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Beyond the Mind
Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche is unusual in the content and it the format. That’s why it requires an unusual look. It has to do with a man, an intellectual journey and with uncountable travels across the world over the last two decades. This man is Jaan Valsiner and...
by Ole Skovsmose
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The title of the book is Critique as Uncertainty. Thus Ole Skovsmose sees uncertainty as an important feature of any critical approach. He does not assume the existence of any blue prints for social and political improvements, nor that certain theoretical structures can provide solid foundations for...
Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education
Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
(Orginally published in 2008) The goal of AMTE Monograph 4, "Cases in Mathematics Teacher Education: Tools for Developing Knowledge Needed for Teaching", is to provide detailed accounts of case use that will inform the mathematics teacher education community on the range of ways in which cases can...
Decentralization for Satisfying Basic Needs 2nd Edition
An Economic Guide for Policymakers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
More than one in every five Latin Americans lives on less than 2 a day, and Latin America is the most unequal region in the world. The book tackles the problem of poverty and inequality in Latin America through the novel approach of using the decentralization of government functions to satisfy the basic...
Journal of Character Education Issue
Vol. 11 #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Journal of Character Education is the one professional journal in education devoted to character education. Our goal is to cover the field—from the latest research to applied best practices. We include editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our field, reviews of latest books,...
Consilio et Animis
Tracing a Path to Social Justice through the Classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Once the province and tool of élite learning in American society, and the core of the Humanities, the study of the Classics now occupies a tenuous place on the margins of curriculum in most public schools. Administrators of schools and districts with limited resources, teachers, and students of ancient...
Peace Education
Exploring Ethical and Philosophical Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Peace education is now well recognized within international legal instruments and within critical educational literature as an important aspect of education. Despite this, little attention has been given in the critical literature to the philosophical foundations for peace education and the rationale...
Joinedup History
New Directions in History Education Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Debates about the identity of school history and about the nature and purpose of the learning that does, can and should take place in history classrooms continue in many countries around the world. At issue, in many of these debates, beyond the concerns about history and national identity, are often...
by Simon Hayhoe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Philosophy as Disability and Exclusion examines the history of ideas on arts in the education of people who are blind in England, from 1688 to 2010. This book also examines a number of the earlier influences on the enlightenment, and the international context of this topic. The two hypotheses on which...
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...
Unsettling Beliefs
Teaching Theory To Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
This volume explores issues involved with teaching social theory to preservice teachers pursuing degrees through teacher education programs and experienced teachers and administrators pursuing graduate degrees. The contributors detail their experiences teaching theoretical perspectives regarding race,...
Challenging Status Quo Retrenchment
New Directions in Critical Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This year (2012) marks ten years of No Child Left Behind and the U.S. federal government’s official designation of what qualifies as “scientifically based research” (SBR) in education. Combined, these two policies have resulted in a narrowing of education via standardization and high stakes...
by Terry Osborn
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
This book introduces preservice and inservice foreign language teachers to the basic concepts of critical educational study as applied to the sociological position occupied by foreign language education in the United States. Although contemporary foreign language teachers typically know about second...
New Perspectives in Service Learning
Research to Advance the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006