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“nicholas burbules”

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  • Teaching And Its Predicaments

    by Nicholas Burbules, David Hansen ...
    Teaching is a complex and challenging endeavour. Teachers are continually faced with difficult choices in which competing values are set in tension with one another. The interests of all students, and of other groups and constituencies, can rarely be served at the same time. Different educational goals, each desirable in and of itself, often place ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Watch It

    The Risks And Promises Of Information Technologies For Education

    by Nicholas Burbules, Thomas Callister Jr. ...
    Watch IT is an examination of several critical issues in the potential of new information technology (IT) for education. IT, already central to many aspects of our lives, is rapidly becoming an integral part of teaching and learning. This book takes a close look at the positive and negative consequences of new technologies in the classroom. In a series of interrelated essays, the authors explore ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Learning, Meaning, and Identity

    by Etienne Wenger ...
    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal 'communities of practice' that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Narrative Practice

    Continuing the Conversations

    by Michael White ...
    Final thoughts from the now-deceased leader of narrative therapy.Michael White’s untimely death deprived therapists of a leading light. Here, available for the first time in book form, is a collection of the work he left behind—writings on topics dear to the psychotherapeutic world: turning points in therapy, conversations, resistance and therapist responsibility, couples therapy, and narrative ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Reflective Teaching

    An Introduction

    by Kenneth M. Zeichner, Daniel P. Liston ...
    Series series Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling Series
    This popular text provides a clear, succinct explanation of how reflection is integral to teachers’ understandings of themselves, their practice, and their context, and elaborates how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another. The emphasis on the importance of both self and context is embedded within distinct and varied educational traditions (conservative, progressive, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Privacy in Context

    Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life

    by Helen Nissenbaum ...
    Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information.Arguing that privacy ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism

    Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education

    by Jerry Kirkpatrick ...
    Synthesizing ideas from such disparate thinkers as educator Maria Montessori, philosophers John Dewey and Ayn Rand, and Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism presents a philosophy of education-the theory of concentrated attention and independent judgment-that requires laissez-faire capitalism for its full realization. It is not an argument, except indirectly, for ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Re-Engineering Humanity

    by Brett Frischmann, Evan Selinger ...
    Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity down an ill-advised path, one that's increasingly making us behave like simple machines? In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what's happening to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Challenge to Care in Schools

    by Nel Noddings ...
    Series series Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought Series
    After a decade of educational reforms, The Challenge to Care in Schools is even more relevant now than when it was first published. In her new Introduction, Nel Noddings revisits her seminal book and places care as central to current debates on standardization, accountability, privatization, and the continuous struggle between traditional and progressive methods of education. Rather then forcing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Master the GRE Analytical Writing

    by Peterson's, Mark Alan Stewart ...
    A thorough review of the all-important Analytical Writing section of the General GRE. Follow the 7-Step plan for crafting a high-scoring GRE Issue essay and GRE Argument essay. Learn advanced techniques for handling Issue and Argument Tasks, and brush up on your skills with a complete review of essay writing techniques. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Discussion as a Way of Teaching

    Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms

    by Stephen D. Brookfield, Stephen Preskill ...
    Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the landmark book Discussion as a Way of Teaching shows how to plan, conduct, and assess classroom discussions. Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill suggest exercises for starting discussions, strategies for maintaining their momentum, and ways to elicit diverse views and voices. The book also includes new exercises and material on the ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Engineering Culture

    Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation

    by Gideon Kunda ...
    Series series Labor And Social Change
    Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book—which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew—has been revised to bring it up to date. In Engineering Culture, Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated "corporate culture." Kunda ... Read more

    $24.99 USD