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Civics and Citizenship Education in Australia: Challenges, Practices and International Perspectives

Civics and Citizenship Education in Australia provides a comprehensive analysis of teaching and learning in this field in Australian schools, drawing on case study material to demonstrate the current practice in the field. Reflecting on the issues and possibilities raised by the inclusion of civics and citizenship education in the new national Australian curriculum, leading national and international scholars analyse the subject's theoretical, curricular and pedagogical bases and approaches. Placing civics and citizenship education within historical and contemporary contexts, the book critically explores a range of issues concerning the development, organisation and teaching of the subject. These include how the subject might include indigenous, global and Asian perspectives, and how it may help students to engage with issues around sustainability, active citizenship, diversity, religion and values. The final chapters written by scholars from England, the USA, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore adopt a comparative approach situating Australian civics and citizenship education in the wider international context.

Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education: Transnational Investigations

Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education showcases the latest scholarship and historical understandings concerning the casting of the kindergarten idea abroad: across cultures, continents and centuries. Each chapter reveals previously unknown narratives of intrepid endeavour, political pragmatism and pedagogical innovation that collectively provide insight into the transformation of Froebel's ideas on early education into a global phenomenon. Across global contexts, each chapter presents a case study of the ideas scattering abroad, illustrative of the movement of ideas, curricula and pedagogical change; in effect taking the kindergarten beyond the geographies and pedagogies of its German beginnings and borders. Chapters draw on historical examples of Froebelian education from The Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Sweden, the UK and the USA. In the journal History of Education in 2006, Froebelian history scholar Professor Kevin J. Brehony (1948-2013) lamented the 'relative neglect' of the history of early years education at the same time there was a heightened global social and political interest in educating the young child. In this book, an international team of contributors respond to Brehony's suggestion that historical perspectives can play a role in current debates and suggest ways historical narratives might inform policies and practices in twenty-first century early childhood education, care settings and contexts. Reconnecting past lessons and insights with present and future concerns for early education, young children and their place in society, this important collection also includes an historical timeline charting the spread of Froebelian education ideas and kindergartens across the world.

America and the Making of Modern Turkey: Science, Culture and Political Alliances

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government encouraged substantial American investment in education and aid. It was argued that Turkey needed the technical skills and wealth offered by American education, and so a series of American schools was set up across the country to educate the Turkish youth. Here, Ali Erken, in the first study of its kind, argues that these organizations had a huge impact on political and economic thought in Turkey - acting as a form of `soft power' for US national interests throughout the 20th Century. Robert College, originally a missionary school founded by US benefactors, has been responsible for educating two Turkish Prime Ministers, writers such as Orhan Pamuk and a huge number of influential economists, politicians and journalists. The end result of these American philanthropic efforts, Erken argues, was a consensus in the 1970s that the country must `westernize'. This mindset, and the opposition viewpoint it engendered, has come to define political struggle in modern Turkey - torn between a capitalist `modern' West and an Islamic `Ottoman' East. The book also reveals how and why the Rockefeller and Ford foundations funneled large amounts of money into Turkey post-1945, and undertook activities in support of `Western' candidates in Turkey as a bulwark against the Soviet Union. This is an essential contribution to the history of US-Turkish relations, and the influence of the West in Turkish political thought.

Neue Materialien für einen realitätsbezogenen Mathematikunterricht 6: ISTRON-Schriftenreihe (Realitätsbezüge im Mathematikunterricht)

Dieser neue ISTRON-Band bietet einen bunten Strauß aktueller Beispiele für einen Mathematikunterricht mit Realitätsbezug. Modellierungskompetenz ist gefragt und wird in Lehrplänen gefordert. Realitätsbezogener Mathematikunterricht motiviert die Schülerinnen und Schüler. Diese Art von Unterricht trägt wesentlich zur Modellierungskompetenz bei durch die Beantwortung der wichtigen Frage: "Wozu sollen wir das lernen?".Die Autorinnen und Autoren sind erfahrene Lehrerinnen und Lehrer sowie Mathematikdidaktikerinnen und Mathematikdidaktiker, die für dieses Buch im Mathematikunterricht erfolgreich einsetzbare und schon erprobte Unterrichtsvorschläge aufgeschrieben haben.

Educational Technology: A Primer for the 21st Century (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)

The aim of this book is to prepare students with knowledge and skills to understand the organizational needs and requirements of educational technology. Students should be able to use and manage both existing and emerging technologies effectively and be able to apply associated pedagogies to suit the environment, but also evaluate and manage technological advances of future and the requisite pedagogical shifts to achieve efficiency and effectiveness. The demand of educational technology has been rising steadily, primarily due to the fact that e-learning is a huge and significantly expanding world-wide industry. Commercial e-learning companies, training departments in large companies and organizations, computer software companies and educational institutions the world over employ large numbers of educational technology specialists. There is a strong demand for technologists who understand educational theories and for instructional designers and teachers who understand technologies. This book is targeted towards those who are looking for career in educational technology, instructional design, or media and information systems, or may want to continue their studies in graduate programs in learning and instructional technology, and those who are interested in becoming teacher in K-12 setting but need background in educational technology. This book will also act as a valuable resource in teacher education programs where primary focus on mainstream education and requires an authentic resource in instructional design and educational technology. Keeping in mind the varied needs of the organizations, employees and potential students, this book adopts a competency approach to learning and assessment. The themes and topics take a multi-disciplinary approach, and are aimed at preparing students for competent and innovative educational technology professionals.

New 11+ GL Verbal Reasoning Practice Book & Assessment Tests - Ages 9-10 (with Online Edition) (PDF)

"Ideal for building up the Verbal Reasoning skills children will need for the 11+ (and other selective entrance exams), this book is packed with targeted practice questions for ages 9-10. The first section of the book focuses on one topic at a time to help children gain understanding and confidence. This is followed by seven Assessment Tests to improve their speed and accuracy across a wide range of questions. And if they get stuck or go wrong, the detailed pull-out answers make it easy to understand the reasoning behind the questions. Multiple-choice answer sheets for the Assessment Tests are available to downloadfrom the CGP website. This book is ideal for the 11+ tests set by GL Assessment and other test providers, and provides excellent practice for the Kent Test. A separate edition for the CEM (Durham University) tests is also available. Great news - a free Online Edition of the whole book is included - just use the unique access code printed inside the cover to access it on a PC, Mac or tablet! "

Global Educational Reform: How Privatization And Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes

With contributions from Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Fullan, Pasi Sahlberg, and Martin Carnoy, Global Education Reform is an eye-opening analysis of national educational reforms and the types of high-achieving systems needed to serve all students equitably. The collection documents the ideologically and educationally distinctive approaches countries around the world have taken to structuring their education systems. Focusing on three pairs of case studies written by internationally acclaimed experts, the book provides a powerful analysis of the different ends of an ideological spectrum----from strong state investments in public education to market-based approaches. An introductory chapter offers an overview of the theories guiding both neoliberal reforms such as those implemented in Chile, Sweden and the United States with efforts to build strong and equitable public education systems as exemplified by Cuba, Finland and Canada. The pairs of case studies that follow examine the historical evolution of education within an individual country and compare and contrast national educational outcomes. A concluding chapter dissects the educational outcomes of the differing economic and governance approaches, as well as the policy implications.

Global Educational Reform: How Privatization And Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes (PDF)

With contributions from Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Fullan, Pasi Sahlberg, and Martin Carnoy, Global Education Reform is an eye-opening analysis of national educational reforms and the types of high-achieving systems needed to serve all students equitably. The collection documents the ideologically and educationally distinctive approaches countries around the world have taken to structuring their education systems. Focusing on three pairs of case studies written by internationally acclaimed experts, the book provides a powerful analysis of the different ends of an ideological spectrum----from strong state investments in public education to market-based approaches. An introductory chapter offers an overview of the theories guiding both neoliberal reforms such as those implemented in Chile, Sweden and the United States with efforts to build strong and equitable public education systems as exemplified by Cuba, Finland and Canada. The pairs of case studies that follow examine the historical evolution of education within an individual country and compare and contrast national educational outcomes. A concluding chapter dissects the educational outcomes of the differing economic and governance approaches, as well as the policy implications.

New 11+ GL Non-Verbal Reasoning Practice Book & Assessment Tests - Ages 9-10 (with Online Edition) (PDF)

"Ideal for building the key skills children need for 11+ Non-Verbal Reasoning (and other selective entrance exams), this book contains a wide range of practice questions set at a level that’s perfect for ages 9-10. The first section of the book focuses on one topic at a time to help children gain understanding and confidence. This is followed by a selection of Assessment Tests to improve pupils' speed and accuracy across a wide range of questions. And if they get stuck or go wrong, the detailed pull-out answers make it easy to understand the reasoning behind the questions. Multiple-choice answer sheets for the Assessment Tests are available to download from from the CGP website. This book is ideal for the 11+ tests set by GL Assessment and other test providers, and provides excellent practice for the Kent Test. A separate edition for the CEM (Durham University) tests is also available. Great news - a free Online Edition of the whole book is included - just use the unique access code printed inside the cover to access it on a PC, Mac or tablet!"

New 11+ GL Verbal Reasoning Practice Book & Assessment Tests - Ages 8-9 (with Online Edition) (PDF)

This Practice Book is an excellent resource for helping children work towards the 11+ Verbal Reasoning test and other selective entrance exams. It contains a huge range of questions, all set at a level that’s typically suitable for ages 8-9. The first section of the book helps children gain understanding and confidence by focusing on one topic at a time. This is followed by eight Assessment Tests to improve their speed and accuracy across a wide range of questions. And if they get stuck or go wrong, the detailed pull-out answers make it easy to understand the reasoning behind the questions. This book is ideal for the 11+ tests set by GL Assessment and other test providers, and provides excellent practice for the Kent Test. A separate edition for the CEM (Durham University) tests is also available. What’s more, a free Online Edition of the whole book is included - just use the unique access code printed inside the cover to access it on a PC, Mac or tablet!

Outcomes, Learning And The Curriculum: Implications For Nvqs And Other Qualifications

This book provides an account of the curricular consequences of the outcomes approach to education (NVQs GNVQs etc). It contains contributions from leading experts in the field and, as such, is likely to become the core text in this area. An initial discussion of the main themes leads the reader into a discussion of key ideas and the theory behind the Outcomes approach covering, in addition, issues concerning standards and quality. Areas of the curriculum covered include assessment, modularization, flexible learning and work-based learning, higher level competences and the autonomous learner. It should be of interest to all concerned with the development of the curriculum, ranging from school sixth forms through further and higher education to professional industrial trainers with an interest in the development of education and training in the UK.

Outcomes, Learning And The Curriculum: Implications For Nvqs And Other Qualifications

This book provides an account of the curricular consequences of the outcomes approach to education (NVQs GNVQs etc). It contains contributions from leading experts in the field and, as such, is likely to become the core text in this area. An initial discussion of the main themes leads the reader into a discussion of key ideas and the theory behind the Outcomes approach covering, in addition, issues concerning standards and quality. Areas of the curriculum covered include assessment, modularization, flexible learning and work-based learning, higher level competences and the autonomous learner. It should be of interest to all concerned with the development of the curriculum, ranging from school sixth forms through further and higher education to professional industrial trainers with an interest in the development of education and training in the UK.

Glocal Languages And Intercultural Critical Awareness (Routledge Studies In Language And Intercultural Communication Ser.)

This volume provides a new perspective on prevailing discourses on translanguaging and multilingualism by looking at `glocal' languages, local languages which have been successfully "globalized". Focusing on European languages recreated in Latin America, the book features examples from languages underexplored in the literature, including Brazilian Portuguese, Amerinidian poetics, and English, Spanish, Portuguese outside Europe, as a basis for advocating for an approach to language education rooted in critical pedagogy and post-colonial perspectives and countering hegemonic theories of globalization. While rooted in a discussion of the South, the book offers a fresh voice in current debates on language education that will be of broader interest to students and scholars across disciplines, including language education, multilingualism, cultural studies, and linguistic anthropology.

Glocal Languages And Intercultural Critical Awareness (Routledge Studies In Language And Intercultural Communication Ser.)

This volume provides a new perspective on prevailing discourses on translanguaging and multilingualism by looking at `glocal' languages, local languages which have been successfully "globalized". Focusing on European languages recreated in Latin America, the book features examples from languages underexplored in the literature, including Brazilian Portuguese, Amerinidian poetics, and English, Spanish, Portuguese outside Europe, as a basis for advocating for an approach to language education rooted in critical pedagogy and post-colonial perspectives and countering hegemonic theories of globalization. While rooted in a discussion of the South, the book offers a fresh voice in current debates on language education that will be of broader interest to students and scholars across disciplines, including language education, multilingualism, cultural studies, and linguistic anthropology.

Youth and Education in the Middle East: Shaping Identity and Politics in Jordan (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)

The uprisings that were seen throughout the Middle East during 2010 and 2011, make it difficult to over-state the role of educated youth in the region's politics. Daniele Cantini combines an analysis of young people in Jordan, of its relevance and of its perceived crisis, with one which looks at education and the pursuit of knowledge. He thereby highlights the unprecedented rise in youth population and the growth in institutions of higher learning as a way to explore and explain the challenges Arab-majority societies are currently facing. It proposes an understanding of the university as an institution integral to the survival of the regime, discusses its fragile reforms, and crucial in the formation of young people's social and political identities. Youth and Education in the Middle East, offers vital first-hand accounts of the role of educational institutions and the impact they have in shaping transnational and local constituencies as well as in the micropolitics of everyday life.

A Short History of the New Testament (I.B.Tauris Short Histories)

Few documents in world history can match the inspirational impact of the New Testament. For all its variety – gospels, letters and visions – this first-century collection of texts keeps always at its centre the enigmatic figure of Joshua/Jesus: the Jewish prophet who gathered a group around him, proclaimed the imminent end of the world, but was made captive by the authorities of Rome only to suffer a shameful criminal's death on a cross. When his followers (including former persecutor Saul/Paul) became convinced that Jesus had defeated extinction, and had risen again to fresh life, the movement crossed over from Palestine to ignite the entire Graeco-Roman Mediterranean world. The author shows how the writings of this vibrant new faith came into being from oral transmission and then became the pillar of a great world religion. He explores their many varied usages in music, liturgy, art, language and literature. In discussing its textual origins, as well as its later reception, Moxnes shows above all how the New Testament has been employed both as a tool for liberation and as a means of power and control.

Greek to Me: A Memoir of Academic Life

The 1960s were a tumultuous period in the history of Greece, as its democracy fell under the forced establishment of a military dictatorship. The regime of the Colonels was the culmination of national division and hostility between communist forces and right wing militants. It was in these extraordinary times that British historian Richard Clogg witnessed the 1967 coup, while living in Athens and researching modern Greek history. Following his abrupt immersion in Greek politics and political activism, Clogg went on to a joint appointment at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) and King's College, London. At SSEES, he uncovered the contested history of nationalist funding in academia and postings. After publishing his controversial book Politics and the Academy, Clogg moved to St Antony's College, Oxford. Greek to Me: A Memoir of Academic Life is an engrossing tale of academic and political intrigue, spanning Clogg's time in Greece and in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at King's College London. Through extensive personal archives of his fascinating adventures, Clogg exposes the secretive fields of academia and university politics as well as providing unique eyewitness accounts of modern Greek history.

Diary of Greg Heffley's Best Friend: World Book Day 2019 (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Greg Heffley's best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has been stood on the side-lines for too long. This World Book Day he is taking centre stage, and writing a journal that's all about him. (Oh, except he will also be acting as Greg's biographer, as one day Greg will be rich and famous.) The only thing is, Rowley isn't really up to the job as biographer, and it turns into a hilarious rambling mess! This HUGELY EXCITING Wimpy Kid World Book Day book is the opening to the BRAND NEW Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid!Rowley's journal is a new window into the Wimpy World, and one fans won't want to miss!

Intermediate 1st Year English Text Book - Telangana Board

This is the prescribed text book for the subject of english for the students of Telangana Intermediate first year.

Nelson Key Geography Connections Teacher's Handbook

This Teacher's Handbook offers a page of at-a-glance support for each spread in the 5th edition of Nelson Key Geography Connections. Designed to be flexible and easily integrated, it works alongside the Student Book to help deliver exciting, relevant and up-to-date lessons that engage all of your students.

How To Enhance Your Mathematics Subject Knowledge: Number and Algebra for Secondary Teachers (PDF)

How to Teach Mathematics for Mastery (PDF)

How To Teach Mathematics For Mastery is a research-informed guide to the key principles of the mastery approach. It summarises a wide range of research in a readable format, providing practical recommendations and guidance to support Secondary maths teachers and heads of department with implementing this approach in their schools.

Oxford Reading Tree: Level 7: Snapdragons: I'm Not Wearing That! (PDF)

Written by top children's authors such as award-winning Gillian Cross, Malachy Doyle and Pippa Goodhart Snapdragons are fabulously illustrated with various writing styles and fonts to make reading enjoyable for all your infant readers. They provides a wide range of picture books for children aged 3-9. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Agroecological Transitions: From Theory To Practice In Local Participatory Design

This Open Access book presents feedback from the ‘Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents:i) the key dimensions to be considered when dealing with agroecological transition: diversity of agriculture models, management of uncertainties, polycentric governance, autonomies, and role of actors’ networks;ii) an operational and original participatory process and associated boundary tools to support local stakeholders in shifting from a shared diagnosis to a shared action plan for transition, and in so doing developing mutual understanding and involvement;iii) an analysis of the main effects of the methodology on research organisation and on stakeholders’ development and application;iv) critical analysis and foresights on the main outcomes of TATA-BOX, provided by external researchers.

Mit Funktionen Zusammenhänge und Veränderungen beschreiben (Mathematik Primarstufe und Sekundarstufe I + II)

In diesem Buch soll gezeigt werden, was Funktionen in der Mathematik und in Anwendungssituationen leisten können bzw. sollen. Funktionen haben bekanntlich viele Gesichter, und das Thema ist im schulischen Mathematikunterricht und auch in den Lehramtsstudiengängen prominent vertreten. Da ist es natürlich besonders wichtig, dass Studierende einen angemessenen Zugang zu diesem Thema bekommen, sodass sie einen solchen auch an ihre zukünftigen Schüler/innen weitergeben können. Im Buch werden viele praktische und fachwissenschaftliche Aspekte angesprochen und miteinander vernetzt (z. B. zur Geometrie und zur Stochastik), die u. E. zu einem tragfähigen Gesamtbild von „Elementaren Funktionen“ führen, wobei sich an manchen Stellen auch fachdidaktische Betrachtungen finden. Dabei sollen weder Realitätsbezüge noch innermathematische Zusammenhänge und Begründungen zu kurz kommen. Dem nicht ganz leichten Ziel, Verständlichkeit und mathematische Exaktheit miteinander zu verbinden, wollen wir mit diesem Buch ein Stück näher kommen. Zahlreiche Aufgaben (teilweise mit Lösungshinweisen) runden jedes Kapitel ab und sollen Leser/innen zum Üben, Verstehen und Weiterdenken anregen.