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  • Preserving the Public in Public Schools

    Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices

    by Phil Boyle, Del Burns ...
    What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them? Public schools have little to do with children. Schools are political and ideological institutions in which each generation battles among itself for supremacy in ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • 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

  • Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South

    Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future

    by Anders Breidlid ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies.Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western epistemology has had a major impact on the epistemological foundation of the education systems across ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • International Handbook of Curriculum Research

    Edited by William F. Pinar ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    Continuing its calling to define the field and where it is going, the Second Edition of this landmark handbook brings up to date its comprehensive reportage of scholarly developments and school curriculum initiatives worldwide, providing a panoramic view of the state of curriculum studies globally. Its international scope and currency and range of research and theory reflect and contribute ... Read more

    $170.00 USD

  • 7 days modern english grammar

    english grammar and composition, #1

    by Aparaj Rudra Paul ...
    Series Book 1 - english grammar and composition
    Welcome to the course of modern English grammar. I am here to inform you that it will be all my pleasure to make you learn English properly. Here I had written an e-book for you. It is not much expensive. If u want to learn something special you have to spend some money anywhere in internet. But at this point I can tell you that I am offering it at a very low price that you will never find in the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Handbook of Comparative Education Law

    Selected Asian Nations, Volume 2

    Edited by Charles J. Russo ...
    Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and educationIn examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from, rather than copy, the legal and educational systems in these volumes, the books are designed to generate thought and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Great Civilized Conversation

    Education for a World Community

    by Wm. Theodore De Bary ...
    Having spent decades teaching and researching the humanities, Wm. Theodore de Bary is well positioned to speak on its merits and reform. Believing a classical liberal education is more necessary than ever, he outlines in these essays a plan to update existing core curricula by incorporating classics from both Eastern and Western traditions, thereby bringing the philosophy and moral values of Asian ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Debating Single-Sex Education

    Separate and Equal?

    by Frances R. Spielhagen ...
    Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.Few school reforms have engendered as much controversy as single sex public education.This book examines the history of single-sex classes and legislation that has over time evolved to render the reform legal, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Education for Civic and Political Participation

    A Critical Approach

    Edited by Reinhold Hedtke, Tatiana Zimenkova ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and practices of participation appropriately? Can this standard approach to participation be translated into ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Educational Policy Borrowing in China

    Looking West or looking East?

    by Charlene Tan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects China’s propensity to borrow selected educational policies from elsewhere, particularly North America and Europe. Chinese scholars have used a local proverb "the West wind has overpowered the East wind" to describe this phenomenon ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Economization of Education

    Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling

    by Joel Spring ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved—including measuring educational policies by their costs and economic benefits, shaping family life to ensure productive workers and high ... Read more

    $70.99 USD