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Competition, Community, and Educational Growth: Contemporary Perspectives on Competitive Speech and Debate is an up-to-date text providing informed academic thought concerning the impact of forensics. Its primary focus is to demonstrate how the forensic...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789973372Author David RidleyFormat PaperbackImprint Peter Lang International Academic PublishersPublisher Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

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 supported by...

This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset...

Education has long been viewed as a vehicle for building community. However, the critical role of education and schools for constructing community resistance is undermined by recent trends toward the centralization of educational policy-making (e.g...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988542645Author Angus McFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Nzcer PressPublisher Nzcer PressWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 2mm

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 9781957792682Author Qing Archer ZhangFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Common Ground Research NetworksPublisher Common Ground Research...

In this book, a group of researchers and educators consider in detail the possibilities and tensions of curriculum-making in early childhood education. The book discusses a wide range of issues related to postfoundational approaches to curriculum, such...

This book explores the diversity of American roles in such cross-cultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world. Cross-cultural engagement in education for democracy inevitably bears the impressions of...

This book addresses the disparity between transformative learning theory as espoused and practiced in the classrooms of the academy, and its application beyond. It articulates new models of transformative education that integrate transformative learning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223351702Author Cheryl AngstFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Cheryl AngstPublisher Cheryl AngstWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889751441Author Shivam GoelFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 95g

Internationalization plays an important role in shaping the philosophy and practice of higher education, and it is arguably one of the most durable University achievements. Offering creative ways to achieve a shift from isolation to communication between...

Applicable for both qualitative and quantitative researchers who work within a critical theory paradigm, Dialectical Research Methods in the Classical Marxist Tradition utilizes Marxist principles in aiding the design of inquiry whether at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410200389Author William Harrison-WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

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,...

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 explores the intersections between curriculum studies and sustainability. Recognizing that a bioregion is our "life place" and that curriculum studies is the interdisciplinary study of lived experience, this book engages in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955533348Author Julie JamisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Quantum Shift PublishingPublisher Quantum Shift PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

This innovative book examines the aesthetic event of education. Extending beyond the pedagogy of art or art appreciation, Tyson E. Lewis takes a much broader view of aesthetics and argues that teaching and learning are themselves aesthetic performances...

Are public charter schools more effective than traditional public schools? This book provides quantitative evidence to answer this question and considers a better way to undertake a policy of school choice. School Choice: A Balanced Approach is the most...

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,...

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...

Development of this text has been based on the notion that workforce education and development (WFED) systems-such as, secondary and postsecondary vocational and technical education (VTE), career education and guidance, human resource and organizational...

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...

Twenty-seven academics from the UK, U.S., and New Zealand contribute 18 essays on the impact of social structure on educational learning, educational access, and opportunity and outcomes, in an effort to renew the debate concerning the sociology of...

Whatever the goal of a liberal education, whether it is acquiring a core body of knowledge, a style of thinking, or the development of character, these essays suggest the importance of the academic community, characteristic of the small university, in...

The Challenge of Pluralism examines the problematic issues of the role of moral education in a pluralistic society. The book takes an interdisciplinary focus and contributors include experts in such fields as psychology, educational policy studies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757548512Author Festus E ObiakorFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This book proposes an approach to values education centered on an analysis of the relationship between thinking and valuing and focused on strategies for nurturing the capacity for sustained, disciplined, and informed reflection on the issues of moral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977999682Author Turk A. LouisFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Dayspring Publisher LLCPublisher Dayspring Publisher LLCWeight(grams) 533g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981950105Author Darcia NarvaezFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Alliance for Catholic Education PressPublisher Alliance for Catholic Education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993963322Author Kathryn JefferiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Mariposa Press (NM)Publisher Mariposa Press (NM)Weight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986642616Author Neil KarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Psylon PressPublisher Psylon PressWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm) 127mm * 203mm * 4mm

There is a growing consensus in society on the need for schools and colleges to address the issue of moral education, despite argument over the philosophy that should guide it. This compilation is reflective of the cognitive developmental approach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648580058Author Vasyl SukhomlynskyFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Urhobo Historical SocietyPublisher Urhobo Historical SocietyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820467382Author Elizabeth P. QuinteroFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820451688Author Michael PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 410g