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Focusing on teachers, this book looks at the experience of teaching international students who often find it difficult to perform to their full abilities in a foreign environment. This title includes practical

Arising out of a specialist group meeting on citizenship education held at the 50th anniversary conference of the Political Studies Association in 2000, this collection of essays deals with the raising of

Growing discontent with the performance of educational institutions is common in the USA today and little is being done to address the real problem - that of the need to reform and

Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance is really about how teachers are performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivated audience.

This volume explores Durkheim's place in modern educational thought at three different levels: * Durkheim's ideas on education are analyzed and placed in the context of modern society * current educational issues

This title examines the transitive relation between politics and actual classroom practice. It shows that educational policy serves as political propaganda directed at an electorate desperate for change.

For all of its promise, public education in the twentieth century never lived up to its democratic potential. This book takes a serious look at the slow erosion of the fuller democratic

This title aims to guide the reader through the maze of statutory and other potential funding sources such as government departments, local education authorities or organizations with a specific interest or remit

In this analysis, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with research literature to explore issues of teaching, learning and testing US history. While the two teachers