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Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools
ISBN: 9780691117904 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements. Amy Binder gives a brief history of both movements and then describes how their challenges played out in seven school districts. Despite their very different constituencies--inner-city African American cultural essentialists and predominately white suburban... This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between prop... |
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186,11 |
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Dictionary of British Education
ISBN: 9780713040517 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an up-to-date guide for teachers and parents, administrators, governors, students and others to help the find their way about the increasingly complex world of education. The main section provides a dictionary that is more than a simple set of definitions: many words in education have been put into some kind of historical context to become fully meaningful. The second part gives some important landmarks from the nineteenth century to the present time, and also provides a list of political heads of education since state education was established. The final section is devoted to a list...
This is an up-to-date guide for teachers and parents, administrators, governors, students and others to help the find their way about the increasingly...
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244,84 |
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African Education and Globalization: Critical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780739110416 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Containing both theoretical discussions of globalization and specific case analyses of individual African countries, this collection of essays examines the intersections of African education and globalization with multiple analytical and geographical emphases and intentions.
Containing both theoretical discussions of globalization and specific case analyses of individual African countries, this collection of essays examine...
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440,80 |
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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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195,91 |
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Educational Metamorphoses: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Culture
ISBN: 9780742546721 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A preeminent philosopher of education in the United States, Jane Roland Martin challenges conventional wisdom that education consists of small, incremental changes within a student's life. Using case studies of personal transformations, or metamorphoses, Martin examines Malcolm X, George Bernard Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, Victor - the Wild Boy of Aveyron, Minik the Inuit Child, and several others to demonstrate how substantial personal change can be and how vital education is as a fundamental determinant of the human condition. Martin's study results in three important claims: that each of us...
A preeminent philosopher of education in the United States, Jane Roland Martin challenges conventional wisdom that education consists of small, increm...
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367,33 |
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Educational Metamorphoses: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Culture
ISBN: 9780742546738 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A preeminent philosopher of education in the United States, Jane Roland Martin challenges conventional wisdom that education consists of small, incremental changes within a student's life. Using case studies of personal transformations, or metamorphoses, Martin examines Malcolm X, George Bernard Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, Victor - the Wild Boy of Aveyron, Minik the Inuit Child, and several others to demonstrate how substantial personal change can be and how vital education is as a fundamental determinant of the human condition. Martin's study results in three important claims: that each of us...
A preeminent philosopher of education in the United States, Jane Roland Martin challenges conventional wisdom that education consists of small, increm...
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146,94 |
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Teaching the Violent Past: History Education and Reconciliation
ISBN: 9780742551435 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During an armed conflict or period of gross human rights violations, the first priority is a cessation of violence. For the cease-fire to be more than a lull in hostilities and atrocities, however, it must be accompanied by a plan for political transition and social reconstruction. Essential to this long-term reconciliation process is education reform that teaches future generations information repressed under dictatorial regimes and offers new representations of former enemies. In Teaching the Violent Past, Cole has gathered nine case studies exploring the use of history education to promote...
During an armed conflict or period of gross human rights violations, the first priority is a cessation of violence. For the cease-fire to be more than...
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254,68 |
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Higher Education in Europe and the United States of America: A Diverse Collection of Essays
ISBN: 9780761837794 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an assembling of papers presented at conferences in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Portugal, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the United States. They analyze such topics as structure; corporatization of universities; changing boundaries between public and private higher education legitimacy and crisis; role of academic leaders and university trustees; economic development; impact of universities on the community; and the political and social impact of universities. The essays constitute a fairly comprehensive international review of major issues now confronting universities....
This is an assembling of papers presented at conferences in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Portugal, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the Unite...
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186,11 |
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What′s Public about Charter Schools?: Lessons Learned about Choice and Accountability
ISBN: 9780761945376 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a valuable tool for analyzing the success of the private/public hybrid in serving the core purpose of public education. This book is a valuable tool for analyzing the success of the private/public hybrid in serving the core purpose of public education. |
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333,05 |
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What′s Public about Charter Schools?: Lessons Learned about Choice and Accountability
ISBN: 9780761945383 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a valuable tool for analyzing the success of the private/public hybrid in serving the core purpose of public education. This book is a valuable tool for analyzing the success of the private/public hybrid in serving the core purpose of public education. |
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156,68 |
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Schooling for Success: Preventing Repetition and Dropout in Latin American Primary Schools
ISBN: 9780765602381 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The link between economic development and education in Latin America is generally well-recognized. A literate and educated work force is the largest single factor in explaining economic growth. In this study, the editors and contributors survey the various elementary educational systems to investigate the reasons behind the failure of schools to retain students in elementary grades. A group of scholars looks at the current state of education in four countries: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, with a view to designing more effective programs for reducing the dropout and grade repetition...
The link between economic development and education in Latin America is generally well-recognized. A literate and educated work force is the largest s...
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440,75 |
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Schooling for Success: Preventing Repetition and Dropout in Latin American Primary Schools
ISBN: 9780765602398 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study, the contributors survey the various elementary educational systems to investigate the reasons behind the failure of schools throughout Latin America to retain students in elementary grades.
In this study, the contributors survey the various elementary educational systems to investigate the reasons behind the failure of schools throughout ...
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132,18 |
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The New Institutionalism in Education
ISBN: 9780791469064 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Institutionalism in Education brings together leading academics to explore the ongoing changes in K-12 and higher education in both the United States and abroad. The contributors show that current educational trends--including the increased globalization of education, the growing emphasis on educational markets and school choice, the rise of accountability systems, and the persistent influence of business groups like textbook manufacturers and test makers on educational policy--can best be understood when observed through an institutional lens. Because schools and universities are...
The New Institutionalism in Education brings together leading academics to explore the ongoing changes in K-12 and higher education in both the United...
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131,47 |
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Adult Education: The Legislative and Policy Environment
ISBN: 9780792346586 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The studies contained in this volume present a sampling of policy and legislation relating to adult learning in various parts of the world. They were produced in the context of a more complete survey, under the auspices of the UNESCO Institute for Education (VIE) in cooperation with the University of Florence, which sought to identify tendencies in this field over the past few years. The international research project, under which these national studies were made, was developed under the direction of Paul Belanger, Director of UIE, and Paolo Federighi, Professor at the University of Florence....
The studies contained in this volume present a sampling of policy and legislation relating to adult learning in various parts of the world. They were ...
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402,53 |
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Perspectives on the Teaching of Geometry for the 21st Century: An ICMI Study
ISBN: 9780792349907 / Angielski / Twarda / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years geometry seems to have lost large parts of its former central position in mathematics teaching in most countries. However, new trends have begun to counteract this tendency. There is an increasing awareness that geometry plays a key role in mathematics and learning mathematics. Although geometry has been eclipsed in the mathematics curriculum, research in geometry has blossomed as new ideas have arisen from inside mathematics and other disciplines, including computer science.
Due to reassessment of the role of geometry, mathematics educators and mathematicians face new... In recent years geometry seems to have lost large parts of its former central position in mathematics teaching in most countries. However, new trends ...
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603,81 |
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Perspectives on the Teaching of Geometry for the 21st Century: An ICMI Study
ISBN: 9780792349914 / Angielski / Miękka / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years geometry seems to have lost large parts of its former central position in mathematics teaching in most countries. However, new trends have begun to counteract this tendency. There is an increasing awareness that geometry plays a key role in mathematics and learning mathematics. Although geometry has been eclipsed in the mathematics curriculum, research in geometry has blossomed as new ideas have arisen from inside mathematics and other disciplines, including computer science.
Due to reassessment of the role of geometry, mathematics educators and mathematicians face new... In recent years geometry seems to have lost large parts of its former central position in mathematics teaching in most countries. However, new trends ...
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603,81 |
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Education Between State, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 9780805831955 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *How should education be organized in pluralistic and multicultural societies?
*What are the roles in education of civil society, markets, governments, and the family? *How can the idea of the civil society help to reorient education policy discussions that are sometimes stuck in either-or juxtapositions of "market versus government" or "individualism versus communitarianism?" *What are some of the traditions of civil society--across countries and across history--that educators and policymakers today can revive or build on? These questions are at the center of this book. Its... *How should education be organized in pluralistic and multicultural societies?
*What are the roles in education of civil society, markets, governm... |
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710,17 |
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Essays in Twentieth-Century Southern Education: Exceptionalism and Its Limits
ISBN: 9780815326243 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive treatment of the defining issues (race, class, reform) regarding education in this century of the American South. The approaches range from broad based historical comparisons to analyses of select case studies.
A comprehensive treatment of the defining issues (race, class, reform) regarding education in this century of the American South. The approaches range...
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685,68 |
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What Is Indigenous Knowledge?: Voices from the Academy
ISBN: 9780815331575 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international panel of contributors analyses knowledge production and the rules of scholarship, opening new avenues for discussion in education, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as in other important fields.
The international panel of contributors analyses knowledge production and the rules of scholarship, opening new avenues for discussion in education, p...
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979,55 |
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What Is Indigenous Knowledge?: Voices from the Academy
ISBN: 9780815334521 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ladislaus M. Semali and Joe L. Kincheloe's edited book, What is Indigenous Knowledge?: Voices from the Academy not only exposes the fault lines of modernist grand narratives, but also illuminates, in a vivid and direct way, what it means to come to subjectivity in the margins. The international panel of contributors from both industrialized and developing countries, led by Semali and Kincheloe, injects a dramatic dynamic into the analysis of knowledge production and the rules of scholarship, opening new avenues for discussion in education, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as in other...
Ladislaus M. Semali and Joe L. Kincheloe's edited book, What is Indigenous Knowledge?: Voices from the Academy not only exposes the fault lines of mod...
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319,59 |
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