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EcoJustice Education
Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
EcoJustice Education offers a powerful model for cultural ecological analysis and a pedagogy of responsibility, providing teachers and teacher educators with the information and classroom practices they need to help develop citizens who are prepared to support and achieve diverse, democratic, and...
Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations
Re-Imagining Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Two noted educators invite new and veteran teachers on an intellectual guided tour through the troubles of bad practice and the delights of good. This volume is a collection of classic essays—as urgently needed now as when they first appeared—on social class, race, gender, and schooling crafted...
Economization of Education
Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved—including measuring educational policies...
Wonder-Full Education
The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
For many children much of the time their experience in classrooms can be rather dull, and yet the world the school is supposed to initiate children into is full of wonder. This book offers a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general and provides multiple suggestions for to how...
Philosophy of Education in the Semiotics of Charles Peirce
A Cosmology of Learning and Loving
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This book investigates the philosophy of education implicit in the semiotics of Charles Peirce. It is commonly accepted that the acts of learning and teaching imply affection of some sort, and Charles Peirce’s evolutionary semiotics thoroughly explains learning as an act of love. According to Peirce,...
Using What Works
Elementary School Classroom Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Many teachers-in-training and their more experienced colleagues find classroom management challenging. Using what works: Elementary School Classroom Management invites elementary school to look beyond untested teacher strategies. Instead this book presents an evidence-based approach. Equipped with...
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies
Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP)—teaching...
Diversity and Education
A Critical Multicultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, Michael Vavrus helps readers better understand why issues of diversity and difference are so highly contested in the United States and across the globe. Vavrus incorporates specific education examples throughout the text to examine six contested areas: race and ethnicity; socioeconomic...
Multicultural Education
Issues, Policies, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on different aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world. The chapters that you are about to read document several important...
Education for Democracy
Contexts, Curricula, Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Part of the "Research in Social Education" series, this text is divided into three parts: contexts; curricula; and assessments. It covers such topics as the irony of exclusion; teaching tolerance; and multicultural citizenship education.
School Integration Matters
Research-Based Strategies to Advance Equity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
More than 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision declared segregated schooling inherently unequal, this timely book sheds light on how and why U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation along racial, socioeconomic, and linguistic lines. It offers policy and programmatic...
The Great American Education-Industrial Complex
Ideology, Technology, and Profit
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The Great American Education-Industrial Complex examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives. In the past twenty years, significant changes have taken place in the way various interest...
Controls and Choices
The Educational Marketplace and the Failure of School Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Many activists and writers have ascribed continuing racial segregation in American schools to a failure of will. In this view, forced transfers of students and other aggressive judicially mandated policies would lead to greater equality in education if only legislators and judges had the will to continue...
by Yaacov Iram
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This volume on "Education towards a Culture of Peace" is a timely undertaking, since the United Nations has proclaimed the years 20012010 as the "International Decade for a Culture of Peace and NonViolence for the Children of the World." A culture of peace as defined by the UN...