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  • Origins of Mass Communications Research During the American Cold War

    Educational Effects and Contemporary Implications

    by Timothy Glander ...
    Series series Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
    In this critical examination of the beginnings of mass communications research in the United States, written from the perspective of an educational historian, Timothy Glander uses archival materials that have not been widely studied to document, contextualize, and interpret the dominant expressions of this field during the time in which it became rooted in American academic life, and tries to give ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • What's the Point of School?

    Rediscovering the Heart of Education

    by Guy Claxton ...
    Why the education system is failing our kids and how we can start the revolution that will save our schoolsWith their emphasis on regurgitated knowledge and stressful exams, today’s schools actually do more harm than good. Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, Claxton proves that education’s key responsibility should be to create enthusiastic learners ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Beyond the University

    Why Liberal Education Matters

    by Michael S. Roth ...
    Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism—often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student’s capacity for lifelong learning was useful for science and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Wrong Kind of Different

    Challenging the Meaning of Diversity in American Classrooms

    by Antonia Randolph ...
    How can multiculturalism go wrong? Through extensive interviews conducted in a large Midwestern district, Antonia Randolph explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of “colorblind multiculturalism.” She unearths a hierarchy of acceptance and legitimacy that excludes most poor Black students and favors certain ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Practicing Core Reflection

    Activities and Lessons for Teaching and Learning from Within

    by Frits G. Evelein, Fred A. J. Korthagen ...
    Practicing Core Reflection features 78 concrete educational activities and exercises based on research. These can be used individually and in groups to support 'teaching and learning from within.’ Core Reflection is an approach focused on people's personal strengths and on using practical strategies to overcome obstacles to the enactment of these strengths. This approach has been used in many ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • School Communication that Works

    A Patron-focused Approach to Delivering Your Message

    by Kenneth S. DeSieghardt ...
    The foundation of successful school district/community relationships is communication that focuses on what most interests average residents – no matter what you, as a school district leader, believe they should be interested in. Communicate in their language, at their level of interest, and at their pace, and you and your patrons will soon be headed in the same direction more often than not.Based ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Children and the Changing Family

    Between Transformation and Negotiation

    Edited by An-Magritt Jensen, Lorna McKee ...
    This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood. The book is centred around three major changes: parental employment, family composition and ideology. The authors demonstrate how children's families are transformed in accordance with societal changes in demographic and economic terms, and as a result of the choices parents make ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social Justice

    A Way Out of No Way

    Edited by Mary Stone Hanley, Gilda L Sheppard, George W. Noblit, Thomas Barone ...
    A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. Examining a range of efforts across different forms of art, various educational settings, and diverse contexts, it foregrounds the assets of imagination, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Child's Day

    Enriched edition. Exploring Childhood: Insights into Development and Nurturing

    by Woods Hutchinson, Sterling Hale ...
    In "The Child's Day," Woods Hutchinson presents a penetrating exploration of childhood, merging scientific insight with poetic observations. The book navigates through the daily rhythms of a child's life, underscoring the interplay between health, growth, and the environment. Hutchinson employs a vivid, accessible style, interweaving detailed anatomical information with captivating anecdotes that ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sociology of Education for Africa

    by Kenneth Blakemore, Brian Cooksey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    This book, first published in 1980, provides a summary of the major research findings of previous studies of the sociology of education in Sub-Saharan Africa within an original and stimulating general framework whilst also devoting space to their own research findings. The major themes of the book are education and social inequality, the sociology of the school, the teacher and the curriculum, and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Performance

    The Dynamic of Results in Postsecondary Organizations

    by Nathan Harris, Kathryn Thirolf, James Webb, Richard L. Alfred ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Understanding performance requires asking fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of an organization: What is its business? Whom does it serve? What do stakeholders want and expect? What do they get? How does the organization conceive of and measure results? How do stakeholders feel about results the organization is generating? Answers to these questions require a framework for analysis ... Read more

    $74.59 USD

  • Constructions of Disability

    Researching Inclusion in Community Leisure

    by Claire Tregaskis ...
    This innovative book discusses the meaning of 'inclusion' through the exploration of the interactions between disabled and non-disabled people at a community leisure centre. By exploring the nature of this interface, an understanding of how people create potential for both disability and inclusion is revealed. This book takes a very different approach to that of existing texts, which have tended ... Read more

    $66.99 USD