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“christopher leahey”

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  • Whitewashing War

    Historical Myth, Corporate Textbooks, and Possibilities for Democratic Education

    by Christopher Leahey ...
    Whitewashing War explores perhaps the most critical issue social studies educators presently face: How do we teach our students about war? In this timely book, Christopher Leahey investigates how the political struggles over the social studies curriculum, the corporate domination of the textbook and testing industry, and the curricular constraints of the No Child Left Behind Act combine to stifle ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • Building Proportional Reasoning Across Grades and Math Strands, K8

    by Marian Small ...
    Although proportional reasoning is not formally introduced as a topic in the Common Core and other mathematics curricula until 6th grade, introducing its fundamental ideas in the early grades helps students develop essential skills in ratios, percentages, and other proportional representations when they reach the upper grades. The author takes this complex subject and crafts examples and questions ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Designing Groupwork

    Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom

    by Elizabeth G. Cohen, Rachel A. Lotan ...
    As teachers today work in ever more challenging contexts, groupwork remains a particularly effective pedagogical strategy. Based on years of research and teaching experience, the new edition of this popular book features significant updates on the successful use of cooperative learning to build equitable classrooms. Designing Groupwork, Third Edition incorporates current research findings with new ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Are You Listening?

    Fostering Conversations That Help Young Children Learn

    by Lisa Burman ...
    Conversations take place in every early childhood classroom—between teachers and children, and among children. Are You Listening? asks teachers to examine these conversations and their impact on children’s learning.Often, teachers use conversations to impart information to children instead of really listening to children and allowing them to make their own decisions. Grounded in child-centered, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Translanguaging with Multilingual Students

    Learning from Classroom Moments

    Edited by Ofelia García, Tatyana Kleyn ...
    Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings of the concept and highlights its promises and challenges. Using a Transformative Action ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Writing With, Through, and Beyond the Text

    An Ecology of Language

    by Rebecca Luce-Kapler ...
    Writing With, Through, and Beyond the Text: An Ecology of Language elaborates an understanding of writing, its influences on our interpretations of experience and identity, and its potential for enabling individuals to learn about and connect to the world beyond themselves. Rather than considering writing a process, the author describes it as a system, an ecology that engages the individual in a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Teaching Social Studies that Matters

    by Stephen J. Thornton ...
    No plan to increase achievement and enact reform in the social studies classroom will succeed without recognizing the central importance of the teacher as the “gatekeeper” of instruction. In this book, Thornton details why teachers must develop strong skills in curriculum planning and teaching methods in order for effective instruction to occur. Thornton helps teachers to develop a vision of their ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Rebooting Social Studies

    Strategies for Reimagining History Classes

    by Greg Milo ...
    Those facts. Those dates. Those four walls. Those still and petrified fossils of traditional history courses. Sure, it's history, but do we have to turn to tradition for guidance? Let's make it worth the students time. Let's give them something to take beyond their high school experience. Let's reboot history. The goal of the social studies is to provide students with the tools necessary to be ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Exhaustion of Difference

    The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies

    by Alberto Moreiras, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial studies to interrogate the minimal ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Schooling, Society and Curriculum

    Edited by Alex Moore ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Schooling, Society and Curriculum offers a much needed reassessment and realignment of curriculum studies in the UK and international contexts. Comprising a collection of eleven original chapters by prominent, nationally and internationally known experts in the field of curriculum studies, the book leads and fosters critical, generic debates about formal education and its relationships to wider ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • National Identity and Educational Reform

    Contested Classrooms

    by Elizabeth Worden ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    National identity in Moldova remains contested despite repeated attempts by governments, historians, and educators to cultivate a shared sense of national belonging through the development of history textbooks. Concern over professional status and distrust of the government’s motivations halted these reforms, demonstrating that the success of such efforts greatly depends on teachers’ and citizens’ ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching with Technology

    Edited by Professor Michael Thomas, Dr Hayo Reinders ...
    This edited collection considers the relationship between task-based language teaching (TBLT) and technology-enhanced learning. TBLT is concerned with a number of macro-tasks such as information gathering and problem-solving as well as evaluative tasks, all of which are increasingly available via online and Web-based technologies. Technology Enhanced Learning refers to a broad conception of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD