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  • - Research-Based Directions for Change
     
    636,95 kr.

    Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based policy directions and tools for change for U.S. Latino Education and other multicultural contexts.

  • - A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States
    af USA) Spring & Joel (Queens College
    429,95 - 1.648,95 kr.

  • - An Intercivilizational Analysis
    af Joel Spring
    535,95 - 1.464,95 kr.

    This guide asseses global education, while looking at the issue from a historical and international viewpoint. Topics include: equality and freedom in Islamic education; India's education, human rights and the global flow; and natural rights and education in the West.

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    783,95 kr.

    Examines content, methodological, and policy issues framing the debate on academic achievement, school engagement, and oppositional culture. This book presents some critical works on these issues as well as examples of programs aimed at re-engagement. It looks at African Americans, and school engagement among Native American and Latino students.

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    2.260,95 kr.

    Presents John Ogbu's cultural ecological model and various debates that his work has sparked. This book includes theoretical roots of his cultural ecological model. It is organized as a dialogue between John Ogbu and the scholarly community, including his ardent critics; Ogbu's own work can be read at the same time as his critics have their say.

  • - In Our Mother's Voice, Volume II
     
    637,95 kr.

    Challenges teachers, researchers, educational leaders, and community stakeholders to build dynamic learning environments through which indigenous learners can be boldly indigenous in a global world. This book examines topics including: regenerating and transforming language and culture pedagogy that reminds us that what is Contemporary is Native.

  • - Educational Effects and Contemporary Implications
    af Timothy Glander
    545,95 - 1.710,95 kr.

    This critical examination of the origins of mass communication research from the perspective of an educational historian investigates the educational meaning of mass media, with the goal of understanding the essential connection between education and communication.

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    648,95 kr.

    This is a volume in the Sociocultural, Political and Historical Studies in Education Series. It covers: the historical and sociopolitical context; identity, culture, race, language and gender; social activism, community involvement and policy implications; and directions for the future.

  • - Education, Community, and Language at the U.s.-mexico Line
    af Marleen C. Pugach
    342,95 - 1.464,95 kr.

    This text studies what it is like to live on the US-Mexico border. The author describes of a small town and school, languages, social class, history and what it means to be an immigrant. Vignettes from Marleen Pugach's experiences and interpretations of her interviews and observations are included.

  • - Thinking Beyond No Child Left Behind
    af USA) Heilman, Paul (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Shaker & mfl.
    590,95 - 2.257,95 kr.

    Subjects the prophets and doctrines of educational neoliberalism to scrutiny in order to provide a rationale and vision for public education beyond the limits of No Child Left Behind. This book combines a history of education policy with an analysis of the origins of such policy and its impact on professional educators.

  • - A Critique of Parental involvement in Schooling
    af Maria Eulina de Carvalho
    541,95 - 1.706,95 kr.

    This study of parental involvement in modern education covers such diverse topics as lessons from personal experience, the quest for equity in family-school relations and the obscure side of homework.

  • - Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling
    af Teresa L. McCarty
    547,95 - 1.711,95 kr.

    An ethnographic account of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. It asks whether school can be a place where children learn, question, and grow in an environment that values and builds upon who they are.

  • - A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media
    af Joel Spring
    498,95 - 1.708,95 kr.

    This text charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American ideology of the 21st century. It documents and analyses how, from the early 19th century through to the present, the combined endeavours of schools, advertising and media have led to the creation of a consumerist ideology.

  • - Globalization and the Environmental Crisis
     
    1.587,95 kr.

    This collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis.

  • - To Market, To Market
    af Ravinder Kaur Sidhu
    783,95 - 1.627,95 kr.

    Examines the operations of power and knowledge in international education under conditions of globalization, with a focus on the three biggest exporters of higher education--the US, Australia, and the UK. An interdisciplinary approach based on the core social sciences is used to explore the power relations that shape global education networks.

  • - Politics, Space, Bodies, and Signs in the Educational Process
    af Jan Nespor
    547,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in an urban elementary school, this volume focuses on the webs of social relations that embed schools in neighbourhoods, cities, states, and regions. It raises questions such as what we mean when we talk about "school".

  • - The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age
     
    1.732,95 kr.

    Examines how neoliberal and neoconservative policies are working in tandem to privatize and commercialize public schools. This book looks at how these policies and the agendas behind them have impacted the internal dynamics of school management, teaching, and learning.

  • - Research-Based Directions for Change
     
    1.892,95 kr.

    Going beyond just exposing educational inequalities, this volume provides intelligent and pragmatic research-based policy directions and tools for change for U.S. Latino Education and other multicultural contexts.

  • - Capturing the Dream
     
    1.723,95 kr.

    The Native American Higher Education Initiative (NAHEI) has supported the development and growth of centres of excellence at Tribal Colleges and Universities across the USA. This text aims to translate the knowledge gained through the programmes into a form that can be adapted by a wide audience.

  • - Yup!k Eskimo Examples
    af Jerry Lipka, Esther Ilutsik, Ciulistet Group & mfl.
    549,95 - 1.587,95 kr.

    Using personal narratives by Yup'ik Eskimo teachers, this text shows how they began to reconcile cultural differences and conflict between the culture of the school and that of the community. The book also provides examples for others who are involved in creating culturally responsive education.

  • - Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Confucianism to Human Rights
    af USA) Spring & Joel (Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
    487,95 kr.

    Analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. This work explores how governments use education to control their populations, and examines forms of education that claim to free people from authoritarian control.

  • - A Study of Academic Disengagement
    af John U. Ogbu & Astrid Davis
    625,95 - 1.621,95 kr.

    The study reported in this book focuses on the academic performance of Black American students. Not only do these students perform less well than White students at every social class level, but also less well than immigrant minority students, including Black immigrant students.

  • - Theories and Realities
     
    810,95 kr.

    Provides a comparative understanding of the global range of multicultural issues in education and the types of approaches being used to address them. Presents different ways to think, talk, and research about issues of diversity and the effects of power.

  • - Toward Diverse, Democratic, and Sustainable Communities
    af MARTUSEWICZ
    649,95 - 1.706,95 kr.

  • - Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World
     
    932,95 kr.

    This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It prov

  • - Local Approaches to Thought and Practice
    af USA.) Reagan, Timothy (Nazarbayev University & Kazakhstan. University of Maine
    694,95 - 1.902,95 kr.

  • - From Make America Great Again to Stronger Together
    af USA) Spring & Joel (Queens College
    535,95 - 1.893,95 kr.

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    1.854,95 kr.

    The authors in this book use the metaphors of invisibility and visibility to explore the social and school lives of many children and young people in North America whose complexity, strengths, and vulnerabilities are largely unseen in the society and its

  • - From the Puritans to the Trump Era
    af USA) Spring & Joel (Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
    627,95 - 1.915,95 kr.

  • - The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age
     
    715,95 kr.

    Examines how neoliberal and neoconservative policies are working in tandem to privatize and commercialize public schools. It looks at how these policies and the agendas behind them have impacted the internal dynamics of school management, teaching, and learning.

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