The book *A Master in Learning* was written in response to the needs of students in teacher training programmes for a practical, readable, and study-friendly book on learning theories and learning processes. This book meets that need, as it is written in clear language and is replete with practical examples of how learning theories can be applied in the daily educational practice of secondary education (general secondary education and pre-vocational secondary education).

The book provides con...

Hoe zorg je ervoor dat je ieder lesuur opnieuw een sfeer creëert waarin het plezierig is om te leren? Vaak verloopt de les zonder problemen, maar wat doe je in die situaties waarin leerlingen geen zin hebben om zich in te zetten, zich afzetten tegen het gezag of elkaar zelfs te lijf gaan?

Groepsplan Gedrag in het voortgezet onderwijs richt zich op het realiseren van een veilig pedagogisch klimaat. Het is een actueel naslagwerk over gedrag én het geeft richtlijnen over hoe gedragsproblemen ...

Het Handboek leren leren bevat actuele theorieën, praktische inspiratiebladen en direct inzetbare formats die door alle leraren in alle vakgebieden kunnen worden gebruikt. De auteurs onderstrepen het belang van vijf krachtige leerprincipes die ze uitvoerig behandelen, te weten:

• Zelfregulatie

• Metacognitie

• Leerstrategieën

• Leermeesters

• Rijke leeromgeving

De praktische handvatten in dit boek kunnen leraren helpen om leerlingen optimaal te laten leren. Hiermee kan tevens het ...

Now in its fourth edition, this popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. This new edition broadens its focus to cover important topics such as critical race theory; perspectives on teaching fiction, nonfiction, and drama; the integration of digital literacy; and teacher research for ongoing learning and professional development. It underscores the value of providing students with a r...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''A sublimely funny book ... it is a book to be read by all ... unforgettable and universal' Candia McWilliamRomantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction.

Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - 'the creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie 'set', introduced to a privileged world ...

New York Times Bestseller'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year 'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent' - Federica Cocco, Financial Times A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabricWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whet...

First published over 40 years ago, this was the first text on the identification of organic compounds using spectroscopy. This text is now considered to be a classic. This text presents a unified approach to the structure determination of organic compounds based largely on mass spectrometry, infrared (IR) spectroscopy, and multinuclear and multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

The key strength of this text is the extensive set of practice and real-data problems (in C...

Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by Cherokee author Thomas King. Alberta is a university professor who would like to trade her two boyfriends for a baby but no husband; Lionel is forty and still sells televisions for a patronizing boss; Eli and his log cabin stand in the way of a profitable dam proje...

Under neoliberalism the cult of individualism reigns supreme, forced upon us through culture, media and politics, it fatally limits our capacity to escape the current crisis of democratic politics. In Common Ground, Jeremy Gilbert asks us to reimagine the philosophical relationship between individuality, collectivity, affect and agency, proposing a radically non-individualist mode of imagining social life. The book considers how opponents of neoliberal hegemony, and of the individualist tradi...

The definitive toxicology text for students and early-career professionals-updated and revised to address new research and methods For more than 45 years, Casarett and Doull's Toxicology has set the standard for providing thorough, academic, and authoritative information in clear and engaging ways. Focusing only on what you need to know and written on a level you can easily understand, it provides a concise yet comprehensive look at the science and clinical field of medical toxicology. This n...