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Image, Inquiry, and Transformative Practice: Engaging Learners in Creative and Critical Inquiry Through Visual Representation
ISBN: 9780820455532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This anthology crosses disciplines to explore the use of images as modes for creative and critical inquiry. Researchers in the fields of literacy, physical education, and special education describe and critique how they have used images with students of various ages and backgrounds to evoke personal interpretations, deconstruct cultural messages, examine processes of oppression, and imagine alternative ways of acting in the world. Through this book, the contributors hope to inspire educators to explore the use of images in critical and creative pedagogy as well as in their personal lives and...
This anthology crosses disciplines to explore the use of images as modes for creative and critical inquiry. Researchers in the fields of literacy, phy...
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180,96 zł |
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People Need to Know: Confronting History in the Heartland
ISBN: 9781433129797 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community s history a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create a collection of online resources about the lynching. As they encounter troubling information and consider how best to present it to others, the students come to better understand the complex ethical ramifications of historical work and to more fully appreciate why their learning matters. Through...
People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community s history a 1930 lynching that was captured...
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822,35 zł |
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Educating African American Males: Contexts for Consideration, Possibilities for Practice
ISBN: 9781433108532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book s predecessor, Black Sons to Mothers: Compliments, Critiques, and Challenges for Cultural Workers in Education (Peter Lang, 2000), sparked a decade of meaningful scholarship on the educational experiences and academic outcomes of African American males. Black Sons to Mothers proffered seminal contributions to the academic literature on the achievement gap, differential instruction, and minority schooling, and inspired further research countless books, articles and reports written since about the educational challenges and successes of African American males directly...
This book s predecessor, Black Sons to Mothers: Compliments, Critiques, and Challenges for Cultural Workers in Education (Peter Lang, 2000), sp...
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213,39 zł |
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Teachable Moments: Re-Conceptualizing Curricula Understandings
ISBN: 9780820481418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. How do we understand what curriculum is and does for both learners and teachers? Using actual field-based vignettes, this book introduces teachable moment-oriented, emergent-oriented, and negotiation-oriented curricula practices, and explores how, while the three curricula notions are distinctively different from one another, they are simultaneously interconnected. Teachable Moments is a valuable resource for teachers at all levels. In addition, this is a book for senior undergraduate- and graduate-level early childhood curriculum courses, as well as graduate students and faculty who...
How do we understand what curriculum is and does for both learners and teachers? Using actual field-based vignettes, this book introduces teachable mo...
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180,96 zł |
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The Life of a School: A Research Guide
ISBN: 9781433114359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In the past decade or so, there has been an increasing interest in employing a combination of archival and life history methods to understand the complexities of schooling. This book explores the history of the Beal Technical School in order to discuss the methods and problems involved in researching the story of an institution. It offers the scholar and practitioner a series of practical guidelines and examples for doing such research. At the same time, it includes elements of the history of a case study, leading to an extended discussion of complex issues of representation that will be of...
In the past decade or so, there has been an increasing interest in employing a combination of archival and life history methods to understand the comp...
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680,01 zł |
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Ninety-Five Languages and Seven Forms of Intelligence: Education in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780820439099 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Classrooms of the future will be multicultural classrooms. "Ninety-five Languages and Seven Forms of Intelligence" uses a multidimensional approach to examine the relationship between multicultural classrooms and border cities in the postmodern era. D. Emily Hicks argues that the diverse nature of the students in classrooms of the next century demand that we rethink the notions of community, citizenship, and the state. Drawing on the work of Paolo Freire, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Antonio Negri, while using literary examples of Chicano/a literature, this text bridges the fields of...
Classrooms of the future will be multicultural classrooms. "Ninety-five Languages and Seven Forms of Intelligence" uses a multidimensional approach to...
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148,28 zł |
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Reconstructing School Mathematics: Problems with Problems and the Real World
ISBN: 9780820451039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book offers a critique of two major themes of the modern reform movement in mathematics education: problem solving and the applications of mathematics to the -real world-. In examining the educational fallacy inherent in the impulse to move unflinchingly from -problem- to -problem solving-, Stephen I. Brown demonstrates the potential of mathematical reflection to reveal aspects of self and society that have been suppressed in curriculum. He then argues that in seeking connections between mathematics and the -real world-, we have tended to reduce their relationship to one of modeling....
This book offers a critique of two major themes of the modern reform movement in mathematics education: problem solving and the applications of mathem...
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180,96 zł |
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(Re)Thinking Orientalism: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Critical Visual Literacy
ISBN: 9781433122286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. (Re)thinking Orientalism is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. Using feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theoretical and pedagogical lenses, the book uses visual discourse analysis and visual semiology to situate the narratives within Islamophobia and neo-Orientalism in the post-9/11 media context. In the absence of mainstream media that tells the complex stories of Muslim Americans and Muslims around the world, there has been a wave of publications of graphic narratives written and drawn from various...
(Re)thinking Orientalism is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. U...
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220,07 zł |
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Power, Teaching, and Teacher Education: Confronting Injustice with Critical Research and Action
ISBN: 9781433121449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This collection of essays frames the work of teachers and teacher educators within a struggle over what it means to educate a highly diverse public. Visions for public education, as shaped by progressivism and the Civil Rights movements, have emphasized preparation of all children and youth for participation in a diverse democracy. This vision is being challenged by neoliberalism, which frames education as a commodity to be acquired for individual advancement within a competitive marketplace, and as an arena for profit-making. In this book, Sleeter connects incisive conceptual analyses,...
This collection of essays frames the work of teachers and teacher educators within a struggle over what it means to educate a highly diverse public. V...
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770,87 zł |
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Literacy as a Civil Right; Reclaiming Social Justice in Literacy Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9780820488684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The urgency to create equity in schools has never been greater, especially since legislators are considering the re-authorization of No Child Left Behind as a means to eliminating the achievement gap. Studies continue to show that increased standards, testing, and accountability have simply maintained the status quo. In response, this book proposes alternative ways of addressing these educational inequities, taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex historical, social, and global issues that stand in the way of ensuring that all students have access to literacy -...
The urgency to create equity in schools has never been greater, especially since legislators are considering the re-authorization of No Child Left Beh...
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220,07 zł |
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The Literacy Curriculum and Bilingual Education: A Critical Examination
ISBN: 9780820467153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book focuses on how ideologies of literacy influence literacy instruction and bilingual education policies. While classroom teachers in both English and other languages are given a wealth of curriculum guides and texts and are coached and trained as to how to best teach their subjects, issues of policy, ideology, or politics are rarely engaged or explored. The Literacy Curriculum and Bilingual Education offers a critical look at how literacy is defined, by whom, and for what purposes illustrating not only how ideology influences policy and curriculum, but how our own ideologies...
This book focuses on how ideologies of literacy influence literacy instruction and bilingual education policies. While classroom teachers in both Engl...
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113,62 zł |
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Teacher Leadership: The «New» Foundations of Teacher Education- A Reader
ISBN: 9781433112928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades, numerous textbooks have been published on teacher leadership; however, this is the only volume that provides a definitive overview of the scholarship and writing being done in the field of teacher leadership. This book introduces the reader to the scholarship of over 35 authors, and thus, becomes an essential tool needed to guide any meaningful discussion of the changing roles and responsibilities of teachers. As an important component of revisioned teacher education programs and most current state standards for teacher licensure, teacher leadership is emerging as a...
Over the past two decades, numerous textbooks have been published on teacher leadership; however, this is the only volume that provides a definitive o...
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783,74 zł |
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Fracturing Opportunity: Mexican Migrant Students & College-Going Literacy
ISBN: 9781433105548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Fracturing Opportunity demonstrates a simple yet profound idea that educational opportunity is learned. And if it is learned, then it can be taught and taught more equitably. This book brings sociocultural theories of learning and development to bear on the persistent problems of inequality in college access, and presents an innovative framework for understanding and addressing the historic inequities that plague educational opportunity. Through ethnographic documentation of Mexican migrants educational experiences, the book moves beyond traditional inquiry on aspiration, academic...
Fracturing Opportunity demonstrates a simple yet profound idea that educational opportunity is learned. And if it is learned, then it can be ta...
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200,52 zł |
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Interrupting History; Rethinking History Curriculum after 'The End of History'
ISBN: 9781433112409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Since the emergence of postmodern social theory, history has been haunted by predictions of its imminent end. Postmodernism has been accused of making historical research and writing untenable, encouraging the proliferation of revisionist histories, providing fertile ground for historical denial, and promoting the adoption of a mournful view of the past. This provocative book re-examines the nature of the alleged -threat- to history posed by postmodernism, and explores the implications of postmodern social theory for history as curriculum. Interrupting History will be of interest to...
Since the emergence of postmodern social theory, history has been haunted by predictions of its imminent end. Postmodernism has been accused of making...
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680,01 zł |
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Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom: Legacies of Modernity and Colonialism in Schooling
ISBN: 9781433123726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other critical cultural theories from disciplines often overlooked in the field of education. The authors illustrate the potential of these theories for educators, offering a nuanced critical analysis of the role schools play in nationalistic enterprises and colonial projects. The book fills the current gap between simplified,...
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in educati...
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874,34 zł |
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A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging Through the Southern Mist
ISBN: 9781433113338 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Since the United States has gone South in a number of respects, it is crucial to our understandings of ourselves and our current milieu to peer through the mist that covers the intricacies of the culture and history of the South. A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist presents new and provocative insights into the study of curriculum and place focusing on the South. The essays emphasize understanding the importance of Southern place politically, educationally, and experientially. Southern place is studied autobiographically, historically, and...
Since the United States has gone South in a number of respects, it is crucial to our understandings of ourselves and our current milieu to peer throug...
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718,88 zł |
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Dialogue Is Not Just Talk: A New Ground for Educational Leadership
ISBN: 9780820474694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This is the first and only book that examines dialogue as it pertains to the work of school leaders. The authors of Dialogue Is Not Just Talk develop a theory of dialogic leadership that bridges the gaps between the pioneering philosophical works of such seminal thinkers as Bakhtin, Buber, and Gadamer, as well as the work of educational leaders. Using examples, vignettes, and illustrations, this book develops both a theoretical and a practical approach to educational leadership. Dialogue Is Not Just Talk speaks to leaders striving to develop relationships, improve understanding,...
This is the first and only book that examines dialogue as it pertains to the work of school leaders. The authors of Dialogue Is Not Just Talk d...
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180,96 zł |
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Black Sons to Mothers: Compliments, Critiques, and Challenges for Cultural Workers in Education
ISBN: 9780820442921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Black Sons to Mothers is the critical site where African American male scholars explore the meanings and connections of the lives of black boys/men. This book offers literary, scholarly, and personal space to interrogate the seemingly elusive intersection of race and gender. Each chapter in the book is offered in one of two voices one that speaks to teachers as cultural workers and one that represents individual transformation into the cultural space of mothering. This book s intent is to both question black men s constructions as sons (cultural offspring) and to engage in the project...
Black Sons to Mothers is the critical site where African American male scholars explore the meanings and connections of the lives of black boys...
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180,96 zł |
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Movies Change Lives: Pedagogy of Constructive Humanistic Transformation Through Cinema
ISBN: 9781433127748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Movies Change Lives is a rigorous interdisciplinary examination of cinema as a vehicle for personal and social transformation. Interdisciplinary scholar Tony Kashani builds a theory of humanistic transformation by discussing many movies while engaging the works of philosopher/psychologist Erich Fromm, cultural studies theorist Stuart Hall, critical pedagogy theorist Henry Giroux, political philosopher Hannah Arendt, the great French thinker Edgar Morin, the pioneering psychologist Carl Jung, the co-founder of string theory, physicist Michio Kaku, and Frankfurt School philosopher Jurgen...
Movies Change Lives is a rigorous interdisciplinary examination of cinema as a vehicle for personal and social transformation. Interdisciplinar...
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770,87 zł |
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The Time Is Now: Understanding and Responding to the Black and Latina/O Dropout Crisis in the U.S.
ISBN: 9781433123740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The fact that 30% of all high school students and 50% of African American, Latina/o, and Native American students fail to graduate from high school is grounds for alarm in the United States. The Time Is Now argues that understanding and responding to the dropout crisis facing the United States has overlooked one major element school culture. Using the PUEDES approach as an analytical framework, this book highlights how schools matter and, in fact, hold many of the solutions that contribute to student engagement and disengagement in school, particularly among low-income students of...
The fact that 30% of all high school students and 50% of African American, Latina/o, and Native American students fail to graduate from high school is...
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770,87 zł |
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