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  • Mindfulness and Critical Friendship

    A New Perspective on Professional Development for Educators

    by Shawn Michael Bullock, John-Tyler Binfet, Déirdre Ní Chróinín, Tricia DeGraff, Heather M. DeWoody, Thomas Falkenberg, Tim Fletcher, Christopher Gilham, Karen Rut Gísladóttir, Amy Johnson Lachuk0, Lu Leng1, Mary O'Sullivan2, Pamela Richardson3, Leyton Schnellert4, Jessica Ching-Sze Wang5, Amber Strong Makaiau6, Karen Ragoonaden7 ...
    Mindfulness and Critical Friendship: A New Perspective on Professional Development for Educators assembles an international community of scholar-practitioners from multiple disciplines who utilize different methodologies and ideological perspectives to reflect on and interrogate contexts that situate mindfulness and critical friendship as constructs which support professional development for ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • On the Pedagogy of Suffering

    Hermeneutic and Buddhist Meditations

    Edited by David W. Jardine, Christopher Gilham, Graham McCaffrey ...
    Series Book 464 - Counterpoints
    This text articulates how and why suffering can be pedagogical in character and how it is often key to authentic and meaningful acts of teaching and learning. This is an ancient idea from the Greek tragedies of Aeschylus (c. 525 BCE) – pathei mathos or «learning through suffering». In our understandable rush to ameliorate suffering at every turn and to consider every instance of it as an error to ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • Academia Inc.

    How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

    by Jamie Brownlee ...
    Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system.Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Wrong Kind of Different

    Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms

    by Antonia Randolph ...
    How can multiculturalism go wrong? Through extensive interviews conducted in a large Midwestern district, Antonia Randolph explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of “colorblind multiculturalism.” She unearths a hierarchy of acceptance and legitimacy that excludes most poor Black students and favors certain ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

    Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access

    by Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, Greg Noble, Scott Poynting ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own

    by Roger C. Schank ...
    In the author's words: "This book is an honest attempt to understand what it means to be educated in today's world." His argument is this: No matter how important science and technology seem to industry or government or indeed to the daily life of people, as a society we believe that those educated in literature, history, and other humanities are in some way better informed, more knowing, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Act Your Age!

    A Cultural Construction of Adolescence

    by Nancy Lesko ...
    Are our current ways of talking about "the problem of adolescence" really that different than those of past generations? For the past decade, Act Your Age! has provided a provocative and now classic analysis of the accepted ways of viewing teens. By employing a groundbreaking "history of the present" methodology that resists traditional chronology, author Nancy Lesko analyzes both historical and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Combating Educational Disadvantage

    Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Children

    Edited by Dr Theo Cox, Theo Cox ...
    The New Labour Government puts Education, Education, Education at the heart of its agenda but is it doing enough to combat educational disadvantage?Combating Educational Disadvantage sets the discussion of educational disadvantage within the socio-political context of the 1980s and 1990s, with its market philosophy in education and brings together the contributions of leading writers and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Learning to Fail

    How Society Lets Young People Down

    by Fran Abrams ...
    During a decade of relative prosperity from the mid-1990s onward, governments across the developed world failed to crack one major issue – youth unemployment. Even when economic growth was strong, one young person in 10 in the United Kingdom was neither working nor learning. As the boom ended, the number of young people dropping out after leaving school – already acknowledged to be too high - ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • In Search of the Virtual Class

    Education in an Information Society

    by Lalita Rajasingham, John Tiffin ...
    'Shirley zips into her skin-tight school uniform, which on the outside looks something like a ski suit. The lining of the suit in fact contains cabling that makes the suit a communication system and there are pressure pads where the suit touches skin that give a sense of touch. Next, she sits astride something that is a bit like a motorbike, except that it has no wheels and is attached firmly to ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Moving Ideas

    Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools

    Edited by Mira-Lisa Katz ...
    Series Book 65 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    What does it look and feel like to communicate, create, compose, comprehend, teach, and learn with our bodies? Reaching beyond existing scholarship on multimodality and literacies, Moving Ideas expands our capacity to understand the embodied dimensions of learning and stretches our repertoires for more artfully describing them. Wresting language away from its historically privileged place at the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Teaching in the Knowledge Society

    Education in the Age of Insecurity

    by Andy Hargreaves ...
    We are living in a defining moment, when the world in which teachers do their work is changing profoundly. In his latest book, Hargreaves proposes that we have a one-time chance to reshape the future of teaching and schooling and that we should seize this historic opportunity. Hargreaves sets out what it means to teach in the new knowledge society—to prepare young people for a world of creativity ... Read more

    $28.49 USD