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Teaching Outside the Box but Inside the Standards
Making Room for Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many educators feel caught between mandates to meet literacy standards and the desire to respond to individual students’ interests, skills, and challenges. This book illustrates how a dialogical approach to practice will enable teachers to meet the needs of today’s diverse student population...
by Deborah Appleman
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Incarcerated bodies, liberated minds: a narrative of literacy education behind bars.
Words No Bars Can Hold provides a rare glimpse into literacy learning under the most dehumanizing conditions. Deborah Appleman chronicles her work teaching college- level classes at a high- security prison...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Continuing its calling to define the field and where it is going, the Second Edition of this landmark handbook brings up to date its comprehensive reportage of scholarly developments and school curriculum initiatives worldwide, providing a panoramic view of the state of curriculum studies globally....
The Enlightened Eye
Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice, Reissued with a New Prologue and Foreword
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now available from TC Press with a new foreword by Nel Noddings and a new prologue by P. Bruce Uhrmacher and Christy McConnell Moroye, this classic text on qualitative research is ideal for both novice and established researchers. Eisner’s seminal work on mind, education, and research explores...
Non-Western Educational Traditions
Local Approaches to Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children—as well as what counts for them as "education"—may...
Learning and Collective Creativity
Activity-Theoretical and Sociocultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This book brings together leading representatives of activity-theoretically-oriented and socioculturally-oriented research around the world, to discuss creativity as a collective endeavour strongly related to learning to face the societal challenges of our world. As history shows, major accomplishments...
The Reason of Schooling
Historicizing Curriculum Studies, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Problematizing the "reason" of schooling as historical and political, in this book leading international and interdisciplinary scholars challenge the common sense of schooling and the relation of society, education, and curriculum studies. Examining the limits of contemporary notions of...
From School Delusion to Design
Mixed-Age Groups and Values-Led Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This book explains how school organization by age (grade) alone, sets schools on a factory course that is harmful and ultimately self-defeating to all involved and to ecology. It returns us to three systems thinking concepts; purpose, measures, and method. The book explains why school managers and...
by Molly Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
What makes for peace as lived? What images of peace issue from examination of daily experience? What can be gleaned from reflection upon the topic for the meanings and makings of peace in our world? Considering that to work for peace, we must begin with ourselves and with our children, Molly Quinn...
Herbartianism and its Educational Consequences in the Period of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
The Case of Slovenia
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Herbartianism is without a doubt one of the most important pedagogic movements of the 19th century. While quoting J. F. Herbart, his followers – Herbartians – built a pedagogic system which strongly marked educational theory and practice not only in Europe. The book offers a detailed insight into...
Classroom Struggle
Organizing Elementary School Teaching in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
During the institutionalization of mass schooling in the 19th century, teaching large groups of children became both a necessity and a matter of regulation. For officials and inspectors the systematization of classroom interactions was important for effective results. However, while systematization...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Dieser Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beiträgen der XIX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung zum Thema Bildungswissenschaft auf der Suche nach globaler Identität, die vom Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen, der Litauischen...
Curriculum
Decanonizing the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field is a fresh and innovative collection that is concerned with the totalitarian Western Eurocentric cult that has dominated the field of curriculum studies. Contributors to this volume challenge dominant and counter-dominant curriculum positions of the Western Eurocentric...
We Don't Need Another Hero
Struggle, Hope and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a humanistic enterprise, students as multidimensional beings, and schools as spaces where young people can imagine and become, not just achieve. Drawing on...