What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education (Claxton Guy)(Paperback)

What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education (Claxton Guy)(Paperback)

Why the education system is failing our kids and how we can start the revolution that will save our schools With their emphasis on regurgitated knowledge and stressful exams, today's schools actually do more harm than good. Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and

The Inner Heart of Reiki: Rediscovering Your True Self (Stiene Frans)(Paperback)

The Inner Heart of Reiki is the first Reiki book to look at the inner heart of the spiritual teachings of the system of Reiki. It will take practitioners and teachers to a whole new level of understanding about their practice and about the way they

Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess (Lownie Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

The extraordinary true story of Guy Burgess, the man at the heart of the Cambridge Spy Ring and a linchpin of Cold War

Learning Power Approach - Teaching learners to teach themselves (Claxton Guy)(Paperback / softback)

In The Learning Power Approach: Teaching learners to teach themselves Guy Claxton sets out the design principles of a pedagogical formula that aims to strengthen students' learning muscles and develop their independence, initiative, determination, and love of

Learning to Teach Religious Education in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience (Barnes L. Philip)(Paperback)

The third edition of Learning to Teach Religious Education in the Secondary School draws together insights from current educational theory and the best contemporary classroom teaching and learning, and suggests tasks, activities and further reading designed to enhance the quality of initial school

Positive Education: The Geelong Grammar School Journey (Norrish Jacolyn M.)(Paperback)

As part of the Oxford Series in Positive Psychology, Positive Education: The Geelong Grammar School Journey is the story of one school's development of a more holistic comprehensive approach to education: one with student wellbeing at its heart. Balancing academic findings from the burgeoning

The Gunners (Kauffman Rebecca)(Paperback / softback)

What's the point of friends if you can't share your

School of Pranks - The Ultimate Pranking Education (Phillips Ben)(Paperback / softback)

Communication at the Heart of the School: A Guide for Practitioners Working with Children with Learning Disabilities (Sawford Rachel)(Paperback)

Communication at the Heart of the School introduces a simple, practical approach for communication development in schools, with a specific focus on children with Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) or Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD). The tried-and-tested framework offers a

Powering Up Children: The Learning Power Approach to Primary Teaching (Claxton Guy)(Paperback)

Foreword by Ron Berger. The LPA is a way of teaching which aims to develop all children as confident and capable learners ready, willing, and able to choose, design, research, pursue, troubleshoot, and evaluate learning for themselves, alone and with others, in school and out. This approach

Educating with Purpose - The heart of what matters (Tierney Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

In his second book, Stephen Tierney argues that the purpose of education must move to the heart of the educational debate. Purpose will significantly influence what schools and the education system as a whole will do

My Heart is My Own - The Life of Mary Queen of Scots (Guy John)(Paperback / softback)

A long-overdue and dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians at work

What's the Point of News?: A Study in Ethical Journalism (Harcup Tony)(Pevná vazba)

1. What is the Point of News?.- 2. Contextualising News Values: a Review of the Literature.- 3. Alternative Values in News Reporting.- 4. Ethical Journalism for the Public Good.- 5. Power and Agency in the News Industry.- 6. Six Stories and a Headline.- 7. The Point of News: Conclusion and

The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Lemann Nicholas)(Paperback)

The widely acclaimed study of what's gone wrong in American higher education. What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the SAT? Who invented it, and why? How did it acquire such a prominent and lasting position in American education? The Big Test reveals the ideas, people,

Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education (Berry Joe)(Paperback)

Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty 'contingents' who work without basic job security, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power to shape the future of higher education

Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church Right Where You Are (Soerens Tim)(Paperback)

What's the point of the church anyway? The emerging generation is opting out of the church in large numbers. They're embarrassed at how the church is portrayed in the media and dismayed at what appears to be their options for participation. Is church really necessary anymore in our day? Is it even

Karate Goju Ryu Meibukan (Opdam Lex)(Paperback)

This work reflects the system of education from the School of Dai Sensei Meitoku Yagi named the Meibukan. The Meibukan, in an educational sense, originated from the teachings of the Empty Hand that Chojun Miyagi adopted in his Goju-ryu Karate system and passed over to his student in turn, Meitoku

The Envy of Eve: Finding Contentment in a Covetous World (Kruger Melissa B.)(Paperback)

What's truly at the heart of our desires? The Envy of Eve guides readers to understand how desires grow into covetousness and what happens when this sin takes power in our hearts. Covetousness chokes out the fruit of the Spirit in our lives, allowing discontentment to bloom. The key to overcoming

The School and Society & the Child and the Curriculum (Dewey John)(Paperback)

One of the most influential forces in the shaping of American education, the famed philosopher and psychologist John Dewey (1859-1952) believed in viewing the education of the child in the light of the principles of mental activity and processes of growth made know by modern psychology. As the

Beast's Heart - The magical tale of Beauty and the Beast, reimagined from the Beast's point of view (Shallcross Leife)(Paperback / softback)

I am neither monster nor man - yet I am both. I am the Beast. I know why I was cursed; I know the legacy of evil I carry in my tainted blood. So how could she ever love me? My Isabeau. She opened my eyes, my mind and my heart when I was struggling just to be human. And now I might lose her forever

School Scandals: Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System (Thomson Pat)(Paperback)

With almost daily reports of failings in school management, what can be done to improve educational outcomes for everyone? Pat Thomson takes on England's muddled education system, highlighting failings caused by the actions of ministers in successive governments. While corrupt actions are taken by

Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Art (Daynes Katie)(Board book)

What's the point of art? Why do artists draw themselves? Who were the Impressionists? Discover the answers to these questions and many more in this entertaining information book, containing over 60 flaps to lift. A great introduction to art for inquisitive young children, with links to specially

Heartbreak (The School of Life)(Pevná vazba)

Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our situation far worse than it needs to be through

A Quest of Transcendence (Tierney Jason)(Paperback)

What's the meaning? What's the life force of this flower, of the earth, the life force in me, the life force in the sky, in creation? What dictates which form we're created in? The word consciousness comes to mind. Join Mal mene and Auberone on their journey into consciousness through life itself