Ethnography and Schools: Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Education
ISBN: 9780742517370 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ethnographic experience is an indelible venture that continuously redefines one's life. Bringing together important cross-currents in the national debate on education, this book introduces the student or practitioner to the challenges, resources, and skills informing ethnographic research today. From the first chapter describing the cultural foundations of ethnographic research, by George Spindler, the book traces both traditional and new approaches to the study of schools and their communities. Emphasis on discourse, critical pedagogy, and ethnicity are among the many aspects of...
The ethnographic experience is an indelible venture that continuously redefines one's life. Bringing together important cross-currents in the national...
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254,15 zł |
Antiracist Education: From Theory to Practice
ISBN: 9780742518247 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book combines theory, practice, and ethnography in an exploration of how teachers can fully implement diversity and antiracism as a foundation of their teaching approach. The author, a white mother of children of color, whose work is influenced by her own experience being raised in an antiracist, activist family, developed her curriculum over many years of active involvement with parents and teachers in schools. She presents her curriculum along with ethnographic reports of the processes of change that teachers experience as they fully explore the realities of race relations, its...
This book combines theory, practice, and ethnography in an exploration of how teachers can fully implement diversity and antiracism as a foundation of...
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227,12 zł |
Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization
ISBN: 9780742519428 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization describes the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. Like many other agricultural based towns, Prairie Town struggled for survival within the context of the on-going farm crisis, NAFTA, neoliberal agricultural policies, and growing agribusiness that negatively impacted many farmers throughout the world. The effects of globalization, the displacement of rural workers to urban areas, and the deterioration of rural life were a widespread...
Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization describes the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one sm...
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216,30 zł |
Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education
ISBN: 9780742523821 / Angielski / Twarda / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tongue-Tied is an anthology that gives voice to millions of people who, on a daily basis, are denied the opportunity to speak in their own language. First-person accounts by Amy Tan, Sherman Alexie, bell hooks, Richard Rodriguez, Maxine Hong Kingston, and many other authors open windows into the lives of linguistic minority students and their experience in coping in school and beyond. Selections from these writers are presented along with accessible, abridged scholarly articles that assess the impact of language policies on the experiences and life opportunities of minority-language students....
Tongue-Tied is an anthology that gives voice to millions of people who, on a daily basis, are denied the opportunity to speak in their own language. F...
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567,79 zł |
Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education
ISBN: 9780742523838 / Angielski / Miękka / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tongue-Tied is an anthology that gives voice to millions of people who, on a daily basis, are denied the opportunity to speak in their own language. First-person accounts by Amy Tan, Sherman Alexie, bell hooks, Richard Rodriguez, Maxine Hong Kingston and many other authors open windows onto the lives of linguistic minority students and their experience in coping in school and beyond. Selections from these writers are presented along accessible, abridged scholarly articles that assess the impact of language policies on the experiences and life opportunities of minority-language students. Vivid...
Tongue-Tied is an anthology that gives voice to millions of people who, on a daily basis, are denied the opportunity to speak in their own language. F...
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221,71 zł |
Disputing the Subject of Sex: Sexuality and Public School Controversies
ISBN: 9780742526594 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sexuality remains a hotly debated subject, nowhere more so than in education. This perceptive and balanced book shows that discussions of sexuality and schooling can be simultaneously polarizing and democratizing. Disputing the Subject of Sex examines controversies over sex, AIDS, and gay-inclusive multicultural education, which offer especially fruitful opportunities to explore the claims of various identities, the social aims of public schools, and the relation between schools and the publics they serve. These controversies help to show the kind of confused tumble of discourses, seemingly...
Sexuality remains a hotly debated subject, nowhere more so than in education. This perceptive and balanced book shows that discussions of sexuality an...
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189,26 zł |
No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
ISBN: 9780743265225 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The racial gap in academic performance between whites and Asians, on the one hand, and Latinos and blacks, on the other hand, is America's most urgent educational problem. It is also the central civil rights issue of our time, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom. Unequal skills and knowledge are the main sources of ongoing racial inequality, and racial inequality is America's great unfinished business.
A wide and tragic gap in learning is evident in affluent suburbs as well as inner cities. But great schools are scattered across the country, as described in inspiring detail by the... The racial gap in academic performance between whites and Asians, on the one hand, and Latinos and blacks, on the other hand, is America's most urgent...
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92,36 zł |
500 Tips for Tesol Teachers: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
ISBN: 9780749424091 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There has been a growth in the number of teachers involved in teaching English as a foreign or second language. This handbook contains practical suggestions for EFL teachers, and aims to lead to ideas which can be tried out at once. Lists of useful resources and pro-formas are included.
There has been a growth in the number of teachers involved in teaching English as a foreign or second language. This handbook contains practical sugge...
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190,02 zł |
International Education
ISBN: 9780749426941 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This international-contributed work examines the fundamental thinking about the nature and purpose of international education in the context of global issues. Detailing improvements in practice worldwide, it explores the relationship between current thinking and practice in international education, and how each is evolving. With contributions from, among others, the Director of the United Nations International School in New York, the Principal of an international school in Japan, it looks at issues such as inclusive and encapsulated school cultures and an international curriculum as a...
This international-contributed work examines the fundamental thinking about the nature and purpose of international education in the context of global...
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899,00 zł |
Schooling and Equality : Fact, Concept and Policy
ISBN: 9780749433703 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text covers the range of equality issues in school level education from the perspective and needs of educators, trainee teachers and students of education. It uses a blend of issues, concepts, facts and research to open up key issues and consider policy developments in the field. Each contributor addresses a different equality issue.
This text covers the range of equality issues in school level education from the perspective and needs of educators, trainee teachers and students of ...
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899,00 zł |
The Multicultural Dimension Of The National Curriculum
ISBN: 9780750700696 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given the National Curriculum Council's failure to issue any formal guidance on the subject, multicultural education is becoming increasingly marginalized and left to individual schools. This book provides guidance and advice to schools on issues of racial equality and cultural diversity. It helps teachers, managers and governors implement the requirements and expectations of new educational legislation since the 1988 Education Reform Act and its associated non-statutory advice and guidance.
Given the National Curriculum Council's failure to issue any formal guidance on the subject, multicultural education is becoming increasingly marginal...
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292,76 zł |
Critical Multiculturalism
ISBN: 9780750707671 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text aims to bring together two movements, of multiculturalism and anti-racism, which, though having aims in common, have been at arms length in the past. Differences of emphasis have meant that classroom practice has been the natural realm of multiculturalism, while anti-racism has been dissatisfied with an approach that accentuates life-style at the expense of challenging or changing the racism that minority students experience. In these debates, there has been a concentration on culturally specific topics. This work also beyond national boundaries to find how international concerns...
This text aims to bring together two movements, of multiculturalism and anti-racism, which, though having aims in common, have been at arms length in ...
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308,18 zł |
Critical Multiculturalism
ISBN: 9780750707688 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text aims to bring together two movements, of multiculturalism and anti-racism, which, though having aims in common, have been at arms length in the past. Differences of emphasis have meant that classroom practice has been the natural realm of multiculturalism, while anti-racism has been dissatisfied with an approach that accentuates life-style at the expense of challenging or changing the racism that minority students experience. In these debates, there has been a concentration on culturally specific topics. This work also beyond national boundaries to find how international concerns...
This text aims to bring together two movements, of multiculturalism and anti-racism, which, though having aims in common, have been at arms length in ...
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899,00 zł |
Teaching Multicultured Students : Culturalism and Anti-culturalism in the School Classroom
ISBN: 9780750708265 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers suggestions for making classroom and teaching practice more effective for bilingual and bidialectical pupils. Case studies are used, which give voice to student and practising teacher perspectives which are often unheard. This book will help teachers develop practice that combats actual exclusion and the symbolic exclusion that some multicultured students experience.
Offers suggestions for making classroom and teaching practice more effective for bilingual and bidialectical pupils. Case studies are used, which give...
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256,81 zł |
Multicultural Research: Race, Class, Gender and Sexual Orientation
ISBN: 9780750708807 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With contributions from leading American authors in the field of multicultural research, this text both dissects the multicultural issues facing education in the USA, and reveals the methods and procedures of research in this area.
With contributions from leading American authors in the field of multicultural research, this text both dissects the multicultural issues facing educa...
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251,66 zł |
Multicultural Research: Race, Class, Gender and Sexual Orientation
ISBN: 9780750708814 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With contributions from leading American authors in the field of multicultural research, this text both dissects the multicultural issues facing education in the USA, and reveals the methods and procedures of research in this area.
With contributions from leading American authors in the field of multicultural research, this text both dissects the multicultural issues facing educa...
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899,00 zł |
Indigenous Education and Empowerment: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780759108943 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indigenous people have often been confronted with education systems that ignore their cultural and historical perspectives. This insightful volume contributes to our understanding of indigenous empowerment through education, and creates a new foundation for implementing specialized indigenous/minority education worldwide, engaging the simultaneous projects of cultural preservation and social integration. A vital work for scholars in Native American studies, ethnic studies, and education.
Indigenous people have often been confronted with education systems that ignore their cultural and historical perspectives. This insightful volume con...
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567,79 zł |
Indigenous Education and Empowerment: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780759108950 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indigenous people have often been confronted with education systems that ignore their cultural and historical perspectives. This insightful volume contributes to our understanding of indigenous empowerment through education, and creates a new foundation for implementing specialized indigenous/minority education worldwide, engaging the simultaneous projects of cultural preservation and social integration. A vital work for scholars in Native American studies, ethnic studies, and education.
Indigenous people have often been confronted with education systems that ignore their cultural and historical perspectives. This insightful volume con...
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227,12 zł |
Raising Multicultural Awareness in Higher Education
ISBN: 9780761832577 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raising Multicultural Awareness in Higher Education taps into the appropriate mechanisms for increasing cultural awareness among teacher candidates. The book includes narratives and practical instructional approaches for teacher-educators and teacher-candidates to aid in understanding the multicultural education field. It explores positive constructivist approaches to in the field of multicultural education that enable teacher-educators and teacher-candidates to make appropriate decisions and choices in today's classrooms.
Raising Multicultural Awareness in Higher Education taps into the appropriate mechanisms for increasing cultural awareness among teacher candidates. T...
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264,96 zł |
This Isn't the America I Thought I'd Find: African Students in the Urban U.S. High School
ISBN: 9780761834557 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American society has long placed high expectations on our schools to advance this nation's prospects or to help resolve many of its ills. Throughout America's history, however, immigrant children have experienced difficulties adjusting to their new lives in our schools. This experience has been the fate of many African students who come to America with hopes of securing an excellent education, a better future, and a chance at the American dream; instead, they frequently find disappointment. Much of this frustration stems from the marginalization of African and African-American history and...
American society has long placed high expectations on our schools to advance this nation's prospects or to help resolve many of its ills. Throughout A...
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341,40 zł |