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  • Fix the Past or Invent the Future

    Moving Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Education

    by Yong Zhao ...
    We can’t afford to be stuck in a past that no longer serves all students.In Fix the Past or Invent the Future, acclaimed education expert Yong Zhao exposes the deep flaws in the one-size-fits-all policies and practices that have dominated classrooms for decades and left countless students behind.Zhao takes on some of the most popular and seemingly scientific practices and beliefs in education and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Clinical Counselling in Schools

    Edited by Nick Barwick ...
    Series series Clinical Counselling in Context
    Too often in education there is a split between those concerned with children's personal and emotional wellbeing and those focusing on academic achievement. At a time when counselling in schools is on the increase, working towards an integration of the personal and the academic is paramount.Clinical Counselling in Schools provides counsellors, educational psychologists, teachers, teacher-trainers ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

    The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.Beginning with reflections on the historical and theoretical foundations of the sociology of medical education, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rethinking Children's Rights

    Attitudes in Contemporary Society

    Series series New Childhoods
    Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and living with children.This second edition contains updated references to legislation and research ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Adventurous Learning

    A Pedagogy for a Changing World

    Adventurous Learning interrogates the word ‘adventure’ and explores how elements of authenticity, agency, uncertainty and mastery can be incorporated into educational practices. It outlines key elements for a pedagogy of adventurous learning and provides guidelines grounded in accessible theory. Teachers of all kinds can adapt these guidelines for indoor and outdoor teaching in their own ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Contemplative and Artful Openings

    Researching Women and Teaching

    by Susan Walsh ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Highlighting an arts-based inquiry process that involves contemplation, mindful awareness, and artful writing, this book explores women’s difficult experiences in teaching. It weaves a strong autobiographical thread with artifacts from several research projects with female teachers. By linking innovative approaches to research that involve visual images and poetic writing with feminist ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • My Vision on Education (Works by Zhu Yongxin on Education Series)

    by Zhu Yongxin ...
    One of China's leading education experts explores the best ways to create ideal schools, teachers, administrators, and educationProfessor Zhu Yongxin expounds on what he believes to be ideal education. Zhu draws a blueprint for a quality education system in contemporary China and covers issues of forward-looking significance, such as trends of China's basic education reform, characteristics of ... Read more

    $68.69 USD

  • What Teachers Make

    In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

    by Taylor Mali ...
    In praise of the greatest job in the world...The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why we need them now more than ever.Teacher turned teacher’s advocate Taylor Mali inspired millions with his original poem “What Teachers Make,” a passionate and unforgettable response to a rich man at a dinner party who sneeringly asked him what teachers make. Mali’s sharp, funny, ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • La niñez y la seguridad nacional en México

    La seguridad nacional implica la preservación del Estado como tal y, siendo la sociedad su elemento fundamental, conviene prepararla con esmero desde su más temprana edad inculcando los valores necesarios y propios a los intereses estatales para su pleno desarrollo, mediante un plan educativo integral que forme ciudadanos con una conciencia social acorde con dichos intereses.Procurar un nivel ... Read more

    $9.19 USD

  • Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This volume bridges the gap between contemporary theoretical debates and educational policies and practices. It applies postcolonial theory as a framework of analysis that attempts to engage with and go beyond essentialism, ethno- and euro-centrisms through a critical examination of contemporary case studies and conceptual issues. From a transdisciplinary and post-colonial perspective, this book ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Reflecting Children's Lives

    A Handbook for Planning Your Child-Centered Curriculum

    Make the complex task of creating a child-centered curriculum easier with the practical guidelines and ideas in this updated and expanded handbook. Learn how to sharpen your observation and documentation skills, set up your space, and transform your teaching to reflect children’s interests and needs. Insightful classroom stories, assessment tools, checklists, comparative charts, and activities ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • 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

    $28.19 USD

  • Globalizing Education Policy

    Rizvi and Lingard's account of the global politics of education is thoughtful, complex and compelling. It is the first really comprehensive discussion and analysis of global trends in education policy, their effects - structural and individual - and resistance to them. In the enormous body of writing on globalisation this book stands out and will become a basic text in education policy courses ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed

    50th Anniversary Edition

    by Paulo Freire ...
    First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is ongoing.This ... Read more

    $24.79 USD

  • Jumpstart! RE

    Games and activities for ages 7-12

    by Imran Mogra ...
    Series series Jumpstart
    This collection of simple-to-use activities will jumpstart students' understanding of the world's religions and belief systems. A wealth of activities, including discussion techniques, group tasks and thought experiments, guides the teacher in delivering stimulating and imaginative RE lessons.Based around religions' sacred texts, beliefs, leaders, spaces and festivals, this indispensable and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The End of Education

    Redefining the Value of School

    by Neil Postman ...
    In this comprehensive response to the education crisis, the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity returns to the subject that established his reputation as one of our most insightful social critics. Postman presents useful models with which schools can restore a sense of purpose, tolerance, and a respect for learning. ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Routledge International Companion to Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

    Responding to disruptive or troubled pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) remains a highly topical issue. The challenges these children present relate to wider issues of continuing political concern: the perceived declining discipline in schools; school and social exclusion; the limits to inclusion for children with special needs; increasing mental health difficulties in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Education to Better Their World

    Unleashing the Power of 21st-Century Kids

    by Marc Prensky ...
    “Marc Prensky—one of the smartest people working in educational reform today—offers us a lucid, inspiring, optimistic, doable, and crucial blueprint for how we can build a future with the schools children desperately need in our modern, high-risk, highly complex, fast-changing, and imperiled world.”—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Mi credo pedagógico

    by John Dewey ...
    Series Book 7 - I Grandi dell'Educazione
    Mi credo pedagógico es el "manifiesto" de las nuevas escuelas. Por el momento se disparó un tiro en el medio de un pantano pedagógico que no podía reconocer la centralidad del sujeto en el proceso educativo. Dewey se convirtió en el representante máximo teórico de la escuela progresista. Con la nueva educación se estaba produciendo un cambio en el núcleo en torno al cual las prácticas educativas: ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Pedagogy of Responsibility

    Wendell Berry for EcoJustice Education

    Drawing on the theories of author and conservationist Wendell Berry for the field of EcoJustice Education, this book articulates a pedagogy of responsibility as a three-pronged approach grounded in the recognition that our planet balances an essential and fragile interdependence between all living creatures. Examining the deep cultural roots of social and ecological problems perpetuated by schools ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • What Is Curriculum Theory?

    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    This primer for prospective and practicing teachers asks students to question the historical present and their relation to it, and in so doing, reflect on their own understandings of what it means to teach, to study, to educate, and to become educated in the present moment in the places we inhabit.Not only the implementation of objectives to be assessed by standardized tests, curriculum is ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Factories for learning

    Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy

    by Christy Kulz ...
    Series series New Ethnographies
    Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated flagship secondary school in a large English city, to show how the accelerated marketization and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Teaching Online

    A Practical Guide

    by Susan Ko ...
    Teaching Online: A Practical Guide is an accessible, introductory, and comprehensive guide for anyone who teaches online. The fourth edition of this bestselling resource has been fully revised, maintains its reader-friendly tone, and offers exceptional practical advice, new teaching examples, faculty interviews, and an updated resource section.New to this edition:entire new chapter on MOOCs ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Disobedient Teaching

    Surviving and Creating Change in Education

    by Welby Ings ...
    This book is about disobedience. Positive disobedience. Disobedience as a kind of professional behaviour. It shows how teachers can survive and even influence an education system that does staggering damage to potential. More importantly it is an arm around the shoulder of disobedient teachers who transform people's lives, not by climbing promotion ladders but by operating at the grassroots. ... Read more

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