wyszukanych pozycji: 259
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Pedagogy for Restoration: Addressing Social and Ecological Degradation Through Education
ISBN: 9781433131547 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pedagogy for Restoration seeks to understand the conditions leading to the destruction of Earth in order to discover pedagogy for restoration. As we degrade the planet we degrade ourselves and as we degrade ourselves we degrade the planet. Moral development and socialization significantly influence our participation in, construction of, or resistance to the systems of oppression that degrade us. The process of restorative education recognizes that humans are fundamentally good and moral and seeks to promote healthy moral development. We must help students meet their basic needs, center...
Pedagogy for Restoration seeks to understand the conditions leading to the destruction of Earth in order to discover pedagogy for restoration. ...
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308,44 zł |
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Undressing the Ad; Reading Culture in Advertising
ISBN: 9780820437552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Undressing the Ad aims to empower readers to become media literate through the work of deconstructing the consumer culture that surrounds them. By introducing critical scholarship on advertising in a way that is accessible, the book attempts to show how issues of race, class, and gender are expressed in contemporary advertising. The readings in this book take a decidedly critical political perspective and explore how representation in advertising upholds certain economic and political structures and subverts others, and exposes the myth that advertisements are merely messages aimed at...
Undressing the Ad aims to empower readers to become media literate through the work of deconstructing the consumer culture that surrounds them....
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245,32 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. 13-18 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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315,62 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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Becoming Critical Researchers: Literacy and Empowerment for Urban Youth
ISBN: 9780820461991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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259,38 zł |
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Learning from Counternarratives in Teach for America: Moving from Idealism Towards Hope
ISBN: 9781433128127 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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308,44 zł |
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Keeping the Promise; Essays on Leadership, Democracy, and Education
ISBN: 9780820481999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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322,50 zł |
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Art, Culture, & Education: Artful Teaching in a Fractured Landscape
ISBN: 9780820457451 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2006 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. While the authors of this book were team teaching a course called -High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste-, the -Sensation- controversy at the Brooklyn Museum broke out. This controversy not only shaped their course, but had larger implications for art, culture, and education in general for the twenty-first century. By asking serious aesthetic and cultural questions about art and teaching, this book explores the power of art to shape both our emotions and our intellect."
While the authors of this book were team teaching a course called -High and Low Art: Good and Bad Taste-, the -Sensation- controversy at the Brooklyn ...
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259,38 zł |
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Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy; Engaging Students in Glocal Issues through the Arts
ISBN: 9781433112317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Artists have always had a role in imagining a more socially just, inclusive world many have devoted their lives to realizing this possibility. In a culture ever more embedded in performance and the visual, an examination of the role of the arts in multicultural teaching for social justice is timely. This book examines and critiques approaches to using activist art to teach a multicultural curriculum. Examples of activist artists and their strategies illustrate how study of and engagement in this process connect local and global issues that can deepen critical literacy and a commitment to...
Artists have always had a role in imagining a more socially just, inclusive world many have devoted their lives to realizing this possibility. In a cu...
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1040,14 zł |
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Critical Youth Studies Reader: Preface by Paul Willis
ISBN: 9781433121197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume consider essential issues such as class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural capital, and schooling in creating a dialogue about and a conversation with youth. In a society that continues to devalue, demonize, and pathologize young women and men, leading names in the academy and youth communities argue that traditional studies of youth do not consider young people...
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. This reader begins a conversation about the m...
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442,16 zł |
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Integrating Multiculturalism Into the Curriculum: From the Liberal Arts to the Sciences
ISBN: 9781433109775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This reader introduces the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, a successful multicultural curriculum transformation paradigm that is a model for colleges and universities across the country and abroad. Section I details the history of the effective implementation of the strategies at a university in Texas over the last seven years with emphasis on goals, pedagogical strategies, institutional support, and faculty recruitment. Section II gives an in-depth look at a sampling of content units presented during the Institute. Section III highlights faculty who attended...
This reader introduces the Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, a successful multicultural curriculum transformation paradi...
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315,62 zł |
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Transforming Education with New Media: Participatory Pedagogy, Interactive Learning, and Web 2.0
ISBN: 9781433117930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The possibilities that online platforms and new media technologies provide, in terms of human connection and the dissemination of information, are seemingly endless. With Web 2.0 there is an exchange of messages, visions, facts, fictions, contemplations, and declarations buzzing around a network of computers that connects students to the world fast. Theoretically this digital connectivity, and the availability of information that it provides, is beneficial to curriculum development in higher education. Education is easily available, democratic, and immersive. But is it worthwhile? Is the kind...
The possibilities that online platforms and new media technologies provide, in terms of human connection and the dissemination of information, are see...
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1026,08 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. 13-18 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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962,97 zł |
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Lost in Media; The Ethics of Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781433113673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Lost in Media examines collectively the ethical issues that have arisen in media-driven everyday life and will that arise as paradigm shifts occur on a global scale. Films, television and the new media often serve the globalization aims of a capitalist society as they function to socially reproduce the hegemonic norms, values, and styles of the larger society. Chapters in the book use the tradition of critical theory to look at issues of free market fundamentalism, journalism s erosion of communication of truth, public relations ethics of perception management; yielding self-censorship...
Lost in Media examines collectively the ethical issues that have arisen in media-driven everyday life and will that arise as paradigm shifts oc...
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1026,08 zł |
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Teaching about Frederick Douglass; A Resource Guide for Teachers of Cultural Diversity
ISBN: 9781433112553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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287,50 zł |
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Assault on Kids; How Hyper-Accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies, and Ruby Payne are Destroying Our Schools
ISBN: 9781433112287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hyper-accountability, corporatization, deficit ideology, and Ruby Payne's preparation of teachers to comply with these and other atrocities are not merely markers of philosophical shifts in education. They are manifestations of a neoliberal remaking of public schooling into a private and corporate enterprise. Collectively, these trends are seen not just as an imposition, but as an assault on quality pedagogy; an assault on democratic ideals of equity and social justice; and an assault on kids compelled to participate simply because they are public school students. This edited collection is a...
Hyper-accountability, corporatization, deficit ideology, and Ruby Payne's preparation of teachers to comply with these and other atrocities are not me...
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273,44 zł |
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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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Playing for Change; Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development
ISBN: 9781433129711 / Angielski / Twarda / 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 development ...
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1166,98 zł |
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Paulo Freire; The Global Legacy
ISBN: 9781433125317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection is the first book devoted to Paulo Freire s ongoing global legacy to provide an analysis of the continuing relevance and significance of Freire s work and the impact of his global legacy. The book contains essays by some of the world s foremost Freire scholars McLaren, Darder, Roberts, and others as well as chapters by scholars and activists, including the Maori scholars Graham Hingangaroa Smith and Russell Bishop, who detail their work with the indigenous people of Aotearoa-New Zealand. The book contains a foreword by Nita Freire as well as chapters from scholars around the...
This collection is the first book devoted to Paulo Freire s ongoing global legacy to provide an analysis of the continuing relevance and significance ...
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519,63 zł |
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International Struggles for Critical Democratic Education: Foreword by Michael W. Apple
ISBN: 9781433116001 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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1040,14 zł |