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Children, Child Abuse and Child Protection: Placing Children Centrally Children, Child Abuse and Child Protection: Placing Children Centrally Price: $68.25 (more details) Children, Child Abuse and Child Protection is the second book written by the Violence Against Children Study Group, a multidisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners from a range of professional settings concerned with child protection. This book follows on from the highly successful Taking Child Abuse Seriously, published in 1990. This new volume gives an overview of the complex and... |
The Teaching of Classics The Teaching of Classics Price: $30.72 (more details) This collection of essays, the first book of its kind for more than twenty-five years, offers a series of snapshots of where the teaching of Classics stands at the start of the twenty-first century. The Teaching of Classics outlines how teaching of the subject has developed and arrived at its present situation and suggests strategies for the future. In addition, the book communicates the sense of innovatory excitement that surrounds curr... |
Learning to Survive: Black Youth Look for Education and Hope Learning to Survive: Black Youth Look for Education and Hope Price: $41.53 (more details) This book presents the experiences and ideas of a leading black educator, interweaving his autobiography with the stories of contemporary street gang members and former members. Their own words illustrate Gentry's thesis that even the hardest gang members wanted to get an education and want to find 'The Hope Factor.' In addition, the book offers an approach for dealing with the greatest challenges faci... |
Everything You Need to Know about Marketing Your Paralegal Program Everything You Need to Know about Marketing Your Paralegal Program Price: $71.05 (more details) A cornucopia of marketing ideas and insights, this guide offers highly successful marketing secrets from top program directors, and is filled with suggestions designed to guarantee a program's success--e.g., how to attract more students, increase revenues and satisfy the board, utilize inexpensive in-house PR and advertising resources, and get that “ Madison Avenue” look on promotional materials.... |
Education for the Disabled in War and Industry - Army Hospital Schools: A Dem... Education for the Disabled in War and Industry - Army Hospital Schools: A Demonstration for the Education of Disabled in Industry Price: $25.79 (more details) Education for the Disabled in War and Industry - Army Hospital Schools: A Demonstration for the Education of Disabled in Industry |
Parallel Views: Education and Access for Deaf People in France and the United... Parallel Views: Education and Access for Deaf People in France and the United States Price: $59.43 (more details) Parallel Views provides scholars and others involved in Deaf issues a unique opportunity to examine two societies and their respective relations with their deaf citizens. In his introduction, Harlan Lane proposes that French and United States' concepts of deafness reflect fundamental differences, in that French society considers deaf people as a disability group, while the tende... |
| K-12 Arts Education in the Us: Present Context, Future Needs K-12 Arts Education in the Us: Present Context, Future Needs Price: $3.85 (more details) K-12 Arts Education in the Us: Present Context, Future Needs |
Deafness and Education in the Uk: Research Perspectives Deafness and Education in the Uk: Research Perspectives Price: $68.25 (more details) Deafness and Education in the Uk: Research Perspectives |
Discovering Programs for Talent Development Discovering Programs for Talent Development Price: $33.10 (more details) This resource is an indispensable tool for all educators who want to fill the gaps in gifted education and provide their gifted and talented students with the educational opportunities they need to reach their full potential. |
Thy Honored Name: A History of the College of the Holy Cross, 1843-1994 Thy Honored Name: A History of the College of the Holy Cross, 1843-1994 Price: $34.08 (more details) Opened only nine years after the Catholic academy in Boston was destroyed by nativists, Holy Cross was a pet project of Boston's second bishop, Benedict Fenwick -- a Jesuit college in the midst of Yankee New England. At first an isolated, exclusively Catholic operation offering a seven-year humanities program, the College failed to obtain a charter by the Massachusetts General Court until 18... |
Ethnographies of Education & Cultural Conflicts Ethnographies of Education & Cultural Conflicts Price: $110.18 (more details) Ethnographies of Education & Cultural Conflicts |
Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local Price: $73.13 (more details) Comparative Education examines the common problems facing education systems around the world as the result of global economic, social, and cultural forces. Issues related to the governance, financing, provision, processes, and outcomes of education systems for differently situated social groups are described and analyzed in specific regional, national, and local contexts. New in this edition is a c... |
| Ethnicity in College: Advancing Theory, and Improving Diversity Practices on ... Ethnicity in College: Advancing Theory, and Improving Diversity Practices on Campus Price: $82.88 (more details) The great increase in minorities on campus is having a dramatic impact on higher education. Colleges face the challenge of developing programs to improve the success of students with poor schooling and create racial harmony on campus. To do so they need to know the answers to such questions as how students experience these demographic changes. Whether the focus on race reinforces... |
Children's Reading Problems: Psychology and Education Children's Reading Problems: Psychology and Education Price: $38.95 (more details) Every now and again, a book is published which radically redefines and important field. Peter Bryant illustrates the power of collaboration between psychology and education when theory is tested in the classroom and results challenge and shape the theory. The book has a strong impact both on the quality of research and the practice of teaching reading--all this in less than 170 pages. |
Lessons from Privilege: The American Prep School Tradition Lessons from Privilege: The American Prep School Tradition Price: $33.79 (more details) In this book, a renowned historian of education searches out the lessons that private schooling might offer public education as cries for school reform grow louder. Arthur Powell uses the experience of private education to put the whole schooling enterprise in fresh perspective. He shows how the sense of schools as special communities can help instill passion and commitment in teachers, administrators, a... |
Masters of Traditional Arts: Education Guide : Spiral Masters of Traditional Arts: Education Guide : Spiral Price: $47.78 (more details) Masters of Traditional Arts: Education Guide : Spiral |
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