futurumbooks.com

What do you think? — these American themes books encourage critical thinking and debate by providing case studies, historical contexts, and individual opinions on each issue. Level: 1st year of Gymnasium/C

Have you ever wondered what your IQ was? Do intelligence tests just judge one aspect of your abilities? Do girls find homework easier than boys? Many people think that girls are smarter than boys. They say that all you need to do is look at recent school results and test scores. Girls have even caught up in math and the sciences. But many people do not agree with these opinions. They say that in the real world men succeed in employment and invent more things than women. Surely this shows men are smarter?

Contents: Are Girls Smarter Than Boys? — What Is Intelligence? — Are The Sexes Different? — Children And Adults — Are There Equal Chances To Be Smart? — How Can We Make Things Fairer? — Debate The Facts — Find Out More — Glossary

An estimated 31% of children have been bullied at school and technology such as mobile phones has made it even harder to get away from the bullies. Research has found that over one in three young people have been victims of cyberbullying. What is bullying behaviour and how can it be tackled? This book looks at the problem of bullying and the spread of cyberbullying.
Level: 8.-10. kl./AVU + HG C-F etc.

Chapter One: Bullying Behaviour
Bullying; Bullying: key points; Children on bullying; Bullying: myths and facts; The brand name bullies; Prejudice-related bullying; Bullying wrecks lives; Homophobic bullying; Are you a bully?; 70% of kids are bullies; Activities.

Chapter Two: Cyberbullying
Online bullying; Cyberbullying; Cyberbullying epidemic; Prevalence of cyberbullying; Happy slapping; Activities.

Key Facts;  Glossary (web links at the end of each article)

It is estimated that 31% of children will suffer some form of bullying during childhood. Adults are also not immune, with workplace bullying costing employers an estimated £3bn a year. The rise of communications technology means victims are finding that even at home they are not safe from their attackers, with cyberbullies increasingly targeting them via the Internet and mobile phones. This book gives a comprehensive overview of this traumatic issue.

Chapter Two: Cyberbullying
Online bullying; Cyberbullying; A million online bullies run rampant in cyberspace; Prevalence of cyberbullying; Keeping cyberspace safe; Happy slapping.

Chapter Three: Bullying at Work
Bullying in the workplace; Three and a half million bullied in job; Workplace bullying rife; The hidden menace: bullying at work; Am I a bully?; Bullying: virtual fighters; Failing to tackle bullying costs employers £14bn.

Key Facts;  Glossary Index;  Additional Resources (websites etc.);  Index.

A great satire on British higher education, very suitable for teaching and written in clear modern prose!

Kevin Crump is happy – he’s just got his dream job as a lecturer at a British university and is looking forward to introducing his new students to a first class education. Yet, as the academic year progresses, all is not what it at first seemed. He discovers that the former polytechnic, now known as Thames Metropolitan University, in common with other universities, is not very much interested in ‘education’ at all.
Instead, it is engaged in a process of dumbing down, grade inflation and turning a blind eye to plagiarism and cheating. It is also obsessed with its place in the league tables and attracting as many fee-paying students as possible – especially cash cow foreigners – and to encourage them further has recently closed its science departments in order to replace them with ‘exciting’ and ‘relevant’ ones, such as the Department of Islamic Studies. This will eventually have more serious repercussions than anyone ever intended or imagined.
Befriended by senior lecturer Dr Sandy Buttery, who tells him all about the ‘game’ of modern university life, and with the support of fellow new lecturers Athena and Rajdeep, Crump finds himself fighting for survival in the face of manipulative managers, accusations of racism and sexism from students and colleagues alike, and insane policies of political correctness and positive action which result in division and inequality rather than the harmony and equality they supposedly intend to promote.
Crump is a great teaching novel that deals with racism, sexism, Islamic extremism, anti-semitism, equality, political correctness, positive action and much more – in a strictly non-politically correct manner! Author: P.J.Vanston. (337 pages)
Level: 2nd and 3rd years of the Gymnasium/Man kan finde mange gode uddrag (også til 1.g)

Futurum GOLD Price

Denne titel vil koste dig kr. 69,50 minus 15% = kr. 59,08 ex. moms

(New title)

Chapter One: School Matters
Education in the UK, Qualifications explained, England’s National Curriculum evolves, Today’s learners and learning, Education and ethnicity, Report brands schools institutionally racist, Education and gender, Gender and subject choice, Single-sex schooling, Teacher numbers, Education and social mobility, Academies, The academies programme, Teacher opposition to academies grows, Employers let down by schools, Success in mathematics fuels A-level achievement, Are exams getting easier?, Emphasis on A-grades could lead to scientific skills gap, 57% ‘did better than expected’ in their exams, Countdown to specialist diplomas, The specialised Diploma, Teenagers ‘must stay in education till 18’, Home learning in the UK.

Chapter Two: Higher Education
Studying at UK universities, Undergraduate applicants up 6.4% for 2007, Student numbers and statistics, Alarm as students achieve record top degrees, Funding options, The cost of a degree, Slow growth in graduate starting salaries, A fortune by degrees, Male stereotypes barrier to university entrance, ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees come of age.

Key Facts;  Glossary;  Additional Resources;  Index

At a boys' grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-formers is sex, sport, starting university — and starting life. At the heart of “The History Boys” are four characters, each with contrasting outlooks on teaching and school: Hector, an eccentric English teacher with no interest in exams; Irwin, a young supply teacher who sees history as ‘entertainment’; Mrs. Lintott, a traditionalist, who teaches ‘history, not histrionics’; and, a Headmaster obsessed with results. Staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose. This play by Alan Bennett is the original stage version which premiered at the National Theatre in 2004 and won a host of awards. (109 pages + Introduction)
Level: A-B

At a prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals — the only acknowledged snobbery is literary snobbery. Once a term, a big name from the literary world visits and a contest takes place. The boys have to submit a piece of writing and the winner receives a private audience with the great writer. But then it is announced that Hemingway, the boys' hero, is coming to the school. The competition intensifies, and the morals the school and the boys pride themselves on — honour, loyalty and friendship — are crumbling under the strain. Only time will tell who will win and what it will cost them in the long run. If this sounds predictable, let us just say that the way the story develops is anything but predictable. This is a sad, moving and poignant book, beautifully written in the finest tradition of sparse North American prose ... and very teachable. Warmly recommended! (195 pages)
Level: B/(C+)

This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she is urged to write down her thoughts in a book. This is Precious' diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life. This is an uncompromising novel of power, vitality and wit. It covers many social issues:  the consequences of incest/rape; teenage pregnancy; living with HIV/AIDS; education. Author: Sapphire. (177 pages)
Level: (1st) and 2nd years of Gymnasium

Based on the novel by “Sapphire” (originally called “Push”):
The tale of an abused African-American teenager's struggle to change her life in 1980s Harlem. 16-year-old Clareece 'Precious' Jones has been abused from an early age by her now absent father, and is pregnant with his second child. With a venomous mother Mary who treats her like a servant and her school life blighted by illiteracy, Precious struggles to cope with her seemingly hopeless life.

This novel is set in an American boarding school — a hotbed of privilege, ambition and neurosis. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts; she leaves behind her affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, her head filled with images from the school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls hold lacrosse sticks on pristine athletics fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel. As Lee soon learns, Ault is quite unlike anything she has previously experienced, a self-enclosed world populated by jaded teenagers whose expectations, values and social rituals are utterly unfamiliar to her. She is an outsider. At first an observer of, then a participant in the intricately demarcated life of the school, Lee eventually finds her own place in the pecking order — until a single act of spontaneous folly shatters her carefully honed identity. In this small, close-knit school society, not least because of the age of the students, small incidents become matters of life or death — and they are portrayed here with great powers of observation that lift this novel well above the average school story. Author: Curtis Sittenfeld. (403 pages)
Level: 2nd Year of Gymnasium/Kan læses i uddrag