wyszukanych pozycji: 457
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. 10-14 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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749,13 zł |
Sexualities in Education: A Reader
ISBN: 9781433106361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
With germinal texts, new writings, and related art, Sexualities in Education: A Reader illuminates a broad scope of analysis and organization. Composed of a framing essay and nine sections edited by established and emerging scholars and addressing critical topics for researchers and students of sexualities and education, the text provides a timely overview of sexualities considered through a variety of educational lenses and theoretical frameworks. Threads woven throughout... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
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278,26 zł |
De-Testing and De-Grading Schools: Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization
ISBN: 9781433130588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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231,88 zł |
Crafting Critical Stories: Toward Pedagogies and Methodologies of Collaboration, Inclusion, and Voice
ISBN: 9781433121593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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212,12 zł |
Contemporary Curriculum Discourses: Twenty Years of Jct- Second Printing
ISBN: 9780820438825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. JCT was the most important journal of curriculum studies during the field s -paradigm- shift in the 1970s. Its editors sponsored a yearly conference, which also supported the -intellectual breakthrough- that was the reconceptualization of American curriculum studies. This collection brings together -the best- of JCT articles, plus key documentary material of importance to scholars and students alike. Undergraduate and graduate students in curriculum, instruction, and foundations would find this book useful and insightful."
JCT was the most important journal of curriculum studies during the field s -paradigm- shift in the 1970s. Its editors sponsored a yearly confe...
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245,07 zł |
Fanon & Education: Thinking Through Pedagogical Possibilities
ISBN: 9781433106422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Fanon and Education: Thinking Through Pedagogical Possibilities challenges conventional education to go beyond the formal procedures of schooling to engage in the making of multiple meanings of our world. Understanding education requires a holistic approach that extends beyond contemporary classrooms. Education must also be inclusive, addressing questions of difference, diversity, and power, as conceptualized through the lens of class, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality, religion, language, and indigeneity. These issues are thought of in the context of Fanon s oeuvre, to...
Fanon and Education: Thinking Through Pedagogical Possibilities challenges conventional education to go beyond the formal procedures of schooli...
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589,98 zł |
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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205,28 zł |
Capitalism's Educational Catastrophe; And the Advancing Endgame Revolt!
ISBN: 9781433124587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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218,45 zł |
Our Stories Matter; Liberating the Voices of Marginalized Students Through Scholarly Personal Narrative Writing
ISBN: 9781433121135 / Angielski / Miękka / 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 and...
Our Stories Matter explains and exemplifies the methodology of Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) writing for marginalized, underrepresented, a...
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205,28 zł |
Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now?
ISBN: 9780820481470 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Our educational system is in turmoil. Many would argue that it has been assaulted and oversimplified by the right. There is growing concern that we are becoming a liberal nation-state with an increasingly anti-liberal population and an electorate that is disinterested in politics. In this globalized world, the power of capital is so great that opposition to it is often discouraged and disheartened, leaving many citizens few political precepts by which to consider their institutions. This contemporary failure of vision has opened the way for the unimpeded return of the philosophy of the free...
Our educational system is in turmoil. Many would argue that it has been assaulted and oversimplified by the right. There is growing concern that we ar...
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265,08 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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1189,80 zł |
Critical Youth Studies Reader: Preface by Paul Willis
ISBN: 9781433121197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume consider essential issues such as class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural capital, and schooling in creating a dialogue about and a conversation with youth. In a society that continues to devalue, demonize, and pathologize young women and men, leading names in the academy and youth communities argue that traditional studies of youth do not consider young people...
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. This reader begins a conversation about the m...
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318,06 zł |
Culturally Relevant Teaching; Hip-Hop Pedagogy in Urban Schools
ISBN: 9781433110580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Culturally Relevant Teaching centers hip-hop culture as a culturally relevant form of critical pedagogy in urban pre-service teacher education programs. In this important book, Darius D. Prier explores how hip-hop artists construct a sense of democratic education and pedagogy with transformative possibilities in their schools and communities. In a postmodern context, students critical street narratives challenge educators to rethink where -public education- can happen, and the political and empowering purposes to which Black popular culture can serve social justice ends for youth in...
Culturally Relevant Teaching centers hip-hop culture as a culturally relevant form of critical pedagogy in urban pre-service teacher education ...
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205,28 zł |
Re-Thinking E-Learning Research; Foundations, Methods, and Practices
ISBN: 9781433101359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In the rapidly-changing world of the Internet and the Web, theory and research struggle to keep up with technological, social, and economic developments. In education in particular, a proliferation of novel practices, applications, and forms from bulletin boards to Webcasts, from online educational games to open educational resources have come to be addressed under the rubric of -e-learning-. In response to these phenomena, Re-thinking E-Learning Research introduces a number of research frameworks and methodologies relevant to e-learning. The book outlines methods for the analysis of...
In the rapidly-changing world of the Internet and the Web, theory and research struggle to keep up with technological, social, and economic developmen...
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205,28 zł |
Ideologies in Education: Unmasking the Trap of Teacher Neutrality
ISBN: 9780820497044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Ideologies in Education: Unmasking the Trap of Teacher Neutrality powerfully exposes the invisible yet pervasive nature of oppressive dominant ideologies, the urgent need to articulate their existence, and the harmful impact they have on education. The solutions to many of the educational challenges facing subordinated students are not purely technical or methodological in nature, but are instead rooted in commonly unacknowledged discriminatory ideologies and practices. The invisible foundation (hegemonic ideologies that inform our perceptions and treatment of subordinated students)...
Ideologies in Education: Unmasking the Trap of Teacher Neutrality powerfully exposes the invisible yet pervasive nature of oppressive dominant ...
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218,45 zł |
Teach Boldly!: Letters to Teachers about Contemporary Issues in Education
ISBN: 9781433104923 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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1020,81 zł |
Media Education Goes to School: Young People Make Meaning of Media and Urban Education
ISBN: 9781433107610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Media Education Goes to School examines the struggles involved in integrating media education across the curriculum at a small urban school. Based on quasi-ethnographic research specifically semi-formal individual and group interviews with twenty-one participants and participant-observation the text focuses on how students understand and make meaning of media education in their schools, and what they know about urban education and urban school reform. The book argues against the neoliberal ethos that continuously harms urban youth and the rhetoric of new school reform that replicates,...
Media Education Goes to School examines the struggles involved in integrating media education across the curriculum at a small urban school. Ba...
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526,88 zł |
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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749,13 zł |
Re-Mapping Literary Worlds: Postcolonial Pedagogy in Practice
ISBN: 9780820457529 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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171,82 zł |
Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement
ISBN: 9781433113123 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. With the rise of the corporate university and the academic industrial complex, colleges and universities throughout the United States are becoming monitored, armed, gated, and contracted out in the name of security. Policing the Campus is a collection of essays by activist academics and campus organizers from a variety of fields and movements. The book fully explores how higher education has entered a state of academic repression. In this new Occupy Wall Street era, higher education mirrors the problems that plague urban schools in poor communities, including metal detectors, random...
With the rise of the corporate university and the academic industrial complex, colleges and universities throughout the United States are becoming mon...
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822,12 zł |