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Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt - Advice For Humanities Phds

by K. Hume

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 This candid book dispenses essential advice for academic job hunters and gives them the skills and knowledge to land a job in the humanities. Fully revised and updated, this book offers a comprehensive look at the do's and don'ts of the application and interview process and provides indispensable tips and a variety of practical tools.
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Culture, Curriculum, And Identity In Education

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 This book analyzes equity and diversity in schools and teacher education. Within this broad and necessary context, the book raises some critical issues not previously explored in many multicultural and urban education texts.
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Disability Services And Disability Studies In Higher Education: History, Contexts, And Social Impacts - History, Contexts, And Social Impacts

by C. Oslund

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Disability Services and Disability Studies in Higher Education considers how the two fields of disability studies and disability services in institutions of higher education impact each other.
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Contingent Faculty Publishing In Community: Case Studies For Successful Collaborations

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 Contributors argue that the key to innovative teaching and scholarship lies in institutional support for the contingent labor force, and they encourage contingent faculty to organize self-mentoring groups, create venues for learning/disseminating their experiences and findings, and connect scholarship to service and teaching in novel ways.
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Origins Of The Common Core - How The Free Market Became Public Education Policy

by D. Owens

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 Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically reform education based on free market principles.
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Rethinking Us Education Policy - Paradigms Of The Knowledge Economy

by Daniel Araya

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on discussions of the "Creative Economy," the "Network Economy," and the "Green Economy," Rethinking US Education Policy critiques educational policies authored by the Obama administration and considers the need for a new educational policy framework that is better adapted to an era of accelerating innovation.
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Youth Practices In Digital Arts And New Media: Learning In Formal And Informal Settings

by C. Lin, J. Black e J. Castro

86,11€ + 10% CARD

 The authors examine youths' practices in digital culture affecting social change, pedagogy, and creative learning practices. Knowledge about these practices is discussed, in which learning, knowledge sharing, distinct social contexts, pedagogical relationships, and artistic creative inquiry are examined in diverse formal and informal environments.
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Learning And Education In Developing Countries: Research And Policy For The Post-2015 Un Development Goals

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 This comprehensive and up-to-date review of learning and educational quality in developing countries, written by 16 highly knowledgeable specialists from around the world, provides policymakers and researchers accessible perspectives with the Millennium Development Goals in mind.
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Teacher Unions In Public Education - Politics, History, And The Future

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 While much mainstream educational research maintains that teacher unions should be outlawed or their powers greatly reduced, Bascia and her contributors, including many of the leading teacher union researchers working today, challenge this position. Instead, they recognize the important role teacher unions must play in defending public education and in minimizing the damage wrought by ill-thought-out educational policies. By avoiding idealization of these organizations and recognizing their limitations, Teacher Unions in Public Education demonstrates the necessity for union renewal for a successful education system.
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Data-Driven Decision-Making In Schools: Lessons From Trinidad - Lessons From Trinidad

by J. Yamin-Ali

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 Yamin-Ali shows how schools can undertake responsible decision-making through gathering and evaluating data, using as examples six fully developed case studies that shed light on common questions of school culture and student life, including student stress, subject selection, and the role of single-sex classes.
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American Education In Popular Media - From The Blackboard To The Silver Screen

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 American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of students and professional educators while addressing contested purposes of schooling in American society.
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Rethinking The Education Mess: A Systems Approach To Education Reform - A Systems Approach To Education Reform

by C. Alpaslan, I. Mitroff e L. Hill

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Using a form of systems thinking, this book analyzes K-12 education as a complex, "messy" system that must be tackled as a whole and provides a series of heuristics to help those involved in the education mess to improve the system as a whole.
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Palgrave Handbook Of Critical Thinking In Higher Education

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 The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education provides a single compendium on the nature, function, and applications of critical thinking. This book brings together the work of top researchers on critical thinking worldwide, covering questions of definition, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, research, policy, and application.
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Action Research Methods - Plain And Simple

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 In Action Research Methods, the authors acknowledge that the methodology component is where most of the struggle and confusion lies with students in research methods courses.The overall aim is to assist master's level education students with practical and theoretically grounded approaches to the action research process.
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Educating Young Giants - What Kids Learn (And Don’T Learn) In China And America

by N. Pine

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 Carries readers into Chinese and American elementary and high school classrooms, and highlights the big differences between schooling in China and the United States. Nancy Pine reveals how these two countries need to extract themselves from outmoded practice and learn from each other's strengths.
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Empire And Education - A History Of Greed And Goodwill From The War Of 1898 To The War On Terror

by A. Angulo

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 This book is about education and American imperialism from the War of 1898 to the War on Terror. Very little coordinated or sustained research has been devoted to the broader contours of America, education, and empire. And third, this volume seeks to inspire new directions in the study of American educational history.
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Character Of Curriculum Studies - Bildung, Currere, And The Recurring Question Of The Subject

by W. Pinar

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 Assembles essays addressing the recurring question of the 'subject,' understood both as human person and school subject, thereby elaborating the subjective and disciplinary character of curriculum studies.
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Teaching With Reverence - Reviving An Ancient Virtue For Today''S Schools

by A. Rud e J. Garrison

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 Reverence is a forgotten virtue in teaching and learning. When taken in a broader spiritual sense, it is often associated with a mute and prim solemnity. The essays gathered here examine reverence as a way to understand some of the spiritual dimensions of classroom teaching.
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World Scouting - Educating For Global Citizenship

by E. Vallory

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 Explains in a very comprehensible and entertaining way the main findings of the first existing academic research on world scouting, the largest young movement in the planet. Using new data and storytelling, the work revisits how scouting started, showing its informal launching and its historical evolution throughout the twentieth century.
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Reclaiming School In The Aftermath Of Trauma - Advice Based On Experience

by C. Mears

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 Teachers in schools where students have experienced trauma face particularly difficult challenges, for how is a teacher to promote academic growth and attainment of educational goals in such a situation? Provides advice, understanding, and proven strategies for meeting the challenges that must be faced after a traumatic experience.
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Politics And The History Curriculum - The Struggle Over Standards In Texas And The Nation

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 The politicians and pastors who revised the Texas social studies standards made worldwide headlines. Politics and the History Curriculum sets the debate over the Texas standards within a broad context of politics, religion, media, and education, providing a clear analysis of these events and recommendations for teachers and policy makers.
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Histories Of Social Studies And Race: 1865-2000

by Chara Haeussler Bohan e Christine Woyshner

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 This collection of historical essays on race develops lines of inquiry into race and social studies, such as geography, history, and vocational education. Contributors focus on the ways African Americans were excluded or included in the social education curriculum and the roles that black teachers played in crafting social education curricula.
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Race, Gender, And Leadership In Nonprofit Organizations

by E. Epstein, Marybeth Gasman, N. Drezner, T. Freeman e V. Avery

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 ThisÂ volume centers on the lives and experiences of female and African American leaders of foundations and nonprofits.Â Contributors to the volume examineÂ race and gender as constructs and provide a theoretical background for understanding their effect on the psycho-social development of the individuals.
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Ideas For Intercultural Education

by E. Sawir e S. Marginson

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 Takes a critical look at present approaches to international education, focusing on the intercultural potential that it offers but mostly fails to deliver. The underlying premise of this profound, engaging book is that international education can be a transforming intercultural experience for hosts as well as visitors.
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