70 books (4 pages) in this category
Folktales, Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends of India and Pakistan
by Aaron Shepard
<p>Traditional tales are retold by a master storyteller in this collection of folktales, myths, and legends from India and Pakistan. The stories are: </p> <p>THE GIFTS OF THE GRASSCUTTER </p> <p>Wali Dad, a humble grasscutter, never asked for ...
ISBN: 9781508047926
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eBookApproaches to Self-Development and Growth
by Yukiko Inoue-Smith
<span><span>Professional ethics require continuous self-improvement of professors, through writing, reading, and learning: no less than for students. Promoting excellence in scholarship, mentoring students in their research, and effectively ...
ISBN: 9780761866718
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eBookA Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority
Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States
by Peter McLaren, Hasan Hüseyin Aksoy, Birol Algan & others
<p>A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: <em>Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States</em> explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the ...
ISBN: 9781498524667
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eBookAn Introduction to the Internationalization of Higher Education
Essential Topics
by Ali Arabkheradmand, Enayat A. Shabani, Amir Zand-Moghadam & others
<span><span>Internationalization of higher education is a concept that is currently making its way to every corner of the globe. </span><span style="font-style:italic;">An Introduction to the Internationalization of Higher Education</span><span>
ISBN: 9780761864714
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eBookAsia Literate Schooling in the Asian Century
by Christine Halse
<p>Globalization, migration, transnational movements and the development of the tiger economies of Asia have led education leaders and policy makers around the world but particularly in Australia, the USA, Canada, and New Zealand to view schools
ISBN: 9781317806608
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eBookThe Italian Approach to Infant/Toddler Care
by Lella Gandini & Carolyn P. Edwards
<p>This volume is a timely contribution to the burgeoning dialogue on the Reggio Emilia approach, and features the work of prominent scholars, policy-makers, researchers, administrators, and practicing teachers who have created and directed the ...
ISBN: 9780807775264
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eBookChild Cultures, Schooling, and Literacy
Global Perspectives on Composing Unique Lives
by Anne Haas Dyson
<p>Through analysis of case studies of young children (ages 3 to 8 years), situated in different geographic, cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic sites on six continents, this book examines the interplay of childhoods, schooling, ...
ISBN: 9781317567226
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eBookChina through the Lens of Comparative Education
The selected works of Ruth Hayhoe
by Ruth Hayhoe
<p>In the <strong>World Library of Educationalists</strong> series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major ...
ISBN: 9781317672555
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eBookChinese-Heritage Students in North American Schools
Understanding Hearts and Minds Beyond Test Scores
by Wen Ma & Guofang Li
<p>This comprehensive look at Chinese-heritage students’ academic, sociocultural, and emotional development in the public schools examines pertinent educational theories; complex (even inconvenient) realities; learning practices in and outside ...
ISBN: 9781317331032
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eBookComparative Education: Views from Latin America
by Marco Aurelio Navarro Leal
<p>Although in Latin America there are no educational programs specialized in comparative education, as there are in some European, Oriental and North American universities, there are scholars who cultivate this field. With the production of ...
ISBN: 9781463355883
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eBookConstructing Modern Asian Citizenship
by Edward Vickers & Krishna Kumar
<p>In many non-Western contexts, modernization has tended to be equated with Westernization, and hence with an abandonment of authentic indigenous identities and values. This is evident in the recent history of many Asian societies, where ...
ISBN: 9781135007263
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eBookCourtesy Jerk 3: It's Your Fault That Your Kids Suck
Courtesy Jerk, #3
by Nicolas M. Parker
<p data-version='1.1'>If you're lucky enough to have children, then you might be unlucky enough to know about all of the garbage that comes with being a parent. Or at the very least, being the parent for a parent.<br/><em>Courtesy Jerk</em> ...
ISBN: 9781386577225
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eBookCurriculum, Instruction and Assessment in Japan
Beyond lesson study
by Koji Tanaka, Kanae Nishioka & Terumasa Ishii
<p>This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current status of policy, research and practices of curriculum, classroom instruction and assessment in Japan. It outlines the mechanism of curriculum organization and the history
ISBN: 9781317484929
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eBookEducating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe
Challenges and Opportunities
by Sandra L. Stacki & Supriya Baily
<p>While many initial education benchmarks are being met, new and continuing challenges exist for adolescent girls in the developing world. Discrimination, violence, marginalization, and health-related issues prevail, making proper education at ...
ISBN: 9781317671831
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eBookEducating Marginalized Communities in East and Southeast Asia
State, civil society and NGO partnerships
by Khun Eng Kuah & Jason Eng Thye Tan
<p>Despite the enshrinement by the United Nations in 1948 of education as a universal human right, and despite the ideals espoused in the Education for All declaration in Dakar in 1990, it is patently clear that these ideals remain far from ...
ISBN: 9781317203018
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eBookEducating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing
Migration, education, and policy in urban China
by Myra Pong
<p><em>Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing</em> is a timely book that addresses the gap in the provision of basic education to migrant children in China. It examines the case of Beijing, with a focus on policy implementation at ...
ISBN: 9781317671718
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eBookEducating the Global Environmental Citizen
Understanding Ecopedagogy in Local and Global Contexts
by Greg William Misiaszek
<p>Misiaszek examines the (dis)connection between critical global citizenship education models and ecopedagogy which is grounded in Paulo Freire’s pedagogy. Exploring how concepts of citizenship are affected by globalization, this book argues ...
ISBN: 9781351790734
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eBookEducation and Social Transition in the Third World
by Carnoy, Martin
<p>Through a comparative analysis of educational theory and practice, this analytic overview illuminates the larger economic and political changes occurring in five peripheral countries--China, Cuba, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Nicaragua--commonly
ISBN: 9781400860692
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eBookParadigms, Policies and Practices in Asia
by Michelle Y. Merrill, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm, Chew-Hung Chang & others
<P>This book provides an introduction to the state of sustainability education in Asia. It covers national policies, institutional policies and practices within Asian universities, sustainability considerations for teacher training at schools of
ISBN: 9781351614740
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eBookEducation between Speech and Writing
Crossing the Boundaries of Dao and Deconstruction
by Ruyu Hung
<p>This unique book explores how graphocentrism affects Chinese education and culture. It moves away from the contemporary educational practices in China of following the Western model of phonocentrism, to demonstrate that each perspective ...
ISBN: 9781317540113
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