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  • A Critical Examination of STEM

    Issues and Challenges

    by Chet Bowers ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This critical examination of STEM discourses highlights the imperative to think about educational reforms within the diverse cultural contexts of ongoing environmental and technologically driven changes. Chet Bowers illuminates how the dominant myths of Western science promote false promises of what science can achieve. Examples demonstrate how the various science disciplines and their shared ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Digital Detachment

    How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy

    by Chet A Bowers ...
    The digital revolution is changing the world in ecologically unsustainable ways: (1) it increases the economic and political power of the elites controlling and interpreting the data; (2) it is based on the deep assumptions of market liberalism that do not recognize environmental limits; (3) it undermines face-to-face and context-specific forms of knowledge; (4) it undermines awareness of the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Rethinking Freire

    Globalization and the Environmental Crisis

    Edited by Chet A. Bowers, Frederique Apffel-Marglin ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    This landmark collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.One source of the activist-authors' criticisms of Freire's pedagogy is rooted in their attempts to combine consciousness raising ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Chocolate Nations

    Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa

    by Órla Ryan ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury.From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals the hard economic realities of our favourite sweet. This vivid and gripping exploration of the reasons behind farmer ... Read more

    $15.39 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

  • The New Faces of Christianity

    Believing the Bible in the Global South

    by Philip Jenkins ...
    Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world's attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity's center of gravity was moving inexorably southward, to the point that Africa may soon be home to the world ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Unequal Childhoods

    Young Children's Lives in Poor Countries

    Edited by Helen Penn ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    An expert in her field, Helen Penn discusses the inequalities between and within countries of childhood poverty and how this poverty is recognized and defined through the following case-studies:Kazakhstan - once part of the Soviet UnionSwaziland - a country in Southern Africa devastated by HIV and AIDSHimalayan IndiaBrazil - one of the world's most unequal countries.These four case studies ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Center Holds

    Obama and His Enemies

    by Jonathan Alter ...
    From the bestselling author of The Promise, the thrilling story of one of the most momentous contests in American history, the Battle Royale between Obama and his enemies from the 2010 midterms through the 2013 inauguration.In The Center Holds, Jonathan Alter provides the first full account of America at the crossroads. With exclusive reporting and rare historical insight, he pierces the bubble of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • To Teach

    The Journey, in Comics

    by William Ayers, Ryan Alexander-Tanner ...
    This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition. From Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” We meet fellow travelers from schools across the country and watch students grow across a year and a lifetime.To Teach is a vivid, honest ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice

    by Eva Zygmunt, Patricia Clark ...
    Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice offers teacher educators a new way to think about the development of culturally responsive educators. The authors identify the core components needed to restructure and reorient programs of teacher education to adequately prepare new teachers for the racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse communities they will serve upon graduation. They ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • China: Fragile Superpower : How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise

    How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise

    by Susan L. Shirk ...
    Once a sleeping giant China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones laptop computers and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: The Fragile Superpower Susan L. Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics and finds that the real danger lies elsewhere--not in China's astonishing growth but in the deep ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice

    A Way Out of No Way

    Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, Gilda L Sheppard, George W. Noblit, Thomas Barone ...
    A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. Examining a range of efforts across different forms of art, various educational settings, and diverse contexts, it foregrounds the assets of imagination, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD