wyszukanych pozycji: 480
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A Dissident Voice; Essays on Culture, Pedagogy, and Power
ISBN: 9781433114007 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This collection of essays by Antonia Darder engages a variety of political questions rooted within the contentious terrain of culture and power in the United States. Divided into seven sections that focus on biculturalism, racism, culture and schooling, language rights, Latino issues, the politics of the body, and a public pedagogy of dissent, the essays forcefully speak to the multiple ways in which the dominant culture shapes and perpetuates widespread inequalities and social exclusions, at the expense of oppressed populations. Spanning twenty years, this timely collection not only provides...
This collection of essays by Antonia Darder engages a variety of political questions rooted within the contentious terrain of culture and power in the...
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814,26 |
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Every Person Is a Philosopher; Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
ISBN: 9781433129377 / Angielski / Twarda / 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,...
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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800,90 |
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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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257,43 |
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Educating African American Males: Contexts for Consideration, Possibilities for Practice
ISBN: 9781433108532 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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«Teaching Like That»: The Beginnings of Teacher Education at Bank Street
ISBN: 9780820462394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book provides the history of the first years of The Cooperative School for Student Teachers now known as Bank Street College of Education a progressive teacher education program. Jaime G. A. Grinberg uses a broad range of documents, including oral histories, to understand and explain the beginnings of this program during the 1930s in New York. The Bank Street program, created and directed mostly by women, was an innovative, alternative, and inspiring case of teacher preparation. Providing detailed descriptions of classes taught by Lucy Sprague Mitchell, -Teaching Like That-...
This book provides the history of the first years of The Cooperative School for Student Teachers now known as Bank Street College of Education a progr...
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188,00 |
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Quiet Wisdom: Teachers in the United States and England Talk about Standards, Practice, and Professionalism
ISBN: 9780820470511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The sturm-und-drang quality of educational reforms in the United States and England has prompted educators to ask how curriculum changes will affect teaching and learning. Central government in England and state agencies in the United States increasingly control curriculum development by writing the standards, monitoring teaching, and assessing standards impact on students achievements. But how does increasing government regulation of education impact teachers professionalism and morale? In arguing that teachers need to retain significant control over what and how they teach, Quiet...
The sturm-und-drang quality of educational reforms in the United States and England has prompted educators to ask how curriculum changes will a...
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Cities of Signs; Learning the Logic of Urban Spaces
ISBN: 9781433111204 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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760,25 |
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Tedious Journeys: Autoethnography by Women of Color in Academe
ISBN: 9781433107672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Tedious Journeys: Autoethnography by Women of Color in Academe lends voice to the experiences of women of color in predominantly White institutions. Its purpose is to create dialogue and develop support networks for faculty members who may have similar experiences, and to increase institutions awareness of how faculty of color experience life within the academy, which can then lead to increasing their attraction and retention. This book will be useful in education classes that deal with diversity and administration in higher education."
Tedious Journeys: Autoethnography by Women of Color in Academe lends voice to the experiences of women of color in predominantly White institut...
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208,32 |
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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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598,74 |
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Power, Teaching, and Teacher Education: Confronting Injustice with Critical Research and Action
ISBN: 9781433121449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This collection of essays frames the work of teachers and teacher educators within a struggle over what it means to educate a highly diverse public. Visions for public education, as shaped by progressivism and the Civil Rights movements, have emphasized preparation of all children and youth for participation in a diverse democracy. This vision is being challenged by neoliberalism, which frames education as a commodity to be acquired for individual advancement within a competitive marketplace, and as an arena for profit-making. In this book, Sleeter connects incisive conceptual analyses,...
This collection of essays frames the work of teachers and teacher educators within a struggle over what it means to educate a highly diverse public. V...
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800,90 |
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Critical Youth Studies Reader: Preface by Paul Willis
ISBN: 9781433121203 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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Teachable Moments: Re-Conceptualizing Curricula Understandings
ISBN: 9780820481418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. How do we understand what curriculum is and does for both learners and teachers? Using actual field-based vignettes, this book introduces teachable moment-oriented, emergent-oriented, and negotiation-oriented curricula practices, and explores how, while the three curricula notions are distinctively different from one another, they are simultaneously interconnected. Teachable Moments is a valuable resource for teachers at all levels. In addition, this is a book for senior undergraduate- and graduate-level early childhood curriculum courses, as well as graduate students and faculty who...
How do we understand what curriculum is and does for both learners and teachers? Using actual field-based vignettes, this book introduces teachable mo...
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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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Undoing Whiteness in the Classroom: Critical Educultural Teaching Approaches for Social Justice Activism
ISBN: 9780820497129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. At the start of the twenty-first century, government mandates and corporate practices are resulting in growing inequities in the U.S. educational field. Many view this as being driven by whiteness hegemony. Undoing Whiteness in the Classroom is a comprehensive effort to bring together, in one volume, educultural practices and teaching strategies that deconstruct whiteness hegemony, empower individuals to develop critical consciousness, and inspire them to engage in social justice activism. Through music, the visual and performing arts, narrative, and dialogue, educulturalism opens us...
At the start of the twenty-first century, government mandates and corporate practices are resulting in growing inequities in the U.S. educational fiel...
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169,49 |
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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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315,55 |
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Interrupting History: Rethinking History Curriculum After 'The End of History'
ISBN: 9781433112393 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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Engaging Science Policy: From the Side of the Messy
ISBN: 9781433103285 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Situated in education policy analysis, this book is at the cutting edge of major debates across the social sciences regarding the nature of science, qualitative/quantitative tensions, post-foundational possibilities, and the research/policy nexus. Located between -the aftermath of poststructuralism- and the -new scientism- afoot in neoliberal audit culture, the book posits an engaged social science that is accountable to complexity and the political value of not being so sure. Its insistence is to put deconstruction to work in the midst of messiness, contingency, and ambiguity. The book will...
Situated in education policy analysis, this book is at the cutting edge of major debates across the social sciences regarding the nature of science, q...
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544,99 |
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A Pedagogy of Powerful Communication: Youth Radio and Radio Arts in the Multilingual Classroom
ISBN: 9781433119576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A Pedagogy of Powerful Communication calls for a revisioning of second language and literacy teaching, arguing for a move away from skills-based ESL instruction where communication is treated as a set of pedagogical techniques, toward a pedagogy of powerful communication that views communication as necessary for effective participation in school, relationships, local/global communities, and democratic society. This pedagogy promotes critical multiliteracies and language development through youth engagement in the practices of media and artistic communities in and out of school,...
A Pedagogy of Powerful Communication calls for a revisioning of second language and literacy teaching, arguing for a move away from skills-base...
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854,39 |
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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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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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1070,17 |