wyszukanych pozycji: 57
Dismantling Educational Inequality: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap
ISBN: 9780820476063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This long-awaited, solution-oriented book helps readers understand how inequality is organized in our public educational system. A four-component developmental model provides a policy-oriented framework that takes into account how children are socialized in and out of schools. Given an educational system that produces unequal opportunities for student learning, closing the gap requires thinking out of a box and the current conglomeration of social and economic policies. A multi-level strategy that aims for all to be educated at grade-level through a coordinated national strategy is presented...
This long-awaited, solution-oriented book helps readers understand how inequality is organized in our public educational system. A four-component deve...
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218,97 zł |
Strong Community Service Learning: Philosophical Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433112430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
Community Service Learning (CSL) is, potentially, the most powerful and far-reaching educational reform movement in recent memory. Yet, that potential has yet to be realized. One major reason for CSL's limited success is found in its runaway conceptual confusion: in becoming everything to everyone, CSL has lost its philosophical bearings and, not surprisingly, its practical value. This study attempts to restore CSL's philosophical bearings, arguing that there are particular... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
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192,55 zł |
A Persistent Reformer: Jonathan Kozol's Work to Promote Equality in America
ISBN: 9781433114953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Jonathan Kozol has been a leading educational critic and social activist since 1967 when Death at an Early Age, his book about racism in Boston s schools, was published and won a National Book Award. Since then, Kozol has written eleven more books which focus on such issues as segregation in schools and society, poverty, inequitable school funding, effective teaching and curriculum choices that help create good citizens and good learners, teacher leadership in matters related to social justice, literacy, and homelessness. This book organizes Kozol s texts by topic, analyzes his...
Jonathan Kozol has been a leading educational critic and social activist since 1967 when Death at an Early Age, his book about racism in Boston...
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205,76 zł |
Pervasive Vulnerabilities; Sexual Harassment in School
ISBN: 9781433112805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Pervasive Vulnerabilities explores the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of adolescent girls and boys and female teachers in order to expose the continuing persistence of sexual harassment in the United States. The book addresses the sexual double standard that continues to hold girls and women accountable for male sexual aggression, and demonstrates that this double standard still dismisses males who harass young women with a cavalier -boys will be boys- attitude, while castigating young women if they express an interest in sexual expression. It discusses issues of sexual harassment...
Pervasive Vulnerabilities explores the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of adolescent girls and boys and female teachers in order to expose th...
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750,88 zł |
Not a Stage!: A Critical Re-Conception of Young Adolescent Education
ISBN: 9781433116339 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Not a Stage is written for teachers, students, and scholars interested in the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents. It is unique because it actively resists basing the practice, research, and theory of young adolescent education on developmentalism and the developmental stage of young adolescence. The purpose of this book is to begin to reorient the discourse on young adolescent growth and change and in turn reconceptualize the education of young adolescents. The book infuses a contingent, recursive conception of adolescent growth and change into the discourse...
Not a Stage is written for teachers, students, and scholars interested in the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents. It i...
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804,22 zł |
Success Academy: How Native American Students Prepare for College (and How Colleges Can Prepare for Them)
ISBN: 9781433119460 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Picture two very different schools: one, a federal Indian boarding school emphasizing vocational training, where few graduates attend college. The other its neighbor an overwhelmingly white, land-grant university.
These two schools had little to no contact, until an innovative initiative turned things around. In the fall of 2000, the Flandreau Indian School began a reform effort, Success Academy, aimed at preparing all of its students for postsecondary education. Over the next decade South Dakota State University responded by committing 300 of its faculty and staff and $85,000 of its... Picture two very different schools: one, a federal Indian boarding school emphasizing vocational training, where few graduates attend college. The oth...
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791,01 zł |
Not a Stage!; A Critical Re-Conception of Young Adolescent Education
ISBN: 9781433116346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Not a Stage is written for teachers, students, and scholars interested in the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents. It is unique because it actively resists basing the practice, research, and theory of young adolescent education on developmentalism and the developmental stage of young adolescence. The purpose of this book is to begin to reorient the discourse on young adolescent growth and change and in turn reconceptualize the education of young adolescents. The book infuses a contingent, recursive conception of adolescent growth and change into the discourse...
Not a Stage is written for teachers, students, and scholars interested in the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents. It i...
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218,97 zł |
The Corporate Assault on Youth; Commercialism, Exploitation, and the End of Innocence
ISBN: 9781433100840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Corporate Assault on Youth examines childhood as a social construction increasingly influenced by corporations and commercialism. Through case studies, critical analysis, and historical/philosophical research, the essays collected here expose the degree to which children are unwitting targets of marketing. With topics ranging from the presence of media branding in schools and school supplies to the subtler ways in which the public education system is influenced by corporate ideologies and purposes, this book draws much-needed attention to how educators, administrators,...
The Corporate Assault on Youth examines childhood as a social construction increasingly influenced by corporations and commercialism. Through c...
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205,76 zł |
'Dropping Out', Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School
ISBN: 9780820455075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book deals with one of the most urgent, damaging, and complex issues affecting young lives and contemporary society in general the escalating high school dropout rate. Though against the wishes of teachers and school administrators, young people s decision to leave school is usually made under circumstances that provide little time or space for discussion. This book provides a disturbing account of how students voices are over-ridden lost in the imposition of curriculum and the rush to impose testing, accountability, and management regimes on schools. Dropping Out, Drifting Off,...
This book deals with one of the most urgent, damaging, and complex issues affecting young lives and contemporary society in general the escalating hig...
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185,68 zł |
From Silent Witnesses to Active Agents; Student Voice in Re-engaging with Learning
ISBN: 9781433113734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Although they are typically viewed as silent witnesses in schools during the worldwide infatuation with school reform, this book, in fact, reveals young people to be active agents with something worthwhile to say about their schooling and what might be done to make learning more exciting and relevant to their lives and aspirations. The authors foreground the stories of some 100 young informants from low socioeconomic backgrounds who had been repelled by school, but found their way back in to learning through alternative education programs that offered them a sense of direction, hope, and...
Although they are typically viewed as silent witnesses in schools during the worldwide infatuation with school reform, this book, in fact, reveals you...
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198,89 zł |
Teaching History to Adolescents: A Quest for Relevance
ISBN: 9781433110955 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
Teaching History to Adolescents: A Quest for Relevance is an exploration of research, ideas, trends, and practices for educators who teach American history to adolescents from the middle grades through high school. Higher education faculty in history and professional education will also find the book germane to their work. Topics within the field of teaching history to adolescents include the use and misuse of history textbooks, implementing primary sources into lessons,... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
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198,89 zł |
Hip-Hop(e); The Cultural Practice and Critical Pedagogy of International Hip-Hop
ISBN: 9781433114328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop. Contributors describe the social realities - globalization, migration, poverty, criminalization, and racism - youth are resisting through what we recognize as a decolonial cultural politic. The book contributes to current scholarship in multicultural education, seeking...
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural...
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212,61 zł |
Popular Educational Classics: A Reader
ISBN: 9781433128332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The last half century has created deep tensions in how we analyze educational and social change. Educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens have had to cope with competing belief systems in evaluating and acting upon school policies and practices. This illuminating book untangles many of the roots of those persistent debates that have divided the nation for so long. It offers readers a critical opportunity to reflect on our continuing ideological struggles by examining popular books that have made a difference in educational discourse.
The editor has specifically selected key books... The last half century has created deep tensions in how we analyze educational and social change. Educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens have ...
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418,97 zł |
Adolescent Education: A Reader
ISBN: 9781433105050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education. For too long, harmful public myths and lies have portrayed teenagers as a principal cause of our nation s social ills. Similar unfair charges have been lodged against America s teachers and schools throughout our history. This book offers public counterpoints to those simplistic blaming-the-victim arguments. Instead, it traverses a more nuanced and realistic path toward uncovering the developmental,...
Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescen...
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897,18 zł |
School Reform Critics: The Struggle for Democratic Schooling
ISBN: 9781433120404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Much of school reform during the past decade has been influenced by neoliberal and neoconservative economic and social policies and Rightist politics. Although the authors of School Reform Critics do not abandon their own ideas about the need for progressive changes in K 12 schooling, they critique in specific ways the current so-called school reform movement, focusing on education in a democracy, context and policy implications, teachers and teacher education, and diversity and social justice. Their insightful chapters make a major contribution to our thoughtful consideration of where...
Much of school reform during the past decade has been influenced by neoliberal and neoconservative economic and social policies and Rightist politics....
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843,84 zł |
Teachers in the Middle; Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling
ISBN: 9780820474595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. There is a profound and deepening crisis afflicting secondary schools in most parts of the world - but at its essence it is a crisis of a very different kind from the one portrayed by the media, the business community, politicians, and policy makers. Just what constitutes the crisis is highly problematic. What is being constructed for us through a concerted conservative assault and a new authoritarianism is one of failure by young people, their schools, and their teachers. But as with any moral panic, there are undisclosed interests and agenda operating, and they are not those of the people...
There is a profound and deepening crisis afflicting secondary schools in most parts of the world - but at its essence it is a crisis of a very differe...
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205,76 zł |
Invisible Girls; At Risk Adolescent Girls' Writing Within and Beyond School
ISBN: 9781433114946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Invisible Girls is an examination of twenty-four at-risk adolescent girls writing practices in a Third Space setting located within a school but outside of the confines of a regular classroom. Through a description of the girls writing over a three-and-a-half-year period in this setting, Mellinee Lesley details phenomena that both support and suppress at-risk adolescent girls in their quest to achieve academic success through their writing practices. This book offers educators insights into teaching writing to adolescent girls who are falling through the cracks of the public education...
Invisible Girls is an examination of twenty-four at-risk adolescent girls writing practices in a Third Space setting located within a school bu...
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697,78 zł |
'Hanging in with Kids' in Tough Times: Engagement in Contexts of Educational Disadvantage in the Relational School
ISBN: 9781433106736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book brings a unique, innovative and refreshing perspective to one of the most protracted issues affecting young lives disengagement from schooling. Rather than continuing to blame young people, as most educational policies do, this book examines disengagement from the vantage point of the lives, experiences, interests and aspirations of the communities from which young people come, and within which they are embedded. It uses a narrative and representational approach that gives detailed insights into the wider context of poverty, class, power, relationships and identity. A major and...
This book brings a unique, innovative and refreshing perspective to one of the most protracted issues affecting young lives disengagement from schooli...
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205,76 zł |
Making Space for Diverse Masculinities: Difference, Intersectionality, and Engagement in an Urban High School
ISBN: 9781433106750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. What s it like for Black male students who are openly gay or -gender non-conforming- to navigate the social geography of urban schools? In the tradition of critical ethnographies of schooling, Lance T. McCready mobilizes feminist theories of intersectionality to explore the voices of Black gay male students and their teachers in a Northern California comprehensive high school. He analyzes the brave and often hilarious ways students -make space- by challenging conventional notions of Black masculinity and gay identity in educational spaces, such as an African dance program and the Gay-Straight...
What s it like for Black male students who are openly gay or -gender non-conforming- to navigate the social geography of urban schools? In the traditi...
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205,76 zł |
Critical Civic Literacy: A Reader
ISBN: 9781433111716 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 505 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
Do we live in a democracy? Have we ever practiced democratic education? Will our children and grandchildren inherit a sane or sick society and political order? Those are some of the profound questions that this book tackles, within a broad and evocative conversation on civic literacy in America. Amid calls for academic standardization and high-stakes testing, civic education, once a cornerstone of public schools, has been relegated to a tertiary space. The eloquent voices in this... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
Do we live in a democracy? Have we ev... |
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305,58 zł |