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  • A Compassionate Vision for Elementary Social Studies

    A Holistic View

    This text offers readers a holistic view of elementary social studies that instills compassion for all classroom voices and for those outside the classroom. This approach provides a social studies perspective that enables readers to articulate, apply, and defend engaging learning experiences that value each student. A revision of the original textbook by John Hoge and contributions by Laura E. ... Read more

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  • Holistic Financial Literacy Education

    Laying the Groundwork with Equitable Instructional Strategies

    Edited by Thomas A. Lucey ...
    Holistic Financial Literacy Education provides a scholarly foundation for a holistic vision of financial literacy, as well as instructional strategies for its teaching.This text shows pre- and in-service educators why and how we can teach financial literacy to youth within the social studies curriculum. This book employs a holistic approach to demonstrate how teachers can enhance youth financial ... Read more

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  • Critical Empathy as Teacher Education Reform

    Dissecting the Principles That Constrain Socio-Historical and Moral Vision

    This book considers teacher training in social studies and finds it lacking a sense of genuine critical empathy, a sense of shared humanity. Current teacher education generally defines critical thinking as processes which examine topics in greater complexity, but does not prepare candidates to study, confront, and challenge existing social structures. Often in response to state mandates, teacher ... Read more

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  • Rekindling Embers of the Soul

    An Examination of Spirituality Issues Relating to Teacher Education

    Edited by Miranda Lin, Thomas A. Lucey ...
    Series series Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association Book Series
    This edited volume, Rekindling Embers of the Soul: An Examination of Spirituality Issues Relating to Teacher Education, fills the gap in scholarship by providing information about an understudied aspect of teacher education research. In an education environment that provides an increasing degree of standardization founded upon corporatized materialist values, the concept of spirituality and its ... Read more

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  • Mindful Social Studies

    Frameworks for Social Emotional Learning and Critically Engaged Citizens

    Series series Mindfulness in Education
    Mindful Social Studies: Frameworks for Social Emotional Learning and Critically Engaged Citizens situates the field of social studies education as uniquely poised to integrate anti-racist, equity, and asset-based pedagogies with contemplative, mindfulness-based strategies to promote the knowledge, skills, and dispositions students need to be effective citizens. Students’ Social Emotional Learning ... Read more

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  • Financialization, Financial Literacy, and Social Education

    Edited by Thomas A. Lucey ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    The objective of this book is to prompt a re-examination of financial literacy, its social foundations, and its relationship to citizenship education. The collection includes topics that concern indigenous people’s perspectives, critical race theory, and transdisciplinary perspectives, which invite a dialogue about the ideologies that drive traditional and critical perspectives.This volume offers ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Intersections of Financial Literacy, Citizenship, and Spirituality

    Examining a Forbidden Frontier of Social Education

    Series series Emerald Points
    Conversations about social education curricula largely neglect elements of spirituality and consciousness. This omission undermines the quality of the learning that occurs. This book presents spirituality as a legitimate basis for reframing these social decision-making by examining how revisiting notions of spirituality may redefine patterns of social relationships and financial choices.This work ... Read more

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  • Financial Literacy for Children and Youth, Second Edition

    The 1% and the other 99%…the Haves and the Have Nots…Words such as junk bonds, subprime mortgage, bailouts, derivatives, and housing bubble have become part of the daily vernacular of the ordinary American. There is a chasm arguably growing between the "Haves" and the "Have Nots" which teachers must acknowledge and instruct the adults of tomorrow.Financial Literacy for Children and Youth, Second ... Read more

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  • Reframing Financial Literacy

    Exploring the Value of Social Currency

    Scholarship related to financial and consumer education largely concerns itself with the acquisition, management, and growth of financial resources. In a global setting that witnesses increasing competition for natural resources, along with diminishing appreciation for human rights, a challenge for financial and consumer educators involves developing foundation for bettering individual wealth in ... Read more

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    Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

    With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material. Doing our best for every child requires, above all else, that we embrace that simplest of truths. ... Read more

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  • Norms in the Wild

    How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms

    The philosopher Cristina Bicchieri here develops her theory of social norms, most recently explained in her 2006 volume The Grammar of Society. Bicchieri challenges many of the fundamental assumptions of the social sciences. She argues that when it comes to human behavior, social scientists place too much stress on rational deliberation. In fact, many choices occur without much deliberation at all ... Read more

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  • The Ambiguities of Experience

    Series series Messenger Lectures
    The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources and uncertainties about the future. Many, but possibly not all, of the factors determining ... Read more

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