Education : Curricula

This text provides a systematic introduction to the issues involved in planning, developing, and managing effective language programs. more...

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Discover how the integration of two of education's most powerful frameworks will help teachers impart essential knowledge and skills to the full spectrum of learners. more...

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The links between education and sustainable development are deepening although subject to much controversy and debate. The success of the sustainability discourse depends both on the pedagogic and research functions of higher education. Similarly for higher education itself to remain relevant and engaged it faces pressure not only to integrate the insights and lessons drawn from the perspective of sustainable development but also to be responsive to scrutiny of its own practices in relation to sustainability. Among professionals in higher education sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is embraced by some individuals and departments while being perceived by others as a threat to the coherence of particular disciplines. Although it is not currently an academic discipline in its own right increasing public and professional familiarity with the term and the increasing urgency of global calls for the implementation of sustainable development mean that this is rapidly changing. This volume analyses the impact of the concepts and practices of sustainability and sustainable development on various academic disciplines institutional practices fields of study and methods of enquiry. The contributors drawn from a wide-range of disciplines perspectives educational levels and institutional contexts examine the purpose of the modern university and the nature of sustainable education which includes exploring links to social movements for sustainability projects curriculum change culture and biodiversity values relating to gender equality and global responsibility and case studies on the transformation or otherwise of some specific disciplines. more...

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Aimed at meeting the needs of faculty members interested in ways to improve their classroom instruction, this research annual features articles that are empirical or non-empirical. These articles explain how faculty members can improve their teaching methods or how accounting units can improve their curricula/programs. more...

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Aimed at non specialist primary teachers, this book offers support for the two attainment targets of the National Curriculum in art: investigating and making, and knowledge and understanding. more...

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