Teaching Drama: A Teaching Skills Workbook (Focus on Education)

Arts & Photography

Nixon, Jon

Performing Arts

Nelson Thornes (Publishers) Ltd

A radical critique both of the British government's agenda for education reform and of various proposed alternatives to it, focusing on the need of secondary schools to motivate disadvantaged students to learn and instill in them a sense of purpose and optimism for the future. Describes the social trends now impacting schools, the low educational expectations and disaffection of many young people, strategies for motivating students to take responsibility for their won education, and collaborating with parents. Of interest to teachers, school administrators, and education scholars. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Encouraging Learning: Towards a Theory of the Learning School

Education & Teaching

Martin, Jane

Ranson, Stewart

McKeown, Penny

Schools & Teaching

Open Univ Pr

Reclaiming Universities from a Runaway World

This book examines the idea that the defining feature of academic professional identity is the search for understanding. The editors and contributors foster and contribute to a debate around reviving the civic function and democratic values of public institutions serving the public good. The book shows how questions of teaching, research, and management in universities are also questions about the struggle over deliberative democracy. It demonstrates how higher education can contribute to building a society that is prosperous and secure, compassionate, tolerant, and able to value and appreciate diversity.

Walker, Melanie

Open University Press

· What is the current state of higher education internationally? 
 · How may we construct an alternative vision for higher education?
 · What might such an alternative look like?
 Within the knowledge economy, higher education has expanded and changed through policies and practices of audit, performativity and ‘market’ values. In the face of such shifts, Reclaiming Universities from a Runaway World contributes to a timely and important debate around the civic function and democratic values of universities. 
 The book is divided into three parts:
 · ‘Dark Times’ critiques the effects of contemporary higher education on professional life, research and curricula. 
 · ‘Languages of Reconstruction’ explores alternative conceptualisations of what universities and higher learning are for, reaffirming difference, deliberative dialogue and the intrinsic goods of learning. The book argues that different languages enable different ways of thinking about university life. 
 · ‘Pointing to Hope’ builds upon the foundations of the previous section to demonstrate how practices in pedagogy, new technologies, management, research and scholarship can be developed.
 This book offers a compelling and workable new vision for higher education. It is unique in bringing together critique with alternative ways of thinking about and doing higher education, providing theoretical and empirical grounding and focusing on international issues. With its international authorship, it provides insight for anyone interested in debates about the directions of higher education, including students, researchers, higher education managers and policy makers.

Higher & Continuing Education

Erich Auerbach and the Secular World (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Routledge

Towards the Virtuous University (Key Issues in Higher Education)

A good university is invariably assumed to be one which is managerially effective in terms of its economic efficiency, and is judged in terms of entrepreneurialism, self-promotion and competitive innovation. This book argues that in the majority of institutions, these goals are being pursued to the exclusion of academic excellence and public service. It proposes that there is a marked lack of intellectual leadership at senior management level within HE institutions and that academic workers must assume responsibility for the moral purposefulness of their institutions. This will not be a retreat into the old values of an elitist 'ivory tower', but a rejection of the current deeply stratified university system which prematurely selects students for differentiated institutional streams.

Towards the Virtuous University: The Moral Bases of Academic Practice (Key Issues in Higher Education)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Teaching About Race Relations (RLE Edu J)

This is the report of two linked research projects: the SSRC Project on Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project on Teaching About Race Relations through Drama. Its aim is to help teachers who will face race as a theme, whether it arises in the normal course of their subject teaching or is introduced as a separate topic.  The project worked with three groups of teachers, each of which adopted a different approach, and the results of the testing programme are given alongside a series of case studies of classroom teaching. The book includes a summary of the findings of the research, express as hypotheses and an account of the teacher-dissemination of the project’s work; it concludes with reflections by the director of the project and a participant teacher.

Teaching About Race Relations (RLE Edu J): Problems and Effects

Wild, Robert

Stenhouse, Lawrence

Verma, Gajendra

Reference

This is the report of two linked research projects: the SSRC Project on Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project on Teaching About Race Relations through Drama. Its aim is to help teachers who will face race as a theme, whether it arises in the normal course of their subject teaching or is introduced as a separate topic.  The project worked with three groups of teachers, each of which adopted a different approach, and the results of the testing programme are given alongside a series of case studies of classroom teaching. The book includes a summary of the findings of the research, express as hypotheses and an account of the teacher-dissemination of the project’s work; it concludes with reflections by the director of the project and a participant teacher. 

A good university is invariably assumed to be one which is managerially effective in terms of its economic efficiency, and is judged in terms of entrepreneurialism, self-promotion and competitive innovation. This book argues that in the majority of institutions, these goals are being pursued to the exclusion of academic excellence and public service. It proposes that there is a marked lack of intellectual leadership at senior management level within HE institutions and that academic workers must assume responsibility for the moral purposefulness of their institutions. This will not be a retreat into the old values of an elitist 'ivory tower', but a rejection of the current deeply stratified university system which prematurely selects students for differentiated institutional streams.

Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal

What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg? Examining her contribution to radical democracy and revolutionary socialism, Jon Nixon shows why Red Rosa's legacy lives on. Luxemburg's political and intellectual formation was in itself a 'long revolution', conceived of over time and in response to world events; her groundbreaking ideas around internationalism and spontaneity were formulated in the context of revolution. Returning to her thinking on global capitalism, democratic renewal, state militarism, and the social question, Nixon draws out the enduring nature of her work, using her framework of ideas as a lens through which to view the contemporary debates. By establishing a rich and distinctive account of Luxemburg, Nixon makes the argument for why her struggle for democratic renewal is as relevant as ever.

Biographies & Memoirs

Pluto Press

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