wyszukanych pozycji: 480
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Multicultural Science Education: Theory, Practice, and Promise
ISBN: 9780820445403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) As a relatively new area of investigation, the study of multicultural education as it relates to science teaching and learning has spawned numerous interpretations by researchers and authors worldwide. The contributors of this international volume among them are science teacher educators, science teachers, scientists, researchers, program directors, multicultural educators, and cultural anthropologists were selected based on both their divergent and convergent perspectives on multicultural science education. By including contributors from a number of constituencies, this book offers a broad...
As a relatively new area of investigation, the study of multicultural education as it relates to science teaching and learning has spawned numerous in...
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Autobiography, Politics and Sexuality: Essays in Curriculum Theory, 1972-1992
ISBN: 9780820418490 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Like a particularly heartfelt letter to the reader, William Pinar's "Autobiography, Politics and Sexuality: Essays in Curriculum Theory 1972-1992" asserts the viability of autobiography as a tool of study in the area of curriculum and instruction. As an alternative to the sterile bureaucratic style of curriculum studies that dominated the field at one time, William Pinar has reconceptualized curriculum studies in a more organic, flexible and exciting way which honors the immediacy and complexity of students, teachers and their relationships by taking into account their lives as they live...
Like a particularly heartfelt letter to the reader, William Pinar's "Autobiography, Politics and Sexuality: Essays in Curriculum Theory 1972-1992" ass...
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Art, Culture, & Education: Artful Teaching in a Fractured Landscape
ISBN: 9780820457451 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2006 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) While the authors of this book were team teaching a course called -High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste-, the -Sensation- controversy at the Brooklyn Museum broke out. This controversy not only shaped their course, but had larger implications for art, culture, and education in general for the twenty-first century. By asking serious aesthetic and cultural questions about art and teaching, this book explores the power of art to shape both our emotions and our intellect."
While the authors of this book were team teaching a course called -High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste-, the -Sensation- controversy at the Brooklyn ...
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Straight Talk: Growing as Multicultural Educators
ISBN: 9780820449883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Becoming an effective educator in a diverse society involves more than acquiring information; rather, it is a process of personal growth and introspection. Straight Talk: Growing as Multicultural Educators is a unique text in that it engages readers in reflecting about their own taken-for-granted assumptions about human differences. Readers are encouraged to think about their personal journeys and the ways in which their cultural experiences have shaped who they are, both as individuals and as educators. Practical information on implementing equitable school practices is embedded...
Becoming an effective educator in a diverse society involves more than acquiring information; rather, it is a process of personal growth and introspec...
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The Fat Pedagogy Reader; Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education
ISBN: 9781433125683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Over the past decade, concerns about a global -obesity epidemic- have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrition permeate society despite significant evidence disputing the -facts- we have come to believe about -obesity-. We live in a culture that privileges thinness and enables weight-based oppression, often expressed as fat phobia and fat bullying. New interdisciplinary fields that problematize -obesity- have emerged, including critical obesity studies, critical weight studies, and fat studies. There also is a small but growing literature examining...
Over the past decade, concerns about a global -obesity epidemic- have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrit...
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Transforming Education with New Media; Participatory Pedagogy, Interactive Learning, and Web 2.0
ISBN: 9781433117947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The possibilities that online platforms and new media technologies provide, in terms of human connection and the dissemination of information, are seemingly endless. With Web 2.0 there is an exchange of messages, visions, facts, fictions, contemplations, and declarations buzzing around a network of computers that connects students to the world fast. Theoretically this digital connectivity, and the availability of information that it provides, is beneficial to curriculum development in higher education. Education is easily available, democratic, and immersive. But is it worthwhile? Is the kind...
The possibilities that online platforms and new media technologies provide, in terms of human connection and the dissemination of information, are see...
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Greening Media Education: Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship
ISBN: 9781433125911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Media are a powerful educational force that teaches about the relationship between humans and living systems while also physiologically impacting the environment. However, although long considered a tool for promoting critical thinking and cultural citizenship, media literacy does not adequately address environmental sustainability. Drawing on original research, Antonio Lopez demonstrates how common media literacy practices reinforce belief systems at the root of unsustainable behaviors. By combining emerging literacies from social media, networked activism, sustainability education, critical...
Media are a powerful educational force that teaches about the relationship between humans and living systems while also physiologically impacting the ...
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Teacher TV; Sixty Years of Teachers on Television
ISBN: 9780820497150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on television from the earliest sitcoms to contemporary dramas and comedies. Both topical and chronological, the book follows a general course across decades and focuses on dominant themes and representations, linking some of the most popular shows of the era to larger cultural themes. Some of these include:
a view of how gender is socially constructed in popular culture and in society racial tensions throughout the decades educational privileges for elite... Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on television from the ear...
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Integrating Multiculturalism Into the Curriculum: From the Liberal Arts to the Sciences
ISBN: 9781433109775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This reader introduces the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, a successful multicultural curriculum transformation paradigm that is a model for colleges and universities across the country and abroad. Section I details the history of the effective implementation of the strategies at a university in Texas over the last seven years with emphasis on goals, pedagogical strategies, institutional support, and faculty recruitment. Section II gives an in-depth look at a sampling of content units presented during the Institute. Section III highlights faculty who attended...
This reader introduces the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, a successful multicultural curriculum transformation paradi...
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Engaging Science Policy: From the Side of the Messy
ISBN: 9781433103292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Situated in education policy analysis, this book is at the cutting edge of major debates across the social sciences regarding the nature of science, qualitative/quantitative tensions, post-foundational possibilities, and the research/policy nexus. Located between -the aftermath of poststructuralism- and the -new scientism- afoot in neoliberal audit culture, the book posits an engaged social science that is accountable to complexity and the political value of not being so sure. Its insistence is to put deconstruction to work in the midst of messiness, contingency, and ambiguity. The book will...
Situated in education policy analysis, this book is at the cutting edge of major debates across the social sciences regarding the nature of science, q...
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Creative Planning Resource for Interconnected Teaching and Learning: Consulting Editor: Ann Watts Pailliotet
ISBN: 9780820451855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Creative Planning Resource for Interconnected Teaching and Learning combines theories by such educational reformers as Banks, Clark, Considine, Cortes, Gardner, McCarthy, Marzano, Perrone, and Sizer to lay a foundation for interconnected teaching and learning for the whole child as described in The Holistic Circle of Learning by Pewewardy and across a balanced curriculum that includes media literacy, multiculturalism, and personal development. Rather than a prescriptive methods book, Creative Planning Resource for Interconnected Teaching and Learning assists preservice...
Creative Planning Resource for Interconnected Teaching and Learning combines theories by such educational reformers as Banks, Clark, Considine,...
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Teaching about Frederick Douglass; A Resource Guide for Teachers of Cultural Diversity
ISBN: 9781433112553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Teaching about Frederick Douglass will stimulate conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. Tension exists at many institutions of higher education between liberal arts faculties who do not completely understand the function of education professors and school of education faculties who feel that there is a misunderstanding about what a teacher candidate needs to learn before entering the teaching profession. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor...
Teaching about Frederick Douglass will stimulate conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school te...
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Performances of Research; Critical Issues in K-12 Education
ISBN: 9781433119620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Participatory performances have long been used to invite audiences to embody, voice, and imagine the perspective of different characters, values, and viewpoints. Performances of Research: Critical Issues in K-12 Education provides a collection of performative texts that retell the lived experiences of children and youth in meaningful and engaging ways, while providing readers with an opportunity to participate in the retelling. Performances of Research is for faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students who are engaged in the study of social foundations in education, equity and...
Participatory performances have long been used to invite audiences to embody, voice, and imagine the perspective of different characters, values, and ...
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At the Elbow of Another; Learning to Teach by Coteaching
ISBN: 9780820455679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) At the Elbow of Another is about teaching and learning to teach, written from the perspectives and experiences of two educators who teach and, in so doing, learn to teach. Teaching and learning to teach at the elbows of other teachers (including ourselves) provide us with new and different understandings and allow us to describe a different epistemology of teaching. We adopt a first-person perspective on teaching, sometimes our own and at other times that of peers but through the eyes of coparticipants engaged in an activity with the same primary intention of assisting students to...
At the Elbow of Another is about teaching and learning to teach, written from the perspectives and experiences of two educators who teach and, ...
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Teach Boldly!; Letters to Teachers about Contemporary Issues in Education
ISBN: 9781433104916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In today's public schools, teachers are often discouraged by the restrictions placed on them by the education system: federal mandates such as No Child Left Behind, excessive emphasis on standardized testing, pre-packaged curricula, inadequate funding, overcrowded classrooms, cultural incongruence, and social injustices. Teachers feel thwarted from meeting the unique needs of each student, and students continue to fall between the cracks in the system. This book encourages educators to teach boldly, using wisdom and courage to do what they know is best for their students despite the...
In today's public schools, teachers are often discouraged by the restrictions placed on them by the education system: federal mandates such as No Chil...
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Curriculum Intertext: Place, Language, Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780820455099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Curriculum Intertext addresses the spaces between between disciplines, between different theoretical perspectives, and between getting there/being there and living in current curricular discourse and practice. It is an invitation to curricular scholars to be at home in displacement, to imagine the possibilities of curricular languages that open onto meadowland spaces and mountain terrain spaces, and borderland spaces and in-between coulee spaces. It attends to the physicality and specificity of place and to the ambiguity of the many locations of an evolving curricular discourse. This...
Curriculum Intertext addresses the spaces between between disciplines, between different theoretical perspectives, and between getting there/be...
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Building Community in an Alternative School: The Perspective of an African American Principal
ISBN: 9780820486543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Lost in Media; The Ethics of Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781433113673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Lost in Media examines collectively the ethical issues that have arisen in media-driven everyday life and will that arise as paradigm shifts occur on a global scale. Films, television and the new media often serve the globalization aims of a capitalist society as they function to socially reproduce the hegemonic norms, values, and styles of the larger society. Chapters in the book use the tradition of critical theory to look at issues of free market fundamentalism, journalism s erosion of communication of truth, public relations ethics of perception management; yielding self-censorship...
Lost in Media examines collectively the ethical issues that have arisen in media-driven everyday life and will that arise as paradigm shifts oc...
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Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education
ISBN: 9781433102301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education is the first international and multidisciplinary effort to coalesce knowledge on education and popular culture studied as broad phenomena and not as a collection of case studies. In this volume, popular culture has been thematically treated as it appears in a variety of media, including movies, digital games, advertising, television, popular songs, and the internet. The book considers education in both formal and informal settings, and looks critically at the accepted dichotomy between education and popular culture. It argues that popular...
Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education is the first international and multidisciplinary effort to coalesce knowledge on education and pop...
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Dismantling White Privilege: Pedagogy, Politics, and Whiteness
ISBN: 9780820439174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Dismantling White Privilege critically interrogates whiteness across contexts, from the experiential level to the different ways in which whiteness is deployed in contemporary cultural politics. The editors and contributors contend that -marking- whiteness is an important step in dismantling white privilege within the context of concerns for equity and social justice. Significant to this anthology is linking analyses of whiteness to the discourse of critical pedagogy, especially around constructing -pedagogies of whiteness-. Investigating whiteness in its many manifestations,...
Dismantling White Privilege critically interrogates whiteness across contexts, from the experiential level to the different ways in which white...
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