wyszukanych pozycji: 485
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War/Play; Video Games and the Militarization of Society
ISBN: 9781433120015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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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. 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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«Come Closer»: Critical Perspectives on Theatre of the Oppressed
ISBN: 9781433113710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In -Come Closer, - community activists, scholars, and theatre artists describe their Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) work and how they are transforming TO for new purposes, new audiences, and new settings. Each chapter features a first-person narrative on how the authors work both honors and transforms the vision of Augusto Boal, whose imaginative response to human oppression offers the world an aesthetic intervention that has the power to move both the oppressors and the oppressed to the possibility of transformative dialogue. Contributors to this important volume center their ideas and...
In -Come Closer, - community activists, scholars, and theatre artists describe their Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) work and how they are transf...
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776,10 |
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Moral Outrage in Education: Third Printing
ISBN: 9780820441696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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Science Fiction Curriculum, Cyborg Teachers, & Youth Culture(s)
ISBN: 9780820450445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Science Fiction Curriculum, Cyborg Teachers, and Youth Culture(s) is a collection of essays sutured together by their use of science fiction as a departure from contemporary educational -realities-. The authors, inspired by the visions, styles, and insights of various science fiction texts, films, and rap music, seek to transform the future of educational possibilities. Science Fiction Curriculum offers alternative paths to current regressive educational practices, policies, and reforms, and invites readers to venture into uncharted dimensions."
Science Fiction Curriculum, Cyborg Teachers, and Youth Culture(s) is a collection of essays sutured together by their use of science fiction as...
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Popular Culture Primer: Revised Edition
ISBN: 9781433105883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This revised edition of the Popular Culture Primer is an introductory text that traces the history of popular culture and cultural studies. Besides covering the traditional subjects such as the influence of the Frankfurt School and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, this book covers the cultural studies of science and technology, the biosciences, drugs, and sports as well as other often-ignored topics such as science fiction, fan cultures, and childhood studies. It looks at the impact these topics have on our understanding of education and popular culture. The Popular...
This revised edition of the Popular Culture Primer is an introductory text that traces the history of popular culture and cultural studies. Bes...
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The Red Light in the Ivory Tower: Contexts and Implications of Entrepreneurial Education
ISBN: 9781433112027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Red Light in the Ivory Tower: Contexts and Implications of Entrepreneurial Education critically analyzes the operational behaviors of prestigious and prestige-seeking universities, particularly within the context of budget shortfalls and increasing competition. The book challenges entrepreneurial activities within universities by exploring the costs of such ventures in terms of honoring commitments to faculty and students while maintaining integrity of institutional purpose. The book offers six case studies that illustrate the organizational behaviors influenced by prestige...
The Red Light in the Ivory Tower: Contexts and Implications of Entrepreneurial Education critically analyzes the operational behaviors of prest...
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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. 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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872,19 |
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A Call to Action: An Introduction to Education, Philosophy, and Native North America
ISBN: 9781433101724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A Call to Action challenges current and future teachers to take seriously the philosophical implications of being an educator on land indigenous to a particular human group with both Native and non-Native students. Readers are introduced to the interrelated histories of education, philosophy, and Native and non-Native peoples in North America. These discussions point to the advancement of a critical pedagogy for Native North America. This book should be read by any teacher or student who is or will be involved with cultural studies, especially in the area of Native Americans.
A Call to Action challenges current and future teachers to take seriously the philosophical implications of being an educator on land indigenou...
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Multiple Paradigms for International Research in Education: Experience, Theory, and Practice
ISBN: 9780820452159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The international dimension of research in education signals a paradigm shift in thinking about educational research in general. This collection of essays by a group of prominent scholars in several fields, including human resource education, early childhood, educational evaluation, interpretive research, arts education, anthropology, and philosophy of education, is a cutting-edge publication that defines new theoretical and methodological directions in international education research. Research in International Education consists of both conceptual chapters and chapters based on...
The international dimension of research in education signals a paradigm shift in thinking about educational research in general. This collection of es...
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A Dissident Voice; Essays on Culture, Pedagogy, and Power
ISBN: 9781433114007 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This collection of essays by Antonia Darder engages a variety of political questions rooted within the contentious terrain of culture and power in the United States. Divided into seven sections that focus on biculturalism, racism, culture and schooling, language rights, Latino issues, the politics of the body, and a public pedagogy of dissent, the essays forcefully speak to the multiple ways in which the dominant culture shapes and perpetuates widespread inequalities and social exclusions, at the expense of oppressed populations. Spanning twenty years, this timely collection not only provides...
This collection of essays by Antonia Darder engages a variety of political questions rooted within the contentious terrain of culture and power in the...
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831,23 |
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The Fat Pedagogy Reader; Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education
ISBN: 9781433125676 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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 nutritio...
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Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom: Fourth Printing
ISBN: 9780820470689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. As educators, how do we challenge and interrupt the social construction of whiteness in ourselves, in the classroom, in schools, and in the wider society? Coming from diverse backgrounds, the contributors in this volume draw on their own well-examined experiences of race, racism, and whiteness in developing effective antiracist pedagogies and classroom activities that interrupt and contest whiteness. They have explored their own lives from the selective position of their own memories and have traced the ways in which their assumptions which they use to mediate and interpret the world around...
As educators, how do we challenge and interrupt the social construction of whiteness in ourselves, in the classroom, in schools, and in the wider soci...
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Doing Democracy; Striving for Political Literacy and Social Justice
ISBN: 9780820497457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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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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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. 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 Scientific Origins: Taking Account of Creationism
ISBN: 9780820470801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Persistent resistance to the teaching of evolution has so drastically impacted science curricula that many students finish school without a basic understanding of a theory that is a fundamental component of scientific literacy. This -evolution/creationism controversy- has crippled biological education in the United States and has begun to spread to other parts of the world. This book takes an educational point of view that respects both the teaching of evolution and religious beliefs. Authors from different academic traditions contribute to a collection of perspectives that begin to dismantle...
Persistent resistance to the teaching of evolution has so drastically impacted science curricula that many students finish school without a basic unde...
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Our Stories Matter: Liberating the Voices of Marginalized Students Through Scholarly Personal Narrative Writing
ISBN: 9781433121142 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Our Stories Matter explains and exemplifies the methodology of Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) writing for marginalized, underrepresented, and previously -disappeared- students at all levels of higher education. Presently no book looks at the whys and hows of scholarly personal narrative writing that focuses on this particular audience of underrepresented students. SPN writing has its origins in early slave narratives; 1960s feminist liberation stories; religio-spiritual autobiographies; existential, postmodern, and postcritical theory; and memoir/autobiographies of victimization...
Our Stories Matter explains and exemplifies the methodology of Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) writing for marginalized, underrepresented, a...
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Classroom Teaching: An Introduction Second Edition
ISBN: 9781433157271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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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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