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Provides an accessible overview of the debates, issues and practicalities of faith-based education. It sets out the challenges and opportunities of different approaches to faith schools and addresses the choices faced by parents.
Begins a series in which scholars from the main denominations and humanist thinkers identify major questions and issues concerning the education of individuals and communities and the discourse between cultures and faiths from theological and non-materialist perspectives. Rosenak (Jewish education, Hebrew U.-Jerusalem) discusses the texts and methods used for passing on Jewish religious and social values. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
'A unicorn walks into a bar....'That is not a joke.Look, I'm a bartender, I have nothing to do with the xenos. I don't care if it's an elf or a vampire--as long as they don't bother me, I steer clear. I have my reasons--you can see them in the scars on my neck.I never wanted to get involved. But my life changed for the second time when I saved the life of a unicorn. I made an enemy of something old--old and evil, and whatever it was, it'll be back for another try. I also made a friend when I decided to help March. He's only been a human man for a day. I'm responsible for him now. He's my friend...and maybe something more. Maybe a lot more. It doesn't matter to me that he isn't magical anymore. I don't care if he's not PURE.But he does.From best-selling author Kim Alexander, a modern fairy tale of magic, love, and redemption.
This title brings together contributions from around the world that analyse and reflect on the way curriculum is configuring and reconfiguring that world.
Citizenship is the newest addition to the National Curriculum. For students training to teach citizenship as a first or second subject, this practical text is underpinned by a sound theoretical background.
The 2007 edition of this respected international volume considers the challenges facing work related education arising from the rapid expansion of the global economy and the impact of this on labour markets and individual workers. Including perspectives from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South America, India and South Africa, the 2007 volume is split into four clear sections covering key topics, such as: the current global context when all work, even local, is influenced by global economic activity workers are expected to engage in lifelong learning but also be mobile and deal with rapidly changing working knowledge work related education must prepare workers for the global economy and specific contexts, where governments attract global companies by promoting education and literate workforces how the responsibility for providing work-education is distributed between schools, vocational education, HE, professional bodies, local and global companies, governments, the private sector and individuals the pressures on formal education and training institutions to produce graduates with certain kinds of knowledge, skills and personal attributes.
A tribute collection of essays edited by author's colleagues and friends.
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce, establish or redefine their position. The volume is organized around three main issues: analyzing the way in which parents, students and graduates in positions of social advantage use their assets and capitals in relation to educational strategies, and how these are different for old and new and cultural and economic elites; studying how elite institutions have adapted their strategies to take into account changes in the social structure, i...
The 2006 edition of one of the most respected annual publication in education, focusing on research and its effects on educational policy around the globe.