The new edition: updates the basic information (e.g. statistics, legislation, taxation); reports on recent research, especially on entrepreneurship; and adds new case studies, especially short studies for more flexible use on courses.
This title offers a coherent account of St Augustine's educational thought, including coverage of the reception and influence of his work and its relevance today. St Augustine is indisputably a major thinker in education. Ryan Topping's volume offers the most coherent account of St Augustine's educational thought. This work is divided into: intellectual biography; critical exposition of St Augustine's work; the reception and influence of St Augustine's work; and, the relevance of the work today. This title comes from a major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive
Teachers have a myriad of responsibilities and are often faced with the challenge of how to best use their Teaching Assistant in the classroom. This book provides strategies for teachers to help them get the best out of their working relationship with their teaching assistant (TA).
This book is a collection of practical suggestions and materials to use with pupils who have ADHD or demonstrate ADHD type behaviour. It provides a variety of materials to help the child get to know their own personality and mind, and in doing so, become more able to control their own feelings, thoughts and actions. The material is easy to use, straightforward and flexible so that it can be easily adapted to provide a programme of work for individual pupils. This book is meant to demystify ADHD and to enable all those who use it to understand a little more about this complex personality type. It also aims to move the emphasis from disorder to gift, and to show that if ADHD type people are given optimum conditions for growth they can become among the most productive and
This sourcebook of ideas is designed to help teachers, students and others interested in education to understand and engage in philosophical enquiry with children. It illustrates how philosophical discussion can help promote critical thinking as well as the moral and social values essential for citizenship in a democratic society. It also shows how a community of enquiry can be created in any classroom, enriching learning across the whole curriculum.
This is the definitive guide to surviving and succeeding in teaching. It covers all the things that trainees are not told at university, but desperately need to know once they find themselves teaching full-time! Hazel Bennett - who has herself combined a career in teaching with running a home, bringing up a family and post-graduate study - gives advice on issues as coping with a daunting amount of paperwork, an ever-increasing curriculum load, pressure to improve the school's position on the league tables, and a pupil population who are frequently more concerned about their rights than their education. A must-read for teachers everywhere.
"View from the Fence" has been shortlisted for this year's Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prizes for fiction and non-fiction. Dr. Neill Lochery has worked as an advisor to Middle Eastern politicians on both sides of the political divide as well as elsewhere in the Middle East and is a leading specialist in the politics and history of the area. As neither an Arab nor a Jew, he is able to go beyond the traditional narratives employed by partisan writers who dominate much of the current literature on the Middle East. Lochery's ability to see all sides drives the argument in this book about the possibilities for peace in the future. The Arab-Israeli conflict has for too long been seen as a simple tale of right versus wrong, good versus evil or, since the 1967 War, the
This is a book that brings fresh insights to the role of language in our lives and opens up new dimensions for creative writing. Nicki Jackowska moves effortlessly between the spiritual, political and emotional, yet never loses the sight of the essential connection between idea and practice. This radical exploration of words and their use has at its core a critique of society at large. It raises challenging questions and introduces multiple perspectives on the life of language, in both the personal and public spheres. "'Both a writer's notebook and a manual...A preparatory manual. Practical. Straightforward. Containing hope.' John Berger"
This book arose out of a challenge. The challenge was made by Bob Geldof to the British academic and historian Michelle Brown. Pop singers raise huge sums of money for Band Aid and touch the hearts of people from all walks of life. But to give money can be an easy way out. How does the so called intellientsia respond with their minds(not just their hearts and pockets) to the appalling disparities in the conditions of members of the human race. This a challenge that a number of notable and gifted people have responded to enthusiastically. They range from John Simpson and Martin Bell to Former President Mary Robinson and the noted US feminist intellectual Charlotte Bunch. Other noted authors include Sir David Ramsbothom, Ricardo Navarro, Founder of the Friends of the
