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Teaching City Kids: Understanding and Appreciating Them
ISBN: 9780820486031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book examines the maligned students who populate urban schools and finds a talented group of resilient young people who deserve the support of the larger society. The editors and authors explore the ways such students are undermined, in the process developing new ways of teaching based on an understanding and appreciation of them. Contemporary political leaders have used the fear of the poor, non-white, and immigrant -city kids- we study here to push racist and class-biased social and educational agendas. This book challenges these tactics, while laying out a pedagogy of respect and...
This book examines the maligned students who populate urban schools and finds a talented group of resilient young people who deserve the support of th...
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278,26 zł |
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The Role of Religion in 21st-Century Public Schools
ISBN: 9781433107658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The fight over the role of religion in public schools is far from finished, and the last and final words have not been written. This collection of original essays reveals and updates the battlefield. Included are essays on school prayer, the evolution/intelligent design debate, public funding of religious groups on university campuses, religious themes in school-taught literature, and more. With diverse tones and points of view, these essays offer quality scholarship while revealing and honoring the heat these themes generate.
The fight over the role of religion in public schools is far from finished, and the last and final words have not been written. This collection of ori...
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567,43 zł |
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Literacy as a Civil Right; Reclaiming Social Justice in Literacy Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9780820488684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The urgency to create equity in schools has never been greater, especially since legislators are considering the re-authorization of No Child Left Behind as a means to eliminating the achievement gap. Studies continue to show that increased standards, testing, and accountability have simply maintained the status quo. In response, this book proposes alternative ways of addressing these educational inequities, taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex historical, social, and global issues that stand in the way of ensuring that all students have access to literacy -...
The urgency to create equity in schools has never been greater, especially since legislators are considering the re-authorization of No Child Left Beh...
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225,30 zł |
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War/Play; Video Games and the Militarization of Society
ISBN: 9781433120015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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231,38 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. 10-14 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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212,12 zł |
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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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218,45 zł |
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Teaching Native America Across the Curriculum; A Critical Inquiry
ISBN: 9781433104053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book examines the multiple ways that concepts associated with Native North American indigeneity can contribute to creative and critical approaches to the process of teaching and learning. A must-read for all pre-service and in-service teachers, the book illustrates how applying these new perspectives to the process of teacher education can shed light on new possibilities for curricular reform. This text will be especially useful to social studies educators interested in interdisciplinary approaches to critical curriculum development.
This book examines the multiple ways that concepts associated with Native North American indigeneity can contribute to creative and critical approache...
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696,17 zł |
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An Enactment of Science: A Dynamic Balance Among Curriculum, Context, and Teacher Beliefs
ISBN: 9780820451244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. An Enactment of Science: A Dynamic Balance Among Curriculum, Context, and Teacher Beliefs examines the specific role of an urban sixth-grade teacher as she engages her students in the learning of science. With a four component model of curriculum enactment (curriculum, context, teacher beliefs, and enactment) as a guiding framework for inquiry, this book addresses an essential question in contemporary science education: Is exemplary science teaching a process of -traditional- practices, -progressive- practices, or, an eclectic combination of both, constituting some notion of a middle...
An Enactment of Science: A Dynamic Balance Among Curriculum, Context, and Teacher Beliefs examines the specific role of an urban sixth-grade te...
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151,80 zł |
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Black Protest Thought and Education: Foreword by James D. Anderson
ISBN: 9780820463124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The modern American corporate-industrial state requires a massive ideological machine to establish social order, create political consensus, train obedient citizen-workers, and dispatch marginalized groups to their place. Mass public education has helped to forge the modern political state that enforces social and racial inequality. Disenchanted African Americans, representing dissenting viewpoints, have vigorously protested this educational system, which is rooted in segregation, differentiated funding, falsehoods, alienation, and exclusion. This important book belongs in classrooms devoted...
The modern American corporate-industrial state requires a massive ideological machine to establish social order, create political consensus, train obe...
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185,25 zł |
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Emerging Perspectives on 'African Development': Speaking Differently
ISBN: 9781433120961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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 cont...
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841,89 zł |
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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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205,28 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. 10-14 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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185,25 zł |
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Learning in Places: The Informal Education Reader
ISBN: 9780820467863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 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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185,25 zł |
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Engaging Science Policy: From the Side of the Messy
ISBN: 9781433103292 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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145,72 zł |
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Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education
ISBN: 9781433132964 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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310,66 zł |
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(Post) Modern Science (Education): Propositions and Alternative Paths
ISBN: 9780820449104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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185,25 zł |
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Technology, Culture, and Socioeconomics: A Rhizoanalysis of Educational Discourses
ISBN: 9780820457932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Technology, Culture, and Socioeconomics is a journey toward a cultural politics of difference in technology discourses in education that explores possibilities for effecting sensibilities other than Western standardizations and hyperrealities. It includes knowings and practices that are dismissed or otherwise silenced because they do not fit Eurocentric epistemological framings. The author troubles the practice of doing research, including the right to know, collecting/analyzing data, and the (im)possibility of ethics within an academic frame of reference. This book is a dance with and...
Technology, Culture, and Socioeconomics is a journey toward a cultural politics of difference in technology discourses in education that explor...
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185,25 zł |
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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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841,89 zł |
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School Hazard Zone: Beyond the Silence/Finding a Voice
ISBN: 9780820469126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. School Hazard Zone: Beyond the Silence/Finding a Voice explores the dynamics that help to perpetuate minority academic underachievement. Through five years of journal entries, epiphanies, and inspirations, Pamela Althea Joyce presents an honest glimpse of undemocratic practices at an urban/suburban high school. She identifies variables associated with minority achievement, examines experiences of the individuals involved, ultimately reframes the -achievement gap- problem, and invites the reader to take a stand on the matter. From the perspective of a teacher preoccupied with the daily...
School Hazard Zone: Beyond the Silence/Finding a Voice explores the dynamics that help to perpetuate minority academic underachievement. Throug...
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172,07 zł |
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Teaching about Frederick Douglass: A Resource Guide for Teachers of Cultural Diversity
ISBN: 9781433112560 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Teaching about Frederick Douglass will stimulate conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school teachers about the life and times of Frederick Douglass. Tension exists at many institutions of higher education between liberal arts faculties who do not completely understand the function of education professors and school of education faculties who feel that there is a misunderstanding about what a teacher candidate needs to learn before entering the teaching profession. This book facilitates conversation, addressing the liberal arts professor...
Teaching about Frederick Douglass will stimulate conversation among liberal arts and education professionals as well as inform public school te...
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749,13 zł |
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