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Given the current social climate this book interrogates capitalism's relationships to and influence on education. More importantly, this book is part of a greater effort to re?humanize society by generating dialogue, encouraging solidarity and providing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990478404Author Anne Cummings JacopettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Better Learning PressPublisher Better Learning PressWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631528204Author Gerd Bodo Reinert von CarlsburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Peter Lang GmbHPublisher Peter Lang GmbHWeight(grams) 460g

This book explores how education can be used as a tool to promote sustainability practices as the world faces huge challenges related to climate change and public health. The chapters consider all types of literacy approaches that fall under the umbrella...

Globalization has a profound effect on the mission and goals of education worldwide. One of its most visible manifestations is the worldwide endorsement of the idea of "education for global citizenship," which has been enthusiastically...

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 9781953852953Author Matthew RhoadsFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 216g

Although cultural diversity in classrooms is hardly a new phenomenon, its influences on teaching and learning are increasingly discussed. Cultural diversity could lead to better learning and democracy outcomes. However, it also poses challenges for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223761501Author Cheryl AngstFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Cheryl AngstPublisher Cheryl AngstWeight(grams) 104g

"[The authors] artfully piece together important essays ineducational policy and philosophy. . . . The book deals in detailwith such issues as teacher professionalization, moralresponsibility of public schools, accountability, and ethical codesof...

Twenty-nine international academics contribute 19 chapters examining the role that language plays in the development of multicultural education in a number of countries, including the U.S., Canada, Japan, South Africa, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, Belarus, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925288056Author Ian DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Global Publishing GroupPublisher Global Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953852212Author Bonnie NievesFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 152g

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Education in the Global South presents new comparative perspectives on Religious Education (RE) across the Global South. Including 23 chapters written by scholars from the Global North and South, this is the first...

This book critically examines the context, origins, development and implementation of successive primary school curricula in Ireland between 1897 and 1990. It focuses on three particular policy changes during the period: the Revised Programme of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725257474Author Hannah Adams IngramFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087931852Author Ellen N WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint Ls CompanyPublisher Ls CompanyWeight(grams) 1565g

Part of the Research in Social Education series, this text is divided into three parts: contexts; curricula; and assessments. It covers such topics as the irony of exclusion; teaching tolerance; and multicultural citizenship education.Book...

This book is not a comprehensive history of moral education in American schools. Rather, it is an episodic history that deals with selected periods, movements, and individuals throughout the course of American education history from the time of colonial...

Here's how to explain the real world when your students just don't want to listen or aren't aware of the importance of their education. This book for middle school teachers and counselors provides conversation starters for communicating the importance of...

A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, from the perspective of anarchist cultural studies. There have been other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953852441Author Carly SpinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 340g

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...

In a time of unprecedented changes globally, Flourishing in the Holistic Classroom offers an educational model that is dynamic, organic, and adaptive. The book offers key principles, dispositions, and practices that holistic educators draw from to create...

Curriculum*-in-the-Making theorizes about the living curriculum as an event that is in the making, for the enacted curriculum is something finished, which, only as an object, can be compared to another object. A living curriculum, understood as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970133462Author Barbara BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 152g

Cognitive capitalism - sometimes referred to as `third capitalism,' after mercantilism and industrial capitalism - is an increasingly significant theory, given its focus on the socio-economic changes caused by Internet and Web 2.0 technologies that have...

Today's colleges and universities face countless uncharted challenges and possibilities. They are often prized as national treasures, yet, in tough economic times, they are becoming a major focus of contestation and controversy. This richly comprehensive...

Mention the state of Vermont and images of maple syrup, scenic mountains, and progressive politics come to mind. But in addition to skiing, farming, and fall foliage, there is also a startling history of racial and religious intolerance and bigotry...

This is a philosophical exploration of the concept of well-being that argues for its importance in education and provides teachers with strategies for its encouragement and nurturing. The simple premise of this book is that the purpose of education is to...

Calling others in to lead for social justice has never been more important. In a world plagued by multiple and overlapping pandemics and other crises, the cost of leadership failures is constantly rising. Leadership education is responding to these...

A group of multiethnic scholars and practitioner researchers explore concepts of teaching for social justice and preparing teachers to work towards social justice in schools and communities. The objectives of this book are to 1. present different...

This handbook is a much expanded version of the original Learning Activities Survey published by Dr. Kathleen P. King of Fordham University in 1998. Based on her ground breaking research in this field where she used a mixed methodology research approach...

For readers new to the field of multicultural education and human relations education, the recency of these publications heralded as seminal may be confusing, for certainly the concepts building the field of multicultural education and human relations...

The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937828059Author Robbie McClintockFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Collaboratory for Liberal LearningPublisher Collaboratory for Liberal...

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...

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...

Emerging from the contested site of a new university campus, educators reflect upon the transformative process of reconceptualising and rebuilding a faculty of education in the twenty-first century. Contested Sites in Education seeks to improve an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223433163Author Ary S, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Ary S. Jr.Publisher Ary S. Jr.Weight(grams) 345g