David Swanson – författare & böcker

Mentoring Mathematics Teachers in the Secondary School

A Practical Guide

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

2 151 kr

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This practical workbook assists school-based mentors of mathematics teachers to develop their mentoring skills, offering mentors the essential guidance needed in order to effectively support trainee or newly qualified secondary mathematics teachers, as well as in their overall career development. Offering tried and tested strategies based on research and evidence, Mentoring Mathematics Teachers in the Secondary School covers the knowledge, skills and understanding every mentor needs and offers practical tools such as lesson plans and feedback sheets, observation sheets, case studies, sample dialogues and other learning activities and exercises.Together with analytical tools for self-evaluation, this book is a vital source of support and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of outstanding mathematics teachers, whether in teacher training or as newly qualified or early-career teachers. Key topics explored include:Roles and responsibilities of mentors within mathematics education, and understanding yourself as a mentorThe mentor–mentee relationship, and helping develop a beginning teacher’s identitySupporting specific aspects of beginning mathematics teachers’ knowledge, skills and understanding, including developing reflective practice, lesson planning and mathematical misconceptionsStrategies for observation and analysis of lessons, marking, assessment and the use of dataMentoring for long-term career and teacher developmentFilled with the key tools needed for the mentor’s individual development, Mentoring Mathematics Teachers in the Secondary School offers an accessible and practical guide to mentoring trainee teachers and early-career teachers with ready-to-use strategies that support, inspire and elevate both mentors and teachers alike.This book also includes an online eResource offering downloadable resources and web-based training material.

Mentoring Mathematics Teachers in the Secondary School

A Practical Guide

AvRosa Archer,Siân Morganm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

505 kr

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This practical workbook assists school-based mentors of mathematics teachers to develop their mentoring skills, offering mentors the essential guidance needed in order to effectively support trainee or newly qualified secondary mathematics teachers, as well as in their overall career development. Offering tried and tested strategies based on research and evidence, Mentoring Mathematics Teachers in the Secondary School covers the knowledge, skills and understanding every mentor needs and offers practical tools such as lesson plans and feedback sheets, observation sheets, case studies, sample dialogues and other learning activities and exercises.Together with analytical tools for self-evaluation, this book is a vital source of support and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of outstanding mathematics teachers, whether in teacher training or as newly qualified or early-career teachers. Key topics explored include:Roles and responsibilities of mentors within mathematics education, and understanding yourself as a mentorThe mentor–mentee relationship, and helping develop a beginning teacher’s identitySupporting specific aspects of beginning mathematics teachers’ knowledge, skills and understanding, including developing reflective practice, lesson planning and mathematical misconceptionsStrategies for observation and analysis of lessons, marking, assessment and the use of dataMentoring for long-term career and teacher developmentFilled with the key tools needed for the mentor’s individual development, Mentoring Mathematics Teachers in the Secondary School offers an accessible and practical guide to mentoring trainee teachers and early-career teachers with ready-to-use strategies that support, inspire and elevate both mentors and teachers alike.This book also includes an online eResource offering downloadable resources and web-based training material.

Help - My Kid Is Driving Me Crazy

The 17 Ways Kids Manipulate Their Parents, and What You Can Do About It

AvDavid Swanson

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

306 kr

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AvPat Drake,David Swansonm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

585 kr

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Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education

AvPat Drake,David Swansonm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

656 kr

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Data Driven Leader

A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact Through People Analytics

AvJenny Dearborn,David Swanson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

218 kr

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Data is your most valuable leadership asset—here's how to use itThe Data Driven Leader presents a clear, accessible guide to solving important leadership challenges through human resources-focused and other data analytics. This engaging book shows you how to transform the HR function and overall organizational effectiveness by using data to make decisions grounded in facts vs. opinions, identify root causes behind your company’s thorniest problems and move toward a winning, future-focused business strategy. Realistic and actionable, this book tells the story of a successful sales executive who, after leading an analytics-driven turnaround (in Data Driven, this book’s predecessor), faces a new turnaround challenge as chief human resources officer. Each chapter features insightful commentary and practical notes on the points the story raises, guiding you to put HR analytics into action in your organization. HR and other leaders cannot afford to overlook the power and competitive advantages of data-driven decision-making and strategies. This book reflects the growing trend of CEOs choosing analytics-minded business leaders to head HR, at a time when workplaces everywhere face game-changing forces including automation, robotics and artificial intelligence. It is urgent that human resources leaders embrace analytics, not only to remain professionally relevant but also to help their organizations successfully navigate this digital transformation. HR professionals can and must: Understand essential data science principles and corporate analytics modelsIdentify and execute effective data analytics initiativesBoost HR and company productivity and performance with metrics that matterShape an analytics-centric culture that generates data driven leadersMost organizations capture and report data, but data is useless without analysis that leads to action. The Data Driven Leader shows you how to use this tremendous asset to lead your organization higher.

Understanding Lesson Study for Mathematics

A Practical Guide for Improving Teaching and Learning

AvRosa Archer,Siân Morganm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

1 889 kr

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Using the latest research, this book provides an insight into how learning in mathematics can be improved through a lesson study approach. This highly practical resource explores the research and theory that underpins lesson study, and shows the significant impact it can have on teacher development.Divided into ten accessible main chapters that focus in depth on an individual mathematics lesson, each chapter provides research and background to the lesson, an outline of key features, a detailed description and analysis of the lesson in practice, post-lesson discussions and reflections which generalise from the experience, as well as links to helpful resources. Some of the key topics explored include: Fractions Proportional relationships Probability and statistics Geometry Modelling Algebra Dialogic reasoning.Understanding Lesson Study for Mathematics is the perfect resource for all mathematics teachers, trainee teachers, and professional developers who are looking to develop the use of lesson study in their own practice or for those simply seeking new inspiring ideas for the mathematics classroom.

Understanding Lesson Study for Mathematics

A Practical Guide for Improving Teaching and Learning

AvRosa Archer,Siân Morganm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

410 kr

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Using the latest research, this book provides an insight into how learning in mathematics can be improved through a lesson study approach. This highly practical resource explores the research and theory that underpins lesson study, and shows the significant impact it can have on teacher development.Divided into ten accessible main chapters that focus in depth on an individual mathematics lesson, each chapter provides research and background to the lesson, an outline of key features, a detailed description and analysis of the lesson in practice, post-lesson discussions and reflections which generalise from the experience, as well as links to helpful resources. Some of the key topics explored include: Fractions Proportional relationships Probability and statistics Geometry Modelling Algebra Dialogic reasoning.Understanding Lesson Study for Mathematics is the perfect resource for all mathematics teachers, trainee teachers, and professional developers who are looking to develop the use of lesson study in their own practice or for those simply seeking new inspiring ideas for the mathematics classroom.

Daybreak

Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union

AvDavid Swanson

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

171 kr

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Learning Statistics

A Manual for Sociology Students

AvDavid Swanson

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

1 073 kr

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Learning Statistics: A Manual for Sociology Students helps students learn and retain important statistical concepts. New graduates face numerous challenges when applying statistics in the workplace. This text presents a unique and class-tested set of pedagogical tools that increase learning and retention, and prepare students for real-world application.In the real world decisions are often made in conditions of uncertainty. Decision makers examine data generated through scientific sampling, which is a cost-effective means of generating information. This book addresses the selection, use, and interpretation of statistical tools, in conjunction with the presentation of effective results aimed at supporting practical decision-making. In essence, the book is based on the idea that you learn statistics by doing statistics. The approach of Learning Statistics is three-fold. It is computer-based. It assumes that problems are client-driven and create conditions of uncertainty. It is designed with a conceptual umbrella over empirical assignments. Students will achieve key learning outcomes including:Grasping the conceptual foundation that underlies inferential statistics;Understanding basic descriptive and inferential tools within a decision-making framework; Selecting appropriate statistical tools, such as graphing, correlation, and simple regression, for specific tasks;Using software packages to support data analysis.This comprehensive text addresses major concepts in classical statistics. It serves as a bridge between the classroom and the office.

NATO

What You Need To Know

AvMedea Benjamin,David Swanson

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

161 kr

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What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? What role is played by its members and partners? Does the largest military alliance ever to exist serve the cause of peace or the causes of weapons sales and war mongering? Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the alliance, this sharp, concise account examines NATO's origins, structure, and its goals at a time of mounting global tension.NATO has remade itself repeatedly, as its past purposes have disappeared. In the last 35 years it has been part of wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. It has played a major role in Ukraine, and supported warmaking by Israel. NATO is now expanding rapidly, both in geography and in scope, adding partners from Colombia to Mongolia to Australia, and claiming a role in policing, immigration, economics, public budgeting, scientific research, and environmental protection.With pointed investigations of how NATO's decisions are made, the widely misunderstood question of the way it is funded, its relationship to international law, and the available alternatives to it, NATO: What You Need to Know is an indispensable primer on an organization that not only confronts expanding military conflict but, the authors contend, plays an active part in its escalation.

Snippers Saves the World

AvDavid Swanson

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

198 kr

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Leaving World War II Behind

AvDavid Swanson

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

251 kr

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Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education

The State of the Art and Beyond

AvBrian Doig,Julian Williamsm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

544 kr

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This open access book is the first major publication on the topic of “Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education” and arose from the work of the first International Topic Study Group of the same name at the ICME-13 conference in Hamburg in 2016. It offers extensive theoretical insights, empirical research, and practitioner accounts of interdisciplinary mathematics work in STEM and beyond (e.g. in music and the arts). Scholars and practitioners from four continents contributed to this comprehensive book, and present studies on: the conceptualizations of interdisciplinarity; implementation cases at schools and tertiary institutions; teacher education; and implications for policy and practice. Each chapter, and the book itself, closes with an assessment of the most significant aspects that those involved in policy and practice, as well as future researchers, should take into account.

Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education

A State of the Art

AvJulian Williams,Wolff-Michael Rothm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

104 kr

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This book provides an essential introduction to the state-of the-art in interdisciplinary Mathematics Education. First, it begins with an outline of the field’s relevant historical, conceptual and theoretical backgrounds, what “discipline” means and how inter-, trans-, and meta-disciplinary activities can be understood. Relevant theoretical perspectives from Marx, Foucault and Vygotsky are explained, along with key ideas in theory, e.g. boundaries, discourses, identity, and the division of labour in practice. Second, the book reviews research findings of mainly empirical studies on interdisciplinary work involving mathematics in education, in all stages of education that have become disciplined. For example, it reports that a common theme in studies in middle and high schools is assessing the motivational benefits for the learner of subsuming disciplinary motives and even practices to extra-academic problem-solving activities; this is counter-balanced by the effort needed to overcome the disciplinary boundaries in academic institutions, and in professional identities. These disciplinary boundaries are less obviously limitations in middle and primary schools, and in some vocational courses. Third and finally, it explores selected case studies that illustrate these concepts and findings, both in terms of the motivational benefits for learners and the institutional and other boundaries involved.

Vad alla behöver veta om Nato men få känner till

AvMedea Benjamin,David Swanson

Häftad, Svenska, 2024

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219 kr

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Trots att Nato är världens mäktigaste militärallians är dess historia och nutida inriktning förvånansvärt lite känd bland en allmänhet. Få känner till

att Nato har deltagit i illegala angreppskrig i en rad länder, alltifrån Jugoslavien och Afghanistan till Irak och Libyen,

att Nato är ett verktyg för den ledande Natomakten USA att utöva kontroll över och politiskt inflytande i Europa,

att Nato har underblåst kriget i Ukraina och förhindrat att en förhandlingslösning kommit till stånd,

att Nato bidrar till att öka medlemsländernas militarisering på bekostnad av andra samhällsbehov,

att Nato expanderar till andra världsdelar och nya verksamhetsfält.

I Vad alla behöver veta om Nato men få känner till beskriver Medea Benjamin och Dawid Swanson hur den nordatlantiska försvarsorganisation som bildades för 75 år sedan har förvandlats till en allians som skapar och främjar krig och konflikter i hela världen. Därför menar de behövs det en global gräsrotsrörelse för att säga nej till Nato och nej till krig.

JEFFREY SACHS OM BOKEN:»Den här boken är ett oumbärligt pionjärverk. Den kan rädda ditt liv kanske till och med allas våra liv. Nato är ett tydligt och högst närvarande hot mot världsfreden, en krigsmaskin som löpt amok och som opererar i det fördolda, bortom medborgarnas demokratiska kontroll.

Krigsmaskinen fyller fickorna hos de vapenhandlare som håller liv i Natos kärnverksamhet. På så sätt drar Nato in det ena landet efter det andra i en veritabel malström av krig, instabilitet, massmigration och fattigdom. Under de senaste 30 åren har Nato lagt grunden till en enorm våldsstruktur som sträcker sig från Libyen till Afghanistan, och som har skördat oräkneligt många offer.

Nato driver oss också allt närmare ett kärnvapen-harma- gedon. Kriget i Ukraina blossade upp på grund av USA:s be- satthet av att utvidga Nato till Ukraina och Georgien.

Det finns ett akut behov av den här boken, eftersom Nato opererar med stöd av propagandistiska och vilseledande budskap. Våra regeringar påstår att Nato är fredsälskande trots att organisationen provocerar fram det ena kriget efter det andra. Våra regeringar påstår att Nato är en försvarsorganisation trots att den med våld störtar andra statsledningar.«

Medea Benjamin är fredsaktivist och grundare av fredsgruppen CODEPINK och människorättsorganisationen Global Exchange. Tidigare har hon utgivit böcker som Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control (2013, med Barbara Ehrenreich), Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran (2018) och War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless War (2022, med Nicolas J.S. Davies). Hon har tilldelats US Peace Prize och Gandhi Peace Award.

David Swanson är författare och fredsaktivist. Han är chef för ickevåldsrörelsen WorldBeyondWar. Tidigare har han utgivit böcker som War Is Never Just (2016), Leaving World War II Behind (2020) och The Monroe Doctrine at 200 (2023). Han är nominerad till Nobels fredspris och har tilldelats US Peace Prize.

Omslagets framsida Libyen, mars 2011. Få känner till att Nato genom massiva illegala bombangrepp hjälpte de islamistiska upprorsmännen, också kallade »Natos rebeller«, att störta landets regering. Sverige deltog med bl.a. åtta JAS Gripenplan och två understödsflygplan. Foto: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images