Product Description: Maybe you’re a rising business executive who’s getting ready for your summer vacation, and you’re looking for something interesting to read. Maybe you’re just heading to Seattle for a sales conference, and you need something to peruse on the plane...read more

Product Description: Maybe you’re a rising business executive who’s getting ready for your summer vacation, and you’re looking for something interesting to read. Maybe you’re just heading to Seattle for a sales conference, and you need something to peruse on the plane...read more

Product Description: The orphaned son of an Anglican clergyman, David Hartley (1705-57) was originally destined for holy orders. Declining to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles, he turned to medicine and science yet remained a religious believer. This, his most significant work, provides a rigorous analysis of human nature, blending philosophy, psychology and theology...read more

Product Description: For nearly 200 years the organisational form of the school has changed little. Bureaucracy has been its enduring form. The school has prepared the worker for the factory of mass production. It has created the 'mass consumer' to be content with accepting what is on offer, not what is wanted...read more

Product Description: Outdoor Inquiries offers approaches to help students become skilled at asking their own questions, gathering their own data and analyzing it for themselves-to become real inquirers. We recommend it to all of our teachers. -Lynn Rankin Director, Institute for Inquiry, Exploratorium The book is a great treasure for all science educators...read more

Product Description: Rethinking Teacher Education is a thorough and critical analysis of the ambivalences and uncertainties that face those in teacher education. The authors draw on their different experiences of teacher education to try to make sense of current practices and where they might lead...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The reign of Henri II (1547-1559) consisted of a wealth of patriotic prose. The events Du Bellay commented on culminated at the end of the reign with the capture of Calais and the accidental death of the King. This work provides insight into the patriotic mentality of Du Bellay. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text describes and explains the sense of uncertainty faced by educators as the millenium approaches. It highlights the many transitions taking place in all aspects of public life and education during the postmodern phase of late capitalism by using examples from the study of childhood, curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and organization of education. It also considers attempts made so far by policy makers in the western industrialized nations to come to terms with rapid cultural and social changes whilst, at the same time, trying to maintain competitive economies to meet the growing challenge of the emergent Pacific Rim nations.

Product Description: This work examines the patriotism of the French poet Joachim du Bellay, as expressed in the prose and verse produced during his brief career (1549-1560). His prose, "Manifesto La deffence et illustration de la langue Francoise", and his poetry are considered at length...read more

Product Description: Book by Hartley, David