wyszukanych pozycji: 480
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At the Elbow of Another; Learning to Teach by Coteaching
ISBN: 9780820455679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. At the Elbow of Another is about teaching and learning to teach, written from the perspectives and experiences of two educators who teach and, in so doing, learn to teach. Teaching and learning to teach at the elbows of other teachers (including ourselves) provide us with new and different understandings and allow us to describe a different epistemology of teaching. We adopt a first-person perspective on teaching, sometimes our own and at other times that of peers but through the eyes of coparticipants engaged in an activity with the same primary intention of assisting students to...
At the Elbow of Another is about teaching and learning to teach, written from the perspectives and experiences of two educators who teach and, ...
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Rage + Hope: Interviews with Peter McLaren on War, Imperialism, + Critical Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780820479170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Rage and Hope, a collection of the most controversial and provocative interviews granted by Peter McLaren from around the turn of the twenty-first century, offers a lucid and penetrating window into the thought and humanity of one of the world s most influential critical educators. This book will be an indispensable resource in courses on critical pedagogy, the sociology of education, critical theory, cultural studies, political science, multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and the social foundations of education."
Rage and Hope, a collection of the most controversial and provocative interviews granted by Peter McLaren from around the turn of the twenty-fi...
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Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change: Contributions from the United States and Mexico
ISBN: 9781433109287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change presents the work of fourteen scholars concerning the United States and Mexico. The authors explore current and changing educational contexts through the relationship between discourses and identities. These are contexts in which the participants must negotiate multiple, and sometimes conflicting, positions. The empirical studies reported here are grounded in contemporary theories of sociolinguistics and literacy practices, social relations conceptualized in dynamics of power, and identity representations. The book uniquely...
Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change presents the work of fourteen scholars concerning the United States and Mexico. The...
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192,70 |
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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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Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education
ISBN: 9781433102301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education is the first international and multidisciplinary effort to coalesce knowledge on education and popular culture studied as broad phenomena and not as a collection of case studies. In this volume, popular culture has been thematically treated as it appears in a variety of media, including movies, digital games, advertising, television, popular songs, and the internet. The book considers education in both formal and informal settings, and looks critically at the accepted dichotomy between education and popular culture. It argues that popular...
Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education is the first international and multidisciplinary effort to coalesce knowledge on education and pop...
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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. 10-14 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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Narrative Pedagogy: Life History and Learning
ISBN: 9781433108921 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. It is widely recognised that we are living through an age of the narrative . Many of the constituent disciplines in the social sciences resonate with this trend by using life history and narrative approaches and methods. As we move on from the modernist period which prioritised objectivity into the postmodern regard for subjectivity, this resort to narrative is likely to become more apparent and explicit in academic as well as social and commercial discourse.
One aspect of this narrative form which is commonly overlooked is that of the pedagogic encounter. This is the phenomenon which is... It is widely recognised that we are living through an age of the narrative . Many of the constituent disciplines in the social sciences resonate with ...
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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. 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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Art, Culture, & Education: Artful Teaching in a Fractured Landscape
ISBN: 9780820457451 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2006 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. While the authors of this book were team teaching a course called -High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste-, the -Sensation- controversy at the Brooklyn Museum broke out. This controversy not only shaped their course, but had larger implications for art, culture, and education in general for the twenty-first century. By asking serious aesthetic and cultural questions about art and teaching, this book explores the power of art to shape both our emotions and our intellect."
While the authors of this book were team teaching a course called -High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste-, the -Sensation- controversy at the Brooklyn ...
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Becoming Critical Researchers: Literacy and Empowerment for Urban Youth
ISBN: 9780820461991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Becoming Critical Researchers analyzes the findings of a two-year ethnographic study of the apprenticeship of urban youth as critical researchers of popular culture. Drawing on new literacy studies, critical pedagogy, and sociocultural learning theory, this book documents the changes in student participation within a critical research-focused community of practice. These changes include the acquisition and development of academic and critical literacies and the resulting translations of these literacies into increased academic performance, greater access to college, and commitment to...
Becoming Critical Researchers analyzes the findings of a two-year ethnographic study of the apprenticeship of urban youth as critical researche...
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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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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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Out of Bounds: When Scholarship Athletes Become Academic Scholars
ISBN: 9781433105692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Out of Bounds explores the trajectories and challenges of exceptional men and women athletes who later became outstanding academic scholars. The book reports findings from participatory, qualitative research, and problematizes ways we have come to think about the separation and integration of athletic and academic practices embodied in both institutions and individuals, and reflected through intersecting categories and experiences of race, gender, and social class. Through the provocative and surprising narratives of gifted athletes who became prolific scholars, this book offers...
Out of Bounds explores the trajectories and challenges of exceptional men and women athletes who later became outstanding academic scholars. Th...
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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. 16-18 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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Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century; Perspectives and Examples from Practice
ISBN: 9781433118029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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Teacher Evaluation: The Charge and the Challenges
ISBN: 9781433123559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The evaluation of teachers is at the forefront of national discussion, with the divide on the topic growing increasingly deeper. Teachers are under attack, in a war waged from the top down, complete with private entities, standardization, and a limited view of what it means to be -good- or -effective-. In both teacher preparation programs and in our public schools, teachers entering the profession and practicing in classrooms face evaluation measures that are biased, unreliable, and reliant upon quantitative outcomes. Teacher Evaluation: The Charge and the Challenges aims to -talk...
The evaluation of teachers is at the forefront of national discussion, with the divide on the topic growing increasingly deeper. Teachers are under at...
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844,50 |
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Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Volume 1- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
ISBN: 9781433131264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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A Decolonizing Encounter: Ward Churchill and Antonia Darder in Dialogue
ISBN: 9781433117077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A Decolonizing Encounter examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the West and the -third world-. Specifically, it explores crucial issues such as the decolonizing of schools and communities of color; the decentralization of power of the capitalist and colonial state; globalization; democracy; and struggle for political and economic justice for all peoples. This book holds appeal particularly to committed social justice educators, as well as scholars and community activists concerned with the important issues of...
A Decolonizing Encounter examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the ...
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Writing at the Edge: Narrative and Writing Process Theory
ISBN: 9780820467856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In Writing at the Edge, Jeff Park invites the reader to see personal writing as the metaphorical space where individuals negotiate meaning with others and the world. Drawing upon writing process theory, curriculum theory, narrative theory, and many years of practice, this book explores writing in relation to the -self-, but dares to include the multiplicities and contradictions of social and cultural constructions of gender, power, and politics. Park uses the metaphor of the -riparian zone- to reconsider the value of writing as a site of negotiation of self, culture, and society. This...
In Writing at the Edge, Jeff Park invites the reader to see personal writing as the metaphorical space where individuals negotiate meaning with...
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People Need to Know: Confronting History in the Heartland
ISBN: 9781433129780 / Angielski / Miękka / 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....
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 captur...
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