wyszukanych pozycji: 263
Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical
ISBN: 9780820449531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical is an inquiry into the questions of how Black women define their existence in a society which devalues, dehumanizes, and silences their beliefs. Placing herself inside of the research, Rochelle Brock invites the reader on a journey of self-exploration, as she and seven of her Black female students investigate their collective journey toward self-awareness in the attempt to liberate their minds and souls from ideological domination. Throughout, Sista Talk attempts to understand the ways in which this self-exploration informs her...
Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical is an inquiry into the questions of how Black women define their existence in a society which deva...
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272,30 zł |
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Volume 2- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
ISBN: 9781433131271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The literature reviewed in this volume reflects current issues and discussions taking place in education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies and aesthetics; spirituality; cosmopolitanism; ecology; cultural studies; postcolonialism; poststructuralism; and psychoanalytic theory. 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 that will...
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The literature reviewed in this volume reflects curren...
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352,10 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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298,89 zł |
Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education
ISBN: 9781433132964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education is the result of research seeking to find explanations for bullying between faculty members in faculties of education around the world. The frank and devastating revelations of professors are shocking and painful, screaming for interrogation. Bullying in faculties of education is a strange phenomenon because anti-bullying programs abound while the behavior occurs at a significant number of faculties of education. The research finds that factors in leadership and neoliberal politics cause this odd phenomenon. Other causes...
Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education is the result of research seeking to find explanations for bullying between fa...
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292,11 zł |
The Art of Critical Pedagogy; Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools
ISBN: 9781433100314 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book furthers the discussion concerning critical pedagogy and its practical applications for urban contexts. It addresses two looming, yet under-explored questions that have emerged with the ascendancy of critical pedagogy in the educational discourse: (1) What does critical pedagogy look like in work with urban youth? and (2) How can a systematic investigation of critical work enacted in urban contexts simultaneously draw upon and push the core tenets of critical pedagogy? Addressing the tensions inherent in enacting critical pedagogy between working to disrupt and to successfully...
This book furthers the discussion concerning critical pedagogy and its practical applications for urban contexts. It addresses two looming, yet under-...
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684,87 zł |
Pedagogy for Restoration: Addressing Social and Ecological Degradation Through Education
ISBN: 9781433131554 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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1104,24 zł |
Black Protest Thought and Education: Foreword by James D. Anderson
ISBN: 9780820463124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The modern American corporate-industrial state requires a massive ideological machine to establish social order, create political consensus, train obedient citizen-workers, and dispatch marginalized groups to their place. Mass public education has helped to forge the modern political state that enforces social and racial inequality. Disenchanted African Americans, representing dissenting viewpoints, have vigorously protested this educational system, which is rooted in segregation, differentiated funding, falsehoods, alienation, and exclusion. This important book belongs in classrooms devoted...
The modern American corporate-industrial state requires a massive ideological machine to establish social order, create political consensus, train obe...
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245,70 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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245,70 zł |
People Need to Know: Confronting History in the Heartland
ISBN: 9781433129797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community s history a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create a collection of online resources about the lynching. As they encounter troubling information and consider how best to present it to others, the students come to better understand the complex ethical ramifications of historical work and to more fully appreciate why their learning matters. Through...
People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community s history a 1930 lynching that was captured...
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1104,24 zł |
Doing Critical Educational Research: A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth
ISBN: 9781433123177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John Smyth s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from it. Possibly the single most unique aspect to Smyth s version of critical research is his passion for living and doing what it means to be a critical pedagogue. For him, doing is a verb that gives expression to what he believes it means to be a critical scholar. This necessitates actively listening...
John Smyth s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look i...
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285,60 zł |
War/Play; Video Games and the Militarization of Society
ISBN: 9781433120015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The impact that First Person Shooter video games have had on the evolution of youth culture over a decade or more has been the focus of attention from political leaders; medical and legal specialists; and the mass media. Much of the discussion concerning these games has focused on the issues of the violence that is depicted in the games and on the perceived psychological and social costs for individuals and society. What is not widely canvassed in the public debate generated by violent video games is the role that military-themed games play in the wider process of militarization. The...
The impact that First Person Shooter video games have had on the evolution of youth culture over a decade or more has been the focus of attention from...
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292,11 zł |
A Decolonizing Encounter; Ward Churchill and Antonia Darder in Dialogue
ISBN: 9781433117084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Decolonizing Encounter examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the West and the -third world-. Specifically, it explores crucial issues such as the decolonizing of schools and communities of color; the decentralization of power of the capitalist and colonial state; globalization; democracy; and struggle for political and economic justice for all peoples. This book holds appeal particularly to committed social justice educators, as well as scholars and community activists concerned with the important issues of...
A Decolonizing Encounter examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the ...
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258,99 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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272,30 zł |
Pedagogy of Place: Seeing Space as Cultural Education
ISBN: 9780820469102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Pedagogy of Place focuses on the embodiment of purposefully created space resulting from the creation and enactment of its participants cultural and social conditions. It is also about education, the purposeful creation of spaces that comprise learning environments, and the aesthetic dimensions of the created space called school. The essays present the concept of space the place where learning happens and where the lives of student and teacher can thrive or wither a place rich in human potential. In an attempt to address the diversity of what we define as space, Pedagogy of...
Pedagogy of Place focuses on the embodiment of purposefully created space resulting from the creation and enactment of its participants cultura...
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189,91 zł |
Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics
ISBN: 9780820471204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Because -globalization- is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education shows how this phenomenon is mediated and mitigated by a range of educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. It identifies the forms of educational governance associated with neoliberal globalism and their manifold effects on nation-state education systems, highlighting the colonizing minority-world imperatives and retraditionalizing ramifications. It also shows how the global cultural economy the disjunctive flows of images, people, and ideas...
Because -globalization- is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education sho...
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245,70 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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272,30 zł |
Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice
ISBN: 9781433127328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philosophical hermeneutic perspective. It is an invaluable resource for graduate students about to embark in hermeneutic research and for academics or other researchers who are novice to this research method or who wish to extend their knowledge. In 2009, the lead author of this proposed text was one of three co-founders of the Canadian Hermeneutic Institute. The institute was created as a means of bringing together scholars of hermeneutics and...
Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philo...
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292,11 zł |
Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century; Perspectives and Examples from Practice
ISBN: 9781433118029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what can be its value? How do we come to know what lies beyond our horizons? Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century opens the door for wondering about these and other questions pertaining to the nature and process of educational research. It offers an insightful and detailed account of Western and non-Western philosophical traditions and perspectives on reality, knowledge, and values that have been responsive to past and present developments of educational research in North America. These accounts form a paradigm...
What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what can be its value? How do we come to know what lies beyond our horizons? P...
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285,60 zł |
Capitalism's Educational Catastrophe; And the Advancing Endgame Revolt!
ISBN: 9781433124594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Neoliberal capitalism has paved the way to educational catastrophe. It has also opened paths for politically productive and transformative forms of localized resistance(s). This book examines the perilous catastrophe before us, and the possibility that we can reclaim our rights as citizens and redefine democracy as a process for global good rather than a euphemism for our collective enslavement to global markets, which annihilate our souls. The authors analyze the -crisis- in U.S. urban education through visceral narratives of social control while resisting the tendency to make the United...
Neoliberal capitalism has paved the way to educational catastrophe. It has also opened paths for politically productive and transformative forms of lo...
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1104,24 zł |
International Struggles for Critical Democratic Education: Foreword by Michael W. Apple
ISBN: 9781433115998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
Drawing from rich data, International Struggles for Critical Democratic Education profiles teachers, students, and schools struggling to interrupt the reproduction of social inequalities from one generation to the next. International in its nature, the work collected here illustrates how forces of globalization create greater inequalities, and carefully describes and evaluates efforts to democratize educational opportunities. This text will be useful in undergraduate and... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
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285,60 zł |