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Three Zen Sutras
The Heart Sutra, The Diamond Sutra, and The Platform Sutra
Av Red Pine
Häftad, 2021
148 kr
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A pocket-sized presentation of the three most venerated Buddhist sutras of Zen Buddhism: the Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, and Platform Sutra, featuring easy-to-understand translations and helpful footnotes—all from a legendary practitioner and translator of Buddhist teachings Three classic Buddhist …
Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows
The True Story of an Indigenous-Based Social Transformer
Av R. Michael Fisher, Shirley R. Steinberg
Häftad, 2018
561 kr
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In times of extreme cascading global crises facing humanity, all responsible humans need to re-evaluate the dominant worldview that has brought us to this point of facing extinction. As a species we need to relearn the "good" ways from our greatest allies in Nature and from Indigenous cultures that …
Igniting a Fear Praxis for Teaching
Samuel N. Gillian Jr.’s Life and Courage
Av R. Michael Fisher, Shirley R. Steinberg
Inbunden, 2024
984 kr
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With current surging polarities of perspectives, dangerous culture wars and immanent threats to the human social and ecological fabric, it is a good time to rediscover the true meaning of fear through the eyes of a creative and endearingly outrageous educator who taught ‘Fear is not the enemy.’ …
Novel Education
Psychoanalytic Studies of Learning and Not Learning, Second Edition
Av Deborah P. Britzman, Shirley R. Steinberg
Häftad, 2022
513 kr
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An invitation to write, to play, to be affected, to be permissive in taking note: all these gestures of freedom compose Novel Education. Britzman opens the crypt of research to and finds the perils and pleasures of narrating life in the human professions. It is at once an introduction to …
Autobiography, Politics and Sexuality
Essays in Curriculum Theory, 1972-1992
Häftad, 1995
329 kr
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Like a particularly heartfelt letter to the reader, William Pinar's Autobiography, Politics and Sexuality: Essays in Curriculum Theory 1972-1992 asserts the viability of autobiography as a tool of study in the area of curriculum and instruction. As an alternative to the sterile bureaucratic style …
Understanding Curriculum
An Introduction to the Study of Historical and Contemporary Curriculum Discourses
Av William F. Pinar, William M. Reynolds m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
623 kr
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Perhaps not since Ralph Tyler’s (1949) Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction has a book communicated the field as completely as Understanding Curriculum. From historical discourses to breaking developments in feminist, poststructuralist, and racial theory, including chapters on political …
Daredevil Research
Re-creating Analytic Practice
Av Janice A. Jipson, Nicholas Paley
Häftad, 2007
352 kr
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Daredevil Research: Re-creating Analytic Practice gathers together ten research projects that seek to transform thinking about analytic practice and the construction of research knowledge. By experimenting with alternative models of representation unconstrained by the weight of traditional research …
Private Readings in Public
Schooling the Literary Imagination
Häftad, 1996
478 kr
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This book uses the set of relations announced by teachers' and students' readings of literary fictions as a «commonplace location» to interpret the experience of curriculum. In addition to illuminating the complexity of «schooled» readings of literature, Private Readings in Public provides …
Procedures of Power and Curriculum Change
Foucault and the Quest for Possibilities in Science Education
Av David W. Blades, Shirley R. Steinberg m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
320 kr
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Is curriculum change possible? Procedures of Power and Curriculum Change provides a provocative new response to this question. Through a case study of a recent major attempt to change high school science, this work reveals the continuing barrenness of modernistic explanations of curriculum change. …
Ordinary Lessons
Girlhoods of the 1950s
Häftad, 1999
326 kr
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The childhood memoirs contained in Ordinary Lessons are intended to complicate the conventional portrait of white middle-class girlhood in the American 1950s. As they look back to their own remembered lives in families, schools, and communities, the authors undermine the popular image of …
Undressing the Ad
Reading Culture in Advertising
Av Katherine Toland Frith, Katherine T. Frith
Häftad, 2006
392 kr
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Undressing the Ad aims to empower readers to become media literate through the work of deconstructing the consumer culture that surrounds them. By introducing critical scholarship on advertising in a way that is accessible, the book attempts to show how issues of race, class, and gender are …
Contemporary Curriculum Discourses
Twenty Years of JCT-
Av William F. Pinar, Caddo Gap Press
Häftad, 2004
505 kr
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JCT was the most important journal of curriculum studies during the field’s «paradigm» shift in the 1970s. Its editors sponsored a yearly conference, which also supported the «intellectual breakthrough» that was the reconceptualization of American curriculum studies. This collection brings together …
Four Scenes for Posing the Question of Meaning and Other Essays in Critical Philosophy and Critical Methodology
Av Phil Francis Carspecken, Shirley R Steinberg m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
329 kr
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What is the nature of meaningful action and its relationship to power, truth, desire, and the self? How are meaning and truth related to the phenomenological body? Where do postmodern insights coherently intersect with the perspective of critical theory, and where are postmodernists and …
Multi/Intercultural Conversations
A Reader
Häftad, 2001
391 kr
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Multi/Intercultural Conversations brings together voices from all over the world in the examination of critical pedagogy and the politics of identity in regard to viewing education as a global endeavor. The authors are teachers, parents, professors, and writers engaged in projects of social justice …
Curriculum
A River Runs Through It
Av William M. Reynolds, Shirley R. Steinberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
267 kr
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Curriculum: A River Runs Through It is a collection of William M. Reynolds’ essays from 1982-2002. These essays explore curriculum theory from hermeneutics and phenomenology to poststructuralism. There is a pervasive thematic force that flows through the author’s work: a persistent voice desiring …
Power, Meaning, and Identity
Essays in Critical Educational Studies
Häftad, 2002
404 kr
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Michael W. Apple’s critical writings have been influential throughout the world. This collection brings together many of his essays on curriculum, evaluation, and critical educational and cultural theory. In clear and unmystified prose, these essays enhance our understanding of how thoroughly …
Politics & Machinations of Education Research
International Case Studies
Av Sue McGinty
Häftad, 2000
701 kr
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The Politics and Machinations of Education Research: International Case Studies brings together twelve education researchers from four countries – the United States, England, Australia, and Malaysia – to reflect on their experience of doing research. From large-scale national projects, to micro …
Thinking Queer
Sexuality, Culture, and Education
Av Susan Talburt, Shirley R. Steinberg
Häftad, 2000
404 kr
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Thinking Queer takes up the challenges of queer theorizing for education by interrogating the effects of representation through voice and visibility, the interplay of social and academic knowledges and ignorances, and the performative aspects of queer identities and practices. Engaging ethnography, …
Forging an Educative Community
The Wisdom of Love, the Power of Understanding, and the Terror of It All
Häftad, 2000
214 kr
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Forging an Educative Community tells the story of a public school classroom, where relations are fostered to promote democratic participation within intellectual engagement. In forging an educative community, teacher and students develop relations of trust, sense-making, and compassionate …
Building Connections
Spiritual Dimensions of Teaching
Av Eileen M. Cunningham, Shirley R. Steinberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
266 kr
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One of the most significant challenges facing teachers today is their capacity to work effectively with diverse learners. Building Connections responds to the essential needs that teachers have expressed as a result of reflecting on their experiences in schools, with learners and their families, …
Making a Difference in the Lives of Bilingual/Bicultural Children
Häftad, 2007
416 kr
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As the conservative political mood of our nation eliminates programs for the increasing numbers of bilingual children, educators are nevertheless expected to teach linguistically and culturally diverse learners with limited background knowledge and resources. This edited volume challenges …
(Post) Modern Science (Education)
Propositions and Alternative Paths
Av John A. Weaver, Peter Appelbaum m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
472 kr
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These original essays offer new perspectives for science educators, curriculum theorists, and cultural critics on science education, French post-structural thought, and the science debates. Included in this book are chapters on the work of Bruno Latour, Michel Serres, and Jean Baudrillard, plus …
Critical Politics of Teachers' Work
An Australian Perspective
Av John Smyth, Shirley R. Steinberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
701 kr
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This book is about the damage that has been systematically inflicted upon teachers’ work globally over the past two or more decades. It chronicles and traces the major policy maneuvers in what can only be described as «difficult times». The effects are not hard to see in the language of the new …
Sista Talk
The Personal and the Pedagogical
Av Rochelle Brock, Joe L. Kincheloe m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
419 kr
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Sista Talk: The Personal and the Pedagogical is an inquiry into the questions of how Black women define their existence in a society which devalues, dehumanizes, and silences their beliefs. Placing herself inside of the research, Rochelle Brock invites the reader on a journey of self-exploration, …
Emergence of Voice in Latino/a High School Students
Av Rosario Diaz-Greenberg, Shirley R. Steinberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
343 kr
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The subordination, suppression, and silencing of bilingual students’ voices and their communities by their educational system came under scrutiny at the end of the twentieth century. This book provides a forum for students’ voices by examining some of the factors that promote the silencing of voice …
Curriculum Visions
Av William E. Jr. Doll, Noel Gough
Häftad, 2006
416 kr
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Curriculum Visions challenges the singular, guiding vision that has dominated Western educational thought for the past four centuries, from Peter Ramus to Ralph Tyler and beyond. Influenced by the spirit of John Dewey, Curriculum Visions moves beyond his ghost to see what he never saw – a playful …
Idiots
Stories about Mindedness and Mental Retardation
Av R. Daniel Linneman, Joe L. Kincheloe m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
320 kr
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Idiots: Stories about Mindedness and Mental Retardation is a book about four children and the people who, in many respects, define their humanity. Mindedness is a quality associated with humanity that receives little attention in the scientific literature of mental retardation. The children's …
Re/Constructing Elementary Science
Av Wolff-Michael Roth, Kenneth Tobin m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
320 kr
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Re/Constructing Elementary Science seeks to improve the way science is taught in the elementary school. There are three main contradictions that make it difficult for teachers and students to engage in meaningful activities from which understandings result. The central issues in this book are …
Research in International Education
Experience, Theory, and Practice
Av Liora Bresler, Alexandre Ardichvili
Häftad, 2002
701 kr
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The international dimension of research in education signals a paradigm shift in thinking about educational research in general. This collection of essays by a group of prominent scholars in several fields, including human resource education, early childhood, educational evaluation, interpretive …
Interrogating Racism in Qualitative Research Methodology
Av Gerardo R. López, Laurence Parker
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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The areas of race, class, and gender have generated increasing attention within the academy, providing a strong critique of the supposed neutrality of the research process. Interrogating Racism in Qualitative Research Methodology presents qualitative studies and essay reviews that connect these …
