wyszukanych pozycji: 53
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education; Critical Questions, New Imaginaries and Social Activism: A Reader
ISBN: 9781433123665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education is a foundational text, which presents contemporary theories and debates about early education and child care in many nations. The authors selected are leading contributors in discussions about critical early childhood studies over the past twenty years; the editors are long-time scholars in the reconceptualizing early childhood movement. Audiences include students in graduate courses focused on early childhood and primary education, critical cultural studies of childhood, critical curriculum studies and critical theories that have...
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education is a foundational text, which presents contemporary theories and debates about early educa...
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1066,75 zł |
Making Room for One Another; Dynamic and Designed Dialogicality in a Kindergarten Classroom
ISBN: 9781433122958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Quoting an abolitionist preacher, Martin Luther King Jr. once said, -The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice-. This is true, but the moral arc doesn t bend on its own. We must lean into the task. Making Room for One Another is the story of how one kindergarten teacher did just that. This critical ethnography lies at the intersection of democratic, transformative pedagogy and differences that impact an urban kindergarten. Drawing largely on discourse analysis, the book explores the interplay between Zeke, the classroom teacher, and his students. The...
Quoting an abolitionist preacher, Martin Luther King Jr. once said, -The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice-. This is true...
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207,66 zł |
Making Room for One Another; Dynamic and Designed Dialogicality in a Kindergarten Classroom
ISBN: 9781433122965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Quoting an abolitionist preacher, Martin Luther King Jr. once said, -The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice-. This is true, but the moral arc doesn t bend on its own. We must lean into the task. Making Room for One Another is the story of how one kindergarten teacher did just that. This critical ethnography lies at the intersection of democratic, transformative pedagogy and differences that impact an urban kindergarten. Drawing largely on discourse analysis, the book explores the interplay between Zeke, the classroom teacher, and his students. The...
Quoting an abolitionist preacher, Martin Luther King Jr. once said, -The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice-. This is true...
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798,33 zł |
Critical Consciousness in Curricular Research: Evidence from the Field
ISBN: 9781433120145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The educational climate in the United States is ripe for dialogue and interrogation of notions of what should be taught in schools. The editors and contributors to this volume present descriptive, interpretive, ethnographic, autoethnographic, case study, essay, visual, and poetic work that focuses on the challenges to curriculum transformation, including the multifaceted ways that educators fight for a more socially, culturally, linguistically, and politically responsive curriculum. The contributors provide snapshots from homes, classrooms, and community spaces in an effort to illustrate how...
The educational climate in the United States is ripe for dialogue and interrogation of notions of what should be taught in schools. The editors and co...
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214,58 zł |
Power Play: Explorando Y Empujando Fronteras En Una Escuela En Tejas Through a Multilingual Play-Based Early Learning Curriculum
ISBN: 9781433134142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of activist teachers and the very young together in a play-based curriculum in a public school in Texas.
This book tells the story of activist teachers and the very young together in a play-based curriculum in a public school in Texas.
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207,66 zł |
Critical Literacy in Early Childhood Education: Artful Story and the Integrated Curriculum
ISBN: 9781433106125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book documents a qualitative study involving various groups of teacher education students and practicing teachers. The study encompassed learners multiple languages and recognized ways that multiple knowledge sources, identities, and language forms can contribute to the formation of new relationships, new knowledge, and new meanings. Integrating all the traditional content areas of study, the arts, and new forms of cross-disciplinary ways of knowing, a curriculum is framed around critical literacy, with its underlying elements of participation by all, respect for multiple sources of...
This book documents a qualitative study involving various groups of teacher education students and practicing teachers. The study encompassed learners...
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207,66 zł |
Storying Learning in Early Childhood: When Children Lead Participatory Curriculum Design, Implementation, and Assessment
ISBN: 9781433127489 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Storying Learning in Early Childhood documents philosophical, research, and critical questions about notions of childrens experiences and learning potential that heavily influence the profession. Critically created, child-centered curriculum and assessment collaborations focus on contexts of homes, schools, and communities. This book brings into focus policy issues, economic issues, and political realities that affect us all as we engage in curriculum and assessment. Patterns of findings under the foci of critical, responsive curriculum and authentic assessment for all children have...
Storying Learning in Early Childhood documents philosophical, research, and critical questions about notions of childrens experiences and learn...
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798,33 zł |
Media Literacy Is Elementary: Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media- Second Edition
ISBN: 9781433124877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book provides a practical and theoretical look at how media education can make learning and teaching more meaningful and transformative. This second edition includes more resources, photographs, and updated information as well as two new chapters: one exploring the pedagogical potential for using photography in the classroom and the other documenting a successful university course on critical media literacy for new teachers. The book explores the theoretical underpinnings of critical media literacy and analyzes a case study involving an elementary school that received a federal grant to...
This book provides a practical and theoretical look at how media education can make learning and teaching more meaningful and transformative. This sec...
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207,66 zł |
(Un)Knowing Diversity: Researching Narratives of Neocolonial Classrooms Through Youth's Testimonios
ISBN: 9781433110061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. (Un)knowing Diversity tells the powerful stories of five minoritized American youths school experiences. In their own words, we learn what it is like to go to school, what helps, what does not, and who these students are becoming. The author outlines the practice of testimonio work, then interprets each narrative, identifying the fixed, fluid, concurrent, and dynamic processes that serve to both map and unmap youth in schools offering the possibility of decolonization. She identifies postcolonial and neocolonial concepts such as hybridity, nationalism, authenticity, ambivalence,...
(Un)knowing Diversity tells the powerful stories of five minoritized American youths school experiences. In their own words, we learn what it i...
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207,66 zł |
Early Childhood Identity: Construction, Culture, and the Self
ISBN: 9781433101618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Using information gathered from a combined first and second grade classroom over two years, this book explores the students routine actions in school, including their views about different literacy activities, their favorite part of school life, peer culture in both the boys and the girls worlds, issues of gender power, the integration of the teacher s official discourses and the children s unofficial culture, and the kind of school life children wish to have. Focusing on children s voices and perceptions, this book provides insight that will help educators preserve an accurate view of school...
Using information gathered from a combined first and second grade classroom over two years, this book explores the students routine actions in school,...
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207,66 zł |
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry: Possibilities and Tensions in Educational Research
ISBN: 9781433123115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry is an edited volume that examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt disruptive qualitative approaches to the study of educational contexts, issues, and phenomena. It presents a collection of innovative and intellectually stimulating chapters which illustrate the potential for disruptive qualitative research perspectives to advance social justice aims omnipresent in educational policy and practice dialogues. The book defines disruptive qualitative methodologies and methods in educational research as processes of inquiry which...
Disrupting Qualitative Inquiry is an edited volume that examines the possibilities and tensions encountered by scholars who adopt disruptive qu...
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227,91 zł |
How Stories Heal: Writing Our Way to Meaning and Wholeness in the Academy
ISBN: 9781433124822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. It is time for academics to embrace the fact that nothing is more appealing to readers especially to our students than personal stories with meaning-making implications that can touch all lives. No matter the age or stage in life, the personal or collective identity, everyone deals with meaning-making issues that challenge them and others throughout their lifetimes. And everyone we know finds that when encouraged to write their stories in the academy, they find meaning, wholeness, and healing.
How Stories Heal illustrates the value of personal narrative writing. Referring to this... It is time for academics to embrace the fact that nothing is more appealing to readers especially to our students than personal stories with meaning-m...
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234,07 zł |
Staging Harriet's House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre
ISBN: 9781433114045 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Presenting an exciting alternative way to share research, this book describes the production of Harriet s House, a play about transnational adoption in a same-sex family, for the 2010 Toronto Pride Festival. In addition to practical advice for anyone interested in producing their own work, Staging Harriet s House engages with such topics as the purpose of producing research-informed theatre, writing and workshopping such plays, and the myriad of details involved in bringing a play to the stage. Readers will find references to work by American, Australian, British, and other...
Presenting an exciting alternative way to share research, this book describes the production of Harriet s House, a play about transnational ado...
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680,91 zł |
Research as Praxis: Democratizing Education Epistemologies
ISBN: 9781433111303 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Research as Praxis is an expose of the philosophical, theoretical, and methodological principles and assumptions of Research as Praxis (RAP) as an alternative paradigm of education/social research to the resurgent exclusionary hegemony of the positivist epistemology. The ultimate purpose of RAP projects is to serve the public interest, especially the well-being of students and educators. This is in contrast to projects that serve merely instrumental purposes, like trying to raise achievement test scores. Improvement of well-being can be achieved if research participants are able to...
Research as Praxis is an expose of the philosophical, theoretical, and methodological principles and assumptions of Research as Praxis (RAP) as...
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704,25 zł |
Place, Being, Resonance: A Critical Ecohermeneutic Approach to Education
ISBN: 9781433127304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. How do we begin to move beyond a use-relation with -natural resources- towards resonance with a deeply interrelated ecology? Place, Being, Resonance brings insights from the hermeneutic tradition, ecopoetics and indigenous epistemologies of place to bear on education in a world of ecological emergency. An ecohermeneutic pedagogy draws on both critical and lyrical ways of thinking to make a free space for encountering the more-than-human other. The conventional school system has long sat at the vanguard of an ecologically exploitative worldview and something more is called for than...
How do we begin to move beyond a use-relation with -natural resources- towards resonance with a deeply interrelated ecology? Place, Being, Resonanc...
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220,99 zł |
Writing for Change: Research as Public Pedagogy and Arts-Based Activism
ISBN: 9781433119156 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In its analysis of the potential and realities of narrative inquiry, Writing for Change is both theoretical and highly practical, offering a way to conceptualize this kind of research and providing concrete suggestions as to how it might be conducted. With its emphasis on arts-based activist education, the book also contributes to current conversations about public pedagogy. Though many educators and researchers are moving into this burgeoning field, there is a pressing need for practical examination of methodologies. Practitioners and researchers working in psychoanalytic theory will...
In its analysis of the potential and realities of narrative inquiry, Writing for Change is both theoretical and highly practical, offering a wa...
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757,83 zł |
Interrogating (Hi)stories: Establishing the Educational Relevance of Spiritual Development Through Critical Historiography
ISBN: 9781433125225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In Interrogating (Hi)stories, Audrey Lingley uses a critical constructivist perspective to problematize the absence of the spiritual dimension of human growth from pedagogical models that emphasize responsiveness to developmental psychology. The book investigates this conspicuous absence through critical historiographical research; it is a critical interrogation of the tacit understandings that guide education in general and middle grades reform in particular. The author offers practical, classroom-based implications and culturally respectful language for educators who believe...
In Interrogating (Hi)stories, Audrey Lingley uses a critical constructivist perspective to problematize the absence of the spiritual dimension ...
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234,07 zł |
Childrenʼs Rights and Education: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433121227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book compares ways in which children's rights in, to, and through education, formal and informal, are viewed and implemented in a variety of social and political contexts, aiming to shed light on how policies and practices can improve equal access to high quality education in an environment which is respectful of children's rights. Chapters focus on understanding the opportunities for and challenges of addressing children's rights to participation and to inclusion. Authors draw from a variety of disciplines, including critical and cultural studies of childhood, and bring internationally...
This book compares ways in which children's rights in, to, and through education, formal and informal, are viewed and implemented in a variety of soci...
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214,58 zł |
Imagining Children Otherwise: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Childhood Subjectivity
ISBN: 9781433110177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to imagine things otherwise in theorizing childhood subjectivity. The work brings together influential thinkers who are forthright in their refusal to be seduced by simplistic binaries, who are willing to address the notion of childhood subjectivity in ways that are complex and critical, and whose arguments lead to practical advances in our thinking about child policy, child-rearing, pedagogy, and curriculum. The contributors, distinguished authors from across the English-speaking world, are concerned about the ways in which teachers practices are increasingly...
The purpose of this book is to imagine things otherwise in theorizing childhood subjectivity. The work brings together influential thinkers who are fo...
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207,66 zł |
Critical Examinations of Quality in Early Education and Care: Regulation, Disqualification, and Erasure
ISBN: 9781433128806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Quality rating systems discourses and practices are increasingly dominating early childhood care and education around the globe. These rating systems are constructed with the assumption that universally appropriate environments can be constructed for all those who are younger. This deterministic, ratings, and measurement oriented perspective is consistent with neoliberal discourses that privilege competition, accountability, consumer materialism, and notions such as human capital; this contemporary neoliberal condition does not support concern for the common good, democracy, equity, justice,...
Quality rating systems discourses and practices are increasingly dominating early childhood care and education around the globe. These rating systems ...
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798,33 zł |