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Improving Multicultural Education: Lessons from the Intergroup Education Movement
ISBN: 9780807745076 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at how a group of educators, social activists, and scholars tried to reduce intergroup tensions and create schools where people of all groups could learn from and with each other.
This book looks at how a group of educators, social activists, and scholars tried to reduce intergroup tensions and create schools where people of all...
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136,80 zł |
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See You When We Get There: Teaching for Change in Urban Schools
ISBN: 9780807745199 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gregory Michie turns his attention to young teachers of color, and provides readers with a unique and penetrating look inside public school classrooms. This courageous book features portraits of five young teachers who are working for change, and weaves their accounts with Michie's own experiences.
Gregory Michie turns his attention to young teachers of color, and provides readers with a unique and penetrating look inside public school classrooms...
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107,48 zł |
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Teaching and Learning in Two Languages: Bilingualism & Schooling in the United States
ISBN: 9780807745366 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date volume on the state of bilingual education in the United States and, in particular, on effective curriculum and instructional approaches. Eugene Garcia, renowned authority, depicts the vast scope and complexity of the problem of educating English language learners. He sets forth a conceptual framework to guide educational policy and practice that reflects democratic ideals and values.
This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date volume on the state of bilingual education in the United States and, in particular, on effective curriculum...
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141,70 zł |
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Talking Race in the Classroom
ISBN: 9780807745472 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lively book will help new and veteran teachers develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to successfully address racial controversies in their classrooms. The author first explains what race and racism mean and why we need to talk about these topics in schools. Then, based on an in-depth study of a high school classroom, she shows what happens when teachers and students talked about race and racism in a history and language arts classroom. Throughout the book she guides teachers in ways to discuss important issues - from civil rights to institutional racism - that will...
This lively book will help new and veteran teachers develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to successfully address racial controversies ...
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107,48 zł |
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The Challenge to Care in Schools
ISBN: 9780807746097 / Angielski / Miękka / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this second edition of her educational text, Noddings suggests that if we make the responsiveness characteristic of caring more basic than accountability, we can accommodate both traditional and progressive preferences in one school system to the benefit of all... especially the children.
In this second edition of her educational text, Noddings suggests that if we make the responsiveness characteristic of caring more basic than accounta...
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127,03 zł |
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Education for a Caring Society: Classroom Relationships and Moral Action
ISBN: 9780807747186 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we build a classroom in which relationships are a central focus and why is this important to teaching and learning? In this engaging book, Johnston brings the conversation about the purpose of education back to the importance of developing critical thinkers that can participate in a democratic society and a rapidly changing world. In order to contribute to educating this kind of citizen, teachers must attend to the development of students' ability to think of themselves in relationships.
How can we build a classroom in which relationships are a central focus and why is this important to teaching and learning? In this engaging book, Joh...
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107,48 zł |
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Moral Matters: Five Ways to Develop the Moral Life of Schools
ISBN: 9780807747209 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of us agree that moral matters, but how does it fit into the context of our schools? This timely book explores the ways that K-12 educators have attempted to make the moral visible in American schooling over the past 25 years. Since A Nation at Risk, most educators and policymakers have focused on the academic dimensions of schooling guided by standards and testing. This book surveys a committed group of educators who have continued to shed light on the moral dimensions of teaching and learning.
Most of us agree that moral matters, but how does it fit into the context of our schools? This timely book explores the ways that K-12 educators have ...
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122,15 zł |
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Ethical Visions of Education: Philosophies in Practice
ISBN: 9780807747582 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Putting good ideas into practice is one of the greatest challenges facing any educator. Eminent thinkers-John Dewey, Jane Addams, and others-dedicated their lives to producing ways of thinking about education and human welfare that have influenced many persons' lives. At the same time, these renowned thinkers were also trying to solve problems that every classroom teacher faces, namely, how to help children grow and learn as global citizens in a complex world. This pathbreaking book edited by David T. Hansen provides readers with a collection of insights drawn from a diverse array of thinkers...
Putting good ideas into practice is one of the greatest challenges facing any educator. Eminent thinkers-John Dewey, Jane Addams, and others-dedicated...
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122,15 zł |
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Moral Principles
ISBN: 9780809307159 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,93 zł |
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Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom
ISBN: 9780809323241 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom," David L. Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald point out the centrality of rhetoric in the academy, asserting the intimate connection between language and knowledge making. They also stress the need for a change in the roles of teachers and students in today s classroom. Their goal is mutuality, a sharing of authority among teachers and students in the classroom that would allow everyone an equal voice in the communication of ideas.Arguing that the impetus to empower students by engaging them in liberatory and emancipatory pedagogies is...
In "Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom," David L. Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald point out the centrality of rhetoric in the acad...
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151,53 zł |
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Multicultural Friendship Stories and Activities for Children Ages 5-14
ISBN: 9780810833593 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the librarian, teacher, or parent who wishes to foster compassionate multicultural relationships between and among children, this manual offers help. It includes an annotated bibliography of children's books that contain characters of different cultural heritages who display friendship with others.
For the librarian, teacher, or parent who wishes to foster compassionate multicultural relationships between and among children, this manual offers he...
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354,45 zł |
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Character Education: A Guide for School Administrators
ISBN: 9780810839601 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary schools require far more than just 'the three R's'. Beyond the books and tests, educational facilities are expected to produce members of society with integrity, as well. Character education is an abstract idea that many educators, both teachers and administrators, have a difficult time implementing, and too often it gets left out of the curriculum. How do school personnel, then, instill values of good character in students, and as an administrator, how do you spread these values to the entire school? DeRoche and Williams provide school leaders with an effective road map, touring...
Contemporary schools require far more than just 'the three R's'. Beyond the books and tests, educational facilities are expected to produce members of...
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195,51 zł |
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Teaching Virtues: Building Character Across the Curriculum
ISBN: 9780810839632 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here's how to teach character education in a way that will encourage your students' health and happiness at the same time as improving their learning experience. Teaching Virtues explains the current reality facing teachers--too much inspiration and not enough implementation--and responds with specific psychological and pedagogical strategies. Based upon the universal virtues present in the holistic American Indian view of ethics, the methods in this book enable educators to unify character and curriculum. A more ethical and more educated student is the result. View the Authors web site for...
Here's how to teach character education in a way that will encourage your students' health and happiness at the same time as improving their learning ...
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298,41 zł |
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Ethical School Leadership
ISBN: 9780810842779 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Typically, educational leadership is not considered a moral-ethical undertaking. But educators face a dismaying array of moral-ethical challenges from academic dishonesty to sexual harassment every day in our nation's schools. Ethical School Leadership provides a systematic approach to resolving these school-based moral-ethical issues. It offers real world moral-ethical dilemmas, alternate theories of ethical decision-making, and differing philosophies of leadership. Present and future school leaders will find knowledge, dispositions, and performance criteria by which to evaluate case studies...
Typically, educational leadership is not considered a moral-ethical undertaking. But educators face a dismaying array of moral-ethical challenges from...
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267,54 zł |
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Debunking the Middle-Class Myth: Why Diverse Schools Are Good for All Kids
ISBN: 9780810845114 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a unique perspective on what every educator, parent, and community leader should know about reaping the rich harvest of our diverse schools. Included are anecdotes from Kugler's personal experience as well as information from 80 interviews with key educators, parents, and students.
This book offers a unique perspective on what every educator, parent, and community leader should know about reaping the rich harvest of our diverse s...
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344,72 zł |
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Debunking the Middle-Class Myth: Why Diverse Schools Are Good for All Kids
ISBN: 9780810845121 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a unique perspective on what every educator, parent, and community leader should know about reaping the rich harvest of our diverse schools. Included are anecdotes from Kugler's personal experience as well as information from 80 interviews with key educators, parents, and students.
This book offers a unique perspective on what every educator, parent, and community leader should know about reaping the rich harvest of our diverse s...
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210,95 zł |
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Transforming Learning for the Workplace of the New Millennium - Book 4: Students and Workers as Critical Learners
ISBN: 9780810846043 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, fourth in the Voyager: Direction for Learning and Careers Set, is part of a comprehensive curriculum package for grades 11-14. It will help develop partnerships between business organizations and educational institutions to create and implement effective school-to-career programs that prepare work-ready and career-bound students. Special Features: - A guide to classroom instruction, worksite induction, and cross-discipline coordination. - Detailed lesson plans are developmentally sequenced through the entirety of the curriculum. - Hands-on activities are developed that students,...
This book, fourth in the Voyager: Direction for Learning and Careers Set, is part of a comprehensive curriculum package for grades 11-14. It will help...
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216,09 zł |
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A Model for Work-Based Learning
ISBN: 9780810850200 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Work-based learning, in which professional work experience is closely integrated with professional study, now forms an important part of many courses in tertiary institutions. A Model for Work-Based Learning offers a plan designed to enhance the professional experience through facilitated mentoring and reflective learning, and is based on an internship that has proven highly successful over the last ten years at the University of Canberra. This strategy, which features collaborative teaching and learning, is applicable to other professional courses within tertiary environments.
Work-based learning, in which professional work experience is closely integrated with professional study, now forms an important part of many courses ...
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383,58 zł |
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Pedagogy And The Politics Of Hope: Theory, Culture, And Schooling: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9780813332741 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry A. Giroux is one of the most respected and well-known critical education scholars, social critics, and astute observers of popular culture in the modern world. For those who follow his considerably influential work in critical pedagogy and social criticism, this first-ever collection of his classic writings, augmented by a new essay, is a must-have volume that reveals his evolution as a scholar. In it, he takes on three major considerations central to pedagogy and schooling.The first section offers Giroux's most widely read theoretical critiques on the culture of positivism and...
Henry A. Giroux is one of the most respected and well-known critical education scholars, social critics, and astute observers of popular culture in th...
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244,34 zł |
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Redesigning American Education
ISBN: 9780813391021 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on several principles of sociological theory, James S. Coleman and his colleagues construct a new design for American schooling. The authors present compelling evidence on the deficits of our educational system compared to other countries, arguing that the problems are the result of inappropriate incentives for teachers, students, and parents.Asserting that most American school systems are driven by administrative needs, the authors propose school designs that would shift the focus to student achievement output as the driving force behind public education. The move from an...
Drawing on several principles of sociological theory, James S. Coleman and his colleagues construct a new design for American schooling. The authors p...
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185,68 zł |