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International Perspectives on Bilingual Education
Policy, Practice, and Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book is a defense of linguistic pluralism and language policies and practices in education that sustain that ideal. Educational meanings and models are influenced by different populations and different social and historical contexts. International comparisons can shed interesting light on the...
by Dr Gillian Forrester, Professor Dean Garratt
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. This thoroughly revised edition charts the continuity of policy development along neo-liberal lines, taking a historical perspective broadly from the 19th century and towards the...
Membership and Moral Formation
Shame as an Educational and Social Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
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, I argue that shame is neither imposed on us...
by Ann Lutz Fernandez, Catherine Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This beautifully written book highlights working teachers speaking on many key educational problems under debate as well as many of the controversial solutions put forth, including revamped teacher evaluations, curricular standardization, and increased testing and data collection. Anthropologist Catherine...
Education and Hope in Troubled Times
Visions of Change for Our Children's World
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
"Progressive educators have always been better at critique than at possibility. This book promises not to ignore critique, but to favor possibility. It is most rare and greatly welcomed."
Richard Quantz, Miami University
"The editor argues that in a material world, depicted...
Critical Social Issues in American Education
Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for...
by Michael Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Orchestrating School Change: Transforming Your Leadership provides administrators and educational leaders the tools they need to successfully orchestrate change within a school or district. Dr. Mike Murphy provides strong research models, as well as practical application, that leaders at any level...
Engaging Curriculum
Bridging the Curriculum Theory and English Education Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Explicitly linking curriculum inquiry to English education via recurring themes of representation, democracy and knowledge, this book is a call for both researchers and practitioners to engage with curriculum, explicitly and deliberatively, as both a concept and a question. The approach is broadly...
Fighting for Our Place in the Sun
Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 19601973
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but also as a teacher and mentor. The book illuminates the untold tenets of Malcolm X’s educational philosophy, and also traces a historical trajectory of Black activists...
by Bhagavan Shree Prasannaji
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
New Age Meditations are synonymous with uplifting the consciousness of the individual. These meditations are written by Bhagavan Shree Prasannaji (first spiritual guru in the world to create over 6000 New Age Meditations) while in a state of Samadhi. These meditations are going to surely shed light...
Hip Hop Genius
Remixing High School Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Many educators already know that hip-hop can be a powerful tool for engaging students. But can hip-hop save our schools? In Hip Hop Genius, Sam Seidel introduces an iteration of hip-hop education that goes far beyond the usual approach of studying rap music as classroom content and looks instead at...
by Christopher Waterworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Have you watched a YouTube video to learn a new skill and then fixed your car, sketched a portrait or baked a cake? How many times did you pause and rewind different parts of the clip? The biggest advantage of flipped learning is that 'You can pause and rewind your teacher.' ...
Beyond Words
Pictures, Parables, Paradoxes
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Human thinking depends not only on words but also on visual imagery. Visual argumentation directly exploits the logic of the pictorial, while verbal arguments, too, draw on figurative language, and thus ultimately on images. In the centuries of handwritten documents and the printed book, our educational...
The Aptitude Myth
How an Ancient Belief Came to Undermine Children’s Learning Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American children’s mastery of critical school subjects. It contends that a contributing cause for this decline derives from many Americans’ ways of thinking about children’s learning: They believe that school performance is determined very largely...