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Achieving Against the Odds
ISBN: 9781566398510 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays written by non-traditional faculty on non-traditional students documents a complex and challenging process of pedagogical transformation.
This collection of essays written by non-traditional faculty on non-traditional students documents a complex and challenging process of pedagogical tr...
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111,91 |
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Black Colleges: New Perspectives on Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781567505863 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black colleges are central to the delivery of higher education. Notwithstanding, there is scant treatment of these key institutions in the research literature. There is a need for a comprehensive and cogent understanding of the primary characteristics of the policies and practices endemic to black colleges. This book provides the scholarly basis requisite to organize, give meaning to, and shape the analyses and applications of policy and practice within the black college. The collected chapters respond to the paucity of research literature addressing these institutions. In each chapter,... Black colleges are central to the delivery of higher education. Notwithstanding, there is scant treatment of these key institutions in the research... |
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384,30 |
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Multicultural and Multilingual Literacy and Language: Contexts and Practices
ISBN: 9781572309616 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within a clear conceptual framework, this book explores ways that teachers, reading specialists, administrators, and teacher educators can provide more effective literacy instruction to K-9 students from diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds. Cutting-edge theory and research is interwoven with detailed case studies that bring to life the complexities of teaching in today's multicultural and multilingual classroom. Topics covered include: *How and why culture matters in literacy instruction
*Drawing on students' multiple literacies in the classroom *Motivating and... Within a clear conceptual framework, this book explores ways that teachers, reading specialists, administrators, and teacher educators can provide mor...
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219,00 |
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User-Friendly Schools for Latinos: A Model for All Immigrants
ISBN: 9781578863099 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a valuable resource for any educator who is interested in reaching Latino students. The authors explore numerous ways to aid staff in viewing immigrants as an educational challenge rather than a problem and creating action programs that reach out to immigrants, who are often hesitant about interacting with teachers. The ideas included here permeate the entire school year and the activities coincide with holidays, which are integrated into the regular course curriculum. This book can be used creatively while planning daily activities. Includes: _ Techniques to assist children prior to...
Here is a valuable resource for any educator who is interested in reaching Latino students. The authors explore numerous ways to aid staff in viewing ...
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209,27 |
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Racial Bias in the Classroom: Can Teachers Reach All Children?
ISBN: 9781578863907 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Racial Bias in the Classroom will enable readers to learn how to handle situations involving culturally diverse students in their schools.
Racial Bias in the Classroom will enable readers to learn how to handle situations involving culturally diverse students in their schools.
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535,46 |
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Racial Bias in the Classroom: Can Teachers Reach All Children?
ISBN: 9781578863914 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Racial Bias in the Classroom will enable readers to learn how to handle situations involving culturally diverse students in their schools.
Racial Bias in the Classroom will enable readers to learn how to handle situations involving culturally diverse students in their schools.
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292,02 |
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Mentoring Young Men of Color: Meeting the Needs of African American and Latino Students
ISBN: 9781578864300 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mentoring Young Men of Color: Meeting the Needs of African American and Latino Students examines the subject of youth mentoring through a cultural lens. The work not only investigates the value of school-based mentoring in the lives of these youngsters, but also offers alternative and constructive ways in which our society can experience and embrace this social group. Positioning mentoring as a cultural practice, this book informs schools and communities of their ethical role and responsibility in fighting the public assault on America's youth by helping young males of color develop a deeper...
Mentoring Young Men of Color: Meeting the Needs of African American and Latino Students examines the subject of youth mentoring through a cultural len...
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204,40 |
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Improving Schools for Latinos: Creating Better Learning Environments
ISBN: 9781578864898 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a result of multiple unfavorable circumstances, public schools have been unable to effectively educate America's most disadvantaged student population--Latinos. In this book, author Leonard Valverde contends that it is imperative to reinvent schools in order to provide a viable education for these students. Improving Schools for Latinos starts with the past, points out the present, and speaks to the future. It exposes the negative mental models and practices that must be discarded and proposes what favorable elements need to be put into place. Features: -An outline of what future Latino...
As a result of multiple unfavorable circumstances, public schools have been unable to effectively educate America's most disadvantaged student populat...
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413,76 |
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Improving Schools for Latinos: Creating Better Learning Environments
ISBN: 9781578864904 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a result of multiple unfavorable circumstances, public schools have been unable to effectively educate America's most disadvantaged student population_Latinos. In this book, author Leonard Valverde contends that it is imperative to reinvent schools in order to provide a viable education for these students. Improving Schools for Latinos starts with the past, points out the present, and speaks to the future. It exposes the negative mental models and practices that must be discarded and proposes what favorable elements need to be put into place. Features: _
As a result of multiple unfavorable circumstances, public schools have been unable to effectively educate America's most disadvantaged student populat...
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204,40 |
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Intercultural Student Teaching: A Bridge to Global Competence
ISBN: 9781578865802 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In response to the changing global climate and the growing recognition of the professional associations in the teacher education community, universities around the country are beginning to recognize the need to add a global dimension to their education programs. One way to prepare teachers to address the challenges associated with teaching children in a global age is through carefully structured, international and intercultural field experiences where candidates are immersed in another culture. Intercultural Student Teaching demonstrates examples of such successful programs.
In response to the changing global climate and the growing recognition of the professional associations in the teacher education community, universiti...
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243,34 |
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Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation
ISBN: 9781578866144 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forced to Fail traces the long legal history of first racial segregation, and then racial desegregation in America. The authors explain how rapidly changing demographics and family structure in the United States have greatly complicated the project of top-down government efforts to achieve an "ideal" racial balance in schools. It describes how social capital--a positive outcome of social interaction between and among parents, children, and teachers--creates strong bonds that lead to high academic achievement. The authors show how coercive desegregation weakens bonds and hurts not only...
Forced to Fail traces the long legal history of first racial segregation, and then racial desegregation in America. The authors explain how rapidly ch...
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Urban Education: A Comprehensive Guide for Educators, Parents, and Teachers
ISBN: 9781578866168 / Angielski / Miękka / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by numerous contradictions, this book proposes that there is a wide range of social, cultural, psychological, and pedagogical knowledge that urban educators must possess in order to engage in effective and transformative practice. It is necessary for teachers in urban schools to be scholar-practitioners, as opposed to bureaucrats who only follow rather than analyze, understand, and create. Ten major sections cover the myriad issues of urban education as it exists today: context of urban education, race and ethnicity, social...
Maintaining that urban teaching and learning is characterized by numerous contradictions, this book proposes that there is a wide range of social, cul...
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365,03 |
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Language and Cultural Diversity in U.S. Schools: Democratic Principles in Action
ISBN: 9781578866175 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diversity is at the heart of today's education debates. Often, school policies and programs designed to encourage and embrace diversity are met with public ire and a deep misunderstanding of how diversity serves learning. This work explains how diversity is an essential element in classroom settings. As children from around the world continue to pour into U.S. classrooms, an understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity in its broadest sense moves to the foreground. In a post 9/11 world, the benefits of understanding diversity take on urgent meaning. The introductory chapter,...
Diversity is at the heart of today's education debates. Often, school policies and programs designed to encourage and embrace diversity are met with p...
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How Minority Students Experience College: Implications for Planning and Policy
ISBN: 9781579220495 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -I feel like they act like they're so diverse and multicultural.This is not a representation of how it is for people who go here.-
-I know of several occasions, if it weren't for several faculty of color, I don't know how I would have made it from one day to the next.- -- from student interviews Have three decades of integration and multicultural initiatives in higher education delivered a better education to all students? Are majority and minority students reaping similar benefits, specifically in predominantly white colleges? Do we know what a multicultural campus... -I feel like they act like they're so diverse and multicultural.This is not a representation of how it is for people who go here.-
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Ethnicity in College: Advancing Theory and Improving Diversity Practices on Campus
ISBN: 9781579220518 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the importance, and construction, of ethnic identity among college students, and how ethnicity interfaces with students' interactions on campus, and the communities in which they live.
Based on qualitative interviews with White, Latina/o, African American and Asian students, it captures both the college context and the individual experiences students have with their ethnicity, through the immediacy of the students' own voices. The authors observe how students negotiate their ethnic identity within the process of becoming adults. They identify the... This book explores the importance, and construction, of ethnic identity among college students, and how ethnicity interfaces with students' interactio...
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754,51 |
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Developing Intercultural Competence and Transformation: Theory, Research, and Application in International Education
ISBN: 9781579222666 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Enrollments in international education programs are projected to grow exponentially as students, parents, and university personnel seek to prepare future leaders who can live and work effectively in a global environment. What do we know about the outcomes of such programs, and how can educators become more intentional about designing, and assessing, the impact of such courses? How can we help students achieve the intercultural growth and transformation that they may envision as they set forth on their international sojourn?
International education provides opportunities for... Enrollments in international education programs are projected to grow exponentially as students, parents, and university personnel seek to prepare fut...
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150,85 |
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Developmental Reading, Achievement and Persistence of African American Community College Students
ISBN: 9781581123029 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ex post facto study was used to compare community college transcripts of African American students who participated in a developmental reading course at a multi-campus, urban community college and those who declined to participate in the developmental reading program. The study examined 513 records to determine if participation in a developmental reading course in a community college improved achievement and persistence for African American college students. Results discuss the positive relationship of overall and third semester achievement to enrollment in a developmental reading course...
This ex post facto study was used to compare community college transcripts of African American students who participated in a developmental reading co...
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110,47 |
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Asian American Education: Acculturation, Literacy Development, and Learning (PB)
ISBN: 9781593117221 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive survey of seven major Asian-American groups that discusses the sociocultural and linguistic backgrounds of each.
A comprehensive survey of seven major Asian-American groups that discusses the sociocultural and linguistic backgrounds of each.
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204,96 |
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Asian American Education: Acculturation, Literacy Development, and Learning (Hc)
ISBN: 9781593117238 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive survey of seven major Asian-American groups that discusses the sociocultural and linguistic backgrounds of each.
A comprehensive survey of seven major Asian-American groups that discusses the sociocultural and linguistic backgrounds of each.
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384,30 |
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Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9781593851415 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to present a practical, problem-solving approach and hands-on tools and techniques for assessing English language learners and culturally diverse students in K-12 settings. It meets a crucial need among practitioners and special educators working in today's schools. Provided are research-based, step-by-step procedures for conducting effective interviews with students, parents, and teachers; making the best use of interpreters; addressing special issues in the prereferral process; and conducting accurate, unbiased assessments of academic achievement, intellectual...
This is the first book to present a practical, problem-solving approach and hands-on tools and techniques for assessing English language learners and ...
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219,00 |