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Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching
Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely and critical look at the teaching of English shows how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools across the United States. Drawing on the work of four ESL teachers who pursued anti-racist pedagogical practices during their first year of teaching, the...
by Jimmy cai
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
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John Dewey, Liang Shuming, and China's Education Reform
Cultivating Individuality
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
This book explores the central question of how to cultivate a continued sense of self in the radically changing Chinese society, a question that is highly related to the current ongoing educational reform. If education cannot respond to the problem of students’ disconnection from the changing society,...
Learning to be in the World with Others
Difficult Knowledge and Social Studies Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In this book, H. James Garrett inquires into the processes of learning about the social world, populated as it often is with bewildering instances of loss, violence, and upheaval. In such learning, interactions invite and enliven our passionate responses, or prompt us to avoid them. Interpreting and...
Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum
Eastern Thought, Educational Insights
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2007
This volume broadens the horizon of educational research in North America by introducing a comprehensive dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies and perspectives on the subject of curriculum theory and practice. It is a very timely work in light of the progressively globalized nature of education and educational studies and the increasing
by Vincent Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book describes a system designed to create an education system that takes full advantage of technology and does away with having to attend a specific location at specific times. The system is designed to nurture outliers such as advanced students or non advanced students as well as present the...
Disabling Characters
Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Disabling Characters provides detailed analyses of selected young adult (YA) novels and short stories. It looks at the relative agency of the disabled character, the behavior of the other characters, the environment in which the character must live, the assumptions that seem to be underlying certain...
Social Efficiency and Instrumentalism in Education
Critical Essays in Ontology, Phenomenology, and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Distinct among contemporary philosophical studies focused on education, this book engages the history of phenomenological thought as it moves from philosophy proper (the European phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition) through curriculum studies. It thus presents the "best of both worlds"...
Creative Teaching for All
In the Box, Out of the Box, and Off the Walls
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Creative Teaching for All as an antidote to rapidly growing pressures for quick and easy teacher results, and constant evaluations. Employ creative ideas to resist teaching to the (usually factual) test, and to the many choking rules, standards, cores, and state regulations that strangle motivation...
by William F. Pinar
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate, and to become educated in the present moment in the places we inhabit.
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Research-Based Unit and Lesson Planning
Maximizing Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
By integrating the best of current research and practice in curriculum planning this book presents that comprehensive topic in a manageable form. Examples throughout are representative of different grade levels and subjects areas. It should be understood at the outset that the content offered for...
by David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
In this text Jardine, Clifford, and Friesen set forth their concept of curriculum as abundance and illustrate its pedagogical applications through specific examples of classroom practices, the work of specific children, and specific dilemmas, images, and curricular practices that arise in concrete...
by Hongping Annie Nie
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Despite the implementation of numerous reform policies, moral education in China remains problematic. This study presents a student perspective on the dilemma of the moral education curriculum in a Chinese secondary school. Dr. Hongping Annie Nie finds that the school system does not provide a favorable...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Addressing studying as a distinct educational concept and phenomenon in its own right, the essays in this volume consider study and studying from a range of perspectives. Countering dominant educational discourses, which place a heavy emphasis on learning and instruction, the contributors explore...