Peter Lang: 4879 books

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Crafting Critical Stories

Toward Pedagogies and Methodologies of Collaboration, Inclusion, and Voice

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Critical storytelling, a rich form of culturally relevant, critical pedagogy, has gained great urgency in a world of standardization. Crafting Critical Stories asks how social justice scholars and educators narrate, craft, and explore critical stories as a tool for culturally relevant, critical pedagogy....
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Every Person Is a Philosopher

Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams

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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect...
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by Edvard Protner
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Herbartianism is without a doubt one of the most important pedagogic movements of the 19th century. While quoting J. F. Herbart, his followers – Herbartians – built a pedagogic system which strongly marked educational theory and practice not only in Europe. The book offers a detailed insight into...
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Classroom Struggle

Organizing Elementary School Teaching in the 19th Century

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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015

During the institutionalization of mass schooling in the 19th century, teaching large groups of children became both a necessity and a matter of regulation. For officials and inspectors the systematization of classroom interactions was important for effective results. However, while systematization...
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Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power

White Facultys Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms

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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016

Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power: White Faculty’s Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms is a collection of narratives that will transform the teaching of any faculty member who teaches in the STEM system. The book links issues of inclusion to teacher excellence at...
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de-testing and de-grading schools

Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing paradox: education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading. This commitment persists despite ample research, theory, and philosophy revealing the...
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Place, Being, Resonance

A Critical Ecohermeneutic Approach to Education

by Michael W. Derby
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016

How do we begin to move beyond a use-relation with «natural resources» towards resonance with a deeply interrelated ecology? Place, Being, Resonance brings insights from the hermeneutic tradition, ecopoetics and indigenous epistemologies of place to bear on education in a world of ecological emergency....
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Shifting the Kaleidoscope

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Educators Insights on Culture Shock, Identity and Pedagogy

by Jon L. Smythe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

This book examines culture shock and reverse culture shock as valuable learning experiences for educators working in increasingly culturally diverse environments. Although these phenomena are often cast as illnesses to be avoided, this study suggests that both types of shock can help educators develop...
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Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education

Critical Questions, New Imaginaries and Social Activism: A Reader

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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education is a foundational text, which presents contemporary theories and debates about early education and child care in many nations. The authors selected are leading contributors in discussions about critical early childhood studies over the past twenty...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014

Dieser Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beiträgen der XIX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung zum Thema Bildungswissenschaft auf der Suche nach globaler Identität, die vom Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen, der Litauischen...
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Curriculum

Decanonizing the Field

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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field is a fresh and innovative collection that is concerned with the totalitarian Western Eurocentric cult that has dominated the field of curriculum studies. Contributors to this volume challenge dominant and counter-dominant curriculum positions of the Western Eurocentric...
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by Qing Li
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

This book discusses topics concerning digital game-based learning focusing on learning-by-game-building and Web 2.0. Grounded in the new theoretical perspective of enactivism, this book shows how such an approach can help students gain deep understanding of subjects such as mathematics and history,...
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Auto/biography & Pedagogy

Memory & Presence in Teaching

by Freema Elbaz-Luwisch
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research. The book moves from...
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by Barbara Thayer-Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

Relational Ontologies uses the metaphor of a fishing net to represent the epistemological and ontological beliefs that we weave together for our children, to give meaning to their experiences and to help sustain them in their lives. The book describes the epistemological threads we use to help determine...
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