Age: 1758 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
This book offers a array of essays with challenging ideas and provoking new analyses of power asymmetries, multiple epistemologies and vital concerns for the education of a different America, the America of new immigrants, people of color with other cultures, languages and values. The new American...
New Directions in Social Education Research
The Influence of Technology and Globalization on the Lives of Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Through rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a complex global system (Friedman, 2005). With the rise of new technology, local populations, businesses and states are better equipped to participate...
Dystopia & Education
Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an Age of UtopiaGoneWrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an age of Utopia Gone Wrong provides an asofyet unexplored critical perspective for examining contemporary educational theory, praxis, and policy with particular reference to the current state of dehumanizing and often oppressive policy...
Teaching and Studying Social Issues
Major Programs and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Teaching and Studying Social Issues: Major Programs and Approaches focuses on many of the major innovations developed over the past 100 years by noted educators to assist students in the study and analysis of key social issues that impact their lives and society. This book complements earlier books...
by Paris S. Strom, Robert D. Strom
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The tools of communication technology have transformed socialization and education of adolescents. They are the first generation to be growing up with the Internet, cell phones, iPods, computers, electronic hand helds and satellite television. Building friendships and social networks are common experiences...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Critical qualitative research informs social education through a lens that ensures the investigation of issues in education tied to power and privilege, ultimately leading to advocacy and activism. The concept of critical is increasingly challenged in this age of neoliberal reform; nevertheless, critical...
Technology in Retrospect
Social Studies in the Information Age, 19842009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
January 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of one of the most famous three minutes of television history. It was during halftime of the 1984 Super Bowl that APPLE show cased its new Macintosh Computer in an avantguard commercial. In the following three weeks sales of the new computer, in both the public...
Wise Social Studies in an Age of HighStakes Testing
Essays on Classroom Practices and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
The chapters in this volume illustrate how teachers are bringing creativity, higherorder thinking, and meaningful learning activities into particular school settings despite pressures of standards and testing. We chose the word wise for the title of this book, and we use it frequently to describe...
An Awkward Echo
Matthew Arnold and John Dewey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Matthew Arnold, 19th century English poet, literary critic and school inspector, felt that each age had to determine that philosophy that was most adequate to its own concerns and contexts. This study looks at the influence that Matthew Arnold had on John Dewey and attempts to fashion a philosophy of...
Critical Questions, Critical Perspectives
Language and the Second Language Educator
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Critical Questions, Critical Perspectives: Language and the Second Language Educator is intended primarily for language educators, broadly conceived, and thus is appropriate for not only foreign language teachers, but also individuals teaching English to speakers of other languages in both Anglophone...
Power, Equity and (Re)Design
Bridging Learning and Critical Theories in Learning Ecologies for Youth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This volume brings together design thinking, critical social theory, and learning sciences to describe promising learning innovations that foster rights, dignity, and social justice for youth. The contributors are emerging scholars who are leading voices working at the intersections of theory and...
Writing Visions of Hope
Teaching TwentiethCentury American Literature and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This ninechapter book narrates a writingcentered approach to the teaching of literature and literary research. As the title suggests, the book also embraces a thematic approach to reading and writing about twentiethcentury American literature, focusing on the grounds for hope in an age of despair....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Mentoring in educational contexts has become a rapidly growing field of study, both in the United States and internationally (Fletcher & Mullen, 2012). The prevalence of mentoring has resulted in the mindset that “everyone thinks they know what mentoring is, and there is an intuitive belief...
by Victor C.X. Wang, Kathleen P. King
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Career and Technical Education (CTE) has become a vibrant source of workforce development across the globe. It is no longer an offering only for a specialized sector of students. Instead, it has matured into a sound and meaningful program for high school and postsecondary students across interest areas,...