wyszukanych pozycji: 259
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Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century; Perspectives and Examples from Practice
ISBN: 9781433118029 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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301,56 zł |
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Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics
ISBN: 9780820471204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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259,38 zł |
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International Struggles for Critical Democratic Education: Foreword by Michael W. Apple
ISBN: 9781433115998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
Drawing from rich data, International Struggles for Critical Democratic Education profiles teachers, students, and schools struggling to interrupt the reproduction of social inequalities from one generation to the next. International in its nature, the work collected here illustrates how forces of globalization create greater inequalities, and carefully describes and evaluates efforts to democratize educational opportunities. This text will be useful in undergraduate and... This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
Drawing from rich data, Internatio... |
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301,56 zł |
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A Decolonizing Encounter; Ward Churchill and Antonia Darder in Dialogue
ISBN: 9781433117084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Decolonizing Encounter examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the West and the -third world-. Specifically, it explores crucial issues such as the decolonizing of schools and communities of color; the decentralization of power of the capitalist and colonial state; globalization; democracy; and struggle for political and economic justice for all peoples. This book holds appeal particularly to committed social justice educators, as well as scholars and community activists concerned with the important issues of...
A Decolonizing Encounter examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the ...
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273,44 zł |
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Navigating Borders; Critical Race Theory Research and Counter History of Undocumented Americans
ISBN: 9781433112614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award In the context of debates about U.S. immigration, this book gives a voice to undocumented Americans of Mexican origin - specifically, involuntary immigrants born in Mexico but brought to the United States by their parents as minors. They are indistinguishable from other Americans, yet in the media and their everyday lives they encounter racism, discrimination, ostracism, and castigation on a regular basis. This book is about their stories and how, against the odds, they offer resistance as they navigate across ideological,...
This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award In the context of debates about U.S. immigration, this book gives a voice to undocumente...
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287,50 zł |
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Representing Youth with Disability on Television: Glee, Breaking Bad, and Parenthood
ISBN: 9781433132506 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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308,44 zł |
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Curriculum Studies Guidebooks: Volume 1- Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks
ISBN: 9781433131264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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1455,36 zł |
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The Fat Pedagogy Reader; Challenging Weight-Based Oppression Through Critical Education
ISBN: 9781433125676 / Angielski / Miękka / 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 nutritio...
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407,16 zł |
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Teaching Truly; A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education
ISBN: 9781433122484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For the first time in educational publishing, Teaching Truly offers K-16 teachers course-specific guidelines for indigenizing mainstream education. The goal is to facilitate greater educational integrity and relevance in the classroom now, without waiting for more reforms to policy, standards or curricula in general. Incorporating reality-based teaching common in traditional Indigenous learning cultures, each chapter first exposes educational hegemony, including that existing within the new common core standards, and then offers alternative, time-tested perspectives and exercises to counter...
For the first time in educational publishing, Teaching Truly offers K-16 teachers course-specific guidelines for indigenizing mainstream education. Th...
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301,56 zł |
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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. 13-18 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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1244,17 zł |
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Cities of Signs; Learning the Logic of Urban Spaces
ISBN: 9781433111198 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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259,38 zł |
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Performances of Research; Critical Issues in K-12 Education
ISBN: 9781433119620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Participatory performances have long been used to invite audiences to embody, voice, and imagine the perspective of different characters, values, and viewpoints. Performances of Research: Critical Issues in K-12 Education provides a collection of performative texts that retell the lived experiences of children and youth in meaningful and engaging ways, while providing readers with an opportunity to participate in the retelling. Performances of Research is for faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students who are engaged in the study of social foundations in education, equity and...
Participatory performances have long been used to invite audiences to embody, voice, and imagine the perspective of different characters, values, and ...
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294,38 zł |
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My Teaching, My Philosophy: Kenneth Wain and the Lifelong Engagement with Education
ISBN: 9781433124853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with Kenneth Wain and the many facets of his work. It shows how Wain s passionate engagement with various issues, most prominently philosophy and education, continues to re-generate new ideas and thoughts through his philosophical method. This book gives Wain s philosophy the attention it deserves and succeeds in continuing an open-ended philosophical conversation with its readers. My Teaching, My Philosophy is a must-read for anyone wanting...
My Teaching, My Philosophy brings together twenty of the most prominent thinkers on education, philosophy, art, and literature to converse with...
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322,50 zł |
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Every Person Is a Philosopher; Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams
ISBN: 9781433129360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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, and...
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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301,56 zł |
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Educating African American Males: Contexts for Consideration, Possibilities for Practice
ISBN: 9781433108525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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1040,14 zł |
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Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education, and the Culture of Self
ISBN: 9780820481951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book focuses on Foucault s later work and his (re)turn to the hermeneutics of the subject, exploring the implications of his thinking for education, pedagogy, and related disciplines. What and who is the subject of education and what are the forms of self-constitution? Chapters investigate Foucault s notion of the culture of self in relation to questions concerning truth (parrhesia or free speech) and subjectivity, especially with reference to the literary genres of confession and biography, and the contemporary political forms of individualization (governmentality)."
This book focuses on Foucault s later work and his (re)turn to the hermeneutics of the subject, exploring the implications of his thinking for educati...
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287,50 zł |
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Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development': Speaking Differently
ISBN: 9781433120954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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 con...
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301,56 zł |
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Learning from Counternarratives in Teach for America: Moving from Idealism Towards Hope
ISBN: 9781433128134 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Grounded in the belief that hope comes from a place of reality, not necessarily popular ideology, this book explores the gap between designated and actual narratives within Teach For America. TFA founder Wendy Kopp stated that there is -nothing elusive- about successful teaching; people simply need to -work hard- and be -disciplined-. Taking an inquiry stance, Sarah Matsui surveyed and interviewed 26 of her fellow corps members in the Greater Philadelphia region. Their counternarratives collectively problematize this standard reform rhetoric. Many are working hard, yet their stories and...
Grounded in the belief that hope comes from a place of reality, not necessarily popular ideology, this book explores the gap between designated and ac...
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1166,98 zł |
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Culturally Relevant Teaching; Hip-Hop Pedagogy in Urban Schools
ISBN: 9781433110580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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294,38 zł |
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Becoming a Critical Educator: Defining a Classroom Identity, Designing a Critical Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780820461496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Many American educators are all too familiar with disengaged students, disenfranchised teachers, sanitized and irrelevant curricula, inadequate support for the neediest schools and students, and the tyranny of standardizing testing. This text invites teachers and would-be teachers unhappy with such conditions to consider becoming critical educators - professionals dedicated to creating schools that genuinely provide equal opportunity for all children. Assuming little or no background in critical theory, chapters address several essential questions to help readers develop the understanding and...
Many American educators are all too familiar with disengaged students, disenfranchised teachers, sanitized and irrelevant curricula, inadequate suppor...
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287,50 zł |