wyszukanych pozycji: 259
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Media Education Goes to School; Young People Make Meaning of Media and Urban Education
ISBN: 9781433107603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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287,50 zł |
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Daredevil Research: Re-Creating Analytic Practice
ISBN: 9780820427768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Daredevil Research: Re-creating Analytic Practice gathers together ten research projects that seek to transform thinking about analytic practice and the construction of research knowledge. By experimenting with alternative models of representation unconstrained by the weight of traditional research protocols, the authors create multiple spaces for imagining how to differently identify issues for inquiry, select modes of analysis, and inscribe -data- into transmittable form. At once a production of research knowledge and a conceptual field for meaning-making, Daredevil Research...
Daredevil Research: Re-creating Analytic Practice gathers together ten research projects that seek to transform thinking about analytic practic...
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245,32 zł |
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Ecological Pedagogy, Buddhist Pedagogy, Hermeneutic Pedagogy: Experiments in a Curriculum for Miracles
ISBN: 9781433122521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book explores three interrelated roots of scholarly work that have a supportive and elaborative affinity to authentic and engaging classroom inquiry: ecological consciousness, Buddhist epistemologies, philosophies and practices, and interpretive inquiry or hermeneutics. Although these three roots originate outside of and extend far beyond most educational literature, understanding them can be of immense practical importance to the conduct of rich, rigorous, practicable, sustainable, and adventurous classroom work for students and teachers alike.
The authors collectively bring to... This book explores three interrelated roots of scholarly work that have a supportive and elaborative affinity to authentic and engaging classroom inqu...
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308,44 zł |
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War/Play; Video Games and the Militarization of Society
ISBN: 9781433120022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The impact that First Person Shooter video games have had on the evolution of youth culture over a decade or more has been the focus of attention from political leaders; medical and legal specialists; and the mass media. Much of the discussion concerning these games has focused on the issues of the violence that is depicted in the games and on the perceived psychological and social costs for individuals and society. What is not widely canvassed in the public debate generated by violent video games is the role that military-themed games play in the wider process of militarization. The...
The impact that First Person Shooter video games have had on the evolution of youth culture over a decade or more has been the focus of attention from...
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1166,98 zł |
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Learning in Places: The Informal Education Reader
ISBN: 9780820467863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Learning in Places is a concerted effort undertaken by an outstanding group of international researchers to create a resource book that can introduce academic, professional and lay readers to the field of informal learning/education and its potential to transform present educational thinking. The book presents a wealth of ideas from a wide variety of disciplinary fields and methodological approaches covering multiple learning landscapes in museums, workplaces, classrooms, places of recreation in a variety of political, social and cultural contexts around the world. Learning in...
Learning in Places is a concerted effort undertaken by an outstanding group of international researchers to create a resource book that can int...
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259,38 zł |
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Using Standards and High-Stakes Testing for Students; Exploiting Power with Critical Pedagogy
ISBN: 9781433115554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
This book overturns the typical conception of standards, empowering educators by providing concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be embraced and used in ways that are consistent with critical pedagogies. Although standards, as broad frameworks for setting learning targets, are not necessarily problematic, when they are operationalized as high-stakes assessments, test-based pedagogies emerge and frequently dominate the curriculum, leaving little room for... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
This book overturns the typical conce... |
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294,38 zł |
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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. 13-18 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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343,74 zł |
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Re-Thinking E-Learning Research; Foundations, Methods, and Practices
ISBN: 9781433101359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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287,50 zł |
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Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century; Perspectives and Examples from Practice
ISBN: 9781433118036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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1096,39 zł |
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Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence
ISBN: 9780820463193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection brings into dialogue authors from a range of disciplines and perspectives to address the thorny question of how to balance the demands of democratic dialogue with the reality of a world in which each voice does not carry equal weight. Should rules be in place, for example, that correct for such imbalances by privileging some voices or muting others? Should separate spaces be created for traditionally disadvantaged groups to speak only among themselves? Is democratic dialogue in an inclusive sense even a possibility in a world divided by multiple dimensions of power and...
This collection brings into dialogue authors from a range of disciplines and perspectives to address the thorny question of how to balance the demands...
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224,08 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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308,44 zł |
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De-Testing and De-Grading Schools: Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization
ISBN: 9781433130588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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322,50 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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315,62 zł |
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Dialogue Is Not Just Talk: A New Ground for Educational Leadership
ISBN: 9780820474694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the first and only book that examines dialogue as it pertains to the work of school leaders. The authors of Dialogue Is Not Just Talk develop a theory of dialogic leadership that bridges the gaps between the pioneering philosophical works of such seminal thinkers as Bakhtin, Buber, and Gadamer, as well as the work of educational leaders. Using examples, vignettes, and illustrations, this book develops both a theoretical and a practical approach to educational leadership. Dialogue Is Not Just Talk speaks to leaders striving to develop relationships, improve understanding,...
This is the first and only book that examines dialogue as it pertains to the work of school leaders. The authors of Dialogue Is Not Just Talk d...
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259,38 zł |
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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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1166,98 zł |
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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. 13-18 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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962,97 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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913,61 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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1455,36 zł |
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Majoring in Change: Young People Use Social Networking to Reflect on High School, College and Work
ISBN: 9781433115356 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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301,56 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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259,38 zł |