Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The meaning of a liberal education	Everett Dean Martin	Table of Contents	OL1123439W
Teaching to transgress	Bell Hooks,Marta Malo	In Teaching to Transgress bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" …	OL15053159W
The Oxford handbook of philosophy of education	Harvey Siegel	Philosophy of education has an honored place in the history of Western philosophical thought. Its questions are as vital now, both philosophically and practically, as they have ever been. In recent d…	OL15250340W
Boys and girls learn differently!	Michael Gurian	Explores the biological gender differences which influence how boys and girls learn and discusses how the American education system can be adapted to better serve various learning rates.	OL16071924W
Artist-teacher	G. James Daichendt	"Is an artist-teacher a mere professional who balances a career--or does the duality of making and teaching art merit a more profound investigation? Rejecting a conventional understanding of the arti…	OL16988277W
Multimedia Learning	Richard E. Mayer	Richard E. Mayer examines whether people learn more deeply when ideas are expressed in words and pictures rather than in words alone. He reviews 12 principles of instructional design that are based o…	OL1837843W
Humanist educational treatises	Craig Kallendorf,Craig W. Kallendorf,Battista Guarino,Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini,Pier Paolo Vergerio,Leonardo Bruni	"The cycle of disciplines now known as the humanities emerged in their modern form during the Italian Renaissance as the result of an educational movement begun by humanist teachers, writers, and sch…	OL18521321W
Measuring outcome in the public sector	Peter Smith	1 online resource (xi, 212 pages)	OL18916892W
Educating immigrant children	Charles Leslie Glenn	Surveys educational policies and practices in response to language diversity in twelve countries, and draws from them lessons for a more effective whole-school approach. Policies and practices are di…	OL20140702W
Schools and families	Sandra L. Christenson,Susan M. Sheridan	"How can schools and families work together to raise the bar for student performance? What is the optimal role for families in educational problem solving and decision making? This practical volume i…	OL20545024W
Investigating gender	Becky Francis,Christine Skelton	Investigating Gender maps the contemporary and developing theoretical debates in the field of gender and education and provides an overview of the diverse areas of research within gender and educatio…	OL20621071W
Education past and present	Morgaen L. Donaldson,Megin Charner-Laird,Soo Hong	"Education Past and Present examines developments in the field of education over the past seventy-five years. Published at the start of the Harvard Educational Review's 75th anniversary year, it offe…	OL20651768W
To live on this earth	Estelle Fuchs,Robert James Havighurst	"To Live on This Earth is a major study of the education of American Indians, an area where virtually no research on a nationwide basis has been done since the late 1920s. Examined here is every face…	OL24303204W
Geweld op school	Manuel Armas Castro	Pesten en geweld, vooral op school, komen aan bod. Ingezoomd wordt op persoonlijk gedrag, ervaringen van klasgenoten en oplossingen. Met kleurenfoto's. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.	OL26178328W
Omgaan met pesten	Margo Henderson	Praktische gids voor leerkrachten in het basis- en voortgezet onderwijs en andere professionele opvoeders.	OL26178505W
Literacy and bilingualism	Margaret M. Harrington,Mar¡a Estela Brisk,Maria Brisk	This handbook applies proven techniques, derived from bilingual/bicultural classrooms, to teaching literacy in the twenty-first century. Its goal is to help teachers increase their understanding of b…	OL2666512W
Group processes in the classroom	Richard A. Schmuck	xvi, 336 p. : 24 cm	OL2770660W
The Kingdom of Science	Paul A. Olson	"The Kingdom of Science examines Baconian utopias as blueprints for a scientific sociology of knowledge that founded a new social and economic world in the seventeenth century. Looking backward, Paul…	OL3742274W
Educating oppositional and defiant children	Philip S. Hall	Strategies for handling students who do not listen and are openly defiant and aggressive when people try to make them behave.	OL3914108W
Cultural Literacy	E. D. Hirsch	Discusses how to enable students to make sense of what they read through prior knowledge of events, etc.	OL450348W