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Reading Resistance; Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates
ISBN: 9780820474281 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading Resistance confronts longstanding exclusionary practices in U.S. public schooling. Beth A. Ferri and David J. Connor trace the interconnected histories of race and disability in the public imagination through their nuanced analysis of editorial pages and other public discourses, including political cartoons and eugenics posters. By uncovering how the concept of disability was used to resegregate students of color after the historic Brown decision, the authors argue that special education has played a role in undermining school desegregation. In its critical,...
Reading Resistance confronts longstanding exclusionary practices in U.S. public schooling. Beth A. Ferri and David J. Connor trace the intercon...
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Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French Cameroon, 1885-1939
ISBN: 9780820479095 / Angielski / Twarda / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book was awarded the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize in French Colonial History, 2009.
This groundbreaking comparative study examines how church-state conflicts shaped the evolution of German and French language policy in Cameroon from the dawn of the colonial era to the onset of WWII. Despite lingering anti-Catholic sentiments generated by Germany s Kulturkampf and early twentieth-century French anti-clerical legislation, in Cameroon these conflicts created a curious inversion in which Protestant, rather than Catholic, missions were portrayed as obstructionist and... The book was awarded the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize in French Colonial History, 2009.
This groundbreaking comparative study examines how ... |
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«A Visible Company of Professionals»: African Americans and the National Education Association During the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9780820488486 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African American educators shaped a role for themselves in the larger civil rights movement by striving for inclusion, on equal footing, in the National Education Association (NEA). This book explores the relationship between the NEA, the nation s largest teacher organization, and the predominately black American Teachers Association, and illustrates how African American educators helped to redefine the NEA s core ideology to include the support of policies, practice, and politics that promoted educational equity for children and educators who have been historically marginalized. Examining...
African American educators shaped a role for themselves in the larger civil rights movement by striving for inclusion, on equal footing, in the Nation...
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History of American Education Primer
ISBN: 9781433100369 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. History of American Education Primer depicts the evolution of American educational history from 1630 to the present. The book highlights how ideological managers have shaped society and, because schools mirror society, have thus had a profound impact on education and schooling. Five common areas of study - philosophy, politics, economics, social sciences, and religion - are used to trace the development of both society and schooling in the United States. Readers will identify not only trends and movements in society and schooling, but also how they logically unfold over time....
History of American Education Primer depicts the evolution of American educational history from 1630 to the present. The book highlights how id...
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105,76 |
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Rudolf Steiner's Pedagogy of Imagination: A Case Study of Holistic Education
ISBN: 9783039103423 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the concept and practises of imaginative teaching. Since Rudolf Steiner (founder of the Waldorf schools) wrote extensively on the subject and is renowned for his contributions to education, his work is used to develop insights into the nature of imaginative teaching . Given the societal changes since Steiner s time, however, the topic is further developed by examining imaginative teaching in three Steiner primary classrooms, using the methodological means of ethnography and phenomenology. The insights gained from this undertaking are used to re-theorise aspects of...
This book investigates the concept and practises of imaginative teaching. Since Rudolf Steiner (founder of the Waldorf schools) wrote extensively on t...
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446,11 |
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Transplanting Liberal Education: The Foundation and Development of Liberal Arts Colleges in Western India
ISBN: 9783631390443 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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471,48 |
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Staying the Course with Professional Development Schools
ISBN: 9780820476018 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Professional Development School (PDS) movement has been a major vehicle for the simultaneous renewal of Pre-K-12 education and the teaching profession for nearly twenty years. This second volume in a series created by Towson University goes beyond -start up- stories and presents data-based discussions on a variety of topics about PDS implementation and assessment, including PDSs in specialty areas, such as music and physical education, mentoring, teacher development, standards, accountability, and sustainability. Chapters are written by researchers who presented their work at the Second...
The Professional Development School (PDS) movement has been a major vehicle for the simultaneous renewal of Pre-K-12 education and the teaching profes...
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Imagination: Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy
ISBN: 9781433105289 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advancement in the arts and sciences is a primary driver of economic production and social policy in post-industrial societies. Imagination steps back and asks what advances the arts and sciences? This book explores the collective, social and global dimension of human imagining and the ambivalent relationship of social institutions, including universities, schools, economies, media and culture industries, to the collective imagination. Basic discovery requires high levels of creative thinking: Imagination looks at the social conditions that make path-breaking thought possible on a large...
Advancement in the arts and sciences is a primary driver of economic production and social policy in post-industrial societies. Imagination steps back...
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Educating Outside the Lines: Bard College at Simon's Rock on a «New Pedagogy» for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781433109461 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Founded in 1966, and premised on the idea that motivated sixteen-year-olds are capable of college work, Bard College at Simon s Rock is an educational -experiment- from the sixties that has endured and prospered. Educating Outside the Lines looks at Simon s Rock as a pioneer of the early college movement that has begun to reshape the connections between secondary and higher education. Because its curriculum is entirely at the college level, its students handle a challenging B.A. program before having completed the last two years of high school, and may earn their degrees before they...
Founded in 1966, and premised on the idea that motivated sixteen-year-olds are capable of college work, Bard College at Simon s Rock is an educational...
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Democracy and Education
ISBN: 9781603862028 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An Unabridged Edition - Chapters Include, Though Are Not Limited To: Education As A Necessity Of Life - Education As A Social Function - Education As Direction - Education As Growth - Preparation, Unfolding, And Formal Discipline - Education As Conservative And Progressive - The Democratic Conception In Education - Aims In Education - Natural Development And Social Efficiency As Aims - Interest And Discipline - Experience And Thinking - Thinking In Education - The Nature Of Method - The Nature Of Subject Matter - Play And Work In The Curriculum - The Significance Of Geography And History -...
An Unabridged Edition - Chapters Include, Though Are Not Limited To: Education As A Necessity Of Life - Education As A Social Function - Education As ...
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Women, Love and Learning: The Double Bind
ISBN: 9783034304504 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of a generation of American and Australian women who embodied and challenged the prescriptions of their times. In the 1950s and early 60s they went to colleges and universities, trained for professions and developed a life of the mind. They were also urged to embrace their femininity, to marry young, to devote themselves to husbands, children and communities. Could they do both? While they might be seen as a privileged group, they led the way for a multitude in the years ahead. They were quietly making the revolution that was to come.
Did they have the best of... This book tells the story of a generation of American and Australian women who embodied and challenged the prescriptions of their times. In the 1950s ...
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Helen Waddell and Maude Clarke: Irishwomen, Friends and Scholars
ISBN: 9783034307123 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As women s university participation expanded rapidly in the first decade of the twentieth century, two close friends at Queen s University Belfast nursed scholarly ambitions. Helen Waddell, budding feminist literary critic, and Maude Clarke, future Irish historian, were to become famous medievalists. Waddell s progress was stymied by her stepmother s insistence on family duty and by academic misogyny; Clarke s father, in contrast, helped to clear her way. This joint biography intertwines the story of their friendship with their modern education, their shifting research interests and the...
As women s university participation expanded rapidly in the first decade of the twentieth century, two close friends at Queen s University Belfast nur...
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Learning by Wandering: An Ancient Irish Perspective for a Digital World
ISBN: 9783039119622 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uncovers an ancient Irish perspective of learning and reconfigures it to offer a vitality-restoring vision for education in our digital age. Its aim is to help re-engage learners of the Net generation meaningfully and with enjoyment in the learning process. The proliferation of new technologies in the classroom has generally not been accompanied by new pedagogical thinking and the discourse is still framed almost exclusively in terms of the utilitarian mindset of the Western world. Consequently, education is too often delivered within a context that is unfit for purpose. The author...
This book uncovers an ancient Irish perspective of learning and reconfigures it to offer a vitality-restoring vision for education in our digital age....
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Educating the Young: The Ethics of Care
ISBN: 9783039119844 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays initiates a conversation about the educational interests of the young and considers the potential for pedagogical transformation. Organized into three parts, dealing with the pedagogy of care, child honouring and telling children the truth, respectively, the volume engages with some of the key ethical challenges involved in educating young people. Through the diverse perspectives and approaches of sixteen authors, the book examines conflicting educational ideologies through a critical pedagogical lens. These authors consider poetic, aesthetic, inspiring, historical,...
This collection of essays initiates a conversation about the educational interests of the young and considers the potential for pedagogical transforma...
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Tools for Improving Principals' Work
ISBN: 9781433115745 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its importance, there is a need for tools to improve principalship, particularly ones emphasizing those dimensions associated with student achievement. Given the accountability movement, with its particular focus on student achievement and the advent of the evaluation era (including the evaluation of principals), the need for tools is even more urgent. This edited volume presents those tools with the aim of improving learning-centered principalship....
The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its im...
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Tools for Improving Principals' Work
ISBN: 9781433115738 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its importance, there is a need for tools to improve principalship, particularly ones emphasizing those dimensions associated with student achievement. Given the accountability movement, with its particular focus on student achievement and the advent of the evaluation era (including the evaluation of principals), the need for tools is even more urgent. This edited volume presents those tools with the aim of improving learning-centered principalship....
The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its im...
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History of American Higher Education
ISBN: 9781433111655 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. History of American Higher Education documents the fascinating evolution of American colleges and universities, touching on the historical events that shaped them, from the colonial era through the early twenty-first century. Throughout history, higher education has played an important role in the transmission of cultural identity from one generation to the next. This book outlines how, as the colonists transitioned from English rule to independence, a unique American culture began to develop and institutions of higher education evolved to prepare leaders with the intellectual and...
History of American Higher Education documents the fascinating evolution of American colleges and universities, touching on the historical even...
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Classroom Discourse and Democracy; Making Meanings Together
ISBN: 9781433112850 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides practitioners and scholars with a number of practical tools for studying and implementing democratic learning processes within schools, and theorizes these tools in relation to current developmental learning and democratic theory. Three dimensions of knowledge are framed foundational, expert, and personal and the place of each in the construction of democratic classroom understandings is explored. Based on a two-part analysis of the roles students played in a number of pedagogically diverse classroom discussions, three different forms of learning experience are then...
This book provides practitioners and scholars with a number of practical tools for studying and implementing democratic learning processes within scho...
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International Perspectives on Youth Media; Cultures of Production and Education
ISBN: 9781433106521 / Angielski / Twarda / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents and analyzes transnational research on youth media production and distribution projects both in and out of school. With comprehensive theoretical analyses, notes, and bibliographies, each chapter includes a case study, illuminating the variety and diversity of youth media projects around the world. Contributors span multiple disciplines and regions, and their perspectives provide a rich and comparative resource for readers.
The information gathered here is a valuable tool in assessing the potential of youth media programs; the book intends to make positive... This book documents and analyzes transnational research on youth media production and distribution projects both in and out of school. With comprehens...
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855,96 |
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Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access: Many Routes, Difficult Paths
ISBN: 9781433105890 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access documents a year in the life of five adolescents preparing for college. The text examines the different pathways that brought these students to where they are: living in poverty, attending overcrowded schools, and the pressure to be the first in their families to attend college are just a few of the challenges these students must battle en route to college, and that impact their chances of success once there. Their stories provide insight for practitioners and policy makers working to improve college access at urban high schools.
Urban High School Students and the Challenge of Access documents a year in the life of five adolescents preparing for college. The text examine...
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