The book's pedagogical features, practical focus and cross disciplinary theoretical perspective makes this an interesting, accessible and interactive as well as a provocative textbook for students and researchers
Combines the traditional classroom activity of reading stories with Circle Time. This title contains activities that provide students with opportunities to practise listening, expressing ideas, asking questions, using imagination, making predictions, experimenting with thinking and learning strategies, and collaborating with other students.
Second editon of this international bestseller. Unique in that it deals with both communication theory as well as its practical application in planned communication.
Offers 3-5 session plans which include games, drama exercises and discussion that build up the children's exploration of various themes from empathy to assertiveness. This book provides various things a busy teacher needs to engage young people as participants in a PSHE curriculum.
Focusing on active ways to help children 5-14 years old improve their thinking and learning skills in science, this resource provides strategies for teaching creative, brain-friendly lessons.
Using the tools of philosophy and the insights from evaluation practice this book examines the concept of value in program evaluation. The authors analyze four views of facts and values in evaluation: those rooted in a fact-value dichotomy; those of radical constructivists; those of postmodernists; and those of deliberative democrats.
Describes the sources of late modern vertigo as twofold: insecurities of status and of economic position. This book engages with the ways in which modern society attempts to explain deviant behaviour - whether it be crime, terrorism or riots - in terms of motivations and desires separate and distinct from those of the 'normal'.