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Literacies Across Media
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 53.95The contemporary young reader learns from a very early age to read and interpret through a broad range of media. Literacies Across Media explores how a group of boys and girls, aged from ten to fourteen, make sense of narratives in a variety of formats, including print, electronic book, video, DVD, computer game and CD-ROM. This book records these... more...
Efficient Learning for the Poor
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 24.99Large-scale efforts have been made since the 1990s to ensure that all children of the world go to school. But mere enrollment is not sufficient, students must become fluent in reading and calculation by the end of grade 2. Fluency is needed to process large amounts of text quickly and use the information for decisions that may ultimately reduce poverty.... more...
Culture, Education, and Development in South Africa
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 161.00With the fall of apartheid in South Africa, expectations were high for the enfranchisement of the acutely underdeveloped majority in South Africa. But problems abound, and this educational study looks critically at the educational situation and puts forth a number of proposals that could produce better results in contemporary South Africa.||Abdi urges... more...
Issues in African Education
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 95.00This book is one of the first to bring together the sociological views and analyses of African academics on the nature and scope of issues in African education today. more...
Elusive Justice
Routledge 2006; US$ 29.95Addresses how educators think about and act upon differences in schools. Through ethnographic portraits of two schools with a commitment to social justice, this book analyzes the ways discourses about difference provide a key site for both producing and resisting inequalities. more...
Elusive Justice
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Elusive Justice addresses how educators think about and act upon, differences in schools - be they based on race, gender, class, or disability - and how discourse and practice about such differences are intimately bound up with educational justice. Rather than skip over contentious or uncomfortable dialogues about difference, Thea Abu El-Haj tackles... more...
The Academic Bill of Rights Debate
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 40.00Aby and others provide insight into and understanding of the major issues in the debate over the Academic Bill of Rights and its various legislative initiatives throughout the United States. more...
Academic Freedom
ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 155.00The freedom of academics to pursue knowledge and truth in their research, writing, and teaching is a fundamental principle of contemporary higher education in the United States. But this freedom has been hard won and regularly abridged, reinterpreted, and violated. Academic freedom has been central to many issues and controversies in higher education... more...
Bildung und Berufsbildung in der Volksrepublik China: Strukturen, Probleme und Perspektiven
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 38.56Hauptbeschreibung Nach vorherrschender Meinung gelten Bildung und Ausbildung als Schlüssel zur gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung eines jeden Landes. Das Bildungswesen stellt somit eine entscheidende Grundlage für das Wachstum und die Modernisierung eines Staates dar. Für die wirksame Erhöhung der wirtschaftlichen Effizienz sowie... more...
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 52.95For nearly a decade, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations and curricular frameworks for social justice teaching practice. This thoroughly revised second edition continues to provide teachers and facilitators with an accessible pedagogical approach to issues of oppression in classrooms.... more...









