[PDF] Finding Place And Keeping Pace eBook

Author : Felix Maringe
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1920677798

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Twenty Years of Education Transformation in Gauteng 1994 to 2014: An Independent Review presents a collection of 15 important essays on different aspects of education in Gauteng since the advent of democracy in 1994. These essays talk to what a provincial education department does and how and why it does these things whether it be about policy, resourcing or implementing projects. Each essay is written by one or more specialist in the relevant focus area. The book is written to be accessible to the general reader as well as being informative and an essential resource for the specialist reader. It sheds light on aspects of how a provincial department operates and why and with what consequences certain decisions have been made in education over the last 20 turbulent years, both nationally and provincially. There has been no attempt to fi t the books chapters into a particular ideological or educational paradigm, and as a result the reader will find differing views on various aspects of the Gauteng Department of Educations present and past. We leave the reader to decide to what extent the GDE has fulfilled its educational mandate over the last 20 years.

Author : Laurie Morrison
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1647009979

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Laurie Morrison’s Keeping Pace is a poignant middle-grade novel about friends-turned-rivals training for a half-marathon—and rethinking what it means to win and what they mean to each other. Grace has been working for years to beat her former friend Jonah Perkins’s GPA so she can be named top scholar of the eighth grade. But when Jonah beats her for the title, it feels like none of Grace’s academic accomplishments have really mattered. They weren’t enough to win—or to impress her dad. And then the wide, empty summer looms. With nothing planned and no more goals or checklists, she doesn’t know what she’s supposed to be working toward. Eager for something to occupy her days, Grace signs up for a half-marathon race that she and Jonah used to talk about running together. Jonah’s running it, too. Maybe if she can beat Jonah on race day, she’ll feel OK again. But as she begins training with Jonah and checking off a new list of summer goals, she starts to question what—and who—really matters to her. Is winning at all costs really worth it? Engaging and heartfelt, Keeping Pace is about wanting to win at all costs—and having to learn how to fail.

Author : Eva Vanista Lazarevic
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1443884774

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Keeping Up with Technologies to Improve Places brings together a selection of papers presented at the First International Academic Conference on Places and Technologies, held at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture in April 2014. The conference was organized by the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture and the Urban Laboratory, in order to bring together leading researchers, professors and PhD students, as well as practitioners, to create a platform for sharing knowledge and know-how in the fields of growth, new technologies, and the environment. The book will appeal primarily to members of the academic community in the fields of urban design, planning and architecture, engineering and technical sciences, and the humanities and social sciences, including professors, researchers and PhD students. It will also be of interest to professional institutions and companies, governments, and NGOs, who will directly benefit from the knowledge and know-how sharing presented here.

Author : Hamsa Venkat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134683642

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Globally, mathematics and science education faces three crucial challenges: an increasing need for mathematics and science graduates; a declining enrolment of school graduates into university studies in these disciplines; and the varying quality of school teaching in these areas. Alongside these challenges, internationally more and more non-specialists are teaching mathematics and science at both primary and secondary levels, and research evidence has revealed how gaps and limitations in teachers’ content understandings can lead to classroom practices that present barriers to students’ learning. This book addresses these issues by investigating how teachers’ content knowledge interacts with their pedagogies across diverse contexts and perspectives. This knowledge-practice nexus is examined across mathematics and science teaching, traversing schooling phases and countries, with an emphasis on contexts of disadvantage. These features push the boundaries of research into teachers’ content knowledge. The book’s combination of mathematics and science enriches each discipline for the reader, and contributes to our understandings of student attainment by examining the nature of specialised content knowledge needed for competent teaching within and across the two domains. Exploring Mathematics and Science Teachers’ Knowledge will be key reading for researchers, doctoral students and postgraduates with a focus on Mathematics, Science and teacher knowledge research.

Author : Elizabeth Stevens
Publisher : Sleeping Dragon Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0648264874

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Three's a crowd, but four's a war. Big girl undies? Check. Speech planned? Check. Nerves of steel? Check. A single crush? …not check…? What do you do when you find your best friend/crush kissing your other best friend on the day you were going to declare your feelings for him? You only agree to fake date your crush’s rival. The King of the Bows, popular golden (play)boy, and all around douche, Xander wouldn’t be my last choice for a boyfriend. Across the school, battlelines are drawn and sides are taken between the new ’it’ couple of my former best friends and the excitingly scandalous pairing of me and King Douche. Xander keeps distracting me from the plan; make Jason jealous. He insists on holding my hand and kissing me and being nice. Ugh. Xander’s not nice and he’s not the relationship type, but he’s doing a damned good job of acting both parts. He calls it ‘keeping up appearances’, I call it ‘take one more pass at my arse and I’ll break your nose’. They say all’s fair in love and war, but what’s so fair about falling for the wrong guy when your two best friends are on the other side of the battlelines? Please be aware that this story is set in Australia and therefore uses Australian English spelling and syntax.

Author : Stacey Ritz
Publisher : Rockville Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1951523113

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What if the person you loved harbored a secret that could change everything? When tragedy struck seven years ago, 18 year old Claudia Altrun knew her life was irrevocably changed. Now 25 and the court appointed guardian of two teenage girls, Claudia accepts that dating and love must take a back seat to responsibility. She knows not to get too close to anyone as they may expose her family secret. And some secrets are meant to stay buried. Kevin Wilson has no idea that he is about to experience his second life-altering moment the day he meets Claudia Altrun. Handsome and funny, Kevin's magnetic personality charms most anyone he meets. But underneath his glow lies a pain so deep that it must never be revealed. Can painful secrets remain hidden? And, does true love indeed have the potential to save lives, even when so much remains unknown? *** This book is a FULL-LENGTH STANDALONE novel that can be read on its own OR in any order as part of the riveting Heirloom Series! *** EDITORIAL REVIEWS: ☆☆☆☆☆ - "An absolute page turner. Read in one night and loved every page. Without giving anything away, I just want to say that the women of the Heirloom Salon are remarkable!" ☆☆☆☆☆ - "I've read all the other Heirloom Series Books and I've loved each one. The Obsession has been my favorite so far and I was kept on the edge of my seat the entire time. The writing was captivating and I simply fell in love with the lead character. Can't wait to finish the series!" ☆☆☆☆☆ - "What a great series so far. I am going to recommend this book to all of my friends!"

Author : Sharon Moonsamy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 1443883069

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Exclusionary pressures and practices are pervasive in education, despite the clamour for more inclusive education. Even as classrooms worldwide become more diverse, education is unlikely to become inclusive without deliberate efforts to dismantle exclusion and enable inclusion. This book is a compilation of contributions to the conversation about what these efforts might entail. The conversation has its origins in the Making Education Inclusive Conference held in 2013, which brought together academics and practitioners from Southern Africa and other countries. Given the expectation that teachers should play a key role in promoting inclusion, it is not surprising to find significant interest in teacher education from many of the contributing authors. Their concerns range from explicit teacher development for pedagogical responsiveness to learner diversity, to overcoming the epistemological marginalisation that learners experience where teachers are not fully confident of their subject content and how to teach it. Access to education is clearly not enough, and other contributors to this book concern themselves with ways in which structures and systems could be reconstituted to enable meaningful inclusion. This might mean looking at how teachers might use tiered systems of behaviour support and various metacognitive strategies, how physical access can be promoted on a university campus, and understanding how parents think about disability. Each chapter represents a different perspective on what it might mean to resist educational exclusion in its many forms, and each offers possible ways to make education more inclusive.

Author : Thomas H. Davenport
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 142218725X

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A renowned thought-leader and a professor of statistics team up to provide the essential tools for enhancing thinking and decision-making in today's workplace in order to be more competitive and successful. 25,000 first printing.