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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The main concern of the volume is the relation of theory to practice in education but the book also reviews the state of educational theory, and its relation to politics. Beginning with a group of papers on specific areas of the relation between theory and practice, the book goes on to discuss aspects...
Localising Chinese
Educating Teachers through Service-Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This book presents innovative strategies for teaching the Chinese language to English-speaking students around the world, using in-depth research arising from a long-running and successful Chinese language teaching programme in Sydney. Throughout the book its authors emphasise the importance of teaching...
The Thinking University
A Philosophical Examination of Thought and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book reinvigorates the philosophical treatment of the nature, purpose, and meaning of thought in today’s universities. The wider discussion about higher education has moved from a philosophical discourse to a discourse on social welfare and service, economics, and political agendas. This book...
The Parent App
Understanding Families in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle with questions previous generations never...
Schooling Students Placed at Risk
Research, Policy, and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book examines historical approaches and current research and practice related to the education of adolescents placed at risk of school failure as a result of social and economic conditions. One major goal is to expand the intellectual exchange among researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and...
This Fist Called My Heart
The Peter McLaren Reader, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This Fist Called My Heart: The Peter McLaren Reader, Volume I is “at the same time an homage, a gathering, an intellectual activist’s...toolkit, a teacher’s bullshit detector, a parent’s demand list and an academic’s orienting topography. This collection of essays...represents some of the...
Violence in Schools
The Response in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Violence in schools is a pervasive, highly emotive and, above all, global problem. Bullying and its negative social consequences are of perennial concern, while the media regularly highlights incidences of violent assault - and even murder - occurring within schools. This unique and fascinating text...
Hidden Dimensions
The Unification of Physics and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, B. Alan Wallace introduces a natural theory of human consciousness that has its roots in contemporary physics and Buddhism. Wallace's "special theory of ontological relativity" suggests that mental phenomena are...
by Rudolf Steiner; Christopher Bamford
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Meditation instructions, meditations, exercises, verses for living a spiritual year, prayers for the dead, and other practices for both beginning and experienced practitionersStart Now! is quickly becoming the classic, indispensable text and reference for all those who are serious about the practice...
Schooling in the Age of Austerity
Urban Education and the Struggle for Democratic Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to promote more secure and equitable democratic futures for young people.
Standing Out, Standing Together
The Social and Political Impact of Gay-Straight Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Just a decade ago, requests by students to establish groups to support gay and lesbian students were rare and generally met with shock and confusion by school administrators and local communities. Today there are more than 1600 gay straight alliances (GSAs) across the country. Standing Out, Standing...
School Choice
The Moral Debate
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
School choice has lately risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems, particularly for the poor and the most disadvantaged members of society. Indeed, in the last few years several states have held referendums on the use of vouchers in private and parochial...
Philosophy of Physics
Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the conceptual foundations of space-time theory.
Tim Maudlin's broad historical overview examines Aristotelian...
Superior
The Return of Race Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences
Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science.
After the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II, the...