“audrey osler”

Principals, teacher unions, and education policy makers all acknowledge the need for more teachers from black and ethnic minority communities, yet until now very little has been known about the professional experiences of black teachers or of the factors which discourage and exclude black and ethnic... More

How can citizenship in schools meet the needs of learners in multicultural and globalized communities? Can schools resolve the tensions between demands for effective discipline and pressures to be more inclusive?Educators, politicians and the media are using the concept of citizenship in new context... More

This book provides a framework for Citizenship Education in the context of cultural diversity. Underpinning Citizenship Education has to be an understanding and practice of human rights. The contributors show how human rights principles are used by schools to challenge structural inequality, discrim... More

How should we educate citizens in multicultural societies? This question is receiving increasing attention in countries across the world. In this volume authors from England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the United States report on recent research in this field and consider the impl... More

This volume breaks new ground by bringing together and synthesising contributions from practitioners and researchers in language teaching and citizenship. It draws on the work of the British Council in developing education for citizenship and good governance through language teaching.Language teache... More

By drawing directly on girls' own accounts and experiences of school life and their perception of exclusion, this book offers new perspectives on the issue of disaffection amongst girls. The authors of this book propose a re-definition of exclusion, as it applies to girls, recognising that it can oc... More

Taxol, originally derived from the North American Yew tree in 1971, is well-known worldwide as a powerful anticancer agent. Mechanistically, it has a unique microtubule stabilizing activity, and was clinically developed as a therapeutic agent in the treatment of breast and ovarian cancers at the Nat... More

* How can schools promote democracy? * Whose values should take precedence in multicultural societies?* Can schools safeguard both children's rights and those of teachers?Campaigners, politicians, and the media regularly cite human rights to justify or challenge actions that range from peaceful prot... More

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, ... More

Being The Harveian Oration Delivered At The Royal College Of Physicians, London, October 18, 1906.... More