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Thinking Like a Lawyer A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students

Thinking Like a Lawyer A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students

Critical thinking is the essential tool for ensuring that students fulfill their promise. But in reality critical thinking is still a luxury good and students with the greatest potential are too often challenged the least. Thinking Like a Lawyer:Introduces a powerful but practical framework to close the critical thinking gap. Gives teachers the tools and knowledge to teach critical thinking to all students. Helps students adopt the skills habits and mindsets of lawyers. Empowers students to tackle 21st-century problems. Teaches students how to compete in a rapidly changing global marketplace. Colin Seale a teacher-turned-attorney-turned-education-innovator and founder of thinkLaw uses his unique experience to introduce a wide variety of concrete instructional strategies and examples that teachers can use in all grade levels and subject areas. Individual chapters address underachievement the value of nuance evidence-based reasoning social-emotional learning equitable education and leveraging families to close the critical thinking gap. | Thinking Like a Lawyer A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students

GBP 16.99
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The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe

The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe

Though Jane Austen (1775-1817) and the poet George Crabbe (1754-1832) each wrote during the Napoleonic Wars no full-length study has considered the importance of these pivotal events to their writing. In The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe the author argues that both writers were unusually responsive to the economic anxieties specific to wartime occasioned especially by the Napoleonic trade embargo imposed on Britain from 1806 to 1812 and shared a particular concern with the economizing of space. The author's term 'spatial economy' refers to the practice of turning available resources to the best possible account which these authors applied even to the practice of writing as they strove to preserve space on the page (Austen in her letters and Crabbe in the couplet). Their work displays a preoccupation with boundaries pressure and containment which also informs economic treatises published during this period. Through close readings and fresh contextual and historical analysis that draws on the ideas of contemporary thinkers such as Thomas Malthus William Spence William Cobbett Arthur Young and Humphrey Repton Winborn not only establishes a close affinity between Austen and Crabbe but makes a convincing case for rethinking the relationship between the novel and poetry during the Romantic period.

GBP 11.99
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Teaching Writing Rhetoric and Reason at the Globalizing University

Teaching Writing Rhetoric and Reason at the Globalizing University

This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication and logic based on the modern globalizing ideals of universality neutrality and empiricism. Based on a series of close readings of contemporary writing by Stanley Fish Asao Inoue Doug Downs and Elizabeth Wardle Richard Rorty Slavoj Zizek and Steven Pinker this book critiques recent arguments that traditional approaches to teaching writing grammar and argumentation foster marginalization oppression and the restriction of student agency. Instead it argues that the best way to educate and empower a diverse global student body is to promote a mode of academic discourse dedicated to the impartial judgment of empirical facts communicated in an open and clear manner. It provides a critical analysis of core topics in composition studies including the teaching of grammar; notions of objectivity and neutrality; empiricism and pragmatism; identity politics; and postmodernism. Aimed at graduate students and junior instructors in rhetoric and composition as well as more seasoned scholars and program administrators this polemical book provides an accessible staging of key debates that all writing instructors must grapple with. | Teaching Writing Rhetoric and Reason at the Globalizing University

GBP 16.99
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Seen Locally

Seen Locally

Originally published in 1989 Henry Pluckrose well-known as an educational consultant writer and lecturer examines the way in which a study of the local environment can enrich young children’s learning and be used as a starting point for all manner of cross-curriculum work. He explores the ways in which men and women of the past have shaped the physical environment in which contemporary children live and how these changes are reflected in and commented upon by public buildings their own homes systems of transport the streets of village town and city and so on. Written specially for all who have responsibility for young children – teachers youth leaders parents – the book offers a wealth of suggestions for helping children look at their everyday environment. It indicates ways in which close observation of place can provide the starting point in a learning programme showing how information which adult and child obtain together can be recorded through pictures models maps plans and photographs and in the written and spoken word. Seen Locally is an invaluable source book of ideas which can be developed and extended within the curriculum guidelines of each individual school.

GBP 14.99
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Closing the Reading Gap

Closing the Reading Gap

Our pupils’ success will be defined by their ability to read fluently and skilfully. But despite universal acceptance of reading’s vital importance the reading gap in our classroom remains and it is linked to an array of factors such as parental wealth education and book ownership as well as classroom practice. To close this gap we need to ensure that every teacher has the knowledge and skill to teach reading with confidence. In Closing the Reading Gap Alex Quigley explores the intriguing history and science of reading synthesising the debates and presenting a wealth of usable evidence about how children develop most efficiently as successful readers. Offering practical strategies for teachers at every phase of their teaching career as well as tackling issues such as dyslexia and the role of technology the book helps teachers to be an expert in how pupils ‘learn to read’ as well as how they ‘read to learn’ and explores how reading is vital for unlocking a challenging academic curriculum for every student. With a focus on nurturing pupils’ will and skill to read for pleasure and purpose this essential volume provides practical solutions to help all teachers create a rich reading culture that will enable every student to thrive in school and far beyond the school gates.

GBP 16.99
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The Genealogy of Modern Feminist Thinking Feminist Thought as Historical Present

The Genealogy of Modern Feminist Thinking Feminist Thought as Historical Present

Within much contemporary feminist theory there is a tendency to forget or ignore its own historicity and consider itself as primarily oriented towards the present. This book explores the historical roots of some of feminism’s central concepts and debates examining the philosophical conditions for feminist thought and taking as its point of departure the dynamic relationship between feminist thought and the history of philosophy. With close attention to the genealogy of key concepts such as equality sex/gender and difference alongside discussions of contemporary gender equality policy and contextual understandings of central figures including Wollstonecraft Beauvoir and Irigaray The Genealogy of Modern Feminist Thinking provides an analysis of feminism from its origins in the Early Modern period to its contemporary post-modern forms. Shedding light on feminism as a product of Modernity and establishing it as part of the canon of European intellectual development this book thus corrects the picture of feminism as a phenomenon that lacks historical continuity revealing a history characterized by breaks setbacks and forgetting in which the forgetting itself forms part of a rich genealogy. As such it will be of interest to philosophers sociologists political theorists and intellectual historians alike. | The Genealogy of Modern Feminist Thinking Feminist Thought as Historical Present

GBP 16.99
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