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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century

    Perspectives and Examples from Practice, Second Edition

    Edited by Antonina Lukenchuk ...
    Series Book 558 - Counterpoints
    What is research and who is a researcher? Why engage in research and what is the value of research? Paradigms of Research for the 21st Century explores multiple questions relating to the nature and process of educational research. The book offers an insightful and detailed account of Western and non-Western philosophical traditions and perspectives on reality, knowledge, and values. These accounts ... Read more

    $68.39 CAD

  • Outliving Your Dissertation

    A Guide for Students and Faculty

    Edited by Antonina Lukenchuk ...
    Series Book 428 - Counterpoints
    This guide focuses on the dissertation work as a step-by-step process and details the structure and the content of dissertation chapters. Unique to this edition is its conception of the dissertation in optimistic, realistic, and symbolic terms, which altogether provide theoretical basis and practical advice to students who are beginning their dissertation process. The guide features the personal ... Read more

    $66.39 CAD

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    A Modular Model for Knowing, Analyzing, Recognizing, Doing, and Seeing

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    The field of second/foreign language teacher education is calling out for a coherent and comprehensive framework for teacher preparation in these times of accelerating economic, cultural, and educational globalization. Responding to this call, this book introduces a state-of-the-art model for developing prospective and practicing teachers into strategic thinkers, exploratory researchers, and ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Theories of Learning

    Learning Theorists … In Their Own Words

    Edited by Knud Illeris ...
    This tenth anniversary edition of Knud Illeris’s classic 2008 text is an updated and definitive collection of today’s most influential learning theorists, now containing additional chapters from John Hattie and Gregory Donoghue, Sharan Merriam, Gert Biesta and Carolyn Jackson. This book brings together world-renowned experts, who each present their understanding of what learning is and how human ... Read more

    $89.56 CAD

  • The Ambiguities of Experience

    by James G. March ...
    Series series Messenger Lectures
    The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources and uncertainties about the future. Many, but possibly not all, of the factors determining ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

    Exploring the Role of Education

    Edited by Anna Craft, Guy Claxton, Howard Gardner ...
    "In today′s ′teach-to-the-test′ climate, do we ever need a book about wisdom and creativity! Our focus as educators is enriched by this book."—Robert Di Giulio, ProfessorJohnson State College"Creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship may each sound good enough in itself, but the contributors to this volume make a compelling case for how much they need one another."—David Perkins, ProfessorHarvard ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Critical Approaches to Questions in Qualitative Research

    by Raji Swaminathan, Thalia M. Mulvihill ...
    Learning how to formulate questions that examine the power relations between the researcher and participants is at the heart of critical approaches. This book provides a comprehensive overview and treatment of critical approaches to questions in qualitative research. It also examines questions as tools for strategic thinking and decision making at all stages of the qualitative research process. ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook for Research in Education

    Pursuing Ideas as the Keystone of Exemplary Inquiry

    Edited by Clifton F Conrad, Ronald C. Serlin ...
    The SAGE Handbook for Research in Education: Pursuing Ideas as the Keystone of Exemplary Inquiry, edited by Clifton F. Conrad and Ronald C. Serlin stimulates and encourages students, faculty, and educational practitioners, including individuals in Pre K–16 education, government, and the private sector who conduct applied and policy-oriented educational research, to place the pursuit of ideas at ... Read more

    $171.19 CAD

  • Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

    The Reflective Professional

    by Greg Light, Roy Cox, Susanna C. Calkins ...
    ′This book provides teachers in higher education with what they need - a compelling framework for improving student learning. It combines a comprehensive synthesis of the latest research on learning and teaching with practical strategies for implementing it in their classrooms′ - Professor Ken Bain, Author of What the Best College Teachers Do, Vice Provost for Instruction, Montclair State ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Transformative Learning

    Theory, Research, and Practice

    by Edward W. Taylor, Patricia Cranton ...
    The Handbook of Transformative LearningThe leading resource for the field, this handbook provides a comprehensive and critical review of more than three decades of theory development, research, and practice in transformative learning. The starting place for understanding and fostering transformative learning, as well as diving deeper, the volume distinguishes transformative learning from other ... Read more

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  • The Teaching Gap

    Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

    by James W. Stigler, James Hiebert ...
    Comparing math teaching practices in Japan and Germany with those in the United States, two leading researchers offer a surprising new view of teaching and a bold action plan for improving education inside the American classroom.For years our schools and children have lagged behind international standards in reading, arithmetic, and most other areas of academic achievement. It is no secret that ... Read more

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  • Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication

    Paradigms, Principles, and Practices

    by Milton J. Bennett ...
    In the long-awaited second edition of Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication, Milton J. Bennett provides a comprehensive overview of the field from a constructivist perspective. In addition to his insightful analysis, Bennett offers a full complement of classic readings on the topic of intercultural communication, including:"Science and Linguistics," by Benjamin Lee Whorf"The Power of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD