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Miseducating for the Global Economy: How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students' Futures by Gerald Coles 9781583676912
Booksplease Price: $148.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583676912Author Gerald ColesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
What If All the Kids Are White? by Louise Derman-Sparks 9780807752128
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $49.73In this updated edition, two distinguished early childhood educators tackle the crucial topic of what White children need and gain from anti-bias and multicultural education. The authors propose seven learning themes to help young White children resist... -
College and Career Ready in the 21st Century: Making High School Matter by James R. Stone III 9780807753231
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $54.89More than half of 9th graders in the United States will never complete a college degree. High schools must do more than prepare some students for college: They must prepare all American youth for productive lives as well as continued learning beyond high... -
Education for the Twenty-First Century by Hedley Beare 9781032196633
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $62.60First published in 1993, Education for the Twenty-First Century grew out of a common and deep-seated concern about the way young people think of their own future, and about some of the relatively simplistic education reforms advocated, often by people... -
Observations upon Liberal Education by George Turnbull 9780865974128
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $20.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974128Author George TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 445Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 778g -
Observations upon Liberal Education by George Turnbull 9780865974111
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $37.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974111Author George TurnbullFormat HardbackPage Count 442Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 885g -
The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community by Wm. Theodore De Bary 9780231162777
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $61.57Having spent decades teaching and researching the humanities, Wm. Theodore de Bary is well positioned to speak on its merits and reform. Believing a classical liberal education is more necessary than ever, he outlines in these essays a plan to update... -
Essays on Religion and Education by R. M. Hare 9780198249962
Booksplease Price: $110.54R. M. Hare, one of the most widely discussed of today's moral philosophers, here presents his most important essays on religion and education, in which he brings together the theoretical and the practical. The book opens with an exposition of his ideas... -
Global Panaceas, Local Realities: International Agencies and the Future of Education by Jason Beech 9783631594773
RRP: $81.48Booksplease Price: $74.38By analysing the proposals for teacher education drawn up by UNESCO, the World Bank and OECD, this book shows that even though each of these organizations has different views about education, their proposals are based on a similar set of assumptions... -
Now I Get It!: Differentiate, Engage, and Read for Deeper Meaning by Judy Tilton Brunner 9781610486125
Booksplease Price: $202.34Literacy, differentiated instruction, student engagement and academic achievement continue to be hot topics for educators, parents, legislators, and government officials. Now I Get It! Differentiate, Engage, and Read for Deeper Meaning is a practical,... -
Teaching on a Tightrope: The Diverse Roles of a Great Teacher by Jack Zevin 9781607095897
Booksplease Price: $202.34Teaching on a Tightrope offers those seeking to play the teacher's role a way of thinking about the major components of teaching. These components or dimensions are described in terms of pairings that interact and overlap with each other, e.g., teaching... -
Modernization or Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Taiwan's National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study by Yun-shiuan Chen 9781433120299
RRP: $196.14Booksplease Price: $173.10This book focuses on the development of Taiwan's long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. The National Scholarship Program can be seen as Taiwan's governmental pursuit of strategic modernization for national... -
The Power of the Whole: What Is Lost by Focusing on Individual Things by Sean Slade 9781475873665
Booksplease Price: $129.42This is a book about ourselves, and our world, but it is also a book about, and for education. Education is undergoing constant scrutiny – as it should. But what makes, or made, an education successful is too often left behind in the shadows when we... -
Improving Multicultural Education: Lessons from the Intergroup Education Movement by Cherry A.McGee Banks 9780807745076
Booksplease Price: $64.41Intergroup conflict has been a perennial problem in the United States since colonial times. This book describes how a group of educators, social activists, and scholars tried to reduce intergroup tensions and create schools where people of all groups... -
Educating for Social Justice & Inclusion in an African Context: Pathways & Transitions by Anbanithi Muthukrishna 9781604566673
RRP: $180.58Booksplease Price: $122.37The proposed book moves away from a special education course, reflecting a broad consideration of social justice and inclusion that encompasses a variety of concerns about the lived experience of domination, oppression and injustice, and seeks to... -
Hizmet Movement, A Lived Experience, and Introspections on Pedagogy by Koray Lynx 9781636674636
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $54.85This book is first in its category to reflect a lived experience from a phenomenological viewpoint within the Hizmet Movement (HM). Through the author’s lens, you will read about the transformation of HM along with his own over a span of three decades... -
Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Film: Reel Education by Daniel P. Liston 9780415737661
RRP: $241.50Booksplease Price: $211.95Films about education provide many of the most popular interpretations of what teaching and learning mean in schools. An analysis of this medium reveals much about the historical, cultural, political, and philosophical dimensions of education. Timely and... -
Environmental Education in Indonesia: Creating Responsible Citizens in the Global South? by Lyn Parker 9780367784249
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $89.59Indonesia's wealth of natural resources is being exploited at breakneck speed, and environmental awareness and knowledge among the populace is limited. This book examines how young people learn about the environment to see how education can help to... -
What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?: The American Revolution in Education by Geoffrey Galt Harpham 9780226480787
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.33Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a... -
Equity And Education In Cold Climates In Sweden And England by Dennis Beach 9781872767246
Booksplease Price: $35.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872767246Author Dennis BeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Tufnell PressPublisher Tufnell PressWeight(grams) 385g -
Troubling Educational Cultures In The Nordic Countries by Touko Vaahtera 9781872767598
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $22.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872767598Author Touko VaahteraFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Tufnell PressPublisher Tufnell Press -
Preparing to Study Abroad: Learning to Cross Cultures by Steven T. Duke 9781579229948
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.36Study abroad is a potentially valuable experience in today's global economy. With proper preparation it can be transformational. It can open you to the appreciation of other cultures; develop the transferable intercultural skills for interacting with... -
White Teachers / Diverse Classrooms: Creating Inclusive Schools, Building on Students' Diversity and Providing True Educational Equality by Julie Landsman 9781579225964
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $67.28* Interviews with Black students and experienced educators provide guidance on how to teach successfully in multicultural classes* Insights and ideas to promote observation, reflection, and effective classroom practice* Ideal for initiating constructive... -
Places Where Teachers Are Taught by John I. Goodlad 9781555422769
RRP: $99.75Booksplease Price: $90.26In nine original chapters, this book provides a comprehensive historical perspective on teacher education in the United States. Using twenty-nine case histories of geographically and institutionally diverse education programs, the authors reveal the... -
Ecosophy and Educational Research for the Anthropocene: Rethinking Research through Relational Psychoanalytic Approaches by Alysha J. Farrell 9781032146133
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58Problematizing the aims of education in the Anthropocene, this text illustrates the value of relational psychoanalytic theory in the study and practice of education amidst the climate crisis. Illustrating how dominant educational theory fails to... -
Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well-Being Marcus Conyers 9781118926109
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $31.96Positively Smarter brings together seven principles for connecting the science of neuroplasticity to practical strategies for enhancing the synergy of happiness, achievement, and physical well-being. Moving beyond common myths, the text builds an... -
Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well-Being by Donna Wilson 9781118926093
RRP: $107.00Booksplease Price: $77.05Positively Smarter brings together seven principles for connecting the science of neuroplasticity to practical strategies for enhancing the synergy of happiness, achievement, and physical well-being. Moving beyond common myths, the text builds an... -
Teaching: A Life's Work-A Mother-Daughter Dialogue by Sonia Nieto 9780807761090
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $48.01Nieto and Lopez document their reasons for becoming teachers and share some of the most important lessons they have learned along the way. Using journals, blogs, current writings, and their research, they explore how their views on curriculum, pedagogy,... -
Improving Comprehension Instruction: Rethinking Research, Theory, and Classroom Practice by Cathy Collins Block 9780787963095
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.82Co-published by Jossey-Bass and the International Reading Association, Improving Comprehension Instruction provides a comprehensive overview of current research, proven methods, and successful applications for designing and delivering effective... -
Rethinking the Human Person: Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy Nahal Jafroudi 9781906165802
RRP: $114.45Booksplease Price: $102.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906165802Author Nahal JafroudiFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 550g -
Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change: Contributions from the United States and Mexico by Guadalupe Lopez-Bonilla 9781433109294
RRP: $207.90Booksplease Price: $183.23Discourses and Identities in Contexts of Educational Change presents the work of fourteen scholars concerning the United States and Mexico. The authors explore current and changing educational contexts through the relationship between discourses and... -
Recognizing Indigenous Languages: Double Binds of State Policy and Teaching Kichwa in Ecuador by Nicholas Limerick 9780197559185
RRP: $51.43Booksplease Price: $50.11What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official? What happens when bilingual education activists gain the right to coordinate schooling from upper-level state offices? The intercultural bilingual school system in... -
Removing the Educational Silos: Models of Interdisciplinary and Multi-disciplinary Education by Wiline Pangle 9781789386349
RRP: $188.90Booksplease Price: $166.89The proposed book will be an edited collection of essays / chapters pertaining to interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary methods of teaching. It would serve as inspiration, a guide for project replication (in practice essays), and research about... -
The University Revolution: Outline of a Processual Theory of Modern Higher Education Eric Lybeck (University of Manchester, UK) 9781032020327
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351017558, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.Few institutions in modern society are as... -
Engaging in Educational Research-Practice Partnerships: Guided Strategies and Applied Case Studies for Scholars in the Field by Sharon Friesen 9781032135151
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $65.35Engaging in Educational Research-Practice Partnerships guides academic researchers into forming mutually respectful, collaborative, and scalable partnerships with school practitioners. Despite robust theoretical and conceptual planning, research on... -
Education, Equality and Society by Bryan Wilson 9781032439709
RRP: $205.78Booksplease Price: $179.72Originally published in 1975, the essays in this book explore a particular level at which the concept of equality must be applied if educational equality is to be realised. Whilst each stands independently of the others, there are points of convergence... -
Empowering Education Roger Hopkins 9781846945175
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.70This is a book about giving people power. It is written in a style that makes community development, adult education and collective action accessible to community workers, adult education tutors and students as well as committed citizens. The author,... -
What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain 9780674293847
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $29.80"The 'best' students are curious risk-takers who make connections across disciplines. By following those instincts-rather than simply chasing 'success'-the best students achieved it...A wonderful exploration of excellence."-Fortune"Skillfully weaves... -
Communicative Competence, Classroom Interaction, and Educational Equity: The Selected Works of Courtney B. Cazden by Courtney B. Cazden
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or... -
Making Their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-Development Marcia B. Baxter Magolda 9781579220914
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.36WINNER OF AERA'S NARRATIVE & RESEARCH SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP 2003 BOOK AWARDWhat impact does a college education have on students' careers and personal lives after they graduate? Do they consider themselves well prepared for the demands and ambiguities...