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  • Intergroup Dialogue

    Engaging Difference, Social Identities and Social Justice

    Edited by Ximena Zuniga, Gretchen Lopez, Kristie Ford ...
    Intergroup dialogue is a form of democratic engagement that fosters communication, critical reflection, and collaborative action across social and cultural divides. Engaging social identities is central to this approach. In recent years, intergroup dialogue has emerged as a promising social justice education practice that addresses pressing issues in higher education, school and community settings ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Classroom Management

    A Guide for Urban School Teachers

    by Sean B. Yisrael ...
    Many teachers who work in urban schools find classroom management to be very problematic. Their university course work, and training, didn’t prepare them for the heavy demands of being an urban school teacher. Urban educators need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage adverse behaviors, and still deliver a quality education to all students.Classroom Management: ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • I Got Schooled

    The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap

    by M. Night Shyamalan ...
    In this vital book, the famed filmmaker tells how his passion for education reform led him to learn that there are five tested, indispensable keys to transforming America’s underperforming schools.Famed director M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The foundation he and his wife started once gave college scholarships to promising inner-city students, but Shyamalan ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to be an Outstanding Primary School Teacher

    by David Dunn ...
    This book features lots of easy-to-introduce activities and techniques that will propel satisfactory and good lessons into the outstanding category - not just when being observed, but all the time. And the best news? This book tells you how to do it without spending lots more time planning, researching and preparing 'out of this world' lessons. There are dozens of starters and plenaries and useful ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Foundations of Primary Teaching

    by Denis Hayes ...
    Now in its fifth edition, Foundations of Primary Teaching will be an essential resource for any trainee or practicing primary teacher. Written in a friendly and accessible manner, this book has been updated in line with the new curriculum and provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of teaching within the primary school. It blends theory and practice to foster and develop effective ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Seven Times Smarter

    50 Activities, Games, and Projects to Develop the Seven Intelligences of Your Child

    by Laurel Schmidt ...
    What Is Smart?There's evidence of so much more than "reading, writing, and 'rithmetic" in every child -- at least seven distinct intelligences, according to the theory of multiple intelligences, developed by Harvard's Dr. Howard Gardner. In Seven Times Smarter, veteran educator Laurel Schmidt offers a parent-friendly explanation of this theory and of the ways that kids are -- simply put -- word ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Teaching for Experiential Learning

    Five Approaches That Work

    by Scott D. Wurdinger, Julie A. Carlson ...
    This book describes how to change the way in which educators conduct business in the classroom. Our current educational systems lack ways to reach today's learners in relevant, meaningful ways. The five approaches in this book inspire and motivate students to learn. The authors provide in-depth descriptions into these overlapping approaches for experiential learning: active learning, problem-based ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Education

    by Louis Mazzullo ...
    Our current educational initiatives, NCLB and "Race to the Top", are competitive models that reward victory and punish defeat. In order to win the "Race to the Top" we have to hope or plan that our fellow students and teachers as well as our neighboring states and schools, will fail. "Race to the Top" therefore insures that we will be a nation of losers and that we will be pitted against our ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Trusting Teachers with School Success

    What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots

    by Kim Farris-Berg, Edward J. Dirkswager, Amy Junge ...
    Lately, our nation’s strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to “getting tough” with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers’ behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what is needed? What if teachers are the answer and not the problem? What if trusting teachers, and not ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Teaching the Taboo

    Courage and Imagination in the Classroom

    by Rick Ayers, William Ayers ...
    Rick and William Ayers renew their challenge to teachers to teach initiative, to teach imagination, to “teach the taboo” in the new edition of this bestseller. Drawing from a lifetime of deep commitment to students, teaching, and social justice, the authors update their powerful critique of schooling and present classroom stories of everyday teachers grappling with many of today’s hotly debated ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Politics of American Education

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Turning his distinctive analytical lens to the politics of American education, Joel Spring looks at contemporary educational policy issues from theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives. This comprehensive overview documents and explains who influences educational policy and how, bringing to life the realities of schooling in the 21st century and revealing the ongoing ideological ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Education and Social Change

    Edited by Len Barton, Stephen Walker ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    This book, first published in 1985, argues that changes in the education system are closely bound up with wider social and political changes. It considers items within education such as developments in teacher assessment policy and changes in the control of education policy; and external items such as new directions in the management of the economy, of class relations and of the political system. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD