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  • Trusting Teachers with School Success

    What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots

    by Kim Farris-Berg, Edward J. Dirkswager, Amy Junge ...
    Lately, our nation’s strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to “getting tough” with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers’ behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what is needed? What if teachers are the answer and not the problem? What if trusting teachers, and not ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

    by Benjamin A. Elman ...
    During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • First Freire

    Early Writings in Social Justice Education

    by Carlos Alberto Torres ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    In his new book, Carlos Alberto Torres, an internationally renowned critical theorist of education, explores the early writings of Paulo Freire whose ideas have had a tremendous and long-lasting impact on the world of pedagogy and politics. Torres analyzes Freire’s works, from the 1960s and 1970s, before Freire gained worldwide recognition for his Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Offering an in-depth ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling

    Ideologies in Practice

    by Carolyn McKinney ...
    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics and approaches to language in education. Carolyn McKinney uses the lens of linguistic ideologies—teachers’ and students’ beliefs about language—to shed light on the continuing problem of reproduction of linguistic ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Performance

    The Dynamic of Results in Postsecondary Organizations

    by Nathan Harris, Kathryn Thirolf, James Webb, Richard L. Alfred ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Understanding performance requires asking fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of an organization: What is its business? Whom does it serve? What do stakeholders want and expect? What do they get? How does the organization conceive of and measure results? How do stakeholders feel about results the organization is generating? Answers to these questions require a framework for analysis ... Read more

    $74.59 USD

  • Education Reform

    A Self-Scrutinizing Memoir

    by Seymour B. Sarason ...
    Professor Sarason candidly confronts his “errors of omission and commission, mistakes, and emphases” in his half-century involvement in educational reform. No other major figure in this arena has made public such a searching self-critique. Sharing his thoughts about the future of education, Sarason discusses his thinking on: charter schools, productive learning, motivation, high-stakes testing, ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Wendell Berry and Higher Education

    Cultivating Virtues of Place

    by Jack R. Baker, Jeffrey Bilbro ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    Why the university should focus on community: "An enlightening interpretation of Wendell Berry's philosophy for the pursuit of a holistic higher education." — Publishers WeeklyProminent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Yet Berry has been ... Read more

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  • Schooling for Women's Work

    Edited by Rosemary Deem ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This collection of original papers shows how women in Britain are still being discriminated against during schooling, despite the existence of legislation prohibiting such discrimination and despite apparent concern with promoting equality between the sexes in education. Focusing on the current situation and experiences of women in education and their subsequent entry to, and experiences of, the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Understanding Student Rights in Schools

    by Bryan R. Warnick ...
    What rights should students expect to exercise in public schools? Should bible study meetings be allowed during free periods? Should students be allowed to wear t-shirts that exhort taking drugs or committing violent acts? Should students be required to participate in drug testing? In this concisely argued book, Bryan Warnick examines how student rights in three areas—free speech, privacy, and ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Sociology of Sport and Physical Education

    An Introduction

    by Anthony Laker ...
    This text, intended for undergraduates on various education and sport related degree courses, covers the key, current issues in the field of sociology of sport and physical education. The first section of the text covers the importance of sport in culture, its theoretical background, and methodological issues in research. The main body of the text then discusses issues including the sporting body, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Whiteness and Teacher Education

    by Edie White ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Due to the rise of internet use and a move toward globalization, it may be assumed that white millennial college students are more accepting of cultural diversity and are more likely to be advocates for social justice than generations that have come before them. This project shows that while many white students know how to speak the language of "correctness" and to some degree even believe in what ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Pedagogic Rights and Democratic Education

    Bernsteinian explorations of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment

    Edited by Philippe Vitale, Beryl Exley ...
    The basis of Bernstein’s sociology of education lays in is his theorisation of the different approaches to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and the implications for pedagogic rights and social justice. This edited collection presents 15 empirical case studies and theoretical accounts from 22 international scholars who focus on the experiences of students and teachers in contexts marked by ... Read more

    $61.99 USD