wyszukanych pozycji: 259
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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306,21 zł |
Majoring in Change: Young People Use Social Networking to Reflect on High School, College and Work
ISBN: 9781433115356 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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299,38 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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1158,42 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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243,56 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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292,26 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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1088,35 zł |
Playing for Change; Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development
ISBN: 9781433129711 / Angielski / Twarda / 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 development ...
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1158,42 zł |
Critical Pedagogy in the New Dark Ages; Challenges and Possibilities
ISBN: 9781433114274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book unmasks the neoliberal ideology that led modern civilization to withdraw from its previous accomplishments into what may be called the new Dark Ages. The international group of contributors to this volume aggressively rejects the siege of society by capitalism and the resulting deterioration. These authors engage a critical pedagogy that brings hope as it acknowledges the potential for social justice and a language of possibility in the educational arena. The prestigious authors assembled here range from Stanley Aronowitz to Slavoj i ek and their subjects from -Higher Education...
This book unmasks the neoliberal ideology that led modern civilization to withdraw from its previous accomplishments into what may be called the new D...
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313,34 zł |
Capitalism's Educational Catastrophe; And the Advancing Endgame Revolt!
ISBN: 9781433124587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Neoliberal capitalism has paved the way to educational catastrophe. It has also opened paths for politically productive and transformative forms of localized resistance(s). This book examines the perilous catastrophe before us, and the possibility that we can reclaim our rights as citizens and redefine democracy as a process for global good rather than a euphemism for our collective enslavement to global markets, which annihilate our souls. The authors analyze the -crisis- in U.S. urban education through visceral narratives of social control while resisting the tendency to make the United...
Neoliberal capitalism has paved the way to educational catastrophe. It has also opened paths for politically productive and transformative forms of lo...
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306,21 zł |
Educating African American Males: Contexts for Consideration, Possibilities for Practice
ISBN: 9781433108532 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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306,21 zł |
(Re)Thinking Orientalism: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Critical Visual Literacy
ISBN: 9781433122286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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313,34 zł |
Teacher Leadership: The «New» Foundations of Teacher Education - A Reader - Revised Edition
ISBN: 9781433127908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Teacher leadership as a dimension of teachers' work has never been more important. This topic has emerged as a major component of both state and national standards, and as such, it is included in most contemporary teacher education programs. Three decades of research have focused on teacher leadership as an essential element of school improvement, but its relationship to the potential transformation of the teaching profession remains unexplored. This revised edition of Teacher Leadership: The New Foundations of Teacher Education provides an overview of the scholarship being done in the...
Teacher leadership as a dimension of teachers' work has never been more important. This topic has emerged as a major component of both state and natio...
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438,94 zł |
The Learning Society in a Postmodern World: The Education Crisis
ISBN: 9780820468365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lifelong learning has become a key concern as the focus of educational policy has shifted from mass schooling toward the learning society. The shift started in the mid 1960s and early 1970s under the impetus of a group of writers and adult educators, gravitating around UNESCO, with a humanist philosophy and a leftist agenda. The vocabulary of that movement was appropriated in the 1990s by other interests with a very different performativist agenda emphasizing effectiveness and economic outcomes. This change of interest, described in the book, has signified the death of education. The...
Lifelong learning has become a key concern as the focus of educational policy has shifted from mass schooling toward the learning society. The shift s...
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292,26 zł |
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Volume 2- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
ISBN: 9781433131288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The literature reviewed in this volume reflects current issues and discussions taking place in education. This volume is about the intersections among curriculum studies and aesthetics; spirituality; cosmopolitanism; ecology; cultural studies; postcolonialism; poststructuralism; and psychoanalytic theory. 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 that will...
Curriculum Studies Guidebooks treat the (Post)reconceptualization of curriculum studies. The literature reviewed in this volume reflects curren...
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The Art of Critical Pedagogy; Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools
ISBN: 9780820474151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 228 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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243,56 zł |
Doing Critical Educational Research: A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth
ISBN: 9781433123177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John Smyth s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from it. Possibly the single most unique aspect to Smyth s version of critical research is his passion for living and doing what it means to be a critical pedagogue. For him, doing is a verb that gives expression to what he believes it means to be a critical scholar. This necessitates actively listening...
John Smyth s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look i...
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299,38 zł |
Reel Diversity: A Teacher's Sourcebook - Revised Edition
ISBN: 9781433128189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first edition of Reel Diversity: A Teacher's Sourcebook won the 2009 Phillip C. Chinn Book Award of the National Association for Multicultural Education. This revised edition is an updated resource guide for educators in secondary and university classrooms who desire to integrate mainstream and independent films into their instructional content about diversity and social justice. The book has transformed difficult dialogues in classrooms around the country by helping educators identify full-length films and shorter film clips to enhance, energize, and motivate student learning.
... The first edition of Reel Diversity: A Teacher's Sourcebook won the 2009 Phillip C. Chinn Book Award of the National Association for Multicultu...
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306,21 zł |
19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City; Foreword by Antonia Darder
ISBN: 9781433108860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The second edition of 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City adds new questions to those in the original volume. Continuing the developing conversation in urban education, the book is provocative in style and rich in detail. Emphasizing the complexity of urban education, Shirley R. Steinberg and the authors ask direct questions about what urban teachers need to know. Their answers are guaranteed to generate both classroom discussion and discourse in the field for years to come. The book not only addresses questions pertaining directly to today's urban schools, but poses new ones for...
The second edition of 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City adds new questions to those in the original volume. Continuing the developing co...
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257,51 zł |
Pedagogy of Place: Seeing Space as Cultural Education
ISBN: 9780820469102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Pedagogy of Place focuses on the embodiment of purposefully created space resulting from the creation and enactment of its participants cultural and social conditions. It is also about education, the purposeful creation of spaces that comprise learning environments, and the aesthetic dimensions of the created space called school. The essays present the concept of space the place where learning happens and where the lives of student and teacher can thrive or wither a place rich in human potential. In an attempt to address the diversity of what we define as space, Pedagogy of...
Pedagogy of Place focuses on the embodiment of purposefully created space resulting from the creation and enactment of its participants cultura...
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188,80 zł |
Finding Freedom in the Classroom; A Practical Introduction to Critical Theory
ISBN: 9781433108808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since its introduction in 1998, Finding Freedom in the Classroom has impacted countless educators and preservice teachers by providing provocative questions about taken-for-granted educational routines as well as an alternative, imaginative view of what classrooms might become. This revised edition brings the conversation to the present day with contemporary examples and references to the best current thinking and writing on relevant issues. By defining terms in everyday language and demonstrating their relevance to everyday life in and out of the classroom, the book demystifies such...
Since its introduction in 1998, Finding Freedom in the Classroom has impacted countless educators and preservice teachers by providing provocat...
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222,47 zł |