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102 produkter
Mothering for Schooling
Av Alison Griffith, Dorothy Smith
Häftad, 2004
718 kr
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Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book …
System Failure: Policy and Practice in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Häftad, 2022
633 kr
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SYSTEM FAILURE provides a framework for understanding the ways in which education policy across organizational settings contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline, as documented in the literature and as observed by authors in empirical studies of justice-involved youth in regular public schools, …
Hidden Markets
Public Policy and the Push to Privatize Education
Häftad, 2021
675 kr
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Across the United States, test publishers, software companies, and research firms continue to take advantage of the revenues made available by federal policies like the No Child Left Behind Act, Race to the Top, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In effect, the education industry has …
Unequal By Design
High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality
Av Wayne Au
Häftad, 2022
633 kr
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This new edition of Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality critically examines the deep and enduring problems within systems of education in the U.S., in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by …
Unequal By Design
High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality
Av Wayne Au
Inbunden, 2022
2454 kr
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This new edition of Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality critically examines the deep and enduring problems within systems of education in the U.S., in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by …
Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing
Assessments, Big Data, and the Transformation of Schooling
Av Claire Wyatt-Smith, Bob Lingard m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
633 kr
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This book provides a significant contribution to the increasing conversation concerning the place of big data in education. Offering a multidisciplinary approach with a diversity of perspectives from international scholars and industry experts, chapter authors engage in both research- and …
Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing
Assessments, Big Data, and the Transformation of Schooling
Av Claire Wyatt-Smith, Bob Lingard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2454 kr
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This book provides a significant contribution to the increasing conversation concerning the place of big data in education. Offering a multidisciplinary approach with a diversity of perspectives from international scholars and industry experts, chapter authors engage in both research- and …
Hidden Markets
Public Policy and the Push to Privatize Education
Inbunden, 2021
2454 kr
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Across the United States, test publishers, software companies, and research firms continue to take advantage of the revenues made available by federal policies like the No Child Left Behind Act, Race to the Top, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In effect, the education industry has …
Educating Activist Allies
Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite
Inbunden, 2013
2682 kr
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A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013!Educating Activist Allies offers a fresh take on critical education studies through an analysis of social justice pedagogy in schools serving communities privileged by race and class. By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an urban …
Educating Activist Allies
Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite
Häftad, 2013
718 kr
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A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013!Educating Activist Allies offers a fresh take on critical education studies through an analysis of social justice pedagogy in schools serving communities privileged by race and class. By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an urban …
Radical Possibilities
Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement
Av Jean Anyon
Inbunden, 2014
2682 kr
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The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to …
Radical Possibilities
Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement
Av Jean Anyon
Häftad, 2014
718 kr
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The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to …
New Political Economy of Urban Education
Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship …
New Political Economy of Urban Education
Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
Häftad, 2011
747 kr
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Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship …
Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms
Scholars of Color Reflect
Av George Yancy, Maria Davidson
Inbunden, 2014
2995 kr
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Although multicultural education has made significant gains in recent years, with many courses specifically devoted to the topic in both undergraduate and graduate education programs, and more scholars of color teaching in these programs, these victories bring with them a number of pedagogic …
Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms
Scholars of Color Reflect
Av George Yancy, Maria Davidson
Häftad, 2014
804 kr
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Although multicultural education has made significant gains in recent years, with many courses specifically devoted to the topic in both undergraduate and graduate education programs, and more scholars of color teaching in these programs, these victories bring with them a number of pedagogic …
Political Classroom
Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education
Av Diana E. Hess, Paula McAvoy
Inbunden, 2014
2682 kr
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WINNER 2016 Grawemeyer Award in EducationHelping students develop their ability to deliberate political questions is an essential component of democratic education, but introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas for teachers. Diana E. …
Political Classroom
Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education
Av Diana E. Hess, Paula McAvoy
Häftad, 2014
604 kr
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WINNER 2016 Grawemeyer Award in EducationHelping students develop their ability to deliberate political questions is an essential component of democratic education, but introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas for teachers. Diana E. …
Critical Pedagogy and Social Change
Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility
Av Seehwa Cho
Inbunden, 2012
2454 kr
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At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple—to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than …
Critical Pedagogy and Social Change
Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility
Av Seehwa Cho
Häftad, 2012
804 kr
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At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple—to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than …
Learning to Liberate
Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education
Av Vajra Watson
Inbunden, 2011
2682 kr
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Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results persist. This is especially true for low-income youth of color, who drop out of school—and into incarceration—at extremely high rates. The dual …
Learning to Liberate
Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education
Av Vajra Watson
Häftad, 2011
675 kr
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Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results persist. This is especially true for low-income youth of color, who drop out of school—and into incarceration—at extremely high rates. The dual …
Contradictions of Control
School Structure and School Knowledge
Häftad, 1988
533 kr
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McNeil traces the poor quality of high school instruction t the tensions between the social control purposes of schooling and the schools' educational goals.
Working Class Without Work
High School Students in A De-Industrializing Economy
Av Lois Weis
Häftad, 1990
754 kr
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The author wxplores issues of race, class, and gender among white working class youths, and she considers the roles of school and family in the production of the self. The book also examines the working class teens' attitudes toward and readiness for postfeminist thinking and the emerging American …
Views Beyond the Border Country
Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics
Av Dennis Dworkin, Leslie Roman
Häftad, 1992
660 kr
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This collection examines the influence of Raymond Williams on the work of radical intellectuals. It especially looks at the limitation of Williams' political vision and commitment.
Getting Smart
Feminist Research and Pedagogy within/in the Postmodern
Av Patti Lather
Häftad, 1991
932 kr
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The ways in which knowledge relates to power have been much discussed in radical education theory. New emphasis on the role of gender and the growing debate about subjectivity have deepened the discussion, while making it more complex. In Getting Smart, Patti Lather makes use of her unique …
Critical Ethnography in Educational Research
A Theoretical and Practical Guide
Häftad, 1995
959 kr
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Ethnographic methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary educational research. CriticalEthnography in Educational Research provides both a technical, theoretical guide to advanced ethnography--focusing on such concepts as primary data collection and system relationships--and a very …
Public Schools That Work
Creating Community
Inbunden, 1993
747 kr
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Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement that have become so common in American schools. Educators working in some of the best alternative …
Power and Method
Political Activism and Educational Research
Häftad, 1994
875 kr
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Power and Method demonstrates that political activism can and should be infused into the research process. Contesting the traditional assumptions that have dominated thinking about the nature and meaning of research--validity, objectivity and the researcher/"subject" relationship--the volume …
Education, Power, and Personal Biography
Dialogues With Critical Educators
Inbunden, 1997
2680 kr
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In dialogues with key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through in-depth interviews, the author asks each of these thinkers to talk about the relationship between their personal experiences and their academic work. …
