This book is aimed at students working for 'A' level examinations, and should also be useful for first-year university students of English. The book attempts to sharpen the student's sense of the special nature of drama as a genre, and of its variety and power. It offers detailed critical appreciation of the nature and effectiveness of dramatic methods within a number of great plays, selected from a range of different cultures and historical periods.
The Sharp Edge of Educational Change conveys the realities of reform as they affect educators' practice. The collected chapters each focus on particular current reform and reveal the technical and logistical complications, social and political dynamics, cognitive disjunctures and limitations, and emotional demands of reform. In so doing, they provide new and rich conceptual perspectives on the contemporary nature of teachers' and administrators' work in classrooms, schools and other educational settings.
Authored by a former university educator and researcher, this FREE e-Book provides students and their parents with researched, learning strategies that will lead toward success in school. Also includes a discussion about the true nature of intelligence, an examination of the myths about IQ, and a look behind the myth of learning styles.
The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Warrior by instinct and Viking by nature, Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, has land, a wife and children—and a duty to King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames.
A magazine for the learners of English at upper intermediate and advanced levels (B2-C1). Features: language, music, economy, politics, literature, mass media, social problems, nature, and new technologies. Audio, scripts and worksheets included.
