The Political Dynamics of School Choice: Negotiating Contested Terrain
ISBN: 9780312237530 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title examines a question about the relationship between the charter school and voucher issues: to what degree does political support for charter schools from a coalition of teacher associations, school board groups, superintendents, and voucher advocates slow or even stop the forces for vouchers? Or, do these coalitions, which successfully pushed charter school legislation through the legislature, actually fuel the fires of privatization? Charter schools legislation has enjoyed bipartisan support precisely because the threat of vouchers is so great. And, contrary to the strategy of...
This title examines a question about the relationship between the charter school and voucher issues: to what degree does political support for charter...
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Twenty-First-Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference
ISBN: 9780312295349 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is centrally concerned with crucial theoretical and practical aspects of teaching in the national and global borderlands of gender, race, and sexuality studies. The cross-cultural feminist focus of this anthology allows the contributors to consider the various ways in which global and national frameworks intersect in the classroom and in students' thinking, and also the ways in which power and authority are developed, directed, and deployed in the feminist classroom. This volume provides a critical elaboration of provocative, self-reflexive questions for feminist cultural and...
This book is centrally concerned with crucial theoretical and practical aspects of teaching in the national and global borderlands of gender, race, an...
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Globalizing the Community College: Strategies for Change in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780312295950 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long regarded as a local institution, the community college has become a globalized institution. It has been affected by global forces, and by the interpretations of organizational members to both global forces and to the responses of intermediaries. Globalization as a process finds an outlet within the community college where economic, cultural, and technological behaviors are advanced along lines consistent with and supportive of globalization. Furthermore, government actions have directed community colleges to respond and adapt to a global economy. In this book, seven community colleges...
Long regarded as a local institution, the community college has become a globalized institution. It has been affected by global forces, and by the int...
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Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education
ISBN: 9780395947975 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know", Thoreau wrote. Ideas about education permeate Thoreau's writing. "Uncommon Learning" brings those ideas together in a single volume for the first time. Part of "The Spirit of Thoreau Series". 20-30 drawings by Thoreau.
"It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know", Thoreau wrote. Ideas about education permeate Thoreau's writing. "Uncommon Learning" b...
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69,01 zł |
Environmental Education in the 21st Century: Theory, Practice, Progress and Promise
ISBN: 9780415131964 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental education is a field characterised by a paradox. Few would doubt the urgency and importance of learning to live in sustainable ways, but environmental education holds nowhere near the priority position in formal schooling around the world that this would suggest. This text sets out to find out why this is so. It is divided into six parts:
Part 1 is a concise history of the development of environmental education from an international perspective; Part 2 is an overview of the 'global agenda', or subject knowledge of environmental education; Part 3 introduces... Environmental education is a field characterised by a paradox. Few would doubt the urgency and importance of learning to live in sustainable ways, but...
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Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenship: Philosophy in a Changing World
ISBN: 9780415153348 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across the globe educators are being required to respond to a changing political environment. New nations emerge out of the collapse of old empires; new democracies struggle out of old structures of oppression. Driven on by the fierce competitiveness of the tiger economies of the east, old social welfare-based democracies are transformed into new market driven enterprise societies. The essays in this collection are a response from 22 educators to these changes and to the reassessment that they provoke of some of the fundamental principles which shape educational thought and practice. They...
Across the globe educators are being required to respond to a changing political environment. New nations emerge out of the collapse of old empires; n...
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Education in Morality
ISBN: 9780415153652 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering a variety of perspectives on some of the most fundamental questions about moral education the volume is written in the belief that philosophy has an important contribution to make in bringing about a clearer understanding of the task of moral education. There is an international team of contributors including both philosophers and educationalists. These include; David Best, Brian Crittenden, Paul Hirst, Ruth Jonathon, John Kekes, Will Kymlicka, Alasdair MacIntyre and Amelie Oksenberg Rorty.
Offering a variety of perspectives on some of the most fundamental questions about moral education the volume is written in the belief that philosophy...
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665,24 zł |
The Making of the Inclusive School
ISBN: 9780415155595 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inclusion means educating students of all abilities in mainstream schools, it has become an important topic - politicians now stress their commitments to inclusion as proof of their commitment to wider social justice. The inclusive mood, which is about including everyone in society's institutions, has created a growing demand for schools to find effective ways of including and teaching all children - even those who at one time would have been sent to special schools. The book combines a theoretical examination of inclusion and its rationale with the story of a group of schools in which...
Inclusion means educating students of all abilities in mainstream schools, it has become an important topic - politicians now stress their commitments...
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921,09 zł |
Literacy and Schooling
ISBN: 9780415170185 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is intended to offer an introduction to some major themes in literacy education. Literacy has become an important issue both in the UK and internationally, and this book aims to inform discussions while assisting teachers to reflect on their work as literacy teachers. Literacy is important from the earliest years through all the years of formal education, and so this book covers work with students in the full range of schooling, and in a number of different subject areas.
Topics covered include: *the nature and use of texts *the reading positions that are constructed... This book is intended to offer an introduction to some major themes in literacy education. Literacy has become an important issue both in the UK and i...
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250,69 zł |
Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching
ISBN: 9780415184595 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching presents a thought-provoking and stimulating study of the moral dimensions of the teaching professions.
After discussing the moral implications of professionalism, Carr explores the relationship of education theory to teaching practice and the impact of this relationship on professional expertise. He then identifies and examines some central ethical and moral issues in education and teaching. Finally David Carr gives a detailed analysis of a range of issues concerning the role of the teacher and the managements of educational issues. ... Professionalism and Ethics in Teaching presents a thought-provoking and stimulating study of the moral dimensions of the teaching professions...
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Young People, Creativity and New Technologies: The Challenge of Digital Arts
ISBN: 9780415203135 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume describes ways in which ICTs may be creating new possiblities for creative work both within the formal curriculum and in complementary educational sites. It provides a series of case studies documenting the use of digital arts across school and community arts curriculum, written by experienced practitioners in the field. The book demonstrates how ICTs can be used in a genuinely inter-disciplinary way, and also recognizes that good practice is developing slowly through some genuinely innovative work in schools. The book is aimed at those teachers, curriculum co-ordinators,...
This volume describes ways in which ICTs may be creating new possiblities for creative work both within the formal curriculum and in complementary edu...
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240,46 zł |
Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender and Citizenship
ISBN: 9780415203159 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection establishes a highly topical, new, international field of study: that of gender, education and citizenship. It brings together for the first time important cutting-edge research on the contribution of the educational system to the formation of male and female citizens. It shows how gender relations operate behind apparently neutral concepts of liberal democratic citizenship and citizenship education.
The editors asked leading international educationalists to describe the theoretical frameworks and methodologies they used to research gender and... This collection establishes a highly topical, new, international field of study: that of gender, education and citizenship. It brings together for the...
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639,65 zł |
Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender and Citizenship
ISBN: 9780415203166 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection establishes a highly topical, new, international field of study: that of gender, education and citizenship. It brings together for the first time important cutting-edge research on the contribution of the educational system to the formation of male and female citizens. It shows how gender relations operate behind apparently neutral concepts of liberal democratic citizenship and citizenship education.
The editors asked leading international educationalists to describe the theoretical frameworks and methodologies they used to research gender and... This collection establishes a highly topical, new, international field of study: that of gender, education and citizenship. It brings together for the...
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168,82 zł |
Education and Psychology in Interaction: Working with Uncertainty in Interconnected Fields
ISBN: 9780415224314 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fields of education and psychology have attracted an increasing volume of attention in recent years. The profile of psychology and psychologists has risen in societies which are eager to understand the nature of human well-being and the conditions which can promote it. Education, for its part, has become a central element of social and economic policy across the globe, in line with changes in the technological basis of the economy, and in society and the family. This book takes an in-depth look at how education and psychology have related to each other, and at the state of this...
The fields of education and psychology have attracted an increasing volume of attention in recent years. The profile of psychology and psychologists h...
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Lessons for the Future: The Missing Dimension in Education
ISBN: 9780415276726 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on research in futures studies, this book provides insights into ways of helping both students and teachers think more critically and creatively about their own future and that of wider society. It acknowledge s the crucial role of education in helping young people understand the nature of local and global change and the social and environmental impacts such change will have on their future. Setting out a clear educational rationale for promoting global and futures perspective in education, it provides examples of futures-orientated classroom activities. It also includes research into...
Drawing on research in futures studies, this book provides insights into ways of helping both students and teachers think more critically and creative...
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Education and Conflict: Complexity and Chaos
ISBN: 9780415297936 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the author's extensive research and experience of education in several areas afflicted by conflict, the book explores the relationship between schooling and social conflict and looks at conflict internal to schools. It posits a direct link between the ethos of a school and the attitudes of future citizens towards 'others'. It also looks at the nature and purpose of peace education and war education, and addresses... First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an i... |
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Futures Beyond Dystopia: Creating Social Foresight
ISBN: 9780415302692 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can dystopian futures help provide the motivation to change the ways we operate day to day?
Futures Beyond Dystopia takes the view that the dominant trends in the world suggest a long-term decline into unliveable Dystopian futures. The human prospect is therefore very challenging, yet the perception of dangers and dysfunctions is the first step towards dealing with them. The motivation to avoid future dangers is matched by the human need to create plans and move forward. These twin motivations can be very powerful and help to stimulate the fields of Futures Studies and Applied... How can dystopian futures help provide the motivation to change the ways we operate day to day?
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Futures Beyond Dystopia: Creating Social Foresight
ISBN: 9780415302708 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Futures Beyond Dystopia takes the view that the dominant trends in the world suggest a long-term decline into unliveable Dystopian futures. The human prospect is therefore very challenging, yet the perception of dangers and dysfunctions is the first step towards dealing with them. The motivation to avoid future dangers is matched by the human need to create plans and move forward. These twin motivations can be very powerful and help to stimulate the fields of Futures Studies and Applied Foresight. This analysis of current Futures practice is split into six sections: The Case Against Hegemony...
Futures Beyond Dystopia takes the view that the dominant trends in the world suggest a long-term decline into unliveable Dystopian futures. The human ...
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342,80 zł |
Education and Conflict: Complexity and Chaos
ISBN: 9780415304245 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an international context. Based on the author's extensive research and experience of education in several areas afflicted by conflict, the book explores the relationship between schooling and social conflict and looks at conflict internal to schools. It posits a direct link between the ethos of a school and the attitudes of future citizens towards 'others'. It also looks at the nature and purpose of peace education and war education, and addresses... First-place winner of the Society for Education Studies' 2005 book prize, Education and Conflict is a critical review of education in an i... |
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219,99 zł |
Unequal Childhoods : Young Children's Lives in Poor Countries
ISBN: 9780415321020 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many children and their families, life is hard, grim and short: the global statistics on children are truly appalling. While problems of childhood poverty are most widespread in developing countries, formidable inequalities exist in more prosperous countries. This book addresses the question of unequal childhoods, both between and within countries, and the ways in which they are recognised, defined, catalogued and understood. For many children and their families, life is hard, grim and short: the global statistics on children are truly appalling. While problems of childh... |
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266,04 zł |