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Queer Theory in Education
ISBN: 9780805829211 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theoretical studies in curriculum have begun to move into cultural studies - one increasingly visible sector of which is queer theory. Teaching Positions Knowledge of Bodies brings together scholars in the field of education - primarily but not exclusively in curriculum - in this volume on queer theory in education. In his introduction, the editor outlines queer theory as it is emerging in the field of education, its significance for all scholars and teachers, and its relation to queer theory in literacy theory and more generally, in the humanities.
Theoretical studies in curriculum have begun to move into cultural studies - one increasingly visible sector of which is queer theory. Teaching Positi...
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330,96 zł |
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Organized Activities as Contexts of Development: Extracurricular Activities, After School and Community Programs
ISBN: 9780805844306 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time is perceived as inconsequential or even counterproductive to the health and well-being of young persons. Recently, however, there has been a growing recognition that--along with family, peers, and school--the organized activities in which some youth participate during these hours are important contexts of emotional, social, and civic development. They provide opportunities for young persons to learn and develop competencies that are largely...
School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time...
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730,17 zł |
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Organized Activities as Contexts of Development: Extracurricular Activities, After School and Community Programs
ISBN: 9780805844313 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time is perceived as inconsequential or even counterproductive to the health and well-being of young persons. Recently, however, there has been a growing recognition that--along with family, peers, and school--the organized activities in which some youth participate during these hours are important contexts of emotional, social, and civic development. They provide opportunities for young persons to learn and develop competencies that are largely...
School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time...
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365,03 zł |
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Latino Education : An Agenda for Community Action Research
ISBN: 9780805849868 / Angielski / Twarda / 569 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This landmark volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP)— an initiative focused on school reform and educational research with and for Latino communities. NLERAP's goal is to bring together various constituencies within the broad Latino community who are concerned with public education to articulate a Latino perspective on research-based school reform, and to use research as a guide to improving the public school systems that serve Latino students and to maximizing their opportunities to participate fully and equally in all social,...
This landmark volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP)— an initiative focused on school re...
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876,20 zł |
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Latino Education: An Agenda for Community Action Research
ISBN: 9780805849875 / Angielski / Miękka / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This landmark volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP)-an initiative focused on school reform and educational research with and for Latino communities. NLERAP's goal is to bring together various constituencies within the broad Latino community who are concerned with public education to articulate a Latino perspective on research-based school reform, and to use research as a guide to improving the public school systems that serve Latino students and to maximizing their opportunities to participate fully and equally in all social, economic,...
This landmark volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP)-an initiative focused on school reform an...
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483,98 zł |
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Cultural Education - Cultural Sustainability: Minority, Diaspora, Indigenous and Ethno-Religious Groups in Multicultural Societies
ISBN: 9780805857245 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a path-breaking contribution to the study of efforts of diaspora, indigenous, and minority groups, broadly defined, to use education (formal and informal) to sustain cultural continuity while grappling with the influences and demands of wider globalizing, nationalizing, or other homogenizing and assimilatory forces. Particular attention is given to groups that use educational elements other than second-language teaching alone in programs to sustain their particular cultural traditions. The focus of the book on cultural sustainability changes the nature of questions posed in... This volume is a path-breaking contribution to the study of efforts of diaspora, indigenous, and minority groups, broadly defined, to use education... |
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876,20 zł |
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African American Males in School and Society : Practices and Policies for Effective Education
ISBN: 9780807738702 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies the educational and social lives of African American males. The book pays attention to educational attainment, job procurement, and quality of life, discussed against the backdrop of student background and schooling. Its aim is to improve the academic and social outcomes of this population.
Studies the educational and social lives of African American males. The book pays attention to educational attainment, job procurement, and quality of...
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102,18 zł |
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Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap Among Korean American Youth
ISBN: 9780807746936 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book challenges the model minority stereotype of Asian American students as a critical step toward educating all children well. Focusing on Korean American youth in New York City schools, Jamie Lew compares high-achieving students attending a competitive magnet high school with students who have dropped out of a neighborhood high school. She finds that class, race, social networks, parental strategies, and schooling resources all affect the aspirations and academic achievement of Asian American youth.
This book challenges the model minority stereotype of Asian American students as a critical step toward educating all children well. Focusing on Korea...
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102,18 zł |
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Immigrant Students and Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Remembering
ISBN: 9780807747322 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This powerful book demonstrates how culturally responsive teaching can make learning come alive. Drawing on his experience as a fifth-grade teacher in a multiethnic school where children spoke over 14 different home languages, the author reveals how he created a language arts curriculum from the students' own rich cultural resources, narratives, and identities.
This powerful book demonstrates how culturally responsive teaching can make learning come alive. Drawing on his experience as a fifth-grade teacher in...
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116,78 zł |
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More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee
ISBN: 9780807855249 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education. Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demonstrating that black activists engaged in multiple, overlapping, and often conflicting strategies to advance the race by gaining greater control over schools.
Dougherty tells the story of black school reform movements in Milwaukee from the 1930s to the 1990s, highlighting the multiple perspectives within each generation. In profiles of four leading activists, he reveals how different... Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education
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165,50 zł |
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Educating Latino Students: A Guide to Successful Practice
ISBN: 9780810843776 / Angielski / Miękka / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latino students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. This work explains theory with actual examples, showing where and how education is successfully working for Latino students.
Latino students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. This work e...
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368,93 zł |
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Goat: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780812969689 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Nick Jonas, thissearing memoir of fraternity culture and the perils of hazingprovides an unprecedented windowinto the emotional landscape of young men.
Reeling from a terrifying assault that has left him physically injured and psychologically shattered, nineteen-year-old Brad Land must also contend with unsympathetic local police, parents who can barely discuss the incident (as they call it), a brother riddled with guilt but unable to slow down enough for Brad to keep up, and the feeling that he ll never be normal again. When Brad s... Soon to be a major motion picture starring Nick Jonas, thissearing memoir of fraternity culture and the perils of hazingprovides an unprecedented w...
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76,86 zł |
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Generating Social Stratification : Toward A New Research Agenda
ISBN: 9780813367965 / Angielski / Miękka / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book some of the leading stratification scholars in the U.S. present empirical and theoretical essays about the institutional contexts that shape careers. Building on recent advances in theory, data, and analytic technique, the essays in this volume work toward the goal of identifying and assessing the processes by which a birth cohort is distributed in the stratification system, given their positions of origin in that system. Alan Kerckhoff's introduction situates the studies in this volume within the context of previous stratification research over several generations, making the...
In this book some of the leading stratification scholars in the U.S. present empirical and theoretical essays about the institutional contexts that sh...
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277,42 zł |
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China's National Minority Education: Culture, Schooling, and Development
ISBN: 9780815322238 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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730,17 zł |
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College Student Development and Academic Life: Psychological, Intellectual, Social and Moral Issues
ISBN: 9780815326632 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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876,20 zł |
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Chicano Educational Achievement: Comparing Escuela Tlatelolco, A Chicanocentric School, and a Public High School
ISBN: 9780815335115 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the observation that schools that represent and accept the ethnic identities of students are more likely to be successful in educating those students, McKissack compares a public high school with a private school founded to serve the Chicano community in Denver, looking at such factors as
Based on the observation that schools that represent and accept the ethnic identities of students are more likely to be successful in educating those ...
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778,85 zł |
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Student Achievement and the Changing American Family
ISBN: 9780833016164 / Angielski / Miękka / 131 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of the effects of changing family characteristics and demographics on aptitude scores. The conclusions undercut the conventional wisdom about failing schools, deteriorating families, and ineffective public policies.
An analysis of the effects of changing family characteristics and demographics on aptitude scores. The conclusions undercut the conventional wisdom ab...
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169,48 zł |
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Reaching Out to Children and Families: Students Model Effective Community Service
ISBN: 9780847691166 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community service and learning experiences are booming as we enter the 21st century. This practical guide assists college students and other constituents as they psychologically prepare for volunteering, service-learning, practicums, fieldwork assignments, and internships in a diverse and ever-changing world. Though created with the novice community worker in mind, this book will also assist professors, teachers, administrators, and agency personnel in understanding and preparing workers for community service and learning in schools, child care centers, soup kitchens, and shelters for the...
Community service and learning experiences are booming as we enter the 21st century. This practical guide assists college students and other constitue...
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204,45 zł |
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African-Centered Schooling in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780897897280 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although schools with an African-centered educational focus have existed for over 200 years, they have most often been independent institutions. Within the past few years, the idea of incorporating an African and African-American cultural orientation in public schools has been explored. This exploration has proceeded in a number of ways: in Baltimore, MD, African-centered education was instituted in selected classrooms within an otherwise traditional school. In Milwaukee, and in other cities such as Detroit, MI, and Washington, DC, African-centered programs have been implemented in... Although schools with an African-centered educational focus have existed for over 200 years, they have most often been independent institutions. Wi... |
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379,18 zł |
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Differently Academic?: Developing Lifelong Learning for Women in Higher Education
ISBN: 9781402027314 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lifelong learning is a key feature of society today, and is apparently embraced by a wide range of educators and trainers, as well as by governments and employers. In this wide-ranging book, Sue Jackson shows that universities have been slow to embrace a lifelong learning agenda, and argues that the lifelong learning experiences of women - and especially of working-class students - are seldom welcomed in the academy. In its unique considerations of the experiences of women students and academics, this book expounds an innovative and critical analysis of women in higher education.... Lifelong learning is a key feature of society today, and is apparently embraced by a wide range of educators and trainers, as well as by government... |
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403,47 zł |