Re-Imagining Education for Democracy (Riddle Stewart)(Paperback)

Re-Imagining Education for Democracy (Riddle Stewart)(Paperback)

Contemporary education research, policy and practice are complex and challenging. The political struggle over what constitutes curriculum and pedagogy is framed by quasi-markets and technocratic models of education. This has had a significant effect on larger issues of policy. But it has also had

Learning Citizenship by Practicing Democracy: International Initiatives and Perspectives (Pinnington Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

For many years, the fields of citizenship education and participatory democracy have often operated independently from each other. During the last decade, the Transformative Learning Centre of the University of Toronto has nurtured multiple spaces for an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars,

Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries (Stewart Professor Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Solving mathematical riddles with the world's most popular maths

After Democracy: Imagining Our Political Future (Papacharissi Zizi)(Pevná vazba)

What do ordinary citizens really want from their governments? Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it's not? Perhaps it is not the end goal but, rather, a transition stage to something better. Drawing on original interviews conducted with citizens of more than

Batman Adventures: Riddle Me This! (Peterson Scott)(Paperback)

When is a Riddle not a Riddler?Riddle me this, Robin Who sings for Nightwing?Friend or foe? The Riddler. He's a constant thorn in Batman and Robin's side who always teases the Caped Crusader and Boy Wonder with enigmas and questions pertaining to his master plan, but is the Riddler truly a villain

Swim for Your Life! (Ross Stewart)(Paperback)

Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia (Aspinall Edward)(Paperback)

Democracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinations. Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot assess the informal networks and political strategies that shape access to power and privilege in the messy political

Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures (Stewart Professor Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Presents a collection of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. This title helps you find out: how to organise chaos; how matter balances anti-matter; how to turn a sphere inside out (without creasing it); why you can't comb a hairy ball; and, how to calculate pi by observing the

Transforming Education: Reimagining Learning, Pedagogy and Curriculum (Jefferson Miranda)(Paperback)

Working away from trends in government policy, this book takes a future-oriented re-imagining of schools with a focus on four innate human capacities: collaboration, critical reflection, communication and creativity. Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson draw together examples of practice from

Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age (Barber Benjamin R.)(Paperback)

Henry, Himself (O'Nan Stewart)(Paperback / softback)

Stewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of everyday life and the resilience of ordinary people with humour, intelligence and compassion. In Henry, Himself he offers an unsentimental, moving life story of a twentieth-century

Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service (Benn Melissa)(Paperback)

A radical agenda to make our education system fit for the twenty-first centuryOur education system has been damaged by politicians who have arrogantly imposed a regime of market-driven reforms. It is time to reframe education as an essential public good, one arising from a hunger to find more

Projections of Education Statistics to 2024 (Education Department)(Paperback)

This publication provides projections for key education statistics. It includes statistics on enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and enrollment and earned degrees conferred expenditures of degree-granting institutions. For the nation, the tables,

Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict (Stewart Trenton Lee)(Paperback / softback)

Before there was a Mysterious Benedict Society there was simply a nine-year-old orphan named Nicholas Benedict. When Nicholas is sent to a new orphanage, he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults - and a mystery that could change his life for ever. On his quest to solve the mystery, Nicholas

Critical Thinking Skills for your Education Degree (Bottomley Jane)(Paperback / softback)

An essential text for all those undertaking an education or teaching degree within higher education, providing study support and skills development for critical thinking, reading and

Study Skills for Art, Design and Media Students (Mann Stewart)(Paperback / softback)

Rethinking Global Democracy in Brazil (Fraundorfer Markus)(Paperback)

This book opens up contemporary and novel practices of Brazil's democracy for examination, including responses to global food security, the purchase of drugs, open democracy and internet

The Theory of Social Democracy (Meyer Thomas)(Paperback)

This new book provides a systematic defence of social democracy for our contemporary global age. The authors argue that the claims to legitimation implicit in democratic theory can be honored only by social democracy. Ultimately, social democracy provides both a fairer and more stable social

Research Methods for Early Childhood Education (Flewitt Rosie)(Paperback)

Research Methods for Early Childhood Education takes an international perspective on research design, and illustrates how research methods are inextricably linked to cultural and theoretical understandings of early childhood, young children's competences and the purposes of education. The book

Imagining from A through Z (Sanchez Yvonne M.)(Pevná vazba)

Imagining from A through Z is a wonderful way for parents to introduce children to fifty-two careers while following the alphabet. The rhyming of words and beautiful illustrations encourages children to read by themselves while envisioning and imagining their future

A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy (Robinson Kimberly Jenkins)(Pevná vazba)

How the United States can provide equal educational opportunity to every child The United States Supreme Court closed the courthouse door to federal litigation to narrow educational funding and opportunity gaps in schools when it ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez in

Education: A Manifesto for Change (Gerver Richard)(Paperback)

'A manifesto for change in education with collaboration, openness and optimism at its core.' Steve Munby This ground-breaking book is both a manifesto and a call to arms to inspire all those involved in education to consider new visions and values for the future of the school system. Renowned

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict (Stewart Trenton Lee)(Paperback)

Before there was a Mysterious Benedict Society, there was simply a boy named Nicholas Benedict - now it's time to meet the boy who started it all. Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict has more problems than most children his age. Not only is he an orphan with an unfortunate nose, but he also has

Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People (Orr David)(Paperback)

A stellar group of America's leading political thinkers explore how to reboot our democracy The presidential election of 2016 highlighted some long-standing flaws in American democracy and added a few new ones. Across the political spectrum, most Americans do not believe that democracy is