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Community of Scholars, Community of Teachers
ISBN: PB: 9780984201099, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, August 2016
98 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
Academics routinely engage with colleagues in the research community as a critical part of their work. But, although many researchers are also dedicated teachers, teaching tends to be seen as a private matter between a teacher and his or her students...
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£9,00
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Schooling Selves Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226367866, ISBN: HB: 9780226367729, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 8 tables
Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have at...
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£26,50
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£73,50
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Science Blogging The Essential Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780300197556, Yale University Press, May 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.
Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on the cumulative experience of twenty-...
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£18,99
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New Bodleian The Making of the Weston Library
ISBN: PB: 9781851243747, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2016
224 pp., 25x25 cm, 100 colour illus.
In 1934 Sir Giles Gilbert Scott began work on designs for a substantial new library building opposite the Old Bodleian Library site in Broad Street, Oxford in order to provide much-needed space for the growing numbers of books housed in the library a...
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£30,00
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What Every Science Student Should Know
ISBN: PB: 9780226198880, ISBN: HB: 9780226198743, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones, 6 tables
"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students... We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict where the future...
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£17,00
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£52,50
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Parenting to a Degree How Family Matters for College Women's Success
ISBN: HB: 9780226183367, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 10 tables
Helicopter parents – the kind that continue to hover even in college – are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really dama...
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£19,00
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Old Boys The Decline and Rise of the Public School
ISBN: PB: 9780300219388, ISBN: HB: 9780300189926, Yale University Press, March 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 illus.
To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country's top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, includi...
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£11,99
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£25,00
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What Is Education?
ISBN: PB: 9780226381343, ISBN: HB: 9780226389387, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
136 pp., 20.5x14 cm
One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of "finding out just what education is". Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey's charge to heart and spent the ne...
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£13,50
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£27,00
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Living with Moral Disagreement The Enduring Controversy about Affirmative Action
ISBN: PB: 9780226344386, ISBN: HB: 9780226344249, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables
How to handle affirmative action is one of the most intractable policy problems of our era, touching on controversial issues such as race-consciousness and social justice. Much has been written both for and against affirmative action policies – espec...
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£20,00
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£60,00
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Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation
ISBN: PB: 9780226331300, ISBN: HB: 9780226331270, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
No fight over what gets taught in American classrooms is more heated than the battle over humanity's origins. For more than a century we have argued about evolutionary theory and creationism (and its successor theory, intelligent design), yet we seem...
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£16,00
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£48,00
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