On Humanistic Education: Six Inaugural Orations, 1699 1707
ISBN: 9780801480874 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six orations on humanistic education, offer the first statement of ideas that Vico would continue to refine throughout his life. Delivered between 1699 and 1707 to usher in the new academic year at the University of Naples, the orations are brought together here for the first time in English in an authoritative translation based on Gian Galeazzo Visconti's 1982 Latin/Italian edition. In the lectures, Vico draws liberally on the classical philosophical and legal traditions as he explores the relationship between the Greek dictum "Know... Vico's earliest extant scholarly works, the six orations on humanistic education, offer the first statement of ideas that Vico would continue to re... |
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How to Change a Rotten Attitude: A Manual for Building Virtue and Character in Middle and High School Students
ISBN: 9780803966505 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teachers face many pressures today - not least of which is the disruptive and destructive behaviour of some students. This book was written to help secondary school teachers reach difficult students. The author provides numerous assessments and scoring forms for measuring virtue and he discusses the personal cycles that perpetuate virtue or its lack and shows teachers how they can instill virtue in their students.
Teachers face many pressures today - not least of which is the disruptive and destructive behaviour of some students. This book was written to help se...
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225,92 zł |
Making Multiculturalism: Boundaries and Meaning in U.S. English Departments
ISBN: 9780804751636 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multiculturalism was a hot issue on college campuses in the 1990s, and it was a confusing issue, especially for English professors. Making Multiculturalism ventures into four college English departments to explore how professors made sense of multiculturalism. Their answers provide important insights into the "canon wars," multiculturalism, and cultural change. Defining meaning as a system of boundaries, Bryson uncovers specific mechanisms through which social institutions preserve themselves by imposing old meanings on new ideas. She connects those insights to some of today's most...
Multiculturalism was a hot issue on college campuses in the 1990s, and it was a confusing issue, especially for English professors. Making Multicul...
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457,35 zł |
Making Multiculturalism: Boundaries and Meaning in U.S. English Departments
ISBN: 9780804751643 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multiculturalism was a hot issue on college campuses in the 1990s, and it was a confusing issue, especially for English professors. Making Multiculturalism ventures into four college English departments to explore how professors made sense of multiculturalism. Their answers provide important insights into the "canon wars," multiculturalism, and cultural change. Defining meaning as a system of boundaries, Bryson uncovers specific mechanisms through which social institutions preserve themselves by imposing old meanings on new ideas. She connects those insights to some of today's most...
Multiculturalism was a hot issue on college campuses in the 1990s, and it was a confusing issue, especially for English professors. Making Multicul...
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110,34 zł |
Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities: A Transdisciplinary Approach
ISBN: 9780805816938 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides both an overview of the core dilemma in America--racism and the deadly impact it has had on American society--and an account of the ways in which the book's contributors have attempted to deal with this dilemma in their own teaching practice. Two core essays explore the theoretical and historical issues involved in defining "races" and "ethnic groups" in the West, and issues of racial and ethnic inequality in American society. The volume then examines a variety of strategies for "teaching the conflicts" in comparative literature and politics; African American...
This book provides both an overview of the core dilemma in America--racism and the deadly impact it has had on American society--and an account of the...
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709,67 zł |
Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities: A Transdisciplinary Approach
ISBN: 9780805816945 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides both an overview of the core dilemma in America--racism and the deadly impact it has had on American society--and an account of the ways in which the book's contributors have attempted to deal with this dilemma in their own teaching practice.
Two core essays explore the theoretical and historical issues involved in defining "races" and "ethnic groups" in the West, and issues of racial and ethnic inequality in American society. The volume then examines a variety of strategies for "teaching the conflicts" in comparative literature and politics; African American... This book provides both an overview of the core dilemma in America--racism and the deadly impact it has had on American society--and an account of the...
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194,45 zł |
Education Reform and Social Change : Multicultural Voices, Struggles, and Visions
ISBN: 9780805822519 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text considers the structures, policies and practices of schools which differentially advantage white, middle-class, native English speakers over students for whom English may be a second or additional language. It is a framework for conceptualizing and actualizing reform.
This text considers the structures, policies and practices of schools which differentially advantage white, middle-class, native English speakers over...
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709,67 zł |
Bilingual Education: Teachers' Narratives
ISBN: 9780805822588 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book grew out of the joys and challenges the author experienced as a Spanish/English bilingual teacher of culturally and linguistically diverse students. It tells what it is like to be a bilingual teacher. As a result, it helps other teachers and prospective teachers understand the complex nature of bilingual teaching, shares some successful teaching strategies that other teachers have used, and encourages teachers to find their own solutions despite limited support.
The book is structured in three parts. The introduction explains how the book evolved, defines its relation to other... This book grew out of the joys and challenges the author experienced as a Spanish/English bilingual teacher of culturally and linguistically diverse s...
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225,99 zł |
Service-Learning: Applications from the Research
ISBN: 9780805825367 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume grew out of an National Service-Learning Conference. The papers offer documentation and analysis for an emerging research knowledge base. They ask: does learning take place?; will other kinds of learning suffer; and what kinds of practice are most effective?
This volume grew out of an National Service-Learning Conference. The papers offer documentation and analysis for an emerging research knowledge base. ...
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210,22 zł |
Linguistic Diversity and Teaching
ISBN: 9780805827361 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Linguistic Diversity and Teaching raises questions and provides a context for reflection regarding the complex issues surrounding new English learners in the schools. These issues exist within a highly charged political climate and involve not only language, but also culture, class, ethnicity, and the persistent inequities that characterize our educational system. The text addresses these issues through conversations among experts, practitioners, and readers that are informed by representative case studies and by a range of theoretical approaches. It is designed to engage readers in...
Linguistic Diversity and Teaching raises questions and provides a context for reflection regarding the complex issues surrounding new English l...
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183,94 zł |
International Perspectives on Intercultural Education
ISBN: 9780805827453 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new millennium will provide educators the world over with untold opportunities, as well as obstacles, in their quest to provide an education for all. Social, political, economic and technological advances will continue to make education attainable to an ever-increasing number of students. At the same time, students served by most educational efforts will be increasingly diverse in terms of culture, race, ethnicity and gender. Accommodating the needs of such a diverse community of learners will be no easy task, especially given the fact that teachers across the globe tend to be rather...
The new millennium will provide educators the world over with untold opportunities, as well as obstacles, in their quest to provide an education for a...
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Becoming Biliterate: A Study of Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Education
ISBN: 9780805846782 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the development process and dynamics of change in the course of implementing a two-way bilingual immersion education program in two school communities. The focus is on the language and literacy learning of elementary-school students and on how it is influenced by parents, teachers, and policymakers. Perez provides rich, highly detailed descriptions, both quantitative and qualitative, of the change process at the two schools involved, including student language and achievement data for five years of program implementation that were used to test the basic two-way bilingual...
This book describes the development process and dynamics of change in the course of implementing a two-way bilingual immersion education program in tw...
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709,67 zł |
Learning, Teaching, and Community: Contributions of Situated and Participatory Approaches to Educational Innovation
ISBN: 9780805848670 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how participatory and situated approaches to learning contribute to the education of linguistic and ethnic minority populations. It addresses different facets of the topic through critical examinations of classroom and school-based practi
This book shows how participatory and situated approaches to learning contribute to the education of linguistic and ethnic minority populations. It ad...
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709,67 zł |
Learning, Teaching, and Community: Contributions of Situated and Participatory Approaches to Educational Innovation
ISBN: 9780805848687 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together established and new scholarly voices to explore how participatory and situated approaches to learning can contribute to educational innovation. The contributors' critical examinations of educational programming and engagements provide insights into how educators, youth, families, and community members understand and enact their commitments to diversity and equitable access. Collectively, these essays complicate notions of community, alerting readers to ways in which community can be constructed other than in geographical and ethnoracial terms--as alliances and...
This volume brings together established and new scholarly voices to explore how participatory and situated approaches to learning can contribute to ed...
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257,53 zł |
How Educational Ideologies Are Shaping Global Society: Intergovernmental Organizations, Ngos, and the Decline of the Nation-State
ISBN: 9780805849158 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism.
Neo-liberal ideology reflects a rethinking of nationalist forms of education as the nation-state slowly erodes under the power of a growing global civil society. Traditional nationalist education attempts to mold loyal and patriotic citizens who are emotionally attached to symbols of the state, whereas the goal of neo-liberal educational ideology is to change nationalist education to serve... In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, ...
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683,39 zł |
How Educational Ideologies Are Shaping Global Society: Intergovernmental Organizations, Ngos, and the Decline of the Nation-State
ISBN: 9780805849165 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism.
Neo-liberal ideology reflects a rethinking of nationalist forms of education as the nation-state slowly erodes under the power of a growing global civil society. Traditional nationalist education attempts to mold loyal and patriotic citizens who are emotionally attached to symbols of the state, whereas the goal of neo-liberal educational ideology is to change nationalist education to serve... In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, ...
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225,99 zł |
The Discourse of Character Education: Culture Wars in the Classroom
ISBN: 9780805851267 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s. The goal is to uncover the ideological nature of different conceptions of character education. The authors show how the current discourses are a continuation of discourse streams through which character education and the national purpose have been debated for hundreds of years, most recently in what are known as the Culture Wars--the...
In this book Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United ...
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709,67 zł |
The Discourse of Character Education: Culture Wars in the Classroom
ISBN: 9780805851274 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s.
The goal is to uncover the ideological nature of different conceptions of character education. The authors show how the current discourses are a continuation of discourse streams through which character education and the national purpose have been debated for hundreds of years, most recently in what are known as the Culture Wars--the... In this book Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United ...
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273,30 zł |
Teaching Social Foundations of Education: Contexts, Theories, and Issues
ISBN: 9780805851458 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education:
*Articulates central questions in the field--such as "What is social foundations?"; "Is there a social foundations canon?"; "Is it possible to teach for social justice?"; "What is student resistance?"; *Explores the limits and possibilities of teaching social foundations of education; *Provides strong arguments for the continued relevance of the discipline for teacher education; *Features a... This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance ...
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709,67 zł |
History of Multicultural Education Volume 1 : Conceptual Frameworks and Curricular Issues
ISBN: 9780805854398 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the US. By collecting and providing a framework for key publications, this title provides a means of understanding and visualizing the development, implementation, and interpretation of multicultural education in American society.
Documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the US. By collecting and providing a...
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919,95 zł |