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  • Women of Color In STEM

    Navigating the Double Bind in Higher Education

    Edited by Beverly Irby, Nahed Abdelrahman, Barbara Polnick, Julia Ballenger ...
    Series series Research on Women and Education
    Though there has been a rapid increase of women’s representation in law and business, their representation in STEM fields has not been matched. Researchers have revealed that there are several environmental and social barriers including stereotypes, gender bias, and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities that continue to block women’s progress in STEM. In ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Girls and Women of Color In STEM

    Navigating the Double Bind in K-12 Education

    by Beverly J. Irby ...
    Series series Research on Women and Education
    Though there has been a rapid increase of women’s representation in law and business, their representation in STEM fields has not been matched. Researchers have revealed that there are several environmental and social barriers including stereotypes, gender bias, and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities that continue to block women’s progress in STEM. In ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Girls and Women of Color In STEM

    Their Journeys in Higher Education

    by Beverly J. Irby ...
    Series series Research on Women and Education
    The 11 chapters in this book provide a glimpse into the journeys that women from diverse backgrounds and ethnic differences take in their higher education undergraduate or graduate careers. The diverse women include ethnicities of Arabic, Asian, African-American, American Indian, and Latina. ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Girls and Women in Stem

    A Never Ending Story

    Edited by Janice Koch, Barbara Polnick, Beverly Irby ...
    Series series Research on Women and Education
    Encouraging the participation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) remains as vital today as it was in the 1970s. ... hence, the sub-title: 'A Never Ending Story.'This volume is about ongoing advocacy on behalf of the future workforce in fields that lie on the cutting edge of society’s future. Acknowledging that deeply embedded beliefs about social and ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Women of Color in STEM

    Navigating the Workforce

    Edited by Julia Ballenger, Barbara Polnick, Beverly Irby ...
    Series series Research on Women and Education
    Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Workforce is an opportunity for making public the life stories of women of color who have persevered in STEM workplace settings. The authors used various critical theories to situate and make visible the lives of women of color in such disciplines and workplace contexts like mathematics, science, engineering, NASA, academia, government agencies, and others. ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

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    Critical Approaches To Inclusive Curriculum, Instruction, and Policy

    Edited by Paula Kluth, Diana M. Straut, Douglas P. Biklen ...
    The authors of this book join a growing number of voices calling for teachers in diverse, inclusive schools to move beyond facilitating social participation in classroom activities and consider ways to intellectually engage ALL learners. They draw on emerging work linking critical theory with disability issues; work being done in curriculum studies around issues of social justice teaching, ... Read more

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  • Re-Imagining Transformative Leadership in Teacher Education

    Edited by Ann E. Lopez, Elsie Lindy Olan ...
    Series series Transformative Pedagogies in Teacher Education
    This is the third and final book in the series Transformative Pedagogies in Teacher Education. Like the first two books in the series it is geared towards practitioners in the field of teacher education. This third book focuses on transformative leadership in teacher education. In other words, the kind of leadership and practices that will be important and necessary to bring about the kind of ... Read more

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  • Teacher Leadership

    New conceptions for autonomous student learning in the age of the Internet

    by Kokila Roy Katyal, Colin William Evers ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    In recent years teacher leadership has undergone one major revolution and is in the process of undergoing another. The first came about as schools turned out to be far too complex for the responsibility of formulating and achieving their goals to be vested entirely in principals and head teachers. As a consequence, the rise of distributed leadership as an alternative model for understanding ... Read more

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  • Pedagogy in Higher Education

    A Cultural Historical Approach

    Edited by Gordon Wells, Anne Edwards ...
    What can Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) contribute to the solution of the problems facing higher education today? This edited volume brings together the work of an international group of scholars and researchers to address this important question. Drawing on contemporary interpretations of CHAT, the contributors take on a wide range of issues, ranging from pedagogy to administration ... Read more

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  • Learning in Adulthood

    A Comprehensive Guide

    by Sharan B. Merriam, Lisa M. Baumgartner ...
    The new edition of the authoritative book in the field of adult education — fully revised to reflect the latest research and practice implications.For nearly three decades, Learning in Adulthood has been the definitive guide in the field of adult education. Now in its fourth edition, this comprehensive volume is fully revised to reflect the latest developments in theory, research, and practice. ... Read more

    $66.00 USD

  • What the Best College Teachers Do

    by Ken Bain ...
    What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.The short answer is—it’s not what teachers do, it’s what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the ... Read more

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  • Creating the Opportunity to Learn

    Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap

    by A. Wade Boykin, Pedro Noguera ...
    "Unless we believe that those who have more are inherently superior to those who have less, we should be troubled by the fact that patterns of achievement are often fairly predictable, particularly with respect to students' race and class."In Creating the Opportunity to Learn, Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera help navigate the turbid waters of evidence-based methodologies and chart a course toward ... Read more

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