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RIP Jim Crow
Fighting Racism through Higher Education Policy, Curriculum, and Cultural Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Together we can build enough momentum to see Jim Crow lying silent and still in his grave.
This book shouts out ways that we can and must respond to the sickening accumulation of racially inspired and systemically sanctioned deaths. Today, we remember the passing of young, Black Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
Critical Studies of Southern Place
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader critically investigates and informs the construction of Southernness, Southern identity, and the South past and present. It promotes and expands the notion of a Southern epistemology. Authors from across the South write about such diverse topics as Southern...
ABC's of Cultural Understanding and Communication
National and International Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This book is a valuable one for teacher educators and teacher education programs in the United States and Europe, since it is organized around numerous data sources. It contains national and international adaptations of the ABC’s of Cultural Understanding and Communication. Authors for this book...
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom
Legacies of Modernity and Colonialism in Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other critical cultural theories from...
Unique Challenges in Urban Schools
The Involvement of African American Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
This study explores the various ways in which parental involvement can help to increase student academic success. Parent involvement by itself will not ensure academic success of children, but, combined with many strategies, including a clear understanding of the differences between an inner city...
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula
A New Direction for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Integration to Educational Curricula serves as a standard textbook in graduate and senior level undergraduate classes in colleges and universities to contribute to the existing mass communication and ICT literature. The textbook offers a multi-discipline...
Helping with Behaviour
Establishing the Positive and Addressing the Difficult in the Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
This book shows how to establish good practice in early years settings so that all children are supported in developing positive interactions with one another.
With limited material available for practitioners in this area, Sue Roffey explains the features of an 'emotionally literate' environment...
Touching Eternity
The Enduring Outcomes of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
touching eternity explores how teachers can make a long-term impact on the lives of their students. Written in an accessible narrative style, this case study of one high school art teacher and his former students invites readers to engage in fundamental and essential issues in teaching as well as...
Equality, Participation and Inclusion 1
Diverse Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
What are the experiences of children and young people?
How can we think about the challenges they face?
What systems and practices can support them?
How can we develop greater equality, participation and inclusion across diverse settings?
This second edition of Equality,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
The volume 3 of this series is designed to present educators with current research and emerging issues in teaching, learning and motivation in a multicultural context. The book is separated into four sections. In the introduction section we have outlined some of the current issues and recent thoughts...
by Kenneth Strike, Jonas F. Soltis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This bestselling text has been expanded to include the most important ethical issues in contemporary schooling. The Fifth Edition features: A reconsideration of Equal Treatment of Students. An updated list of Recommendations for Further Reading.Written in a style that speaks directly to today’s...
by Janette B Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
''The Teacher's Gift'' explores the teaching profession in Jamaica, and the teaching profession generally, highlighting some challenges inherent in the profession and providing the teacher with some ideas to overcome these challenges.
by Ted Wragg
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
How does classroom observation support your professional development?How can you observe as effectively as possible?Highly regarded as one of the most widely used and authoritative texts on this topic, An Introduction to Classroom Observation is an essential text for anyone serious about becoming a good teacher or researcher in education.Now part o
by David Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
In the spirit of Paulo Freire, this inspiring book deconstructs many of the 'gods' that define contemporary life, then offers hope through sources of traditional wisdom. It addresses important contemporary discourses in the political and social sciences in ways that are relevant to the personal and...