John Peter: 364 books
Achieving Education for All
Dilemmas in System-Wide Reforms and Learning Outcomes in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Using the Education for All (EFA) global movement as the setting, this book surveys the complex labyrinths of international education policy making, the design and implementation of system-wide educational reform, and the assessment of learning outcomes in the African context. It addresses the following...
by Noam Chomsky, Peter Mitchell, John Schoeffel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 20, 2017
En este libro se recogen las ideas fundamentales de Noam Chomsky, quizá el mayor pensador y activista político de nuestro tiempo, sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro del poder político. A lo largo de estos textos, Chomsky replantea de raíz los acontecimientos más cruciales de las últimas...
Second Track Citizens' Diplomacy
Concepts and Techniques for Conflict Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Almost all current wars are primarily intra-state, involving complex societal conflicts with at least one party a non-state community. Second Track/ Citizens' Diplomacy is broadly defined as facilitated dialogue to address conflict issues between unofficial representatives or equivalent opinion leaders...
by Andrew Burbidge, Peter Harrison, John Woinarski
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for...
Beginning Teaching
Stories from the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The experiences of the first years of new teachers’ professional lives are critical to their decisions about embracing or leaving the teaching profession. Writ large, these experiences have the potential to either underpin or undermine the growth and development of the teaching profession. This...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Mad Men
The Death and Redemption of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Mad Men captivated audiences with the story of Don Draper, an advertising executive whose personal and professional successes and failures took viewers on a roller coaster ride through America’s tumultuous 1960s. More than just a television show about one of advertising’s “bad boys,” the series...
by JoAnn Fagot Aviel, Lincoln Bizzozero, Elsa Cardozo da Silva
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
This comprehensive text analyzes the foreign policies of eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. First assessing the state of the discipline, the introduction develops a common framework that compares the relevant explanatory weight of foreign policy determinants at the individual,...
Connecting Teaching and Learning
History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning.
Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method...
History
An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Demystifying the subject with clarity and verve, History: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice familiarizes the reader with the varied spectrum of historical approaches in a balanced, comprehensive and engaging manner. Global in scope, and covering a wide range of topics from the ancient...
Landscape Management and Maintenance
A Guide to Its Costing and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
With increased public attention focused on the environment and government legislation on competition, landscape managers are coming under increasing pressure to adopt a more disciplined analytical approach to their work. Landscape Management and Maintenance will help you to set objectives for the...
Beyond Ethnicity
New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai‘i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference...
Global Connections: Volume 2, Since 1500
Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal...
X-Ray Free Electron Lasers
Applications in Materials, Chemistry and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
The ultra-bright femtosecond X-ray pulses provided by X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) open up opportunities to study the structure and dynamics of a wide variety of systems beyond what is possible with synchrotron sources. This book introduces the principles and properties of currently operating...