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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William James and Education is a dynamic collection of original essays spotlighting William James as a role model for bringing philosophy to bear on the persistent issues of life and education. Using James’s philosophical ideas, the contributors evade the polarization and superficiality that permeate...
A Light In Dark Times
Maxine Greene and the Unfinished Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A Light in Dark Times features a list of extraordinary contributors who have been deeply influenced by Professor Greene’s progressive philosophies. While Maxine Greene is the focus for this collection, each chapter is an encounter with her ideas by an educator concerned with his or her own works...
On the Side of the Child
Summerhill Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A. S. Neill’s radical approach to child rearing is as controversial today as it was in 1960. Neill’s “code of freedom” emphasized the principles of freedom, love, and positive discipline in the care and education of children. These ideals continue to evoke admiration by many who...
Healthy Learners
A Whole Child Approach to Reducing Disparities in Early Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early childhood field has long understood that targeting the intersection of health and learning is integral to serving children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Yet this developmentally informed educational philosophy has been jeopardized by an increased emphasis on standards-based...
Creating Schools That Heal
Real-Life Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Lesley Koplow’s well-examined truths uncover an image of intimacy between teacher and child sorely needed in our schools. Her ‘emotionally responsive’ teacher is the pivot for a classroom community that visibly supports and honors it’s members in the great variety of...
by Joni K. Falk, Brian Drayton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This volume presents the work of trailblazing researchers and developers of electronic communities for professional learning. It illuminates the essential work behind the scenes in building successful online communities and scaffolding site interactions, including content selection, creation and management,...
by Philip W. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This collection of six original essays, written over a period of several years, brings together Philip Jackson’s reflections and insights on the practice of teaching. He emphasizes the “deceiving simplicity of teaching” and aims to uncover the complexity of the craft by addressing the uncertainties...
Trauma-Sensitive Schools for the Adolescent Years
Promoting Resiliency and Healing, Grades 612
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this follow-up to her bestseller, Trauma-Sensitive Schools, Susan Craig provides secondary school teachers and administrators with a trauma-sensitive approach to instruction that will improve students’ achievement. The text provides an overview of the effects of three types of trauma on adolescent...
Educating Children in Conflict Zones
Research, Policy, and Practice for Systemic Change--A Tribute to Jackie Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspired by the work of the late Dr. Jacqueline Kirk, this book takes a penetrating look at the challenges of delivering quality education to the approximately 39 million out-of-school children around the world who live in situations affected by violent conflict. With chapters by leading researchers...
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...
Education and the Reverse Gender Divide in the Gulf States
Embracing the Global, Ignoring the Local
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this groundbreaking work, the author provides a close examination of the relationship between gender and education in the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) and reveals that women’s participation and achievement in education is rapidly outpacing that of men’s. Ridge refers to this situation as...
Starting Strong
A Different Look at Children, School, and Standards
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In an elegant affirmation of human capacity and creativity, Patricia Carini counters high-stakes testing, the pathologizing of children, and the unrelenting critique of the public schools with a persuasive account of how children, all children, actively make sense of the world and their experience...
Remixing Multiliteracies
Theory and Practice from New London to New Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Bringing together renowned scholars in literacy education, this volume offers the first comprehensive account of the evolution and future of multiliteracies pedagogy. This groundbreaking collection examines the rich contributions of the New London Group (NLG)—an international gathering of noted...