wyszukanych pozycji: 43
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Cultural Collision and Collusion: Reflections on Hip-Hop Culture, Values, and Schools- Foreword by Marc Lamont Hill
ISBN: 9781433105944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Cultural Collision and Collusion addresses the complexity of problems that surround youth culture and school culture. By broadening the scholarly dialogue and examining and disseminating relevant research to practitioners, the book seeks to provide insight into youth culture and some manifestations of popular culture (e.g., hip-hop). In addition, the book examines some of the tensions that develop when the values of youth and adults collide in U.S. schools. Finally, the book mines the extant literature for insight and enlightenment in the best interest of academic inquiry and practical...
Cultural Collision and Collusion addresses the complexity of problems that surround youth culture and school culture. By broadening the scholar...
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187,14 |
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Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research: Reflections and Advice from the Field
ISBN: 9781433129889 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Action research can be a transformative learning experience that strengthens educators practice and empowers our voices. For the novice action researcher, however, it can sometimes be frustrating, isolating, and overwhelming. Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research is an outstanding companion for educators embarking on the action research journey. The book shares the collected wisdom of more than thirty experienced teacher researchers. Designed to guide readers through the research process, the book is divided into five sections that reflect critical components of action...
Action research can be a transformative learning experience that strengthens educators practice and empowers our voices. For the novice action researc...
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850,44 |
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Transforming Education: Global Perspectives, Experiences and Implications
ISBN: 9781433120381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This research-based volume presents a substantive, panoramic view of ways in which Australia and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America engage in educational programs and practices to transform the learning processes and outcomes of their students. It reveals and analyzes national and global trajectories in key areas of educational development, and enhances readers understanding of the nature and complexity of educational transformation in a global context. The book s comprehensive analysis of factors associated with transforming education within globally...
This research-based volume presents a substantive, panoramic view of ways in which Australia and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and Sout...
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830,47 |
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An Educational Psychology of Classroom Management: Best Professional Practices in the Multicultural Classroom
ISBN: 9781433115714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book presents comprehensive approaches to teacher preparation and discusses the nature of classroom management in a way that equips prospective educators with a broad array of practical tools to prepare them for unexpected challenges in instruction, management, discipline, assessment, transition, and daily routine and structure. The information will lead prospective educators and new teachers to explore their own philosophies of classroom management, discipline, and teaching in general as they learn to implement best professional practices that will help them develop professionally and...
This book presents comprehensive approaches to teacher preparation and discusses the nature of classroom management in a way that equips prospective e...
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214,27 |
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Transforming America: Cultural Cohesion, Educational Achievement, and Global Competitiveness- Foreword by Jim Cummins
ISBN: 9781433108105 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Creatively and rigorously blending historical research and contemporary data from various disciplines, this book cogently and comprehensively illustrates the problems and opportunities the American nation faces in education, economics, and the global arena. The authors propose a framework of transformation that would render American culture no longer a culture of conflict, but one whose purpose is to achieve metacultural cohesion. The book illustrates how this change is imperative if we are to ensure that our nation and its individual members thrive domestically and if we are to enhance our...
Creatively and rigorously blending historical research and contemporary data from various disciplines, this book cogently and comprehensively illustra...
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810,50 |
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Self-Regulated Learning; An Application of Critical Educational Psychology
ISBN: 9781433115332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is defined as the strategic pursuit of academic goals that involves the control over thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. This notion is taken for granted as a form of empowerment and as a form of engagement that good teachers will foster. This book is about exploring different sides to this story. It first proposes a framework for critically examining dominant and taken-for-granted ideas in educational psychology, then applies that framework to the... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
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207,36 |
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Classroom Discourse and Democracy; Making Meanings Together
ISBN: 9781433112850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book provides practitioners and scholars with a number of practical tools for studying and implementing democratic learning processes within schools, and theorizes these tools in relation to current developmental learning and democratic theory. Three dimensions of knowledge are framed foundational, expert, and personal and the place of each in the construction of democratic classroom understandings is explored. Based on a two-part analysis of the roles students played in a number of pedagogically diverse classroom discussions, three different forms of learning experience are then...
This book provides practitioners and scholars with a number of practical tools for studying and implementing democratic learning processes within scho...
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207,36 |
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Effective Education for All: Implementing Positive Behavior Support in Early Childhood Through High School
ISBN: 9781433121258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Effective Education for All deals with cultural-linguistic diversity and how to work in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. It is essential reading for teachers, administrators, parents of CLD students, and policy makers if we are to continue to see progress and success from our graduates. This book is both practical and helpful for educators and their schools in offering Positive Behavior Support (PBS), illustrating key steps in understanding the problem and research on cultural-linguistic diversity. The authors offer resources to help educators and...
Effective Education for All deals with cultural-linguistic diversity and how to work in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse (...
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850,44 |
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Profiles in Emergent Biliteracy: Children Making Meaning in a Chicano Community
ISBN: 9781433108624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. How do young children learn to read, write, speak, and listen in two languages? How do emergent readers and writers make meaning within multilingual communities? This book examines the emergent biliteracy development of two kindergarteners growing up in a New Mexican neighborhood. Using ethnographic accounts, the book portrays the familial, communal, and academic contexts in which the children appropriated dual proficiencies in English and Spanish, and provides a window into the homes and lives of these working-class boys and the political, philosophical, and pedagogical world of their...
How do young children learn to read, write, speak, and listen in two languages? How do emergent readers and writers make meaning within multilingual c...
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200,45 |
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Beyond Actions: Psychology of Action Research for Mindful Educational Improvement
ISBN: 9781433122552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Beyond Actions is a new breed of book on action research, going beyond procedural descriptions of action research and discusses psychological processes and epistemological challenges involved in planning and conducting action research. The book discusses in depth key concepts of action research and the ways in which these concepts actually contribute to the improvement of educational practice by assuming the viewpoint of educators. Dr. Inoue offers ample opportunities for readers to deeply reflect on personal, social, cultural, and philosophical foundations of practice improvement...
Beyond Actions is a new breed of book on action research, going beyond procedural descriptions of action research and discusses psychological p...
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850,44 |
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Encouraging Metacognition: Supporting Learners Through Metacognitive Teaching Strategies
ISBN: 9781433112744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Drawn from a combination of the current metacognitive research and the authors extensive educational backgrounds, this book is a compilation of essential metacognitive strategies to challenge students to -learn to think- and to -think to learn.- After first reviewing the concept of metacognition its dimensions, distinctiveness, and importance as supported by the literature the book then outlines several metacognitive strategies and how to incorporate and implement them in one s daily classroom practice. These fundamental and transparent methods aim to enable the teacher to act as a role model...
Drawn from a combination of the current metacognitive research and the authors extensive educational backgrounds, this book is a compilation of essent...
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756,74 |
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An Educational Psychology of Science Methods in the K-6 Classroom: Hands-On/Mind-Focused Strategies for All Learners
ISBN: 9781433120237 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book was conceived to better prepare prospective and current teachers to teach inquiry elementary science with enthusiasm, joy, entertainment, intrigue, curiosity, and thought-provoking engagement. The hands-on and minds-on inquiry strategies herein equip teachers with enriched teaching principles, applications, tools, methodologies, and pedagogical skills so they can develop deliberate science lesson plans that engage all learners in the learning process.
The book also gives comprehensive approaches to teacher preparation and discusses the nature of teaching inquiry elementary... This book was conceived to better prepare prospective and current teachers to teach inquiry elementary science with enthusiasm, joy, entertainment, in...
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797,18 |
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Using Concept Mapping to Foster Adaptive Expertise: Enhancing Teacher Metacognitive Learning to Improve Student Academic Performance
ISBN: 9781433122705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Concept mapping is a powerful means to promote metacognitive learning in students and teachers alike. When teachers integrate concept mapping into their instructional planning, they clarify the big ideas, expose new conceptual relationships, and refine learning goals for their students. Salmon and Kelly provide a research-based framework and corresponding strategies to help teachers develop, critique, and revise their concept maps. In using this approach, teachers refine knowledge for teaching in order to expand their adaptive expertise and ultimately improve the academic performances of...
Concept mapping is a powerful means to promote metacognitive learning in students and teachers alike. When teachers integrate concept mapping into the...
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850,44 |
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Alternatives in Education: Critical Pedagogy for Disaffected Youth
ISBN: 9780820444307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Using critical theory as a foundation, Alternatives in Education posits psychology's role in educating at-risk youth as the number one ingredient for student success. To reach and teach disaffected youth, the best psychological practices must be wedded to modern, multicultural perspectives. Alternatives in Education brings free choice and opportunity to a milieu of students and teachers alienated by competitive and hegemonic school models. Blending critical theory into the actual stories of the Wonalancet Alternative School, Alternatives in Education speaks to practicing...
Using critical theory as a foundation, Alternatives in Education posits psychology's role in educating at-risk youth as the number one ingredie...
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160,51 |
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Transforming America: Cultural Cohesion, Educational Achievement, and Global Competitiveness- Foreword by Jim Cummins
ISBN: 9781433108112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Creatively and rigorously blending historical research and contemporary data from various disciplines, this book cogently and comprehensively illustrates the problems and opportunities the American nation faces in education, economics, and the global arena. The authors propose a framework of transformation that would render American culture no longer a culture of conflict, but one whose purpose is to achieve metacultural cohesion. The book illustrates how this change is imperative if we are to ensure that our nation and its individual members thrive domestically and if we are to enhance our...
Creatively and rigorously blending historical research and contemporary data from various disciplines, this book cogently and comprehensively illustra...
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207,36 |
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Teach for America and the Struggle for Urban School Reform: Searching for Agency in an Era of Standardization
ISBN: 9781433123771 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book traces the experiences of one cohort of Teach For America (TFA) corps members as they reconcile their hopes for their students with the reality of teaching in a district that favors compliance over compassion. Drawing on ethnographic and practitioner inquiry methods, Crawford-Garrett highlights the voices of the teachers as they wrestle with urban poverty, question bureaucratic mandates, resist dehumanizing reform initiatives, and experiment with critical pedagogy. The book examines how their socialization into the profession positions them as passive recipients of knowledge and...
This book traces the experiences of one cohort of Teach For America (TFA) corps members as they reconcile their hopes for their students with the real...
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207,36 |
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Constructing a Community of Thought; Letters on the Scholarship, Teaching, and Mentoring of Vera John-Steiner
ISBN: 9781433119163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book validates the prolific contribution of Dr. Vera John-Steiner to the social sciences and extends her scholarship, teaching, and mentoring to a new generation of thinkers. Compiled as a companion volume to her Selected Works, the text highlights this scholar s gifts to psychology, education, linguistics, and the arts through a collection of letters composed by students, colleagues, collaborators, and mentees. In keeping with Dr. John-Steiner s collaborative and innovative approach, the epistolary genre invites readers into a larger thought community through personal connections,...
This book validates the prolific contribution of Dr. Vera John-Steiner to the social sciences and extends her scholarship, teaching, and mentoring to ...
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207,36 |
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Constructing a Community of Thought; Letters on the Scholarship, Teaching, and Mentoring of Vera John-Steiner
ISBN: 9781433119170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book validates the prolific contribution of Dr. Vera John-Steiner to the social sciences and extends her scholarship, teaching, and mentoring to a new generation of thinkers. Compiled as a companion volume to her Selected Works, the text highlights this scholar s gifts to psychology, education, linguistics, and the arts through a collection of letters composed by students, colleagues, collaborators, and mentees. In keeping with Dr. John-Steiner s collaborative and innovative approach, the epistolary genre invites readers into a larger thought community through personal connections,...
This book validates the prolific contribution of Dr. Vera John-Steiner to the social sciences and extends her scholarship, teaching, and mentoring to ...
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743,42 |
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Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn
ISBN: 9781433110726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 725 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn is a collage of educational psychology's specializations and research-based reflections. As a discipline, educational psychology is reinventing itself from its early and almost exclusive identification with psychometrics and taxonomy-styled classifications to a dynamic and multicultural collection of conversations concerning language acquisition, socially mediated learning, diverse learning modalities, motivation, the affective domain, brain-based learning, the role of ecology in increasing achievement, and many...
Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn is a collage of educational psychology's specializations and research-ba...
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1065,21 |
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Teach for America and the Struggle for Urban School Reform: Searching for Agency in an Era of Standardization
ISBN: 9781433123788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book traces the experiences of one cohort of Teach For America (TFA) corps members as they reconcile their hopes for their students with the reality of teaching in a district that favors compliance over compassion. Drawing on ethnographic and practitioner inquiry methods, Crawford-Garrett highlights the voices of the teachers as they wrestle with urban poverty, question bureaucratic mandates, resist dehumanizing reform initiatives, and experiment with critical pedagogy. The book examines how their socialization into the profession positions them as passive recipients of knowledge and...
This book traces the experiences of one cohort of Teach For America (TFA) corps members as they reconcile their hopes for their students with the real...
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743,42 |