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  • The Great Disconnect in Early Childhood Education

    What We Know vs. What We Do

    by Michael Gramling ...
    Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practice—the success of children they teach depends on it. This book analyzes how ineffective practices are driven by unexamined public policies and why educators need to challenge their thinking in order to make a difference in children's lives. A very complex story about public policy and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Original Home School Series

    by Charlotte Mason ...
    This is the complete unabridged and authorized edition of the works of turn-of-the-century British educator Charlotte Mason, with a forward by Dr. John Thorley of The Charlotte Mason College. This six-volume set includes over 2400 pages on education, child training and parenting. Recognized as a pioneer in home education and major school reforms, Charlotte Mason's practical methods are as ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The End of Education

    Redefining the Value of School

    by Neil Postman ...
    In this comprehensive response to the education crisis, the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity returns to the subject that established his reputation as one of our most insightful social critics. Postman presents useful models with which schools can restore a sense of purpose, tolerance, and a respect for learning. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Uncommon Learning

    Henry David Thoreau on Education

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    Series series Spirit of Thoreau
    "It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know," Thoreau wrote. Ideas about education permeate Thoreau's writing. Uncommon Learning brings those ideas together in a single volume for the first time. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Developmentally Appropriate Play

    Guiding Young Children to a Higher Level

    by Gaye Gronlund ...
    Help children participate in purposeful play to promote the development of a number of important skills. ... Read more

    $23.99 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

  • Motives in Children's Development

    Cultural-Historical Approaches

    Edited by Mariane Hedegaard, Anne Edwards, Marilyn Fleer ...
    The contributors to this collection employ the analytic resources of cultural-historical theory to examine the relationship between childhood and children's development under different societal conditions. In particular they attend to relationships between development, emotions, motives and identities, and the social practices in which children and young people may be learners. These practices are ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Heidegger

    An Introduction

    by J. Jeremy Wisnewski ...
    This concise and accessible textbook examines German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s entire body of work through the lens of his first and best-known book, Being and Time. An influential, twentieth-century scholar, Heidegger is often studied by opposing his early and later works. This insightful, new text guides students through Heidegger’s ideas without shying away from controversial issues and ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Non-Western Educational Traditions

    Local Approaches to Thought and Practice

    by Timothy Reagan ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children—as well as what counts for them as "education"—may help readers to think more clearly about some of their own assumptions and values, and to become more open ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Ask Your Librarian: Letters to Youth

    by Kafi Kumasi ...
    A series of questions about libraries posed by youth and answered by future librarians at Wayne State University; practicing librarians; and library science professors. Edited by Kafi D. Kamasi, Ph.D., with a foreword by Carl A. Harvey, II, President of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). ... Read more

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  • Paulo Freire

    A Critical Encounter

    Edited by Peter Leonard, Peter McLaren ...
    Paulo Freire is one of the century's great thinkers on education and the politics of liberation. Known mostly for his literacy campaigns in Latin America and Africa, and for his seminal work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, his thinking continues to be rediscovered by generations of teachers, scholars, community activists and cultural workers in Europe and North America. While his name is synonymous ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • 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