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Télécharger le livre :  The Socially Just School
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The Socially Just School


Barry Down , Peter Mcinerney , John Smyth


This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is a key theme as the...

Parution : 2014-07-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Education Reform: The Unwinding of Intelligence and Creativity
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Education Reform: The Unwinding of Intelligence and Creativity


Des Griffin


This book pays special attention to the impact that a student's early childhood and socioeconomic status has on his or her educational achievement. It argues that discussions of education reform need a broader scope, one that encompasses a student's background as well...

Parution : 2013-12-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning
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Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning


Mairi Mcdermott , George J. Sefa Dei


This collection of essays invites readers to think through critical questions concerning anti-racism education, such as: How does anti-racism education centre race as an analytic and simultaneously work with multiple sites of oppression, without reifying hierarchies of...

Parution : 2013-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World
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Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World


Elke Emerald , Lisahunter , Gregory Martin


Action research was conceived as a method of collaborative, self-reflective problem-solving in a community context. Yet many believe it has evolved too far away from its original, directly activist roots. As a direct response to calls for a rejuvenation of the social...

Parution : 2012-12-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Youth Identities, Localities, and Visual Material Culture
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Youth Identities, Localities, and Visual Material Culture


Kristen Ali Eglinton


This invaluable addition to Springer’s Explorations of Educational Purpose series is a revelatory ethnographic account of the visual material culture of contemporary youths in North America. The author’s detailed study follows apparently dissimilar groups (black and...

Parution : 2012-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Logics of Socialist Education
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Logics of Socialist Education


Tom G. Griffiths , Zsuzsa Millei


For some, socialism is a potent way of achieving economic, political and social transformations in the twenty-first century, while others find the very term socialism outdated. This book engages readers in a discussion about the viability of socialist views on education...

Parution : 2012-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  LOST Opportunities
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LOST Opportunities


Philip Bell , Bronwyn Bevan , Aria Razfar , Reed Stevens


Learning in informal settings is attracting growing attention from policymakers and researchers, yet there remains, at the moment, a dearth of literature on the topic. Thus this volume, which examines how science and mathematics are experienced in everyday and...

Parution : 2012-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Voices in Teacher Education
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Critical Voices in Teacher Education


Barry Down , John Smyth


We live in dangerous times when educational policies and practices are debated largely in terms of how they fit with the needs of the free market. This volume is a collection of writing by teacher-educators that draws on their unique biographies, experiences and...

Parution : 2012-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Queer Masculinities
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Queer Masculinities


John Landreau , Nelson Rodriguez


Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education is a substantial addition to the discussion of queer masculinities, of the interplay between queer masculinities and education, and to the political gender discourse as a whole. Enriching the discourse of masculinity...

Parution : 2011-09-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Practice of Theoretical Curiosity
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The Practice of Theoretical Curiosity


Mark Zuss


The desire for knowledge is an abiding facet of human experience and cultural development. This work documents curiosity as a sociohistorical force initiating research across the disciplines. Projects generated by theoretical curiosity are presented as historical and...

Parution : 2011-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Praxis Research
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Critical Praxis Research


Tricia M. Kress


Critical Praxis Research (CPR) is a teacher research methodology designed to bridge the divide between practitioner and scholar, drawing together many strands to explain the research process not just as something teacher researchers do, but as a fundamental part of who...

Parution : 2011-08-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Teaching About Hegemony
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Teaching About Hegemony


Paul Orlowski


Political progressives in Canada and the United States are deeply concerned by the manner in which their countries treat their poor. They are dismayed at the dismantling of the social welfare state, the weakening of public education systems and the grotesque and...

Parution : 2011-06-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Postcolonial Representations of Women
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Postcolonial Representations of Women


Rachel Bailey Jones


In this accessible combination of post-colonial theory, feminism and pedagogy, the author advocates using subversive and contemporary artistic representations of women to remodel traditional stereotypes in education. It is in this key sector that values and norms are...

Parution : 2011-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Pedagogy in (E)Motion
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Pedagogy in (E)Motion


Nellie J. Zambrana-Ortiz


This personal, creative, critical work from a leading scholar of psychology is rooted in three novel concepts and aims to share critical pedagogy in the spirit of nascent potential found in the context of a colonial Puerto Rico. First comes the idea of ‘pedagogy in...

Parution : 2011-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Latina/o Hope
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Latina/o Hope


Lourdes Diaz Soto


There are an estimated forty-eight million Latinas/os living in the United States, roughly sixteen percent of the population. Not only are they the largest minority group in the country but also the youngest: one out of five children is Latina/o. The rise in the...

Parution : 2011-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Pedagogy and Cognition
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Critical Pedagogy and Cognition


Curry Stephenson Malott


This book simultaneously contributes to the fields of critical pedagogy and educational psychology in new and innovative ways by demonstrating how critical pedagogy, postformal psychology, and Enlightenment science, seemingly separate and distinct disciplines, are...

Parution : 2011-02-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Bringing Schools into the 21st Century
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Bringing Schools into the 21st Century


Dianne M. Gut , Guofang Wan


Shift happens: Emerging technologies and globalization have resulted in political, social and cultural changes. These changes have a profound impact on all aspects of human life, including education. Yet while society has changed and continues to change, schools are...

Parution : 2011-01-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Teaching and Learning Matter
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Making Teaching and Learning Matter


Cheryl C. Smith , Judith Summerfield


This volume captures the spirit of collaboration and innovation that its authors bring into the classroom, as well as to groundbreaking undergraduate programs and initiatives. Coming from diverse points of view and twenty different disciplines, the contributors...

Parution : 2010-12-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Paulo Freire: Teaching for Freedom and Transformation
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Paulo Freire: Teaching for Freedom and Transformation


John Dale , Emery J. Hyslop-Margison


The primary mission of this text is clarifying many of the misconceptions about Paulo Freire’s theories, concepts and his implications for education. It revisits his ideas and explains more fully the philosophical influences that shaped concepts such as problem posing,...

Parution : 2010-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Sexual Diversity in Schools
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Gender and Sexual Diversity in Schools


Elizabeth J. Meyer


Issues related to gender and sexual diversity in schools can generate a lot of controversy, with many educators and youth advocates under-prepared to address these topics in their school communities. This text offers an easy-to-read introduction to the subject,...

Parution : 2010-06-16
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Éditeur : Springer
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