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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Reimagining Just Education

    by Shirley R. Steinberg ...
    Series Book 565 - Counterpoints
    In this edited book we argue that we are now involved in a struggle over the soul of educators and that means resisting the neoliberalizing policy regime that mostly governs through asserting a narrow, technicist, and individualistic definition of what it means to be a good teacher. The book represents the recent scholarship of the Pedagogies for Justice Research Group at the University of South ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Liminal High School

    Life as a Teacher Student

    by Shirley R. Steinberg ...
    Series Book 561 - Counterpoints
    This book focuses on the curricular life of teachers at one high school, and features work by nine of those teachers from a variety of fields who have pursued doctoral degrees and remained at the school. These colleagues have helped produce a staff of "teacher students" across the campus, people who are committed to teaching and also committed to learning, to approaching life and the world as ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Stigma of Genius

    Einstein, Consciousness and Critical Education, Second Edition

    by Joe L. Kincheloe, Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg, Shirley R. Steinberg, Deborah J. Tippins ...
    Series Book 111 - Counterpoints
    In The Stigma of Genius: Einstein, Consciousness and Critical Education, we muse over ways in which to be, to become and to recognize uniqueness and different paths to genius. Understanding there is no prescribed procedure, we determine multiple actions, means and measures with which we recognize and teach to genius, we look at Einstein’s life and knowledges to connect our pedagogies and students. ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • The Unschooled Mind

    How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach

    by Howard Gardner ...
    Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Cult of Creativity

    A Surprisingly Recent History

    by Samuel W. Franklin ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year. "A beautifully written and well-documented account of how creativity gained the societal value it has today." —Vlad Glăveanu, author of CreativityCreativity is one of American society's signature values, but the idea that there is such a thing as "creativity"—and that it can be cultivated—is surprisingly recent, entering our everyday speech in the 1950s. As S ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions

    Enjoying Life without Illusions

    by Alex Rosenberg ...
    A book for nonbelievers who embrace the reality-driven life.We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them—all of them. His bracing and ultimately upbeat book takes physics seriously as the complete description of reality and accepts all its consequences. He ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Slow Professor

    Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

    by Maggie Berg, Barbara K. Seeber ...
    If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship.In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Social Acceleration

    A New Theory of Modernity

    by Hartmut Rosa ...
    Translated by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Postpositivism and Educational Research

    by D. C. Phillips, Nicholas C. Burbules ...
    Series series Philosophy, Theory, and Educational Research Series
    This volume presents in a forthright and lively way, an account of the philosophical position generally identified as 'Postpositivistic' that undergirds much of mainstream research in education and the related social sciences. The discussion throughout is informed by recent developments in philosophy of science. Authors D. C. Phillips and Nicholas C. Burbules cite a number of interesting examples ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • What the Best College Teachers Do

    by Ken Bain ...
    What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.The short answer is—it’s not what teachers do, it’s what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • On Dialogue

    by David Bohm ...
    Series series Routledge Great Minds
    David Bohm is considered one of the best physicists of all time. He also had a deep interest in human communication and creativity. Influential in both management and communication theory in what is known 'Bohm Dialogue', On Dialogue is both inspiring and pioneering. Bohm considers the origin and very meaning of dialogue, reflecting on what gets in the way of "true dialogue". He argues that ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised)

    A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education

    by Peter M. Senge, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis Dutton ...
    "A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn…An essential resource."-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND“Schools that Learn is a magnificent, grand book that pays equal attention to the small and the big picture - ... Read more

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