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Schooling for Social Change
The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Schooling for Social Change offers fresh perspectives on the emerging field of human rights education in India. 60 years after independence, the Indian schooling system remains unequal. Building on over a year of fieldwork, including interviews and focus groups with policymakers, educators, parents...
Understanding Gay and Lesbian Youth
Lessons for Straight School Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
Understanding Gay and Lesbian Youth assists the classroom teacher, school counselor, and administrator in relating to gay and lesbian youth and creating accepting and supportive learning climates. David Campos begins with a discussion of the current state of affairs regarding gay and lesbian youth...
The Winning Team
A Victory Guide for Total Team Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
The Winning Team is a comprehensive victory guide designed to help teams and team-based organizations succeed in winning. In this book, the reader will discover: fundamentals for constructing a winning team the correlation between a teams performance and its win-potential the traits of winning teams...
by Joel Westheimer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can schools teach the skills required for a strong democracy to flourish? What Kind of Citizen? asks readers to imagine the kind of society they would like to live in—and then shows the ways in which schools can be used to make that vision a reality. Westheimer draws on groundbreaking...
by Erasmo da Rotterdam, Tommaso d'Aquino, Rudolf Steiner
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Un elegante ed esclusivo cofanetto che racchiude nove perle del pensiero pedagogico: dall'antichità passando dal Rinascimento, dall'illuminismo ai giorni nostri. Un'opera utile a tutti coloro che vedono nell'educazione una chiave di volta per migliorare la condizione umana e rendere la vita quotidiana...
The best interests of the child
A dialogue between theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
What does the concept of the best interests of the child mean in practice? How should it be interpreted and applied? This publication sheds lights on different aspects of this concept. The concept of the best interests of child, as stated in Article 3.1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights...
by Roberto De Giorgi
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In questo racconto c’è solo una esperienza di lavoro di un orientatore professionale. Una esperienza tra i precari e i disoccupati nei progetti di Italia Lavoro e nelle aule di formazione, migliaia di volti incontrati e di giovani. Vi sono casi e situazioni descritte fino a rendere taluni veri...
Literacy in Times of Crisis
Practices and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
"Fresh, provocative, timely, and important, this volume extends the field of sociocultural literacies in new directions."--Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, University of California, Los Angeles
On the frontline of critical issues in education today, this book covers new ground for teachers...
Critical Global Perspectives
Rethinking Knowledge about Global Societies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The primary purpose of this book is to invite educators to (re)think what it means to critically conceptualize knowledge about the world. In other words, imagining curriculum in a critical way means decolonizing mainstream knowledge about global societies. Such an approach reevaluates how we have...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Education and Global Justice discusses key themes concerning the relationship between education and global justice in a varied series of highly relevant national contexts. Major international issues such as war, conflict and peace, social justice and injustice, multicultural education, inclusion,...
by Ivor Goodson, Scherto Gill
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Ivor Goodson and Scherto Gill analyse and discuss a series of trans-disciplinary case studies from diverse cultures and argue that narrative is not only a rich and profound way for humans to make sense of their lives, but also in itself a process of pedagogical encounter, learning and transformation....
Expanding the Donor Base in Higher Education
Engaging Non-Traditional Donors
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Winner of the Association of Fundraising Professionals 2014 Skystone Partners Research Prize in Philanthropy and Fundraising
Traditionally, institutions have relied on wealthy White men to reach their fundraising goals. But as state investment in public higher education lessens and institutions...
Creating Citizens
Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstrate that, contrary to many expectations, CCE instruction both complements the mission of liberal...
Moral Empowerment
In Quest of a Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Moral Empowerment is a groundbreaking recommendation that education systems and students can benefit from a new approach in learning - the development of the students capacity to pursue their own intellectual and spiritual growth, as well as the students' active engagement in the long-term transformation...