Книги жанра зарубежная образовательная литература
Публикуя текст Жан-Люка Нанси «Очевидность фильма: Аббас Киаростами», Музей современного искусства «Гараж» запускает серию книг о кино, которая будет непосредственно связана с нашей кинопрограммой Garage Screen. Возникнув в 2012 году, она быстро развивалась, став полноценной и важной частью Музея. В 2017 году мы впервые построили напротив Музея одноименный летний кинотеатр, а с 2018-го проводим ко…
Educating Citizens reports on how some American colleges and universities are preparing thoughtful, committed, and socially responsible graduates. Many institutions assert these ambitions, but too few act on them. The authors demonstrate the fundamental importance of moral and civic education, describe how the historical and contemporary landscapes of higher education have shaped it, and explain t…
Transformative learning is becoming influential in all areas of the educational landscape. In Transformative Learning in Practice, leading authorities and practitioners working in a variety of national and international settings, including college classrooms, corporate workshops, online, and informal groups in rural communities, offer insights and a wealth ofstrategies for fostering transformative…
The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. Provides a comprehensive and current picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that examine both the applications of linguistics to language data and the use of real world language to a…
Take a cutting edge look at the civic engagement of young people. Increasingly recognized as an important feature of democratic functioning in communities, it has also become clear that the civic domain is indispensable as a context for understanding human development processes. This volume proposes the following central theses in relation to youth civic development: It is rooted in the realities …
Для тех, кто хочет быть лучшим! Оригинальный текст и перевод на страницах одной книги – это эффективный способ усовершенствовать знание английского языка. «Маленькие женщины» – искренний и трогательный роман о детстве и юности четырех сестер. Они сообща справляются с трудностями, испытывают горести, радости, мечтают о будущем и проходят непростой путь взросления. Роман восемь раз экранизировали, …
Рене Декарт и Бенедикт Спиноза – два величайших мыслителя Нового времени; про них говорили, что они освободили философию от оков средневековья и поставили вопросы, которые навсегда останутся главными. Декарт напрямую связывал существование человека со способностью к мышлению («я мыслю, следовательно, существую»), он же утверждал, что «интеллект – это страсть». Границы мира и познания, место и роль…
Learn how to use qualitative research as a tool for institutional research. Although institutional researchers often employ informal qualitative methods (their experiences and anecdotal observations), this volume argues that true organizational intelligence is facilitated by formalizing the qualitative data collection and analysis process in institutional research. To that end, it presents a syste…
Real-world leadership training for real-world students The Student Leadership Challenge tailors one of the world’s most respected leadership models to students’ unique needs, and provides a proven pathway to success. Based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this book merges solid research with personal stories from real-world student leaders to help students develop the critical skills…
The single most important contribution to our field's knowledge base in the past two decades. The authors have managed to shift the focus of adult education back to the social concerns that were taken for granted when the field was founded. We are ready for this long overdue book. Indeed, we have been yearning for this book. It will tilt our field back towards its moral center. —B. Allan Quigley, …
When the bestselling books Shaping School Culture and The Shaping School Culture Fieldbook were first published, Kent D. Peterson and Terrence E. Deal described the critical elements of school culture—the purposes, traditions, norms, and values that guide and glue the community together. The authors showed how a positive culture makes school reform work and the companion Fieldbook included the too…
Written in easy-to-understand language, this important text provides a systematic and commonsense approach to developing instruments for data collection and analysis. This book can be used by both those who are developing instruments for the first time and those who want to hone their skills, including students, agency personnel, program managers, and researchers. This book provides a thorough pre…
The essential packaging design resource, now with more patterns than ever! For more than two decades, The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns has served as an indispensable source of ideas and practical solutions for a wide range of packaging design challenges. This Fourth Edition offers more than 600 patterns and structural designs—more than any other book—all drawn to scale and ready to be tra…
The golden standard evaluation reference text Now in its second edition, Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications is the vital text on evaluation models, perfect for classroom use as a textbook, and as a professional evaluation reference. The book begins with an overview of the evaluation field and program evaluation standards, and proceeds to cover the most widely used evaluation approaches. W…
The only book available to cover XLink, XML Base, and XPointer pieces of the XML specification. * Authors are well-established XML experts, with extensive writing and technical editing experience. * Features a source code index, as well as a traditional index, and appendices of resources and language references. * CD-ROM includes all the source code from the book. * Companion Web site contains lin…