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Creativity and Writing
Developing Voice and Verve in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
This clear yet authoritative book affirms the vital role of creativity in writing and considers and encourages flexible, innovative practices in teaching. Importantly, the book reflects upon teachers' imaginative and artistic involvement in the writing process as role models, collaborators, artists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons. Further, essays are included that highlight the person as entwined with other persons and examine who we are in light of communal ties. The...
Memory, Invention, and Delivery
Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge and Culture in Liberal Arts Education for the Future. Selected Proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In a time when liberal arts education is increasingly under attack, this volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. Future citizens, businesswomen and men, scientists, artists and...
The Great Diversity Debate
Embracing Pluralism in School and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Will American’s growing diversity undermine democracy, or is it instead a cornerstone of democracy? The Great Diversity Debate is essential reading for anyone who has thought about this question. Koppelman gives us a fascinating, detailed, and evenhanded account of the long historical...
Critical Pedagogy in the TwentyFirst Century
A New Generation of Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twentyfirst century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholareducators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset of a much larger movement for critical transformation...
EcoJustice Education
Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
EcoJustice Education offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and...
Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations
Re-Imagining Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Two noted educators invite new and veteran teachers on an intellectual guided tour through the troubles of bad practice and the delights of good. This volume is a collection of classic essays—as urgently needed now as when they first appeared—on social class, race, gender, and schooling crafted...
Economization of Education
Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved—including measuring educational policies...
Wonder-Full Education
The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how...
Philosophy of Education in the Semiotics of Charles Peirce
A Cosmology of Learning and Loving
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This book investigates the philosophy of education implicit in the semiotics of Charles Peirce. It is commonly accepted that the acts of learning and teaching imply affection of some sort, and Charles Peirce’s evolutionary semiotics thoroughly explains learning as an act of love. According to Peirce,...
Using What Works
Elementary School Classroom Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Many teachers-in-training and their more experienced colleagues find classroom management challenging. Using what works: Elementary School Classroom Management invites elementary school to look beyond untested teacher strategies. Instead this book presents an evidence-based approach. Equipped with...
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies
Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP)—teaching...
Diversity and Education
A Critical Multicultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, Michael Vavrus helps readers better understand why issues of diversity and difference are so highly contested in the United States and across the globe. Vavrus incorporates specific education examples throughout the text to examine six contested areas: race and ethnicity; socioeconomic...
Multicultural Education
Issues, Policies, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on different aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world. The chapters that you are about to read document several important...