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Artful Stories; The Teacher, the Student, and the Muse
ISBN: 9781433114083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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757,83 zł |
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Teach for America Counter-Narratives: Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out
ISBN: 9781433128769 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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220,99 zł |
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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. 10-14 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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798,33 zł |
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School Sucks!; Arguments for Alternative Education
ISBN: 9781433117046 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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1012,65 zł |
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The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative
ISBN: 9781433112423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afro-futurist genres. The anthology extends the discursive boundaries of science fiction by examining iconic writers like Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, and Nalo Hopkinson through the lens of ecofeminist veganism, post-9/11 racial geopolitics, and the effect of the computer database on human voice and agency. Contributors expand what the field characterizes as speculative fiction by examining for the...
This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the ...
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704,25 zł |
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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. 10-14 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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851,66 zł |
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Sweetwater; Black Women and Narratives of Resilience
ISBN: 9781433117763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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690,66 zł |
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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. 10-14 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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757,83 zł |
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Reprocessing Race, Language and Ability: African-Born Educators and Students in Transnational America
ISBN: 9781433117503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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798,33 zł |
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The Rhizome of Blackness: A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming
ISBN: 9781433126031 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. They enter a -social imaginary- where they find themselves already falling under the umbrella of Blackness. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment. No longer is -plain Canadian English- a site of investment, but instead, Black English as a second language (BESL) and -Hip-Hop all da way baby - (as one student put...
The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North A...
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851,66 zł |
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African and African American Children's and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom: A Critical Guide
ISBN: 9781433111969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The essays in this collection discuss multicultural issues in children s and adolescent literature, focusing particularly on African and African American cultures. They challenge our understanding of what, in an age of globalization, multicultural texts really are. Cumulatively, these essays illustrate multicultural literature s power to educate young readers about the numerous and varied perspectives on their own cultures and roles in society, as well as those of other cultures. The scholarship presented here makes it clear that not only should multicultural literature be integrated within...
The essays in this collection discuss multicultural issues in children s and adolescent literature, focusing particularly on African and African Ameri...
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704,25 zł |
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The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses: Counter-Hegemonic Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433113789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are currently working in the Canadian academy address their dual legacy of African and Euro-American knowledge paradigms. Reflecting a range of approaches to hegemonic Euro-American paradigms that can be summarized as -appropriation, ambivalence and alternatives, - the authors bring African indigenous knowledge and praxes into play in addressing issues in various sub-fields of education from philosophy and gnosis to teacher education and classroom practice, memory work and...
The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses addresses how continental Africans who have worked or are currently working in the C...
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207,66 zł |
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The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self - (This Is an Endarkened, Feminist, New Literacies Event)
ISBN: 9781433121999 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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307,36 zł |
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Racialism and the Media: Black Jesus, Black Twitter, and the First Black American President
ISBN: 9781433172892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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578,11 zł |
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Alchemy of the Soul: An African-Centered Education
ISBN: 9781433126994 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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844,22 zł |
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Ordinary Theologies; Religio-spirituality and the Leadership of Black Female Principals
ISBN: 9781433116360 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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851,66 zł |
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The Black Professoriat: Negotiating a Habitable Space in the Academy
ISBN: 9781433110283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Although Black faculty have been present in the academy since the late nineteenth century, it has been during the twentieth century that they have established a presence which has had political, cultural, and epistemological implications. This book focuses on contemporary, successful Black scholars in the academy: they have become tenured and promoted; been recognized as noteworthy scholars, researchers, and as excellent teachers; and have served in leadership capacities. Through autoethnographic narratives that illustrate and interrogate experiences about being in the academy as gendered,...
Although Black faculty have been present in the academy since the late nineteenth century, it has been during the twentieth century that they have est...
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697,58 zł |
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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. 10-14 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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214,58 zł |
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The Black Imagination; Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative
ISBN: 9781433112416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afro-futurist genres. The anthology extends the discursive boundaries of science fiction by examining iconic writers like Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, and Nalo Hopkinson through the lens of ecofeminist veganism, post-9/11 racial geopolitics, and the effect of the computer database on human voice and agency. Contributors expand what the field characterizes as speculative fiction by examining for the...
This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the ...
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187,40 zł |
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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. 10-14 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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844,22 zł |
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