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  • Why Don't Students Like Schoolby Daniel T. Willingham

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009; US$ 18.95

    Easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroom Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning. His book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn. It reveals-the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences. Nine, easy-to-understand principles with clear applications for the classroom Includes surprising findings, such as that intelligence is malleable, and that you cannot develop "thinking skills" without facts How an understanding of the brain's workings can help teachers hone their teaching skills... more...

  • Fifty Modern Thinkers on Educationby Joy Palmer; David Cooper

    Routledge 2001; US$ 29.95

    Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the twentieth century's most significant contributors to the debate on education. more...

  • On Educationby Harry Brighouse

    Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 22.95

    What is education for? Is there a place for faith schools - and should patriotism be taught? Drawing on the examples from Britain and North America, and from thinkers on education, this title criticizes and assesses the arguments for and against the controversial issues of faith schools and the teaching of patriotism. more...

  • Letters to a Young Teacherby Jonathan Kozol

    Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 13.99

    In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca’s likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools. Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a numberof the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in recent years: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many classrooms into test-prep factories where spontaneity and critical intelligence are no longer valued, the invasion of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost as segregated... more...

  • Race in the Schoolyardby Amanda E. Lewis

    Rutgers University Press 2003; US$ 21.00

    Could your kids be learning a fourth R at school: reading, writing, 'rithmatic, and race? Race in the Schoolyard takes us to a place most of us seldom get to see in action?our children’s classrooms? and reveals the lessons about race that are communicated there. Amanda E. Lewis spent a year observing classes at three elementary schools, two multiracial urban and one white suburban. While race of course is not officially taught like multiplication and punctuation, she finds that it nonetheless insinuates itself into everyday life in schools. Lewis explains how the curriculum, both expressed and hidden, conveys many racial lessons. While teachers and other school community members verbally deny the salience of race, she illustrates how... more...

  • Social Linguistics and Literaciesby James Paul Gee

    Taylor & Francis 2011; US$ 42.95

    In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ?New Literacy Studies?. This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of language, learning and literacy in their social, cultural and political contexts. It shows how contemporary sociocultural approaches to language and literacy emerged and: Engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the nature of discourse analysis and social theories of mind and meaning Explores how language functions in a society Surveys the notion of ?discourse? with specific... more...

  • Growing Up Absurdby Paul Goodman; Susan Sontag

    New York Review Books 2011; US$ 17.95

    Includes the essay "On Paul Goodman" by Susan Sontag. Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway bestseller when it was first published in 1960 and it became one of the defining texts of the nascent New Left. Goodman, at the time well into middle age, was a maverick anarchist who broke every mold, and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the book’s success established him as one of America’s most unusual and trenchant critics, combining vast learning, an astute mind, utopian sympathies, and a wonderfully hand-on way with words. Growing Up Absurd takes the crisis of disaffected youth as indicative of the crisis within the culture at large,... more...

  • Learning By Heartby Roland S. Barth

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 24.95

    A decade after publication of his best-selling book, Barth returns to the schoolhouse. Drawing from a career committed to building schools rich in community, learning, and leadership, he shows how to accomplish the most difficult task of school reform-transforming a school's culture so that it will be hospitable to human learning. In an engaging conversational style, he suggests how school people can become the architects, engineers, and designers of their own schools-and of their own destinies. more...

  • Power in Practiceby Ronald M. Cervero; Arthur L. Wilson

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 42.00

    "The single most important contribution to our field's knowledge base in the past two decades. The authors have managed to shift the focus of adult education back to the social concerns that were taken for granted when the field was founded. We are ready for this long overdue book. Indeed, we have been yearning for this book. It will tilt our field back towards its moral center." — B. Allan Quigley , chair, Department of Adult Education, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia "Power in Practice is a wonderful book--full of case studies, updated theories, new perspectives, and evidence that adult education can and does change people's lives." — Michael Newman , senior lecturer in adult education, University of Technology, Sydney,... more...

  • All Children Can Learnby Roger S. Pankratz; Joseph M. Petrosko

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 36.00

    Now educators, school board members, and policymakers can refer to a single volume for key lessons from the nation's most comprehensive and longest-running school reform model. Written by a nationally prominent group of educators, researchers, and policy analysts, All Children Can Learn presents important research findings from the Kentucky reforms, examines major program elements, and analyzes initiatives that worked or didn't work. Throughout the book, the authors explore the challenges of implementing statewide school change initiatives, offer sound advice for overcoming reform hurdles, and share valuable recommendations for future policy and practice. Reform-minded educators from every type of community will find valuable insights as they... more...