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Lantern Publishing & Media Teaching Liberation Essays on Social Justice
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J Ross Publishing Crushed: How Student Debt Has Impaired a
Book SynopsisCrushed is a timely and insightful work that sheds light on the state of American universities and their graduates. It takes readers on a fascinating and reflective journey into the current student debt crisis and how it has become a major burden to American society. Beyond just describing how we got into this huge mess, Crushed also offers actionable public-policy steps to help fix this ever-growing problem.This reader-friendly guide explores the U.S. university system in depth, the incentive structures driving university decisions, and what has led to both rapid tuition inflation and skyrocketing student debt. It also explores why the U.S. university system is no longer reducing the racial wealth gap and how it is now contributing to intergenerational poverty. Crushed explains what every parent or prospective student should know before, during, or after enrolling in college, including what choices they should make to graduate on time, with a valuable degree, and with little (or no) debt. Additionally, it concludes with a detailed policy discussion and provides simple, yet powerful, ways to mitigate and eventually eliminate runaway tuition inflation and the overwhelming stock of student debt. Key Features: --Reviews the growth and development of the American university system, including its objectives, successes, and failures--Explains university endowments, why these pools of capital are so large, and how they can be used more efficiently to ensure students graduate on time with valuable degrees--Details the growth of college tuition, explains how tuition and other sources of income are used, and describes the perverse incentives that have led to unchecked tuition inflation--Provides an in-depth analysis on the value of a college degree and describes how that value has changed over time--Explains how the student loan industry grew to its current size and provides an explanation for how and why consumer protections were reduced--Describes how the current tertiary educational system harms minority students and contributes to the interracial wealth gap--Details legislative solutions to reducing debt, aligning incentives, restoring bankruptcy protections, and reducing the cost of a college education without reducing its valueTrade Review“This exceptional title will likely appeal to readers interested in education, social science, and the elimination of student-loan debt.”—Library JournalTable of Contents Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Growth of the American University System Chapter 2: Why Is College so Damn Expensive? Chapter 3: The Value of a Degree: Why Go to College? Chapter 4: The University Endowment: What Is It and Why Should We Care? Chapter 5: The Student Loan Industry: How Debt Grew and Consumer Protections Shrank Chapter 6: How Student Loans Have Impaired a Generation Chapter 7: Disparate Outcomes: How Postsecondary Institutions Harm Minority Communities Chapter 8: Policy Solutions: How We Fix This Mess Chapter 9: What Every Parent, Student, and Prospective Student Should Know CITATIONS INDEX
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Rowman & Littlefield Democracies Always in the Making: Historical and Current Philosophical Issues for Education
Book SynopsisDemocracies Always in the Making develops Barbara Thayer-Bacon’s relational and pluralistic democratic theory, as well as translates that socio-political philosophical theory into educational theory and recommendations for school reform in American public schools. John Dewey warned us long ago that a nation cannot hope to be a democracy someday without paying attention to how it educates its young future citizens. Democracy is a goal, an ideal which we must continually strive for that can guide us in our decision-making, as we continue to live in a world that is unpredictable, flawed, and limited in terms of its resources. There are key political philosophers of education who we can turn to for help. They offer us important ideas that will help us re-check our assumptions and critique our daily practice. Existing school models also offer us important examples of how to structure schools as well as various methodologies and curriculum that we can elect to use to help us move closer to the ideal of a democracy.Trade ReviewOne of the great mistakes of our time is thinking we know the fixed and final form of democracy for all people, epochs, and places. Another mistake is thinking we have all the democracy we require. Barbara Thayer-Bacon draws on her background as a philosopher of education and her work as a cultural studies scholar to challenge narrow liberal democratic notions of rigid rationalism, atomistic individualism, and static universalism with her own contextual and transactional description of selves-in-relation-with-others. She shows that democracies and democrats are always-in-the-making. -- Jim Garrison, Ph.D., professor, School of Education, Virginia Tech UniversityFollowing her career-long commitment to examining the relationship between school, education and democracy, Thayer-Bacon once again brings her feminist insight into a contemporary critique of democratic classical liberalism. Drawing upon philosophers from Socrates to Rousseau to Dewey to Noddings, hooks and Greene, Thayer-Bacon argues that democracies, as ever incomplete, must turn from Rationalism, Universalism, and Individualism to Shared Responsibility, Authority, and Identity, as the guiding factors in our creation of a more humane and public democracy. -- Jaylynne N. Hutchinson, Associate Professor Critical Studies in Educational Foundations Ohio UniversityThayer-Bacon offers a careful critique of the educational ill-effects of rationalism, universalism, and individualism. Informed by a wide range of progressive educational thinkers, Democracy Always in the Making offers many useful examples of engaged, relational education. -- Charles Bingham, Associate Professor in Curriculum Theory at Simon Fraser UniversityBarbara Thayer-Bacon provides strong arguments for revising classical liberal conceptions of democracy and coming to view humans — not as isolated individuals — but as beings-in-relation to others. Moreover, she combines philosophical argumentation with lessons learned from specific schools that recenter an ethics of sharing and interdependence. The combination of philosophical and pedagogical discourses make this book especially helpful. -- Frank Margonis, professor in educational philosophy, University of UtahIn this provocative new book, Thayer-Bacon (Univ. of Tennessee) aims to dislodge democratic theory from its reliance on the extreme individualism of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and in its place construct a transactional view of democracy that emphasizes epistemological and cultural pluralism and a relational view of selfhood. Drawing from a variety of feminist and postmodern perspectives, she makes a convincing case for a view of democracy that is always incomplete and unfinished, yet nevertheless provides the best orientation for educational (and other social) institutions. Thayer-Bacon accomplishes this by linking critical investigation of key theorists (Jacques Rancière, John Dewey, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, and others) to descriptive analysis of actual school projects, some of which are based on firsthand experience. Her treatment of Myles Horton and Maxine Greene are especially noteworthy. In her effort to canonize some theorists while demonizing others, however, she makes the occasional heavy-handed caricature. The historical record makes it very difficult to see Maria Montessori, for instance, as someone animated by a purely egalitarian spirit. Moreover, Thayer-Bacon's sharp, nearly ad hominem critique of Peter McLaren's work will likely raise eyebrows. Still, it is this contentiousness that will generate good discussion in graduate seminars. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduates, all levels, and above. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgments Preface Approach The Intended Market Outstanding Features of the Book Introduction Democratic Theory: Out From Under the Yokes of Locke and Rousseau Classical Liberal Assumptions Assumptions for Democracies Always in the Making Conclusion Notes Chapter One Learning to Trust Students: Rancière and Montessori on Democracy Jacques Rancière and The Ignorant Schoolmaster Maria Montessori and La Casa dei Bambini Democracies Depend on Relationships of Equality Rancière and Democracies-Always-in-the-Making Notes Chapter Two Connecting the Home and School to Society: La Casa dei Bambini and the Chicago Lab School Maria Montessori’s Private Story Maria Montessori’s Casa dei Bambini John Dewey and the Chicago Lab School William Heard Kilpatrick Montessori and Democracies-Always-in-the-Making Conclusion Notes Chapter Three Trying to Get Social Justice and Love Together: Highlander Folk School and Central Park East Highlander Folk School Getting Theory and Practice Together Living What You Believe Notes Chapter Four The Teacher as a Revolutionary Leader: Freire, McLaren, hooks and the staff at La Escuela Movimento de Cultura Popular Peter McLaren and the Jane-Finch Corridor Bell Hooks, Booker T. Washington and Crispus Attucks Centro Educativo Ixtliyollotl (La Escuela) Conclusion Notes Chapter Five Celebrating the Passions of Pluralism Through the Arts: Maxine Greene, the Center for the Arts, Social Imagination, and Education, and Young Warriors High School Maxine Greene and the Center for the Arts, Social Imagination, and Education Young Warriors High School The Indians’ Hole in Their Hearts and the Importance of Shared Identities Through the Arts Conclusion Notes Chapter Six Implications for Schools in Democracies-Always-in-the-Making: Conclusion Theoretical Lessons Learned Practical Lessons Learned Conclusion References Index About the Author
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Harvard Educational Publishing Group Character Compass: How Powerful School Culture
Book SynopsisIn Character Compass, Scott Seider offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools in Boston, Massachusetts that have made character development central to their mission of supporting student success, yet define character in three very different ways. One school focuses on students’ moral character development, another emphasises civic character development, and the third prioritises performance character development. Drawing on surveys, interviews, field notes, and student achievement data, Character Compass highlights the unique effects of these distinct approaches to character development as well as the implications for parents, educators, and policymakers committed to fostering powerful school culture in their own school communities.
£31.30
John Wiley and Sons Ltd National Testing: Past, Present and Future
Book SynopsisFocusing on national Tests for 7-11- and 14-year olds, this book draws upon the authors research to provide an authoritive discussion on the implications of national testing in England. Parallels are drawn between testing in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to provide interesting points of comparison and contrast.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures. Acknowledgements. Series Preface: Issues in Assessment and Testing. Introduction. 1. The Origins of the National Tests. 2. Influences on the Structure of the National Tests. 3. The Development of the Tasks and Tests: Background and Summary. 4. Developing the Tasks and Tests: Some Technical Issues. 5. The Tests at Key Stage 1: The Storm and the Calm. 6. The Tests at Key Stage 2: High Profile Testing. 7. The Tests at Key Stage 3: Controversy and and Change. 8. Some Conclusions: Purposes, Ideals and Realities. Glossary of Acronyms. References. Index.
£54.10
African American Images An African Centered Response to Ruby Payne's
Book SynopsisThis challenge to influential educator Ruby Payne's theories about the impact of class differences and economics on teaching and learning puts forward other factors as better predictors of student performance. Pointing to success stories in schools that serve low-income students, this refutation of Payne's popular teacher-training program asserts that teacher expectations, time on task, and the principal's leadership are the main factors in determining educational outcomes at a school. Abandoning Payne's framework of teacher-student income disparities, racial makeup, and per-pupil expenditure, this critical analysis asserts the human component as the most powerful tool for improving education in failing schools.
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Parallax Press Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness in and out of
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Myers Education Press Researching Resistance: Public Education after
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Myers Education Press Researching Resistance: Public Education after
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Myers Education Press The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois: With a
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Myers Education Press Why Kids Love (and Hate) School: Reflections on
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Myers Education Press Why Kids Love (and Hate) School: Reflections on
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Myers Education Press The New Henry Giroux Reader: The Role of the
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£136.80
Myers Education Press Nurture, Care, Respect, and Trust: Transformative
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Myers Education Press Nurture, Care, Respect, and Trust: Transformative
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Myers Education Press Exploring Deleuze's Philosophy of Difference:
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Myers Education Press Exploring Deleuze's Philosophy of Difference:
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Myers Education Press It's Not Education that Scares Me, It's the
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Myers Education Press Moral Principles in Education and My Pedagogic
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Myers Education Press The Autism Industrial Complex: How Branding,
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Myers Education Press Silencing Ivan Illich Revisited: A Foucauldian
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Myers Education Press Silencing Ivan Illich Revisited: A Foucauldian
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Myers Education Press Thinking About Black Education: An
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Myers Education Press John Dewey's Imaginative Vision of Teaching:
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Myers Education Press Generative Knowing: Principles, Methods, and
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Myers Education Press Anticipating Education: Concepts for Imagining
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Myers Education Press Anticipating Education: Concepts for Imagining
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£34.00
Myers Education Press The Commodification of American Education:
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Myers Education Press The Commodification of American Education:
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Myers Education Press An Introduction to Complexity Pedagogy: Using
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Myers Education Press Africanizing the School Curriculum: Promoting an
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Myers Education Press Africanizing the School Curriculum: Promoting an
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Myers Education Press Opening Third Spaces for Research in Education:
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Myers Education Press Opening Third Spaces for Research in Education:
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Myers Education Press Freirean Echoes: Scholars and Practitioners
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Rutgers University Press U.S. Power in International Higher Education
Book Synopsis2021 ASHE/CIHE Award for Significant Research on International Higher EducationU.S. Power in International Higher Education explores how internationalization in higher education is not just an educational endeavor, but also a geopolitical one. By centering and making explicit the role of power, the book demonstrates the United States’s advantage in international education as well as the changing geopolitical realities that will shape the field in the future. The chapter authors are leading critical scholars of international higher education, with diverse scholarly ties and professional experiences within the country and abroad. Taken together, the chapters provide broad trends as well as in-depth accounts about how power is evident across a range of key international activities. This book is intended for higher education scholars and practitioners with the aim of raising greater awareness on the unequal power dynamics in internationalization activities and for the purposes of promoting more just practices in higher education globally. Trade Review"U.S. Power in International Higher Education provides a welcome critical perspective concerning the complexities of global higher education relations." -- Philip G. Altbach * Founding Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College *"Sharp, focused, and highly original, this collection will permanently change thinking about international higher education in the United States.” -- Simon Marginson * Professor of Higher Education, University of Oxford *"A unique and timely collection which uncovers the United States's concentration of geo-political power in international higher education in the context of a pandemic, growing cross-national suspicion and the legitimation of racism. Essential reading for everyone concerned with enhancing international higher education for the common good." -- Rajani Naidoo * coeditor of The Globalization of Higher Education *"International student strategies must change, says ACE" by Mary Beth Marklein * University World News *"US Power covers a lot of ground conceptually and empirically, and offers timely analysis of COVID-19’s impact on international higher education. For those new to the field, it provides a good introduction to the geopolitics of international higher education, and specifically, American power in this space. For more seasoned researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, the book synthesizes major themes and dynamics, and offers a solid foundation upon which to pursue new lines of inquiry and change." * Teachers College Record *"U.S. Power in International Higher Education provides a welcome critical perspective concerning the complexities of global higher education relations." -- Philip G. Altbach * Founding Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College *"Sharp, focused, and highly original, this collection will permanently change thinking about international higher education in the United States.” -- Simon Marginson * Professor of Higher Education, University of Oxford *"A unique and timely collection which uncovers the United States's concentration of geo-political power in international higher education in the context of a pandemic, growing cross-national suspicion and the legitimation of racism. Essential reading for everyone concerned with enhancing international higher education for the common good." -- Rajani Naidoo * coeditor of The Globalization of Higher Education *"International student strategies must change, says ACE" by Mary Beth Marklein * University World News *"US Power covers a lot of ground conceptually and empirically, and offers timely analysis of COVID-19’s impact on international higher education. For those new to the field, it provides a good introduction to the geopolitics of international higher education, and specifically, American power in this space. For more seasoned researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, the book synthesizes major themes and dynamics, and offers a solid foundation upon which to pursue new lines of inquiry and change." * Teachers College Record *Table of ContentsInternational Higher Education as Geopolitical Power Jenny J. Lee Part I: Geopolitics and the Regulation of Higher Education 2 International Education as Soft Power: A History of Changing Governments, Shifting Rationales, and Lessons Learned Roopa Desai Trilokekar 3 What Do Global University Rankings Tell Us about U.S. Geopolitics in Higher Education? Ellen Hazelkorn 4 International Accreditation as Geopolitical Space: U.S. Practices as “Global Standards” for Quality Assurance in Higher Education Gerardo L. Blanco Part II: National and Global Research 5 Geopolitical Tensions and Global Science: Understanding U.S.-China Scientific Research Collaboration through Scientific Nationalism and Scientific Globalism John P. Haupt and Jenny J. Lee 6 Concepts for Understanding the Geopolitics of Graduate Student and Postdoc Mobility Brendan Cantwell Part III: University Internationalization Strategies 7 Exploring Geopolitics in U.S. Campus Internationalization Plans 113 Chrystal A. George Mwangi, Sean Jung-Hau Chen, and Pempho Chinkondenji 8 The Life Cycle of Transnational Partnerships in Higher Education Dale LaFleur Part IV: Students and International Learning 9 Global Positional Competition and Interest Convergence: Student Mobility as a Commodity for U.S. Academic Imperialism Christina w. Yao 10 Global Competence: Hidden Frames of National Security and Economic Competitiveness Chris R. Glass 11 Internationalizing the Curriculum: Conceptual Orientations and Practical Implications in the Shadow of Western Hegemony Sharon Stein Part V: Concluding Thoughts 12 Where Do We Go from Here? Jenny J. Lee and Santiago Castiello-Gutiérrez Notes on Contributors Index
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Pragmatisme Et Education
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Experimental Economics: Some Methodological
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£33.25
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Hoffnung
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Bohlau Verlag Studien zur Kunst
Book SynopsisHaltung und Affekt bezeichnen zwei unterschiedliche VerhÃltnisse der Subjekte ihrer Welt gegenÃber, die in der europÃischen MentalitÃts- Ideen- und Kunstgeschichte immer wieder diskutiert und zum Teil scharf gegeneinander abgegrenzt worden sind. Anthropologisch positioniert sich apathia gegen pathos, sozialphilosophisch zeigt sich die Opposition von Haltung und Habitus gegen Geist und Expression, in kunsttheoretischer Perspektive konkurrieren sprezzatura und affetto und aus pÃdagogischer Sichtweise stehen Verhaltenssteuerung und Subjektivierung einander gegenÃber. Mit diesen Polarisierungen sind auch verschiedene kÃnstlerische Konzeptionen verbunden wie cool gegen Ausdruck oder Pose gegen AuthentizitÃtssuche. Die BeitrÃge des Sammelbands widmen sich aus diesen unterschiedlichen Perspektiven dem Gegensatz von Haltung und Affekt als zwei verschiedenen MÃglichkeiten des Sichverhaltens zur Welt und zur Kunst.
£45.16
Brill Schoningh Kontaminationen Des Pädagogischen:
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Brill Schoningh Verbildlichte Religion: Bild Und Bilddidaktik Im
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£109.00
Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH The Role of Education in Societal Development: A
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Arnoldsche Wissendes Gestalten: Die Gestaltungslehre des
Book SynopsisThe topicality of Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer’s (1899–1970) design doctrine, with its claim to a comprehensive aesthetic education, lies in the fact that it represents an important counterbalance to today’s euphoria for digitalisation. For a long time the young Bauhaus Master and design pedagogue opposed the publication of his concept for a fundamental artistic education, one which united and expanded the content of many different trends within the Bauhaus teachings. For him the risk that his exercises could be misunderstood as prescriptive was too great. Yet greater still was the drive of his enthusiastic students, who compiled exemplar images, edited teaching notes, and in 1958 conceived the first draft for a potential publication. Here Justus Theinert and Rainer K. Wick trace the moving life and the distinct pedagogical attributes of this fascinating personality. Text in German.
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Brill U Mentis Erziehen Und Streiten: Erziehung Und Ihre Theorie
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Brill U Mentis Evolutionary Theory and Education
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£92.86
Obelisco Bebé Montessori El
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Ediciones Morata, S.L. Didáctica de la historia en la educación infantil
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