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Higher Education in the Caribbean: Research, Challenges and Prospects
ISBN: 9781617355561 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book on Higher Education in the Caribbean, explores the key issues facing Higher Education institutions in the twenty-first century and its emphasis is on the financial and social commitments of Higher Education. The book examined research tendencies, experiences, challenges and practices to rethink and propose new routes for the interchange of values between Higher Education institutions and the Caribbean society.
This book on Higher Education in the Caribbean, explores the key issues facing Higher Education institutions in the twenty-first century and its empha...
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351,45 |
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School of Panamerican Unrest Anthology
ISBN: 9781934978573 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2006, artist Pablo Helguera drove with a portable schoolhouse from Anchorage, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, exploring the historical ideals of Pan-Americanism. Five years after that journey, this bilingual anthology gathers a group of critical essays and documentary materials of this pedagogical and public art experiment.
In 2006, artist Pablo Helguera drove with a portable schoolhouse from Anchorage, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, exploring the historical ideals...
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99,05 |
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Empowering Educators of Latino Children - A Toolkit for Teaching Spanish Speakers PreK through Middle School
ISBN: 9781936425044 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A companion guide to the textbook "Empowering Spanish Speakers" contains 160+ tips presenting how heritage affects Latinos' lives and how they learn. The brief, informative work allows greater understanding of the difficulties facing educators, not just those who teach Latino children, but those who work with any multicultural background.
A companion guide to the textbook "Empowering Spanish Speakers" contains 160+ tips presenting how heritage affects Latinos' lives and how they learn. ...
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38,35 |
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Peck High School: Golden Years Remembered
ISBN: 9780996668743 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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129,27 |
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Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education
ISBN: 9780807758618 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education. Accessible to students from high school through graduate school, this comprehensive resource includes many new features such as discussion of contemporary activism. The text includes many user-friendly features, examples, and vignettes to not just define but illustrate key concepts.
This is the new edition of the award-winning guide to social justice education. Accessible to students from high school through graduate school, this ...
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We've Been Doing It Your Way Long Enough: Choosing the Culturally Relevant Classroom
ISBN: 9780807757178 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Filled with day-to-day practices, this book will help elementary school teachers tackle the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Readers will learn about culturally relevant pedagogies as young children learn literacy and a critical stance through music, oral histories, name stories, intergenerational texts, and heritage lessons.
Filled with day-to-day practices, this book will help elementary school teachers tackle the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Readers will...
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How Real Is Race?: A Sourcebook on Race, Culture, and Biology
ISBN: 9780759122727 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How real is race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture enter? What do we mean by a "colorblind" or "postracial" society, or when we say that race is a "social construction"? If race is an invention, can we eliminate it? This book, now in its second edition, employs an activity-oriented approach to address these questions and engage readers in unraveling--and rethinking--the contradictory messages we so often hear about race. The authors systematically cover the myth of race as biology and the reality of race as a cultural invention, drawing on biocultural and...
How real is race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture enter? What do we mean by a "colorblind" or "postracial" society, o...
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How Real Is Race?: A Sourcebook on Race, Culture, and Biology, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780759122734 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How real is race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture enter? What do we mean by a "colorblind" or "postracial" society, or when we say that race is a "social construction"? If race is an invention, can we eliminate it? This book, now in its second edition, employs an activity-oriented approach to address these questions and engage readers in unraveling--and rethinking--the contradictory messages we so often hear about race. The authors systematically cover the myth of race as biology and the reality of race as a cultural invention, drawing on biocultural and...
How real is race? What is biological fact, what is fiction, and where does culture enter? What do we mean by a "colorblind" or "postracial" society, o...
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A Compass of Faith: A Man's Journey to America
ISBN: 9781449752354 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,20 |
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A Compass of Faith: A Man's Journey to America
ISBN: 9781449752330 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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111,71 |
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History of Multicultural Education: Instruction and Assessment
ISBN: 9780415504850 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This benchmark 6-volume set documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the U.S. The volumes reflect the tenets of multicultural education, its history, its present, and individuals whose work has contributed significantly to equity and social justice for all citizens. By collecting and providing a framework for key publications spanning the last 30-40 years, this set provides a means of understanding and visualizing the development, implementation, and interpretation of multicultural education in American society. The...
This benchmark 6-volume set documents, analyzes, and critiques a comprehensive body of research on the history of multicultural education in the U.S. ...
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68,52 |
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The Education of Nomadic Peoples: Current Issues, Future Perspectives
ISBN: 9781845450366 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Educational provision for nomadic peoples is a highly complex, as well as controversial and emotive, issue. For centuries, nomadic peoples educated their children by passing on from generation to generation the socio-cultural and economic knowledge required to pursue their traditional occupations. But over the last few decades, nomadic peoples have had to contend with rapid changes to their ways of life, often as a consequence of global patterns of development that are highly unsympathetic to spatially mobile groups. The need to provide modern education for nomadic groups is evident and... Educational provision for nomadic peoples is a highly complex, as well as controversial and emotive, issue. For centuries, nomadic peoples educate... |
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The State
ISBN: 9780919618596 / Angielski / Miękka / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A classic of sociology and political science that helps us to realize how recent, precious and fragile are the ideas and institutions of democracy."--Stanislav Andreski
"A classic of sociology and political science that helps us to realize how recent, precious and fragile are the ideas and institutions of democracy."-...
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The Kinning of Foreigners: Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781845451844 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the late nineteen sixties, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. Due to a sharp decline in infants being made available for adoption locally, involuntarily childless couples in Western Europe and North America who wish to create a family, have to look to look to countries in the poor South and Eastern Europe. The purpose of this book is to locate transnational adoption within a broad context of contemporary Western life, especially values concerning family, children and meaningful relatedness, and to explore the many ambiguities and paradoxes that the practice... Since the late nineteen sixties, transnational adoption has emerged as a global phenomenon. Due to a sharp decline in infants being made available... |
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Beyond Desegregation: The Politics of Quality in African American Schooling
ISBN: 9780803962637 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a discussion among scholars about the need for, implications of and critical issues involved in looking beyond school desegregation to focus on the quality of African American schooling. The strategy of school desegregation is examined in the context of the power used by whites to control policy-making and implementation. The use of power by African Americans to resist schooling imposed by whites to maintain oppressive social relations is also discussed.
This book presents a discussion among scholars about the need for, implications of and critical issues involved in looking beyond school desegregation...
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Toward Excellence with Equity: An Emerging Vision for Closing the Achievement Gap
ISBN: 9781891792786 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the past 15 years, economist Ronald Ferguson has investigated the myriad factors that combine to create racial disparities in academic performance. This volume brings together Ferguson s most important papers and most recent thinking on these issues. In language accessible and useful to education practitioners, Ferguson sets forth a wide-ranging and compelling vision for closing the achievement gap.
Beginning with his analysis of the impact of test scores in predicting racial wage gaps, Ferguson has explored how rates of progress in narrowing gaps have varied over the recent... For the past 15 years, economist Ronald Ferguson has investigated the myriad factors that combine to create racial disparities in academic performance...
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Facing Racism in Education
ISBN: 9780916690427 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when many in public life and public education are inclined to argue that racial issues and problems belong to a bygone era, this third edition of Facing Racism in Education makes clear the need for continued attention to and open discussion of race and education.
This third edition of Facing Racism in Education continues the work begun in the first and second editions of this widely acclaimed book: breaking the silence about the experiences of people of color in education. The new volume features equal measures of classic essays from the previous two... At a time when many in public life and public education are inclined to argue that racial issues and problems belong to a bygone era, this third editi...
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Legacies of Brown: Multiracial Equity in American Education
ISBN: 9780916690434 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book illuminates the effects of segregation, desegregation, and integration on students, practitioners, communities, and policymakers in the fifty years since the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
Articles by leading legal and education scholars address questions that are central to the Brown rulings' complex and immensely influential legacy: Has the promise of Brown been realized for all students in public schools? What effects, both positive and negative, have occurred throughout educational communities in the United States as a result of this court... This book illuminates the effects of segregation, desegregation, and integration on students, practitioners, communities, and policymakers in the fift...
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Teaching Writing in Globalization: Remapping Disciplinary Work
ISBN: 9780739167960 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching Writing in Globalization: Remapping Disciplinary Work, edited by Darin Payne and Daphne Desser, examines the impact of globalization on disciplinary work in higher education. Conversely, it also examines the impact of disciplinary work on the shape and evolution of globalization. Payne and Desser collect a series of essays which offer ways of actively engaging globalization from within, not as mere observers or adapters but as citizens with agency. Using writing instruction as its touchstone and rhetoric/composition as a disciplinary case study, the book critically analyzes the...
Teaching Writing in Globalization: Remapping Disciplinary Work, edited by Darin Payne and Daphne Desser, examines the impact of globalization on disci...
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No More Us and Them: Classroom Lessons and Activities to Promote Peer Respect
ISBN: 9781610488129 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is imperative that teachers build community in their classrooms and across their academic teams and grades in order to make school a safe and supportive place for adolescents. Teachers must help their students acknowledge that they belong to a group together, that they are part of a "we" or "us," and that any differences--divergent talents, backgrounds, experiences, cultures, and skills--only make "us" stronger and better. No More "Us" and "Them" delineates what steps educators can take to create an atmosphere where adolescent students feel accepted, included, and valuable to themselves...
It is imperative that teachers build community in their classrooms and across their academic teams and grades in order to make school a safe and suppo...
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372,23 |