wyszukanych pozycji: 105
The World's Highest-Scoring Students: How Their Nations Led Them to Excellence
ISBN: 9781433151422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The World's Highest-Scoring Students focuses on how various countries transformed their school systems into the world's leading systems of education.
The World's Highest-Scoring Students focuses on how various countries transformed their school systems into the world's leading systems of education.
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632,39 zł |
Globalisms and Power: Iberian Education and Curriculum Policies
ISBN: 9781433115530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Globalisms and Power examines the effects neoliberal globalization is having on Spanish and Portuguese educational and curriculum policies and practices. The book dissects the nexus between globalization (or globalisms) and power under a global policy momentum, and analyzes how neoliberal globalization strategies eagerly led by nongovernmental institutions determine the educational agenda in each nation. Both Portugal and Spain were subjugated by military dictatorships for more than four decades: their education systems were laced with an authoritarian, militaristic, racist, and...
Globalisms and Power examines the effects neoliberal globalization is having on Spanish and Portuguese educational and curriculum policies and ...
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217,44 zł |
New Times: Making Sense of Critical/Cultural Theory in a Digital Age
ISBN: 9781433112775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The eighteen original essays in this collection, woven together, make a central claim: as a consequence of the new driving logics of globalization, transnationalism, and the digital age, all late-modern institutions and forms of association and affiliation are coalescing under the banner of new identities. These logics have unsettled the processes of the social integration of modern subjects into late-modern institutions. The modern subject is being remade and reproduced in a context in which the relations between government, society, the individual, and market forces have undergone profound...
The eighteen original essays in this collection, woven together, make a central claim: as a consequence of the new driving logics of globalization, tr...
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224,25 zł |
Neoliberalism and After?: Education, Social Policy, and the Crisis of Western Capitalism
ISBN: 9781433112065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The era that began with the election of the Thatcher and Reagan governments has been dominated by contemporary forms of neoliberalism-based market fundamentalism, globalization as world economic integration and the ideology of -free trade, - and an attack on -big- government and social welfare. This book is a historical and theoretical investigation of contemporary neoliberalism in relation to education policy and its rollback of the Keynesian welfare state. It argues that education is the basis of an open society and is a social welfare right in the merging knowledge economy. Drawing on the...
The era that began with the election of the Thatcher and Reagan governments has been dominated by contemporary forms of neoliberalism-based market fun...
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692,94 zł |
Modernization or Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Taiwan's National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study
ISBN: 9781433120299 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the development of Taiwan s long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. The National Scholarship Program can be seen as Taiwan s governmental pursuit of strategic modernization for national and social development. Strategic modernization does not necessarily imply a linear, progressive, and technological modernity; but should be viewed as an adjustable, flexible, and sustainable effort that transforms and assists a nation, like Taiwan, to adapt itself within its constrained and changing post-colonial condition. This view of...
This book focuses on the development of Taiwan s long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. The National Sch...
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732,54 zł |
Brewing Identities: Globalisation, Guinness and the Production of Irishness
ISBN: 9781433118890 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity Irishness it is simultaneously transnational in scope, as the author maps the trails of products, people and symbolic constructs through a globalised world. In pubs from Dublin to London to New York, the reader is taken on a multi-sited ethnography, where stories unfold through observation, interview, and conversation with...
While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing ...
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886,66 zł |
Occupy Education: Living and Learning Sustainability
ISBN: 9781433119668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Occupy Education is motivated by the sustainability crisis and energized by the drive for social justice that inspired the Occupy movement. Situated within the struggle for sustainability taking place amid looming resource shortages, climate change, economic instability, and ecological breakdown, the book is a timely contribution to community education and action. It opens a whole realm of integrated theory to educators and sustainability activists - and demonstrates how that theory can be moved into practice. Occupy Education is an excellent text for courses in sustainability...
Occupy Education is motivated by the sustainability crisis and energized by the drive for social justice that inspired the Occupy movement. Sit...
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224,25 zł |
Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education
ISBN: 9781433159145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education takes the global problem of 'Indigenous educational disadvantage' that have culminated in the Australian context in the 'Closing the Gap' policy.
Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education takes the global problem of 'Indigenous educational disadvantage' that have culminated in ...
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225,76 zł |
The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433149795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives, Volume 2 is a companion to The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1, which presents readings from the major texts on the idea of the university over the last two hundred years. This volume consists of essays from the leading contemporary scholars of the university across the world. The essays examine ideas of the university that lie tacitly in its national and global framing, and offer creative ideas in taking the university forward, both on a regional and on a world-wide basis. Specific lines of inquiry include those of...
The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives, Volume 2 is a companion to The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1, which presents readi...
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401,33 zł |
Be the Change: Teacher, Activist, Global Citizen
ISBN: 9781433107696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book examines the ways young people engage in action, dialogue, and activism, and how they become global citizens. The essays in the book illustrate how young people with deep convictions on how to change the world make a difference in their communities. The community becomes the classroom, and their activism the true lesson. Possible -utopias- are realized with every effort to engage in activism, to be an advocate for both oneself and others, and with each critical engagement with oppression. These young activists are the unsung heroes and theirs are the victories in current educational...
This book examines the ways young people engage in action, dialogue, and activism, and how they become global citizens. The essays in the book illustr...
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211,13 zł |
The Philosophy of Open Learning: Peer Learning and the Intellectual Commons
ISBN: 9781433128585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In this book, internationally recognized scholars provide in-depth insight into the emerging field of open education. The Philosophy of Open Learning provides an overview of the current debates and introduces the reader to the overall discourse on open education. The broad range of topics, including MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and OERs (Open Educational Resources) is aimed at demonstrating that open education has emerged as a new principle for organizing higher education. Based on this idea, the book covers various issues that are backed up by thorough philosophical reflections...
In this book, internationally recognized scholars provide in-depth insight into the emerging field of open education. The Philosophy of Open Learni...
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514,34 zł |
Plantation Pedagogy; A Postcolonial and Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781433117152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Plantation Pedagogy originates from an Afro-Caribbean primary school teacher s experience. It provides a discourse which extends and illuminates the limitations of current neo-liberal and global rationalizations of the challenges posed to a teacher s practice. Plantation pedagogy is distinguished from critical pedagogy by its historical presence and its double-faced manifestations as simultaneously oppressive and subversive. Plantation pedagogy privileges and relocates educational transformation within the cultural arena, so that culture and history become the vehicles for teaching,...
Plantation Pedagogy originates from an Afro-Caribbean primary school teacher s experience. It provides a discourse which extends and illuminate...
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211,13 zł |
China's New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change
ISBN: 9781433116179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. China s New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change examines the new social justice realities in China. Often when people think of China they think of a very rigid, patriarchal society where oppression is the order of the day. However, this book aims to debunk some of those preconceived notions by addressing issues such as single men living in rural China, professional women in politics, and the baggage that comes with being considered an outsider. The book looks at China through a critical social justice prism that has seldom been used before. Contributors also take...
China s New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change examines the new social justice realities in China. Often when people thi...
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785,52 zł |
Surviving Economic Crises Through Education
ISBN: 9781433114786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book comes at a time of increasing anxiety about the repercussions of financial instability and the probability of widespread market volatility. The educators and researchers whose work is collected here have considered these factors deeply when constructing their responses to prevailing financial conditions. These views guide the reader through economic crises as a mode of survival and as a means to deploying education at its most meaningful and intense. The approach aligns practice with theory and takes the empirical evidence from these studies as a means to determining the economic...
This book comes at a time of increasing anxiety about the repercussions of financial instability and the probability of widespread market volatility. ...
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204,32 zł |
Neoliberalism and After?: Education, Social Policy, and the Crisis of Western Capitalism
ISBN: 9781433112058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The era that began with the election of the Thatcher and Reagan governments has been dominated by contemporary forms of neoliberalism-based market fundamentalism, globalization as world economic integration and the ideology of -free trade, - and an attack on -big- government and social welfare. This book is a historical and theoretical investigation of contemporary neoliberalism in relation to education policy and its rollback of the Keynesian welfare state. It argues that education is the basis of an open society and is a social welfare right in the merging knowledge economy. Drawing on the...
The era that began with the election of the Thatcher and Reagan governments has been dominated by contemporary forms of neoliberalism-based market fun...
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184,40 zł |
International Education in Global Times: Engaging the Pedagogic
ISBN: 9781433114762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book illuminates the changing landscape and expediency of international education in global times. Within this larger picture, the book focuses on the educational effects of international encounters, experiences and lessons - the complex processes of learning and subject formation in play during and after one's international/intercultural experience. These complex processes, hinged on past and present self-other relations, are illustrated by employing the parable of The Elephant and the Blind Men. In contrast to more narrow, developmentalist conceptions of intercultural learning, Paul...
This book illuminates the changing landscape and expediency of international education in global times. Within this larger picture, the book focuses o...
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204,32 zł |
Flesh Mapping: Cartography of Struggle, Renewal and Hope in Education
ISBN: 9781433120084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. What can be learned from a story woven out of fragmented moments of joy, pain, horror, and blissful awareness? Flesh Mapping is an attempt to create a pedagogy of shared narrative, place, and politics; to narratively map the injuries of the material, emotional, and spiritual impact of poverty, displacement, hunger and war on an individual life. The book is an invitation to instructors in education, anthropology, women s studies, and labor studies to re-imagine education as the praxis for liberation, renewal, and hope. It serves as a process of naming the injuries inflicted on real...
What can be learned from a story woven out of fragmented moments of joy, pain, horror, and blissful awareness? Flesh Mapping is an attempt to c...
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204,32 zł |
Reading the World, the Globe, and the Cosmos: Approaches to Teaching Literature for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781433121784 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the classroom. Utilizing a method of pedagogical criticism, it provides an account of core approaches to teaching literature that have emerged across history and the conceptual values informing these approaches. More importantly, Reading the World discusses how these values have been shaped by broader global forces and key...
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. The purpose of this book is restore the centr...
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818,31 zł |
Social Justice in Times of Crisis and Hope: Young People, Well-Being and the Politics of Education
ISBN: 9781433162145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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629,87 zł |
Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism
ISBN: 9781433120572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. We live in the age of global science but not, primarily, in the sense of universal knowledge that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of free science and the free society since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links science to national economic policy, while globalized multinational science dominates an environment where quality assurance replaces truth as the new regulative ideal. This book examines the nature of educational and science-based capitalism in its cybernetic, knowledge, algorithmic and bioinformational forms before turning to the...
We live in the age of global science but not, primarily, in the sense of universal knowledge that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of free ...
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241,66 zł |