This text offers support to those who believe that no amount of administrative development, curricular development, management reorganizations, quality audits or any related endeavour is as important to education as the promotion and maintenance of good teaching. The idea that good teaching can somehow be ensured by attempting to standardize practice is rejected; instead, the author argues that good teaching consists of a set of diverse practices that are sustained by professional discourse and that are subject to democratic accountability. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Gathering poems from Shakespeare to the present, Don't Bring Me No Rocking Chair addresses aging through the several ages of poetry. Poetry can help to give us a fresh language to think about aging and these poems are chosen to fortify, celebrate, lament, grieve, rage, and ridicule...read more

This book is concerned with the logic of the relationship between educational theory and practice. However it is not just an academic monograph located within the general area of the philosophy of education, it is also a fundamental examination of three currently popular ideas: vocationalism is the idea that central purposes of education is to prepare people for work. Managerialism is the idea that this preparation can be managed by those not immediately concerned with the practice of teaching, and consumerism is the idea that education should be led by the demands of the market. While the book is mostly likely to interest those who are generally critical of the present dominance of these three ideas in educational policy and practice, it should also provoke some interest from promoters of these ideas.

Unable to rely on the predictions of his mystic board, Josh Jolly enters into the sixth grade unprepared and is partnered with snobby Kate Haskell, eccentric Rainy Day, and gigantic genius Bill Dumper for a class project--an unlikely alliance that leads to friendship, which unexpectedly affects their town.

Educational theory and practice have long been dominated by the requirements of formal learning. This book seeks to persuade readers through philosophical argument and empirical examples that the balance should shift back towards the informal. The arguments and examples derive from informal learning in diverse situations, such as leisure activities, as a preparation for and as part of work, and as a means of surviving undesirable circumstances like dead-end jobs and incarceration.

Macy and Danny, two teenage boys who have both grown up under difficult circumstances, turn out very differently--one becomes a hero, the other a murderer.

Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent and comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The materical on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods of drama, from Greek tragedy and comedy to the contemporary theatre, with the plays of Shakespeare providing a special focus. His approach is not historical but systematic, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed and concrete interpretations of specific sample texts. An extensive international bibliography of relevant theatre and drama studies further enhances the practical value of the book. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book promotes debate on values in further education. It constitutes an important contribution to the field, and will facilitate staff and policy development in values education of adult learners.This volume presents the outcome of a research project undertaken by the University of Strathclyde, Scotland...read more