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  • On Critical Pedagogy

    Alongside Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux is widely considered to be the founding father of critical pedagogy. This classic work represents his best writing on critical pedagogy spanning the past 40 years. The 2nd edition includes four new chapters covering the rise of fascist culture in America and across the globe and the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Trump and post-truth.This ... Read more

    22,99 €

  • The Coddling of the American Mind

    How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    'Excellent, their advice is sound... liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial TimesThe New York Times BestsellerWhat doesn't kill you makes you weakerAlways trust your feelingsLife is a battle between good people and evil peopleThese three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being, as well as ancient wi... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Emile

    First published in 1762, "Emile" (AKA "On Education") is a treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the nature of education as well as the nature of man.Rousseau considered this book to be the best and most important of anything he had written. "Emile" was banned in Paris and Geneva, and publicly burned in the year of its release. This was due to a particular section of the book called, “Profession of ... Read more

    0,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desafios Profissionais

    by Di Nichelle ...
    Após uma longa trajetória profissional, estudando e atuando diretamente no mercado de trabalho, tendo a oportunidade de acompanhar uma constante evolução nos últimos tempos, pude perceber as necessidades reais, para que a iniciação profissional de um jovem sonhador, ocorra de uma forma mais assertiva. Por conta disso, elaborei este conteúdo com o intuito de auxiliar em seu desenvolvimento pessoal, ... Read more

    6,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Re-Envisioning the Public Research University

    Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This volume explores the numerous and competing demands that face America’s public research universities and considers how institutions and their leaders can best navigate this challenge to ensure longevity, relevance, and success on the local, national, and global stage.Today’s public research universities have the unique challenge of responding to new societal pressures and policies, while ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • White Lies: Racism, Education and Critical Race Theory

    Unpacking Critical Race Theory (CRT) and exploring why it has become a focus in politics across the US and the UK, White Lies uses CRT to expose the systemic racism that shapes education. It charts the coordinated campaigns – involving think tanks, mainstream media and politicians – that have tried to silence antiracism in the wake of George Floyd's murder and 'Black Lives Matter'.Each chapter is ... Read more

    48,70 €

  • The 'Girl Question' in Education (RLE Edu F)

    Vocational Education for Young Women in the Progressive Era

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States. Home economics, trade training and commercial education – the three key areas of vocational training available to young women during the progressive era – are the focus of this work. Beginning with a study of the "woman question", or what women were supposed to be, the book traces ... Read more

    42,61 €

  • Children of Addiction

    Children of Addiction reports important original research on the biological and psychological effects of addiction in children. The contributions are uniformly well written and reflect the larger social implications of the research undertaken. The book will be useful for a broad array of courses on alcoholism and/or drugs and behaviour in a variety of graduate level courses in education, medicine, ... Read more

    34,08 €

  • Education in Small States

    Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives and Local Dilemmas

    Edited by Peter Mayo ...
    This book focuses on education in small states. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of different aspects of educational provision in political jurisdictions having a very small population – populations which encounter specific challenges, threats and opportunities. This book presents a balance in regional representation – covering the South Pacific, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the ... Read more

    64,53 €

  • Gender Identity, Equity, and Violence

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning

    Edited by Geraldine B. Stahly ...
    The authors of the thirteen chapters in this volume bring excitement and innovations to teaching about gender from a wide range of theoretical and discipline perspectives. They exhibit the inclusiveness that is central to feminist pedagogy–a perspective that centers the educational enterprise in the analysis of the interconnectedness of social categories that have traditionally divided and given ... Read more

    37,74 €

  • School, Not Jail

    How Educators Can Disrupt School Pushout and Mass Incarceration

    This important volume examines how and why increasing numbers of students, disproportionately youth of color, are being taken from our schools and put into our prisons. Williamson and Appleman, along with a collection of scholars, teacher educators, K–12 teachers, administrators, and incarcerated students, offer their perspectives on how schooling can be restructured to disrupt this flow and ... Read more

    26,49 €

  • Perspectives on the Sociology of Education

    An Introduction

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    First published in 1981, this book provides a basic introduction to the sociology of education. It brings together many of the principal arguments in order to help the student reach an understanding of the multitude of conflicting opinions, theoretical positions and biases within the field.The work considers the structures within which the child, the family and the classroom are located, focusing ... Read more

    68,18 €

  • Teachers, Gender and the Feminisation Debate

    Teachers, Gender and the Feminisation Debate critically engages with the claim that teaching is a feminised profession and offers a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the way gender and power play out in the lives of male and female teachers. Informed by social constructivist, feminist theories of work and education, the book adopts a relational and intersectional approach to gender ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Teacher Education and Cultural Change

    England, France, West Germany

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1973, Teacher Education and Cultural Change analyses significant issues in the reform of teacher education on the evidence of up-to-date official and academic source materials and direct investigation. It contributes to the comparative sociology of education by highlighting the question as to whether teacher education policies are geared primarily to educational and social ... Read more

    68,18 €

  • What Is Critical in Language Studies

    Disclosing Social Inequalities and Injustice

    This volume examines the notion of criticality in language studies.Drawing on the work of the Frankfurt School – Adorno, Habermas, Horkheimer, and Marcuse, among others – the chapters in the volume examine a variety of linguistic contexts: from gender activism to web journalism, from the classroom to the open streets. It also presents theoretical and methodological guidelines to researchers ... Read more

    57,22 €

  • Taming Chance in Education

    Control, Prediction and Comparison

    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    This volume centres the notion of "chance" in education as a key concept in contemporary education – relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments – and discusses the impact that the historical desire to "tame" this notion has had on present-day educational policy and practice.Encouraging readers to widen their educational imagination, chapters ... Read more

    49,91 €

  • Co-operative Education, Politics, and Art

    Creative, Critical, and Community Resistance to Corporate Higher Education

    Series series Routledge Research in Arts Education
    This timely and compelling volume furthers understandings of contemporary art education in international contexts and the position of alternative art colleges in relation to the neoliberal academy and arts economy.Defining the concept of ‘co-operative education’ and articulating its centrality and relevance to the so-called alternative or autonomous art schools it examines, the book presents ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education

    The selected works of Bob Lingard

    by Bob Lingard ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces of work – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • Mentoring for Social Inclusion

    A Critical Approach to Nurturing Mentor Relationships

    by Helen Colley ...
    What does mentoring really mean? What can be achieved through mentor relationships? This timely book examines one of the fastest growing social movements of our time. As millions of volunteers worldwide continue to add to the mentoring phenomenon, the need for this authoritative text becomes increasingly evident. It capably traces the history of mentoring, unravelling the many myths that surround ... Read more

    63,31 €

  • Teaching in a Multicultural Society

    The Task for Teacher Education

    Edited by Maurice Craft ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education and Multiculturalism
    Originally published in 1981. This book authoritatively and comprehensively documents the extent of the response to the changing responsibilities of initial and in-service teacher education in a multicultural society. It look at provisions and perceptions of need and indicates future avenues of development. The papers were presented at a national seminar held at Nottingham University in April 1981 ... Read more

    30,43 €

  • Classrooms and Staffrooms

    The Sociology of Teachers and Teaching

    Edited by Andy Hargreaves, Peter Woods ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1984, the articles presented here explore such matters as how teachers maintain order, how they treat their pupils and how they cope with pressure; they examine the ways in which teachers relate to their colleagues, what goes on in staffrooms, how they engage in educational debate, and what their ambitions are. The contributors get to grips with what it is really like to be ... Read more

    41,39 €

  • Educational Binds of Poverty

    The lives of school children

    by Ceri Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    Shortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership with the British Sociological Association!Educational Binds of Poverty tackles the assumptions made by many recent social and educational policy initiatives suggesting that the best way to improve educational prospects of children in poverty is through an increased emphasis upon a culture of control, ... Read more

    64,53 €

  • Youth Moves

    Identities and Education in Global Perspective

    Edited by Nadine Dolby, Fazal Rizvi ...
    Series series Critical Youth Studies
    This fascinating collection of original essays seeks to address the possibilities and dangers of young people's transnational, commodified identities; how society and educational institutions might respond to these new identities; and the consequences for democratic practices and the public sphere. Drawing together contributions from the work of both well known and emerging scholars, this ... Read more

    60,87 €

  • The Resegregation of Suburban Schools

    A Hidden Crisis in American Education

    "The United States today is a suburban nation that thinks of race as an urban issue, and often assumes that it has been largely solved,” write the editors of this groundbreaking and passionately argued book. They show that the locus of racial and ethnic transformation is now clearly suburban and illustrate patterns of demographic change in the suburbs with a series of rich case studies.The book ... Read more

    24,05 €