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“dennis sumara”

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  • Ideas That Changed Literacy Practices

    First Person Accounts from Leading Voices

    Edited by Dennis Sumara, Donna E. Alvermann ...
    A 2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award WinnerHow do ideas change practices and people? In Ideas That Changed Literacy Practices, 32 influential scholars in literacy education get personal about how they have worked on ideas and how those ideas have worked on them. Together, the essays offer never-before revealed personal histories of the authors’ published writing about ideas that have sha... ... Read more

    $41.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engaging Minds

    Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching

    by Brent Davis, Dennis Sumara, Rebecca Luce-Kapler ...
    Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education. The 3rd edition of this introduction to interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning to teach is restructured around four prominent historical moments in formal education: Standardized Education, Authentic Education, Democratic ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Complexity and Education

    Inquiries Into Learning, Teaching, and Research

    by Brent Davis, Dennis Sumara ...
    This book explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to educational research and practice. While its focus is on the theoretical premises and the methodology, not specific applications, the aim is pragmatic--to present complexity thinking as an important and appropriate attitude for educators and educational researchers. Part I is concerned with global issues around ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Analyzing Talk in the Social Sciences

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  • Writing the New Ethnography

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    Writing the New Ethnography provides a foundational understanding of the writing processes associated with composing new forms of qualitative writing in the social sciences. Goodall's distinctive style will engage and energize students, offering them provocative advice and exercises for turning qualitative data and field notes into compelling representations of social life. ... Read more

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  • Literacy in a Digital World

    Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information

    by Kathleen Tyner ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    In this book, Kathleen Tyner examines the tenets of literacy through a historical lens to demonstrate how new communication technologies are resisted and accepted over time. New uses of information for teaching and learning create a "disconnect" in the complex relationship between literacy and schooling, and raise questions about the purposes of literacy in a global, networked, educational ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education

    Edited by Rebecca Rogers ...
    Accessible yet theoretically rich, this landmark text introduces key concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis and situates these within the field of educational research. The book invites readers to consider the theories and methods of three major traditions in critical discourse studies – discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis -- through the ... Read more

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  • Literacy and Education

    by James Paul Gee ...
    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
    Literacy and Education tells the story of how literacy—starting in the early 1980s—came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one. In this accessible introductory volume, acclaimed scholar James Paul Gee shows readers how literacy "left the mind and wandered out into the world." He traces the ways a sociocultural view of literacy melded with a social view of the mind ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Technology: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Soren Riis ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

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  • Intermediality

    Teachers' Handbook Of Critical Media Literacy

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    With the ever-growing proliferation of electronic and other popular media, the complexity of relationship between what students see and hear, what they believe and how they interact with one another underscores now, more than ever, the need for across-the-curriculum teaching of critical thinking, critical reading, and critical viewing skills. The emerging consensus is that teaching critical ... Read more

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  • The Authentic Dissertation

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    The Authentic Dissertation is a road map for students who want to make their dissertation more than a series of hoop-jumping machinations that cause them to lose the vitality and meaningfulness of their research.Students and tutors are presented with practical guidance for the kind of alternative dissertations that many educators believe are needed to move Doctoral and Master’s level work beyond ... Read more

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