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Playing the Game: How State Colleges Used Athletics to Expand Educational Opportunity

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Report copyright infringementby Marc A. Vanoverbeke (Author)Playing the Game uncovers the history of state and regional colleges as engines of opportunity in postwar America. By 1970, these institutions enrolled more students than elite private or flagship public universities did, and yet they remained on the margins of public attention and scholarly research. Marc A. VanOverbeke shows how these colleges fought for recognition by turning to an unlikely ally: college sports.Drawing on extensiv...

Contemporary Research in Adult and Lifelong Learning of Mathematics: International Perspectives

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine Safford-Ramus (Editor), Jürgen Maaß (Editor), Evelyn Süss-Stepancik (Editor)Back JacketThis book is a selection of 15 papers developed by participants in ICME 13 held in Hamburg, presenting insights from the latest research on the andragogy of adult and lifelong learning of mathematics. It also investigates open questions, such as numeracy and mathematics skills, social and psychological influences on learning environments, as well as economic and pol...

Trauma-Informed Practice in Montessori Classrooms: An Essential Guide for Students and Teachers

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Report copyright infringementby Bernadette Phillips (Author), Catriona O'Toole (Author), Sinéad McGilloway (Author)This book provides important historical and contemporary evidence of the potential for Montessori schools to act as 'healing' environments for children and young people, showing how authentic Montessori schools already have the infrastructure to promote and embed trauma-informed practice (TIP) in their classrooms.Author BiographyBernadette Phillips is based at Maynooth University...

Leading the Campaign: Advancing Colleges and Universities

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Report copyright infringementby Michael J. Worth (Author)The ability to lead a campaign is essential to success for today's college or university president. And campaign experience at some level is generally now a prerequisite credential for presidential candidates, as well as deans and other academic leaders, on both public and private campuses. This book discusses fundamental campaign principles, but is not intended as a how-to guide. Rather, its emphasis is on the strategic decisions that ...

Teachers, Students and the Law: A quick reference guide for Australian teachers

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Report copyright infringementby Vivien Millane (Author)Teachers, Students and the Law is an indispensable pocket-sized resource that guides primary and secondary school teachers through the many complex legal issues that can arise in school environments.Covering key topics including duty of care, cyberbullying, discrimination, privacy and family law, among others, the book provides concise, plain-language information in an easy-to-use format.This fifth edition incorporates revised and expande...

Online Chinese Learning: Exploring Effective Language Learning Strategies

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Report copyright infringementby Lijuan Chen (Author)Online Chinese Learning aims to investigate the types of Language Learning Strategies that online Chinese learners use across asynchronous and synchronous learning environments in different learning contexts.Author BiographyLijuan Chen gained her PhD from the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia. Her research interests include technology-enhanced language teaching and learning, and in particula...

Becoming a Sensory Aware School: A Toolkit to Develop a Whole School Approach for Sensory Wellbeing

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Report copyright infringementby Alice Hoyle (Author), Tessa Hyde (Author)Sensory needs are often misunderstood and, as a result, neglected across many schools. Yet sensory needs are universal foundational building blocks at the base of both human and learning needs. This practical book covers everything schools need to know and consider about the sensory needs of all students and staff within the school environment. By focusing on all sensory needs in a holistic way, this leads to a deeper un...

Humans 1st, Students 2nd: Cultivating & Sustaining Meaningful Relationships through Restorative Practices

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Report copyright infringementby Kyonna Hardy (Editor), Kyonna Hardy (Author)Humans 1st, Students 2nd strives to shift its readers' mindset from rule-governed to relational; from individualism to community; from punishment to accountability. Achieving this through a year-long journey of using restorative practices, this book will guide any human who is responsible for teaching other humans. By primarily implementing Restorative Justice practices, from her classroom to classrooms across the nat...

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Report copyright infringementby D. C. Zook (Author)In spite of decades of diversity policy and practice, America is in many ways more divided than ever when it comes to issues of identity. Critics from the political left argue that we simply need more diversity to overcome the division, while critics from the political right argue that diversity has devolved into an unworkable set of unfair entitlements that are themselves the cause of the division. Understanding the Misunderstanding, the fir...

Research Methods for Applied Linguistics: A Practical Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Angela M. Gayton (Editor), Kenneth Fordyce (Editor), Mairin Hennebry-Leung (Editor)Designed to support you on your next major research project, this book brings together authors from a range of diverse contexts and career stages to share their own research reflections and their extensive experience supporting graduate students in conducting independent research projects. Covering a range of research approaches and methods, this book provides the perfect researc...

Newborn to Infant to Child: Understanding the First 1000 Days of Early Childhood

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Report copyright infringementby Martha E. Arterberry (Author), Marc H. Bornstein (Author)This comprehensive and accessible book introduces child development in the first three years of life. Organized chronologically, the book explores three developmental stages - newborn (birth to 3 months), infant (4 to 17 months), and child (18 to 36 months) - covering physical, perceptual, cognitive, language, emotional, and social development at each stage. The book sets this fundamental information in t...

M Is for Misogyny: Tackling Discrimination Against Women and Girls in Primary School

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Wordlaw (Author)This indispensable guide for teachers and school leaders in primary education offers nuanced and practical ideas for building a school culture and curriculum based on feminist and anti-misogynist values. It's packed with practical tips throughout, including: Definitions and explanations of key features of contemporary misogyny, from the manosphere to incels to toxic influencers, so teachers can address these issues with confidence. Advi...

Leading with the Social Brain in Mind: Cognition, complexity and collaboration in schools

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Report copyright infringementby Joanne Casey (Author)Leading with the Social Brain in Mind puts relationships front and centre of the important work that educators do. The number and different types of relationships that educators maintain on daily basis can be undervalued and underestimated. Specifically, it challenges system and school leaders to investigate how social brain theory affects the unintended results of collaborative interactions in their own complex organisational environments....

Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes in Higher Education

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Report copyright infringementby Kayoko Enomoto (Editor), Richard Warner (Editor), Claus Nygaard (Editor)In the evolving landscape of higher education, this book is a vital resource which addresses a fundamental concern: how to effectively enhance student learning outcomes and adequately prepare students for their professional futures. The book presents a central model for enhancing student learning outcomes, the ESLO model, which is a meticulously crafted framework designed to optimise the ac...

Music and Singing in the Early Years: A Guide to Singing with Young Children

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Report copyright infringementby Zoe Greenhalgh (Author)Music and singing are an inherent part of children's lives and offer a wonderful opportunity to promote young children's learning and development. This how-to guide is full of useful information to support musical understanding and assist practitioners in developing their knowledge, skills and confidence in planning and leading successful and enjoyable musical activities in a range of early years settings.Focusing on the role of singing a...

Early Childhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand: History, Pedagogy, and Liberation

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Report copyright infringementby J. Ritchie (Author), M. Skerrett (Author)Taking as a starting point the work of Aotearoa New Zealand to provide an education system that includes curriculum, pedagogy, and language from indigenous Maori culture, this book investigates the ensuing practices, policies, and dilemmas that have arisen and provides a wealth of data on how truly culturally inclusive education might look.Author BiographyAuthor Jenny Ritchie: Jenny Ruth Ritchie is Associate Professor of...

Westonbirt Association News 2019: The annual news magazine for the alumni of Westonbirt School

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Report copyright infringementby Bridget Bomford (Editor), Debbie Young (Prepared by)2019 EDITION The Westonbirt Association News is the news magazine of the alumni organisation of Westonbirt School, the girls' boarding and day school near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 31, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Mira Bajirova (Author)Disease is an expiation of the sins. Every sin is a disobedience to God. The sins involve the evil jinn (demons). When a person commits the sin, a black spot appears on his heart. If he repents, asks for the forgiveness, gives up with the sins, restores the people's rights and honor, who were wronged, and follows the Qur'an and Sunnah, Almighty Allah will purify his heart. But, if a person continues with the sins, his heart will become bla...

Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice for Speech and Language Therapists: Supporting Curiosity, Compassion and Conversation

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Report copyright infringementby Ruth Jones (Author)This book considers what neurodiversity-affirming practice is and looks at the context of neurodiversity over time. Chapters encourage reflection and introduce practical strategies to challenge and change how we work with neurodivergent individuals. It will be crucial reading for all practising and training speech and language therapists.Author BiographyRuth Jones is a highly specialist speech and language therapist. She works primarily with ...

The Teaching Game: A Handbook for Surviving and Thriving in the Classroom

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Report copyright infringementby Damien Barry (Author)Do you want to engage students, prevent disruption, and maybe even teach a decent lesson? The Teaching Game offers a very practical approach that can be applied immediately.You'll discover how to manage a classroom, deliver curriculum, provide effective feedback, use data, plan for the next unit, write an assessment piece, teach students on the spectrum, and care for your own wellbeing.This book is for those who are: About to embark on the...

We Got You, Mama: The No-Nonsense, Expert-Packed Guide to Going From Surviving to Thriving

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Report copyright infringementby Carly Church (Author)Motherhood is the hardest job in the world-and the only one without a paycheck, a manual, or a day off.If you've ever felt like you're doing everything and still not enough, you're not alone. We Got You, Mama is your no-fluff, expert-backed, laugh-while-you-learn survival guide for navigating the beautiful chaos of motherhood.What You'll Discover Inside: Real Talk, No Filter: Raw, unpolished truths from moms who've been there-because mot...

Noncognitive psychological processes and academic achievement

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Report copyright infringementby Jihyun Lee (Editor), Lazar Stankov (Editor)It is becoming increasingly clear that non-cognitive psychological processes are important for students' school achievement, even to the point where their influence may be stronger than that exerted by the parents, teachers, or the school atmosphere itself. Non-cognitive psychological variables refer to varieties of self-beliefs and goal orientations - such as anxiety, confidence, self-efficacy, and self-concept - whic...

From My Window: The Diary of Althea Fanshawe

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Report copyright infringementby Deirdre Marculescu (Author)From 1805 until her death in April 1824, Althea Fanshawe rarely left her home in Brock Street, Bath. Despite most of her activities being curtailed by the effects of epilepsy, she maintained independence and by applying her thoughts to educate young people, she successfully published 'Thoughts on Affection', as an education in manners. The maintenance of a diary also became important in her determined efforts to stay connected. There ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Reynoso (Editor), John Lensmire (Editor), Kelly Ren (Editor)The math challenge curriculum textbook series is designed to help students learn the fundamental mathematical concepts and practice their in-depth problem solving skills with selected exercise problems. Ideally, these textbooks are used together with Areteem Institute's corresponding courses, either taken as live classes or as self-paced classes. According to the experience levels of the students...

Experiential Perspectives of Teachers in An Inclusive Classroom: A Research in Education Leadership

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Report copyright infringementby Evelyn Ify Nwadinobi (Author)Dr. Evelyn Nwadinobi presentation in the Book titled Experiential Perspectives of Teachers in an Inclusive Classroom" is not only thematic but eclectic in the scholarly articulation of the dossier, imperative to achieving effective learning outcomes. Prof. Ngozi Uwazurike, IMO University This book will go a very long way to help teachers and students who have been struggling with finding a suitable reading on Inclusion and the expan...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Farrell (Author)Scene by Scene Classroom Questions are essential resources for teachers, designed to save time and lead to rewarding classroom experiences. The guides are broken down by scene or chapter to complement the text they accompany. These guides provide a clear list of questions for every stage of teaching the text. Classroom Questions guides contain both closed and open questions, exploring student response, opinion and analysis. - Closed compreh...

The Biopsychosocio-Spiritual Communication

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Report copyright infringementby Joyzy Pius Egunjobi (Author)Communication is vital not only to human existence and communal living but to existence itself. The whole of creation involves communication with each being communicating its existence and essence. Hence, the indefatigable quests to understanding what nature is communicating within itself. The different beings, and beings within Being, continue in this Communicative Act for better coordination and wellbeing of the total existence. Re...

Movements of Educational Reform: A Short Introduction Under the Lens of Change--From the Early 1960s to the Early 2000s

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Report copyright infringementby David A. Escobar Arcay (Author)In a public education world of vast, multiple, rapid, and often colliding educational reforms, Movements of Educational Reform provides the novice as well as the veteran educator and administrator a sort of map of educational changes and processes. Movements of Educational Reform is intended to help the devoted and dedicated education professional and scholar make sense of the successes and the pitfalls of reforms by tracing the l...

The Spinning Heart Comparative Study Guide

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Farrell (Author)A 182 page companion guide to The Spinning Heart for Comparative Study. For use in the classroom or for focussed independent study.Section 1 Outline summary for each chapter. Notes and Questions on each mode for each chapter. Modes include: Cultural Context/Social Setting, Literary Genre, General Vision and Viewpoint, Relationships and Hero/Heroine/Villain. Section 2 Notes looking at each mode as a whole across the entire text. Accompa...

Command and General Staff Officer Education for the 21st Century

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Report copyright infringementby Luke G. Grossman (Author)Education has been the foundational cornerstone to every profession and continues to be so in the 21st Century. As a profession, the military is obligated to conduct not only training but also education of the keepers of the profession, the officer corps. Since the rise of large military bodies enabled by the levee en masse and industrialization, armies have required educated officers skilled in both command and staff functions. The Pru...

2021 Student School Diary: 7 x 10 inch 120 Pages

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Report copyright infringementby The Life Graduate Publishing Group (Author)Be Organized and Ready for the New 2021 School Year!The 2021 School Student Diary is the complete and essential diary for High School and Elementary students.This diary will suit any student commencing their school year in January 2021 and includes the following information: - Templates to include School Term Dates- Important Key Events, Dates and Details- Semester 1 and Semester 2 School Timetable Templates- A Weekly ...

Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia: Children's Contested Identities

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Report copyright infringementby P. Srinivasan (Author)Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia is a critical narration of how Australian children use cultural markers such as, skin color, diet and religious practices to build their identity categories of "self" and "other."Author BiographyPrasanna Srinivasan is Research Fellow at the Youth Research Centre of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Number of Pages: 186 Dime...