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  • Class, Ideologies and Educational Futures

    by D Livingstone ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class differences in educational practices and the relative effects of class and other social background factors on public attitudes toward education. Secondly, the book offers an empirically-grounded summary of the contending educational ideologies in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

    by Benjamin A. Elman ...
    During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Does God Belong in Public Schools?

    by Kent Greenawalt ...
    Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching about the origins of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Wrong Kind of Different

    Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms

    by Antonia Randolph ...
    How can multiculturalism go wrong? Through extensive interviews conducted in a large Midwestern district, Antonia Randolph explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of “colorblind multiculturalism.” She unearths a hierarchy of acceptance and legitimacy that excludes most poor Black students and favors certain ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • A Critical Examination of STEM

    Issues and Challenges

    by Chet Bowers ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This critical examination of STEM discourses highlights the imperative to think about educational reforms within the diverse cultural contexts of ongoing environmental and technologically driven changes. Chet Bowers illuminates how the dominant myths of Western science promote false promises of what science can achieve. Examples demonstrate how the various science disciplines and their shared ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Mindful Teacher

    by Dennis Shirley, Elizabeth A. MacDonald ...
    Series series the series on school reform
    This new and expanded edition of the bestselling The Mindful Teacher provides educators everywhere with practical ideas for improving teaching and learning. Dennis Shirley and Elizabeth MacDonald have created “Mindful Teacher” seminars that enable teachers to focus their craft so that students can learn with dignity and purpose. This updated second edition includes completely new sections on the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Performance

    The Dynamic of Results in Postsecondary Organizations

    by Nathan Harris, Kathryn Thirolf, James Webb, Richard L. Alfred ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Understanding performance requires asking fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of an organization: What is its business? Whom does it serve? What do stakeholders want and expect? What do they get? How does the organization conceive of and measure results? How do stakeholders feel about results the organization is generating? Answers to these questions require a framework for analysis ... Read more

    $74.59 USD

  • Wendell Berry and Higher Education

    Cultivating Virtues of Place

    by Jack R. Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    Why the university should focus on community: "An enlightening interpretation of Wendell Berry's philosophy for the pursuit of a holistic higher education." — Publishers WeeklyProminent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Yet Berry has been ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Help! My College Students Can’t Read

    Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas

    by Amelia Leighton Gamel ...
    Help! My College Students Can’t Read: Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas is designed as a resource guide for content area instructors who have no specific training in the field of literacy but want to help the struggling readers in their classrooms. This book provides simple, step-by-step ideas for introducing and embedding reading strategies within all content areas without ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Religion in the Classroom

    Dilemmas for Democratic Education

    by Jennifer Hauver James, Simone Schweber, Robert Kunzman, Keith C. Barton, Kimberly Logan ...
    Dilemmas surrounding the role for religious beliefs and experiences permeate the school lives of teachers and teacher educators. Inspired by the need for teachers and students to more fully understand such dilemmas, this book examines the relationship between religion and teaching/learning in a democratic society. Written for pre-service and in-service teachers, it will engage readers in thinking ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Curriculum

    Decanonizing the Field

    Edited by João M. Paraskeva, Shirley R. Steinberg ...
    Series Book 491 - Counterpoints
    Curriculum: Decanonizing the Field is a fresh and innovative collection that is concerned with the totalitarian Western Eurocentric cult that has dominated the field of curriculum studies. Contributors to this volume challenge dominant and counter-dominant curriculum positions of the Western Eurocentric epistemic platform. At a time when the field laudably claims internationalization as a must, ... Read more

    $58.09 USD

  • Educators Queering Academia

    Critical Memoirs

    Edited by sj Miller, Nelson M. Rodriguez ...
    Series Book 4 - Social Justice Across Contexts in Education
    The memoirs in this collection represent a cross-section of critical reflections by a queerly diverse set of individuals on their experiences inhabiting a variety of spaces within the field of education. In their stories, the authors share how they queered and are continuing to queer the academy in relation to questions of teaching, research, policy, and/or administration. Their memoirs speak ... Read more

    $55.09 USD