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  • Becoming World Wiseby Richard Slimbach

    Stylus Publishing 2010; US$ 17.99

    This book is intended to help the new generation of ethical and educational travelers make the most of their international experience, and show them how to broaden their cultural horizons while also making a contribution to their host community. Richard Slimbach offers a comprehensive framework for pre-field preparation that includes, but goes beyond,... more...

  • Developing a Pedagogy of Teacher Educationby John Loughran

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95

    A pedagogy of teacher education must go well beyond the simple delivery of information about teaching. This book describes and explores the complex nature of teaching and of learning about teaching, illustrating how important teacher educators' professional knowledge is and how that knowledge must influence teacher training practices. The book is... more...

  • Understanding Waldorf Educationby Jack Petrash

    Gryphon House 2002; US$ 19.95

    Written by a teacher with more than 25 years of experience, this book offers a jargon-free view of Waldorf education and its philosophy of the importance of a three-dimensional education. Through learning experiences that involve all of the senses, children use a variety of intelligences to develop thought, feeling, and intentional, purposeful activity.... more...

  • What Is Indigenous Knowledge?by Joe L. Kincheloe; Ladislaus M. Semali; Joe L. Kincheloe

    Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 57.95

    The international panel of contributors analyses knowledge production and the rules of scholarship, opening new avenues for discussion in education, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as in other important fields. more...

  • The Shame of the Nationby Jonathan Kozol

    Crown Publishing Group 2005; US$ 16.00

    ?The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we?re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.? Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited nearly 60 public schools. Virtually everywhere, he finds... more...

  • That Used to Be Usby Thomas L. Friedman; Michael Mandelbaum

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 15.99

    America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them?and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations.        In That Used to Be Us , Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum,... more...

  • Affirmative Actionby Tim J. Wise

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 20.95

    Affirmative Action examines the larger structure of institutional white privilege in education, and compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned when the term "racial preference" is used. In doing so, the book demonstrates that the American system of education is both a reflection of and a contributor to... more...

  • The Battle of Ole Missby Frank Lambert

    Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 18.99

    James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student at Ole Miss. The violent riot that followed would be one of the most deadly clashes of the civil rights era, seriously wounding scores of U.S. Marshals and killing two civilians, and forcing the federal government to send thousands of soldiers to restore the peace.... more...

  • Education and Work in Great Britain, Germany and Italyby Annette Jobert; Catherine Marry; Helen Rainbird; Lucie Tanguy

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 190.00

    This volume examines the multiple connections between education, broadly defined, and work, through an analysis of the literature on the transition from school to work, on vocational training and on the labour market. It shows that concepts such as skill, unemployment rates, young people and the transition from school to work are socially constructed... more...

  • Offspring of the Vicby Denis Richards

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 220.00

    Originally published in 1958.The history of Morley College provides an illuminating case-history of the growth and spread of adult education in the second half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries. Morley College is unique in that it was one of the first of such institutions to proclaim and inculcate absolute sex and class... more...