Cooperative Learning in the Classroom

Cooperative Learning in the Classroom
Author: David W. Johnson
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1994
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The book is addressed to classroom teachers interested in beginning to use cooperative learning or increasing the quality of their current efforts.

Self-directed Learning in Counsellor Training

Self-directed Learning in Counsellor Training
Author: Mary Charleton
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Self-directed learning seeks to provide students with the greatest possible control over the content of their courses and the methods used to deliver them. This fits with counselling process, where the intention is to increase the client's power and autonomy. This book gives practical examples of ways in which this method has been carried out and considers some of the dilemmas facing both students and trainers. Self-directed Learning in Counsellor Training provides a developmental model of self-directed learning together with exercises and methods of facilitating. It looks at ways of managing entry into this form of learning and demonstrates methods of designing courses which reinforce the principles. There is a discussion of the underlying philosophy, the possible outcomes and examples of ways to self and peer assess.

Instrumental Enrichment

Instrumental Enrichment
Author: Reuven Feuerstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1985
Genre: Children with mental disabilities
ISBN: 9780067324608

Beyond the Threshold

Beyond the Threshold
Author: Graham Room
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1995-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1861340036

This collection brings together a wide range of views on the conceptualization and measurement of social exclusion and the indicators for monitoring the effectiveness of policies for combating social exclusion.

Planning Education in and After Emergencies

Planning Education in and After Emergencies
Author: Margaret Sinclair
Publisher: UNESCO
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN:

If educating populations that have been affected by crises or natural disasters is vital to the rebuilding of communities, this book argues that education should figure as priority among all the crucial issues to be addressed, as it is essential to the future of these populations. It is meant as an aid to organizations and educational planners, with discussions of issues such as funding, inclusive education, safety in schools, trauma healing, curriculum activities and distance learning.--Publisher's description.

Subjectivity

Subjectivity
Author: João Guilherme Biehl
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2007-04-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0520247930

Talks about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. This book examines the ethnography of the modern subject, probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. It considers what happens to individual subjectivity when environments such as communities are transformed.

International Handbook of Educational Change

International Handbook of Educational Change
Author: Andy Hargreaves
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 692
Release: 1998-05-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780792335344

The International Handbook of Educational Change is a state of the art collection of the most important ideas and evidence of educational change. The book brings together some of the most influential thinkers and writers on educational change. It deals with issues like educational innovation, reform, restructuring, culture-building, inspection, school-review, and change management. It asks why some people resist change and what their resistance means. It looks at how men and women, older teachers and younger teachers, experience change differently. It looks at the positive aspects of change but does not hesitate to raise uncomfortable questions about many aspects of educational change either. It looks critically and controversially at the social, economic, cultural and political forces that are driving educational change. School leaders, system administration, teacher leaders, consultants, facilitators, educational researchers, staff developers and change agents of all kinds will find this book an indispensable resource for guiding them to both classic and cutting-edge understandings of educational change, no other work provides as comprehensive coverage of the field of educational change.