wyszukanych pozycji: 94
Shifting Polarized Positions: A Narrative Approach in Teacher Education
ISBN: 9781433100055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The authors of this book teachers of foundation courses to pre-service and in-service teachers in Canada, Israel, and the United States use culturally heterogeneous settings as points of departure for inquiry and cross-cultural encounters of difference, and illuminate how, among people of differing ethnic, religious, socio-economic, political, ideological, and gendered backgrounds, the telling of experiential stories can shift personally and culturally polarized positions. Key in the work documented here is the encouragement of narrative rather than argumentative modes of expression: the...
The authors of this book teachers of foundation courses to pre-service and in-service teachers in Canada, Israel, and the United States use culturally...
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427,92 zł |
Curriculum Studies in the United States: Present Circumstances, Intellectual Histories
ISBN: 9781137303417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 113 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Pinar documents that the field of curriculum studies in the United States is in the early stages of a second paradigm shift, this time stimulated by present political circumstances. He explains why their acceptance in contemporary scholarship signals their conceptual exhaustion and how recent work in the field begins to surpass them.
Pinar documents that the field of curriculum studies in the United States is in the early stages of a second paradigm shift, this time stimulated by p...
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194,08 zł |
Talmud, Curriculum, and the Practical: Joseph Schwab and the Rabbis
ISBN: 9780820461816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book explores the seminal curriculum work of Joseph Schwab in the light of a Rabbinic Judaism to which Schwab did not - even, perhaps, could not - refer, but which Alan Block asserts might be central to a fuller understanding of Schwab's prescriptions for 'The Practical'. Using the language and methods of Rabbinic Judaism and Schwab's eclectic arts, Talmud, Curriculum, and The Practical opens a new, practical perspective onto American education, studying and redefining issues confronting education at the beginning of a new century and a new millennium.
This book explores the seminal curriculum work of Joseph Schwab in the light of a Rabbinic Judaism to which Schwab did not - even, perhaps, could not ...
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186,97 zł |
The Authority to Imagine: The Struggle Toward Representation in Dissertation Writing
ISBN: 9780820474540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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186,97 zł |
Curriculum and the Aesthetic Life: Hermeneutics, Body, Democracy, and Ethics in Curriculum Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781433117664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Curriculum and the Aesthetic Life brings together over 20 years of scholarly work by dancer, educator, and scholar Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones on the intersection of curriculum theory and practice with aesthetics, ethics, and hermeneutic inquiry, focusing on the body and emotions and the theory and practice of Arts-Based Education Research, including his noted -Hogan Dreams.- He brings to his work an aesthetic sensibility developed over 40 years of active involvement in the arts as well as a Frankfurt School critical theory orientation and a constant concern for building an ethical...
Curriculum and the Aesthetic Life brings together over 20 years of scholarly work by dancer, educator, and scholar Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones o...
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809,80 zł |
Teachers in Nomadic Spaces: Deleuze and Curriculum
ISBN: 9780820467375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Teachers in Nomadic Spaces is fieldwork in curriculum theory, weaving vital strands of Gilles Deleuze s constructivist philosophy into a case study of teacher induction and becoming in an urban innovative school. Releasing the productive power of difference, it allows us to see the pedagogical potential of irregular (nomadic) spaces and thereby to obtain release from the Platonic pincer-hold of curriculum as recovery and representation. This book offers a conceptual mode for recomposing ourselves into new expressions in education by means of semiotic and affective experimentation, and...
Teachers in Nomadic Spaces is fieldwork in curriculum theory, weaving vital strands of Gilles Deleuze s constructivist philosophy into a case s...
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186,97 zł |
Bodies Out of Control: Rethinking Science Texts
ISBN: 9781433105159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. What is the cultural politics of science, health, and disease in the U.S.? Bodies Out of Control explores this question through a series of case studies. From its in-depth examination of the discussions of sickle-cell anemia, schistosomiasis, and cancer in middle school and high school textbooks to its analysis of the news coverage of the anthrax attacks of 2001, the book reveals the entanglements of science, colonialism, nationalism, and identity. The book also explores how the meaning of science itself is worked through in public discourses, offering alternatively medical salvation,...
What is the cultural politics of science, health, and disease in the U.S.? Bodies Out of Control explores this question through a series of cas...
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207,19 zł |
A Curriculum of Wellness: Reconceptualizing Physical Education
ISBN: 9781433129971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A Curriculum of Wellness seeks to encourage a deeper discussion about teaching our children how to be healthy and live well. It makes a significant contribution to the field of education as it features influential curriculum concepts nuanced with action research principles in a unified, intimate, and deeply relational inquiry into physical education teacher practice. This work presents a very practical yet complex and wisdom-guided way to transform teaching practices that follow more holistic understandings of wellness. A new mode of curriculum inquiry, wisdom-guided inquiry, ...
A Curriculum of Wellness seeks to encourage a deeper discussion about teaching our children how to be healthy and live well. It makes a signifi...
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220,48 zł |
Shifting the Kaleidoscope: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Educators' Insights on Culture Shock, Identity and Pedagogy
ISBN: 9781433126840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book examines culture shock and reverse culture shock as valuable learning experiences for educators working in increasingly culturally diverse environments. Although these phenomena are often cast as illnesses to be avoided, this study suggests that both types of shock can help educators develop greater self-understanding and intercultural awareness and will benefit their pedagogical practices as well. For this study, four returned Peace Corps volunteer educators who have taught at various grade levels, both abroad and in the United States, share thought-provoking stories of how their...
This book examines culture shock and reverse culture shock as valuable learning experiences for educators working in increasingly culturally diverse e...
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849,70 zł |
A Heart of Wisdom: Life Writing as Empathetic Inquiry
ISBN: 9781433115301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This anthology explores life writing as a mode of educational inquiry, one where students and teachers may get a -heart of wisdom- as they struggle with the tensions and complexities of learning and teaching in challenging contemporary circumstances. Contributors write first-person creative non-fiction in a variety of life-writing genres, such as memoir, poetry, personal essay, and various blended genres. Four sections entitled Memory Work, Place Work, Curriculum Work, and Social Work explore the struggles and joys of pedagogy where relationships are at the heart of teaching and learning. The...
This anthology explores life writing as a mode of educational inquiry, one where students and teachers may get a -heart of wisdom- as they struggle wi...
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916,98 zł |
Auto/Biography & Pedagogy: Memory & Presence in Teaching
ISBN: 9781433116421 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research. The book moves from first to third person accounts and from personal and family stories to narratives of teachers and teacher educators in the contested, multicultural environment of Israel. It highlights the multi-voiced, embodied lives of Israeli teachers from many cultures and identities and engages with literature...
In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience...
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915,18 zł |
Bringing Memory Forward: Storied Remembrance in Social Justice Education with Teachers
ISBN: 9780820488745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Bringing Memory Forward looks at the application of the method of currere to storied formation. Research tells us that white teachers are among the most recalcitrant of learners when it comes to challenging their own memories and experiences of privilege and race. This book examines how white teachers can recognize and critique their constructions of -difference-, and asks what it is that white teachers are so attached to that makes such critique difficult. The book goes on to discuss the processes that might be set in motion to bring these attachments into question in such a way that...
Bringing Memory Forward looks at the application of the method of currere to storied formation. Research tells us that white teachers are among...
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186,97 zł |
Provocations: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education
ISBN: 9780820478777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. No twentieth-century woman/teacher has provoked as much interest and perplexity as Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984). Her life reveals the fascinating dilemmas of classroom erotics, the dangers of intimacy in teaching and learning, the difficult and ambiguous nature of post-heterosexual attachments in women s biographies, and the powerful fantasy that the objects of teaching lives are other than our own teaching selves. Provocations: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education provides a groundbreaking and timely feminist re-visioning of Ashton-Warner. This book speaks not only...
No twentieth-century woman/teacher has provoked as much interest and perplexity as Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984). Her life reveals the fascinating ...
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207,19 zł |
Curriculum: Toward New Identities
ISBN: 9780815325222 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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599,95 zł |
«Currere» and the Environmental Autobiography: A Phenomenological Approach to the Teaching of Ecology
ISBN: 9780820463698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book documents a high school ecology class that employs currere, William Pinar s idea for curriculum as autobiographical text, and analyzes the course s success from the author s point of view as both the practitioner and the curriculum developer. Discussing individual students responses to currere in a project termed the Environmental Autobiography (EA) a twist on currere that emphasizes environmental experience this book examines how ecology is taught in high schools; how ecologists are produced, along with the importance of ecology in school curriculum today; the...
This book documents a high school ecology class that employs currere, William Pinar s idea for curriculum as autobiographical text, and analyze...
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186,97 zł |
The Autobiographical Demand of Place: Curriculum Inquiry in the American South
ISBN: 9780820488059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Place is central to the study of the American South. The question of the meaning and power of place underpinned the earliest efforts to define and understand the region, and place remains a crucial concept in an ongoing process of regional identification and inquiry. This book examines Southern place autobiographically, historically, and theoretically in order to illuminate the subjective and social dimensions of place and to promote progressive conversation in the region. Using the interpretive tools of psychoanalysis to take account of the autobiographical roots of knowledge and society,...
Place is central to the study of the American South. The question of the meaning and power of place underpinned the earliest efforts to define and und...
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167,02 zł |
Sounds of Silence Breaking: Women, Autobiography, Curriculum
ISBN: 9780820461571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Janet L. Miller is one of the most important and influential curriculum theorists of our time. Sounds of Silence Breaking presents a broad range of her writing from the last two decades. This book contains portraits of self-complicating work that disrupt unitary and normative conceptions of women, autobiography, and curriculum. Miller reconceptualizes curriculum theory through the application of her own theories, as well as those of other important figures in the movement. She also utilizes her extensive collaborative research with K-12 teachers and juxtaposes her essays in ways that...
Janet L. Miller is one of the most important and influential curriculum theorists of our time. Sounds of Silence Breaking presents a broad rang...
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207,19 zł |
Happiness, Hope, and Despair: Rethinking the Role of Education
ISBN: 9781433120985 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. Happiness, Hope, and Despair argues, however, that education has an important role to play in deepening our understanding of suffering and despair as well as happiness and joy. Education can be uncomfortable, unpredictable, and unsettling; it can lead to greater uncertainty and unhappiness. Drawing on the work of Soren Kierkegaard, Miguel de Unamuno, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Simone Weil, Paulo Freire, and others, Peter Roberts shows why these features of...
In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. Happiness,...
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796,50 zł |
Global Citizenship Education in Post-Secondary Institutions: Theories, Practices, Policies- Foreword by Indira V. Samarasekera
ISBN: 9781433111143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Drawing on critical pedagogy, post-colonial analysis, hermeneutic interpretation, and reconceptualist curriculum frameworks, the twenty chapters in this edited collection address, from interrelated perspectives, a gap in the scholarly literature on the theory, practice, and policy of global citizenship and global citizenship education. The book provides readers with analyses and interpretations of the existing state of global citizenship education in post-secondary institutions, and stimulates discussion about the field at a time when there is an intense debate about the current drive to...
Drawing on critical pedagogy, post-colonial analysis, hermeneutic interpretation, and reconceptualist curriculum frameworks, the twenty chapters in th...
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702,63 zł |
Curriculum Studies Gone Wild: Bioregional Education and the Scholarship of Sustainability
ISBN: 9781433112959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book explores the intersections between curriculum studies and sustainability. Recognizing that a bioregion is our -life place- and that curriculum studies is the interdisciplinary study of lived experience, this book engages in scholarship grounded in advancing ecological stewardship. By emphasizing an eco-curriculum, education can respond to the need to understand and preserve the ecological complexities that help maintain and restore biospheric wellness. This book will enable the reader to become better situated to formulate a more inspired, informed, and transformative understanding...
This book explores the intersections between curriculum studies and sustainability. Recognizing that a bioregion is our -life place- and that curricul...
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200,28 zł |