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This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. This book overturns the typical conception of standards, empowering educators by providing concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be...

Mirrors of the Mind uses East Asian epistemology and cultural concepts as new conceptual tools to address fundamental questions that educators encounter. The book invites readers to critically reflect on commonly held assumptions about learning,...

Practicing Disability Studies in Education: Acting Toward Social Change celebrates the diversity of contemporary work being developed by a range of scholars working within the field of Disability Studies in Education (DSE). The central idea of this...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223552154Author Cheryl AngstFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Cheryl AngstPublisher Cheryl AngstWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223301226Author Cheryl AngstFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Cheryl AngstPublisher Cheryl AngstWeight(grams) 127g

As divisions grow across political, economic, and social lines, it often feels as though the only belief shared by many is that "the other side is too far gone." An authentic difficult dialogue has the power to mobilize our shared humanity in addressing...

This book explores the diversity-related labour that marginalized faculty, students, and staff are expected to perform because of their social identities – i.e., “identity taxation” in US higher education institutions. It compiles new research on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988542089Author Carol MutchFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) PressPublisher New Zealand Council...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953852373Author Michael EarnshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 259g

The revised edition of A Different View of Urban Schools updates a unique story about the realities of urban education in America and provides new insights on the origin of urban education issues; the route to a diverse and effective teaching force; and...

In "Come Closer," community activists, scholars, and theatre artists describe their Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) work and how they are transforming TO for new purposes, new audiences, and new settings. Each chapter features a first-person...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648025075Author Patricia Ruggiano SchmidtFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Corporate Assault on Youth examines childhood as a social construction increasingly influenced by corporations and commercialism. Through case studies, critical analysis, and historical/philosophical research, the essays collected here expose the...

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. This book overturns the typical conception of standards, empowering educators by providing concrete examples of how top-down models of assessment can be...

This book examines the ways in which PDSs build cultural competence for various stakeholders including pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, school leaders, college faculty, and K-12 students. Given the increased national attention on the opportunity...

This book offers easily implemented strategies for use with secondary and undergraduate students to promote greater engagement with the realities of diversity and commitment to social justice within their classrooms. Defining diversity broadly, the book...

How We Take Action brings together practical examples of social justice in language education from a wide range of contexts. Many language teachers have a desire to teach in justice-oriented ways, but perhaps also feel frustration at how hard it is to...

The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on dif-ferent aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world. The chapters that...

Thirteen contributions from academics representing a variety of disciplines confront issues relating to social justice in a post-9/11 world. Sample topics include the politics of coalition building among progressive educators and the role of...

In this volume in the ""IAP series on Advances in Service-Learning Research"", top researchers present recent work studying aspects of program development, student and community outcomes, and future research directions in the field of...

Teacher leadership as a dimension of teachers' work has never been more important. This topic has emerged as a major component of both state and national standards, and as such, it is included in most contemporary teacher education programs. Three...

This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural...

During the institutionalization of mass schooling in the 19th century, teaching large groups of children became both a necessity and a matter of regulation. For officials and inspectors the systematization of classroom interactions was important for...

Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice is the only textbook that teaches the reader ways to conduct research from a philosophical hermeneutic perspective. It is an invaluable resource for graduate students about to embark in...

Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation provides scholars and laymen with an assortment of theoretical and practical perspectives for questioning contemporary practices and forging new methods of education reform and innovation. This volume is the...

In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X's educational philosophy, and also...

Although Black faculty have been present in the academy since the late nineteenth century, it has been during the twentieth century that they have established a presence which has had political, cultural, and epistemological implications. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953852878Author Matthew RhoadsFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889590460Author Dr AnshumaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 231g

This book presents research exploring the potential for postfoundational theories to revitalize discussions in early childhood education. In the past two decades, postfoundation theories (e.g., postmodern, poststructural, feminist, postcolonial, etc.)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802271768Author Dr Vivek BammiFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Dr. Vivek BammiPublisher Dr. Vivek BammiWeight(grams) 458g

Education and work are moving towards an open, but uncertain future. Research on vocational and continuing education constantly needs to reassure the conditions of educational systems, current concepts of VET and work, educational policies, and its own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953852403Author Salandra GriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 249g

Change Matters, written by leading scholars committed to social justice in English education, provides researchers, university instructors, and preservice and inservice teachers with a framework that pivots social justice toward policy. The chapters in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224576654Author Ange AntonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Ange AntonyPublisher Ange AntonyWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775248019Author Steven Étienne LangloisFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Educorock Productions Inc.Publisher Educorock Productions Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631560297Author Gerd-Bodo von CarlsburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 620g

With the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975, the learning disability construct gained national legitimacy. Feeding that political achievement, behind the very idea of a learning disability, was the development of a science that blended neurology,...