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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Relational Ontologies

    by Barbara Thayer-Bacon ...
    Series Book 505 - Counterpoints
    Relational Ontologies uses the metaphor of a fishing net to represent the epistemological and ontological beliefs that we weave together for our children, to give meaning to their experiences and to help sustain them in their lives. The book describes the epistemological threads we use to help determine what we catch up in our net as the warp threads, and our ontological threads as the weft ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

    An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

    by Robin DiAngelo, Özlem Sensoy ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Global Achievement Gap

    Why Our Kids Don't Have the Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship -- and What We Can Do About It

    by Tony Wagner ...
    Despite the best efforts of educators, our nation's schools are dangerously obsolete. Instead of teaching students to be critical thinkers and problem-solvers, we are asking them to memorize facts for multiple choice tests. This problem isn't limited to low-income school districts: even our top schools aren't teaching or testing the skills that matter most in the global knowledge economy. Our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • To Teach

    The Journey, in Comics

    by William Ayers, Ryan Alexander-Tanner ...
    This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition. From Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” We meet fellow travelers from schools across the country and watch students grow across a year and a lifetime.To Teach is a vivid, honest ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Formation of Character

    by Charlotte Mason ...
    Formation of Character is the fifth volume of Charlotte Mason's Homeschooling series. The chapters stand alone and are valuable to parents of children of all ages. Part I includes case studies of children (and adults) who cured themselves of bad habits. Part II is a series of reflections on subjects including both schooling and vacations (or "stay-cations" as we now call them). Part III covers ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Ourselves

    by Charlotte Mason ...
    Ourselves, the fourth volume of Charlotte Mason's Classic Homeschooling Series, is a character curriculum book written directly to children. Book I, Self-Knowledge, is for elementary school students; Book II, Self-Direction, is for older students. Self-Knowledge discusses our human desires and appetites; the "helpers" in our minds, such as intellect, sense of beauty, imagination, and reason; the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Critical Condition

    Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity

    by Patrick Finn ...
    Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a “critical thinker.”The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates’ death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical “attack” on a perceived opponent. From the Roman ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Breakbeat Pedagogy

    Hip Hop and Spoken Word Beyond the Classroom Walls

    by Brian Mooney ...
    Series Book 512 - Counterpoints
    Breakbeat Pedagogy provides a groundbreaking framework for the inclusion of hip-hop culture in schools. Looking beyond the previous model of hip-hop-based education, Brian Mooney argues for school-wide hip-hop events, such as poetry slams, as the ideal site for students to engage in the elements of hip-hop culture. Working from the perspective of a classroom teacher, the author reflects on the ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Spatialisation of Higher Education: Poland and Slovenia

    by Mojca Kompara, Tomasz Stępień ...
    Series Book 6 - Studies on Culture, Technology and Education
    The book focuses on European Integration in the Field of Higher Education and Research, as well as the Implementation of the Bologna Process in Slovenia. The common policy of higher education and research belongs to the most important fields in the process of European integration and to the constitutive elements of the European Union. The authors analyse the process constituting the framework of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Educators Queering Academia

    Critical Memoirs

    Edited by sj Miller, Nelson M. Rodriguez ...
    Series Book 4 - Social Justice Across Contexts in Education
    The memoirs in this collection represent a cross-section of critical reflections by a queerly diverse set of individuals on their experiences inhabiting a variety of spaces within the field of education. In their stories, the authors share how they queered and are continuing to queer the academy in relation to questions of teaching, research, policy, and/or administration. Their memoirs speak ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice

    by Eva Zygmunt, Patricia Clark ...
    Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice offers teacher educators a new way to think about the development of culturally responsive educators. The authors identify the core components needed to restructure and reorient programs of teacher education to adequately prepare new teachers for the racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse communities they will serve upon graduation. They ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Diversity and Intersectionality

    Studies in Religion, Education and Values

    Edited by Jeff Astley, Leslie J. Francis ...
    This volume brings together two core concepts that are central to understanding the social and public significance of religions and theologies within the contemporary world and are therefore of key importance to the discipline of religious education: diversity and intersectionality. Religious diversity requires an understanding of religions and theologies and their roles within a plural society. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD