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Reading R. S. Peters today
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Martin, Christopher,Stefaan E. Cuypers |
"No one in the development of modern, analytical philosophy of education has played so dominant a role as British philosopher Richard Stanley Peters. Seeking to bring clarity, argumentative structure… |
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Educational neuroscience
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Kathryn E. Patten |
"Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of a wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience implicating and pertaining to mind, brain, and education. Contributions from top resea… |
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Meeting the child in Steiner kindergartens
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Rod Parker-Rees |
"Steiner schools have helped carry the flag of liberal, creative, humanistic education through these dark ages and can now act as a beacon. Professor Peter Woods, formerly of the Open University.Cont… |
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Education and Democracy in Senegal
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Michelle T. Kuenzi |
"This book examines the role of nonformal education (NFE) in African languages in promoting democracy in Senegal. Using data from a survey of rural Senegalese citizens, this is the first study to emp… |
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Educating for diversity and social justice
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Amanda Keddie |
"Educating for Diversity and Social Justice foregrounds the personal stories of educators who are engaging the space of schooling as a site of possibility for realizing the goals of social justice. I… |
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Engineering and social justice
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Caroline Baillie |
"An increasing number of researchers and educators in the field of engineering wish to integrate considerations of social justice into their work and practice. In this volume, an international team o… |
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Policy debates in comparative, international, and development education
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John N. Hawkins,W. James Jacob |
"The complementary areas of comparative, international and development education occupy a critical part of the landscape in educational policy debates in a global context. This volume brings together… |
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Language, ethnography, and education
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Michael Grenfell |
"This frontline volume contributes to the social study of education in general and literacy in particular by bringing together in a new way the traditions of language, ethnography, and education. Int… |
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Education and social change
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John L. Rury |
"This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predecessors, this new edition investigates the impact of so… |
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Kids in the middle
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Bruce S. Cooper,Marshall Strax,Carol Strax |
"Children with disabilities, their parents, teachers, administrators, advocates, attorneys, and adult educators, all have a key role to play in the micro-politics of special education. The children -… |
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Multidisciplinary approaches to educational research
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Sadaf Rizvi |
"This book provides an original perspective on a range of controversial issues in educational and social research through case studies of multi-disciplinary and mixed-method research involving childr… |
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Adolescent development and school achievement in urban communities
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Gary Creasey,Patricia A. Jarvis |
"This timely volume explores essential themes, issues, and challenges related to adolescents' lives and learning in underserviced urban areas. Distinguished scholars provide theoretically grounded, m… |
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For White folks who teach in the hood ... and the rest of y'all too
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Christopher Emdin |
"Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience o… |
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Excellent sheep
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William Deresiewicz |
As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critic… |
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Everybody present
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Nikolaj Flor Rotne |
"Everybody Present seeks to create a new kind of culture in our schools: one that counters stress and facilitates learning. It reframes the student-teacher relationship, showing teachers how to suppl… |
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Teaching that changes lives
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Marilee G. Adams |
"Building on the success of her classic, bestselling book, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life (over 100,000 copies sold), Marilee Adams shows in this new book how teachers and other education pr… |
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Crash course
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Kim Bearden |
"The ... true story of a teacher's experiences with her students and the life lessons she learned that can help others find joy and success"-- |
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Critical pedagogy and Marx, Vygotsky, and Freire
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Luis Sebastián Villacañas de Castro |
"Hidden in the depths of Marx's epistemology is his theory of the phenomenal forms, whose implications have not been sufficiently explored from an educational perspective. This book argues that pheno… |
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Authority and the teacher
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William H. Kitchen |
"The notion of authority in education has become an increasingly negative concept, regarded by some as championed only by rigid traditionalists and those who cling on to outdated educational theory a… |
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Philanthropy and American higher education
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John R. Thelin |
"Philanthropy and American Higher Education follows the issues that have persisted in giving and receiving philanthropy to American colleges and universities from the seventeenth century to present d… |
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