Education Books

Dieses Buch setzt sich mit Prüfungen im Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache auseinander. Es zeigt, warum viele Lernende trotz guter Sprachkenntnisse scheitern und welche Rolle Prüfungslogik, Vorbereitung und Fehlannahmen dabei spielen. Der Fokus liegt nicht auf Tipps oder Strategien, sondern auf einem realistischen Verständnis von Prüfungen und Bewertungssystemen.

Dieses Buch ist kein Sprachlehrbuch. Es erklärt keine Grammatik, gibt keine Lernpläne und verspricht keinen Erfolg. Es geht um das, was im Unterricht sichtbar wird, wenn Sprache in den Hintergrund tritt: Entscheidungen, Zweifel, Pausen, Umwege. Menschen, die lernen, aber eigentlich etwas anderes klären müssen. Der Autor beschreibt Beobachtungen aus jahrelangem Online-Unterricht mit Lernenden aus... more...

Dieses Buch ist kein Reiseführer im klassischen Sinn und kein Auswanderungsratgeber. Es beschreibt Kambodscha aus der Perspektive eines Menschen, der viele Jahre hier gelebt hat – nicht als Besucher, sondern im Alltag. Es geht um das Leben im Land, um Gewöhnung und Ernüchterung, um Arbeit, Gesundheit, Familie, Armut, Veränderung und die Frage, wann ein Ort trägt – und wann nicht mehr. Die... more...

CHAPTER I Craftsmanship in Teaching I "In the laboratory of life, each newcomer repeats the old experiments, and laughs and weeps for himself. We will be explorers, though all the highways have their guideposts and every bypath is mapped. Helen of Troy will not deter us, nor the wounds of Cæsar frighten, nor the voice of the king crying 'Vanity!' from his throne dismay. What wonder that... more...

CORD CONSTRUCTION Introductory Remarks To a child one of the most attractive of possessions is a piece of cord. He has so many uses for it that it becomes part of the prized contents of his pocket. Since this commodity affords so much pleasure to the untrained child, how greatly may the pleasure be enhanced if he is taught how to make the number of beautiful things that may be wrought from cord or... more...

PREFACE The student of general problems of education or of elementary education finds an extensive literature of varying worth. In the last decade our secondary schools have undergone radical reorganization and have assumed new functions. A rich literature on every phase of the high school is rapidly developing to keep pace with the needs and the progress of secondary education. The literature on... more...

CHILDREN AND THEIR BOOKS The most vital educational problem will always be how to make the best use of the child's earlier years, not only for the reason that in them many receive their entire school training, but also because, while the power of the child to learn increases with age, his susceptibility to formative influences diminishes, and so rapid is the working of this law that President... more...

The main objective about writing this book is to understand the co-ordination between child psychology and child development. With the growth of a child, various stages of child development is introduced and until and unless you are informative about child psychology proper child development is not possible. This book examines major policy, practice and research issues as they jointly shape current... more...

INTRODUCTION In times of anxiety and discontent, when discontent has engendered the belief that great and widespread economic and social changes are needed, there is a risk that men or States may act hastily, rushing to new schemes which seem promising chiefly because they are new, catching at expedients that have a superficial air of practicality, and forgetting the general theory upon which practical... more...

Gentlemen of the Canadian Club:—Your president has asked me to address you this afternoon in the English language. It is with great pleasure that I received this invitation and that I avail myself of the privilege of speaking to you in that language with regard to the very troublesome, somewhat distorted, and certainly much misrepresented school question in your sister province. First of all, I wish... more...