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  • Unique Challenges in Urban Schools

    The Involvement of African American Parents

    by Carolyn Turner, Dorothy E. Battle, Eric R. Jackson ...
    This study explores the various ways in which parental involvement can help to increase student academic success. More specifically, this analysis is based on the notions that:parent involvement in inner city schools present unique challenges that are different from the traditional middle class perspective;there is value in a cooperative approach between parents, teachers, and administrators that ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

    by Robin DiAngelo, Özlem Sensoy ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Towards a Psychology of Education

    by Charlotte Mason ...
    Towards a Philosophy of Education is Charlotte Mason's final book in her Homeschooling Series, written after years of seeing her approach in action. This volume gives the best overview of her philosophy, and includes the final version of her 20 Principles. This book is particularly directed to parents of older children, about ages 12 and up, but is a valuable overview for parents of younger ... Read more

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  • The Bridge to Brilliance

    How One Woman and One Community Are Inspiring the World

    by Rebecca Paley, Nadia Lopez ...
    Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who “stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls "Essential reading."In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy, in one of America’s poorest communities, in a record heat wave—and crime wave. Everything ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Structuring Learning Environments in Teacher Education to Elicit Dispositions as Habits of Mind

    Strategies and Approaches Used and Lessons Learned

    by Erskine S. Dottin, Lynne D. Miller, George E. O'Brien ...
    This book focuses on faculty members in a learning community in the College of Education at Florida International University. It discusses their pedagogical efforts to structure learning environments consistent with the philosophical orientation in the college’s conceptual framework to call forth dispositions, or key habits of mind that are consistent with reflective intelligence. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Breaking the Cycle

    How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges

    by Nancy Brown Diggs ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not on drugs. Or Daron, kicked out of his home by an abusive father. Challenged by the pernicious ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and Human Development

    Exploring Time, Mediation and Collectivity in Contemporary Schools

    by Michalis Kontopodis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    In most Western developed countries, adult life is increasingly organized on the basis of short-term work contracts and reduced social security funds. In this context it seems that producing efficient job-seekers and employees becomes the main aim of educational programs for the next generation. Through case studies of young people from urban and countryside marginalized populations in Germany, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Declining by Degrees

    Higher Education at Risk

    Edited by Richard H. Hersh, John Merrow ...
    What is actually happening on college campuses in the years between admission and graduation?Not enough to keep America competitive, and not enough to provide our citizens with fulfilling lives.When A Nation at Risk called attention to the problems of our public schools in 1983, that landmark report provided a convenient "cover" for higher education, inadvertently implying that all was well on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation

    Edited by Matthew Lynch ...
    Series Book 461 - Counterpoints
    Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation provides scholars and laymen with an assortment of theoretical and practical perspectives for questioning contemporary practices and forging new methods of education reform and innovation. This volume is the leading collection of contemporary essays by the major thinkers in the field of education reform and innovation. Carefully attentive to both theory ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Education and Religion

    Global Pressures, Local Responses

    Edited by Keith Watson, William I. Ozanne ...
    In most countries, whether secular or otherwise, education and religion are closely interlinked and no matter how hard the state tries, it can be very difficult to remove the ties between them. This book investigates the links between education, religion and politics.The dominant feature in creating a common culture between peoples, each of which has its own distinct heritage and practices, is ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Answering Back

    Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools

    by Jill Blackmore, Jane Kenway, Leonie Rennie, Sue Willis ...
    Answering Back exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms. It tells stories in close up and from below, allowing everyone to talk: anxious boys, naughty girls, cantankerous teachers, pontificating principals and feisty feminists.This book challenges many sacred ideas about gender reform in schools and will surprise and unsettle teachers and researchers. It ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Islamic Education and Indoctrination

    The Case in Indonesia

    by Charlene Tan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Islamic schools, especially madrasahs, have been viewed as sites of indoctrination for Muslim students and militants. Some educators and parents in the United States have also regarded introductory courses on Islam in some public schools as indoctrinatory. But what do we mean by "indoctrination"? And is Islamic education indoctrinatory?This bookcritically discusses the concept of indoctrination in ... Read more

    $76.99 USD