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Education
Paperback. America is being held back by the quality and quantity of learning in college. Many college graduates cannot think critically, write effectively, solve problems, understand complex issues, or meet employers' expectations. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 306.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339835
- ISBN
- 9780230339835
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.75
€ 36.99
€ 30.75
Hardcover. Carries readers into Chinese and American elementary and high school classrooms, and highlights the big differences between schooling in China and the United States. Nancy Pine reveals how these two countries need to extract themselves from outmoded practice and learn from each other's strengths. Num Pages: 205 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339064
- ISBN
- 9780230339064
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€ 53.36€ 47.12
€ 53.36
€ 47.12
Paperback. Are American schools socially just institutions? Using the methods of political philosopher John Rawls, this book answers that question by arguing for four principles that express the basic purposes that Americans hold for their schools - principles of personal liberty, democracy, equal opportunity, and economic growth. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 266.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338982
- ISBN
- 9780230338982
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€ 53.36€ 46.05
€ 53.36
€ 46.05
Paperback. Education and the Cold War illustrates how Americans variously experienced the Cold War as a crisis in education and, in turn, how education helped facilitate the construction of Cold Warriors conditioned to fear and loathe communism and the Soviet Union. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338975
- ISBN
- 9780230338975
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Condition: New
€ 54.12
€ 54.12
Paperback. This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community. Series: Secondary Education in a Changing World. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNKC; JNKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 215 x 9. Weight in Grams: 328.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338456
- ISBN
- 9780230338456
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Condition: New
€ 127.09
€ 127.09
Paperback. This book analyzes a school setting and community from the standpoint of a group of immigrant mothers in South Central Los Angeles who were concerned about the education of their children and the violence in their communities. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 193 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JNFR; JNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 306.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338272
- ISBN
- 9780230338272
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 46.16
€ 53.36
€ 46.16
Hardcover. Analyzes a community from the standpoint of immigrant mothers in South Central Los Angeles who were concerned about the education of their children and the violence in their communities. Written in Spanish and English, the text brings together the women's observations as they put into action their developing political consciousness. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 193 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNFR; JNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 242 x 16. Weight in Grams: 452.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338265
- ISBN
- 9780230338265
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.00
€ 53.36
€ 47.00
Culture, Education, and Community: Expressions of the Postcolonial Ima...
Lavia, J., Mahlomaholo, S.
Hardcover. Provides a critical space in which to interrogate the ways in which postcolonial voices are imagined and struggle to be valued, heard, and responded to. Takes the imagination of the postcolonial as its focus, acknowledging that it is a troubling, unsettling, and ambiguous concept requiring re-visiting and re-interpretation. Editor(s): Lavia, Jennifer; Mahlomaholo, Sechaba. Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education. Num Pages: 286 pages, 1 figures, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBTR; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338258
- ISBN
- 9780230338258
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Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.40
€ 53.36
€ 47.40
Hardcover. Aims to inform students, scholars, and educators about the complex processes and factors that promote or impede education's potential to enhance individual advancement within the socioeconomic structure of a late-industrialized country within the context of modern capitalism. Series: Marxism and Education. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JFFM; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338227
- ISBN
- 9780230338227
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€ 53.36€ 47.40
€ 53.36
€ 47.40
Paperback. When students are self-motivated, they work harder at learning even if resources are inadequate. This book argues that students and teachers waste time and energy because the curriculum rests on flawed mental models. Change requires theories of motivation and learning based on advances in neurobiology and cognitive studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338203
- ISBN
- 9780230338203
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.68
€ 33.99
€ 27.68
Hardcover. Using a platform of substantial theories and applications, this book explores approaches taken to university leadership, how leadership is formed, and challenges that leadership of universities experiences within the context of Europe. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230314030
- ISBN
- 9780230314030
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Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
The Right Kind of History. Teaching the Past in Twentieth-century Engl...
Cannadine, Mr David; Keating, Jenny; Sheldon,...
Paperback. The fruit of a two-year research project, this ground-breaking book aims to provide the first historical account of the teaching of history in twentieth-century England, and a series of reflections and suggestions which will inform, feed into and influence the current and future debates about teaching in schools. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; HB; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300873
- ISBN
- 9780230300873
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Condition: New
€ 72.48
€ 72.48
The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century Engl...
Cannadine, David, Keating, Jenny, Sheldon, Ni...
Hardcover. The fruit of a two-year research project, this ground-breaking book aims to provide the first historical account of the teaching of history in twentieth-century England, and a series of reflections and suggestions which will inform, feed into and influence the current and future debates about teaching in schools. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; HB; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 24. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300866
- ISBN
- 9780230300866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience. Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JFSP1; JHBK; JMC; JNLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300330
- ISBN
- 9780230300330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: MA ori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Sami in Scandinavia, Hnahno in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts. Editor(s): Hornberger, Nancy H.; Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 1KLCM; 1MBN; CFB; JNFR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244. Policy and Practice on Four Continents. Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. 200 pages, 8 tables, 2 figures. Editor(s): Hornberger, Nancy H. This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: MA ori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Sami in Scandinavia, Hnahno in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DN; 1KLCM; 1MBN; CFB; JNFR. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 12. Weight: 244.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230285002
- ISBN
- 9780230285002
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
The Learning Curve: How Business Schools Are Re-inventing Education (I...
Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño
Hardcover. How do you create world-class educational institutions that are academically rigorous and vocationally relevant? Are business schools the blueprint for institutions of the future, oran educational experiment gone wrong? This is thefirst title in a new series from IE Business School, IE Business Publishing. Series: IE Business Publishing. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNMN; KJB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230280236
- ISBN
- 9780230280236
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Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education
. Ed(S): Palfreyman, David; McBride, Dawn Lor...
Paperback. Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education contains theoretical rationale, resources and examples to help readers understand and deal with situations involving contact between learners or educators from different cultural backgrounds, as well as giving insights into the new global context of higher education. Editor(s): Palfreyman, David; McBride, Dawn Lorraine. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNC; JNM; JNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230279674
- ISBN
- 9780230279674
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Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. This book sets out an original Youth Work-based SRE programme and explores how a range of socioeconomic, cultural and sexual norms, values and attitudes differently shape decision-making on sex, intimacy and future plans across different contexts. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHBK5; JNF; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278868
- ISBN
- 9780230278868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60
Hardcover. A presentation of four years of close observation of research and knowledge transfer practices in a university. It attempts to contextualise knowledge transfer within the arts and humanities, as well as situate learning about the reception and adoption of it by the individual scholar and the organisation in which they operate. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278721
- ISBN
- 9780230278721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.17
€ 128.17
New Managerialism in Education: Commercialization, Carelessness and Ge...
Lynch, Kathleen, Grummell, Bernie, Devine, Dy...
Hardcover. This book examines the impact of neo-liberal reform on the traditional caring ethos of public services such as education, exploring how these reforms influence the appointment and experiences of senior management across the education sector. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275119
- ISBN
- 9780230275119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90