Oracy is a subject currently undergoing examination, due to the emphasis placed upon it by the National Curriculum. With an emphasis on practice, but embracing the major theoretical issues involved, this book contains numerous exercises, examining the issues surrounding oracy in…
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Oracy is a subject currently undergoing examination, due to the emphasis placed upon it by the National Curriculum. With an emphasis on practice, but embracing the major theoretical issues involved, this book contains numerous exercises, examining the issues surrounding oracy in…
"Assessment is a prominent and sometimes controversial issue in education. This book looks at how and why assessment matters in the classroom, discussing key issues such as: can assessment raise standards?; can current practice be improved?; and how does self-assessment help pup…
Children arrive in their science classrooms with their own ideas and interpretations of the phenomena they are to study, even when they have received no systematic instruction in these subjects whatsoever. These ideas and interpretations are a natural result of everyday experien…
Grade level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, e, i, s, t.
"The long-cherished assumption that parenting "matters" to the development of children took a round of empirical blows in the 1990s. These findings dovetailed with new emphases on school reform as the best remedy for the perceived decline in academic skills and increase in behav…
This book examines the full range of concerns about self assessment in higher education, placing it in the wider context of innovative teaching and learning practices. The author shows how self assessment compares with assessment by others.
Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world - complete with its own jargon and status system - in which they must negotiate complicated …
This ethnography of a Mexican secondary school observes student life at a provincial Mexican junior high, often drawing on interviews, to study how the school's powerful emphasis on equality, solidarity, and group unity dissuades the formation of polarized peer groups and affect…
This ethnography of a Mexican secondary school observes student life at a provincial Mexican junior high, often drawing on interviews, to study how the school's powerful emphasis on equality, solidarity, and group unity dissuades the formation of polarized peer groups and affect…
Publisher's description: The first book in school counseling to provide a comprehensive introduction to the thought of Michel Foucault and his significance for understanding youth as the subject of counseling, the moral constitution of youth, professional ethics, and the new mod…
