Get actively engaged in your learning! Taking charge of your learning: a guide to college success shows you how. By leading you through group workshops and real life examples, this textbook helps you learn the study habits and test-taking secrets that have enabled countless others get better grades.
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Learning and Not Learning English: Latino Students in American Schools
Focusing on the lives and experiences of four Mexican children in an American middle school, the critically acclaimed author of Con Respeto examines both the policy and the instructional dilemmas that surround the English language education of immigrant children in this country. Using samples and analysis of the children’s oral and written language as well as an examination of their classrooms, school, and community, this book addresses the difficulties surrounding the teaching and learning of English for second language learners.
Learning Democracy in School and Society: Education, Lifelong Learning, and the Politics of Citizenship
This book explores the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship. It emphasises the importance of the democratic quality of the processes and practices that make up the everyday lives of children, young people and adults for their ongoing formation as democratic citizens. The book combines theoretical and historical work with critical analysis of policies and wider developments in the field of citizenship education and civic learning.
Based on worldwide literature on the topic and over fifteen years of research by the author, it includes chapters on self, peer, collaborative, and group assessment and feedback, as well as a look at key issues such as reliability, viability, and maintenance of quality. Problems associated with student involvement are also explored and practical solutions that can be implemented are discussed.
