wyszukanych pozycji: 480
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Becoming a Teacher; Using Narrative as Reflective Practice. A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
ISBN: 9781433113307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Becoming a Teacher revisits the concept of Teacher Lore (Schubert and Ayers, 1992), by providing a cross-disciplinary approach linking elements of narrative theory to all aspects of pre- and in-service teaching. In essence, it embraces the notion that what teachers say matters. The rationale behind this text is the idea that narrative can not only be a conceptual lens through which a particular discipline can be re-examined, but also an aid to help preservice teachers understand the potential importance of personal experience and reflective ways of knowing as they learn to become...
Becoming a Teacher revisits the concept of Teacher Lore (Schubert and Ayers, 1992), by providing a cross-disciplinary approach linking elements...
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Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife
ISBN: 9781433108785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The unfolding of Paulo Freire s philosophy, uniqueness, and the lens through which he viewed the world, which ultimately brought this gentle spirit of a man onto the world stage, began at a young age in his hometown of Recife, Brazil. Remarkably grounded in the wisdom of humility, yet gifted with a determined strength, deep insight, and perceptive intelligence, Freire not only believed in the human spirit, goodness, and the fostering of a more hopeful world, but was also profoundly committed to challenging individuals and political, educational, and religious structures that perpetuated the...
The unfolding of Paulo Freire s philosophy, uniqueness, and the lens through which he viewed the world, which ultimately brought this gentle spirit of...
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Finding Freedom in the Classroom; A Practical Introduction to Critical Theory
ISBN: 9781433108808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics
ISBN: 9780820471204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Because -globalization- is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education shows how this phenomenon is mediated and mitigated by a range of educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. It identifies the forms of educational governance associated with neoliberal globalism and their manifold effects on nation-state education systems, highlighting the colonizing minority-world imperatives and retraditionalizing ramifications. It also shows how the global cultural economy the disjunctive flows of images, people, and ideas...
Because -globalization- is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education sho...
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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. 10-14 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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Undressing the Ad; Reading Culture in Advertising
ISBN: 9780820437552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Undressing the Ad aims to empower readers to become media literate through the work of deconstructing the consumer culture that surrounds them. By introducing critical scholarship on advertising in a way that is accessible, the book attempts to show how issues of race, class, and gender are expressed in contemporary advertising. The readings in this book take a decidedly critical political perspective and explore how representation in advertising upholds certain economic and political structures and subverts others, and exposes the myth that advertisements are merely messages aimed at...
Undressing the Ad aims to empower readers to become media literate through the work of deconstructing the consumer culture that surrounds them....
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Education in Hope: Critical Pedagogies and the Ethic of Care
ISBN: 9781433108457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book explores the relationship between critical pedagogies and an ethic of care. The critical pedagogies of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and scholars/activists in the field of feminist pedagogy are shown to reflect an ethic of care. In clarifying this relationship, Education in Hope uncovers and challenges the dominant ethical models underlying contemporary educational paradigms
This book explores the relationship between critical pedagogies and an ethic of care. The critical pedagogies of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, and scholar...
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Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change: Contributions from the United States and Mexico
ISBN: 9781433109294 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development': Speaking Differently
ISBN: 9781433120961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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 cont...
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Reading & Teaching Henry Giroux
ISBN: 9780820481753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Henry Giroux is one of the world s leading contemporary critical, social, educational, and cultural theorists. Reading and Teaching Henry Giroux demonstrates how his writings can be used in universities, schools, and in cultural production in a very practical fashion. Giroux s works, along with the voices of students and teachers will enable professors, teachers, cultural workers, public intellectuals, policymakers, parents, and students to work toward building democratic societies."
Henry Giroux is one of the world s leading contemporary critical, social, educational, and cultural theorists. Reading and Teaching Henry Giroux
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Feminist Theories and Education Primer: Primer
ISBN: 9780820471471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book, which introduces the underscoring plural perspectives in feminist theories, covers a chronology of over five centuries (from the 1600s to 2000s) in feminist work and theorizing, while introducing contemporary discourses that challenge monolithic representations of feminism. It engages the major critiques of mainstream feminism, including its exclusionary practices and limitations. The Feminist Theories and Education Primer also discusses the importance of feminist research analysis, specifically the need to genuinely comprehend the influence of ideology and subjectivity in...
This book, which introduces the underscoring plural perspectives in feminist theories, covers a chronology of over five centuries (from the 1600s to 2...
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Cities of Signs; Learning the Logic of Urban Spaces
ISBN: 9781433111198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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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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Transmediation in the Classroom a Semiotics-Based Media Literacy Framework
ISBN: 9780820451992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Transmediation in the Classroom proposes semiotics-based frameworks that are built on the assumption that humans manipulate sign systems or codes that are meaningful to them so as to make sense of any human experience. The tensions often encountered in reading classrooms by adolescent readers between what is real and fantasy, artifact and image, object and perception are made manifest in this book, and the ways in which individuals shape, or are shaped by, sign and symbol systems or program elements that surround their learning and communicating environments are systematically...
Transmediation in the Classroom proposes semiotics-based frameworks that are built on the assumption that humans manipulate sign systems or cod...
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School Hazard Zone: Beyond the Silence/Finding a Voice
ISBN: 9780820469126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. School Hazard Zone: Beyond the Silence/Finding a Voice explores the dynamics that help to perpetuate minority academic underachievement. Through five years of journal entries, epiphanies, and inspirations, Pamela Althea Joyce presents an honest glimpse of undemocratic practices at an urban/suburban high school. She identifies variables associated with minority achievement, examines experiences of the individuals involved, ultimately reframes the -achievement gap- problem, and invites the reader to take a stand on the matter. From the perspective of a teacher preoccupied with the daily...
School Hazard Zone: Beyond the Silence/Finding a Voice explores the dynamics that help to perpetuate minority academic underachievement. Throug...
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Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical
ISBN: 9780820449531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical is an inquiry into the questions of how Black women define their existence in a society which devalues, dehumanizes, and silences their beliefs. Placing herself inside of the research, Rochelle Brock invites the reader on a journey of self-exploration, as she and seven of her Black female students investigate their collective journey toward self-awareness in the attempt to liberate their minds and souls from ideological domination. Throughout, Sista Talk attempts to understand the ways in which this self-exploration informs her...
Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical is an inquiry into the questions of how Black women define their existence in a society which deva...
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Pedagogy for Restoration: Addressing Social and Ecological Degradation Through Education
ISBN: 9781433131547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Pedagogy for Restoration seeks to understand the conditions leading to the destruction of Earth in order to discover pedagogy for restoration. As we degrade the planet we degrade ourselves and as we degrade ourselves we degrade the planet. Moral development and socialization significantly influence our participation in, construction of, or resistance to the systems of oppression that degrade us. The process of restorative education recognizes that humans are fundamentally good and moral and seeks to promote healthy moral development. We must help students meet their basic needs, center...
Pedagogy for Restoration seeks to understand the conditions leading to the destruction of Earth in order to discover pedagogy for restoration. ...
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Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement
ISBN: 9781433113116 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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Movement and Dance in Young Children's Lives: Crossing the Divide
ISBN: 9781433112645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In the pedagogical landscape of early childhood, physical movement is central to the holistic development of young children. Yet, movement-related experiences and other bodily activities such as play and dance often present contradictions and conundrums for early childhood educators. As a mode of learning, movement has endured a questionable existence despite the evidence of supportive research and theory, which provides sound reasons for the inclusion of movement in early years curricula. Movement and Dance in Young Children s Lives looks at the place of movement in young children s...
In the pedagogical landscape of early childhood, physical movement is central to the holistic development of young children. Yet, movement-related exp...
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Aesthetics, Politics, and Educational Inquiry; Essays and Examples
ISBN: 9780820445205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores the possibilities of studying educational matters with the tools of narrative and literature. Written over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, these essays trace the literary turn in educational research toward forms of literary journalism, critical storytelling, and postmodern narrative. The articles are presented as biographical evidence of the author s ongoing quest for forms of educational research that are well-suited to the enormously complex nature of educational encounters. This collection includes both theoretical dissertations and actual case...
This collection of essays explores the possibilities of studying educational matters with the tools of narrative and literature. Written over the cour...
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