Educating Children at Home

With increasing numbers of parents choosing to educate their children at home, an opportunity now exists to explore education outside the school environment. Parents often discover that classroom approaches to teaching and learning do not easily translate into the home. As a result, some radically adjust their approach to educating their children, in some instances virtually abandoning any structured teaching or learning. Focusing on informal learning, this text examines in depth how children can acquire an education simply through everyday experiences. The text sets out to challenge fundamental assumptions about the nature of teaching and learning. Research has been drawn from a wide cross-section of parents from 100 home-educating families.

Alan Thomas

Continuum Intl Pub Group (Sd)

Roar Of The Crowd (First Love from Silhouette)

Literature & Fiction

Silhouette

The "manager" is a phenomenon of this century. The role of the manager has become necessary as organizations have become larger, more complex and more international. At the same time the demand for formal management training has resulted in the proliferation of management courses, management qualifications and, above all, management theories. "Controversies in Management" provides a guide to the key theories and approaches in management that have emerged, from Taylor onwards, and relates them to the context of modern business as well as tracing their roots in the social sciences. Within the vast literature on management there are considerable differences of view. Modern managers thus have to cope not only with a complex and rapidly changing world, but also with increasingly diverse ways of understanding it and managing it. In many ways management, both as practical activity and as a subject for study, has become puzzling. Alan Thomas sets out to explore some of these puzzles.

Controversies in Management

Routledge

This text provides a set of cases to illustrate key topics in organizational behaviour. Each case is designed to incorporate a variety of issues, covering such topics as: conflict management; international strategy; competitiveness; cycles of behaviour; culture change; and control. It includes a range of organizations from commodity traders and the Church of England to the Police and the US Skylab space programme. It provides questions, discussion points, lists of source materials and a guide to reading for organizational behaviour so can be used as an all round resource for students of OB, HRM and general management.

The Organizational Behaviour Casebook

Thomson Learning

A textbook on the cardiovascular system for medical students, offering an integrated coverage of the basic science and major diseases of the system.Integrated coverage of the structure, function and major diseases of the cardiovascular system - highly suitable for systems courses as taught in the new medical curriculum.Coverage of the basic science is clinically driven - a common clinical presentation introduces each major topic.Clinical cases are used and explained in the chapter rather than merely being present to provide additional interest.Coverage of major diseases of the cardiovascular system equips students for the contact with patients which now occurs much earlier in the medical course.Attractive, open two colour page design with objectives defined at the start of each chapter and self-assessment at the end.

The Cardiovascular System: Systems of the Body Series

Medical Books

Robert Johnson

Paul Bass

Alan Noble

Medicine

Churchill/Livingstone

Buses

Reference

Atlases & Maps

Hamlyn

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