ROUTLEDGE Early Childhood Care and Education International Perspectives

Throughout the world the number of working mothers with young children has continued to grow. This has important consequences for social policy decisions, particularly in the fields of parental leave, childcare and pre-school services provision.

Some countries are far more successful at combining high quality early childhood services with high percentages of mothers in employment, whereas others continue to struggle. This edited volume examines the ways in which different countries across the world are tackling early childhood services and how these services affect young children’s experiences and development, for better and worse.

Some of the recurring questions of childcare provision are tackled, including:

Is pre-school childcare detrimental to children?

Does the quality of childcare matter?

Why are some countries succeeding in providing quality childcare services, and others are not?

How can we best organise parental leave, employment regulations and childcare provision?

Table of Contents

1. Introducing International Perspectives on Early Childhood Care & Education 2. Childcare in the United States: Characteristics and Consequences 3. Policy and Research on Early Childcare and Education in Greece 4. Policy and Research on Preschool Care and Education in the UK 5. Children’s and parents’ Needs and Early Education and Care in Italy 6. Policy and Research on Childcare in Sweden 7. Early Childhood Care and Education in Aotearoa – New Zealand 8. Early Childhood Care and Education in Israel 9. Early Childhood Care and Education: An Indian Perspective 10. Development of Kindergarten Care and Education in the People’s Republic of China since the 1990s 11. An International Overview of Early Childhood Care and Education


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Rewriting How To Do Things With Texts by Joseph Harris

What are the moves that an academic writer makes? How does writing as an intellectual change the way we work from sources? In Rewriting, a textbook for the undergraduate classroom, Joseph Harris draws the college writing student away from static ideas of thesis, support, and structure, and toward a more mature and dynamic understanding.

Harris wants college writers to think of intellectual writing as an adaptive and social activity, and he offers them a clear set of strategies—a set of moves—for participating in it.

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Reading With Meaning Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades by Debbie Miller

If you have dedicated yourself to producing thoughtful readers who read for meaning, this is the book you need! Not only is it filled with helpful lesson ideas, but the arrangement of each chapter follows a scaffolded approach to help young readers engage and develop as lifelong readers.

Miller shows teachers how to lay out the entire year. Included in this book are chapters about schema building, mental images, inferring, questioning, non-fiction reading, and synthesizing. She focuses on one comprehension strategy in each chapter, including how to introduce it to students AND what children's books she considers "tried-and-true." At the end of each chapter, the author includes a list of children's book titles that all highlight the comprehension strategy perfectly for young children.

I have purchased many of the titles that she recommends. All of the books are outstanding pieces of literature that children adore. Also, the lessons work well in a Reader's Workshop format. After instruction, students can get busy practicing reading from their own books by using what they learned right away. This book is an outstanding resource for any teacher!


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Reading Comprehension Strategies Theories Interventions and Technologies by Danielle S McNamara

This volume provides an overview of reading comprehension strategies and strategy interventions that have been shown empirically to be effective in helping readers to overcome comprehension challenges.

This volume differs from other books that might be found on reading strategies in two important ways.There is a heavy focus throughout on theories of reading comprehension: How well do current models of reading comprehension account for the importance of reading strategies? And most important, how do theories of reading comprehension motivate and support reading comprehension interventions?


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How to Manage Spelling Succesfully by Philomena Ott

Readers will find this practical and comprehensive guide to spelling invaluable. Day-to-day advice on how to help those with difficulties is underpinned by information on the development of the English language and its spelling rules with explanations of common language problems.

Chapters cover:

spelling processes

teaching and learning phonics

individual cognitive and learning styles

assessing and monitoring spelling progress

teaching strategies and techniques.

This is an essential companion for teachers, SENCos, and dyslexia specialists alike, as well as anyone interested in spelling and language difficulties.


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How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms 2nd Edition by Carol Ann Tomlinson

In this 2nd edition of a book that has provided inspiration to countless teachers, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers three new chapters, extended examples and information in every chapter, and field-tested strategies that teachers can use in today's increasingly diverse classrooms. Tomlinson shows how to use students' readiness levels, interests, and learning profiles to address student diversity.

In addition, the author shows teachers how to differentiate, or structure, lessons at every grade level and content area to provide "scaffolds"--as well as high-speed elevators--for *The content of lessons, *The processes used in learning, and *The products of learning.

Teachers can draw on the book's practical examples as they begin to differentiate instruction in their own classrooms. Strategies include curriculum compacting, "sidebar" investigations, entry points, graphic organizers, contracts, and portfolios. As Tomlinson says, "Differentiation challenges us to draw on our best knowledge of teaching and learning. It suggests that there is room for both equity and excellence in our classrooms.


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Creating Significant Learning Experiences An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses

Dee Fink poses a fundamental question for all teachers: "How can I create courses that will provide significant learning experiences for my students?" In the process of addressing this question, he urges teachers to shift from a content-centered approach to a learning-centered approach that asks "What kinds of learning will be significant for students, and how can I create a course that will result in that kind of learning?"

Fink provides several conceptual and procedural tools that will be invaluable for all teachers when designing instruction. He takes important existing ideas in the literature on college teaching (active learning, educative assessment), adds some new ideas (a taxonomy of significant learning, the concept of a teaching strategy), and shows how to systematically combine these in a way that results in powerful learning experiences for students. Acquiring a deeper understanding of the design process will empower teachers to creatively design courses for significant learning in a variety of situations.

Contents

Preface.

The Author.

1. Creating Significant Learning Experiences.

2. A Taxonomy of Significant Learning.

3. Designing Significant Learning Experiences I: Getting Started.

4. Designing Significant Learning Experiences II: Shaping the Learning Experience.

5. Changing the Way We Teach.

6. Better Organizational Support for Faculty.

7. The Human Significance of Good Teaching and Learning.

Appendix A: Planning Your Course: A Decision Guide.

Appendix B: Suggested Readings.

References.

Index.


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Basic English Syntax with Exercises

This book attempts to describe some of the basic grammatical characteristics of the English language in a way accessible to most students of English. For this reason we start at the beginning and take as little as possible for granted.

Definitions are given for grammatical concepts when they are first used and there is a glossary at the back of the book to remind the reader of these as he or she works through it. At the end of each chapter there are an extensive set of exercises which the student is encouraged to consider and work through either in class or alone.

For those students working alone, we have also provided model answers for the exercises. These are for the student to check their understanding of the material supported by the exercises and to offer observations that the student may have missed.


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A Practical English Grammar Fourth Edition - Oxford

In this fourth edition, A Practical English Grammar is more informative and easier to use than ever. The text is revised and updated, closely related topics are easier to compare and a new index improves access to the text. Two books of exercises and two books of structure drills can be used with or without the Grammar.

Key features

- Clear, concise explanations of structures.

- Example sentences illustrating contemporary spoken and written English.

- Accompanying practice material: two books of exercises.


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MACMILLAN Tasks in Second Language Learning (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)

Tasks in Second Language Learning aims to bring more fully into debate the holistic nature of language learning, which tasks are one way of achieving, and to outline the research implications of this perspective. It sets language learning tasks within a broad educational and social science perspective, with a consistent focus on the principles and practices of their use in the language classroom.

Using case study data, illustrative materials, transcript data, and close analyses of published research studies, it provides ample and lively illustration of the contributions of a range of specialists in research, teaching methodology and materials development, and of the authors' own argument.


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MACMILLAN Program Evaluation in Language Education (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)

Evaluation is a way of understanding and developing language programs: the thematic and background section sets out the decision-making, quality management, and learning functions of evaluation.

Case studies illustrate the diversity of evaluation contexts, functions and approaches, documenting the ways in which evaluation processes and outcomes inform and facilitate program development, and contribute to explaining how language and teacher education programs constitute opportunities for learning.

The ways in which evaluation practice can be researched and developed to maximize policy, institutional and program effectiveness is included, and a comprehensive set of resources for those commissioning, undertaking or researching language program evaluations concludes the text.


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MACMILLAN Online Communication in Language Learning and Teaching

This book deals with research and practice in online communication and communication technologies of language learning and teaching. These include all forms of computerized media using text, graphics, audio and video, with a particular focus on multimodal teaching and learning.

As part of the project the authors describe well-structured action research projects which have transferable features and which can inspire readers wanting to undertake their own projects.


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MACMILLAN Mind Metaphor and Language Teaching by Randal Holme

Understanding metaphor raises key questions about the relationship between language and meaning, and between language and mind. This book explores how this understanding can impact upon the theory and practice of language teaching.

After summarizing the cognitive basis of metaphor and other figures of speech, it looks at how this knowledge can inform classroom practice. Finally, it sets out how we can use these insights to re-appraise language learning theory in a way that treats it as consonant with the cognitive nature of language.


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MACMILLAN Literature in Language Education (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)

This is a resource for researchers and practitioners in a range of applied linguistics fields, including TESOL, language education and more generally, discourse analysis and stylistics.

Pedagogically, this translates into recognition that students can be helped to develop a critical understanding of literary discourse as linguistic communication to the mutual enrichment of their literary, linguistic and cultural understandings. A conceptual map of the field, relevant researchable topics, research guidance and resources, and illustrative case studies drawn widely from real life teaching and research contexts are provided.


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MACMILLAN Language Testing and Validation An Evidence-based Approach

Language Testing and Validation: An Evidence-based Approach (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)

Tests for the measurement of language abilities must be constructed according to a coherent validity framework based on the latest developments in theory and practice.

This innovative book, by a world authority on language testing, deals with all key aspects of language test design and implementation. It provides a road map to effective testing based on the latest approaches to test validation. A book for all graduate students in Applied Linguistics or TESOL, and for professional language teachers.


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MACMILLAN Business Discourse (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)

This advanced textbook introduces a new multidisciplinary framework for an international synthesis of the field of business communication, centering on the investigation of business language as discourse.

It promotes debate and inquiry on several new and competing issues, emerging from corporate fieldwork and teaching practice by combining state-of-the-art research and innovative practical applications. As well as illustrating new approaches to classroom-based research projects, it encourages practice-based research that readers can undertake for themselves in independent research.


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The Foreign Language Educator in Society Toward A Critical Pedagogy

This text brings together two significant domains of educational practice: foreign language education and critical pedagogy--linking them in a way that can help foreign language educators develop a critical awareness of the nature, purposes, and challenges facing foreign language pedagogy.

Unique among texts in the field, this is the first to deal explicitly with the social, political, ideological, and economic aspects of language, language learning, and language teaching in our society and to connect the practice of foreign language education with these critical, and crucial, aspects of language and language use. The Foreign Language Educator in Society:

Toward A Critical Pedagogy:

*emphasizes what teachers and future teachers of foreign languages in this country ought to know and understand about language-- language attitudes, practices, rights, and policy-- and related issues;

*focuses on helping students to move beyond pragmatic pedagogical concerns to the social and political concerns relevant to their teaching; and

*provides students with the opportunity to develop critical perspectives on the central facets of the language education process.

Intended for foreign language education programs at both basic and advanced levels, as well as courses in critical pedagogy, critical language awareness, sociolinguistics, and social and cultural foundations of education, the text provides helpful pedagogical features to direct the reader in applying the content of each chapter to his or her own context.


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The Differentiated Classroom Responding to the Needs of All Learners by Carol Ann Tomlinson

Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, author Carol Ann Tomlinson describes a way of thinking about teaching and learning that will change all aspects of how you approach students and your classroom. She looks to the latest research on learning, education, and change for the theoretical basis of differentiated instruction and why it's so important to today's children.

Yet she offers much more than theory, filling the pages with real-life examples of teachers and students using-and benefitting from-differentiated instruction.

At the core of the book, three chapters describe actual lessons, units, and classrooms with differentiated instruction in action. Tomlinson looks at elementary and secondary classrooms in nearly all subject areas to show how real teachers turn the challenge of differentiation into a reality. Her insightful analysis of how, what, and why teachers differentiate lays the groundwork for you to bring differentiation to your own classroom.

Tomlinson's commonsense, classroom-tested advice speaks to experienced and novice teachers as well as educational leaders who want to foster differentiation in their schools. Using a "think versus sink approach," Tomlinson guides all readers through small changes, then even larger ones, until differentiation becomes a way of life that enriches both teachers and students.


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Tools of the Ancient Romans A Kids Guide to the History and Science of Life in Ancient Rome

Children will learn all about different civilizations and inventions—the way they changed history, their evolution over centuries, and their influence on modern times—through the activities and anecdotes provided in this interactive series.

One thousand years of ancient Roman civilization and its effect on modern living are presented in this interactive guide. Divided into themes and further supplemented by time lines and sidebars, every aspect of Rome is discussed, from Pompeii and gladiator bouts to the technology behind Roman baths and siege machines. A comprehensive "who's who" of ancient Rome explains the various roles within the empire and also takes a look at their daily lives. Children's understanding of the Roman way of life is enhanced with 15 activities that range from creating mosaics to building replicas of Roman ruins.


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Teaching Language and Literature in Elementary Classrooms 2nd Edition

The Second Edition features:
*Strategies for dealing with problems of disruption in the classroom;
*Expanded discussions related to diversity and special needs;
*Increased attention to methods of evaluation and mandated testing programs;
*Reorganization of chapter sections to make them more useful to readers;
*A new chapter on play and the fine arts;
*Integration of electronic teaching technology into all chapters;
*Extensive in-text annotations of children's literature, discussions of new titles in children's literature, cultural literatures, book clubs, series books, and the influence of books published internationally; *Updated reports of research and best practice studies;
*New classroom observations; and
*New appendices, designed to provide information and resources for instructional support.


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Teaching English as a Foreign Language 2nd Edition (Routledge Education Books)

For the many categories of EFL teachers throughout the world, this book examines the main principles which concern them. By drawing upon their experience the authors have indicated a modern and practical approach.



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Routledge Companion to Critical Theory by Simon Malpas and Paul Wake

A concise investigation into most of the major schools of modern LITERARY THEORY.

The Companion of Critical Theory is an indispensable aid for anyone approaching this exciting field of study for the first time. 

By exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines "theory" encourages us to develop a deeper understanding of how we approach the written word. This book defines what is generically referred to as "critical theory," and guides readers through some of the most complex and fundamental concepts in the field, ranging from Historicism to Postmodernism, from Psychoanalytic Criticism to Race and Postcoloniality.

Fully cross referenced throughout, the book encompasses manageable introductions to important ideas followed by a dictionary of terms and thinkers which students are likely to encounter. Further reading is offered to guide students to crucial primary essays and introductory chapters on each concept.


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PHYSICS Principles And Problems Interactive Student Edition - McGraw Hill Glencoe

"PHYSICS: Principles and Problems" offers integrated support, abundant opportunities for problem solving, and a variety of realistic applications. The program has a balance of good conceptual presentation with a strong problem-solving strand.

All the program resources are organized in a way that meets the needs of students in a diverse classroom. Also included are high-interest special features that connect physics to everyday life: How it Works, Technology and Society, Future Technology, and Extreme Physics.

Features:

- Actively involves students through Launch Labs - inquiry-based labs at the beginning of each chapter.

- Addresses student needs with a consistent three-step Example Problem that includes helpful math hints that students can use as they work through problems.

- Coaches students with blue annotations in the Example Problems. Practice Problems provide immediate feedback so every student has the opportunity to master skills that apply to related physics concepts.

- Helps students see the direct connections between math and physics principles. Connecting Math to Physics offers additional math support for every student.

- Motivates students with Challenge Problems that are designed after the open-ended questions on the Advanced Placement Physics exam with more in-depth applications and problem solving.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1: A Physics Toolkit

Chapter 2: Representing Motion

Chapter 3: Accelerated Motion

Chapter 4: Forces in One Dimension

Chapter 5: Forces in Two Dimensions

Chapter 6: Motion in Two Dimensions

Chapter 7: Gravitation

Chapter 8: Rotational Motion

Chapter 9: Momentum and its Conservation

Chapter 10: Energy, Work, and Simple Machines

Chapter 11: Energy and its Conservation

Chapter 12: Thermal Energy

Chapter 13: States of Matter

Chapter 14: Vibrations and Waves

Chapter 15: Sound

Chapter 16: Fundamentals of Light

Chapter 17: Reflection and Mirrors

Chapter 18: Refractions and Lenses

Chapter 19: Inference and Diffraction

Chapter 20: Static Electricity

Chapter 21: Electric Fields

Chapter 22: Current Electricity

Chapter 23: Series and Parallel Circuits

Chapter 24: Magnetic Fields

Chapter 25: Electromagnetic Induction

Chapter 26: Electromagnetism

Chapter 27: Quantum Theory

Chapter 28: The Atom

Chapter 29: Solid-State Electronics

Chapter 30: Nuclear Physics


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Postfeminisms Feminism Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms by Ann Brooks

Once seen as synonymous with "anti-feminism" postfeminism is now understood as the theoretical meeting ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialsm.

In this clear exposition of some of the major debates, theorists and practitioners, Ann Brooks shows how feminism is being redefined for the twenty first century. Individual chapters look at postfeminism in relation to feminist epistemology, Foucault, psychoanalytic theory and semiology, postmodernism and postcolonialism, cultural politics, popular culture, film and media, and sexuality and identity. For all students looking for guidance through the sometimes murky waters of contemporary feminist theory, this book will provide a reassuring first port of call.

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PFEIFFER Creative Learning Activities and Games That Really Engage People

Creative Learning is written by master trainer Bob Lucas, and offers a treasure trove of innovative and highly effective activities to simulate learning.

The activities are tailor-made for trainers, presenters, and educators, and can be put to use in virtually any type of learning environment

Each activity offers a different approach to learning, but all are designed using a brain-based-learning approach that is proven to mentally or physically engage learners and enhance their learning experience.


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