wyszukanych pozycji: 95
Scientific and Religious Habits of Mind: Irreconcilable Tensions in the Curriculum
ISBN: 9780820471082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The open, inquiring nature of science is fundamentally incompatible with the closed, authoritarian nature of most religious training. Reasons for rejection of personal god concepts by Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Bertrand Russell are used by this author to underline this incompatibility and to show how each of these important scientists came to reject organized religion. Conflicts between scientific and religious habits of mind are described and ideas for education are offered. Common assumptions about our natural environment and human nature are shown to be obstacles to scientific...
The open, inquiring nature of science is fundamentally incompatible with the closed, authoritarian nature of most religious training. Reasons for reje...
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145,72 zł |
Curriculum Studies in the United States: Present Circumstances, Intellectual Histories
ISBN: 9781137303417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 113 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Pinar documents that the field of curriculum studies in the United States is in the early stages of a second paradigm shift, this time stimulated by present political circumstances. He explains why their acceptance in contemporary scholarship signals their conceptual exhaustion and how recent work in the field begins to surpass them.
Pinar documents that the field of curriculum studies in the United States is in the early stages of a second paradigm shift, this time stimulated by p...
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192,30 zł |
The Synoptic Text Today and Other Essays: Curriculum Development After the Reconceptualization
ISBN: 9780820481272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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205,28 zł |
The Authority to Imagine: The Struggle Toward Representation in Dissertation Writing
ISBN: 9780820474540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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185,25 zł |
Curriculum and the Aesthetic Life: Hermeneutics, Body, Democracy, and Ethics in Curriculum Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781433117664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Curriculum and the Aesthetic Life brings together over 20 years of scholarly work by dancer, educator, and scholar Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones on the intersection of curriculum theory and practice with aesthetics, ethics, and hermeneutic inquiry, focusing on the body and emotions and the theory and practice of Arts-Based Education Research, including his noted -Hogan Dreams.- He brings to his work an aesthetic sensibility developed over 40 years of active involvement in the arts as well as a Frankfurt School critical theory orientation and a constant concern for building an ethical...
Curriculum and the Aesthetic Life brings together over 20 years of scholarly work by dancer, educator, and scholar Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones o...
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802,36 zł |
The Classroom: Encounter and Engagement
ISBN: 9781349496709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. What goes on in a classroom? can mean "Are teachers imparting knowledge that will raise test scores?" or it can mean much more. In this series of essays, Block addresses the nature of the classroom as a place for encounter and engagements: with curriculum materials and books, between teachers and students, and with the self.
What goes on in a classroom? can mean "Are teachers imparting knowledge that will raise test scores?" or it can mean much more. In this series of essa...
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192,30 zł |
Teachers in Nomadic Spaces: Deleuze and Curriculum
ISBN: 9780820467375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Teachers in Nomadic Spaces is fieldwork in curriculum theory, weaving vital strands of Gilles Deleuze s constructivist philosophy into a case study of teacher induction and becoming in an urban innovative school. Releasing the productive power of difference, it allows us to see the pedagogical potential of irregular (nomadic) spaces and thereby to obtain release from the Platonic pincer-hold of curriculum as recovery and representation. This book offers a conceptual mode for recomposing ourselves into new expressions in education by means of semiotic and affective experimentation, and...
Teachers in Nomadic Spaces is fieldwork in curriculum theory, weaving vital strands of Gilles Deleuze s constructivist philosophy into a case s...
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185,25 zł |
A Curriculum of Wellness: Reconceptualizing Physical Education
ISBN: 9781433129988 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. A Curriculum of Wellness seeks to encourage a deeper discussion about teaching our children how to be healthy and live well. It makes a significant contribution to the field of education as it features influential curriculum concepts nuanced with action research principles in a unified, intimate, and deeply relational inquiry into physical education teacher practice. This work presents a very practical yet complex and wisdom-guided way to transform teaching practices that follow more holistic understandings of wellness. A new mode of curriculum inquiry, wisdom-guided inquiry, ...
A Curriculum of Wellness seeks to encourage a deeper discussion about teaching our children how to be healthy and live well. It makes a signifi...
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841,89 zł |
Bodies Out of Control: Rethinking Science Texts
ISBN: 9781433105159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. What is the cultural politics of science, health, and disease in the U.S.? Bodies Out of Control explores this question through a series of case studies. From its in-depth examination of the discussions of sickle-cell anemia, schistosomiasis, and cancer in middle school and high school textbooks to its analysis of the news coverage of the anthrax attacks of 2001, the book reveals the entanglements of science, colonialism, nationalism, and identity. The book also explores how the meaning of science itself is worked through in public discourses, offering alternatively medical salvation,...
What is the cultural politics of science, health, and disease in the U.S.? Bodies Out of Control explores this question through a series of cas...
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205,28 zł |
Shifting the Kaleidoscope: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Educators' Insights on Culture Shock, Identity and Pedagogy
ISBN: 9781433126833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book examines culture shock and reverse culture shock as valuable learning experiences for educators working in increasingly culturally diverse environments. Although these phenomena are often cast as illnesses to be avoided, this study suggests that both types of shock can help educators develop greater self-understanding and intercultural awareness and will benefit their pedagogical practices as well. For this study, four returned Peace Corps volunteer educators who have taught at various grade levels, both abroad and in the United States, share thought-provoking stories of how their...
This book examines culture shock and reverse culture shock as valuable learning experiences for educators working in increasingly culturally diverse e...
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218,45 zł |
A Heart of Wisdom: Life Writing as Empathetic Inquiry
ISBN: 9781433115301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This anthology explores life writing as a mode of educational inquiry, one where students and teachers may get a -heart of wisdom- as they struggle with the tensions and complexities of learning and teaching in challenging contemporary circumstances. Contributors write first-person creative non-fiction in a variety of life-writing genres, such as memoir, poetry, personal essay, and various blended genres. Four sections entitled Memory Work, Place Work, Curriculum Work, and Social Work explore the struggles and joys of pedagogy where relationships are at the heart of teaching and learning. The...
This anthology explores life writing as a mode of educational inquiry, one where students and teachers may get a -heart of wisdom- as they struggle wi...
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908,54 zł |
Auto/Biography & Pedagogy: Memory & Presence in Teaching
ISBN: 9781433116421 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research. The book moves from first to third person accounts and from personal and family stories to narratives of teachers and teacher educators in the contested, multicultural environment of Israel. It highlights the multi-voiced, embodied lives of Israeli teachers from many cultures and identities and engages with literature...
In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience...
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906,77 zł |
Provocations: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education
ISBN: 9780820478777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. No twentieth-century woman/teacher has provoked as much interest and perplexity as Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984). Her life reveals the fascinating dilemmas of classroom erotics, the dangers of intimacy in teaching and learning, the difficult and ambiguous nature of post-heterosexual attachments in women s biographies, and the powerful fantasy that the objects of teaching lives are other than our own teaching selves. Provocations: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education provides a groundbreaking and timely feminist re-visioning of Ashton-Warner. This book speaks not only...
No twentieth-century woman/teacher has provoked as much interest and perplexity as Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984). Her life reveals the fascinating ...
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205,28 zł |
Curriculum: Toward New Identities
ISBN: 9780815325505 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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909,47 zł |
«Currere» and the Environmental Autobiography: A Phenomenological Approach to the Teaching of Ecology
ISBN: 9780820463698 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book documents a high school ecology class that employs currere, William Pinar s idea for curriculum as autobiographical text, and analyzes the course s success from the author s point of view as both the practitioner and the curriculum developer. Discussing individual students responses to currere in a project termed the Environmental Autobiography (EA) a twist on currere that emphasizes environmental experience this book examines how ecology is taught in high schools; how ecologists are produced, along with the importance of ecology in school curriculum today; the...
This book documents a high school ecology class that employs currere, William Pinar s idea for curriculum as autobiographical text, and analyze...
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185,25 zł |
The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene: 'I Am ... Not Yet'
ISBN: 9780750708128 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Maxine Greene is the most important philosopher of education in the United States today. The author of Teacher as Stranger (1973), Landscapes of Learning (1978), Dialectic of Freedom (1988), and Releasing the Imagination (1995), Greene has influenced tens of thousands of teachers in North America as well as her colleagues in philosophy of education, teacher education, and curriculum studies. While widely cited, Greene has not - until now - been the subject of sustained scholarly analysis and investigation. William F. Pinar has organized a systematic study...
Maxine Greene is the most important philosopher of education in the United States today. The author of Teacher as Stranger (1973), Landsc...
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909,47 zł |
The Autobiographical Demand of Place: Curriculum Inquiry in the American South
ISBN: 9780820488059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Place is central to the study of the American South. The question of the meaning and power of place underpinned the earliest efforts to define and understand the region, and place remains a crucial concept in an ongoing process of regional identification and inquiry. This book examines Southern place autobiographically, historically, and theoretically in order to illuminate the subjective and social dimensions of place and to promote progressive conversation in the region. Using the interpretive tools of psychoanalysis to take account of the autobiographical roots of knowledge and society,...
Place is central to the study of the American South. The question of the meaning and power of place underpinned the earliest efforts to define and und...
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165,49 zł |
Sounds of Silence Breaking: Women, Autobiography, Curriculum
ISBN: 9780820461571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Janet L. Miller is one of the most important and influential curriculum theorists of our time. Sounds of Silence Breaking presents a broad range of her writing from the last two decades. This book contains portraits of self-complicating work that disrupt unitary and normative conceptions of women, autobiography, and curriculum. Miller reconceptualizes curriculum theory through the application of her own theories, as well as those of other important figures in the movement. She also utilizes her extensive collaborative research with K-12 teachers and juxtaposes her essays in ways that...
Janet L. Miller is one of the most important and influential curriculum theorists of our time. Sounds of Silence Breaking presents a broad rang...
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205,28 zł |
Global Citizenship Education in Post-Secondary Institutions: Theories, Practices, Policies- Foreword by Indira V. Samarasekera
ISBN: 9781433111143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Drawing on critical pedagogy, post-colonial analysis, hermeneutic interpretation, and reconceptualist curriculum frameworks, the twenty chapters in this edited collection address, from interrelated perspectives, a gap in the scholarly literature on the theory, practice, and policy of global citizenship and global citizenship education. The book provides readers with analyses and interpretations of the existing state of global citizenship education in post-secondary institutions, and stimulates discussion about the field at a time when there is an intense debate about the current drive to...
Drawing on critical pedagogy, post-colonial analysis, hermeneutic interpretation, and reconceptualist curriculum frameworks, the twenty chapters in th...
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696,17 zł |
The Classroom: Encounter and Engagement
ISBN: 9781137449221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. What goes on in a classroom? can mean "Are teachers imparting knowledge that will raise test scores?" or it can mean much more. In this series of essays, Block addresses the nature of the classroom as a place for encounter and engagements: with curriculum materials and books, between teachers and students, and with the self.
What goes on in a classroom? can mean "Are teachers imparting knowledge that will raise test scores?" or it can mean much more. In this series of essa...
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192,30 zł |