wyszukanych pozycji: 259
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Cities of Signs; Learning the Logic of Urban Spaces
ISBN: 9781433111204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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1032,53 zł |
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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 |
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Unauthorized Methods: Strategies for Critical Teaching
ISBN: 9780415918428 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work makes accessible and practicable some of the best theoretical innovation in critical pedagogy of the last decade. Issues of knowledge are explored as the authors consider how an integration of popular culture and cultural studies into the lesson plan can enrich and re-invigorate the learning experience. These essays, ranging widely in topic and educational level, are based in theory but are practice-oriented. In translating this theory, the contributors provide educators with techniques which will inform rather than oppress classroom skills.
This work makes accessible and practicable some of the best theoretical innovation in critical pedagogy of the last decade. Issues of knowledge are ex...
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239,99 zł |
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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. 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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1032,53 zł |
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(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 |
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Assault on Kids and Teachers: Countering Privatization, Deficit Ideologies and Standardization in U.S. Schools
ISBN: 9781433151194 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Assault on Kids and Teachers, educators from across the United States push back against the neoliberal school reform movements that are taking the "public" out of public education, demonizing teachers, and stealing from youth the opportunity for an equitable, just, and holistic education.
In Assault on Kids and Teachers, educators from across the United States push back against the neoliberal school reform movements that are taking the ...
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906,92 zł |
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A Dissident Voice; Essays on Culture, Pedagogy, and Power
ISBN: 9781433114007 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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1102,61 zł |
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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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1444,67 zł |
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Representing Youth with Disability on Television: Glee, Breaking Bad, and Parenthood
ISBN: 9781433132513 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Representing Youth with Disability on Television is a complex and multidimensional mainstream cultural discourse that examines specific stereotypes in fictional programming. The book draws attention to the group labeled as disabled, which is often marginalized, misrepresented, and misunderstood in the media, by analyzing the popular television programs Glee, Breaking Bad, and Parenthood. To obtain a more rigorous account of the way that youth (9 18 years of age) with disability are framed on television, this analysis examines the following issues: how research on popular...
Representing Youth with Disability on Television is a complex and multidimensional mainstream cultural discourse that examines specific stereot...
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1158,42 zł |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Fat Pedagogy Reader; Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education
ISBN: 9781433125683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Over the past decade, concerns about a global -obesity epidemic- have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrition permeate society despite significant evidence disputing the -facts- we have come to believe about -obesity-. We live in a culture that privileges thinness and enables weight-based oppression, often expressed as fat phobia and fat bullying. New interdisciplinary fields that problematize -obesity- have emerged, including critical obesity studies, critical weight studies, and fat studies. There also is a small but growing literature examining...
Over the past decade, concerns about a global -obesity epidemic- have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrit...
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1374,90 zł |
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Critical Pedagogy in the New Dark Ages; Challenges and Possibilities
ISBN: 9781433114281 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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1102,61 zł |
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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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188,80 zł |
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The Power of Parents; A Critical Perspective of Bicultural Parent Involvement in Public Schools
ISBN: 9780820474786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Delving into the often unexplored areas of class, race, and power struggles, The Power of Parents poses a unique and original critical examination of the relationship between bicultural parents and the school system. Written with students and practitioners in mind, it challenges past research that has traditionally argued bicultural parents are incompetent, apathetic, and do not value education, hence the cause of their children's academic underachievement. This book sheds new light on why bicultural parents often mistrust the school system and uncovers the contradictions inherent in...
Delving into the often unexplored areas of class, race, and power struggles, The Power of Parents poses a unique and original critical examinat...
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285,42 zł |
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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. 13-18 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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292,26 zł |
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A Different View of Urban Schools; Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, and Unexplored Realities
ISBN: 9781433113888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The revised edition of A Different View of Urban Schools updates a unique story about the realities of urban education in America and provides new insights on the origin of urban education issues; the route to a diverse and effective teaching force; and the impact of federal legislation and corporate involvement on urban schools. Dr. Epstein s analysis of problems is fascinating; her program for the creation of joyful engaging education is equally impressive. The result is a new perspective on what educational reform requires in American cities. This book will be useful to teachers,...
The revised edition of A Different View of Urban Schools updates a unique story about the realities of urban education in America and provides ...
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243,56 zł |
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Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice
ISBN: 9781433127335 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philosophical hermeneutic perspective. It is an invaluable resource for graduate students about to embark in hermeneutic research and for academics or other researchers who are novice to this research method or who wish to extend their knowledge. In 2009, the lead author of this proposed text was one of three co-founders of the Canadian Hermeneutic Institute. The institute was created as a means of bringing together scholars of hermeneutics and...
Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philo...
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1158,42 zł |
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Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis; The Ecopedagogy Movement
ISBN: 9781433105456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that poses the serious and ongoing threat of mass extinction. What role can critical pedagogy play in the face of such burgeoning catastrophe? Drawing upon a range of theoretical influences including Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Herbert Marcuse, traditional ecological knowledge, and the cognitive praxis produced by today s grassroots activists in the alter-globalization, animal and earth liberation, and other radical social movements this book offers the foundations of a philosophy of ecopedagogy for the global north. In so doing, it...
We live in a time of unprecedented planetary ecocrisis, one that poses the serious and ongoing threat of mass extinction. What role can critical pedag...
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285,42 zł |