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The Time Is Now; Understanding and Responding to the Black and Latina/o Dropout Crisis in the U.S.
ISBN: 9781433123733 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fact that 30% of all high school students and 50% of African American, Latina/o, and Native American students fail to graduate from high school is grounds for alarm in the United States. The Time Is Now argues that understanding and responding to the dropout crisis facing the United States has overlooked one major element school culture. Using the PUEDES approach as an analytical framework, this book highlights how schools matter and, in fact, hold many of the solutions that contribute to student engagement and disengagement in school, particularly among low-income students of...
The fact that 30% of all high school students and 50% of African American, Latina/o, and Native American students fail to graduate from high school is...
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205,43 |
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Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
ISBN: 9780991331307 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color left her wondering what she was missing. Then, in 2009, one "aha " moment launched an adventure of discovery and insight that drastically shifted her worldview and upended her life plan. In Waking Up...
For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, s...
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77,03 |
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Bilingual Public Schooling in the United States: A History of America's Polyglot Boardinghouse
ISBN: 9781137393289 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history of one of the most contentious educational issues in America examines bilingual instruction in the United States from the common school era to the recent federal involvement in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing from school reports, student narratives, legal resources, policy documents, and other primary sources, the work teases out the underlying agendas and patterns in bilingual schooling during much of America s history. The study demonstrates clearly how the broader context - the cultural, intellectual, religious, demographic, economic, and political forces - shaped the contours of...
This history of one of the most contentious educational issues in America examines bilingual instruction in the United States from the common school e...
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160,99 |
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«Che Charta Dab Dey, Halta Adab Dey»- A Pushto Saying Meaning: Where There Is Physical Punishment, There Is Order and Respect: An Empirical Analysis o
ISBN: 9783631543399 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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771,76 |
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Fearless and Free to Be: A Faith-Based Approach to Intimate Partner Violence in the African American Community
ISBN: 9780615965871 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comprehensive instructor's manual and group curriculum designed to equip religious and spiritual leaders, counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers and other qualified mental health professionals with sophisticated tools to understand, identify, and effectively respond to intimate partner violence within the African American community.
Comprehensive instructor's manual and group curriculum designed to equip religious and spiritual leaders, counselors, marriage and family therapists, ...
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153,22 |
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The Legacy of Desegregation: The Struggle for Equality in Higher Education
ISBN: 9781137442574 / Angielski / Twarda / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book analyzes the struggle of African Americans to gain access and equity in higher education in the United States. It chronicles some of the history prior to court ordered segregation and traces the mandate to desegregate by following the Adams v. Richardson (1973) case, which ordered the dismantling of dual systems of higher education.
The book analyzes the struggle of African Americans to gain access and equity in higher education in the United States. It chronicles some of the hist...
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201,24 |
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Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High-Performing Schools
ISBN: 9781934742105 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high-performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low-income, minority youth in Massachusetts.
Interviews, focus groups, and classroom observations conducted over the course of two years flesh out rich and colorful portraits of daily life in these schools. Using an analytic framework grounded in research on nonprofit management and effective schools, the authors show that these schools excel along the organizational dimensions of structure,... Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high-performing urb...
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132,18 |
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Improving Testing for English Language Learners
ISBN: 9780415763608 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than any book to date, this one provides a comprehensive approach to designing, building, implementing and interpreting test results that validly measure the academic achievement of English language learners. It scaffolds the entire process of test development and implementation and discusses essential intervention points. The book provides the type of evidence-based guidance called for in federal mandates such as the NCLB legislation. Key features of this important new book include the following...
Comprehensive - This book recommends methods for properly... More than any book to date, this one provides a comprehensive approach to designing, building, implementing and interpreting test results that vali... |
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269,33 |
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Identity and Pedagogy in Higher Education: International Comparisons
ISBN: 9781472582249 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kalwant Bhopal and Patrick Danaher examine 'race', identity and gender within education and explore the difficulties of relating these concepts to the experience of students in higher education. In drawing together the experience of local and international students in the UK and in Australia, they examine the ways identities are understood and conceptualized within higher education in local contexts and on a global level. They consider the complexity of 'race', gender and identity in relation to education within the context that education continues to be dominated by predominantly white,... Kalwant Bhopal and Patrick Danaher examine 'race', identity and gender within education and explore the difficulties of relating these concepts to ... |
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195,86 |
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Sociocultural Studies in Education: Critical Thinking for Democracy
ISBN: 9781612056937 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sociocultural Studies in Education: Critical Thinking for Democracy fills a void in the education of educators and citizens in a democracy. It explores some of the fundamentals around which disagreements in education arise. It presents a process with which those new to these debates can understand often confusing and entwined sets of facts and logics. This book leads the reader through some general concepts and intellectual skills that provide the basis for making sense out of the debates around public education in a democracy. This book can be seen as a primer on how to... Sociocultural Studies in Education: Critical Thinking for Democracy fills a void in the education of educators and citizens in a democracy... |
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783,64 |
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Gender and Sexualities in Education: A Reader
ISBN: 9781433123269 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is about the education of gender and sexualities, which is to say it explores how gender and sexuality identities and differences get constructed through the process of education and schooling. Wittingly or not, educational institutions and educators play an important role in normalizing gender and sexuality differences by disciplining, regulating, and producing differences in ways that are intelligible within the dominant or hegemonic culture. To make gender and sexuality identities and differences intelligible through education is to understand them through the logic of...
This volume is about the education of gender and sexualities, which is to say it explores how gender and sexuality identities and differences get cons...
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1048,46 |
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Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High-performing Schools
ISBN: 9781934742112 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high-performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low-income, minority youth in Massachusetts.
Interviews, focus groups, and classroom observations conducted over the course of two years flesh out rich and colorful portraits of daily life in these schools. Using an analytic framework grounded in research on nonprofit management and effective schools, the authors show that these schools excel along the organizational dimensions of structure,... Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high-performing urb...
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225,30 |
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Equal Opportunity in Higher Education: The Past and Future of California's Proposition 209
ISBN: 9781934742723 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Equal Opportunity in Higher Education examines issues pertaining to equal opportunity affirmative action, challenges to it, and alternatives for improving opportunities for underrepresented groups in higher education today.
Its starting point is California s Proposition 209, which ended race-based affirmative action in public education and the workplace in 1996. The book carefully considers how Proposition 209 reflects national trends that have changed higher education policy and practice, from admissions to student diversity to standards. With a roster of leading scholars... Equal Opportunity in Higher Education examines issues pertaining to equal opportunity affirmative action, challenges to it, and alternatives fo...
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127,29 |
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Effective Practices for Teaching and Learning in Inclusive Classrooms
ISBN: 9781626618886 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Effective Practices for Teaching and Learning in Inclusive Classrooms gives educators insight into the eight most widely researched instructional practices known to have a powerful impact on diverse student populations. The material serves as an effective bridge to the best practices that can be used consistently with students, regardless of placement.
Each chapter begins with objectives and key vocabulary. It then presents a series of questions for readers to consider as they explore teaching and learning in action. All chapters conclude with brief summaries, review questions or... Effective Practices for Teaching and Learning in Inclusive Classrooms gives educators insight into the eight most widely researched instruction...
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435,90 |
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Plurilingualism and Multiliteracies: International Research on Identity Construction in Language Education
ISBN: 9783631629260 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. LANGSCAPE is a plurilingual and multicultural international research network on language acquisition and language education. The current research focus is on Identity Construction in Language Education. This volume summarizes some research results of the last four years by presenting empirical research projects as well as theoretical concepts. The contributions all deal with topics linked to plurilingualism or to certain aspects of the concept of multiliteracies like globalization, language policy, multiculturalism, multimodal communication processes, intercultural learning etc. The authors...
LANGSCAPE is a plurilingual and multicultural international research network on language acquisition and language education. The current research focu...
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324,80 |
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Reading, Writing, and Discussing at the Graduate Level: A Guidebook for International Students
ISBN: 9780761864127 / Angielski / Miękka / 65 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to help international students navigate the academic issues they will encounter while attending graduate school in the United States. This book provides guidelines for conquering the obstacles that international graduate students often face, such as developing independent ideas based on required readings, participating in classroom discussions effectively, organizing academic papers, and effectively managing academic work and social relationships. This book is an invaluable tool for international graduate students and their instructors and mentors.
The purpose of this book is to help international students navigate the academic issues they will encounter while attending graduate school in the Uni...
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146,94 |
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Beyond Pedagogy
ISBN: 9789462096301 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beyond Pedagogy: Reconsidering the public purpose of museums explores issues standing at the intersection of public pedagogy, memory, and critical theory, focusing on the explicit and implicit educational imperative of art, natural history, and indigenous museums, cultural centers, memorial sites, heritage houses, and other cultural heritage sites that comprise the milieu of educating, learning, and knowing. Taken together, the various essays comprising this book demonstrate that a more nuanced examination of the role of cultural heritage institutions as pedagogical sites requires a critical...
Beyond Pedagogy: Reconsidering the public purpose of museums explores issues standing at the intersection of public pedagogy, memory, and critical the...
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186,97 |
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Beyond Pedagogy
ISBN: 9789462096318 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beyond Pedagogy: Reconsidering the public purpose of museums explores issues standing at the intersection of public pedagogy, memory, and critical theory, focusing on the explicit and implicit educational imperative of art, natural history, and indigenous museums, cultural centers, memorial sites, heritage houses, and other cultural heritage sites that comprise the milieu of educating, learning, and knowing. Taken together, the various essays comprising this book demonstrate that a more nuanced examination of the role of cultural heritage institutions as pedagogical sites requires a critical...
Beyond Pedagogy: Reconsidering the public purpose of museums explores issues standing at the intersection of public pedagogy, memory, and critical the...
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441,93 |
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Teacher Education in a Transnational World
ISBN: 9781442649347 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teacher Education in a Transnational World brings together specialists from various disciplines and scholars with policy-making and high-level government and administrative experience to discuss the historical, sociological, and philosophical issues associated with teacher education in a global context. Edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofre and James Scott Johnston, two leading scholars of the history and philosophy of education, this collection offers both analytical and practical insights into the present and future state of teacher education. Among the topics examined are... Teacher Education in a Transnational World brings together specialists from various disciplines and scholars with policy-making and high-l... |
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288,97 |
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Challenging the Monolingual Mindset
ISBN: 9781783092505 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume illustrates the distinctive and interconnected use of languages in increasingly diversified communities, examining a range of multilingual contexts, including post-migration settlement, language policy, education, language contact and intercultural communication. With contributions from researchers in Australia, Europe and Asia, the book discusses the opportunities and tensions that can emerge when societies attempt to manage and understand multilingual communication within and across communities. Reflecting the ideas of Professor Michael Clyne, the volume makes clear how... This volume illustrates the distinctive and interconnected use of languages in increasingly diversified communities, examining a range of multiling... |
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169,87 |
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