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The Evolving Significance of Race: Living, Learning, and Teaching
ISBN: 9781433116704 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. We are living, learning, and teaching by questioning how to address race in a society that consistently prefers to see itself as colorblind, a society claiming to seek a post-racial existence. This edited volume offers evidence of the evolving significance of race from a diverse group of male and female contributors selfidentifying as Black, Latino, Asian, White, Gay, Lesbian, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Our attempts to provide every child and adult learner with what they need - equity...
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. We are living, learning, and teaching by ques...
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Movement and Dance in Young Children's Lives: Crossing the Divide
ISBN: 9781433112652 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the pedagogical landscape of early childhood, physical movement is central to the holistic development of young children. Yet, movement-related experiences and other bodily activities such as play and dance often present contradictions and conundrums for early childhood educators. As a mode of learning, movement has endured a questionable existence despite the evidence of supportive research and theory, which provides sound reasons for the inclusion of movement in early years curricula. Movement and Dance in Young Children s Lives looks at the place of movement in young children s...
In the pedagogical landscape of early childhood, physical movement is central to the holistic development of young children. Yet, movement-related exp...
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Living West, Facing East: The (De)Construction of Muslim Youth Sexual Identities
ISBN: 9781433105722 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sexuality education has been the cause of much dissension in the Western Muslim community. Delivering sexuality education that is both Islamically inclusive and reflective of the real world of Muslim youth remains a challenge for many school communities.
Through the eyes of Muslim teachers, students, and members of wider Islamic communities, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the problems, perspectives, and possibilities of sexuality education for Muslim youth living in the West. The book explores how these youth negotiate between Muslim and popular cultural constructions... Sexuality education has been the cause of much dissension in the Western Muslim community. Delivering sexuality education that is both Islamically inc...
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Engaging in Conversation about Ideas in Teacher Education
ISBN: 9781433101526 / Angielski / Twarda / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays lays bare cutting-edge ideas and the ensuing dilemmas in teacher education. Through the agency of -conversation- leading educational thinkers grapple with one another as they debate ideas within particular strands of teacher education knowledge, and pose provocative questions to the reader. This innovative design compels the reader to engage in and further the dialogue, and in doing so to contribute, situate, and examine his or her own position."
This collection of essays lays bare cutting-edge ideas and the ensuing dilemmas in teacher education. Through the agency of -conversation- leading edu...
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589,04 |
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Transmediation in the Classroom a Semiotics-Based Media Literacy Framework
ISBN: 9780820451992 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transmediation in the Classroom proposes semiotics-based frameworks that are built on the assumption that humans manipulate sign systems or codes that are meaningful to them so as to make sense of any human experience. The tensions often encountered in reading classrooms by adolescent readers between what is real and fantasy, artifact and image, object and perception are made manifest in this book, and the ways in which individuals shape, or are shaped by, sign and symbol systems or program elements that surround their learning and communicating environments are systematically...
Transmediation in the Classroom proposes semiotics-based frameworks that are built on the assumption that humans manipulate sign systems or cod...
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Teacher Talk: A Post-Formal Inquiry Into Educational Change
ISBN: 9780820445588 / Angielski / Miękka / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teacher Talk provides insight into school change and culture through the real-life experiences of six career teachers over a span of thirty years. Through a post-formal qualitative method, Teacher Talk demonstrates the power of conversation in promoting substantial educational change. Systems thinking, school culture, school community, and spirituality are presented in accessible language as critical aspects of educational change. The frank dialogue and participant-observer role of the author addresses change in a realistic and uncommon manner. Teacher Talk is a valued...
Teacher Talk provides insight into school change and culture through the real-life experiences of six career teachers over a span of thirty yea...
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Competence in the Learning Society
ISBN: 9780820451640 / Angielski / Miękka / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the accuracy of the critiques of the international competence education and testing movement, which promote narrow approaches to education based on delivering and testing prepackaged knowledge in simplistic and practically ineffective models of competence, Competence in the Learning Society shows that the development of a better framework for thinking about the nature, development, release, and assessment of competence is vital. It explores the kinds of competence that are needed if our society is to survive the impending environmental and social collapse. Competence in the...
Despite the accuracy of the critiques of the international competence education and testing movement, which promote narrow approaches to education bas...
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Child Abuse and the Criminal Justice System
ISBN: 9780820457864 / Angielski / Miękka / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Freirean Legacy: Educating for Social Justice
ISBN: 9780820456713 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of voices, one hears stories and discussions grounded in the ideas of one of the most influential teachers and thinkers of our time. The Freirean Legacy offers the reader an opportunity to consider the work of Paulo Freire in terms of three significant perspectives. Michael Apple, Joe Kincheloe, and Ana Maria Araujo (Nita) Freire are among those who share insights and understandings resulting from firsthand experiences with Freire. The theoretical insights into his work and ideas are brought forth in pieces by Peter McLaren, Judith J. Slater, and others. Finally,...
In this collection of voices, one hears stories and discussions grounded in the ideas of one of the most influential teachers and thinkers of our time...
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151,56 |
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Social Studies - The Next Generation: Re-Searching in the Postmodern
ISBN: 9780820470672 / Angielski / Miękka / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Studies The Next Generation broadens the imagination within social studies education by highlighting current, cutting-edge scholarship incorporating critical discourses. Drawing on postmodern, poststructural, postcolonial, and feminist theories often borrowed from cultural studies, curriculum theory, critical geography, women s studies, and queer studies, the scholars contributing to this volume ask new questions about social studies, use different methodologies to study the field, and report findings with new forms of textualization. This book is dialogic and even...
Social Studies The Next Generation broadens the imagination within social studies education by highlighting current, cutting-edge scholarship i...
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Quiet Wisdom: Teachers in the United States and England Talk about Standards, Practice, and Professionalism
ISBN: 9780820470511 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sturm-und-drang quality of educational reforms in the United States and England has prompted educators to ask how curriculum changes will affect teaching and learning. Central government in England and state agencies in the United States increasingly control curriculum development by writing the standards, monitoring teaching, and assessing standards impact on students achievements. But how does increasing government regulation of education impact teachers professionalism and morale? In arguing that teachers need to retain significant control over what and how they teach, Quiet...
The sturm-und-drang quality of educational reforms in the United States and England has prompted educators to ask how curriculum changes will a...
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Educators, Therapists, and Artists on Reflective Practice
ISBN: 9780820461687 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Educators, Therapists, and Artists on Reflective Practice is a dynamic interpretation of transformational learning in education and therapy that brings together writers from various disciplines to recount their common experiences of being changed by those whom they mentor and guide. This book demonstrates that the reward for revealing vulnerabilities is a truly human connection that expands the roles of teacher and student, as well as therapist and client. By exploring contemporary concepts in reciprocal learning, the authors challenge and inspire their readers to examine their own...
Educators, Therapists, and Artists on Reflective Practice is a dynamic interpretation of transformational learning in education and therapy tha...
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Conversations of Curriculum Reform: Students' and Teachers' Voices Interpreted Through Autobiographical and Phenomenological Texts
ISBN: 9780820474793 / Angielski / Miękka / 131 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conversations of Curriculum Reform is a retelling and recapturing of the school lives of students whose dialogue with their teacher and with each other is a transformative and tentative attempt to express and define their school experiences, which were complicated by the loss of two classmates. Meeting as adults, the former classmates reconsider their past and reinterpret their work as the author engages in a critical discourse on the limitations and complications of dialogical methodology. Grounded in phenomenology and compelled interpretatively by poststructuralist autobiographical...
Conversations of Curriculum Reform is a retelling and recapturing of the school lives of students whose dialogue with their teacher and with ea...
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Reclaiming the Public University: Conversations on General & Liberal Education
ISBN: 9780820481524 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does liberal/general education mean, in promise and practice? Debate about what a college degree should be is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago. This book respects the complexities and concepts of liberal and general, pushing at their historical and rhetorical legacies to redefine and reaffirm their potential in a new age. Faculty and administrators from across the seventeen colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation s largest urban public university, re-examine these critical issues. Through recollection, vision, debate, and...
What does liberal/general education mean, in promise and practice? Debate about what a college degree should be is as relevant today as it was ...
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Working Knowledge in a Globalizing World; From Work to Learning, from Learning to Work
ISBN: 9783039109746 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vocational education is an interface between practical and theoretical knowledge involving both work-related general knowledge and practical knowledge generated at work. The contributions cover many features of VET (Vocational Education and Training) in a global world. Part one examines VET s work-relatedness as education marked by social or group (rather than individual) dynamics, and is inductive and practice-oriented.
The second part of this volume critically examines features of vocational education policy that are central to a number of present-day global social and economic... Vocational education is an interface between practical and theoretical knowledge involving both work-related general knowledge and practical knowledge...
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Where Do We Go from Here?: Issues in the Sustainability of Professional Development School Partnerships
ISBN: 9780820481784 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As teacher preparation undergoes closer scrutiny on the national scene, reformers ask: What is the future of Professional Development Schools (PDS)? How can research better address the developmental needs of partnerships? What types of organizational structures can ensure partnership success? What is the future of leadership in PDS? Are diversity and social justice part of the original PDS vision being served, as well? Written by scholar-practitioners who represent a new generation of PDS researchers, this book is a valuable source of critical analysis, reflection, and implications for taking...
As teacher preparation undergoes closer scrutiny on the national scene, reformers ask: What is the future of Professional Development Schools (PDS)? H...
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Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling: How to Use Grammar to Make Your Writing Powers Soar
ISBN: 9781475802771 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling will give you all the bare essentials of grammar that you need to write like a pro. The book also offers a simple yet foolproof method of writing under pressure, the key to success in any college program or workplace. If you're a businessperson, college student, or ESL student seeking a user-friendly grammar book that aims to make you a better writer, this book is for you If you learn the information in one chapter each day, in less than two weeks, your writing will improve dramatically, and you'll grow in confidence as a writer. You'll also learn...
Excuse Me, Your Participle's Dangling will give you all the bare essentials of grammar that you need to write like a pro. The book also offers a simpl...
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Modern Mental Health: Critical Perspectives on Psychiatric Practice
ISBN: 9781909330535 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Health Organisation recently confirmed that mental Illness was set to become the biggest threat to human well-being in the twenty first century. Mental illness accounts for more disability adjusted life years lost per year than any other health condition in the UK. No other health condition matches mental ill health in the combined extent of prevalence, persistence and breadth of impact. 'Modern Mental Health' offers an alternative and thought-provoking perspective to the conventional and orthodox understanding of mental health and how to help those suffering with mental illness....
The World Health Organisation recently confirmed that mental Illness was set to become the biggest threat to human well-being in the twenty first cent...
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Critical Narrative as Pedagogy
ISBN: 9781623563820 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ivor Goodson and Scherto Gill analyse and discuss a series of trans-disciplinary case studies from diverse cultures and argue that narrative is not only a rich and profound way for humans to make sense of their lives, but also in itself a process of pedagogical encounter, learning and transformation. As pedagogic sites, life narratives allow the individual to critically examine their 'scripts' for learning which are encapsulated in their thought processes, discourses, beliefs and values. Goodson and Gill show how narratives can help educators and students shift from a disenfranchised... Ivor Goodson and Scherto Gill analyse and discuss a series of trans-disciplinary case studies from diverse cultures and argue that narrative is not... |
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The Hope for Audacity: Recapturing Optimism and Civility in Education
ISBN: 9781433118524 / Angielski / Miękka / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For far too long, public education had been under the shadow of terms such as failing schools, achievement gaps, and poor classroom management. While many publications have outlined these issues, the goal of this book is not to resonate despair but to illuminate our hopes and dreams for public education. For the authors of this book, having the audacity to hope for better public education means trusting teachers and children to engage in intellectual endeavors that advocate for the development of the whole person and active participation in a democratic community. This book will be a great...
For far too long, public education had been under the shadow of terms such as failing schools, achievement gaps, and poor classroom management. While ...
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