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This book looks at the lives of young people and the violence that is a daily part of their world in an urban high school. “Being Down” studies school violencecomprehensively—linki……続きを見る

Eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings draws on John Dewey’s foundational work to reimagine education’s aims and curriculum for the 21st century. Noddings looks at education as a multi-aim ent……続きを見る

Teacher evaluation systems are being overhauled by states and districts across the United States. And, while intentions are admirable, the result for many new systems is that goodーoften excellentー……続きを見る

This volume documents the significant changes that have occurred in Japanese schools since the collapse of that nation’s economic bubble. Before the recession, Japan was the country that most ……続きを見る

Deep Knowledge is a book about how people’s ideas change as they learn to teach. Using the experiences of six middle and high school student teachers as they learn to teach science in diverse classr……続きを見る

In this timely interdisciplinary volume, William Watkins has brought together leading scholars and activists to address some of the most urgent issues facing public education. What is underneath and……続きを見る

In his new book, the author of the bestseller Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools examines the chronic under-performance of African American males in U.S. schools. Citing a plethora of disturbing……続きを見る

This collection is a moving tribute to Nel Noddings, a fascinating and influential scholar who has contributed greatly to numerous fields, including education, feminism, ethics, and the study of soc……続きを見る

This timely book shows how award-winning secondary schools and districts are successfully using technology and making systemic changes to increase student engagement, improve achievement, and re-inv……続きを見る

Based on extensive fieldwork in schools and communities in St. Louis and Atlanta,Troubling the Waterscaptures the experiences of today’s African American families like no other book. Reframing……続きを見る

“You hold in your hands a model for how to turn complex partnerships among scientists, educational researchers, and practitioners into effective learning ecologies. . . . This volume provides helpfu……続きを見る

At no time in the past century have there been fiercer battles over our public schools than there are now. Parents and educational reformers are challenging not only the mission, content, and struct……続きを見る

Americans have reason to be concerned about the condition of American democracy at the start of the twenty-first century. Surveys show that civic participation has declined, cynicism about governmen……続きを見る

Gerald Graff argues that our schools and colleges make the intellectual life seem more opaque, narrowly specialized, and beyond normal learning capacities than it is or needs to be. Left clueless in……続きを見る

This book explores how the global trend of quality assurance in higher education is related to the boom of measuring learning outcomes in Japan. It also presents a comparative study in higher educat……続きを見る

Rick and William Ayers renew their challenge to teachers to teach initiative, to teach imagination, to “teach the taboo” in the new edition of this bestseller. Drawing from a lifetime of deep commit……続きを見る

In addition to many other issues that touch higher education around the world, diversity and equity in higher education is fast becoming a major opportunity and challenge to institutions, countries ……続きを見る

In this groundbreaking work, the author provides a close examination of the relationship between gender and education in the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) and reveals that women’s participation a……続きを見る

In 1620, the British politician and philosopher Francis Bacon published Novum Organum (New Method) and formalized the previously scattershot methods of scientific experimentation into a method able ……続きを見る

White educators comprise between 85-92 percent of the current teaching force in the United States, yet in the race toward leaving no child behind, contemporary educational research often invests sig……続きを見る

Some may wonder why a series entitled News Corp Narratives would include a book focussing on the public broadcaster in Australia. The News Ltd narrative of the Gillard years The theme of several of ……続きを見る

(A5, 157 PÁGINAS) - Humanizar-se, muito além dos processos de socialização primária e secundária, é também um ato de emancipação intelectual, que se dá a partir e durante a tomada de consciência crí……続きを見る

It has long been recognised that specialised knowledge is at the core of what distinguishes professions from other occupations. The privileged status of professions in most countries, however, toget……続きを見る

What should individuals and society do when genetic screening becomes widely available and with its impact on current and future generations still uncertain? How can our education systems around the……続きを見る

In higher education literature, theories of learning and development have largely been adapted from psychology to the exclusion of basic insights from philosophy. This volume addresses the gaps in h……続きを見る

Learning to Learn provides a much needed overview and international guide to the field of learning to learn from a multidisciplinary lifelong and lifewide perspective. A wealth of research has been ……続きを見る

Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue for national governments and international organisations. This book contests two stories, both infused by neoliberal thinking, that dominat……続きを見る

Drawing on his widely read Huffington Post columnsーrated one of the top educational blogs in the United StatesーAlan Singer introduces readers to contemporary issues in education in the United Stat……続きを見る

The notion of thinking skills as a key component of a 21st century school education is now firmly entrenched in educational policy and curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world. However, ther……続きを見る

We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences. This book focuses on the ex……続きを見る