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  • Learning Relations (Routledge Revivals)

    by Doreen Grant ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Dissatisfied with the effects of schooling on children from low-income families, Doreen Grant left her post as head of a secondary school in Liverpool and turned to research for solutions to this perennial social problem. This is a popular account of her involvement with under-privileged Glaswegian parents and children, and her attempt to address the problem of underachievement from the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • A Focus on Hope

    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

    by Frances K. Trotman, Erik E. Morales ...
    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Globalizing Minds

    Rhetoric and Realities in International Schools

    Edited by Daphne P. Hobson, Iveta Silova ...
    Globalization has a profound effect on the mission and goals of education worldwide. One of its most visible manifestations is the worldwide endorsement of the idea of 'education for global citizenship,' which has been enthusiastically supported by national governments, politicians, and policy-makers across different nations. Increasingly, the educational institutions feel under pressure to ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • The Enlightened Eye

    Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice, Reissued with a New Prologue and Foreword

    by Elliot W. Eisner ...
    Now available from TC Press with a new foreword by Nel Noddings and a new prologue by P. Bruce Uhrmacher and Christy McConnell Moroye, this classic text on qualitative research is ideal for both novice and established researchers. Eisner’s seminal work on mind, education, and research explores the ways in which the methods, content, and assumptions in the arts, humanities, and social sciences can ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Towards a Convergence Between Science and Environmental Education

    The selected works of Justin Dillon

    by Justin Dillon ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    In the World Library of Educationalists, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions—so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers thus are able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Gender, Class and Education (Routledge Revivals)

    by Stephen Walker, Len Barton ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of papers that formed presentations at the Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in January 1982, and is the fifth such collection to emerge from the annual conference. The conference theme, ‘Race, Class and Gender’, was not only chosen because of its topicality, but also to provide a framework for debate between educational ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research in the Social Foundations of Education

    Edited by Steven Tozer, Bernardo P. Gallegos, Annette Henry, Mary Bushnell Greiner, Paula Groves Price ...
    Parts one and two of this volume present the theoretical lenses used to study the social contexts of education. These include long-established foundations disciplines such as sociology of education and philosophy of education as well as newer theoretical perspectives such as critical race theory, feminist educational theory, and cultural studies in education. Parts three, four, and five ... Read more

    $190.00 USD

  • The War Against Excellence

    The Rising Tide of Mediocrity in America's Middle Schools

    by Cheri Pierson Yecke ...
    Here, veteran teacher Cheri Pierson Yecke details the chronological history of the middle school movement in the U. S. by tracing its evolution from academically-oriented junior high schools to the dissolution of academics in the middle schools of the late 1980s and beyond. In this book, evidence is presented to show how leaders of this movement designed to use the middle school as a vehicle to ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve

    Profiles of Programs Helping All Students to Learn

    by James Deneen ...
    Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve compares the academic achievements of students in the United States to those of students in other countries. Examining fundamental questions and educational issues, James Deneen identifies what all students should learn and discusses what American students currently learn.Deneen argues that failing schools can become successful by studying examples of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • A Hermeneutics of Religious Education

    by Professor David Aldridge ...
    What does it mean to understand a religion?How should the concept of truth be addressed in the contemporary classroom?What is the proper subject matter of religious education and how does it relate to other subjects and the school curriculum as a whole?Despite the prevalence of literature on these subjects, these issues are far from resolved and consequently the place and nature of religious ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Creating Our Identities in Service-Learning and Community Engagement

    Edited by Barbara E. Moely, Shelley H. Billig ...
    Series series Advances in Service-Learning Research
    In this volume in the IAP series on Advances in Service-Learning Research, top researchers present recent work studying aspects of program development, student and community outcomes, and future research directions in the field of service-learning and community engagement. These chapters, selected through a rigorous peer review process, are based on presentations made at the annual meeting of the ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Religion and Multicultural Education

    Edited by Farideh Salili, Rumjahn Hoosain ...
    Series series Research in Multicultural Education and International Perspectives
    The National Association for Multicultural Education in Washington, D.C., listed a number of issues that the school curriculum should address with reference to multicultural education, including racism, sexism, classism, linguicism, ablism, ageism, heterosexism, and religious intolerance. It is noteworthy that of all these issues, religion is about the only one that throughout history people are ... Read more

    $50.09 USD