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Product Description: In recent years there has been a new mood in teacher education. The emphasis is on professional studies, on encouraging trainee teachers to think intelligently about how to tackle problems of the classroom.This book surveys the developments which are taking it further in both Britain and North America...read more

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Product Description: Conversing with Antiquity gathers together a selection of revised previously published articles by one of the foremost scholars of Renaissance and early modern English literature, contextualizing them with a specially written Introduction...read more

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How do we conduct classroom research? Why is classroom research valuable to teachers and schools? How does classroom research contribute to teaching, learning and school transformation? The fourth edition of this bestselling book is a practical guide for teachers that wish to conduct research in their classrooms and for schools that wish to improve their practice. Classroom research, as described in this book, will enable teachers to enhance their own or their colleagues’ teaching, to test the assumptions of educational theory in practice and to implement and evaluate whole school developments. Comprehensively revised and updated, changes to the new edition include: A major re-working of the last four chapters Comprehensive description of how to conduct classroom research Two new chapters on analyzing and reporting research Updated case study examples and cameos The contribution of teacher research in enhancing personalized learning and school transformation The book also explores models of teaching and learning; methods for collecting, analyzing and reporting data; and the ways in which classroom research can be published and linked to the curriculum, teaching and staff development.

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Product Description: 'Every school a great school' is not just a slogan, but an aspiration for the next stage of education reform, in which each student has the opportunity to reach their full potential. The book argues that, for 'every school a great school' to become a reality, requires a move from individual school improvement efforts and short term objectives to a sustainable system-wide response that seeks to re-establish a balance between national prescription and schools leading reform...read more

Product Description: Dryden's genius is unveiled through the extensive annotations in this celebrated edition of his work.Incorporates ubstantial explanatory annotation to the poems, comprising explanations of contemporary references and literary allusions Provides a carefully modernised text of the poems Compiled by an experienced author team...read more

Product Description: The neo-avant-garde of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, is due for a thoroughgoing reassessment. This collection of essays represents the first full-scale attempt to deal with the concept from an interdisciplinary standpoint. A number of essays in this book concentrate on fine art, particularly painting and sculpture, thereby adding significantly to the growing art historical literature in the field, but a number of the contributions also focus on poetry, performance, theatre, film, architecture and music...read more

Product Description: The third and final volume in the series offers substantive essays on the Byzantine, Early Islamic, Frankish, and Ottoman periods in the Holy Land written by the foremost experts in their fields. Generously illustrated, this collection is ideally suited to use in the classroom...read more

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Product Description: This text represents the experiences from six English speaking countries in the field of school development planning. There are chapters discussing staff development, quality reviews and school organization and effectiveness.

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Product Description: The purpose of this volume is to locate school improvement within a theoretical and practical framework, to illustrate the challenges facing school improvement strategies from a policy context, to demonstrate the evolution of a range of school improvement strategies in recent times, and through reports of recent research to challenge the assumptions underlying contemporary school improvement approaches...read more

Product Description: The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and user-friendly presentation of the last, and perhaps best, works of the greatest English poet of the later seventeenth century. Substantial explanatory annotation to the poems, comprising explanations of contemporary references and literary allusions, details of Dryden's handling of the original texts in his translations, and extensive glossing...read more

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