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Counterpoints eBook Series

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  • Teacher Leadership

    The «New» Foundations of Teacher Education – A Reader – Revised edition

    Edited by Eleanor Blair ...
    Series Book 466 - Counterpoints
    Teacher leadership as a dimension of teachers’ work has never been more important. This topic has emerged as a major component of both state and national standards, and as such, it is included in most contemporary teacher education programs. Three decades of research have focused on teacher leadership as an essential element of school improvement, but its relationship to the potential ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

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  • Foundations of Primary Teaching

    by Denis Hayes ...
    Now in its fifth edition, Foundations of Primary Teaching will be an essential resource for any trainee or practicing primary teacher. Written in a friendly and accessible manner, this book has been updated in line with the new curriculum and provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of teaching within the primary school. It blends theory and practice to foster and develop effective ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Gamify Your Classroom

    A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning

    by Matthew Farber ...
    Series Book 71 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    This book is a field guide on how to implement game-based learning and «gamification» techniques to the everyday teaching. It is a survey of best practices aggregated from interviews with experts in the field, including: James Paul Gee (Author, What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy); Henry Jenkins (Provost Professor at University of Southern California); Katie Salen ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Herbartianism and its Educational Consequences in the Period of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

    The Case of Slovenia

    by Edvard Protner ...
    Series Book 10 - Erziehung in Wissenschaft und Praxis
    Herbartianism is without a doubt one of the most important pedagogic movements of the 19th century. While quoting J. F. Herbart, his followers – Herbartians – built a pedagogic system which strongly marked educational theory and practice not only in Europe. The book offers a detailed insight into the constitution of teacher training in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy with special emphasis on the ... Read more

    $35.19 USD

  • Moving Ideas

    Multimodality and Embodied Learning in Communities and Schools

    Edited by Mira-Lisa Katz ...
    Series Book 65 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    What does it look and feel like to communicate, create, compose, comprehend, teach, and learn with our bodies? Reaching beyond existing scholarship on multimodality and literacies, Moving Ideas expands our capacity to understand the embodied dimensions of learning and stretches our repertoires for more artfully describing them. Wresting language away from its historically privileged place at the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Auto/biography & Pedagogy

    Memory & Presence in Teaching

    by Freema Elbaz-Luwisch ...
    Series Book 42 - Complicated Conversation
    In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research. The book moves from first to third person accounts and from personal and family stories to narratives of teachers and ... Read more

    $185.99 USD

  • Peace and Pedagogy Primer

    by Molly Quinn ...
    Series Book 31 - Counterpoints Primers
    What makes for peace as lived? What images of peace issue from examination of daily experience? What can be gleaned from reflection upon the topic for the meanings and makings of peace in our world? Considering that to work for peace, we must begin with ourselves and with our children, Molly Quinn addresses these questions through her own life and work. She does so with those who would, and do, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • How Stories Heal

    Writing our Way to Meaning and Wholeness in the Academy

    by Robert J. Nash, Sydnee Viray ...
    Series Book 11 - Critical Qualitative Research
    It is time for academics to embrace the fact that nothing is more appealing to readers – especially to our students – than personal stories with meaning-making implications that can touch all lives. No matter the age or stage in life, the personal or collective identity, everyone deals with meaning-making issues that challenge them – and others – throughout their lifetimes. And everyone we know ... Read more

    $48.19 USD

  • Bildungswissenschaften und akademisches Selbstverstaendnis in einer globalisierten Welt- Education and Academic Self-Concept in the Globalized World

    Edited by Gerd-Bodo von Carlsburg, Thomas Vogel ...
    Series Book 28 - New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansaetze in den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften
    Dieser Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beiträgen der XIX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung zum Thema Bildungswissenschaft auf der Suche nach globaler Identität, die vom Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen, der Litauischen Universität für Bildungswissenschaften in Vilnius und der Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg – ... Read more

    $137.69 USD

  • People Need to Know

    Confronting History in the Heartland

    by Robert M. Lucas ...
    Series Book 484 - Counterpoints
    People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community’s history – a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century’s most iconic and disturbing photographs. With ambitions of contributing to public understanding, the students set out to create a collection of online resources about the lynching. As they encounter troubling information and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power

    White Faculty’s Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms

    Edited by Nicole M. Joseph, Chayla Haynes, Floyd Cobb ...
    Series Book 1 - Social Justice Across Contexts in Education
    Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power: White Faculty’s Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms is a collection of narratives that will transform the teaching of any faculty member who teaches in the STEM system. The book links issues of inclusion to teacher excellence at all grade levels by illuminating the critical influence that racial consciousness has on the behaviors ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

  • Practicing Disability Studies in Education

    Acting Toward Social Change

    Edited by David J. Connor, Jan W. Valle, Chris Hale ...
    Series Book 17 - Disability Studies in Education
    Practicing Disability Studies in Education: Acting Toward Social Change celebrates the diversity of contemporary work being developed by a range of scholars working within the field of Disability Studies in Education (DSE). The central idea of this volume is to share ways in which educators practice DSE in creative and eclectic ways in order to rethink, reframe, and reshape the current educational ... Read more

    $44.99 USD