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Islamic Education and Indoctrination
The Case in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Islamic schools, especially madrasahs, have been viewed as sites of indoctrination for Muslim students and militants. Some educators and parents in the United States have also regarded introductory courses on Islam in some public schools as indoctrinatory. But what do we mean by "indoctrination"?...
Sex, Death, and the Education of Children
Our Passion for Ignorance in the Age of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Silin shows us how we culture ignorance in children and in each other by refusing to hear and respond to what they and we already know.”
—From the Foreword by Madeleine Grumet
“This book is not for the meek, because it talks straight from the heart—and from an educated and serious...
Sex Ed for Caring Schools
Creating an Ethics-Based Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While arguments for and against teaching abstinence, the use of contraceptives, and sexual identity are becoming more and more polarized, most people agree that students must learn to navigate an increasingly sexual world. Sex Ed for Caring Schools presents a curriculum that goes beyond the typical...
Handbook of Comparative Education Law
Selected Asian Nations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education
In examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from, rather than copy,...
Does God Make a Difference?
Taking Religion Seriously in Our Schools and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
In this provocative book Warren A. Nord argues that public schools and universities leave the vast majority of students religiously illiterate. Such education is not religiously neutral, a matter of constitutional importance; indeed, it borders on secular indoctrination when measured against the requirements...
Curriculum Studies as an International Conversation
Educational Traditions and Cosmopolitanism in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Examining Curriculum Studies from an international perspective, this book focuses on the relations between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American educational traditions. Informed by William F. Pinar’s conceptualization of curriculum as currere, Johnson-Mardones reconsiders curriculum as an international...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling brings critical ethnographic perspectives to bear on language, literacy, and power in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and how schooling becomes a key site of struggle...
International Perspectives on Bilingual Education
Policy, Practice, and Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This book is a defense of linguistic pluralism and language policies and practices in education that sustain that ideal. Educational meanings and models are influenced by different populations and different social and historical contexts. International comparisons can shed interesting light on the...
by Dr Gillian Forrester, Professor Dean Garratt
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Education Policy Unravelled examines the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation. This thoroughly revised edition charts the continuity of policy development along neo-liberal lines, taking a historical perspective broadly from the 19th century and towards the...
Membership and Moral Formation
Shame as an Educational and Social Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book is an attempt to relate moral formation to democratic life and to the emotional emotion of shame. The argument is that shame is essential to moral formation, that it tells us when we are violating our own moral norms. Contrary to common belief, I argue that shame is neither imposed on us...
by Ann Lutz Fernandez, Catherine Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This beautifully written book highlights working teachers speaking on many key educational problems under debate as well as many of the controversial solutions put forth, including revamped teacher evaluations, curricular standardization, and increased testing and data collection. Anthropologist Catherine...
Education and Hope in Troubled Times
Visions of Change for Our Children's World
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
"Progressive educators have always been better at critique than at possibility. This book promises not to ignore critique, but to favor possibility. It is most rare and greatly welcomed."
Richard Quantz, Miami University
"The editor argues that in a material world, depicted...
Critical Social Issues in American Education
Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for...
by Michael Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Orchestrating School Change: Transforming Your Leadership provides administrators and educational leaders the tools they need to successfully orchestrate change within a school or district. Dr. Mike Murphy provides strong research models, as well as practical application, that leaders at any level...