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In Search of Deeper Learning - The Quest to Remake the American High School (Paperback): Jal Mehta, Sarah Fine In Search of Deeper Learning - The Quest to Remake the American High School (Paperback)
Jal Mehta, Sarah Fine
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the Grawemeyer Award "In their brave search for depth in American high schools, scholars Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine suffered many disappointments...Undeterred, they spent 750 hours observing classes, interviewed more than 300 people, and produced the best book on high school dynamics I have ever read." -Jay Mathews, Washington Post "A hopeful, easy-to-read narrative on what the best teachers do and what deep, engaging learning looks like for students. Grab this text if you're looking for a celebration of what's possible in American schools." -Edutopia "This is the first and only book to depict not just the constraints on good teaching, but also how good teachers transcend them. A superb book in every way: timely, lively, and entertaining." -Jonathan Zimmerman, University of Pennsylvania What would it take to transform our high schools into places capable of supporting deep learning for students across a wide range of aptitudes and interests? To find out, Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine spent hundreds of hours observing and talking to teachers and students in and out of the classroom at thirty of the country's most innovative schools. To their dismay, they discovered that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they found pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in extracurriculars but also in a few mold-breaking academic courses. So what must schools do to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity? In Search of Deeper Learning takes a deep dive into the state of our schools and lays out an inspiring new vision for American education.

In Search of Deeper Learning - The Quest to Remake the American High School (Hardcover): Jal Mehta, Sarah Fine In Search of Deeper Learning - The Quest to Remake the American High School (Hardcover)
Jal Mehta, Sarah Fine
R803 R736 Discovery Miles 7 360 Save R67 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read."-Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is working-and what isn't-in our schools. What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's most innovative schools and classrooms-places where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity. This boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be. The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American education-one that will set the agenda for schools of the future.

Migration in Political Theory - The Ethics of Movement and Membership (Hardcover): Sarah Fine, Lea Ypi Migration in Political Theory - The Ethics of Movement and Membership (Hardcover)
Sarah Fine, Lea Ypi
R3,252 Discovery Miles 32 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Written by an international team of leading political and legal theory scholars whose writings have contributed to shaping the field, Migration in Political Theory presents seminal new work on the ethics of movement and membership. The volume addresses challenging and under-researched themes on the subject of migration. It debates the question of whether we ought to recognize a human right to immigrate, and whether it might be legitimate to restrict emigration. The authors critically examine criteria for selecting would-be migrants, and for acquiring citizenship. They discuss tensions between the claims of immigrants and existing residents, and tackle questions of migrant worker exploitation and responsibility for refugees. The book illustrates the importance of drawing on the tools of political theory to clarify, criticize, and challenge the current terms of the migration debate.

Migration in Political Theory - The Ethics of Movement and Membership (Paperback): Sarah Fine, Lea Ypi Migration in Political Theory - The Ethics of Movement and Membership (Paperback)
Sarah Fine, Lea Ypi
R1,204 Discovery Miles 12 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Written by an international team of leading political and legal theory scholars whose writings have contributed to shaping the field, Migration in Political Theory presents seminal new work on the ethics of movement and membership. The volume addresses challenging and under-researched themes on the subject of migration. It debates the question of whether we ought to recognize a human right to immigrate, and whether it might be legitimate to restrict emigration. The authors critically examine criteria for selecting would-be migrants, and for acquiring citizenship, as well as the tensions between the claims of immigrants and existing residents, and tackle questions of migrant worker exploitation and responsibility for refugees. All of the chapters illustrate the importance of drawing on the tools of political theory to clarifying, criticize and challenge the current terms of the migration debate.

Political Philosophy, Here and Now - Essays in Honour of David Miller (Hardcover): Daniel Butt, Sarah Fine, Zofia Stemplowska Political Philosophy, Here and Now - Essays in Honour of David Miller (Hardcover)
Daniel Butt, Sarah Fine, Zofia Stemplowska
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Political Philosophy, Here and Now honours David Miller's remarkable contribution to political philosophy. Over the last fifty years, Miller has published an extraordinary range of work that has shaped the discipline in many different areas, including social justice, democracy, citizenship, nationality, global justice, and the history of political thought. His work is characterised by its commitment to a kind of theorising that makes sense to the people who have to put its principles into practice. This entails paying close attention to empirical evidence from the social sciences, but also results in a willingness to take the everyday beliefs of lay people seriously in its theorising. The aim is the construction of a political philosophy that can be radically reformative, but that nonetheless is justifiable and realisable here and now. This book brings together a range of papers from leading political theorists concerning many different aspects of Miller's work, on topics including national responsibility and global justice, self-determination, collective responsibility, human rights, immigration, market socialism, national identity, citizenship, multiculturalism, public goods, the political thought of David Hume, and the methodology of political philosophy. It includes a chapter by Miller himself, which develops his own distinctive approach to political theorising. The volume concludes with a complete bibliography of David Miller's published work.

A Single Drop of Paint (Paperback): Sarah Fine A Single Drop of Paint (Paperback)
Sarah Fine
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Out of stock

This is Sarah's first published work, which originated as a mere class project. Upon reading the story, her school Principal, Ms. Billie Miller, encouraged her to enter it into a local literary fair, eventually elevating the book's status to the charitable work it is today. Sarah would like to thank her family, teachers and friends for their support, and especially those who have assisted her with the founding of "Volumes of Hope" for giving her the opportunity to combine two of her greatest hobbies: writing and helping others.

Unstill Waters (Paperback): Sarah Fine Unstill Waters (Paperback)
Sarah Fine
R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Out of stock

This book tells the story of Mia Crane, a lonely but talented young graphic artist from a dysfunctional family, who receives an unexpected inheritance that brings her back to the small town of her paternal heritage, into the orbit of the large and exuberant Lyons clan, and most importantly into the life of playboy architect Drake Lyons. For the first time in her life she has a place that is truly her own and a chance for a new beginning, but there are those who, for a variety of reasons, do not want Mia staying in Waterford. Dealing with occult rumors concerning her deceased great aunt, an urban legend of Confederate gold hidden in her newly acquired house, and the jealousy of other women with designs on the new man in her life, Mia's decision to stay is fraught with questions and with potential dangers. The story asks whether the woman who has never been loved and the man who has never been in love can find happiness together in Waterford, and what treasures are worth risking everything for.

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