wyszukanych pozycji: 249
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom: Legacies of Modernity and Colonialism in Schooling
ISBN: 9781433123726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other critical cultural theories from disciplines often overlooked in the field of education. The authors illustrate the potential of these theories for educators, offering a nuanced critical analysis of the role schools play in nationalistic enterprises and colonial projects. The book fills the current gap between simplified,...
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in educati...
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1216,79 zł |
The Fat Pedagogy Reader; Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education
ISBN: 9781433125676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Over the past decade, concerns about a global obesity epidemic have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrition permeate society despite significant evidence disputing the facts we have come to believe about obesity. We live in a culture that privileges thinness and enables weight-based oppression, often expressed as fat phobia and fat bullying. New interdisciplinary fields that problematize obesity have emerged, including critical obesity studies, critical weight studies, and fat studies. There also is a small but growing literature examining...
Over the past decade, concerns about a global obesity epidemic have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutritio...
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398,29 zł |
The Learning Society in a Postmodern World: The Education Crisis
ISBN: 9780820468365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lifelong learning has become a key concern as the focus of educational policy has shifted from mass schooling toward the learning society. The shift started in the mid 1960s and early 1970s under the impetus of a group of writers and adult educators, gravitating around UNESCO, with a humanist philosophy and a leftist agenda. The vocabulary of that movement was appropriated in the 1990s by other interests with a very different performativist agenda emphasizing effectiveness and economic outcomes. This change of interest, described in the book, has signified the death of education. The...
Lifelong learning has become a key concern as the focus of educational policy has shifted from mass schooling toward the learning society. The shift s...
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288,00 zł |
Representing Youth with Disability on Television: Glee, Breaking Bad, and Parenthood
ISBN: 9781433132506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Representing Youth with Disability on Television is a complex and multidimensional mainstream cultural discourse that examines specific stereotypes in fictional programming. The book draws attention to the group labeled as disabled, which is often marginalized, misrepresented, and misunderstood in the media, by analyzing the popular television programs Glee, Breaking Bad, and Parenthood. To obtain a more rigorous account of the way that youth (9-18 years of age) with disability are framed on television, this analysis examines the following issues: how research on popular...
Representing Youth with Disability on Television is a complex and multidimensional mainstream cultural discourse that examines specific stereot...
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301,76 zł |
My Teaching, My Philosophy: Kenneth Wain and the Lifelong Engagement with Education
ISBN: 9781433124853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with Kenneth Wain and the many facets of his work. It shows how Wain s passionate engagement with various issues, most prominently philosophy and education, continues to re-generate new ideas and thoughts through his philosophical method. This book gives Wain s philosophy the attention it deserves and succeeds in continuing an open-ended philosophical conversation with its readers. My Teaching, My Philosophy is a must-read for anyone wanting...
My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with...
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315,50 zł |
Dialogue Is Not Just Talk: A New Ground for Educational Leadership
ISBN: 9780820474694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the first and only book that examines dialogue as it pertains to the work of school leaders. The authors of Dialogue Is Not Just Talk develop a theory of dialogic leadership that bridges the gaps between the pioneering philosophical works of such seminal thinkers as Bakhtin, Buber, and Gadamer, as well as the work of educational leaders. Using examples, vignettes, and illustrations, this book develops both a theoretical and a practical approach to educational leadership. Dialogue Is Not Just Talk speaks to leaders striving to develop relationships, improve understanding,...
This is the first and only book that examines dialogue as it pertains to the work of school leaders. The authors of Dialogue Is Not Just Talk d...
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253,79 zł |
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Volume 1- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
ISBN: 9781433131257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The huge corpus of literature reviewed in this volume reflect current issues and discussions dealing with education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies, history, politics, multiculturalism, gender studies and literary studies. These theoretical frameworks will provide students in the field of education with the tools that they need to theorize around the concept of curriculum. This is an interdisciplinary book and might be of interest to students outside the field of...
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The huge corpus of literature reviewed in this volume ...
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363,77 zł |
Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development': Speaking Differently
ISBN: 9781433120954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development' Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and possibilities of development. The book critically engages the many ways of presenting 'development, ' highlighting the interplay of tradition and modernity as well as contestations over knowledge production in 'post-colonial' Africa. It offers cautionary words to field practitioners, researchers, and social theorists who work in development using language that is easily accessible to laypersons. This book is also for...
Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development' Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including con...
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295,03 zł |
Pedagogy for Restoration: Addressing Social and Ecological Degradation Through Education
ISBN: 9781433131547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pedagogy for Restoration seeks to understand the conditions leading to the destruction of Earth in order to discover pedagogy for restoration. As we degrade the planet we degrade ourselves and as we degrade ourselves we degrade the planet. Moral development and socialization significantly influence our participation in, construction of, or resistance to the systems of oppression that degrade us. The process of restorative education recognizes that humans are fundamentally good and moral and seeks to promote healthy moral development. We must help students meet their basic needs, center...
Pedagogy for Restoration seeks to understand the conditions leading to the destruction of Earth in order to discover pedagogy for restoration. ...
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301,76 zł |
Finding Freedom in the Classroom; A Practical Introduction to Critical Theory
ISBN: 9781433108808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since its introduction in 1998, Finding Freedom in the Classroom has impacted countless educators and preservice teachers by providing provocative questions about taken-for-granted educational routines as well as an alternative, imaginative view of what classrooms might become. This revised edition brings the conversation to the present day with contemporary examples and references to the best current thinking and writing on relevant issues. By defining terms in everyday language and demonstrating their relevance to everyday life in and out of the classroom, the book demystifies such...
Since its introduction in 1998, Finding Freedom in the Classroom has impacted countless educators and preservice teachers by providing provocat...
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219,26 zł |
Learning from Counternarratives in Teach for America: Moving from Idealism Towards Hope
ISBN: 9781433128127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Grounded in the belief that hope comes from a place of reality, not necessarily popular ideology, this book explores the gap between designated and actual narratives within Teach For America. TFA founder Wendy Kopp stated that there is -nothing elusive- about successful teaching; people simply need to -work hard- and be -disciplined-. Taking an inquiry stance, Sarah Matsui surveyed and interviewed 26 of her fellow corps members in the Greater Philadelphia region. Their counternarratives collectively problematize this standard reform rhetoric. Many are working hard, yet their stories and...
Grounded in the belief that hope comes from a place of reality, not necessarily popular ideology, this book explores the gap between designated and ac...
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301,76 zł |
The Life of a School: A Research Guide
ISBN: 9781433114359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the past decade or so, there has been an increasing interest in employing a combination of archival and life history methods to understand the complexities of schooling. This book explores the history of the Beal Technical School in order to discuss the methods and problems involved in researching the story of an institution. It offers the scholar and practitioner a series of practical guidelines and examples for doing such research. At the same time, it includes elements of the history of a case study, leading to an extended discussion of complex issues of representation that will be of...
In the past decade or so, there has been an increasing interest in employing a combination of archival and life history methods to understand the comp...
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941,81 zł |
19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City; Foreword by Antonia Darder
ISBN: 9781433108860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The second edition of 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City adds new questions to those in the original volume. Continuing the developing conversation in urban education, the book is provocative in style and rich in detail. Emphasizing the complexity of urban education, Shirley R. Steinberg and the authors ask direct questions about what urban teachers need to know. Their answers are guaranteed to generate both classroom discussion and discourse in the field for years to come. The book not only addresses questions pertaining directly to today's urban schools, but poses new ones for...
The second edition of 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City adds new questions to those in the original volume. Continuing the developing co...
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253,79 zł |
The Power of Parents; A Critical Perspective of Bicultural Parent Involvement in Public Schools
ISBN: 9780820474786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Delving into the often unexplored areas of class, race, and power struggles, The Power of Parents poses a unique and original critical examination of the relationship between bicultural parents and the school system. Written with students and practitioners in mind, it challenges past research that has traditionally argued bicultural parents are incompetent, apathetic, and do not value education, hence the cause of their children's academic underachievement. This book sheds new light on why bicultural parents often mistrust the school system and uncovers the contradictions inherent in...
Delving into the often unexplored areas of class, race, and power struggles, The Power of Parents poses a unique and original critical examinat...
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281,27 zł |
Teach Boldly!; Letters to Teachers about Contemporary Issues in Education
ISBN: 9781433104916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In today's public schools, teachers are often discouraged by the restrictions placed on them by the education system: federal mandates such as No Child Left Behind, excessive emphasis on standardized testing, pre-packaged curricula, inadequate funding, overcrowded classrooms, cultural incongruence, and social injustices. Teachers feel thwarted from meeting the unique needs of each student, and students continue to fall between the cracks in the system. This book encourages educators to teach boldly, using wisdom and courage to do what they know is best for their students despite the...
In today's public schools, teachers are often discouraged by the restrictions placed on them by the education system: federal mandates such as No Chil...
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288,00 zł |
Navigating Borders; Critical Race Theory Research and Counter History of Undocumented Americans
ISBN: 9781433112614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award In the context of debates about U.S. immigration, this book gives a voice to undocumented Americans of Mexican origin - specifically, involuntary immigrants born in Mexico but brought to the United States by their parents as minors. They are indistinguishable from other Americans, yet in the media and their everyday lives they encounter racism, discrimination, ostracism, and castigation on a regular basis. This book is about their stories and how, against the odds, they offer resistance as they navigate across ideological,...
This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award In the context of debates about U.S. immigration, this book gives a voice to undocumente...
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281,27 zł |
Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis; The Ecopedagogy Movement
ISBN: 9781433105456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that poses the serious and ongoing threat of mass extinction. What role can critical pedagogy play in the face of such burgeoning catastrophe? Drawing upon a range of theoretical influences including Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Herbert Marcuse, traditional ecological knowledge, and the cognitive praxis produced by today s grassroots activists in the alter-globalization, animal and earth liberation, and other radical social movements this book offers the foundations of a philosophy of ecopedagogy for the global north. In so doing, it...
We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that poses the serious and ongoing threat of mass extinction. What role can critical pedag...
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281,27 zł |
Reimagining the Public Intellectual in Education: Making Scholarship Matter
ISBN: 9781433125218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. While the term -public intellectual- has been used to describe scholars who seek to share their re-search with the public, little work has been done to examine the role of a public intellectual in the field of education. This book builds upon the notion of the public intellectual in a way that makes the term more accessible, using it to refer to education scholars who seek to share their research outside of academia. Media coverage of educational issues is rife with self-appointed experts on education who have claimed space in public discussions to define educational problems and dominate...
While the term -public intellectual- has been used to describe scholars who seek to share their re-search with the public, little work has been done t...
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1141,32 zł |
Doing Democracy; Striving for Political Literacy and Social Justice
ISBN: 9780820497457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this provocative collection of essays with a distinctly critical and nuanced approach to how democracy is taught, learned, understood, and lived, authors from four continents share their visions on how democracy needs to be cultivated, critiqued, demonstrated, and manifested throughout the educational experience. The collective concern is how we actually do democracy in education. The essays argue that democracy must be infused in everything that happens at school: curriculum, extra-curricular activities, interaction with parents and communities, and through formal organization and...
In this provocative collection of essays with a distinctly critical and nuanced approach to how democracy is taught, learned, understood, and lived, a...
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308,77 zł |
Playing for Change; Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development
ISBN: 9781433129711 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Playing for Change performing for money and for social justice introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development agents. Challenging the assumption that acculturation into a ruling ideology of state development is necessary, this book presents a version of CLD that locates development in the production of subjectivities. The author argues that A-CLD is as concerned with the autonomous collective and the individual as it is with...
Playing for Change performing for money and for social justice introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development ...
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1141,32 zł |