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by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political, moral and cultural practice, drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey and Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire. This impassioned book opens by discussing the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending...
Practicing Core Reflection
Activities and Lessons for Teaching and Learning from Within
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Practicing Core Reflection features 78 concrete educational activities and exercises based on research. These can be used individually and in groups to support 'teaching and learning from within.’ Core Reflection is an approach focused on people's personal strengths and on using practical strategies...
by Belle Alderman, Patricia Milne
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2005
Work-based learning, in which professional work experience is closely integrated with professional study, now forms an important part of many courses in tertiary institutions. A Model for Work-Based Learning offers a plan designed to enhance the professional experience through facilitated mentoring...
Expanding Curriculum Theory
Dis/positions and Lines of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Expanding Curriculum Theory, Second Edition carries through the major focus of the original volume—to reflect on the influence of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "lines of flight" and its application to curriculum theorizing. What is different is that the lines of flight have since...
Variability in assessor responses to undergraduate essays
An issue for assessment quality in higher education
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Academic standards in higher education depend on the judgements of individual academics assessing student work; it is in these micro-level practices that the validity and fairness of assessment is constituted. However, the quality of assessments of open-ended tasks like the coursework essay is difficult...
The Crucial Voice of the People, Past and Present
Education’s Missing Ingredient
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Crucial Voice of the People, Past and Present, Young presents important insights into what can be done to “fix” America’s public education system. Her research and observations are eye opening and provide all readers with a galvanizing focus on what needs to be done and how to get there....
by Ian Thompson, Ian Menter
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This book addresses key issues related to teaching pupils from disadvantaged and impoverished backgrounds and provides a valuable reference and pedagogical tool for teachers and teacher educators. Research has consistently shown that the most economically disadvantaged pupils have the poorest educational...
Beyond Tourism
A Practical Guide to Meaningful Educational Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
If young people are to be adequately prepared for a complex and interdependent global society, educational experiences must consider the broader world in which teachers and their students live. Teachers can be central to the process of intercultural development, and must encourage and model an intercultural...
by Richard Barker
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
You have something special inside you. Something you know. Something you do. Something you can teach. You feel like you should be doing more. We all have this something special inside of us and, if we use it right, we can change our habits, our outcomes and our world.
You will gain valuable...
Rethinking Freire
Globalization and the Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.
One source of the activist-authors'...
7 days modern english grammar
english grammar and composition, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Welcome to the course of modern English grammar. I am here to inform you that it will be all my pleasure to make you learn English properly. Here I had written an e-book for you. It is not much expensive. If u want to learn something special you have to spend some money anywhere in internet. But at...
Theories of Early Childhood Education
Developmental, Behaviorist, and Critical
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Theories of Early Childhood Education provides a comprehensive introduction to the various theoretical perspectives influential in early childhood education, from developmental psychology to critical studies, Piaget to Freire. Expert chapter authors examine assumptions underpinning the use of theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating how language is closely linked with crucial social, political, and economic forces, particularly...
Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity
The Selected Works of William F. Pinar
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
In this volume, Pinar enacts his theory of curriculum, detailing the relations among knowledge, history, and alterity. The introduction is Pinar’s intellectual life history, naming the contributions he has made to understanding educational experience. Study is the center of educational experience,...