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by Daniel F. Chambliss
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that limited resources need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works...
by Eva Zygmunt, Patricia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice offers teacher educators a new way to think about the development of culturally responsive educators. The authors identify the core components needed to restructure and reorient programs of teacher education to adequately prepare new teachers for the...
by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Mary Louise Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Controversy over what role “the great books” should play in college curricula and questions about who defines “the literary canon” are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educational reform...
by Roger C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." His argument is this: No matter how important science and technology seem to industry or government or indeed to the daily life of people, as a society we believe that those...
Social Reconstruction Learning
Dualism, Dewey and Philosophy in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This volume argues that educational problems have their basis in an ideology of binary opposites often referred to as dualism, which is deeply embedded in all aspects of Western society and philosophy, and that it is partly because mainstream schooling incorporates dualism that it is unable to facilitate...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
The Handbook of Social Justice in Education, a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the field, addresses, from multiple perspectives, education theory, research, and practice in historical and ideological context, with an emphasis on social movements for justice. Each of the nine sections explores...
Circulating Communities
The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing, edited by Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks, and Tiffany Rousculp, represents the first attempt to gather the myriad of community and college publishing projects, providing not only history and analysis but extended samples of the...
The World Leaders in Education
Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The World Leaders in Education: Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods explores the practices and policies that the highest-ranking nations in education implement to achieve their success. Topics include the education of disadvantaged students; cultural attitudes toward education;...
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence
Applying a Model for Democratic Professional Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners...
Pasión por enseñar
La identidad personal y profesional del docente y sus valores
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Excelente introducción al mundo de los estudios humanos de la educación, tanto para educadores principiantes como para docentes con experiencia que quieran revisar sus valores y metas educativas. El autor sostiene que un aprendizaje y una enseñanza eficaz sólo es posible si se basan en el ejercicio...
Educadores comprometidos
Qué son, qué hacen, por qué lo hacen y lo que verdaderamente importa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Comprender qué influye en la calidad de la profesión docente a lo largo de la vida resulta clave para conseguir un compromiso y una efectividad permanentes. Las políticas educativas, las condiciones del lugar de trabajo, las emociones, la capacidad de resiliencia, el liderazgo… Este libro nace...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Virtual worlds are places where humans interact, and as such they can be environments for research and learning. However, they are complex and mutable in ways that more controlled and traditional environments are not. Although computer-mediated, virtual worlds are multifaceted social systems like...
by Paulo Freire
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Pedagogy of the Heart represents some of the last writings by Paulo Freire. In this work, perhaps more so than any other, Freire presents a coherent set of principles for education and politics. For those who have read Freire's other works the book includes new discussions of familiar subjects including...
Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents
Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents is THE essential resource for middle and high school English language arts teachers to help their students understand and address the urgent issues and challenges facing life on Earth today....