Most recent developments in educational theory and recommendations for best practice are based on what is often referred to as a constructivist view of learning: the idea that learners construct meanings by processing information, sorting it and looking for connections. Many teachers would like to incorporate ideas associated with this approach into their lessons, ideas such as brain-compatible learning, accelerated learning, and formative assessment, but where to start?
Early Childhood and Primary Education - Readings & Reflections
This book explores the historical and philosophical ideas underpinning practice in early childhood and primary education. It pulls together key extracts from influential sources and provides helpful editorial commentary explaining the importance of each article to provide an essential reader in early childhood and primary education. It enables easy access to key theoretical ideas and seminal texts to provide a firm understanding of such ideas, as well as placing current issues within an historical and theoretical context.
"The Bible of Swing Trading". This classic 1950 work describes a mechanical trading method for capitalizing on short-term market swings. Many current trading systems are based on the ideas from this book. Highly recommended by Linda Bradford Raschke.
The Chasm Companion: Implementing Effective Marketing Strategies for High-Technology CompaniesIn The Chasm Companion, The Chasm Group's Paul Wiefels presents readers with a new analysis of the ideas introduced in bestselling author Geoffrey Moore's classic books, Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, and focuses on how to translate these ideas into actionable strategy and implementation programs. This step-by-step fieldbook is organized around three major concepts: how high-tech markets develop, creating market development strategy, and executing go-to-market programs based on the strategy.
This book, which Gustave Glotz was peculiarly well-equipped by all his previous work to write, has a twofold interest: on the one hand it traces, with remarkable erudition, the evolution of Greek institution, brings out their essential characteristics and, to a certain extent, enters into the details of their construction; and, on the other hand, it formulates and suggests the general ideas which such a subject admits of, and leads on to considerations of a sociological bearing. It combines strict realism and explanations of deep insight.
