wyszukanych pozycji: 93
School Sucks!; Arguments for Alternative Education
ISBN: 9781433117046 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. School Sucks is designed to complement the dominant discourse of school reform by presenting a compendium of critical pedagogical writings that analyze the current issues in urban education and demonstrate alternative praxis for failing schools. The two editors of this volume also serve as the series editors for Peter Lang Publishing s Educational Psychology and Black Studies and Critical Thinking series, giving them remarkable resources from which to draw this selection of writings that represent the very best concepts of pedagogy and praxis. School Sucks furthers the reader's...
School Sucks is designed to complement the dominant discourse of school reform by presenting a compendium of critical pedagogical writings tha...
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1385,06 zł |
Teach for America Counter-Narratives: Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out
ISBN: 9781433128769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In its twenty-five years of existence, Teach For America (TFA) has transformed from an organization based on a perceived need to ameliorate a national teacher shortage to an organization that seeks to systematically replace traditional fully-certified teachers while simultaneously producing alumni who are interested in facilitating neoliberal education reform through elected political positions. From its inception, TFA has had its share of critics; yet criticism of the organization by its own members and alumni has largely been silenced and relegated to the margins.
This book the first of... In its twenty-five years of existence, Teach For America (TFA) has transformed from an organization based on a perceived need to ameliorate a national...
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308,44 zł |
The Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
ISBN: 9781433126093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how Yoruba peoples in the African diaspora strategically utilize their Indigenous spiritual knowledges as decolonizing tools of navigation, subversion, and resistance to colonial oppression in the purportedly multicultural space of Canada. The author powerfully weaves together literature of Yoruba peoples from multiple...
The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how the...
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1096,39 zł |
Learning to (Re)Member the Things We've Learned to Forget: Endarkened Feminisms, Spirituality, and the Sacred Nature of Research and Teaching
ISBN: 9781433112829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Feminist research has both held and contested experience as a category of epistemological importance, often as a secular notion. However, spirituality and sacred knowing are also fundamental to a Black/endarkened feminist epistemology in teaching and research, given the historical and cultural experiences of African ascendant women worldwide. How can (re)membering bear witness to our individual and collective spiritual consciousness and generate new questions that inform feminist theory and practice? Learning to (Re)member the Things We've Learned to Forget explores that question....
Feminist research has both held and contested experience as a category of epistemological importance, often as a secular notion. However, spirituality...
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Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960-1973
ISBN: 9781433117718 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X s educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of Black activists that sought to create spaces of liberation and learning that are free from cultural and racial oppression. It explains a side of the Black student movement and shift in black power that develops as a result of the student protests in North Carolina and Duke University. From these acts of...
In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as ...
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1166,98 zł |
Artful Stories; The Teacher, the Student, and the Muse
ISBN: 9781433114083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. These are the stories of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer who have made names for themselves internationally. The book centers on their role as educators in their fields; their unique and individual journeys exemplify the classic role artists have (always) played as teachers. Artful Stories is a timely and profound work that captures the teacher-student dynamic. It fills a void by recognizing the contributions of Caribbean artists to U.S. and European artistic scholarship. This book will be a valuable...
These are the stories of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer who have ...
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1040,14 zł |
Ordinary Theologies; Religio-spirituality and the Leadership of Black Female Principals
ISBN: 9781433116360 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Through narrative analysis, Ordinary Theologies highlights the intersectionality of gender, race, and religio-spirituality. It examines the relationship of past and current religio-spiritual leadership understandings that contest the status quo in U.S. schools. The historicity and analysis of gender and race contributes to reconceptualizing educational and leadership by emphasizing the voices of Black female leaders, voices that provide alternative understandings of schooling, stressing the importance of gendered and raced voices in administration, and questioning formulaic models of...
Through narrative analysis, Ordinary Theologies highlights the intersectionality of gender, race, and religio-spirituality. It examines the rel...
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1166,98 zł |
Sweetwater; Black Women and Narratives of Resilience
ISBN: 9781433117763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience is a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural South. This book captures the artistry, strength, hope, sound, language, and creativity shared by first-hand accounts of black women in a familial village community in North Carolina. Sweetwater is about the black female experience as it relates to friendship, family, spirituality, poverty, education, addiction, mental illness, romantic relationships, raising children, and everyday survival....
This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience is a multi-generational stor...
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948,91 zł |
Black Males in the Green Mountains; Colorblindness and Cultural Competence in Vermont Public Schools
ISBN: 9781433117626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mention the state of Vermont and images of maple syrup, scenic mountains, and progressive politics come to mind. But in addition to skiing, farming, and fall foliage, there is also a startling history of racial and religious intolerance and bigotry. Burlington is known as the birthplace of John Dewey, whose enlightened views about education reached far beyond the Green Mountains to impact schools. Yet there exist many unsavory examples of equitable education deferred for a small but growing population. Black males, especially, have not been treated fairly suffering in silence as a...
Mention the state of Vermont and images of maple syrup, scenic mountains, and progressive politics come to mind. But in addition to skiing, farming, a...
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1040,14 zł |
The Souls of Yoruba Folk: Indigeneity, Race, and Critical Spiritual Literacy in the African Diaspora
ISBN: 9781433126086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture. The book highlights how Yoruba peoples in the African diaspora strategically utilize their Indigenous spiritual knowledges as decolonizing tools of navigation, subversion, and resistance to colonial oppression in the purportedly multicultural space of Canada. The author powerfully weaves together literature of Yoruba peoples from multiple...
The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how the...
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301,56 zł |
D.I.V.A. Diaries: The Road to the Ph.D. and Stories of Black Women Who Have Endured
ISBN: 9781433123856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Distinguished, Intellectual, Virtuous, Academic Sistas (D.I.V.A.S.) is a group of Black women who formed a bond with one another as doctoral students as a means of support on their journey through the academy. The acronym defines the women individually and as an entire group. This anthology can be used as a practical, student-centered sourcebook for Black female doctoral candidates. By providing narratives about the importance of race, class, culture, religion, socioeconomics, and nationality, this book aims to encourage more Black women to pursue a terminal degree and to continue...
The Distinguished, Intellectual, Virtuous, Academic Sistas (D.I.V.A.S.) is a group of Black women who formed a bond with one another as doctoral stude...
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1096,39 zł |
Contesting the Myth of a 'Post Racial' Era; The Continued Significance of Race in U.S. Education
ISBN: 9781433115172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Contesting the Myth of a Post Racial Era brings together educational scholars across disciplines in higher education to reframe the discourse on race and racism in education in the Obama era and to explore structural, environmental, cultural, and political implications of race and racism in education. The volume gives explicit attention to contesting the myth of post-racialism in U.S. education by examining racial inequality across the K-16 spectrum, through examination of classroom practices, educational policies, educational research, and equity and access. Policy makers, educators,...
Contesting the Myth of a Post Racial Era brings together educational scholars across disciplines in higher education to reframe the discourse o...
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294,38 zł |
The (Re-)Making of a Black American; Tracing the Racial and Ethnic Socialization of Caribbean American Youth
ISBN: 9781433120732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Historically, Blacks in the United States have been treated as a homogenous group with little regard for distinctions in ethnicity and immigrant status. However, the growing number of Black immigrants to the United States, and their location at the intersection of immigrant opportunity and racial barriers, has prompted increased interest in the group s integration experiences. Grounded in the notion that racism is an inescapable marker of the Black experience in the United States, The (Re-)Making of a Black American explores the ways children of Black immigrants from the...
Historically, Blacks in the United States have been treated as a homogenous group with little regard for distinctions in ethnicity and immigrant statu...
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308,44 zł |
The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self - (This Is an Endarkened, Feminist, New Literacies Event)
ISBN: 9781433122002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self is an endarkened, feminist, new literacies event. It critically and creatively explores Black women s terror in love. With poetry, prose, and analytic memos, Jeanine Staples shows how a group of Black women s talk and writings about relationships revealed epistemological and ontological revelations, after 9/11. These revelations are presented in the context of a third wave new literacies framework. They are voiced and storied dynamically by the women s seven fragmented selves. Through the selves, we learn the five ways the women...
The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self is an endarkened, feminist, new literacies event. It critically and creatively explores B...
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1314,76 zł |
Alchemy of the Soul: An African-Centered Education
ISBN: 9781433126987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author's life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experiences, was to start an African-centered school. The dream in the night ignited the journey that led to this book, which was to discover answers to critical questions such as: What is an African-centered education model? How do former students perceive this experience? And can, or even should, this educational model be effectively adopted in traditional public schools? Joyce Piert offers this book as a critical resource to parents, educators,...
It started with a dream, a dream in the night that challenged the dream of the author's life. That dream, which evolved through her personal experienc...
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294,38 zł |
Black Feminism in Education; Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out
ISBN: 9781433126055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out, authors use an endarkened feminist lens to share the ways in which they have learned to resist, adapt, and re-conceptualize education research, teaching, and learning in ways that serve the individual, community, nation, and all of humanity. Chapters explore and discuss the following question: How is Black feminist thought and/or an endarkened feminist epistemology (EFE) being used in pre-K through higher education contexts and scholarship to marshal new research methodologies, frameworks, and pedagogies? At...
In Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out, authors use an endarkened feminist lens to share the ways in which they ha...
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1166,98 zł |
Herstories: Leading with the Lessons of the Lives of Black Women Activists
ISBN: 9781433111938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The field of leadership has often been criticized for excluding voices that are not White and male. Not only are women specifically Black women poorly represented in leadership positions and the field s knowledge base, they are vastly underrepresented in the actual content of leadership courses and texts.
This book analyzes the transformational leadership, servant leadership, and social justice leadership found in the lives of Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and Audre Lorde. The book not only chronicles the careers and professional... The field of leadership has often been criticized for excluding voices that are not White and male. Not only are women specifically Black women poorly...
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962,97 zł |
«By Our Own Strength»: William Sherrill, the Unia, and the Fight for African American Self-Determination in Detroit
ISBN: 9781433118098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For almost four decades, William Sherrill was a critical leader of Marcus Garvey s Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) and a leading African American intellectual and activist in 1930s and 1940s Detroit. But until now, Sherrill s leadership and activism has never been detailed. As the first biography of Sherrill, this book examines him as part of a historical tradition from which post-World War II Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism re-emerged. Sherrill represents a bridge between the African American self-determination of the1920s and 1930s and African American activism from the...
For almost four decades, William Sherrill was a critical leader of Marcus Garvey s Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) and a leading African...
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308,44 zł |
Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960-1973
ISBN: 9781433117701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X s educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of Black activists that sought to create spaces of liberation and learning that are free from cultural and racial oppression. It explains a side of the Black student movement and shift in black power that develops as a result of the student protests in North Carolina and Duke University. From these acts of...
In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as ...
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308,44 zł |
Reprocessing Race, Language and Ability: African-Born Educators and Students in Transnational America
ISBN: 9781433117510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book explores the unique experiences of African-born educators and students in North American K-12 classrooms, as well as those of education faculty and administrators. It identifies the conflicting attributes that African-born educators and students bring into American schools and the challenges of working in linguistically, racially and culturally regulated educational spaces. The collected essays examine how attributes assigned to immigrant teachers by the host community of students, colleagues and administrators can serve both as conduits and deterrents for effective teaching. In...
This book explores the unique experiences of African-born educators and students in North American K-12 classrooms, as well as those of education facu...
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294,38 zł |