wyszukanych pozycji: 457
Movement and Dance in Young Children's Lives: Crossing the Divide
ISBN: 9781433112652 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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642,95 zł |
From the Classroom to the Corner: Female Dropouts' Reflections on Their School Years
ISBN: 9780820481890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. From the Classroom to the Corner explores the in-school and out-of-school experiences of three young women who dropped out of school as adolescents and turned to prostitution. This fascinating book presents them as case studies in the context of dropping out, in-school and non-school curriculum, adolescent prostitution, feminist theory, and race, class, and gender. Most prostitutes state that they are on the streets because they lack the educational credentials and job training required for gainful employment; therefore, the educational experiences of these young women are tantamount...
From the Classroom to the Corner explores the in-school and out-of-school experiences of three young women who dropped out of school as adolesc...
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198,43 zł |
Teacher Educators Rethink Self-Assessment in Higher Education; A Guide for the Perplexed
ISBN: 9781433108341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully in a diverse range of teacher education courses. Educators from disciplines as diverse as theater arts, early childhood, psychology, mathematics, and science education have adopted a model of self-assessment and self-evaluation that supports the individual ongoing assessment of learning throughout a course as well as the final synthesis of individual learning in the course. Self-assessment and self-evaluation are presented here as a means to...
This edited book provides readers with a guide for implementing self-assessment and self-evaluation that is based on a model implemented successfully ...
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789,18 zł |
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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669,55 zł |
Reducing Hate Crimes and Violence Among American Youth: Creating Transformational Agency Through Critical Praxis
ISBN: 9780820452807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. As hate crimes and violence continue to hurt the innocent, our society has looked little beyond retribution and punishment for the perpetrators. This book breaks new ground by looking at the ways in which educators and school boards can work to develop transformational agency for those students most at risk. By developing alternative schools that foster strong relationships through supportive communities, disaffected youth can find hope and trust within themselves as they continue their educational and social development. Undergirded with critical and border pedagogy, alternative schools...
As hate crimes and violence continue to hurt the innocent, our society has looked little beyond retribution and punishment for the perpetrators. This ...
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205,28 zł |
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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841,89 zł |
Culturally Relevant Teaching: Hip-Hop Pedagogy in Urban Schools
ISBN: 9781433110573 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Culturally Relevant Teaching centers hip-hop culture as a culturally relevant form of critical pedagogy in urban pre-service teacher education programs. In this important book, Darius D. Prier explores how hip-hop artists construct a sense of democratic education and pedagogy with transformative possibilities in their schools and communities. In a postmodern context, students critical street narratives challenge educators to rethink where -public education- can happen, and the political and empowering purposes to which Black popular culture can serve social justice ends for youth in...
Culturally Relevant Teaching centers hip-hop culture as a culturally relevant form of critical pedagogy in urban pre-service teacher education ...
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749,13 zł |
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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185,25 zł |
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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171,82 zł |
A Call to Action: An Introduction to Education, Philosophy, and Native North America
ISBN: 9781433101724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A Call to Action challenges current and future teachers to take seriously the philosophical implications of being an educator on land indigenous to a particular human group with both Native and non-Native students. Readers are introduced to the interrelated histories of education, philosophy, and Native and non-Native peoples in North America. These discussions point to the advancement of a critical pedagogy for Native North America. This book should be read by any teacher or student who is or will be involved with cultural studies, especially in the area of Native Americans.
A Call to Action challenges current and future teachers to take seriously the philosophical implications of being an educator on land indigenou...
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205,28 zł |
The Last Book of Postmodernism: Apocalyptic Thinking, Philosophy and Education in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781433100468 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Last Book of Postmodernism comprises set of essays written on and about postmodernism and education. It is written in an apocalyptic tone that treats themes of religion and spiritualism, drawing on poststructuralist sources of inspiration, to contrast the present postmodern condition and the philosophical significance and historical influence of Nietzsche s statement God is dead. The book considers the meaning of the end of Christendom and the prospect of global spirituality. It also considers the end of literature and the beginning of user-generated cultures and the implications...
The Last Book of Postmodernism comprises set of essays written on and about postmodernism and education. It is written in an apocalyptic tone t...
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669,55 zł |
Educational Yearning: The Journey of the Spirit and Democratic Education
ISBN: 9780820434865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. What room is there for a language of spirituality and the spirit in democratic forms of education? This is the question posed in this collection of essays by a broad range of scholars working in education. Beginning with the premise that postmodernism is associated with a re-spiritualization of culture, the authors seek to explore ways in which this re-spiritualization can be pushed in democratic rather than rightist or fundamentalist directions. What they celebrate is diversity of progressive traditions and discourses of spirituality that educators and other cultural workers can draw upon to...
What room is there for a language of spirituality and the spirit in democratic forms of education? This is the question posed in this collection of es...
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151,80 zł |
Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader
ISBN: 9781433122514 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader critically investigates and informs the construction of Southernness, Southern identity, and the South past and present. It promotes and expands the notion of a Southern epistemology. Authors from across the South write about such diverse topics as Southern working-class culture; LGBT issues in the South; Southern music; Southern reality television; race and ethnicity in the South; religion in the South; sports in the South; and Southernness. How do these multiple interpretations of popular culture within critical conceptualizations of place...
Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader critically investigates and informs the construction of Southernness, Southern identity, and the S...
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1213,41 zł |
A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging Through the Southern Mist
ISBN: 9781433113321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Since the United States has gone South in a number of respects, it is crucial to our understandings of ourselves and our current milieu to peer through the mist that covers the intricacies of the culture and history of the South. A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist presents new and provocative insights into the study of curriculum and place focusing on the South. The essays emphasize understanding the importance of Southern place politically, educationally, and experientially. Southern place is studied autobiographically, historically, and...
Since the United States has gone South in a number of respects, it is crucial to our understandings of ourselves and our current milieu to peer throug...
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205,28 zł |
Classroom Calypso: Giving Voice to the Voiceless
ISBN: 9780820451374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. What happens when teachers -relinquish the authority of truth providers-? Ninth grader Sasha Pringle, one of the student voices in Classroom Calypso, asserts that such a self-effacing posture empowers students by -releasing the writer within, - thereby fostering a critical, creative, and reflective disposition. Winthrop R. Holder re-represents students not as marginalized beings merely absorbing information but as subjects taking center stage and inscribing themselves into history. On their literary pilgrimage seeking self-knowledge, students, employing tale-telling, recast their...
What happens when teachers -relinquish the authority of truth providers-? Ninth grader Sasha Pringle, one of the student voices in Classroom Calyps...
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218,45 zł |
Upon Whom We Depend: The American Poverty System
ISBN: 9780820441511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Poverty is a fundamental and damaging feature of American culture that is ingrained in the structures, practices, and values of our institutions. An adequate understanding of the roles and functions of poverty requires the contributions of both the liberal arts and the social sciences and cannot be shunted off to social work.
Upon Whom We Depend challenges readers to examine their own ideas, beliefs, and attitudes, and to recognize how institutions can become instruments for overcoming the social arrangement by which poverty is perpetuated. Poverty is a fundamental and damaging feature of American culture that is ingrained in the structures, practices, and values of our institutions. An a...
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112,52 zł |
Assault on Kids and Teachers: Countering Privatization, Deficit Ideologies and Standardization in U.S. Schools
ISBN: 9781433132827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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220,73 zł |
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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212,12 zł |
Global Media Literacy in a Digital Age: Teaching Beyond Borders
ISBN: 9781433128455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. How do we connect with one another? How do the media portray different cultures and beliefs? What messages are often omitted from media? How do we connect what we see in the worldwide media to the classroom? This book, divided into four parts, serves to answer many of these questions. In Part 1, readers are provided with a historical look at media literacy education while glimpsing the future of this educational movement. Part 2 curates voices from around the globe, from practitioners to researchers, who provide a look at issues that are of consequence in our worldwide society. Part 3 focuses...
How do we connect with one another? How do the media portray different cultures and beliefs? What messages are often omitted from media? How do we con...
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895,10 zł |
Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis; The Ecopedagogy Movement
ISBN: 9781433105456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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205,28 zł |