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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461517903321

Autore

Rockett Mel

Titolo

Thinking for learning / / Mel Rockett, Simon Percival

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stafford : , : Network Educational Press, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

1-283-20819-9

9786613208194

1-85539-715-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

370.152

Soggetti

Thought and thinking - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Thinking; Chapter 2 Thinking pupils; Chapter 3 Thinking teachers; Chapter 4 Thinking schools; Chapter 5 Thinking about change; Appendices; Appendix A: Tuckswood First School; Appendix B: Allendale First School; Appendix C: Byrness First School; Appendix D: Kinsale Avenue First School; Appendix E: Hempnall School; Appendix F: St Benet Biscop School; References; Further reading and resources; Top thinking websites; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Thinking for Learning looks at the place of different thinking skills approaches in delivering a twenty-first century education. It is a practical book held together by an extensive range of detailed case studies. The authors have skilfully collected the arguments for and against a thinking skills approach, described the different ways of enhancing thinking and shown what is possible in the classroom. If you have begun, or are about to begin, developing a thinking for learning approach in your school, then this book will help you on your journey. Â     Included in the book: Â    how to selec



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790287203321

Autore

Garrigan Shelley E

Titolo

Collecting Mexico [[electronic resource] ] : museums, monuments, and the creation of national identity / / Shelley E. Garrigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4529-4714-7

0-8166-8015-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

972

Soggetti

Cultural property - Social aspects - Mexico

Exhibitions - Mexico - History - 19th century

Museums - Social aspects - Mexico

National characteristics, Mexican

Mexico Antiquities Social aspects

Mexico Cultural policy History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fine art and demand : debating the Mexican national canon (1876-1910) -- Our archaeology : science, citizenry, patrimony, and the museum -- The hidden lives of historical monuments : commerce, fashion, and memorial -- Collections at the World's Fair : rereading Mexico in Paris, 1889 -- Collecting numbers : statistics and the constructive force of deficiency.

Sommario/riassunto

Collecting Mexico centers on the ways in which aesthetics and commercialism intersected in officially sanctioned public collections and displays in late nineteenth-century Mexico. Shelley E. Garrigan approaches questions of origin, citizenry, membership, and difference by reconstructing the lineage of institutionally collected objects around which a modern Mexican identity was negotiated. In doing so, she arrives at a deeper understanding of the ways in which displayed objects become linked with nationalistic meaning and why they exert such persuasive force. Spanning the Porfiriato period from