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  • Going Inward

    The Role of Cultural Introspection in College Teaching

    Edited by Susan Diana Longerbeam, Alicia Fedelina Chávez ...
    Series Book 24 - Higher Ed
    Going Inward is a pragmatic text for faculty in all disciplines who desire to deepen their reflection on teaching. Through the culturally introspective writings of faculty in a variety of academic disciplines, readers will gain a deeper understanding of faculty cultural influences on college teaching and student learning. This book introduces readers to cultural self-reflection as a powerful tool ... Read more

    $43.89 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Every Person Is a Philosopher

    Lessons in Educational Emancipation from the Radical Teaching Life of Hal Adams

    Edited by Bill Ayers, Caroline Heller, Janise Hurtig ...
    Series Book 10 - Teaching Contemporary Scholars
    Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect and reparation. Fostering communities of local writers and publishing their work in journals of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Re-engaging Disconnected Youth

    Transformative Learning through Restorative and Social Justice Education – Revised Edition

    by Amy Vatne Bintliff ...
    Series Book 63 - Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
    As many young adults continue to disengage with learning each day, teachers and administrators struggle to find ways to re-engage secondary students with their schooling and communities. Re-engaging Disconnected Youth profiles a program that succeeds in doing so, one that can serve as a model for others. In a Midwestern alternative school, three teachers built a curriculum around hands-on learning ... Read more

    $43.99 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

  • New Literacies and Teacher Learning

    Professional Development and the Digital Turn

    Edited by Michele Knobel, Judy Kalman ...
    Series Book 74 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    New Literacies and Teacher Learning examines the complexities of teacher professional development today in relation to new literacies and digital technologies, set within the wider context of strong demands for teachers to be innovative and to improve students’ learning outcomes. Contributors hail from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Finland, Mexico, Norway, and the U.S., and work in a broad range ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Shifting the Kaleidoscope

    Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Educators’ Insights on Culture Shock, Identity and Pedagogy

    by Jon L. Smythe ...
    Series Book 46 - Complicated Conversation
    This book examines culture shock and reverse culture shock as valuable learning experiences for educators working in increasingly culturally diverse environments. Although these phenomena are often cast as illnesses to be avoided, this study suggests that both types of shock can help educators develop greater self-understanding and intercultural awareness and will benefit their pedagogical ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

  • From the Lab to the Classroom and Back Again

    Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting Training

    Edited by Celia Martín de León, Víctor González-Ruiz ...
    Series Book 19 - New Trends in Translation Studies
    This collection of essays brings to the fore some of the most pressing concerns in the training of translators and interpreters. It does so by acknowledging the primary role of research in both the development and the results of that training. The eleven chapters of the book, authored by a range of established international scholars, touch on the interlocking nature of didactics and research and ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • Becoming a Great Inclusive Educator – Second edition

    Edited by Scot Danforth ...
    Series Book 21 - Disability Studies in Education
    Becoming a Great Inclusive Educator, Second Edition offers educators the guidance and resources to become great inclusive educators by engaging in a powerful process of personal and professional transformation.　 Inclusive education continues to grow in popularity and acceptance in the United States. But most teachers – general and special educators – are poorly prepared to be successful in ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Reel Education

    Documentaries, Biopics, and Reality Television

    by Jacqueline Bach ...
    Series Book 17 - Minding the Media
    Reel Education is the first single-authored book to bring together the theoretical and practical considerations of teaching cinematic texts about education that claim a degree of verisimilitude. Given the recent influx of documentaries, biopics, and reality television shows about education, new theoretical frameworks are required to understand how these productions shape public conversations about ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education

    From Theory to Practice- Selected papers from the 2013 ICLHE Conference

    Edited by Robert Wilkinson, Mary Louise Walsh ...
    Higher education has seen dramatic changes in the past quarter of a century, notably in the language used for instruction. Universities worldwide are increasingly switching to English enabling them to attract a wide student population. This book presents a new collection of original papers showing how universities apply content and language integrated learning to their instructional contexts. The ... Read more

    $83.99 USD