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Political agendas through popular education : Mexico and Spain in the thirties. 'Agendas pol??ticas detr??s de la escolarizaci??n : M??xico y Espa??a en los a??os treinta'

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OCR citizenship studies revision guide : for GCSE short and full courses.

Guía de revisión para consolidar los conocimientos y la comprensión de los estudios de Ciudadanía en los cursos corto y largo para el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) especificación OCR y para ayudar a los estudiantes a revisar y darles confianza en los exámenes. Está organizada en dos temas: los derechos y responsabilidades; identidad, la democracia y la justicia y diseñada para permitir al alumno a entender lo que significa ser británico y la importancia de la cohesión de la comunidad para el desarrollo social y bienestar económico de nuestra sociedad; desarrollar y aplicar el conocimiento y la comprensión necesarios para convertirse en un ciudadano informado, activo y responsable a nivel local, nacional y mundial.

AS - A Level Physical education : anatomy and exercise physiology.

Guía de bolsillo para la revisión de los temas clave en el área de la educación física (nivel AS - A, enseñanza secundaria) con cuatrocientas preguntas rápidas y sus respuestas, organizadas en secciones temáticas (anatomía y fisiología del ejercicio) y con consejos de examen.

OCR A2 Unit G453 Physical education : principles and concepts across different areas of physical education.

Guía de apoyo para alumnos de educación secundaria de segundo ciclo que sigan la especificación de OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations) en el nivel A2 del área de educación física. Está estructurada en tres secciones: una introducción sobre cómo usar el libro y con consejos para la realización del examen; una guía de contenidos con los conceptos y temas básicos (estudios históricos, estudios comparativos, psicología del deporte, biomecánica, y ejercicio y fisiología del deporte); y una sección con preguntas tipo examen y dos juegos de respuestas comentadas por un examinador.

Higher Education Quality and Guidance : efficacy of a career celf-management seminar for undergraduates

Monogr??fico con el t??tulo: "Calidad en la Educaci??n Superior: una visi??n en perspectiva"

Museum Studies Borderlands: negotiating curriculum and competencies

Given ICTOP‘s work on revising the curriculum guide using the competencies approach (2000-2008), the author asks whether it is possible to reflect some of the issues and conceptual underpinnings that are at play in the discourse of museology/museum studies as a field of study and pedagogy when designing curriculum when taking the competencies approach. Until we address this question, ICTOP‘s work will have little relevance for the design of syllabi/curriculum by post-secondary institutions. This presentation lays out some of the professional issues underlying and the role for critical reflexive professionalism which can bridge theory and practice, competencies and epistemological knowledge and s how a way forward. Then it moves to address some of the territories where critical discussion is at work that would extend the curriculum discussions of ICTOP, while pointing to some developments that offer a museology of possibilities.

Built environment education, research and practice: integrating diverse interests to make an impact

The role of the academic in the built environment seems generally to be not well understood or articulated. While this problem is not unique to our field, there are plenty of examples in a wide range of academic disciplines where the academic role has been fully articulated. But built environment academics have tended not to look beyond their own literature and their own vocational context in trying to give meaning to their academic work. The purpose of this keynote presentation is to explore the context of academic work generally and the connections between education, research and practice in the built environment, specifically. By drawing on ideas from the sociology of the professions, the role of universities, and the fundamentals of social science research, a case is made that helps to explain the kind of problems that routinely obstruct academic progress in our field. This discussion reveals that while there are likely to be great weaknesses in much of what is published and taught in the built environment, it is not too great a stretch to provide a more robust understanding and a good basis for developing our field in a way that would enable us collectively to make a major contribution to theory-building, theory-testing and to make a good stab at tackling some of the problems facing society at large. There is no reason to disregard the fundamental academic disciplines that underpin our knowledge of the built environment. If we contextualise our work in these more fundamental disciplines, there is every reason to think that we can have a much greater impact that we have experienced to date.

Educational reforms, cultural clashes and classroom practices

This article presents an ongoing study of educational policy enactment in Singapore lower primary English classrooms. It explores how teachers react to and interpret educational reforms in their classroom practices against a backdrop ofvtraditional cultural values. Using a prescribed coding scheme, the article presents the instructional organisational patterns and participation structures of the lessons.Through a systematic analysis of the enacted curricula, the paper examines classroom practices as well as teaching and learning activities in Primary 1 (7–8 years) and Primary 2 (8–9 years) English lessons in Singapore. The results suggest that there are cultural clashes between major educational reforms which emphasise independent/critical thinking and ‘Asian values’ which promote respect for authority and conformity.

Women of Substance : The Aspect of Education, Career and Female Identity in Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones's Diary

Although two hundred years separate Jane Austen and Helen Fielding and, subsequently, also their portrayals of society, the similarities outweigh the differences. When juxtaposing Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary in the light of feminism it is evident that both books provide clear examples of the prevailing situation of women in each time and place. The aspects of the study, which are especially important today, show both the development and some degree of stagnation of women’s rights and identities.