse, Jonathan Poritt, Anita Roddick, Charles
Handy and Jonathan Sacks, this is a must-read for school leaders,
teachers, policy-makers, parents and all education
professionals.
What do you need to know to teach computing in primary schools? How
do you teach it? This book offers practical guidance on how to
teach the computing curriculum in primary schools, coupled with the
subject knowledge needed to teach it. This Seventh Edition is a
guide to teaching the computing content of the new Primary National
Curriculum. It includes many more case studies and practical
examples to help you see what good practice in teaching computing
looks like. It also explores the use of ICT in the primary
classroom for teaching all curriculum subjects and for supporting
learning in every day teaching. New chapters have been added on
physical computing and coding and the importance of web literacy,
bringing the text up-to-date. Computing is both a subject and a
powerful teaching and learning tool throughout the school
curriculum and beyond into many areas of children's learning lives.
This book highlights the importance of supporting children to
become discerning and creative users of digital technologies as
opposed to passive consumers.
Why do singers sing in the way they do? Why, for example, is
western classical singing so different from pop singing? How is it
that Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe could sing together?
These are the kinds of questions which John Potter, a singer with
the Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd, and himself the master of many
styles, poses in this fascinating book, which is effectively a
history of singing style. He finds the reasons to be primarily
ideological rather than specifically musical. His book identifies
particular historical 'moments of change' in singing technique and
style, and relates these to a three-stage theory of style based on
the relationship of singing to text. There is a substantial section
on meaning in singing, and a discussion of how the transmission of
meaning is enabled or inhibited by different varieties of style or
technique.
Revisiting Richard Hoggart's classic work The Uses of Literacy
(1957), this book applies Hoggart's framework to media literacy
today, examining media literacy's various uses, the tensions
between them and what this means for people, communities and the
contemporary configurations of social class. In The Uses of
Literacy (1957), Richard Hoggart wrote about how his working class
community, in the North of England, were at once using the new
'mass literacy' for self-improvement, education, social mobility
and civic engagement and, at the same time, the powerful were
seizing the opportunity also to use this expansion in literacy,
through the new popular culture, for commercial and political ends.
Working in the intersection between education, cultural studies and
literacies, the authors write about media literacy as a contested,
under-theorised field through Hoggart's 'line of sight' to provide
a perspective on media literacy and working class culture today.
This reimagining of a classic work, piercingly relevant to studies
of class in Britain in 2019, will be of key interest to scholars in
Media Studies, as well as interested readers in Communication
Studies, Literacy Studies, Cultural Studies, Politics and
Sociology.
Vocal Authority is about how singing styles develop and change, why classical singing is different from pop singing, and what singers actually mean when they sing. It takes a historical perspective, beginning with the ancient world, looking at changes in style up to the present day and why, for example, Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe could sing together.
This book provides a critical commentary on key issues around
learning in the digital age in both formal and informal educational
settings. The book presents research and thinking about new dynamic
literacies, porous expertise, digital making/coding/remixing,
curation, storying in digital media, open learning, the networked
educator and a number of related topics; it further addresses and
develops the notion of a 'third space literacies' in contexts for
learning. The book takes as its starting point the idea that an
emphasis on technology and media, as part of material culture and
lived experience, is much needed in the discussion of education,
along with a criticality which is too often absent in the discourse
around technology and learning. It constructs a narrative thread
and a critical synthesis from a sociocultural account of the memes
and stereotypical positions around learning, media and technology
in the digital age, and will be of great interest to academics
interested in the mechanics of learning and the effects of
technology on the education experience. It closes with a
conversation as a reflexive 'afterword' featuring discussion of the
key issues with, amongst others, Neil Selwyn and Cathy Burnett.
Why do we sing and what first drove early humans to sing? How might
they have sung and how might those styles have survived to the
present day? This history addresses these questions and many more,
examining singing as a historical and cross-cultural phenomenon. It
explores the evolution of singing in a global context - from
Neanderthal Man to Auto-tune via the infinite varieties of world
music from Orient to Occident, classical music from medieval music
to the avant-garde and popular music from vaudeville to rock and
beyond. Considering singing as a universal human activity, the book
provides an in-depth perspective on singing from many cultures and
periods: Western and non-Western, prehistoric to present. Written
in a lively and entertaining style, the history contains a
comprehensive reference section for those who wish to explore the
topic further and will appeal to an international readership of
singers, students and scholars.
This is the only book to cover in detail so many aspects of the voice, ranging from medieval music to Madonna and beyond. Almost anything one wants to know about singing practices and singing styles can be found here in chapters that cover world music, rock, rap and jazz; European art song, ensemble singing, the English cathedral tradition and the choral movement in the United States; Renaissance, Baroque and Classical singing treatises, contemporary vocal techniques, children's choirs and the teaching of singing today. The contributors are leading international performers and specialists.
This stimulating guide will help students and their teachers to
achieve stylish performances of music of the Baroque period.
Individual chapters from leading experts focus on historical
background, notation and interpretation, and sources and editions,
presenting the latest thinking on performance in a clear, helpful
and practical way. There are also dedicated chapters of specialist
advice for keyboard, string and wind players, and singers, plus a
recommended playlist of illustrative, authoritative recordings.
Fully illustrated throughout with many music examples, facsimiles
and pictures, this is a valuable resource for students of the
Baroque period which will also add to the knowledge and
understanding of amateur and professional musicians.
Why do we sing and what first drove early humans to sing? How might
they have sung and how might those styles have survived to the
present day? This history addresses these questions and many more,
examining singing as a historical and cross-cultural phenomenon. It
explores the evolution of singing in a global context - from
Neanderthal Man to Auto-tune via the infinite varieties of world
music from Orient to Occident, classical music from medieval music
to the avant-garde and popular music from vaudeville to rock and
beyond. Considering singing as a universal human activity, the book
provides an in-depth perspective on singing from many cultures and
periods: Western and non-Western, prehistoric to present. Written
in a lively and entertaining style, the history contains a
comprehensive reference section for those who wish to explore the
topic further and will appeal to an international readership of
singers, students and scholars.
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