wyszukanych pozycji: 108
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Plantation Pedagogy; A Postcolonial and Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781433117152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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212,78 |
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Occupy Education: Living and Learning Sustainability
ISBN: 9781433119675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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804,85 |
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Unsettling the Gap: Race, Politics and Indigenous Education
ISBN: 9781433159145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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227,52 |
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Globalisms and Power: Iberian Education and Curriculum Policies
ISBN: 9781433115530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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219,14 |
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China's New 21st-Century Realities: Social Equity in a Time of Change
ISBN: 9781433116162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Modernization or Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Taiwan's National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study
ISBN: 9781433120282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Be the Change: Teacher, Activist, Global Citizen
ISBN: 9781433107702 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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791,63 |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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185,83 |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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518,34 |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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698,32 |
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Exploring Globalization Opportunities and Challenges in Social Studies: Effective Instructional Approaches
ISBN: 9781433121296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This book on global issues, trends, and practices is intended to serve primarily as an instructional and learning resource in social studies methods courses for preservice teachers. In addition, it is an effective social studies and global education resource for college faculty, graduate students, inservice educators, and other professionals because it has divergent, practical, and relevant ideas. Teaching global education is challenging. It requires an understanding of globalization and how it affects policies, reforms, and education. Therefore, this book explores real global issues in the...
This book on global issues, trends, and practices is intended to serve primarily as an instructional and learning resource in social studies methods c...
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844,50 |
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Brewing Identities: Globalisation, Guinness and the Production of Irishness
ISBN: 9781433118906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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232,10 |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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824,67 |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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637,32 |
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Shifting Tides in Global Higher Education: Agency, Autonomy, and Governance in the Global Network- With a Foreword by Stanley Ikenberry
ISBN: 9781433114687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The increasing connection among higher education institutions worldwide is well documented. What is less understood is how this connectivity is enacted and manifested on specific levels of the global education network. This book details the planning process of a multi-institutional program in engineering between institutions in the US and Singapore as they develop a new model of collaboration. Contrary to what neoliberal or center-to-periphery narratives of globalization might lead us to expect, strong national and local governments, culture, and social relationships all play determining...
The increasing connection among higher education institutions worldwide is well documented. What is less understood is how this connectivity is enacte...
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644,94 |
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Bakhtinian Pedagogy: Opportunities and Challenges for Research, Policy and Practice in Education Across the Globe
ISBN: 9781433113543 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This collection of essays brings Bakhtinian ideas into dialogue with educational practice across cultural and pedagogical boundaries. These encounters offer fresh perspectives on contemporary issues in education, and consider pedagogical responses that are framed within a dialogic imperative. The book also pioneers an important discussion about the place of the Bakhtin Circle in educational philosophy today. Drawing on the historical and contemporary scholarship that has already taken place in education to date, the book emphasizes the living nature of language as intentional acts that take...
This collection of essays brings Bakhtinian ideas into dialogue with educational practice across cultural and pedagogical boundaries. These encounters...
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804,85 |
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Occupy Education: Living and Learning Sustainability
ISBN: 9781433119668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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225,99 |
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The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433149788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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681,81 |
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Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism
ISBN: 9781433120572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Flesh Mapping: Cartography of Struggle, Renewal and Hope in Education
ISBN: 9781433120091 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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738,23 |