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While many teachers articulate a strong commitment to the values of equity and excellence underpinning inclusive education, they are often anxious about teaching increasingly diverse classes of children. This book, co-authored by researchers and practitioners, offers a strong foundation in the key principles, theories and debates that underpin current understandings of inclusive education and their implications for the development of inclusive learning for all members of a school’s community. Drawing on a wide range of recent research and practice, Expanding Possibilities for Inclusive Learning offers perspectives on inclusion from teachers, school leaders, other practitioners, children an...
This book introduces the new term ‘creativities’ with cutting-edge examples of creativities research that has influenced the thinking and work of teachers and school leaders in their practice. Co-edited by one of the leading international experts in creativity and the arts, this book is packed with imaginative ideas and practical classroom suggestions underpinned by theory and research to help teachers become research-informed and research-generating. Sculpting New Creativities in Primary Education will inspire us, invite us to think, and share ways in which research is informing and enabling a role for new and creative practices in primary education. Each chapter is collaboratively writ...
The education system does not always promote or give primacy to play within the curriculum, yet research and policy alike acknowledge the importance of play for children and young people. Empowering Play in Primary Education addresses this issue, contributing innovative ideas about how teachers, teaching assistants and children may incorporate play within the classroom while also advocating for its use as a powerful tool for ensuring successful learning outcomes. Packed with imaginative ideas and practical suggestions, this essential book combines theory with tried and tested practice to encourage and inspire teachers to make use of the pedagogy of play and enhance their children's learning ...
As the world begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and grapples to find ways to respond to climate change, there is growing recognition of the need to give space and time in primary schools to hear children’s experiences, ideas and perspectives on these matters and to promote their active participation in democratic solutions. This book presents vibrant examples from professional educators and researchers across the globe who are demonstrating how primary schools can nurture the conditions for new democratic education through empowering educators’ and children’s voices and agency. Written as a genuine partnership between research experts and experienced classroom teachers, the bo...
This collection applies the principles underlying values education to addressing the many social and learning challenges that impinge on education today . Insights in the fields of social and emotional learning, student wellbeing, and, increasingly, educational neuroscience have demonstrated that values education represents an efficacious pedagogy with holistic effects on students across a range of measures, including social, emotional, and intellectual outcomes. With schools in the 21st century confronting issues such as gender identity, stemming radicalism, mental health, equity for disadvantaged groups, bullying, respect, and the meaning of consent, values education offers a way of teachi...
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É pesquisa. É experiência-exercício. É educação. É insurgência. É educação musical É trabalho de professoras e professores. Este livro é pautado em diálogos com temáticas emergentes, contemporâneas à educação musical e mais do que necessárias para movimentar outras ideias e trazê-las ao contexto de nossas discussões e práticas profissionais. As escritas são de autoras e autores que trazem de si o que pulsa no professorar. Professoras e professores tratam aqui das diversidades e diferenças, das criatividades, das infâncias, das negritudes e branquitudes, dos capacitismos e anticapacitismos. São ensaios que testemunham o fazer reflexivo e profundo, de cada uma e cad...
Bem-estar e qualidade de vida no envelhecimento, é um convite a reflexão sobre a vida na terceira idade, considerando todas as implicações e desafios enfrentados nessa fase da vida. O objetivo desta obra é abordar justamente os aspectos da vida na terceira idade, e o quão impactantes eles são na vida dos idosos, mas também de todos ao seu redor, sem esquecer da importância de se considerar a autonomia, autoestima e qualidade de vida desse grupo da sociedade.
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Inspired by the rainbows that children across the world have been creating and displaying in their windows, The World Made a Rainbow is beautiful story with a hopeful message of staying connected to the people we love. A donation for every hardcover copy sold will be made to Save the Children (R). Did you ever paint a rainbow and hang it in your window? Did you see that your neighbors did, too? Did it make you feel a little less lonely? The World Made a Rainbow is a story to remind us that light can't shine without dark, rainbows can't color the sky without rain, and the world is always full of hope and possibility, even when we feel lost and alone. This beautiful, reassuring picture book is the perfect reminder of the power of creativity, joy, and togetherness.