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Changing the Educational Landscape: Philosophy, Women, and Curriculum
ISBN: 9780415907958 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this practical guide, experienced embedded engineer Lewin Edwards demonstrates faster, lower-cost methods for developing high-end embedded systems. With tight schedules and lower budgets, embedded designers are under pressure to deliver prototypes and system designs more quickly and cheaply.
In this practical guide, experienced embedded engineer Lewin Edwards demonstrates faster, lower-cost methods for developing high-end embedded systems....
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Anti-Feminism in the Academy
ISBN: 9780415910712 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contending that the anti-feminist backlash in the academy is part of the broader politically correct rhetoric, the authors have gathered together a collection of writers, academics and activists to challenge the rising tide of insults, insinuation and spoken violence in academia. With the classroom's climate increasingly chilly for women, this study is a response to the assault on feminist thinkers, critics and academics. Offering a spirited response to the wave of tenure disputes, departmental fights and flights, the contributors examine the imaginary construction of feminist threats by...
Contending that the anti-feminist backlash in the academy is part of the broader politically correct rhetoric, the authors have gathered together a co...
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Letters to Cristina: Reflections on My Life and Work
ISBN: 9780415910972 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paulo Freire is regarded by many as the most significant educational thinker of the twentieth century. This volume offers Freire's own intimate retrospection of his life and work. These reflections, dedicated to his niece Cristina, provide a backdrop for a deeper understanding of how his experiences are linked to his philosophical and pedagogical work.
Paulo Freire is regarded by many as the most significant educational thinker of the twentieth century. This volume offers Freire's own intimate retros...
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Education, Power, and Personal Biography: Dialogues with Critical Educators
ISBN: 9780415911795 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In dialogues with 11 key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through in-depth interviews, the author asks each of these thinkers to talk about the relationship between their personal experiences and their academic work. The reader will learn, through listening to these intellectual, political and personal biographies, how and why these individual scholars have struggled for more than three decades to expand the borders of critical education studies. Interviews are held with Henry Giroux, Henry Levin, Herbert...
In dialogues with 11 key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through i...
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769,98 |
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Academic Distinctions: Theory and Methodology in the Sociology of School Knowledge
ISBN: 9780415911887 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Academic Distinctions is the most sustained and rigorous critique of radical sociology of school knowledge and its major figures to date. Using a variety of theoretical lenses to analyze and reconstitute the field--structuralist, poststructuralist and feminist--James Ladwig documents how the so-called "new sociologists of education" lost their theoretical way and failed to realize their educational goals.
Academic Distinctions is the most sustained and rigorous critique of radical sociology of school knowledge ...
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Education and Power
ISBN: 9780415913102 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this second edition, Michael Apple re-examines his earlier arguments and reflects on what has happened in education since the publication of the last edition.
In this second edition, Michael Apple re-examines his earlier arguments and reflects on what has happened in education since the publication of the la...
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Translating the Curriculum: Multiculturalism into Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780415914017 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although recent theory in multicultural education has acknowledged what has been called "the new cultural politics of difference," problems concerning what actually passes for multiculturalism have been underexamined. Translating the Curriculum proposes that a new theoretical and practical lens through which to examine multicultural education is necessary and suggests that it may be found in cultural studies. Edgerton looks at pedagogy through structuralist and poststructuralist philosophy and social theory, literary criticism, literature, and autobiography. Using this...
Although recent theory in multicultural education has acknowledged what has been called "the new cultural politics of difference," problems concerning...
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Young Children and Spirituality
ISBN: 9780415916547 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maintaining that spiritual development is an integral element in child development, Barbara Kimes Myers provides a framework for the discussion of spirit and spirituality in the lives of children. Through her discussion of the four core conditions of a spirituality of caring, she crosses the borders of various faiths and applies her theories to a variety of practical and professional settings.
Through Myers' discussion of the four core conditions of a spirituality of caring, she crosses the borders of various faiths and applies her theories to a variety of practical and professional... Maintaining that spiritual development is an integral element in child development, Barbara Kimes Myers provides a framework for the discussion of spi...
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Young Children and Spirituality
ISBN: 9780415916554 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the belief that spiritual development is a crucial component to child development the author of this text has constructed a framework for the secular discussion of spirituality. Attempting to illustrate how curricula may be informed and developed based on a spirituality of caring, she makes a key point of contextualizing the role of spirituality within contemporary concerns about violence and individual and collective rights. This theoretical framework is informed by key child development theorist - Vygotsky, Piaget, Giroux, Erikson and Noddings.
In the belief that spiritual development is a crucial component to child development the author of this text has constructed a framework for the secul...
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Rationality Redeemed?: Further Dialogues on an Educational Ideal
ISBN: 9780415917650 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Educating Reason, Harvey Siegel presented the case regarding rationality and critical thinking as fundamental education ideals. In Rationality Redeemed?, a collection of essays written since that time, he develops this view, responds to major criticisms raised against it, and engages those critics in dialogue. In developing his ideas and responding to critics, Siegel addresses main currents in contemporary thought, including feminism, postmodernism and multiculturalism.
In Educating Reason, Harvey Siegel presented the case regarding rationality and critical thinking as fundamental education ideals. In |
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Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice
ISBN: 9780415919135 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the disciplines of critical education and cultural studies have traditionally occupied separate spaces as they have addressed different audiences, their concerns as well as the political and pedagogical nature of their work overlap. This text brings members of these two groups together to demonstrate how a critical understanding of culture and education can implement broad political change. Writing from within this framework of cultural studies and critical pedagogy, the contributors illuminate the possibilities and opportunities open to practicing educators.
Although the disciplines of critical education and cultural studies have traditionally occupied separate spaces as they have addressed different audie...
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695,46 |
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Affirmative Action, Hate Speech, and Tenure: Narratives about Race and Law in the Academy
ISBN: 9780415929646 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments across the globe are struggling to deal with the socially deplorable issues of racism and ethnic hatred. No more apparent is this struggle in the US where educational institutions find themselves at the forefront of legal and social practices to combat racism. This book studies the race-based legal cases and literature surrounding three seemingly different practices in US academic institutions: affirmative action in college administrations, hate speech codes (developed to prevent racist insitement in colleges), and tenure of faculty of colour.
Governments across the globe are struggling to deal with the socially deplorable issues of racism and ethnic hatred. No more apparent is this struggle...
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Technology Transfer Via University-Industry Relations: The Case of the Foreign High Technology Electronic Industry in Mexico's Silicon Valley
ISBN: 9780415931915 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Constructing Social Reality : Self Portraits of Poor Black Adolescents
ISBN: 9780415932592 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how black children, who grow up in an impoverished environment, construct their social reality and why this process is a particularly critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. This text contributes to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic and experiential perspectives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.
This book examines how black children, who grow up in an impoverished environment, construct their social reality and why this process is a particular...
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Troubling Education : "Queer" Activism and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780415933117 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making our classrooms more inclusive has been a crucial but complex task for educators today. While several books have discussed the need for anti-oppressive school environments, this book addresses actual research for teachers to turn to as resources for classroom practice.
Making our classrooms more inclusive has been a crucial but complex task for educators today. While several books have discussed the need for anti-opp...
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769,98 |
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Gender, Literacy, and Empowerment in Morocco
ISBN: 9780415947657 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The field of female literacy in Morocco is devoid of any academic research that is centred on how non-literate women need and acquire literacy. The goal of this text is to fill that gap. Its aim is to contribute to gender research efforts for a better integration of non-literate women in sustainable development.
The field of female literacy in Morocco is devoid of any academic research that is centred on how non-literate women need and acquire literacy. The go...
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Standing Out, Standing Together : The Social and Political Impact of Gay-Straight Alliances
ISBN: 9780415950923 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just a decade ago, requests by students to establish groups to support gay and lesbian students were rare and generally met with shock and confusion by school administrators and local communities. Today there are more than 1600 gay straight alliances (GSAs) across the country." Standing Out, Standing Together "documents the emergence of gay straight alliances in public schools across America - from factors that have contributed to the relatively rapid spread of GSA to those that stirred controversy and posed roadblocks. Using over 10 years of interviews with students, teachers, administrators...
Just a decade ago, requests by students to establish groups to support gay and lesbian students were rare and generally met with shock and confusion b...
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Supervision in Teacher Education: A Counselling and Pedagogical Approach
ISBN: 9780416349900 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Studying for Science: A Guide to Information, Communication and Study Techniques
ISBN: 9780419148203 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study manual should equip the reader with the skills and information needed to study science successfully.
This study manual should equip the reader with the skills and information needed to study science successfully.
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Getting into Print: A guide for scientists and technologists
ISBN: 9780419192206 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a practical guide to all aspects of writing about science and technology. It features useful hints on how to make each kind of writing more attractive to the target readership. It also includes detailed advice on how to approach publishers, publishers' contracts and requirements and the author's role at each stage of book production, including tips on presentation of manuscripts on disc or as camera-ready copy.
This is a practical guide to all aspects of writing about science and technology. It features useful hints on how to make each kind of writing more at...
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238,39 |