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Progress Plain and Simple What Every Teacher Needs To Know About Improving Pupil Progress

Progress Plain and Simple What Every Teacher Needs To Know About Improving Pupil Progress

What is progress in learning? How do we see progress being made in a lesson? This book offers a fresh perspective on teaching learning and progress in the classroom. Written by an experienced teacher and school leader Michael Harpham it explores the different ways in which progress can be made in the classroom and how it can be more effectively delivered identified evidenced measured and assessed. The book provides an overview of progress in schools for both teachers and school leaders including what is meant by progress and what it looks like in lessons as well as its implications on assessment leadership and internal and external school evaluation. It offers over thirty situation-driven strategies and activities to help develop and deliver progress in and beyond the classroom focussing on five measures: Skills Knowledge Accuracy Resilience Independent learning Full of tips to help improve progress in schools this is essential reading for all teachers school leaders and parents. | Progress Plain and Simple What Every Teacher Needs To Know About Improving Pupil Progress

GBP 18.99
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Moral Teleology A Theory of Progress

Moral Teleology A Theory of Progress

This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated naturalistically respectable form of teleology can be defended. The book’s main aim is to flesh out the process of moral progress in more detail and to show how when the right mechanisms and institutions of moral progress are matched together they create pressure for the desired types of moral gains to manifest. The first part of the book deals with two issues: the conceptual one about what moral progress is and the broadly empirical one whether it is possible. It shows that cultural evolution successfully explains the origins of modern forms of morally welcome change. The second part argues that there is logical space for a moderate scientifically credible form of teleology and that the converse case for moral decline is weak. It addresses the types drivers and institutions of moral progress that allow for the storage transmission and cumulative improvement of our normative infrastructure over time. Finally the third part demonstrates why moral progress cannot be accounted for in metaethically realist terms. Moral Teleology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics moral epistemology and moral psychology. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Moral Teleology A Theory of Progress

GBP 130.00
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Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy

Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy

Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract. Building on the author’s previous work this book discusses whether social progress is linear and on a continual upward trajectory to human betterment or if there are peaks and troughs along the way. More importantly it questions that if social progress exists is it compatible with social and environmental sustainability? At the outset the book introduces the concepts of social contract theory and the idea of human social progress long considered to be settled conditions now ripe for further examination. Each chapter carefully analyses the contemporary struggle between democracy and authoritarianism using examples from the USA as a foundation to discuss and compare democracies from around the world encountering the pressures of rising authoritarianism including anti-immigration xenophobia and anti-institutionalism. It argues that if the climate crisis is to be urgently addressed as required the rise in authoritarian thinking with its focus on maintaining power and the creation of individual wealth presents a challenge to both our societal foundations and environmental sustainability. Highlighting and analysing topics of critical importance to today’s society this book will have widespread appeal to academics researchers and postgraduate students throughout the social sciences including sociology political science philosophy environmental sustainability and development studies.

GBP 130.00
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Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom

Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom

First published in 1980 Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom assesses the performance of primary schoolchildren in a range of study skills as well as on the more conventional tests of mathematics language use and reading. The findings indicate that the more successful styles are used by the more experienced teachers who manage to increase the amount of contact with the pupils by a variety of organizational strategies. While pupils who receive the greatest amount of class teaching do best on mathematics there is no evidence to suggest that the characteristics of teaching valued by critics of modern primary practice exert any significant influence on pupil progress. The relationship between pupil progress and behaviour shows some remarkable patterns. For example it was found that children who work on average one day per week less than other children still make the same progress in basic skills as the others. Such findings suggest that there is a need to examine how far teaching in the junior school is sufficiently stimulating and challenging while at the same time acknowledging the difficulties of improving the situation while class sizes remain relatively high. This book will be of interest to students of education and pedagogy as well as to teachers.

GBP 90.00
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Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell

Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell

Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing but the scope of her influence extended across the globe. Building on theories of space and place the contributors to this collection bring a variety of geographical industrial psychological and spatial perspectives to bear on the vast range of Gaskell’s literary output and on her place within the narrative of British letters and national identity. The advent of the railway and the increasing predominance of manufactory machinery reoriented the nation’s physical and social countenance but alongside the excitement of progress and industry was a sense of fear and loss manifested through an idealization of the country home the pastoral retreat and the agricultural south. In keeping with the theme of progress and change the essays follow parallel narratives that acknowledge both the angst and nostalgia produced by industrial progress and the excitement and awe occasioned by the potential of the empire. Finally the volume engages with adaptation and cultural performance in keeping with the continuing importance of Gaskell in contemporary popular culture far beyond the historical and cultural environs of nineteenth-century Manchester. | Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell

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Hubris and Progress A Future Born of Presumption

Hubris and Progress A Future Born of Presumption

This book explores the ancient question of why man seeks to go beyond his limits. A presumptuous tendency known by the ancient Greeks as hubris and believed to be punished by the gods it developed from a need for our survival to a habit as humanity has subdued animals dominated nature increased knowledge and sought even to overcome death. It also lies behind the crisis of our time as the values of democracy freedom equality and progress have been weakened – sacrificed to excess as we live in an eternal present dominated by greed and indifference regarding the future. Addressing this crisis of our interregnum period in which faith has been lost in the former certainties of modernity such as science progress and the idea of a better world the author considers whether redemption for humanity might lie in our hubristic tendencies as these give us scope to deviate from the existing path and find new ways forward. | Hubris and Progress A Future Born of Presumption

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'Progress' in Zimbabwe? The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

'Progress' in Zimbabwe? The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation. At wider levels too the concept of progress is fitting. It underpins 'modern' 'liberal' and 'radical' perspectives of development pervading the social sciences and humanities. Yet perceptions of 'progress' are subject increasingly to intensive critical inquiry. Their gruesome end is signified in the political projects of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF. John Gray's Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia indicates this. It is expected that participants will engage directly in debates about how the idea of 'progress' has informed their disciplines - from political science and history to labour and agrarian studies and then relate these arguments to the Zimbabwean case in general and their research in particular. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. | 'Progress' in Zimbabwe? The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country

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Handbook on Assessments for Gifted Learners Identification Learning Progress and Evaluation

Handbook on Assessments for Gifted Learners Identification Learning Progress and Evaluation

This essential handbook is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the assessment of gifted and advanced students and their programs and a must-have resource for coordinators and directors at state and local levels. Handbook on Assessments for Gifted Learners explores issues associated with building an effective identification system clarifies and interprets the need for targeted learning progress assessments for gifted learners and discusses program evaluation assessments and processes used to gauge programs’ success. Engaging chapters written by both academic and practitioner experts provide research-based practical ideas for identifying and measuring the progress of gifted and advanced learners. Readers will benefit from informed recommendations stemming from current research conducted specifically for this text. | Handbook on Assessments for Gifted Learners Identification Learning Progress and Evaluation

GBP 42.99
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Human Evolution Economic Progress and Evolutionary Failure

Human Evolution Economic Progress and Evolutionary Failure

This monograph is an innovative endeavour in many ways. First it brings to the fore the synergy between human evolution and economic and social progress. Second it acknowledges the critical contributions from the routine adherence to contextual truth and contextual non-violence of humanity at large. Finally it argues that the world is sliding towards evolutionary failure by not moving further forward in the adherence to the two core human values. For all those interested in development in a holistic sense the book will inspire thinking and debate. Human evolution will go on – one way or the other – with or without adherence to truth and non-violence. The book stresses the time is now to go for the best and eschew the worst. | Human Evolution Economic Progress and Evolutionary Failure

GBP 39.99
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Mary Sheridan's From Birth to Five Years Children's Developmental Progress

Mary Sheridan's From Birth to Five Years Children's Developmental Progress

This new edition of a classic text is the go-to reference for anyone concerned with the developmental progress of pre-school children. It provides the knowledge required for understanding children’s developmental progress with age and within each developmental domain. Including new sections on atypical development for each of the core domains of development and additional material on the development of attention and self-regulation this fifth edition integrates findings from the latest research throughout. An updated companion website is available at www. routledge. com/cw/sharma which includes the following additional learning material: an interactive timeline of the key developmental domains; introductions to theory with links to further reading; research summaries; video clips demonstrating practical assessment skills; downloadable resources including pictures to support examination of verbal and non-verbal development and tips to facilitate and promote development. Fully aligned with current child development philosophies and practices Mary Sheridan’s From Birth to Five Years: Children's Developmental Progress is designed to support the wider group of practitioners – including those from health professions social work and early years – that are now required to take steps for promoting children’s development as part of their assessment and management plans. | Mary Sheridan's From Birth to Five Years Children's Developmental Progress

GBP 21.99
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Progress in Self Psychology V. 4 Learning from Kohut

Progress in Self Psychology V. 4 Learning from Kohut

The fourth volume in the Progress in Self Psychology series continues to explore the theoretical yield and clinical implications of the wok of the late Heinz Kohut. Learning from Kohut features sections on supervision with Kohut and on the integration of self psychology with classical psychoanalysis. Developmental contributions examine self psychology in relation to constitutional factors in infancy. Clinical presentations focusing on optimum frustration and the therapeutic process and on the self-psychological treatment of a case of intractable depression elicit the animated commentary that makes this volume like its predecessors as enlivening as it is instructive. | Progress in Self Psychology V. 4 Learning from Kohut

GBP 31.99
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Scotland’s Economic Progress 1951-1960 A Study in Regional Accounting

Scotland’s Economic Progress 1951-1960 A Study in Regional Accounting

Originally published in 1965 this book subjected the economic performance of Scotland to close examination. The progress of the Scottish economy from 1951 to 1960 was assessed in quantitative terms and estimates provided of Scottish gross domestic product income from employment gross profits and other economic statistics. Chapters are devoted to output and investment in manufacturing in industry and to personal income and expenditure. The results showed the extent to which the Scottish economy lagged behind the rest of the UK especially during the latter part of the decade. | Scotland’s Economic Progress 1951-1960 A Study in Regional Accounting

GBP 27.99
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Practical Theology in Progress Showcasing an emerging discipline

Practical Theology in Progress Showcasing an emerging discipline

Practical Theology has emerged as an important discipline in recent decades making a major contribution both in the academy and amongst reflective practitioners on the ground. The Journal Practical Theology celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2018 and this book presents ten journal articles chosen from over 180 that were published in that period. Reflecting on the progress the discipline has made and indicating some future directions in the field the book is a ‘showcase’ of examples of good practical theology utilising a wide range of methodologies and written by an interesting cross-section of authors from a variety of backgrounds. This is a book which answers the question ‘what is practical theology?’ with real live examples that are accessible readable and engaging. | Practical Theology in Progress Showcasing an emerging discipline

GBP 39.99
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The Fall of Humankind and Social Progress Engagements with Emil Brunner

The Fall of Humankind and Social Progress Engagements with Emil Brunner

This book investigates the link between human capabilities and the preconditions for social progress through an engagement with the theological anthropology of Swiss theologian Emil Brunner (1889–1966). It places Brunner’s thought in dialogue with selected contributors from the contemporary social sciences examining approaches from economics sociology and philosophy as put forward by Gary S. Becker Christian Smith and Martha Nussbaum. This dialogic format helps to crystallise both agreements and differences and thus facilitate greater understanding between theology and other disciplines. Questions explored in the discussion relate to the emergence of human nature (the person) and the capabilities human beings possess as well as how these develop in a social context. The author focuses in particular on the impact of sin (the Fall) and considers the mixed blessings of economic progress. By providing pointers on how to bring back the human person in social disciplines the book hopes to contribute to improved understanding of the ethical dimension of social progress and human flourishing. It will be of particular interest to scholars of analytic and systematic theology but also scholars from economics and social sciences with openness to theological engagement. | The Fall of Humankind and Social Progress Engagements with Emil Brunner

GBP 130.00
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The Hope of Progress

The Hope of Progress

First published in 1972 The Hope of Progress presents collection of essays and lectures dealing with the history of scientific ideas and the impact of science on society. The principle piece in this volume is the author’s 1969 presidential address to the British Association ‘On The Effecting of All Things Possible’ an argument for believing in the ability of science to solve the problems it has itself created and which too many of us believe insoluble. It contains author’s Romanes Lecture on ‘Science and Literature’ and a well known critique of J. D. Watson’s notorious account of the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA The Double Helix. Other chapters discuss the possibility of the control and domination by science of the body and mind of Man- though the author concludes in ‘The Genetic Improvement of Man’ : ‘I think that in the main for many centuries to come we shall have to put up with human beings as they are at present constituted’. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of history of science philosophy of science natural science and philosophy in general.

GBP 27.99
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The School Leader’s Year Month-by-Month Progress Every Lesson Every Day

The School Leader’s Year Month-by-Month Progress Every Lesson Every Day

This practical handbook offers a month-by-month guide to the curriculum assessment progress and leadership over the school year. It provides a clear comprehensive and coherent structure to the academic year helping school leaders to prioritise their time and workload supporting them and their team to work as efficiently and effectively as possible. Considering the statutory and key leadership activities from admissions induction transitions and parents’ evenings to coursework timetabling assessment staff performance and much more the book provides a clear plan of action to ensure school leaders have prepared their work at the optimal time over the year. Each chapter features tried-and-tested strategies to help schools put robust systems and processes in place alongside guidance on sustaining pace developing resilience and exam preparation and technique. Full of practical tips to help improve progress and including real-world examples of leadership in action from leaders working in primary and secondary schools this is essential reading for all school leaders that want their students to be as successful as they can possibly be in every lesson every day. | The School Leader’s Year Month-by-Month Progress Every Lesson Every Day

GBP 18.99
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The Progress of a Biographer

The Progress of a Biographer

First published in 1949 The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by but which churches and institutions can only obscure and pervert. This principle is followed for the sketches in this book most of which were written between the end of World War II and the spring of 1948. The subjects range from P. G. Wodehouse to Karl Marx from W. B. Yeats to Thackeray and from Rainer Maria Rilke to Lloyd George. Believing that to understand a man’s work one must form a coherent impression of the man the author has tried to suggest the leading characteristics and governing impulses of his subjects. His intention has been to clarify rather than to criticise though doubtless the affect may sometimes be one of criticism falling short of clarification. The book will be of interest to students across disciplines but will particularly appeal to students of English literature.

GBP 99.99
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This Great Beast Progress and the Modern State

This Great Beast Progress and the Modern State

First published in 1997 this volume follows Catley and Cristaudo as they defend Western Civilization against all comers: against the rest of the world especially the Third World and against its own internal irritants: ‘the scribblings of the intelligentsia’ by idealist philosophers feminists greens post-moderns multiculturalists Orientalists anti-nationalists socialists and Keynesians most of them tenured academics in the arts and social sciences. As academic political scientists themselves they have done time in a number of the ideological prisons they attack and they write about those states of mind with experienced cynicism . As in Paradise Lost the devil gets all the best tunes. The identification of civilization’s enemies is wildly sometimes hilariously politically incorrect. | This Great Beast Progress and the Modern State

GBP 31.99
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The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small backward mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse a hub of innovation a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century. That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the rest of the world; that a country that had never seen a cotton plant should become the world’s second-largest textile producer; that a country with hardly any level terrain should come to boast the world’s most highly developed railway network; and that a country whose main export was impoverished emigrants should be transformed into one of the world’s major financial centres – these astonishing developments among many others are explored and explained both through the specific stories of individual innovators and through a prescient analysis of the political economic societal and cultural structures that formed the context in which Switzerland’s astonishing transformation took place. The book is a compelling read both for professional historians and for general readers with an interest in Switzerland; it highlights the roles of transport networks and individual pioneers in industrial and political development. | The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

GBP 130.00
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John Stuart Mill (Routledge Revivals) The Politics of Progress

John Stuart Mill (Routledge Revivals) The Politics of Progress

First published in 1991 this book attempts to deal with Mill’s thought as a coherent system and tie some elements of his thoughts together. It seeks to show that he developed a set of ethical principles to underlie government intervention and provide a theory as to how it should intervene — which he then applied to practical politics. The first chapters deal with Mill’s doctrine of improvement and what impact the improvement of man has on the social organisation of society. The third chapter deals with Mill’s theory of economic development. The second part of the book deals with policy issues such as the question of the optimal constitution and Mill’s policy proposals for England. | John Stuart Mill (Routledge Revivals) The Politics of Progress

GBP 35.99
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British Malaya An Account of the Origin and Progress of British Influence in Malaya

British Malaya An Account of the Origin and Progress of British Influence in Malaya

First published in 1948 this volume’s third edition emerged contemporaneously with the transition from the Malayan Union to the Federation of Malaya an area covering the Malay Peninsula and modern Singapore. The volume recounts the experiences of the first British residents of Malaya. Its object was to explain the circumstances and evolution of the British administration in Malaya along with a history of the region. | British Malaya An Account of the Origin and Progress of British Influence in Malaya

GBP 31.99
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India-Iran Relations Progress Problems and Prospects

India-Iran Relations Progress Problems and Prospects

This book examines India’s relationship with Iran since the post-World War II period and its unique search for meaningful bilateral ties in the West Asian region in the context of the changing regional and international scenarios. The four chapters highlight the achievements and constraints on the development of Indo-Iranian relations during the Cold War era; opportunities and limitations in bilateral engagements between India and Iran in the aftermath of the Cold War; impact of the ‘US factor’ on the development of crucial Indo-Iranian energy ties and the limitation imposed by India’s relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia on the India–Iran ties. More specifically the four chapters touch on the central drivers—energy imports access to Central Asia cooperation in Afghanistan mutual trade and economic investments and security ties—of India’s Iran policy and how they structure India’s interaction with the other countries of the region and impact on the articulation of national interests. Combining a rich interplay of facts and figures with nuanced analyses this volume will be a valuable resource for scholars policymakers diplomats and any interested reader desirous of knowing more about Indo-Iranian relations in particular and India’s West Asia policy in general. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka | India-Iran Relations Progress Problems and Prospects

GBP 150.00
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Social Aspects of Asian Economic Growth Human capital and the people side of progress

Social Aspects of Asian Economic Growth Human capital and the people side of progress

There are in simple terms three principal kinds of capital that come necessarily into play when a society is evolving towards improving the lives livelihoods and qualities of life of its people. The first form of capital is financial – this normally includes physical forms of invested money in plant buildings and infrastructure. The second form of capital is human – seen simply as the level and range of skills and capabilities that are available for use in the society. When people are literate numerate skilled experienced informed cooperative and inquisitive they and their societies can do much more. The third form of capital is social. Here cooperativeness shows its effects and the rules of how that works vary greatly between societies. It is the second of these elements human capital that is the main focus of this book but it overlaps with social capital extensively in these accounts and can only be understood in terms of its connections into the wider societal system. The varying patterns of its workings and influence in different Asian contexts are explained against the background of a theory of societal progress. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Asia Pacific Business Review. | Social Aspects of Asian Economic Growth Human capital and the people side of progress

GBP 26.99
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