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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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622735211Author Karim DharamsiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon Press

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.)...

This book sheds light on the work of one of the 20th century's foremost critical educators, the Italian Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967), on the 90th anniversary of his birth. It provides an exposition and critical analysis of the ideas contained in his...

Rethinking Citizenship Education presents a fundamental reassessment of the field. Drawing on empirical research, the book argues that attempting to transmit preconceived notions of citizenship through schools is both unviable and undesirable. The notion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781963998023Author Roneisha RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Fina PressPublisher Fina PressWeight(grams) 109g

Are we bold enough to recognize our own excellence in our schools and communities? This question drives Intentional Excellence, an audacious attempt at developing a Pedagogy of Excellence in Latina/o schools and communities as a result of observations,...

Not a Stage! is written for teachers, students, and scholars interested in the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents. It is unique because it actively resists basing the practice, research, and theory of young adolescent education on...

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,...

This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the...

Within critical discussions of school reform, researchers and activists are often of two camps. Some focus their analyses on neoliberal economic agendas, while others center on racial inequality. These analyses often happen in isolation, continuing to...

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...

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...