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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “maureen ellis”
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  • Spiritual Consciousness as Evolutionary Learning

    Exploring Myth, Metaphor, Magic for Sustainability

    Edited by Maureen Ellis ...
    Navigating a diversity of religious myths and worldviews in both conventional and nuanced secular ways, this edited volume explores transdisciplinary common knowledge and global citizenship ideology through the lens of spirituality, depth hermeneutics, and multimodality.Guided by a broadly semiotic approach, this book examines ancient spiritual myths, metaphors, and magic/wisdom, raising crucial ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Critical Global Semiotics

    Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship

    Edited by Maureen Ellis ...
    Critical Global Semiotics: Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship incorporates powerful unifying frameworks which make explicit a developing global consciousness. It explores transdisciplinary ‘common wealth’ through focus on multimodality, media, and metaphor, testing two universally applicable humanitarian frameworks: critical realism (CR) and systemic functional semiotics (SFS) ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Critical Global Educator

    Global citizenship education as sustainable development

    by Maureen Ellis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige. A rich philosophical and theoretical tradition does however exist. This book synthesises crucial concepts from Critical Realism, Critical Social Theory, Critical Discourse Studies, neuro-, psycho-, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Prairie Town

    Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization

    by Jacqueline Edmondson ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization describes the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. Like many other agricultural based towns, Prairie Town struggled for survival within the context of the on-going farm crisis, NAFTA, neoliberal agricultural policies, and growing agribusiness ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Comparative and International Education

    An Introduction to Theory, Method, and Practice

    by Professor David Phillips, Dr Michele Schweisfurth ...
    This revised and updated second edition of Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the key themes, definitions and approaches in this important field. It covers the history, theory, and methods of comparative and international education, as well as the relationship with education and national ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics

    Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy

    by Grace Lee Boggs, Benjamin DeMott, Erica Frankenberg, Andrew Grant-Thomas, Lani Guinier, Maria Hinojosa, Gary Howard, Colbert I. King, Marc Mauer, Trinh Minh-Ha, Michael Omi, John Telford, Lisa Thurau, Johanna Wald, James J. Zogby, Nell Irvin Painter, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Houston Baker, Bob Herbert, Arthur Levine, Manning Marable, Alvin F. Poussaint, Cornel West, john a. powell ...
    Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Chinese Perspective on Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Betty C. Eng ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia
    Bringing together educators from a range of backgrounds - psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and teaching - this volume shows how Asian cultural values and beliefs can provide a lens through which to understand and envision how curriculum and pedagogy can be creatively adapted, not only in a local Chinese classroom context, but in a global context as well. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reinventing the Curriculum

    New Trends in Curriculum Policy and Practice

    Edited by Dr Mark Priestley, Professor Gert Biesta ...
    Scotland's Curriculum for Excellence offers an example of a different approach to national curriculum development. It combines what are claimed to be the best features of top-down and bottom-up approaches to curriculum development, and provides an indication of the broad qualities that school education should promote rather than a detailed description of curriculum content. Advocates of the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Education in South-East Asia

    by Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education Around the World
    Education in South-East Asia is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in South East Asia. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. The diverse range and forms of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Education in the United Kingdom

    by Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education Around the World
    Education in the United Kingdom is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, The Isle of Man, The Channel Islands, Gibraltar, The Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Anguilla and The British Overseas Territories. Although generically similar in education structures, the various components of the United Kingdom have separate systems, with some very ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Critical Race, Feminism, and Education

    A Social Justice Model

    by M. Pratt-Clarke ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Critical Race, Feminism, and Education provides a transformative next step in the evolution of critical race and Black feminist scholarship. Focusing on praxis, the relationship between the construction of race, class, and gender categories and social justice outcomes is analyzed. An applied transdisciplinary model - integrating law, sociology, history, and social movement theory - demonstrates ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Education and NGOs

    by Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education as a Humanitarian Response
    Education and NGOs discusses the role of sectors outside the mainstream in relation to improving access to education, with particular focus on the underprivileged. International case study examples offer insights into the work of non-governmental organizations, which play a crucial role in UNESCO's global Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) effort, by providing alternative forms of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD