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24 produkter
Smart Schools
From Training Memories to Educating Minds
Häftad, 1995
250 kr
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Although there has been a great deal of impassioned debate over the sad state of American education today, surprisingly little attention has been paid to how children actually learn to think. But, as David Perkins demonstrates, we cannot solve our problems in this area simply by redistributing …
Eureka Effect
The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking
Häftad, 2001
286 kr
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From Archimedes' discovery of the principle of water displacement while taking a bath to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, from Brunelleschi's development of perspective drawing to the Impressionist revolution, from the taming of fire to the creation of the laser, "breakthrough thinking"—that is, a …
Making Learning Whole
How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
Häftad, 2010
217 kr
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New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game" David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can …
Romanticism and Animal Rights
Häftad, 2007
729 kr
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In England in the second half of the eighteenth century an unprecedented amount of writing urged kindness to animals. This theme was carried in many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, from scientific works to literature for children, and in the poetry of Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare and …
Romanticism and Animal Rights
Av David Perkins, James Chandler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1667 kr
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In England in the second half of the eighteenth century an unprecedented amount of writing urged kindness to animals. This theme was carried in many genres, from sermons to encyclopedias, from scientific works to literature for children, and in the poetry of Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Clare and …
Selfish Giant
A Children's Musical
Av David Perkins, Caroline Dooley
Häftad, 2003
183 kr
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From the composer of the popular children's musicals Shake, Ripple & Roll; Pandemonium! (a Greek Myth-adventure) and The Curious Quest for the Sandman's Sand comes this skilful adaptation of Oscar Wilde's short story The Selfish Giant.
From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode
Häftad, 1979
585 kr
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The first comprehensive history of modern poetry in English from the 1890s to the 1920s, this book embraces an era of enormous creative variety—the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. By the end of the …
Modernism and After
Häftad, 1989
519 kr
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There have been many books on early modernist poetry, not so many on its various sequels, and still fewer on the currents and cross-currents of poetry since World War II. Until now there has been no single comprehensive history of British and American poetry throughout the half century from the …
Theoretical Issues in Literary History
Häftad, 1991
265 kr
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Literary history, the dominant form of literary scholarship throughout the nineteenth century, is currently recapturing the imaginations of a new generation of scholars eager to focus on the context of literature after a half-century or more of “close” readings of isolated texts. This book …
Is Literary History Possible?
Häftad, 1993
532 kr
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Is Literary History Possible? is a landmark study of the thinking underlying recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories -- most of them contemporary works -- Perkins elaborates on two fundamental problems that arise in the writing of literary history: …
Calculus and Its Origins
Inbunden, 2012
791 kr
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Calculus and Its Origins is an overview of calculus as an intellectual pursuit having a 2,000-year history. Author David Perkins examines the extent to which mathematicians and scholars from Egypt, Persia, and India absorbed and nourished Greek geometry, and details how the scholars wove their …
Future Wise
Educating Our Children for a Changing World
E-bok, 2014
256 kr
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How to teach big understandings and the ideas that matter most Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today''s learners will really need to know in the …
Future Wise
Educating Our Children for a Changing World
Inbunden, 2014
214 kr
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How to teach big understandings and the ideas that matter most Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today's learners will really need to know in the …
Future Wise
Educating Our Children for a Changing World
E-bok, 2014
262 kr
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How to teach big understandings and the ideas that matter most Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high-stakes testing, and countless other directions. But how do we know what today''s learners will really need to know in the …
Outsmarting IQ
The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence
E-bok, 1995
239 kr
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Since the turn of the century, the idea that intellectual capacity is fixed has been generally accepted. But increasingly, psychologists, educators, and others have come to challenge this premise. Outsmarting IQ reveals how earlier discoveries about IQ, together with recent research, show that …
Smart Schools
From Training Memories to Educating Minds
E-bok, 2008
182 kr
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Perkins reveals the common misguided strategies students use and offers teachers and parents advice on how they can help their children. Although there has been a great deal of impassioned debate over the sad state of American education today, surprisingly little attention has been paid to how …
Phi, Pi, E, and I
Häftad, 2020
793 kr
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Certain constants occupy precise balancing points in the cosmos of number, like habitable planets sprinkled throughout our galaxy at just the right distances from their suns. This book introduces and connects four of these constants (phi, pi, e and i), each of which has recently been the individual …
Coal Miner'S Son
E-bok, 2017
57 kr
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The author relates about growing up on a farm and his life in the army while being deployed to Europe. He tells about some of the experiences during his teaching career. The experience of his daughters divorce in another state is described in some detail. More importantly, he recounts his passion …
Shard
Book One of The Shard Trilogy (A YA Sci-fi Teens with Powers Series)
Häftad, 2021
80 kr
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What would you do if you could control the elements? As in the literal elements, like creating tornadoes of oxygen or changing pencil lead into diamonds. Kaia Davis is about to find out. In a reality parallel to our own, Kaia finds her life completely destroyed when a routine trip ends with her …
Educar para un mundo cambiante
¿Qué necesitan aprender realmente los alumnos para el futuro?
E-bok, 2017
91 kr
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¿Qué es lo que merece la pena aprender? es una pregunta imposible, si lo que buscamos es la respuesta perfecta. Pero, meditando bien los criterios y con la sensación de tener una misión valiosa que llevar a cabo, podemos buscar respuestas interesantes con inteligencia.Visualizar lo que podría tener …
