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Teaching under pressure : looking at primary teachers' stress
This text is based on the author's research into primary school teacher's stress. The research has been linked with the author's belief in the need to understand ourselves, our personal and professional situations and how they relate. The resulting book is a practical text designed to address the reader in such a way that they can readily identify with what is being discussed. Futhermore, reade…
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- 9781135717544
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- vii, 159p. : ill.
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- 371.10019 COC t
Modern languages across the curriculum
This book sets out the agenda for the future of modern language teaching in schools. It aims to look beyond the dominant methods of second language teaching to a new approach emphasising the integration of language learning within the wider curriculum. Through research and case studies from the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Finland, the book shows how teachers and policy makers…
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- 9781136850875
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- x, 222p. : ill.
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- 418.0071 MOD m
Change in classroom practice
Over the last ten years deliberate and determined efforts have been made to improve schooling. This book charts recent and current developments in the practical business of changing classroom practice to make schools more effective. It is devoted to detecting the effects on classroom practice of the efforts made to improve schools and classrooms, and to understanding how classroom practice chan…
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- 9781135721251
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- vi, 158p. : ill.
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- 371.10240941 CHA c
Health promotion at school : pedagogical aspects and practical implications
For decades the health of children and adolescents has been a topic of interest in all parts of Europe. And there is quite a consensus that schools are the most appropriate setting to promote health. Childhood and adolescence constitute key stages for learning and adopting a health-related and active lifestyle which includes physical activity and sports. The book describes a new approach to enh…
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- 9783110539646
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- ix, 152p. : ill.
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- 613.071094 HEA h
Research in multicultural education : from the margins to the mainstream
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- 9781135388683
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- vi, 267p. : ill.
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- 370.19341072 RES r
Social capital online : alienation and accumulation
"What is ‘social capital’? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social interactions into quantifiable metrics for easier processing, prediction, and behavioural shaping. A work o…
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- 9781911534594
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- xxv, 167p. : ill.
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- 303.4833 FAU s
The propaganda model today : filtering perception and awareness
"Thirty years after Chomsky and Herman elaborated the Propaganda Model this title aims to introduce a new generation of readers to it. It presents cutting-edge research demonstrating the model’s general validity as well as new attempts – in the light of digital media and 21st century politics – to critically update, expand, and refine it. International researchers thus analyse the continu…
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- 9781912656196
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- viii, 305p. : ill.
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- 303.375 PRO p
Politicizing digital space : theory, the Internet, and renewing democracy
"The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less …
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- 9781911534433
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- vi, 147p. : ill
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- 324.7 SMI p
The media and communications study skills student guide
"All the tips, ideas and advice given to, and requested by, MA students in Media and Communications, are brought together in an easy-to-use accessible guide to help students study most effectively. Based upon many years of teaching study skills and hundreds of lecture slides and handouts this introduction covers a range of general and generic skills that the author relates specifically towards …
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- 9781912656592
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- v, 176p. : ill.
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- 302.23 SPE m
Knowledge in the age of digital capitalism : an introduction to cognitive mat…
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an acc…
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- 9781911534273
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- ix, 261p. : ill.
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- 303.4833 ZUK k
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