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Social justice and leadership education are inextricably linked. In order to move social justice forward, we need to develop leaders with knowledge, skills, and values to engage effectively in the leadership process. We need socially just leaders now...

This edited collection of chapters from invited scholars, explores issues of social justice and micropolitics in educational institutions. More specifically, it examines the ways in which social justice workers navigate, or can navigate, (micro)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648025068Author Patricia Ruggiano SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age...

Career Development in the Schools describes a dynamic process that continues to evolve in its rationale and practice. In many schools and in a variety of scholarly writings, the status of career development is controversial. Some observers assert that...

Social justice and leadership education are inextricably linked. In order to move social justice forward, we need to develop leaders with knowledge, skills, and values to engage effectively in the leadership process. We need socially just leaders now...

This edited book is the first full-length volume exclusively devoted to new research on the challenges and practices of teaching global issues. It addresses the ways that schools can and do address young people's interest and activism in contemporary...

Through rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a complex global system (Friedman, 2005). With the rise of new technology, local populations,...

Exploring the field of peace education, the bulk of the book analyzes and critically evaluates contemporary schools and universities. Providing some successful and not-so-successful alternative school and university projects and experiments, the book...

Intersectionality of Critical Animal Studies: A Historical Collection represents the very best that the internationally scholarly Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) has published in terms of articles that are written by public critical...

Joe L. Kincheloe (1950-2008) was one of North America's leading critical pedagogy scholars. He defined post-formalist thought in terms of deconstruction, affectivity, and non-linearity. His deconstruction focused on the context of ideas, ideologies, and...

This book diagnoses Cambodian teaching quality and presents policy options for reform. Through classroom observation, assessments of mathematics and pedagogical content knowledge, and surveys of teachers and school directors, it sheds light on content...

An Ecological Pedagogy of Joy is an interweaving that explores the conduct of pedagogy in these ecologically sorrowful times. Drawing upon the authors’ collective experiences as teachers and students, as well as Indigenous ancestries and knowledge,...

This book originates from a collaborative research initiative to examine how various societies in the Asia-Pacific Region construct moral and civic education, and to what extent these systems achieve the democratic objective of creating socially...

This book originates from a collaborative research initiative to examine how various societies in the Asia-Pacific Region construct moral and civic education, and to what extent these systems achieve the democratic objective of creating socially...

This book addresses how to assess and instruct students while also honoring their cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Many individuals want to support their multilingual learners but do not have the language skills to work in a bilingual or...

This monograph lays out a qualitative, collective case study designed to assess how students in a secondary Latina/Latino Literature class began to think dialectically about issues of social justice. Byusing various methods of data collection, I...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648025532Author Dr Festus E ObiakorFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Information Age Publishing IncPublisher Information Age Publishing...

This much-needed volume is an edited collection of primary sources that document the history of bilingual education in U.S. public schools during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Part I of the volume examines the development of dual-language...

Exploring the field of peace education, the bulk of the book analyzes and critically evaluates contemporary schools and universities. Providing some successful and not-so-successful alternative school and university projects and experiments, the book...

The topic of bilingualism has aroused considerable interest in research on language acquisition in recent decades. Researchers in various fields, such as developmental psychology and psycholinguistics, have investigated bilingual populations from...

This book is an attempt to relate moral formation to democratic life and to the emotional emotion of shame. The argument is that shame is essential to moral formation, that it tells us when we are violating our own moral norms. Contrary to common belief,...

In The Relational Dimension of the Teaching Profession, we follow four teachers who meet their students in a particularly evolving way. Deploying what is described as pedagogical tact and stance, the author has filmed teachers in order to observe how...

In our current systems of education, there is a trend toward compartmentalizing knowledge, standardizing assessments of learning, and focusing primarily on quantifiable and positivist forms of inquiry. Contemplative inquiry, on the other hand, takes us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782807606241Author Xavier RoegiersFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint PIE - Peter LangPublisher PIE - Peter LangWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970133882Author Paula NeidlingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358724226Author Xusanova Nargiza Farxod QiziFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970133967Author Heather LyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 216g

This book aims to provide new insights into the complexities of theorizing contemporary adolescent literacies. It proposes a theoretical approach to understanding youth cultural production which addresses several lacunae in the field of new literacy...

It is widely recognised that we are living through an 'age of the narrative'. Many of the constituent disciplines in the social sciences resonate with this trend by using life history and narrative approaches and methods. As we move on from the modernist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953852687Author Dr JoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 159g

The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its importance, there is a need for tools to improve principalship, particularly ones emphasizing those...

Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times is a sequel to a 2010 work with the similar title, Urban Catholic Education: Tales of Twelve American Cities. Together, these works explore the historical contours of the Catholic parochial...

Together we can build enough momentum to see Jim Crow lying silent and still in his grave. This book shouts out ways that we can and must respond to the sickening accumulation of racially inspired and systemically sanctioned deaths. Today, we remember...

In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953852427Author Heather LyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 821gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 19mm

The Social Theory in Education Primer shows how classical sociology sets the frame for theory and research in education. Three major paradigms are explained in their historical context, and are used as a key to making sense of contemporary work that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925826647Author Cheryl LaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Connor Court PublishingPublisher Connor Court Publishing

This is a major work by three international scholars at the cutting edge of new research that investigates the emerging set of complex relationships between creativity, design, research, higher education and knowledge capitalism. It highlights the role...

This book attempts to explore the nature of quality assurance policies and practices in three universities in the Southern African region. It looks at how they were developed, the parties that were involved in the policy process, the implications of such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789655779257Author Molly EfratFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint BooxaiPublisher BooxaiWeight(grams) 440g