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Brand: Bison Books
I think I get it, Betty Levitov s youngest student said, sitting on a porch in Harare, Zimbabwe. You ve had a potentially fatal disease, and faced death, and now you ll do just about anything. The student was trying to fathom why a teacher would take thirteen kids from a small midwestern liberal arts college on a three-month trek across Africa.
Brand: University of Washington Press
This comparative study of multicultural policies in Canada and the U.S. uses a dialogical approach to examine responses to increasing diversity in both countries. Reva Joshee is an associate professor of educational theory and policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Lauri Johnson is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Buffalo.
Brand: Routc
The Problem with Boys'' Education: Beyond the Backlash offers an illuminating analysis of the theories, politics and realities of boys'' education around the world, providing an insightful and often disturbing account of various educational systems'' successes and failings in fostering intellectual and social growth in male students.
Brand: Routc
The Problem with Boys'' Education: Beyond the Backlash offers an illuminating analysis of the theories, politics and realities of boys'' education around the world, providing an insightful and often disturbing account of various educational systems'' successes and failings in fostering intellectual and social growth in male students.
Brand: Learning Matters
This book is an original way to introduce students and practitioners to reflective learning and knowledge-based practice, both key aspects of a UK social worker''s role. Readers will consider the impact of social work practice from a life course perspectiv
Brand: Sage Publications (CA)
Informal Learning in Youth Work offers fresh perspectives on all aspects of informal education in the youth work setting. Designed to develop the reader''s knowledge and skills, this comprehensive textbook explores key issues such as communication, power relations, ethics, gender exclusion, sexuality, race discrimination, and social class. The author places particular emphasis on conversation as a key means of promoting informal learning and engaging effectively with young people.
Brand: UNYS
How did standardized tests become the measure of performance in our public schools? In this compelling work, Mark J. Garrison attempts to answer this question by analyzing the development of standardized testing, from the days of Horace Mann and Alfred Binet to the current scene.
Brand: Trentham Books
The book draws on extensive empirical research to explore the education and training needs and aspirations of new migrants, their skills, qualifications, and work experiences and how these relate to education, training, and employment opportunities currently on offer in the UK. The perspectives of training providers and employers on working with new migrants are also examined.
Brand: State University of New York Press
Coloring outside the Lines critically looks at mentoring from the perspective of women who have been historically marginalized in school leadership, and grounds itself in a variety of experiences, including those of women school leaders of color.
Brand: University of Chicago Press
This volume shows that the separation of the teaching of reading and writing has been a dominant feature of educational practice at the elementary and secondary levels since colonial times. The editors identify current movements in education that have fostered connections between reading and writing as well as those that tend to push them apart.
Brand: NOT Avail
Luker, a professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and a professor at Boalt Law School, explores the ideas and values behind the fight over sex education through the lives of parents, its most passionate participants.
Brand: UNYS
Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.
Brand: Sage Publications (CA)
Informal Learning in Youth Work offers fresh perspectives on all aspects of informal education in the youth work setting. Designed to develop the reader''s knowledge and skills, this comprehensive textbook explores key issues such as communication, power relations, ethics, gender exclusion, sexuality, race discrimination, and social class. The author places particular emphasis on conversation as a key means of promoting informal learning and engaging effectively with young people.
Brand: University Press of Colorado
While teaching and researching on an indigenous reservation in Costa Rica, Karen Stocker discovered that for Native students who attended the high school outside the reservation, two extreme reactions existed to the predominantly racist high school environment. While some maintained their indigenous identity and did poorly in school, others succeeded academically, but rejected their Indianness and the reservation. Between these two poles lay a whole host of responses.