Age: 1758 books
Think, Care, Act
Teaching for a Peaceful Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Committed to teaching for peace and justice, the author brings to life a teaching approach that empowers youth: • to think critically and creatively about historical, current, and future issues, • to care about classmates and neighbors as well as the global community, • to act—locally and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The number of staff members serving American higher education institutions has more than doubled in the past twenty years, as occupations in technology, development, government relations, and even athletic administration have grown as never before in the history of the academy. As the number, variety,...
Left Behind in the Race to the Top
Realities of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Public education is suffering attacks that are well funded and extraordinarily complex and multifaceted. These conditions make it difficult for educators and citizens to gather the information they need to mount meaningful resistance, especially since mainstream media tends to be uncritically supportive...
The SoJo Journal
Volume 1 #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is an international peerreviewed journal of educational foundations. The Department of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay, whose mission is to prepare and influence bold, socially responsible leaders...
Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Education examines the divide between a commitment to public education and our cultural myths and more powerful commitment to consumerism and corporate America. The book addresses poverty in the context of the following: the historical and...
Readings in American Educational Thought
From Puritanism to Progressivism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
The writings in this collection on American educational thought represent the many stories, individuals, and ideas that have shaped American education during the past several centuries. This book should serve as a useful primary or supplementary text for any undergraduate or graduate course in the history...
Social Education in Asia
Critical Issues and Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship on social education by drawing on the research findings and/or experiences from scholars in eight East and Southeast Asian societies. In this regard the editors of this book hope that it will be a significant addition to the literature, and will shed...
Power, Resistance, and Literacy
Writing for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Students in public schools serving poor and workingclass students are inundated by the effects of highstakes examinations. Teachers are demoralized and students suffer substandard curricular and pedagogical experiences. These effects are articulated by students and teachers in the high school that provided...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Improving Writing and Thinking through Assessment is designed to help individual faculty and administrators select assessment approaches and measures to maximize their students’ writing and thinking. The book offers useful guidance, through presentation of recommended assessment guidelines and measurement...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book, the second in the series, is a distinct exploration of how educational policy makers, curriculum developers, educators, learners and social activists can utilize the hitherto untapped rich resource of African traditional oral literature and visual cultures. These are epistemological reservoirs...
Teaching Marx
The Socialist Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
We are in the midst of yet another global crisis in capitalism. In the UK, we have the most right wing and ideologically driven government since Thatcher; a ruthless cabal of millionaires intent on destroying the welfare state. In the US, President Obama, whose initial record did not live up to the...
Teachers and the Reform of Elementary Science
Stories of Conversation and Personal Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
This book explores the negotiation of the ways that teachers are involved in the process of changing curriculum and pedagogies and also the realities of implimenting those changes in the classroom. How do teachers negotiate their place within changes in pedagogy and curriculum and how is that negotiation...
Talking About Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life
New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations and Social Systems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The book, Talking About Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems, provides critical attention to contemporary, innovative, and cutting?edge issues in group, organizational, and social systems that address the complexities of racialized...
Project Based Literacy
Fun Literacy Projects for Powerful Common Core Learning
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Project?Based Learning; it’s a term that most educators have heard and probably have heard good things about, Often, though, they aren’t quite sure precisely what its defining characteristics are other than involving students in projects that are supposed to somehow result in their learning things...