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Fare la Scuola, fare scuola. Democrazia e pedagogia

by Philippe Meirieu ...

Un prezioso documento frutto della profonda riflessione e dell’esperienza di uno dei più importanti pedagogisti francesi. Il volume è rivolto prima di tutto agli insegnanti in servizio e in formazione iniziale. A loro offre spunti di lavoro, orientamenti di metodo e preziosi riferimenti al patrimonio pedagogico. È rivolto anche ai formatori e ai consulenti, per i quali può costituire un prezioso ... Read more

$54.99 CAD

Un prezioso documento frutto della profonda riflessione e dell’esperienza di uno dei più importanti pedagogisti francesi. Il volume è rivolto prima di tutto agli insegnanti in servizio e in formazione iniziale. A loro offre spunti di lavoro, orientamenti di metodo e preziosi riferimenti al patrimonio pedagogico. È rivolto anche ai formatori e ai consulenti, per i quali può costituire un prezioso
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Engaging the Critical in English Education

Approaches from the Commission on Social Justice in Teacher Education

Edited by Briana Asmus, Charles H. Gonzalez ...

Series Book 12 - Social Justice Across Contexts in Education
The chapters in this collection explore the implementation of social justice pedagogies with preservice teachers by members of the Commission on Social Justice in Teacher Education; a group of teacher educators from across the country whose primary goal is to prepare teachers to use socially just models to reach all groups of students and to create a more equitable educational system. In this ... Read more

$45.69 CAD

The chapters in this collection explore the implementation of social justice pedagogies with preservice teachers by members of the Commission on Social Justice in Teacher Education; a group of teacher educators from across the country whose primary goal is to prepare teachers to use socially just models to reach all groups of students and to create a more equitable educational system. In this
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Understanding Curriculum Epistemicide

Possibilities and Complicated Conversations

Edited by Richard Sawyer, Wanying Wang, Daniel Ness ...

Series Book 563 - Counterpoints
The relentless bombing of cities, dismantling of democracies, projection of hate as kindness, and masquerading lies as truth are emerging realities of the 21st century. In reconsidering curriculum epistemicide, this edited collection converges on the erasure of unique ways of knowing. However, differences arise as we examine the definition of curriculum epistemicide, and who gets to define it. The ... Read more

$137.39 CAD

The relentless bombing of cities, dismantling of democracies, projection of hate as kindness, and masquerading lies as truth are emerging realities of the 21st century. In reconsidering curriculum epistemicide, this edited collection converges on the erasure of unique ways of knowing. However, differences arise as we examine the definition of curriculum epistemicide, and who gets to define it. The
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The Education of Minorities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East

by Cynthia Szymanski Sunal, Oluseyi Matthew Odebiyi, Kagendo Mutua ...

Series series Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East
Educators have focused on creating and adapting curriculum content and pedagogy to reflect the diverse backgrounds of their minority students. Parallel to public school curricula, some minority groups have created and introduced curricula and pedagogy to maintain, honor, and develop their group's identity. The scope of these efforts is large and covers different levels of education from early ... Read more

$59.39 CAD

Educators have focused on creating and adapting curriculum content and pedagogy to reflect the diverse backgrounds of their minority students. Parallel to public school curricula, some minority groups have created and introduced curricula and pedagogy to maintain, honor, and develop their group's identity. The scope of these efforts is large and covers different levels of education from early
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رؤية معاصرة في استراتيجيات التفكير الميتامعرفية

by Dr. Mohammad Khudierat ...

كتاب "رؤية معاصرة في استراتيجيات التفكير الميتامعرفية: نماذج وتطبيقات في التدريس" للدكتور محمد عبدالله خضيرات يقدم دراسة شاملة حول استراتيجيات التفكير الميتامعرفية، حيث يعرض الدكتور خضيرات نماذج متعددة وتطبيقات عملية في مجال التدريس. يتناول الكتاب تسعة فصول رئيسية تتضمن استراتيجيات متنوعة مثل استراتيجية فكر- زواج – شارك، والخرائط المفاهيمية، والخرائط الذهنية، والتفكير بصوت مرتفع، والتساؤل الذاتي، ... Read more

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كتاب "رؤية معاصرة في استراتيجيات التفكير الميتامعرفية: نماذج وتطبيقات في التدريس" للدكتور محمد عبدالله خضيرات يقدم دراسة شاملة حول استراتيجيات التفكير الميتامعرفية، حيث يعرض الدكتور خضيرات نماذج متعددة وتطبيقات عملية في مجال التدريس. يتناول الكتاب تسعة فصول رئيسية تتضمن استراتيجيات متنوعة مثل استراتيجية فكر- زواج – شارك، والخرائط المفاهيمية، والخرائط الذهنية، والتفكير بصوت مرتفع، والتساؤل الذاتي،
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A Praxis of Presence in Curriculum Theory

Advancing Currere against Cultural Crises in Education

by William F. Pinar ...

Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
Building on his seminal methodological contribution to the field – currere – here William F. Pinar posits a praxis of presence as a unique form of individual engagement against current cultural crises in education.Bringing together a series of updated essays, articles, and new writings to form this comprehensive volume, Pinar first demonstrates how a praxis of presence furthers the study of ... Read more

$83.81 CAD

Building on his seminal methodological contribution to the field – currere – here William F. Pinar posits a praxis of presence as a unique form of individual engagement against current cultural crises in education.Bringing together a series of updated essays, articles, and new writings to form this comprehensive volume, Pinar first demonstrates how a praxis of presence furthers the study of
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Leading the Rebound

20+ Must-Dos to Restart Teaching and Learning

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, John Hattie ...

Let’s make the "next normal" a "better normal"If there ever was a time for our heroic school leadership to persevere, it’s now. Because now, well over one year since the pandemic stretched the resilience and reserves of our school systems, it’s time to "rebound." It’s time to leverage this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot teaching and learning as we know it so that we magnify the effective ... Read more

$41.59 CAD

Let’s make the "next normal" a "better normal"If there ever was a time for our heroic school leadership to persevere, it’s now. Because now, well over one year since the pandemic stretched the resilience and reserves of our school systems, it’s time to "rebound." It’s time to leverage this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot teaching and learning as we know it so that we magnify the effective
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Designing and Using Performance Tasks

Enhancing Student Learning and Assessment

by Tracey K. (Kathleen) Shiel ...

Stretch student thinking with performance-based tasks.With waves of high-stakes assessments rolling through the education waters, many educators feel tied to teaching to the test. But there is a bright side. With the increased attention on assessment outlined in The Every Student Succeeds Act comes a surge of interest in designing performance-based tasks—an important key in unlocking your students ... Read more

$39.19 CAD

Stretch student thinking with performance-based tasks.With waves of high-stakes assessments rolling through the education waters, many educators feel tied to teaching to the test. But there is a bright side. With the increased attention on assessment outlined in The Every Student Succeeds Act comes a surge of interest in designing performance-based tasks—an important key in unlocking your students
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Positive Pedagogy across the Primary Curriculum

by Jonathan Barnes ...

This book offers a positive approach to thematic cross-curricular teaching. Within a clear focus on humanitarian and inclusive values, it offers guidance on robust learning in the subject disciplines within a set of highly involving themes. Its fundamental aim is the mental, physical, social and intellectual wellbeing of children and their teachers.Discover how your teaching can support genuine ... Read more

$63.19 CAD

This book offers a positive approach to thematic cross-curricular teaching. Within a clear focus on humanitarian and inclusive values, it offers guidance on robust learning in the subject disciplines within a set of highly involving themes. Its fundamental aim is the mental, physical, social and intellectual wellbeing of children and their teachers.Discover how your teaching can support genuine
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Letting Them Lead: Adventures In Game-Based, Self-Directed Learning

by Laurie Spigel ...

Did you ever change your plans spontaneously, in the moment? For an entire group?Have you ever felt frustrated that a learning or teaching experience wasn't working,and wished it was different?Did you ever ask your children or students what they wanted to learnand put that at the center of their education?The author did all these things and more with her students. He... ... Read more

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Did you ever change your plans spontaneously, in the moment? For an entire group?Have you ever felt frustrated that a learning or teaching experience wasn't working,and wished it was different?Did you ever ask your children or students what they wanted to learnand put that at the center of their education?The author did all these things and more with her students. He...
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Social Justice Education, Globalization, and Teacher Education

Edited by Lydiah Nganga, John Kambutu ...

Series series Teaching and Learning Social Studies
The primary purpose of this book is to serve as a resource in teacher preparation programs. It is also intended to serve as an instructional resource in P-12 education. The book will be especially useful in methods of teaching and foundational courses both at the elementary and secondary education levels. The book contains pertinent instructional topics, units and lessons in global education and ... Read more

$67.09 CAD

The primary purpose of this book is to serve as a resource in teacher preparation programs. It is also intended to serve as an instructional resource in P-12 education. The book will be especially useful in methods of teaching and foundational courses both at the elementary and secondary education levels. The book contains pertinent instructional topics, units and lessons in global education and
... Read more
Populism and Higher Education Curriculum Development: Problem Based Learning as a Mitigating Response

Edited by Romeo V. Turcan, John E. Reilly ...

Series series Education (R0)
Against a background of increasing inequality and a rising tide of nationalism and populism, this book raises concerns that curriculum is being shaped by powerful non-academic, non-accountable forces and that populism – and its manifestations – represent a grave challenge to learning. It explores the extent to which curriculum and learning methods in higher education should respond to this ... Read more

$153.69 CAD

Against a background of increasing inequality and a rising tide of nationalism and populism, this book raises concerns that curriculum is being shaped by powerful non-academic, non-accountable forces and that populism – and its manifestations – represent a grave challenge to learning. It explores the extent to which curriculum and learning methods in higher education should respond to this
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The ‘Hidden Curriculum’ of Vietnam’s English School Textbooks

by Thi Duyen Phuong, Raf Vanderstraeten ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book analyzes the basic ideas and premises underlying the English textbooks used at the higher secondary school level in Vietnam from the 1980s to the present, from a sociological perspective. The dataset, upon which this book builds, consists of a collection of 18 textbooks, which belong to five sets of locally developed English textbooks for grade 10 to grade 12 students. These series were ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book analyzes the basic ideas and premises underlying the English textbooks used at the higher secondary school level in Vietnam from the 1980s to the present, from a sociological perspective. The dataset, upon which this book builds, consists of a collection of 18 textbooks, which belong to five sets of locally developed English textbooks for grade 10 to grade 12 students. These series were
... Read more
Educational Experience as Lived: Knowledge, History, Alterity

The Selected Works of William F. Pinar

by William F. Pinar ...

Series series World Library of Educationalists
In this volume, Pinar enacts his theory of curriculum, detailing the relations among knowledge, history, and alterity. The introduction is Pinar’s intellectual life history, naming the contributions he has made to understanding educational experience. Study is the center of educational experience, as he demonstrates in the opening chapter. The alterity of educational experience is evident in his ... Read more

$83.81 CAD

In this volume, Pinar enacts his theory of curriculum, detailing the relations among knowledge, history, and alterity. The introduction is Pinar’s intellectual life history, naming the contributions he has made to understanding educational experience. Study is the center of educational experience, as he demonstrates in the opening chapter. The alterity of educational experience is evident in his
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Teaching with DBQs

Helping Students Analyze Nonfiction and Visual Texts

by Kevin Thomas Smith ...

Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams. DBQs can be implemented year-round and can be adjusted to meet your instructional needs. With the helpful advice in this book, you ... Read more

$54.95 CAD

Help your students navigate complex texts in history and social studies. This book shows you how to use document-based questions, or DBQs, to build student literacy and critical thinking skills while meeting rigorous state standards and preparing students for AP exams. DBQs can be implemented year-round and can be adjusted to meet your instructional needs. With the helpful advice in this book, you
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Currículo intercultural afrocolombiano

Una apuesta pedagógica desde el diálogo de saberes

by Luis Alfredo González Monroy, Leila Milena Villamil Rojas, Liliana Esther Villafaña Ariza ...

La elaboración de un currículo intercultural para las comunidades afrocolombianas, parte de la convicción de ser capaces de revalorar lo propio, cristalizado en los saberes que se han heredado por medio de la palabra "dicha" de una generación a otra. La obra explora los significados que estas poblaciones le atribuyen a su legado cultural, como detonante de los procesos formativos que se dan en sus ... Read more

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La elaboración de un currículo intercultural para las comunidades afrocolombianas, parte de la convicción de ser capaces de revalorar lo propio, cristalizado en los saberes que se han heredado por medio de la palabra "dicha" de una generación a otra. La obra explora los significados que estas poblaciones le atribuyen a su legado cultural, como detonante de los procesos formativos que se dan en sus
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Guiding Curriculum Development

The Need to Return to Local Control

by M. Scott Norton ...

Top-down mandates concerning the curriculum of the school leave no room for program creativity and program commitment. Yet principals and teachers are held accountable for student achievement results. Constitutionally, powers not granted to the United States are reserved to the States or to the people.The book’s primary purposes center on the need for placing the responsibility for determining ... Read more

$37.79 CAD

Top-down mandates concerning the curriculum of the school leave no room for program creativity and program commitment. Yet principals and teachers are held accountable for student achievement results. Constitutionally, powers not granted to the United States are reserved to the States or to the people.The book’s primary purposes center on the need for placing the responsibility for determining
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Secondary Curriculum Transformed

Enabling All to Achieve

by Meena Kumari Wood, Nick Haddon ...

More than ever, secondary curriculum requires greater flexibility and adaptability so young people learn the relevant knowledge and key skills they need for the evolving world of training and employment. This practical guide, both radical and progressive, makes a compelling argument for a secondary curriculum that addresses the needs and aspirations of all students. A balanced approach will help ... Read more

$54.95 CAD

More than ever, secondary curriculum requires greater flexibility and adaptability so young people learn the relevant knowledge and key skills they need for the evolving world of training and employment. This practical guide, both radical and progressive, makes a compelling argument for a secondary curriculum that addresses the needs and aspirations of all students. A balanced approach will help
... Read more
General Education Essentials

A Guide for College Faculty

by Paul Hanstedt ...

Supplying an insightful introduction to current trends in general education reform, this second edition of General Education Essentials: A Guide for College Faculty gives an important, timely overview of general education curricular design.General education curricula provide students with the intellectual flexibility they need to adapt thoughtfully and productively to the rapid changes of the ... Read more

$67.32 CAD

Supplying an insightful introduction to current trends in general education reform, this second edition of General Education Essentials: A Guide for College Faculty gives an important, timely overview of general education curricular design.General education curricula provide students with the intellectual flexibility they need to adapt thoughtfully and productively to the rapid changes of the
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Language Teacher Emotion, Identity Learning and Curriculum Reform

by Shanshan Yang ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book explores language teachers' identity learning through the lens of teacher emotions. This qualitative study, utilizing a longitudinal case study design, sets out to trace how four college English teachers at the case study university in East China respond emotionally towards the curriculum reform, how teacher identity learning takes place, and how emotions interact with the identity ... Read more

$153.69 CAD

This book explores language teachers' identity learning through the lens of teacher emotions. This qualitative study, utilizing a longitudinal case study design, sets out to trace how four college English teachers at the case study university in East China respond emotionally towards the curriculum reform, how teacher identity learning takes place, and how emotions interact with the identity
... Read more
Investigating Science With Young Children

by Rosemary Althouse ...

Teaching science to young children has long been an area of intense interest and concern to educators. Investigating Science with Young Children is specifically designed to address this concern in a practical, timely, and enjoyable way. Originally planned as an extension of the ten-booklet series, Science Experiences for Young Children (Teachers College Press, 1975), this book outlines 85 lively ... Read more

$27.49 CAD

Teaching science to young children has long been an area of intense interest and concern to educators. Investigating Science with Young Children is specifically designed to address this concern in a practical, timely, and enjoyable way. Originally planned as an extension of the ten-booklet series, Science Experiences for Young Children (Teachers College Press, 1975), this book outlines 85 lively
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Makers, Crafters, Educators

Working for Cultural Change

Edited by Elizabeth Garber, Lisa Hochtritt, Manisha Sharma ...

Makers, Crafters, Educators brings the do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos of maker and crafter movements into educational environments, and examines the politics of cultural change that undergird them. Addressing making and crafting in relation to community and schooling practices, culture, and place, this edited collection positions making as an agent of change in education. In the volume’s five sections ... Read more

$92.06 CAD

Makers, Crafters, Educators brings the do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos of maker and crafter movements into educational environments, and examines the politics of cultural change that undergird them. Addressing making and crafting in relation to community and schooling practices, culture, and place, this edited collection positions making as an agent of change in education. In the volume’s five sections
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History Education in the Formation of Social Identity

Toward a Culture of Peace

by K. Korostelina ...

Series series Education (R0)
In order to determine how history education can be harnessed to reduce conflict attitudes and intentions and create a culture of peace, this book examines how history curricula and textbooks shape the identities of their students through their portrayals of ingroup and outgroup identity, intergroup boundaries, and value systems. ... Read more

$108.89 CAD

In order to determine how history education can be harnessed to reduce conflict attitudes and intentions and create a culture of peace, this book examines how history curricula and textbooks shape the identities of their students through their portrayals of ingroup and outgroup identity, intergroup boundaries, and value systems.
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Pre-School Education in the Arab World

by Huda Nashif ...

The organized play of the pre-school child with a group of peers in an educational atmosphere is now recognised as an important element in child development. The Arab states of the Gulf, as indeed most of the emerging countries, place special emphasis on the education of the young generation and are therefore particularly interested in the creation of pre-school education. This book, first ... Read more

$79.69 CAD

The organized play of the pre-school child with a group of peers in an educational atmosphere is now recognised as an important element in child development. The Arab states of the Gulf, as indeed most of the emerging countries, place special emphasis on the education of the young generation and are therefore particularly interested in the creation of pre-school education. This book, first
... Read more

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