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Celluloid Blackboard
Teaching History with Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students’ historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film. In part one the essays explore three frameworks for the analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
While critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to...
Learner's Privilege and Responsibility
A Critical Examination of the Experiences and Perspectives of Learners from Chinese Backgrounds in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is about the learner side of the teaching and learning equilibrium, centering on the educational experiences and perspectives of Chinese students in the United States. These students ranged from kindergarteners, adolescents, undergraduate, graduate, to adult learners, across the educational...
Creating Socially Responsible Citizens
Cases from the AsiaPacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This book originates from a collaborative research initiative to examine how various societies in the AsiaPacific Region construct moral and civic education, and to what extent these systems achieve the democratic objective of creating socially responsible citizens. In many western societies there...
Communication and Language
Surmounting the Barriers to Crosscultural Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Communication and Language play a foundational role in the overall pursuit of equity and social justice in education. This volume does not take up the majority and dominant views which are especially visible in developments in the field of linguistic education and English language instruction. Rather,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Women and Leadership around the World is the third volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that will is now being published to inform leadership scholars and practitioners. The purpose of this volume is to explore areas of women’s leadership in four...
Exploding the Castle
Rethinking How Video Games & Game Mechanics Can Shape the Future of Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Lacking a digital crystal ball, we cannot predict the future of education or the precise instructional role games will have going forward. Yet we can safely say that games will play some role in the future of K?12 and higher education, and members of the games community will have to choose between...
Crises Of Identifying
Negotiating And Mediating Race, Gender, And Disability Within Family And Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Although there has been an increase in literature regarding children of color with disabilities, it mainly focuses on their experiences in one social context. Crises of Identifying: Negotiating and Mediating Race, Gender, and Disability within Family and Schools includes narratives on the familial...
Necessary Spaces
Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In Necessary Spaces: Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South, Saundra Murray Nettles takes the reader on a journey into neighborhood networks of learning at different times and places. Using autobiographical accounts, Nettles discusses the informal instructional practices...
Technological Innovation Networks
Collaboration and Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The central theme of this book series is to explore the contemporary perspectives on managing technological innovations and related strategic policy issues. Specifically, this book series open to all potential topics that need attention within the broad theme of the management of technology and innovations,...
The Strangest Dream
Communism, AntiCommunism, and the U.S. Peace Movement, 19451963
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
originally published by Syracuse University Press (May 2000) Drawing on extensive archival material and oral history, Robbie Lieberman illustrates how grassroots peace activism in the United States became associated with Communist subversion after World War II. This association gave proponents of...
Peace and Conflict Studies Research
A Qualitative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This edited book is a new and valuable resource for students, teachers, and practitioners, providing a detailed exploration of how qualitative research can be applied in the field of peace and conflict studies. This book explores considerations and components of designing, conducting, and reporting qualitative...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This unique and visionary text is a compilation of fascinating case studies by New York State teachers, parents and professors. These downtoearth case studies highlight effective specific approaches to provide bridges between home and school and a look to the future for preparing teachers to communicate...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001