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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom

    Legacies of Modernity and Colonialism in Schooling

    by David Hemphill, Erin Blakely ...
    Series Book 456 - Counterpoints
    Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other critical cultural theories from disciplines often overlooked in the field of education. The authors illustrate the potential of these ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

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  • The War for Children's Minds

    by Stephen Law ...
    Behind headlines on the conflict in Iraq and global terrorism, a much deeper battle is raging over children and the values they should adopt. Political and religious leaders including Blair and Bush have been joined by the popular press in Enlightenment-bashing and bitter attacks on `liberal parenting calling for a return to authority and religious tradition. How do we raise good children? How do ... Read more

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  • Your UDL Lesson Planner

    The Step-by-Step Guide for Teaching all Learners

    by Patricia Kelly Ralabate, Ed.D. ...
    Many teacher resources explore the fundamentals of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This one takes UDL to the next level for educators who understand the basics—and can't wait to start using UDL in their lesson plans and classrooms.In this practical, accessible guidebook, UDL expert Patti Kelly Ralabate walks teachers through the entire UDL lesson planning process, from developing learning ... Read more

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  • The Stupidity Epidemic

    Worrying About Students, Schools, and America’s Future

    by Joel Best ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Critics often warn that American schools are failing, and that our students are ill-prepared for the challenges the future holds, and may even be "the dumbest generation." We can think of these claims as warning about a Stupidity Epidemic. This essay begins by tracing the history of the idea of that American students, teachers, and schools are somehow getting worse; the record shows that critics ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Education to Better Their World

    Unleashing the Power of 21st-Century Kids

    by Marc Prensky ...
    “Marc Prensky—one of the smartest people working in educational reform today—offers us a lucid, inspiring, optimistic, doable, and crucial blueprint for how we can build a future with the schools children desperately need in our modern, high-risk, highly complex, fast-changing, and imperiled world.”—James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Regents’ Professor, ... Read more

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  • Rethinking the Way We Teach Science

    The Interplay of Content, Pedagogy, and the Nature of Science

    by Louis Rosenblatt ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Science Series
    Offering a fresh take on inquiry, this book draws on current research and theory in science education, literacy, and educational psychology, as well as the history and philosophy of science, to make its case for transforming the way science is taught.Re-thinking the Way We Teach Science addresses major themes in national reform documents and movements--how to place students at the center of what ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Heidegger

    An Introduction

    by J. Jeremy Wisnewski ...
    This concise and accessible textbook examines German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s entire body of work through the lens of his first and best-known book, Being and Time. An influential, twentieth-century scholar, Heidegger is often studied by opposing his early and later works. This insightful, new text guides students through Heidegger’s ideas without shying away from controversial issues and ... Read more

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  • John Dewey’s Philosophy of Education

    An Introduction and Recontextualization for Our Times

    by J. Garrison, S. Neubert, K. Reich ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    John Dewey is considered not only as one of the founders of pragmatism, but also as an educational classic whose approaches to education and learning still exercise great influence on current discourses and practices internationally. In this book, the authors first provide an introduction to Dewey's educational theories that is founded on a broad and comprehensive reading of his philosophy as a ... Read more

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  • Aristotle Dictionary

    by Thomas Kiernan ...
    At long last, a comprehensive tool in English for a better understanding of the most basic terms in Aristotle's philosophy. Interested readers, students, and scholars of philosophy and of the general intellectual background of Western culture need no longer be handicapped by a lack of knowledge of Greek and Latin. A careful comparison of the original Greek, Medieval, and Renaissance Latin ... Read more

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  • John Dewey, Liang Shuming, and China's Education Reform

    Cultivating Individuality

    by Huajun Zhang ...
    This book explores the central question of how to cultivate a continued sense of self in the radically changing Chinese society, a question that is highly related to the current ongoing educational reform. If education cannot respond to the problem of students’ disconnection from the changing society, learning cannot truly happen in school and the reform will fail. Zhang suggests a philosophy of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L)

    by Geoffrey Walford ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools, paying attention to the ways in which parents can purchase privilege for their children through ... Read more

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