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White Fatigue
Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
White Fatigue: Rethinking Resistance for Social Justice explores how, despite the pleas and research of critical scholars, what passes for multicultural education in schools is often promotion of human relations and tolerance rather than a sustained critical examination of how race and racism shape...
by Ken Bain
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with humane, doable, and inspiring help for students who want to get the most out of their education. The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. Use these four years to cultivate habits of thought that enable learning, growth, and adaptation throughout life.
Creative Schools
The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A revolutionary reappraisal of how to educate our children and young people by Ken Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Finding Your Element. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking.
Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education,...
God vs. Darwin
The War between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In God vs. Darwin, Mano Singham dissects the legal battle between evolution and creationism in the classroom beginning with the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925 and ending with an intelligent design trial in Dover, Pennsylvania, in 2005. A publicity stunt, the Scopes Monkey trial had less to do with legal...
Academic Capitalism
Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic capitalism are superimposing themselves on the competition of scientists for progress of knowledge and recognition by the scientific...
by Annette Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Annette Walker addresses complex education issues facing public higher education and public school systems, particularly in California. Walker provides explanations for hot topics such as, the states fiscal crisis, funding public schools, and President Obamas new Federal Education Reform Initiatives...
Miseducating for the Global Economy
How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
All across the United States, corporations, politicians, economists, educators – and now, most remarkably, Ivanka Trump – cry out for new “education for the twenty-first century economy.” Meanwhile, millions of Americans face increasing difficulty finding well paying, secure jobs. But the...
Teaching Controversial Issues
The Case for Critical Thinking and Moral Commitment in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings and daughter Laurie Brooks explain how teachers can foster critical thinking through the exploration of controversial issues. The emphasis is on the use of critical thinking to understand and collaborate, not simply to win arguments. The authors...
Shaping the Futures of (Vocational) Education and Work
Commitment of VET and VET Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Education and work are moving towards an open, but uncertain future. Research on vocational and continuing education constantly needs to reassure the conditions of educational systems, current concepts of VET and work, educational policies, and its own assumptions in ascertaining theory of VET. In...
What Teachers Make
In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In praise of the greatest job in the world...
The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why we need them now more than ever.
Teacher turned teacher’s advocate Taylor Mali inspired millions with his original poem “What Teachers Make,” a passionate...
The Achievable Dream
College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools is an inspiring look at solutions to the challenges facing education in America, from one of the nation's leading authorities. Based on the personal observations of Gaston Caperton, President of the College Board and former Governor...
Finding Your Smile Again
A Child Care Professional's Guide to Reducing Stress and Avoiding Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Using warmth and humor, this book offers techniques for dealing with the everyday stress of being a childcare professional. Written by a caregiver who’s been there, it describes the symptoms and causes of burnout, with advice to get through each challenge.
Montessori
Living the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Montessori: Living the Good Life will surprise you more than you can imagine. With a masters degree in theology, author Connie Ripley Lujan delves deep into Marias spiritual understanding of the roots of war. Passionately she explains how we can make a difference.
Maria Montessori discovered...
The Bridge to Brilliance
How One Woman and One Community Are Inspiring the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
*Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who * “stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls * * "Essential reading."
In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public...