Citizenship and Democracy in Further and Adult Education
This book addresses the questions why citizenship education is an important subject for students in further and adult education and why we need democratic colleges to support the study of citizenship education. It investigates the historical roots of further and adult education and identifies how the adoption of citizenship education in the post-compulsory sector can enrich vocational studies in further education and programmes in adult education.
Literacy by Design provides direct instruction in comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and writing, as well as many different opportunities for students to practice skills in these areas. The program connects instruction to content areas through texts linked to science and social studies themes that correlate to grade-level national standards.
This Very Short Introduction explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical practice, ranging from the distant past to the present. Historian Jacqueline Stedall shows that mathematical ideas are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed by their passage across periods and cultures. The book illuminates some of the varied contexts in which people have learned, used, and handed on mathematics, drawing on fascinating case studies from a range of times and places, including early imperial China, the medieval Islamic world, and nineteenth-century Britain.
Pick a Poem: 300+ Kid-Pleasing Poems for All the Topics You Teach
Added by: decabristka | Karma: 68078.20 | Only for teachers, Kids | 24 February 2014
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Add poetry to every day of the school year with this bountiful collection bursting with fresh, kid-pleasing verse! Inside, you’ll find the perfect poem for every topic you teach: alphabet, sight words, numbers, math, months, seasons, holidays, science, animals, famous Americans, social studies, and everything in between! A must-have resource for all K–2 classrooms and a great way to meet the core standards! 160 pages.
In a perceptive and arresting analysis, Robin Cohen introduces his distinctive approach to the study of the world’s diasporas. This book investigates the changing meanings of the concept and the contemporary diasporic condition, including case studies of Jewish, Armenian, African, Chinese, British, Indian, Lebanese and Caribbean people.
