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17 produkter
Making Schools Work
Negotiating Educational Meaning and Transforming the Margins
Av Carolyn R. Hodges, Olga Welch m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
226 kr
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When talking about marginality and «otherness», one must always ask, marginal to what? Other to whom? Complex issues of identity construction have been the focus of research on students who, whether based on race, gender, class, or ability, define themselves or are defined as being on the margins …
Mind Fields
Adolescent Consciousness in a Culture of Distraction
Av Thomas J. Cottle, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
419 kr
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In Mind Fields, Thomas J. Cottle argues that the period known as adolescence is essentially a social construct influenced greatly by popular culture. To understand young people, therefore, is to recognize how the very consciousness of adolescents is shaped by a culture, dominated by the …
Voices from the Margins
The Stories of Vocational High School Students
Av Jane P. Nagle, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
592 kr
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Voices from the Margins is an examination of the school experiences of twenty working-class students in vocational high schools. Recognizing the complexity and the significance of these school participants’ experiences enriches our understanding of the hierarchical distribution of power structures …
Teachers in the Middle
Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling
Av John Smyth, Peter McInerney m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
410 kr
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There is a profound and deepening crisis afflicting secondary schools in most parts of the world – but at its essence it is a crisis of a very different kind from the one portrayed by the media, the business community, politicians, and policy makers. Just what constitutes the crisis is highly …
Adolescent Education
A Reader
Av Joseph L. DeVitis, Linda Irwin-DeVitis
Inbunden, 2010
1565 kr
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Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education. For too long, harmful public myths and lies have portrayed teenagers as a principal cause of our nation’s …
Re-engaging Disconnected Youth
Transformative Learning through Restorative and Social Justice Education
Av Amy Vatne Bintliff, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
515 kr
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As many young adults continue to disengage with learning each day, teachers and administrators struggle to find programming that re-engages secondary students with their schooling and communities. This book profiles one program that succeeds in doing so, and should serve as a model for others. In a …
Teaching History to Adolescents
A Quest for Relevance
Av John A. Beineke, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1662 kr
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This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.Teaching History to Adolescents: A Quest for Relevance is an exploration of research, ideas, trends, and practices for educators who teach American history to adolescents from the middle grades …
Success Academy
How Native American Students Prepare for College (and How Colleges Can Prepare for Them)
Av Mary Jo Benton Lee, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
359 kr
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Picture two very different schools: one, a federal Indian boarding school emphasizing vocational training, where few graduates attend college. The other – its neighbor – an overwhelmingly white, land-grant university.These two schools had little to no contact, until an innovative initiative turned …
Dreams and Deception
Sports Lure, Racism, and Young Black Males' Struggles in Sports and Education
Av Isabel Ann Dwornik, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
637 kr
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This book helps young black males, educators, policy makers, parents, and all other interested parties to understand the importance of education alongside athletic pursuits. In the world today, many young black males view athletic participation as the way to secure a successful future. Yet for the …
Dreams and Deception
Sports Lure, Racism, and Young Black Males' Struggles in Sports and Education
Av Isabel Ann Dwornik, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1131 kr
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This book helps young black males, educators, policy makers, parents, and all other interested parties to understand the importance of education alongside athletic pursuits. In the world today, many young black males view athletic participation as the way to secure a successful future. Yet for the …
Living on the Edge
Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition
Av John Smyth, Terry Wrigley m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
625 kr
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Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education—the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. …
First Love
The Adolescent's Experience of Amour
Av Wendy Austin, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
310 kr
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What is the adolescent's experience of amorous love? In seeking an answer to this question, Wendy Austin gathered descriptions from individuals who were in love as teenagers, explored literary texts, movies, and songs, and reflected on personal experience. To understand the influences that shape …
Teen Dating Violence
The Invisible Peril
Av Susan M. Sanders, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
329 kr
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Invisible—because it does not command the attention of the media as do school shootings, gang warfare, or date rape—the violence that teenage women experience while dating includes emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Using survey and interview data from approximately five hundred female high …
Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America
Factors Affecting Student Success
Av Erik E. Morales, Frances K. Trotman m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
320 kr
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Promoting Academic Resilience in Multicultural America combines biographical sketches of resilient students, examples of effective programs designed to encourage resilience, recent research in the field, and their own experiences of resilient academics of color. The book illustrates exactly how …
Being Young and Homeless
Understanding How Youth Enter and Exit Street Life
Av Jeff Karabanow, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
267 kr
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Being Young and Homeless is an intimate portrayal of life on the street from the perspective of young people in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and Guatemala City. Jeff Karabanow passionately portrays street youth experiences in various locales, highlighting reasons for entering street life, struggles …
Whisper Writing
Teenage Girls Talk about Ableism and Sexism in School
Av Melissa M. Jones, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
320 kr
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In Whisper Writing three teenage girls share their stories about life as students, as young women with disabilities, and as minorities in a male-dominated special education school culture. Their stories are unique because of their disability label and the experiences that go along with such a …
Learning to Be an Individual
Emotion and Person in an American Junior High School
Av Hyang Jin Jung, Joseph L. DeVitis m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
313 kr
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Learning to Be an Individual delves into how the ideology of individualism shapes American personhood by examining socialization during early adolescence. As an anthropological study, it painstakingly analyzes the workings of American cultural conceptions of self, person, and emotion in the minute …
