wyszukanych pozycji: 259
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Educating African American Males: Contexts for Consideration, Possibilities for Practice
ISBN: 9781433108525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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1040,14 zł |
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International Struggles for Critical Democratic Education: Foreword by Michael W. Apple
ISBN: 9781433115998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
Drawing from rich data, International Struggles for Critical Democratic Education profiles teachers, students, and schools struggling to interrupt the reproduction of social inequalities from one generation to the next. International in its nature, the work collected here illustrates how forces of globalization create greater inequalities, and carefully describes and evaluates efforts to democratize educational opportunities. This text will be useful in undergraduate and... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
Drawing from rich data, Internatio... |
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301,56 zł |
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Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century; Perspectives and Examples from Practice
ISBN: 9781433118029 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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301,56 zł |
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Navigating Borders; Critical Race Theory Research and Counter History of Undocumented Americans
ISBN: 9781433112614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award In the context of debates about U.S. immigration, this book gives a voice to undocumented Americans of Mexican origin - specifically, involuntary immigrants born in Mexico but brought to the United States by their parents as minors. They are indistinguishable from other Americans, yet in the media and their everyday lives they encounter racism, discrimination, ostracism, and castigation on a regular basis. This book is about their stories and how, against the odds, they offer resistance as they navigate across ideological,...
This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award In the context of debates about U.S. immigration, this book gives a voice to undocumente...
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287,50 zł |
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Becoming a Critical Educator: Defining a Classroom Identity, Designing a Critical Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780820461496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Many American educators are all too familiar with disengaged students, disenfranchised teachers, sanitized and irrelevant curricula, inadequate support for the neediest schools and students, and the tyranny of standardizing testing. This text invites teachers and would-be teachers unhappy with such conditions to consider becoming critical educators - professionals dedicated to creating schools that genuinely provide equal opportunity for all children. Assuming little or no background in critical theory, chapters address several essential questions to help readers develop the understanding and...
Many American educators are all too familiar with disengaged students, disenfranchised teachers, sanitized and irrelevant curricula, inadequate suppor...
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287,50 zł |
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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 |
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Teaching Truly; A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education
ISBN: 9781433122484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the first time in educational publishing, Teaching Truly offers K-16 teachers course-specific guidelines for indigenizing mainstream education. The goal is to facilitate greater educational integrity and relevance in the classroom now, without waiting for more reforms to policy, standards or curricula in general. Incorporating reality-based teaching common in traditional Indigenous learning cultures, each chapter first exposes educational hegemony, including that existing within the new common core standards, and then offers alternative, time-tested perspectives and exercises to counter...
For the first time in educational publishing, Teaching Truly offers K-16 teachers course-specific guidelines for indigenizing mainstream education. Th...
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301,56 zł |
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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 |
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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. 13-18 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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1244,17 zł |
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Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Volume 1- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
ISBN: 9781433131264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The huge corpus of literature reviewed in this volume reflect current issues and discussions dealing with education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies, history, politics, multiculturalism, gender studies and literary studies. These theoretical frameworks will provide students in the field of education with the tools that they need to theorize around the concept of curriculum. This is an interdisciplinary book and might be of interest to students outside the field of...
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The huge corpus of literature reviewed in this volume ...
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1455,36 zł |
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Cities of Signs; Learning the Logic of Urban Spaces
ISBN: 9781433111204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Signs exist as fundamental markers of the urban landscape. Whether in the form of street signs offering directions, the airbrushed promises of advertising media or the vandalized detournements of street art, signs pervade urban spaces and provide a tangible text upon which the logics of both cities and ourselves are written. Cities of Signs charts the way that signs exist as key elements of contemporary urban space, and explores what it means to live within these spaces, amongst cities of signs. This refreshing take on the way that urban space is lived and experienced is a timely...
Signs exist as fundamental markers of the urban landscape. Whether in the form of street signs offering directions, the airbrushed promises of adverti...
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1040,14 zł |
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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 |
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My Teaching, My Philosophy: Kenneth Wain and the Lifelong Engagement with Education
ISBN: 9781433124853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with Kenneth Wain and the many facets of his work. It shows how Wain s passionate engagement with various issues, most prominently philosophy and education, continues to re-generate new ideas and thoughts through his philosophical method. This book gives Wain s philosophy the attention it deserves and succeeds in continuing an open-ended philosophical conversation with its readers. My Teaching, My Philosophy is a must-read for anyone wanting...
My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with...
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322,50 zł |
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Unauthorized Methods: Strategies for Critical Teaching
ISBN: 9780415918428 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work makes accessible and practicable some of the best theoretical innovation in critical pedagogy of the last decade. Issues of knowledge are explored as the authors consider how an integration of popular culture and cultural studies into the lesson plan can enrich and re-invigorate the learning experience. These essays, ranging widely in topic and educational level, are based in theory but are practice-oriented. In translating this theory, the contributors provide educators with techniques which will inform rather than oppress classroom skills.
This work makes accessible and practicable some of the best theoretical innovation in critical pedagogy of the last decade. Issues of knowledge are ex...
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243,74 zł |
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Every Person Is a Philosopher; Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
ISBN: 9781433129360 / Angielski / Miękka / 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, and...
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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301,56 zł |
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Majoring in Change: Young People Use Social Networking to Reflect on High School, College and Work
ISBN: 9781433115363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume presents a long-term qualitative study that follows 20 New York City public high school students as they make the transition into college and work. The primary data are the young people s reflections on high school, how they felt unprepared for college or career, and the subsequent work they have done in order to succeed. The text critiques the current state of secondary and university education, especially the neoliberal emphasis on private industry and competition. However, it claims that a critical media literacy intervention can provide young people with the skills to...
This volume presents a long-term qualitative study that follows 20 New York City public high school students as they make the transition into college ...
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1040,14 zł |
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Performances of Research; Critical Issues in K-12 Education
ISBN: 9781433119620 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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294,38 zł |
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Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development': Speaking Differently
ISBN: 9781433120954 / Angielski / Miękka / 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 con...
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301,56 zł |
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Learning from Counternarratives in Teach for America: Moving from Idealism Towards Hope
ISBN: 9781433128134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Grounded in the belief that hope comes from a place of reality, not necessarily popular ideology, this book explores the gap between designated and actual narratives within Teach For America. TFA founder Wendy Kopp stated that there is -nothing elusive- about successful teaching; people simply need to -work hard- and be -disciplined-. Taking an inquiry stance, Sarah Matsui surveyed and interviewed 26 of her fellow corps members in the Greater Philadelphia region. Their counternarratives collectively problematize this standard reform rhetoric. Many are working hard, yet their stories and...
Grounded in the belief that hope comes from a place of reality, not necessarily popular ideology, this book explores the gap between designated and ac...
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1166,98 zł |
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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 |