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  • Teachers and Philosophy

    Essays on the Contact Zone

    Edited by Cara E. Furman, Tomas de Rezende Rocha ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons in the Philosophy of Education
    Philosophers and educators come together to address contemporary issues in education.Teachers and Philosophy showcases the potential of education practitioners and philosophers of education working and writing together. Following Mary Louise Pratt, this meeting space is referred to as a "contact zone," and contributors demonstrate the power and benefit of writing from this liminal space. ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Teaching from an Ethical Center

    Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction

    by Cara E. Furman ...
    A methodology for using philosophy to guide teaching preparation and practice ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Descriptive Inquiry in Teacher Practice

    Cultivating Practical Wisdom to Create Democratic Schools

    by Cara E. Furman, Cecelia E. Traugh ...
    What does it mean to teach for human dignity? How does one do so? This practical book shows how the leaders at four urban public schools used a process called Descriptive Inquiry to create democratic schools that promote and protect human dignity. The authors argue that teachers must attend to who a child is and find a way to create classrooms that allow everyone to feel safe and express ideas. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Students’ Rights to Read and Write in Elementary School

    by Benelly Alvarez ...
    Series series Principles in Practice
    Even from the earliest grades, children have the rights to read and write—not just in dominant American English, but also in their own languages and dialects.Young children make meaning and make sense from the earliest years. They read facial expressions, engage in interactions, and read symbols across a variety of named languages. Historically narrow definitions of reading and writing, however, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Special Issues, Volume 1: Trauma-Informed Teaching

    Cultivating Healing-Centered ELA Classrooms

    Edited by Sakeena Everett ...
    Series Book 3 - Special Issues
    This first volume of Special Issues: Trauma-Informed Teaching gathers some of the most compelling and practical recent articles across NCTE journals, addressing the importance of trauma-informed teaching and its recent developments in the field.We live in a time that requires attention to trauma. Educators and students are learning how to move forward in this precarious time, which in many ways ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • (Re)Considering What We Know

    Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy

    Edited by Linda Adler-Kassner, Elizabeth Wardle ...
    Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, published in 2015, contributed to a discussion about the relevance of identifying key concepts and ideas of writing studies. (Re)Considering What We Know continues this conversation while simultaneously raising questions about the ideas around threshold concepts. New contributions introduce additional concepts, investigate threshold ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy

    Duty and Distraction

    by Timothy Aylsworth, Clinton Castro ...
    In this open access book, Timothy Aylsworth and Clinton Castro draw on the deep well of Kantian ethics to argue that we have moral duties, both to ourselves and to others, to protect our autonomy from the threat posed by the problematic use of technology. The problematic use of technologies like smartphones threatens our autonomy in a variety of ways, and critics have only begun to appreciate the ... Read more

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  • Self+Culture+Writing

    Autoethnography for/as Writing Studies

    Edited by Rebecca Jackson, Jackie Grutsch McKinney ...
    Literally translated as “self-culture-writing,” autoethnography—as both process and product—holds great promise for scholars and researchers in writings studies who endeavor to describe, understand, analyze, and critique the ways in which selves, cultures, writing, and representation intersect. Self+Culture+Writing foregrounds the possibility of autoethnography as a viable methodological approach ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • A Critical Action Research Reader

    Edited by Patricia H. Hinchey ...
    Series Book 433 - Counterpoints
    Since its inception, action research has been the subject of confusion and controversy. Can something be research if it doesn’t «prove» anything? Can something be action research if it’s a project run by an expert who does not consider participants co-researchers? Questions multiply when the general term is limited to critical action research. What makes critical action research different from ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Literacy for All

    A Framework for Anti-Oppressive Teaching

    by Shawna Coppola ...
    Series series Equity and Social Justice in Education Series
    An equity-conscious, culturally sustaining approach to literacy education.Every student comes to the classroom with unique funds of knowledge in addition to unique needs. How can teachers celebrate and draw upon the valuable literacies each child already possesses to engage them more effectively in school literacy practices?In Literacy for All, Shawna Coppola shows how a literacy pedagogy founded ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Virtue in Media

    The Moral Psychology of Excellence in News and Public Relations

    by Patrick Lee Plaisance ...
    This work establishes a contemporary profile of virtue in professional media practice. Author Patrick Lee Plaisance examines the experiences, perspectives, moral stances, and demographic data of two dozen professional exemplars in journalism and public relations. Plaisance conducted extensive personal "life story" interviews and collected survey data to assess the exemplars’ personality traits, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Educational Leadership for the 21St Century

    Building a Capacity for Change

    by Peter J. Zsebik ...
    Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate ... Read more

    $8.99 USD