wyszukanych pozycji: 259
Constructing Critical Consciousness; Narratives that Unmask Hegemony and Ideas for Creating Greater Equity in Education
ISBN: 9781433113505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness Reader aims to help us rethink -race, - racism, and whiteness as narratives with deep roots in the past that contribute to the current social order, and function to reproduce the social hierarchy in which we live. The reader includes several brilliant iconic essays that address the social construction of whiteness and critical resistance, as well as excellent new critical perspectives. It is a compilation that offers new and intermediate readers in critical whiteness theory a valuable and diverse overview of the subject. It... Critical Multicultural Perspectives on Whiteness Reader aims to help us rethink -race, - racism, and whiteness as narratives with... |
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308,44 zł |
Every Person Is a Philosopher; Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
ISBN: 9781433129377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect and reparation. Fostering communities of local writers and publishing their work in journals of -ordinary thought, - the work brought pride and dignity to the authors, carrying the wisdom of their narratives into and beyond their communities. In the traditions of Paulo Freire, Antonio Gramsci,...
Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginaliz...
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1096,39 zł |
Performances of Research; Critical Issues in K-12 Education
ISBN: 9781433119637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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1026,08 zł |
Teach Boldly!; Letters to Teachers about Contemporary Issues in Education
ISBN: 9781433104916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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294,38 zł |
Playing for Change; Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development
ISBN: 9781433129704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Playing for Change - performing for money and for social justice - introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development agents. Challenging the assumption that acculturation into a ruling ideology of state development is necessary, this book presents a version of CLD that locates development in the production of subjectivities. The author argues that A-CLD is as concerned with the autonomous collective and the individual as it is with...
Playing for Change - performing for money and for social justice - introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and developm...
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343,74 zł |
Unpacking the Loaded Teacher Matrix; Negotiating Space and Time Between University and Secondary English Classrooms
ISBN: 9780820486765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What issues in English teacher education are sidestepped because they are too loaded to address? What aren't we talking about when we discuss classroom management, censorship, standardized tests, media literacy, social justice issues, the standards, and technology? What really matters to novices entering the profession? The authors in this book wrestle with the disparities between preservice English teacher instruction and secondary school space as the two collide, and describe the tools that preservice English teachers need to negotiate and navigate between theory and practice. This book...
What issues in English teacher education are sidestepped because they are too loaded to address? What aren't we talking about when we discuss classroo...
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308,44 zł |
Crafting Critical Stories: Toward Pedagogies and Methodologies of Collaboration, Inclusion, and Voice
ISBN: 9781433121609 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Critical storytelling, a rich form of culturally relevant, critical pedagogy, has gained great urgency in a world of standardization. Crafting Critical Stories asks how social justice scholars and educators narrate, craft, and explore critical stories as a tool for culturally relevant, critical pedagogy. From the elementary to college classroom, this anthology explores how different genres of critical storytelling oral history, digital storytelling, testimonio, and critical family history have been used to examine structures of oppression and to illuminate counter-narratives...
Critical storytelling, a rich form of culturally relevant, critical pedagogy, has gained great urgency in a world of standardization. Crafting Crit...
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1166,98 zł |
Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development': Speaking Differently
ISBN: 9781433120961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Emerging Perspectives on African Development: Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including contemporary challenges and possibilities of development. The book critically engages the many ways of presenting development, highlighting the interplay of tradition and modernity as well as contestations over knowledge production in post-colonial Africa. It offers cautionary words to field practitioners, researchers, and social theorists who work in development using language that is easily accessible to laypersons. This book is also for...
Emerging Perspectives on African Development: Speaking Differently discusses numerous areas of interest and issues about Africa, including cont...
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1166,98 zł |
De-Testing and De-Grading Schools: Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization
ISBN: 9781433130588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing paradox: education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading. This commitment persists despite ample research, theory, and philosophy revealing the corrosive consequences of both testing and grading in an education system designed to support human agency and democratic principles. This revised edited volume brings together a collection of updated and new essays that confronts the failure of testing and grading. The book explores the historical...
A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing parado...
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322,50 zł |
Doing Democracy; Striving for Political Literacy and Social Justice
ISBN: 9780820497457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this provocative collection of essays with a distinctly critical and nuanced approach to how democracy is taught, learned, understood, and lived, authors from four continents share their visions on how democracy needs to be cultivated, critiqued, demonstrated, and manifested throughout the educational experience. The collective concern is how we actually do democracy in education. The essays argue that democracy must be infused in everything that happens at school: curriculum, extra-curricular activities, interaction with parents and communities, and through formal organization and...
In this provocative collection of essays with a distinctly critical and nuanced approach to how democracy is taught, learned, understood, and lived, a...
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315,62 zł |
Daredevil Research: Re-Creating Analytic Practice
ISBN: 9780820427768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Daredevil Research: Re-creating Analytic Practice gathers together ten research projects that seek to transform thinking about analytic practice and the construction of research knowledge. By experimenting with alternative models of representation unconstrained by the weight of traditional research protocols, the authors create multiple spaces for imagining how to differently identify issues for inquiry, select modes of analysis, and inscribe -data- into transmittable form. At once a production of research knowledge and a conceptual field for meaning-making, Daredevil Research...
Daredevil Research: Re-creating Analytic Practice gathers together ten research projects that seek to transform thinking about analytic practic...
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245,32 zł |
Ecological Pedagogy, Buddhist Pedagogy, Hermeneutic Pedagogy: Experiments in a Curriculum for Miracles
ISBN: 9781433122521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book explores three interrelated roots of scholarly work that have a supportive and elaborative affinity to authentic and engaging classroom inquiry: ecological consciousness, Buddhist epistemologies, philosophies and practices, and interpretive inquiry or hermeneutics. Although these three roots originate outside of and extend far beyond most educational literature, understanding them can be of immense practical importance to the conduct of rich, rigorous, practicable, sustainable, and adventurous classroom work for students and teachers alike.
The authors collectively bring to... This book explores three interrelated roots of scholarly work that have a supportive and elaborative affinity to authentic and engaging classroom inqu...
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308,44 zł |
Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical
ISBN: 9780820449531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical is an inquiry into the questions of how Black women define their existence in a society which devalues, dehumanizes, and silences their beliefs. Placing herself inside of the research, Rochelle Brock invites the reader on a journey of self-exploration, as she and seven of her Black female students investigate their collective journey toward self-awareness in the attempt to liberate their minds and souls from ideological domination. Throughout, Sista Talk attempts to understand the ways in which this self-exploration informs her...
Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical is an inquiry into the questions of how Black women define their existence in a society which deva...
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287,50 zł |
War/Play; Video Games and the Militarization of Society
ISBN: 9781433120022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The impact that First Person Shooter video games have had on the evolution of youth culture over a decade or more has been the focus of attention from political leaders; medical and legal specialists; and the mass media. Much of the discussion concerning these games has focused on the issues of the violence that is depicted in the games and on the perceived psychological and social costs for individuals and society. What is not widely canvassed in the public debate generated by violent video games is the role that military-themed games play in the wider process of militarization. The...
The impact that First Person Shooter video games have had on the evolution of youth culture over a decade or more has been the focus of attention from...
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1166,98 zł |
Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century; Perspectives and Examples from Practice
ISBN: 9781433118036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what can be its value? How do we come to know what lies beyond our horizons? Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century opens the door for wondering about these and other questions pertaining to the nature and process of educational research. It offers an insightful and detailed account of Western and non-Western philosophical traditions and perspectives on reality, knowledge, and values that have been responsive to past and present developments of educational research in North America. These accounts form a paradigm...
What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what can be its value? How do we come to know what lies beyond our horizons? P...
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1096,39 zł |
The Art of Critical Pedagogy; Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools
ISBN: 9781433100314 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book furthers the discussion concerning critical pedagogy and its practical applications for urban contexts. It addresses two looming, yet under-explored questions that have emerged with the ascendancy of critical pedagogy in the educational discourse: (1) What does critical pedagogy look like in work with urban youth? and (2) How can a systematic investigation of critical work enacted in urban contexts simultaneously draw upon and push the core tenets of critical pedagogy? Addressing the tensions inherent in enacting critical pedagogy between working to disrupt and to successfully...
This book furthers the discussion concerning critical pedagogy and its practical applications for urban contexts. It addresses two looming, yet under-...
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723,65 zł |
Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education
ISBN: 9781433132971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education is the result of research seeking to find explanations for bullying between faculty members in faculties of education around the world. The frank and devastating revelations of professors are shocking and painful, screaming for interrogation. Bullying in faculties of education is a strange phenomenon because anti-bullying programs abound while the behavior occurs at a significant number of faculties of education. The research finds that factors in leadership and neoliberal politics cause this odd phenomenon. Other causes...
Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education is the result of research seeking to find explanations for bullying between fa...
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1166,98 zł |
Black Protest Thought and Education: Foreword by James D. Anderson
ISBN: 9780820463124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The modern American corporate-industrial state requires a massive ideological machine to establish social order, create political consensus, train obedient citizen-workers, and dispatch marginalized groups to their place. Mass public education has helped to forge the modern political state that enforces social and racial inequality. Disenchanted African Americans, representing dissenting viewpoints, have vigorously protested this educational system, which is rooted in segregation, differentiated funding, falsehoods, alienation, and exclusion. This important book belongs in classrooms devoted...
The modern American corporate-industrial state requires a massive ideological machine to establish social order, create political consensus, train obe...
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259,38 zł |
Using Standards and High-Stakes Testing for Students; Exploiting Power with Critical Pedagogy
ISBN: 9781433115554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
This book overturns the typical conception of standards, empowering educators by providing concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be embraced and used in ways that are consistent with critical pedagogies. Although standards, as broad frameworks for setting learning targets, are not necessarily problematic, when they are operationalized as high-stakes assessments, test-based pedagogies emerge and frequently dominate the curriculum, leaving little room for... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
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294,38 zł |
Classroom Teaching: An Introduction Second Edition
ISBN: 9781433157271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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322,50 zł |